30th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year AMatthew 22:34-40 Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications, Macau God, first of all, is to be loved with an undivided heart (with all the heart). Today there are believers, people in the church, who fulfill…
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LETTER SAMARITANUS BONUS – Caring for the terminally ill
LETTER SAMARITANUS BONUS – ON EUTHANASIA AND ASSISTED SUICIDECaring for the terminally ill Fausto Gomez OP To address ethically, theologically and spiritually the growing reality of euthanasia and assisted suicide in our word, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of…
SAN BARTOLOMEO ALL’ISOLA – A church and an island
Anastasios The minor basilica of San Bartolomeo all’isola is a kind of singular church in Rome, for reasons that will soon be quite clear. The first reason is in the name, “in the island,” because the church is in Tiber…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (100) – Is heaven only a marketing gimmick?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Every man and woman yearns to be happy with an unlimited and unending joy. Jesus Christ came to tell us that that yearning can be fulfilled. “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in…
The Image of God Engraved on You
18 October 2020 – 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year AMatthew 22:15-21 Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications Every Roman coin had images of the emperor. Graven images amount to idolatry and are prohibited by their law. Using the money of…
TREASURES OF SACRED MUSIC – O Magnum Mysterium
O Magnum Mysterium (Tomás Luis da Victoria) Aurelio Porfiri The Renaissance was one of the most glorious eras of sacred music, when vocal art reached extraordinary heights, heights that will hardly be surpassed. In this era, the art of Palestrina…
TREASURES OF SACRED MUSIC – Alma Redemptoris Mater
Alma Redemptoris Mater (Gregorian chant) Aurelio Porfiri Among the Marian antiphons that were and are still performed at the end of Mass or during the Marian months, certainly the Salve Regina and Regina Coeli would win in popularity. Nevertheless, the…
The silliness of the Purgatory being a medieval “invention”
Corrado Gnerre My daughter attended the first class in high school. She told me that her Italian teacher, explaining Dante, spoke of Purgatory as an “invention” of the medieval Church. My daughter tried to object, but the same was written…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (99) – What immediately happens after we die?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Chapter 9 of the Letter to the Hebrews states clearly that there is judgment after death. “And just as it is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27).
Invited to dance with God
11 October 2020 – 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year AMatthew 22:1-14 Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications The wedding feast is the biblical image of the encounter of love between the Lord and Israel. In the parable, the bridegroom…