1 Kgs 19:4-8, Eph 4:30-5:2, Jn 6:41-51 Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc Summer in Toronto is a beauty. Too bad it is so short. This summer of mine began with a 8-day cruise trip from Vancouver to Alaska, on which I was…
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COMMUNIST ARCHITECTURE AND CATHOLIC CHURCHES
Interior of the Novoslobodskaya subway station in Moscow. Photo by adorerussia.com. – Vittorio Messori Can Comrade Stalin come to mind by participating in a Mass? It happened to me: in a church of “architecture” (the name of this illustrious art…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FATHER JEAN-PIERRE CHARBONNIER MEP (1) – Christianity in China
– Aurelio Porfiri One of the reference books for those who want to know about the evolutions and involutions of Christianity in China is Christians in China, by Father Jean-Pierre Charbonnier MEP, also available in English from Ignatius Press. An…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (78) – Aparecida, Brazil
Brazil is the largest Roman Catholic country in the world. In October of 1717, Dom Pedro de Almedida, Count of Assumar, was on his way to the state of Minas Gerais from Sao Paulo. He would have to pass by…
HUMANAE VITAE: 50 YEARS LATER – Still about Love
Eduardo Rodriguez Calsado (Catholic News Agency) July 25 marks the 50th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical on married love and procreation, Humanae Vitae (On Human Life) which reaffirmed the Church’s teaching on the regulation of births. It was the…
ON PILGRIMAGE (5) – Our Lady of Lourdes
– Sr Margaret Fung On the 6th day of our pilgrimage, we are going…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (75) – And how about solidarity?
Bayanihan. http://mattersmost.deviantart.com – Rev José Mario O Mandía Last time we spoke about the third principle — subsidiarity. Today, we will take a look at its complementary principle: the principle of solidarity. We could say that in the same way…
THE EUCHARIST (4) – Thanksgiving and Praise to the Father
– Joni Cheng The Eucharist – Jesus Christ has offered Himself as our “Paschal Lamb” (1 Cor 5:7) and “Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” who sacrificed Himself on the Cross for man as the…
THANKSGIVING PRAYER AFTER MASS
– St Thomas Aquinas I thank you, holy Lord, almighty Father, eternal God, who deigned to feast me, sinful and unworthy servant, with the precious body and blood of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, not for any merit of…
THERE IS BREAD THAT GIVES ETERNAL LIFE – 5TH August 2018, 18th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
Ex 16:2-4,12-15; Eph 4:117,20-24; Jn 6:24-35 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau After the multiplication of the bread the crowd tried to make him king. He knew that they were doing…