22 JULY 2018 – 16TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B) Jer 23:1-6; Eph 2:13-18; Mark 6:30-34 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau He who works needs to take a break. That’s why, at the return from their mission, the…
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ASK THE LITURGIST (10) – The altar in ‘offertory’ rites
Enrico Finotti In our church, after the Mass, the altar tablecloth is removed, which remains always bare. The tablecloth, the candles, the flowers, the cups, the chalice, the ampoules and the missal are brought to the offertory of the…
THE EUCHARIST (2) – Christ is really there
Joni Cheng In the Eucharist, “the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained” (CCC 1374). As stated by Pope Paul VI in his Encyclical Mysterium Fidei, the Holy Eucharist is “a substantial presence by which Christ, God and…
To Tell the Tale of God’s Love down the Ages (11)
Sr Judith Yuen, FMM God led me along the path of following his call to enter religious life: after contacting the fmm sister to plan the procedure of entry and preparing the documents needed, I resigned from my teaching posts…
THE EUCHARIST (1) – Sacrificial Memorial of Christ
The Sacrifices of Melchizedek, Abel, and Abraham. Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna (Photo: The Lonely Pilgrim) – Joni Cheng For Christ being the Son of God, He also embraced the same love the Father has for man in His human…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (72) – Do we really have to live with others?
Featured Image: Devanath at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía We have seen that language allows us not only to express our feelings (just as animals do), but also to communicate our thoughts to others. This ability to communicate…
CHURCH FATHERS (23) – Arnobius
– Anastasios We talk now of a very little known early Christian apologist. I am quite sure that if I mention the name Arnobius of Sicca very few among my readers would know who he is.
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SINOLOGIST PAOLO SANTANGELO – Exploring the Chinese psyche
– Aurelio Porfiri Italy has devoted great energies to studying China. That is not by chance, if we consider our long history of contact with the Chinese world, that goes back much earlier than Matteo Ricci and the Jesuits. Paolo…
FRAGMENTS (2)
– Vittorio Messori There is a figure among many that can help to understand the difference between the Mediterranean countries and Great Britain. In 1987 – two years after the appointment of Gorbachev as head of the Soviet Union and…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (71) – Do animals gossip?
Free-Photos at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía A long time back, we spoke about the relationship between reality, knowledge and language (Bite-Size Philosophy 4). We feel the natural need, even when we were babies, to communicate. At that…