Category: Faith & Life

– Rev José Mario O Mandía When someone introduces himself to us, how do we respond? The polite thing to do is to acknowledge his presence, perhaps shake his hands, and say, “Hello.” Through Revelation (which we find in Sacred…

St Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419) was born in Valencia, Spain, and died in Vannes, Britany. He was a great scholar and became Master of Theology — he knew the entire Bible by heart. He was also a great preacher, preaching throughout…

– Aldo Maria Valli “At the crucifix we have cut off the arms, they will be the hands that will allow us to mark the hours and minutes.” Thus says the bishop of Innsbruck, Hermann Glettler, a lover of modern…

Bishop Stephen Lee carries the Lignum Crucis contained in a reliquary during the procession of Our Lord Bom Jesus dos Passos on March 10. – Miguel Augusto (*)   The Cross on which Our Lord was crucified became one of…

– Rev José Mario O Mandía   We often talk about mysteries and dogmas. What do we mean by “mystery”? And what do we mean by “dogma”? Let’s take up mysteries first. In ordinary language, a mystery is something that…

St Mark was a priest in Syria during the reign of Constantine. He became the Bishop of Arethusa. There were many conversions to Christianity during this time. Mark undertook the challenge of transforming pagan temples into Christian churches. He suffered…

– Aurelio Porfiri Part of the most precious heritage of our Catholic tradition, a living heritage, is the Tridentine Mass, which, after the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, is now called the extraordinary form of the Roman rite. There are some…