The Macau Perosi Choir’ “Taiwan Music Tour 2018” concluded on 29 September. During the four-day-trip, all members participated in a series of singing performances, exchange and learning activities. The choir was also invited to sing with the local choir of…
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PASTORAL CARE FOR MIGRANTS : LEGION OF MARY – Our Lady of Fatima visits homes
– Ross Belle Balatbat It is a Filipino tradition for a statue of Mary go from house to house, all year round, staying in each house for a week or two. The image’s presence moves the family to find time…

MAGNA CHARTA UNIVERSITATUM – USJ becomes one among 800 signatories
USJ has signed the Magna Charta Universitatum, a reference document that includes the signature of more than 800 universities.

CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING IN ACTION – Caritas Macau supports Filipino social entrepreneurs
– Rachel Luna Peralta For the past five years, Caritas Macau has supported the Ateneo Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship (ALSE) Program aimed at educating Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) on leadership, financial literacy, and social entrepreneurship, making them agents of social…

FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Creed 07
Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God (11)

INTERVIEW WITH FR FRANZ GASSNER, SVD – “There is no future and gain in any form of schism”
– Marco Carvalho A respectful cooperation between China and the Vatican will benefit not only the Church and the Central Government, but mainly the Chinese faithful. Coordinator of the Department of Catholic Theology at the Faculty of Religious Studies at…

A PROPOSAL: TO MOVE THE HOMILY AT THE END OF THE MASS
– Marco Tosatti Forgive me an outburst, but I understand why people no longer go to Mass, and I also have the remedy. If someone can tell the person responsible, for example the reigning Pontiff, please do so and I…

BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (2) – What is Apologetics?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía “Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence” (I Peter 3:15). “Defense” is…
INDISSOLUBILITY: A NECESSITY OF LOVE – 7 October 2018 – 27th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
GEN 2:18-24; HEB 2:9-11; MK 10:2-16 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In no other field, as in that of sexual ethics, man is tempted to give his own morals, and so the salt of the gospel proposal is…

GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (22)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro We arrived at Goalpara hoping to find traces of the so-called “firingis”. The white statue of one of the rajas (certainly of the Narayan caste) wielding sword and shield announces the small village, and soon…