To commemorate the 70th anniversary of Caritas Macau and the 10th anniversary of the death of Fr Luis Ruiz Suarez SJ, a sharing session and Holy Mass were held on Saturday, 31st July at St Augustine Church. Bishop Stephen Lee…
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Chancery Notice
CN/17/021/2021 Chancery NoticeLatest Pastoral Guidelines in time of Epidemic Prevention(Updated 15:00, 04/08/2021) For the spiritual benefit of the faithful, and in cooperation with the community’s ongoing epidemic prevention measures, the Diocese is implementing the following, until further notice: 1) Effective…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (139) – Whatโs special about the Real Presence?
Rev Josรฉ Mario O Mandรญajmom.honlam.orgย The CCCC (282) teaches us that โJesus Christ is present in the Eucharist in a unique and incomparable way. He is present in a true, real and substantial way, with his Body and his Blood,…
The oriental trend
Corrado Gnerre Dear friend, your effort does a worthy work for the enhancement of the true roots of the West, so that – let’s face it frankly – we can become more and more attached to this West which seems…
Let us try to be patient (2)
Fausto Gomez OP Thomas a Kempis tells us that patience is necessary because we have to face many adversities in this life (cf. Imitation of Christ). What is the road to patience? God is patient with us. The omnipotent and…
ST ALPHONSUS LIGUORI – From lawyer to priest to saint
Antรณnio dos Santos On Sunday, 1st August, the Universal Church celebrates St Alphonsus Liguori. In an audience in St Peter’s Square on March 30, 2011, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI spoke to us about St Alphonsus Liguori. When presenting the holy…
PARISH PRIEST IN WORST HIT TOWN – Many preventable dead in German flood
Robaird O’CearhaillHong Kong Correspondent As Northern Europe is ravaged by heatwaves, the deadliest disaster was a tsunami-type flood. Why, when predictably heavy floods were on the way, said official weather forecasts, in a German district, are there 177 dead and…
The Red Priest
Aurelio Porfiri I believe there are few musicians who have a posthumous contemporary fame like the Venetian Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), who died 280 years ago on 28 July in a situation of near poverty and buried in a mass grave…
CRUCIAL NATIVE ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE (3) – Caring for our home
Robaird OโCearbhaill As Laudato si declares: Care for our common home, the planet, is our duty. Native people have been doing that for aeons, using traditional knowledge all over the world, before colonialism and large-scale intensive farming replaced native practices,…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (56)
Joaquim Magalhรฃes de Castro Once he arrived in Matsumae, Diogo de Carvalho immediately retired to โthe house of an ancient Christian of ours.โ He does not mention his name although he assures us that โthe joy with which everyone in…