PHOTO: soej24 at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía “It seems that God does not exist,” Saint Thomas writes (Summa Theologiae (S Th) I q2 a3 objection 1), “because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would…
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PETER FOLLOWED JESUS BUT MISUNDERSTOOD THE GOAL – 16 September 2018, 24th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
Is 50:5-9a; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 827-35 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau “You are the Messiah.” Peter gave a precise definition but he continues to be convinced that the Master will soon begin an earthly kingdom. For Jesus the…
ASK THE LITURGIST (13) – The humeral veil
– Enrico Finotti Is the humeral veil optional? “The priest or the deacon should wear a white cope and humeral veil to give the blessing at the end of adoration, when the exposition takes place with the monstrance; in the…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (81) – Arras, France
Our Lady of Ardents, or Eglise Notre-Dame des Ardents d’Arras in French, is a small, charming red brick church in the lower part of town in Arras, France. It was built in the beautiful style unique to the twelfth century…
GOD’S FAITHFUL AND PRUDENT SERVANT – Pope Francis and the miraculous image of the sleeping St Joseph
PHOTO CAPTION: A statue of the sleeping St Joseph at the Macau St Joseph Seminary. Photo by Fr Leonard Dollentas. – Fr Leonard E Dollentas When it comes to patron saints and intercessors, Pope Francis seems to play favorites. This…
PREPARING FOR DEATH WITH ST ALFONSUS MARIA DE’ LIGUORI
– Aldo Maria Valli In the first day of August, the Church remembers St. Alphonsus Maria de’ Liguori (1696-1787), to whom I am attached for many reasons. He composed Tu scendi dalle stelle (You come down from heaven), the best…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (78) – Can we demonstrate the existence of a First Cause?
PHOTO:By Free-Photos at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía Can we demonstrate the existence of a First Cause? But first, what do we mean by “demonstrate”? To demonstrate is to show that something which we cannot directly know (i.e.,…
EPHPHATHA: BE OPENED; BE BAPTIZED – 9th September 2018 – 23rd Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
Is 35:4-7a; Jas 2:1-5; Mk 7:31-37 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The sick to be healed is a “stuttering deaf” as in the original text. For Isaiah, the “stuttering deaf” was the people of Israel. However, the patient…
CHURCH FATHERS (26) – Eusebius of Caesarea
In the past century history has seen a strong rethinking about many assumptions coming from the Rankean tradition, that tradition established from the German historian Leopold von Ranke which demanda that history has to establish “what has really happened.”
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH PROF. FRANCO BATTAGLIA, SCIENTIST AND WRITER – On 1968 and today’s universities
– Aurelio Porfiri I think there is little doubt when we say that the year 1968 was a crucial year for the development of our societies. Maybe this was felt more in Europe, North America, but I think that the…