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…
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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…
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…
Nihilism…dissolution of our times
Corrado Gnerre Dear friends of the magazine, I recently read an article on nihilism and it intrigued me a lot. I understood that this is a typical mistake of our times. But I would like to have a simple, concise…
The Fragile Body
Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 6 June 2021 – Solemnity of Corpus Christi- Year BMk 14:12-16, 22-26 The introductory lines of the gospel of today give us two symbols from the Old Testament. The Unleavened Bread. The Passover Lamb.…
People’s piety and Liturgy
Aurelio Porfiri We must try to understand the relationship that has arisen between popular piety and liturgy from a different perspective than from which we are used to.
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (131) – Can anyone receive the Holy Eucharist?
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…