As is usual, as we approach the Feast of St Francis of Assisi (4 October), the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Our Lady offer to the readers of this magazine a reflection on some excerpts related to his life. We remember…
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LETTER FROM BISHOP STEPHEN LEE OF MACAU ON TYPHOON MANKHUT
BM/156/2018 Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, After super-typhoon Mankhut swept through Macau and gradually moved away, on September 16 (24th Sunday in Ordinary Time) many areas of the city were flooded, with the water in low-lying areas exceeding…
THE DAY AFTER MANKHUT’S FURY
The day after Mankhut’s fury, seminarians and staff of the Cathedral Parish headed out to various schools, elderly homes, and churches affected by the typhoon to give a helping hand. Bishop Lee made an ocular inspection of the premises of…
NEW DEAN OF USJ’S FACULTY OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES – “Laymen can be the Church’s best missionaries”
Photo: Ana Marques – Marco Carvalho Welshman Stephen Morgan is the new dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies at the University of St Joseph. A permanent deacon and until recently Oeconomus of the Diocese of Portsmouth, in England, Morgan…
FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Creed 07
Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God (8)
I WILL WALK – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
Liturgical Mass Sheet
APOLOGIA (26) – Did Jesus spend time in India?
– Anastasios Objection 1: We have a gap between the childhood of Jesus and his public ministry. This gap is of around 18 years, not a little time. Some scholars believe he traveled to India to learn from wise men…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (79) – How does induction lead us to the Unmoved Mover?
PHOTO: soej24 at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía “It seems that God does not exist,” Saint Thomas writes (Summa Theologiae (S Th) I q2 a3 objection 1), “because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (19)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The presence of European mercenaries among the hosts of the Asian armies has a long history. Already at the time of Vasco da Gama’s historic voyage to India in 1498, the existence of Italian military…