ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL Fairy tales of movie star life and Monaco royalty came after a hard childhood – thanks to kind school nuns who successfully came to her rescue. Do any fairy stories of dreams come true like Grace Kelly? None…
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SONJA XI: “Society expects women to act as men”
SONJA XIA, PROFESSOR AT THE FACULTY OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND PHILOSOPHY – “Society expects women to act as men” Marco Carvalho Even without being ordained, women can make a decisive contribution to the life of the Church, Sonja Xia claims.…
POPE AT REGINA COELI – “Love means serving others, not controlling them”
(Vatican News) At the Regina Coeli prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis reflects on what it means to abide in Jesus’ love, saying it is best expressed in self-giving service to others. Taking his cue from the day’s Gospel (Jn 15:9-17),…
Caritas Macau Annual Charity Ball 2021
“The Caritas Macau Annual Charity Ball 2021” is an annual fundraising event organized by Caritas Macau. This year’s theme is “Act of Charity, Love Upon Love.” The charity ball will be held on 29th May, 2021 (Saturday) at The Grand Ballroom,…
Solidarity Mass for India
Fr Leonard Dollentas The world is experiencing painful moments caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mankind faces great challenges and countless losses, the biggest of which is human lives. But nothing is more painful than what is happening now in India.…
CHANCERY NOTICE – World Communications Day
CN/9/013/2021 Chancery NoticeWorld Communications Day The 55th World Communications Day is celebrated this year on 16th May, Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, with the theme: “‘Come and See’ (Jn 1:46). Communicating by Encountering People Where and as They…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (127) – Does the Old Testament speak about the Eucharist?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Does the Old Testament speak about the Eucharist? Yes, it does. Let us first remember what Saint Augustine said: “In vetere Testamento novum latet, in novo vetus patet” – the New Testament is hidden (latet)…
A composer from Macau who is to be remembered
Aurelio Porfiri Perhaps someone may be surprised by thinking that a small city like Macau, China, can boast of a musical tradition in the field of liturgical music that has to be highly respected. Yet it is so, thanks above…
The oldest prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Aurelio Porfiri In his book on the greatest prayers to Mary, Anthony M. Buono rhetorically asks to quote the oldest prayer to the Virgin Mary. He states that most people would answer the Hail Mary, but they would be wrong,…
A call to love and fraternity
Fausto Gomez OP Pope Francis’ social encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” (all brothers, FT 2020) is “on Fraternity and Social Friendship.” The general purposeof the papal text (eight chapters, 287 numbers in 187 pages) is to contribute to the development of a…