António dos Santos On the 13th of June of each year, the Universal Church commemorates St Anthony of Lisbon, also known as St Anthony of Padua, where he preached and from where he journeyed to eternity. In Macau, as in…
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FATHER ABYIOT DESALEGN, PARISH PRIEST IN ITANG, ETHIOPIA – Empowering women to provide for their families
Marco Carvalho Five hundred years since it first enticed Europe, the mythical kingdom of Prester John remains deeply religious and deeply devout, and faith – whatever the rite or denomination – is still for many a undeniable sign of identity.…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (132) – What’s the right way of receiving Communion?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Saint Augustine once taught: “Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it. We…
Let’s go to Saint Athanasius..and we will understand many things
Corrado Gnerre I have heard of Saint Athanasius, who would have lived through a period of very serious crisis in the Church, comparable in a certain way to the current one. But who was Saint Athanasius really and why is…
The Inner Propensity of the Word of God
Fr Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 13 June 2021 – 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time -Year BMark 4:26-34 Today’s gospel presents three parables of the Kingdom of God. Parables are used when a certain reality is not immediately perceivable to…
Latinorum Latinorum….
Aurelio Porfiri The news about restrictions on the Tridentine Mass is making the rounds these days and one of the problems stated is the Latin language. That is, the Mass should be restricted because people don’t understand Latin. Now, I…
Antonio Rosmini and priesthood between heart and mind
Aurelio Porfiri He was a great Catholic intellectual figure and a man of great spirituality. We are talking about the Italian Blessed Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855), a friend of the great Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni and a key figure in Catholicism…
MOTHER’S MEAL MACAU – Lending a hand to Ethiopian widows and single mothers
Mother’s Meal Macau recently extended financial help to a needy village in Ethiopia to help train widows and single mothers in animal husbandry. Fr Abiyot Desalegn, parish priest of Itang’s St Don Bosco Catholic Parish in the Apostolic Vicariate of…
SOLEMNITY OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS – Open wound that gives life
The Church dedicates the month of June to the Sacred Heart of the Lord. Today, the Friday after the feast of Corpus Christi, is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Confirmation is not a “bye-bye sacrament”
Angela Chong In the few weeks prior to the day for my Sunday school students to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, I got increasingly anxious. I doubted whether they were adequately prepared. Realizing that their learning retention was limited, I…