FEATURED IMAGE: vreichel in Pixabay Rev José Mario O Mandía We have seen how complex life can be and now we will look at one more of those complexities. It could happen that we may have done an act that is…
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RESTORING DIGNITY AND LIFE TO ISRAEL – 1 July 2018 – 13TH Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24; 2 Cor 8:7; 9:13-15; Mk 5:21-43 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The passage proposes two miracles: one, the healing of a sick woman and the other, raising the daughter of Jairus. These miracle stories carry…
CHURCH FATHERS (22) – Saint Cyprian
Anastasios We have seen previously, that the first centuries of Christian era were not times of peace and love. Indeed there were many fights, controversies, disputes to defend the Catholic faith. Often all these fights, controversies and disputes were done…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (72) – Santa Fe, United States Of America
In the North Chapel of the beautiful cathedral of Santa Fe, stands a little statue (scarcely three feet tall) of Our Lady holding the Child Jesus. It was skillfully carved by loving hands in Spain. Mary is clad in a…
FRAGMENTS (1)
– Vittorio Messori The saintly curate of Ars – whom Pius XI proclaimed patron of the all parish priests – said with a phrase that many considered paradoxical, perhaps excessive, as happens to saints who, to us mediocre, often seem…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (69) – What is situation ethics?
FEATURED IMAGE: Pixel2013 at Pixabay – Rev José Mario O Mandía What happens when we ignore the object of the act (finis operis)? If we ignore the morality of the act itself, then we will have to rely only on…
A COURAGEOUS WITNESS OF THE LIGHT – 24 June 2018 – Birth of St. John The Baptist
Jer 1:4-10; 1 Pt 1:8-12; Lk 1:57-66,80 Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications In the barren womb of Elizabeth the evangelist sees depicted the sterility of Israel and the condition of death in which the whole humanity lies. The desperate situation…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (9)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Sebastião Manrique, an Augustinian missionary and a Portuguese traveler, visited Dhaka in September 1640 and stayed there for about twenty-seven days. According to him, the city stretched along the Buriganga River for more than four…
ASK THE LITURGIST (8) – The side altars
Featured Image: One of the side altars in the cathedral of Pamplona, Navarre (Spain). (Photo by José Mario O Mandía.) – Enrico Finotti The side altars are generally abandoned. However, many of them are of great value and are part…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DR EDMONDO LUPIERI – The Mary Magdalene “mystery” (2)
– Aurelio Porfiri I would like you may continue to lead us in what early Christianity is telling us about Mary Magdalene… After centuries of debates, two lines of interpretation emerged in the major Christian traditions. In the Greek Church,…