Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Several things are needed for a person to be able to receive Holy Communion. (1) He must be a baptized Catholic. As we have seen, Holy Communion signifies that a person is in communion with…
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Divo Barsotti and the Life In The Spirit
Aurelio Porfiri We are very worried about what is happening around us, and we are certainly right. Work, family, responsibilities … all these things inevitably attract our attention, they instinctively hold us together because they are part of our external…
A miracle in the midst of darkness
José Maria C.S. André In last May 12’s audience, the Pope told of a miracle that he experienced close up when he was in Buenos Aires.
Yes to nonviolence (2)
Fausto Gomez OP Nonviolence literally means no to violence, or negation of violence as a path to social change, justice and peace. It does not mean passive resistance to social evil or withdrawal from the world, but active nonviolence as…
ANGEL OF PORTUGAL CELEBRATED ON JUNE 10 – God’s messengers in the life of the Church
Antonio dos Santos Devotion to the Guardian Angel is very old in Portugal. It gained a special place with the Apparitions of the Angel, in Fátima, to the Little Shepherds. Messengers of God, at decisive moments in the History of…
Medieval people and beauty
Corrado Gnerre I really appreciate your magazine. For a very simple reason, because you know how to combine Faith and Beauty well. In this regard, I would like you to relate to me about how medieval people loved Beauty. When…
Losing Oneself in the Meditation of the Trinity
Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 30 May 2021 – Solemnity of the Holy Trinity-Year BMt 28:16-20 Trinity Sunday is a time that the Church has dedicated to the reflection of our concept about God. Trinity is the summit of…
The UFOs and the US
Aurelio Porfiri I do not know if you have in mind those beautiful verses of Psalm 8: “If I look at your sky, the work of your fingers, at the moon and the stars that you have set in place,…
The Hypothesis that still poses questions to us
Aurelio Porfiri When I happen to tell a little about my life to others, I must always mention about a book that created an important turning point in my adolescence that was spent in post-conciliar Christianity, fed on catechisms with…
The Etymology of Deacon
The English word deacon (Old-Eng. diacon) refers to the first degree of the Church’s Holy Orders, it derives from the Ancient Greek term διάκονος diā́konos through Latin diaconus. Its original meaning is ‘servant’ and it was often used in the…