– Rev José Mario O Mandía When we talk about creation and God’s goodness, we inevitably come across the problem of evil. Why is there evil? Where did it come from? First of all, what do we mean by “evil”?…
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THE INCONSISTENCY OF THE MERIT CERTIFICATE BEFORE GOD – 27th October 2019, 30th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Luke 18:9-14 – Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In the outset, we dislike the hypocritical, disagreeable, proud and presumptuous Pharisee. Our sympathies are all for the publican who, poor guy, did something wrong but has a golden heart.
WE ARE IN A CRAZY WORLD
– Corrado Gnerre Dear friend, here we don’t understand anything. What is taken for granted is questioned. The normal is considered “abnormal” and the abnormal “normal. But what happened? I don’t understand anything anymore.
HOW TO TRAIN CHURCH CHOIRS (8) – The use of musical instruments for the liturgy
– Aurelio Porfiri A Church music director has to be aware of the correct use of musical instruments in the liturgy. Often this is one of the most problematic parts in Church music programs, because too many pastors allow the…
A TESTIMONY – Learning from our shepherd
– 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,…
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…