Aurelio Porfiri Much has been read about the Council and its hermeneutics. Certainly, some interpretations of this ecumenical assembly have led to a de facto devaluation of the role and dignity of liturgical music and its importance.
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Agreeing with the Father’s Designs
27 September 2020 – 26th SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME- Year AMatthew 21:28-32 Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications The parable of today’s gospel depicts three characters: a father and two sons. At the invitation of his father to go to work…
Cloning? The problem starts with in vitro fertilization
Corrado Gnerre Dear ones, I would like to ask you a question. Not so long ago news spread in China, that it would be possible to clone two monkeys. The news obviously caused quite a stir. And it disturbed me…
TREASURES OF SACRED MUSIC – Ecce Panis Angelorum (Lorenzo Perosi)
Aurelio Porfiri When we hear talk about sacred music, we are often reproached that we cannot expect today’s churches, mostly empty of faithful, to have the means to put on a sacred music program the way we believe it should…
Covid-19 and our fears
Fausto Gomez OP Due to the novel coronavirus there is global fear: through 2019, a heightened degree of fear has spread throughout the world: fear of infection, fear of death, fear of losing one’s job, fear of hunger.
You did what? (3)
Danilo Perez Ngo SFC: What advice can you give to people who still have questions about confession, if Christ is really present in the confessional? Fr Mandía: This is a matter of faith, in the sense that if you believe…
SAN SEBASTIANO FUORI LE MURA – Memories of first Christians
Anastasios We have already hitherto seen how many churches and Basilicas in Rome recall to us the memory of the first Christians. This is probably why Rome can be considered a “Holy City”, because its soil was drenched with the…
The epitaph on the tomb of love
20 September 2020 – 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year AMatthew 20:1-16. Fernando Armellini SCJClaretian Publications Macau In the parable, the master provokes the anger of the workers of the first hour. We may recall that he had agreed…
You did what? (2)
Danilo Perez Ngo SFC: Why Confession? Fr Mandía: I don’t know if you’ve heard this story of two friends who were speaking. One was Catholic, and the other was not. The non-Catholic friend told his Catholic friend, “You know why…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (95) – What’s the difference between secularity and secularism?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Church and state have their respective fields of competence and enjoy autonomy with respect to each other. The autonomy of the state with respect to ecclesiastical laws is called “secularity.” Secularity avoids two extremes: (1)…