Category: Faith & Life

Aurelio Porfiri   News can be alarming sometimes. Like right now, it seems that white should be now called black and vice versa. There is much talk of virility as a possible object of discussion and not as a fundamental…

FAUSTO GOMEZ OP   There is in Macau a chain of restaurants that provide, with just a minor order, free coffee for the elderly. One may see many of these elderly reading avidly the daily newspapers. Men and women reading…

Faustinus and Jovita were brothers, nobly born, and were zealous professors of the Christian religion, which they preached without fear in their city of Brescia in Lombardy, during the persecution of Adrian. Their remarkable zeal excited the fury of the…

– Anastasios When we talk of Saint John Climacus (525-605), we talk of a great protagonist of monasticism. He was a monk a the Mount Sinai Monastery, where he entered when he was 16. His monastic life at the beginning…

– Rev José Mario O Mandía The First Vatican Council defined the Bible in chapter 2 of its Dogmatic Constitution Dei Filius as the collection of books which, “written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, have God as their…

St Joseph Conference Centre (Choc Van) will hold a retreat on Carmelite Spirituality from 15 to 17 February (Friday to Sunday).

Saint Brigid was born Brigit, and shares a name with a Celtic goddess from whom many legends and folk customs are associated.  There is much debate over her parents, but it is widely believed her mother was Brocca, a Christian…

– Anastasios Didymus of Alexandria (310-395), also called “the blind,” was born in Alexandria and lost his sight from the age of 5. He was a very well versed scholar, fond of Plato and Aristotle, and was the head of…

– Rev José Mario O Mandía We have seen last time that Apostolic Tradition is transmitted through Sacred Tradition and through Sacred Scripture (cf CCCC 13). Let us discuss Sacred Tradition first. What do we mean by “Sacred Tradition”? The…