Category: Faith & Life

– Anastasios The monk John Damascene lived between the 7th and 8th century. His father was very careful in giving to him and to his adopted brother Cosmas a well rounded education in sacred and profane sciences. John would renounce…

– Rev José Mario O Mandía The word “mission” comes from Latin which means “to send.” When a Person proceeds from another, He is also sent. The Son proceeds from the Father; He is sent by the Father. The Holy…

– Aurelio Porfiri To understand certain developments that have occurred in the field of sacred music, one must go backwards. In other words, the present can only be understood by immersing yourself in the past and trying to untangle threads…

– Don Enrico Finotti The extension of the supplements for catechesis and the abundant anthology do not facilitate the learning of a synthesis on the different questions of faith. Is it possible to have a short catechesis that gives the…

– Rev José Mario O Mandía TWO PROCESSIONS LEAD TO FOUR RELATIONS We have studied how the Son proceeds from the Father, and how the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son. We may ask: in what…

Edith Stein, today’s saint’s given name, was a highly cultured European intellectual. She obtained a doctorate in philosophy summa cum laude from a German university after being accepted as a student by a renowned philosopher. She mastered numerous languages and…

– Anastasios A great defender of Catholic orthodoxy was Saint Maximus the Confessor (579/80-662). He was born in Constantinople from a rich family. And even if he was very well regarded since his youth by the emperor himself, he was…

– Aurelio Porfiri We were able in the previous issue to identify Luigi Antinori from Nocera with the Luigi Antinori that was active in Macau. Do we have conclusive evidence for this? Not really, but the documents that we were…