– Carlos M. Frota My text today is a brief personal reflection about the way the Church, under Pope Francis’ guidance, can help us – is helping us already – to better understand our world, so complex as it is,…
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SISTER FAUSTINA FILM “LOVE AND MERCY” IN MORE THAN 700 MOVIE THEATERS IN THE UNITED STATES ON OCTOBER 28 – “Most Christians are still unaware of the power of the message that Jesus gave to humanity through Sr Faustina”
– Miguel Augusto (*) The new Santa Faustina movie Love and Mercy: Faustina, which will be released in the US this October 28, had its pre-screening on March 5th at the Vatican. Around the world, religious and devotees of the…
THE ONLY HIGHER CATHOLIC INSTITUTION IN VIETNAM – Academic Year begins at the Xuan Loc Higher Institute
(Agenzia Fides) – “You have chosen the school, place where you have nurtured your dreams, now fulfill them, transforming the teachings received into ‘capital of life’ and become witnesses of God in the various environments of your life”: with these…
AGING WELL TODAY (4) – How are we growing older?
[圖片來源]Free-Photos at Pixabay – FAUSTO GOMEZ OP Some time ago, I attended a symposium sponsored by the University of Saint Joseph in Macau on the social services provided to the elderly in China, Hong Kong, and Macau. A surprising question…
CHURCH FATHERS (76) – Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
– Anastasios The stories of the Church Fathers are full of heroism, doctrine, loyalty to Christ, but of course, being from people so far in time, there are also false attributions. One of these concerns the so-called Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite,…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (52) – In what way are we God’s image and likeness?
Marjon Besteman-Horn at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O. Mandía “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’…. So God created man in his own image” (Genesis 1:26, 27). No other creature has been created…
AT TIMES IT IS EASY TO LOSE ONE’S FAITH – 20th October 2019, 29th Sunday In Ordinary Time (C)
Luke 18:1-8 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The readings today help us to reflect on prayer. Why are we invited to turn to him with insistence? What is the meaning of prayer? To these questions Jesus responds today…
HOW TO TRAIN CHURCH CHOIRS (7) – Selecting music for the Proprium Missae
– Aurelio Porfiri In my previous chapters, I have emphasized the importance of selecting music for the liturgy with a very precise idea of what the liturgy is, not just following personal taste. Personal taste is not a good guide…
ASK THE LITURGIST (41) – Catecumenal Rites
– Enrico Finotti What catechumenal rites can be assumed in the initiation of children already baptized? It is necessary to distinguish clearly between the real Catechumens, who have not yet been baptized, from the already baptized children who still lack…
FROM HEALING TO FAITH – 13th October 2019, 28th Sunday In Ordinary Time (C)
GOSPEL: LUKE 17:11-19 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau We can run the risk of reducing the message of today’s Gospel to a lesson of good manners, to remember to say thank you to those who help us. Ten lepers of…