Recently, the English speaking community of the Se Cathedral was elevated to form its own pastoral team and program. The community has chosen St Padre Pio as its Patron. The English speaking community of the Se Cathedral is composed primarily…
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CATHEDRAL CELEBRATES THE FEAST OF THE BIRTH OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
On September 8, Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Feast Day of the Cathedral, Bishop Stephen Lee administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 12 young people, thus enrolling them into the ranks of soldiers of Christ.…
TRUTH AND POST-TRUTH (1) – Fake news
PHOTO: meineresterampe at Pixabay – Fausto Gomez OP With many others, I am against what is called being “politically correct,” against fake news, against post-truth. In two pieces, I wish to reflect first on the invasion of “fake news” today and…
ASSOCIATION OF MACAU CATHOLIC SCHOOLS – Honoring the mentors
The Association of Macau Catholic Schools held this year’s Teacher’s Development Day on Monday, 10 September 2018 in the afternoon at the Multisport Pavilion of the Macau Polytechnic Institute. More than 2,000 persons attended the event which signaled the official…
PREPARING FOR DEATH WITH ST ALFONSUS MARIA DE’ LIGUORI
– Aldo Maria Valli In the first day of August, the Church remembers St. Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori (1696-1787), to whom I am attached for many reasons. He composed Tu scendi dalle stelle (You come down from heaven), the best…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (78) – Can we demonstrate the existence of a First Cause?
PHOTO:By Free-Photos at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía Can we demonstrate the existence of a First Cause? But first, what do we mean by “demonstrate”? To demonstrate is to show that something which we cannot directly know (i.e.,…
EPHPHATHA: BE OPENED; BE BAPTIZED – 9th September 2018 – 23rd Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
Is 35:4-7a; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The sick to be healed is a “stuttering deaf” as in the original text. For Isaiah, the “stuttering deaf” was the people of Israel. However, the patient…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (18)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro From Guwathi to Cooch Behar is a whole rural world that reveals itself, seen from the windshields and side windows of the rented van. There are small villages and fields of cultivation with straw ricks,…
CHANCERY NOTICE
CN/7/016/2018 In response to the pastoral needs of the Diocese, Bishop Stephen Lee Bun Sang makes public the following arrangements: 1. Fr. Francisco Xavier Chan Pou Chun ceases to be Assistant Parish Priest in St. Anthony Parish.
CHURCH FATHERS (26) – Eusebius of Caesarea
In the past century history has seen a strong rethinking about many assumptions coming from the Rankean tradition, that tradition established from the German historian Leopold von Ranke which demanda that history has to establish “what has really happened.”