– Ross Belle Santos-Balatbat “The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead…
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ONLY ONE LIFE, BUT MANY SERVICES – 10TH May 2020, 5th Sunday of Easter, Year A
John 14:1-12 – Fr. Fernando Armellini MCJ Claretian Publications, Macau “In my Father’s house there are many rooms… Yet you know the way where I am going” (vv. 2-4). Jesus means to say that he has to go through a difficult…
FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS TO THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM (13) – Some musical possibilities for the Responsorial Psalm
– Aurelio Porfiri We have spoken a lot about what surrounds the Psalms and then we started to focus on a particular use of the Psalm during the Mass, what we call Responsorial Psalm. I assume that by now the…
CORONAVIRUS AND FAITH
– Fausto Gomez OP According to global surveys, for many people, the majority of them believers, this time of confinement or quarantine is being used to reflect on their life and their beliefs. It may indeed be for all a…
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE FACE OF COVID-19 (4) – The Korean Way: unity and efficiency
– Fr Leonard Dollentas South Korea is one of the earliest countries to report a significant coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The outbreak began almost like Italy’s, where there were slow drip cases but soon escalated dramatically – from thirty recorded cases…
OBITUARY FROM THE PROVINCE OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER, SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST ANNE – Sr Ines Chau Iok I, passes away at 79
Sr Ines Chau Iok I of the Sisters of Charity of St Anne, passed away on April 26, 2020 at the age of 79. The funeral Mass of sister was on April 29 at 8pm in the Diocesan Funeral House…
SANTA MARIA AUSILIATRICE – The devotion of Salesians to the Blessed Virgin Mary
We have spoken previously about the intense pastoral work undertaken by the successor of Saint Giovanni Bosco of the Salesian congregation. The education of youth is of primary importance to them, and this is the reason they have numerous schools…
POPE FRANCIS – Our civilization needs to downshift, take stock and renew itself
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL The pandemic is wrecking economies and lives but those who suffer most are the vulnerable old and young, the already ill and especially the extreme poor. All whom Christians are duty-bound to help. A core part of…
COVID – 19: Vatican and UN – natural allies
– Carlos M. Frota The UN and the Holy See, natural allies? Not in a conventional battlefield, but in struggling for a better new world, after the pandemic. Some weeks ago, Antonio Guterres and Pope Francis appeared smiling in photos…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (99)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro If it is true that in the rivers and along the coast, the Mughals always failed against the Arrakanese, it should be borne in mind that the potential of the former – with an army…