Category: Faith & Life

– Fr James Chang Woo Ho BCM As you know well I was ordained to a priest a few days ago. Today I’d like to talk about how I became a priest and what I feel like today.

The history of Our Lady of Czestochowa is the history of Poland. Traditional holds that this picture of Mary was painted by St Luke the Evangelist on a piece of wood cut from the table of the Last Supper. It…

– Rev José Mario O Mandía “Always be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverence” (I Peter 3:15).  “Defense” is…

– Anastasios Ephrem the Syrian (306-373) was an important writer, hymnographer and theologian in the IV century.  We know very little about his early years and the information we have are somehow in contradiction. We know that the Bishop of…

– Fausto Gomez OP Some years ago, I was invited to reflect with the Australian Dominican Family on justice and peace in Dominican tradition and today. We closed our encounters with the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. At the offertory,…

Teresita Castillo was 21 years old when she fled her prominent home and followed her secret desire to become a Carmelite novice on July 4, 1948.  Within one month of her arrival into the convent, on July 31, 1948, satan…

Miguel Augusto (*)   On 20 September, the Church celebrates the feast of Holy Martyr Andrew Kim Taegon and his companions (more than a hundred martyrs), laymen and priests who embraced Christ to the last breath. On May 6, 1984,…

Don Enrico Finotti   Our liturgies and Christian traditions are today disturbed by so many commercial distractions and so much clamor. Is it still possible to live a real Christmas?   Christmas has become world culture. Even non-Christian peoples have…

Fr Leonard E Dollentas   St Therese of the Child Jesus is a powerful intercessor and she is beloved by many. In fact, she is one of the most popular saints in the Catholic Church. If you have a devotion…