Ross Belle Santos-Balatbat This year, the 104th year of the apparition of the Virgin Mary was celebrated on 13 May with the intention “For the peace of the world and for the end of COVID-19 Pandemic.”
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BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (127) – Does the Old Testament speak about the Eucharist?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Does the Old Testament speak about the Eucharist? Yes, it does. Let us first remember what Saint Augustine said: “In vetere Testamento novum latet, in novo vetus patet” – the New Testament is hidden (latet)…
A composer from Macau who is to be remembered
Aurelio Porfiri Perhaps someone may be surprised by thinking that a small city like Macau, China, can boast of a musical tradition in the field of liturgical music that has to be highly respected. Yet it is so, thanks above…
The oldest prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Aurelio Porfiri In his book on the greatest prayers to Mary, Anthony M. Buono rhetorically asks to quote the oldest prayer to the Virgin Mary. He states that most people would answer the Hail Mary, but they would be wrong,…
Devotion to Mary has always existed
Corrado Gnerre Dear friends, I have thought of you to resolve my doubt. I am a devotee of Our Lady. I cannot imagine my prayer life without the beautiful and tender figure of Mary. However, some say that Marian devotion…
A call to love and fraternity
Fausto Gomez OP Pope Francis’ social encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” (all brothers, FT 2020) is “on Fraternity and Social Friendship.” The general purposeof the papal text (eight chapters, 287 numbers in 187 pages) is to contribute to the development of a…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (112) – Why employ art and music in the liturgy?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org The work of evangelization nowadays can become difficult when we start off from discussions about the truth and the good, thanks to the “dictatorship of relativism” (Joseph Ratzinger, 18 April 2005), where everyone decides what…
A MISSIONARY HEART –
Sr Juliana Devoy After Sr Juliana’s demise, O Clarim received this touching piece which she wrote on her 60th anniversary and which we are now sharing with our readers. -Editor I have celebrated 60 years as a Good Shepherd Sister. My…
Where did Jesus Really Abide?
Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 17 January 2021 – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time-BJn 1:35-42 The gospel passage narrates the encounter of the first set of disciples with Jesus at the beginning his public ministry. Jesus was introduced to Andrew…
SANTA CECILIA – The gift of music
We have already seen several basilicas in Rome called Trastevere, famous for its restaurants and for its characteristic buildings. There is another one that we should not miss, and it is the Basilica of Saint Cecilia, it is very dear…