– Ross Belle Santos-Balatbat “The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead…
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ONLY ONE LIFE, BUT MANY SERVICES – 10TH May 2020, 5th Sunday of Easter, Year A
John 14:1-12 – Fr. Fernando Armellini MCJ Claretian Publications, Macau “In my Father’s house there are many rooms… Yet you know the way where I am going” (vv. 2-4). Jesus means to say that he has to go through a difficult…
FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS TO THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM (13) – Some musical possibilities for the Responsorial Psalm
– Aurelio Porfiri We have spoken a lot about what surrounds the Psalms and then we started to focus on a particular use of the Psalm during the Mass, what we call Responsorial Psalm. I assume that by now the…
CORONAVIRUS AND FAITH
– Fausto Gomez OP According to global surveys, for many people, the majority of them believers, this time of confinement or quarantine is being used to reflect on their life and their beliefs. It may indeed be for all a…
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE FACE OF COVID-19 (4) – The Korean Way: unity and efficiency
– Fr Leonard Dollentas South Korea is one of the earliest countries to report a significant coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The outbreak began almost like Italy’s, where there were slow drip cases but soon escalated dramatically – from thirty recorded cases…
SANTA MARIA AUSILIATRICE – The devotion of Salesians to the Blessed Virgin Mary
We have spoken previously about the intense pastoral work undertaken by the successor of Saint Giovanni Bosco of the Salesian congregation. The education of youth is of primary importance to them, and this is the reason they have numerous schools…
POPE FRANCIS – Our civilization needs to downshift, take stock and renew itself
– ROBAIRD O’CEARBHAILL The pandemic is wrecking economies and lives but those who suffer most are the vulnerable old and young, the already ill and especially the extreme poor. All whom Christians are duty-bound to help. A core part of…
COVID – 19: Vatican and UN – natural allies
– Carlos M. Frota The UN and the Holy See, natural allies? Not in a conventional battlefield, but in struggling for a better new world, after the pandemic. Some weeks ago, Antonio Guterres and Pope Francis appeared smiling in photos…
ANIMALISM: Denying the value of reason…reasoning
– Corrado Gnerre I happened to read something by the philosopher Peter Singer. He suggests that a healthy animal would have more right to life than a sick child. How did it get this far? Dear …, Australian Peter Singer…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (78) – How is the Church related to the Blessed Trinity?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía The Church is the People of God, the Mystical Body of Christ, the Spouse of Christ, and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. PEOPLE OF GOD “The Church is the ‘people of God’ because…