Category: Faith & Life

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…

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…

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…

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…

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).

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…

Fausto Gomez, OP For Christians, the month of October of every year is the Extraordinary Missionary Month, centered on the celebration of Mission Sunday: the third Sunday.

Danilo Perez Ngo SFC: What will happen to our loved ones who were not able to confess or receive the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick due to the pandemic that we are experiencing at present? Fr Mandía: We have…

Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org  Death is certain. It is a fact. Life is short: “in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers (Psalm 90:6).” Everyone knows this. But we Christians have an…

Fausto Gomez OP During the quarantine, or confinement at home, hospital or hotel, people, psychologists, pastors and friends invite us to be patient. The pandemic is part of our fragile life and will pass. And tomorrow will be better –…