– Rev José Mario O Mandía Physical evils can be permitted or willed by God. But God never wills moral evil, he doesn’t want anyone to sin. But He permits moral evil to happen. Why? The experience of evil sometimes…
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BETWEEN FEAR AND ILLUSIONS, ONLY ONE HOPE – 10th November 2019, 32nd Sunday In Ordinary Time
Luke 20:27-38 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau While the Pharisees believed in the resurrection, the Sadducees declared themselves skeptics since the Torah did not speak about resurrection. Moreover, with the money at their disposal, they were able…
JUST A NORMAL EVENING….
– Carlos Frota It’s dark outside. It’s time to follow the news and then, after dinner, to spend some time alone, looking back at the hours of my day, almost finished. It’s time to be with myself. Testing the way…
SAINT JOHN LATERAN – The Cathedral of the Pope
– Anastasios When people visit Rome in pilgrimage to Roman churches, one of the first places where they want to go to is Saint Peter’s Basilica. And there are certainly good reasons for that: the monumentality of the place, the…
HOW TO TRAIN CHURCH CHOIRS (10) – The narrow gate
– Aurelio Porfiri In our previous chapters, I could only give sparse information about Church choirs. Many books will have to be written to explain in detail, and that is not possible here. But I know that choir conductors sometimes…
KEEPING THE END IN SIGHT – In the evening of our life
– REV. JOSÉ MARIO O. MANDÍA “What difference is there between having faith and not having one?” asked a university student who professed no religious belief. “If one has faith, in particular the Catholic faith,” I told him, “he knows…
ONE SUNDAY OF THE YEAR FOR GOD’s WORD – Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio “Aperuit Illis” (2019)
– Fr Fausto Gomez, OP Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter in the form of Motu Proprio begins thus: “He opened [“aperuit”] their minds to understand the Scriptures (Lk 24:45)… Without the Lord who opens our minds to them, it is impossible…
500TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FAITH IN THE PHILIPPINES (5) – Maximum Illud, its Significance to the Philippine Church
CBCP News – Fr. Leonard E. Dollentas Pope Francis has recently appointed Filipino Archbishop Bernardito Auza as the new Apostolic Nuncio to Spain. The Holy See’s Press Office published his appointment on October 1, 2019. His appointment came as the…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (76)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Cabral says, in his letter entitled Relation of the Mission of the Kingdom of Utsang, head of the Potent, that, since their arrival, the king of Central Tibet treated them with great consideration, an attitude…
MACAU CHURCH HERITAGE – Church of St Augustine
– Maria Kwak It was the first of November, 1586 when the Augustinians first arrived in Macau. Macau was then a Portuguese colony, governed by the Spanish Empire’s Felipe II (r. 1581-1598). The Spanish Friar, Francisco Manrique (d. 1588) with…