Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared at Tepeyac in Mexico City to a 57-year-old Indian peasant Juan Diego on Dec 9, 1531. She identified herself as the pregnant Mother of God and instructed him to have the bishop build a church…
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WITNESSING EAST TIMOR’S MIRACLE ESCAPE – Highest genocide of the 20th century
– Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent It took long weeks to get a seat on a flight to East Timor. All flights were full of UN, NGO staff, and volunteers flying in for a ballot on independence or autonomy from…
FATHER MIGUEL DIED IN 2001, BUT HIS FAME OF SANCTITY REMAINS ALIVE – In the border of sainthood, blessed by popular acclaim
– Marco Carvalho “Miracle worker”, “guardian angel”, “messenger of God”. The name of José Miguel Garcia Pereira – known all over Portugal simply as “Father Miguel” – still takes thousands of pilgrims to Soito, a small village in the municipality…
FORMER MAYOR OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF THE ISLANDS DIED ON SUNDAY – Gastão de Barros, founder of O Clarim, dead at 89
– Marco Carvalho Founder of O Clarim and a former administrator of Taipa Island during the later years of the Portuguese dictatorship, Gastão Humberto de Barros passed away on Sunday at the age of 89 due to complications associated with…
AUGUST FESTIVITIES AND EVENTS AROUND MARY MOST HOLY – The Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven was celebrated yesterday
– Miguel Augusto (*) The Church celebrates on 15 August the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady to Heaven. The Death/Dormition, Resurrection and Assumption of the Blessed Virgin form the threefold object of this celebration. In Macau, Bishop…
CHURCH FATHERS (69) – Saint John of Damascus
– Anastasios The monk John Damascene lived between the 7th and 8th century. His father was very careful in giving to him and to his adopted brother Cosmas a well rounded education in sacred and profane sciences. John would renounce…
QUEMADMODUM DESIDERAT – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
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BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (45) – What are the missions of the Son and the Holy Spirit?
The word “mission” comes from Latin which means “to send.” When a Person proceeds from another, He is also sent. The Son proceeds from the Father; He is sent by the Father. The Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son; He is sent by the Father and the Son. In other words, mission follows procession: the Son proceeds from the Father, and is sent to men by the Father; the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, and is sent to men by the Father and the Son (cf CCC 258).
THE PROPHETS SHARE A UNIQUE FATE – 18 August 2019, 20th Sunday In Ordinary Time (C)
– LUKE 12:49-57 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau What is the fire that Jesus came to bring on earth (v. 49)? Why does he say of not coming to bring peace, but rather division (v. 51)? Today’s…
SAINT STEPHEN (975 –1038) – King of Hungary
On Aug. 16, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of King Saint Stephen of Hungary, the monarch who led his country to embrace the Christian faith during the 11th century. Before the future saint’s birth in 975, his mother,…