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…
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BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (2) – What is Apologetics?
– 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…
INDISSOLUBILITY: A NECESSITY OF LOVE – 7 October 2018 – 27th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
GEN 2:18-24; HEB 2:9-11; MK 10:2-16 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In no other field, as in that of sexual ethics, man is tempted to give his own morals, and so the salt of the gospel proposal is…
CHURCH FATHERS (28) – Saint Ephrem the Syrian
– 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…
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 –…