In the year 1200, two young shepherdesses, while guarding their flocks, are wont to sing the simple and ingenuous praise around a newsstand on which is painted the image of the Madonna. Suddenly there was a flicker, and between the…

In the year 1200, two young shepherdesses, while guarding their flocks, are wont to sing the simple and ingenuous praise around a newsstand on which is painted the image of the Madonna. Suddenly there was a flicker, and between the…
CN/11/020/2018 For the spiritual benefit of the faithful, Bishop Stephen Lee has decreed that the following days be added to be observed as memorials and feasts within the Diocese of Macau. 30th JAN Blessed Gabriele Allegra OFM – Memorial 25th…
– Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith (Catholic Herald) It is good to know that a committee of British MPs, as this magazine reports, have had some harsh things to say about pornography. Everything they say strikes me as sensible and obvious: they…
– Miguel Augusto (*) “Hallowe’en” is a word that first appeared in the 16th century, and is a Scottish variant of “All-Hallows-Evening,” that is, the night before “All Hallows,” which means “All Saints.” The real Halloween party is of Christian…
– Anastasios Epiphanius was born on 310 in Palestine. He was a monk since a very young age and founder of monasteries. He was elected Bishop of Salamis (Cyprus) because of his great holiness. He defended orthodoxy in every way.…
– Rev José Mario O Mandía Aside from the number and dates of the manuscripts of the Sacred Scripture (let us call these “internal evidence”), we can also make use of other works to establish the authenticity of the Scriptures…
Jer 31:7-9; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52 May Tam www.FLL.cc Bartimaeus, though blind, was alert to Jesus’ coming. Despite his social disadvantage and his physical constraint, he did not give in to the crowd who attempted to silence him. He would…
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Estêvão Cacela calls the river Torsa “Ganges,” a classification comprehensible at the time, since all the streams that flowed into the Bay of Bengal were Ganges or Gangá – literally “Indian river.” The author of…
– Fr Leonard E Dollentas More recently, the Oxford English Dictionary added two more Filipino words into its list of some 1,400 Filipino words and phrases the dictionary had listed. Oxford included bongga, “which means extravagant, flamboyant, impressive, stylish or…
On August 27, 2002, two girls from the village of Nyzhne Bolotne (in Western Ukraine) went to a grove to get some water from the spring there. Olenka Kuruts was ten years old, and her friend, Mar’yanka Kobal, was nine…