– 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…
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A PILGRIM’S NOTES – The need for listening
– 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,…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (84) – Lipa, Philippines
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…
IN MEMORY OF 19TH CENTURY MARTYRS SAINT ANDREW KIM TAEGON AND COMPANIONS — The Korean Church flourished with its martyrs
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,…
ASK THE LITURGIST (14) — A True Christmas
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…
OCTOBER 1 – ST THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS — God’s little miracle worker from heaven and her “Little Way”
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…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (1) — What have reason and faith to do with each other?
Rev José Mario O Mandía jmom.honlam.org “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth –…
APOLOGIA (27) — How can the Gospels report faithfully what has happened?
Anastasios Objection 1: The Gospels were written decades after the events. Why they did not write immediately? Objection 2: If the events were reported decades later, it means the memory of what had really happened cannot be accurate. On…
ON A 5TH OF SEPTEMBER — Adoration
Paul Kung Today is the memory of St Teresa of Calcutta. We gratefully make memory of her love for Jesus, whom she adored in the Eucharist and whom she served in the flesh of the poorest of the poor:…
FROM THE ARCHIVES — The Voice of Peter
Most Rev Fulton Sheen These are excerpts from an article especially written by Most Rev. Fulton Sheen, Bishop of Rochester for the 11 April 1968 English edition of L’Osservatore Romano, during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI. They may…