On 10 July, at 6 PM, the launching of a new edition comprising three books of D Arquimínio da Costa, Fr Lancelote Rodrigues and Fr Mário Acquistapace in the Chinese language, missionaries who worked in Macau, will take place in…
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THE RISK OF BEING HOMELESS – 8 JULY 2018, 14TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (B)
Ez 2:2-5; 2 Cor 12:7-10; Mk 6:1-6 – Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau In Capernaum, Jesus expressed his admiration for the gesture of four men who brought down the roof of a house to introduce a paralytic (Mk…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (11)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The nearly fifteen million inhabitants of Dhaka are by themselves synonymous with a high probability of discontents, so that in the congested streets of this city it is common to cross with demonstrators of many…
APOLOGIA (22) – Why was the Son of God born in a very humble village?
Anastasios Objection 1: It seems very strange that the Son of God, as Jesus pretended to be, was born in a very humble village as Bethlehem. If he was the powerful man he claimed to be, he should be born…
SOLEMNITY OF STs PETER AND PAUL
During the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul on June 29, the relics of the two saints were on display at the Cathedral during the Mass celebrated by Bishop Stephen Lee. The Diocese of Macau prayed for the entire Church,…
TOWARDS FULL AND CONSCIOUS PARTICIPATION – The evangelizing power of liturgical music
– Joni Cheng It is in the Liturgy where the divine encounter and exchange of love between God and the faithful takes place. Presuming a person has been apprenticed well, the Mass is the greatest opportunity for lifelong evangelization. So…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (73) – Hrushiv, Ukraine
The first apparition actually occurred two weeks before World War I, on May 12, 1914, in the village of Hrushiv. Twenty-two people, who were mowing fields near the local church of the Holy Trinity, all witnessed an apparition of the…
ASK THE LITURGIST (9) – The Communion rail
Enrico Finotti In many of our churches the communion rail no longer exists and the presbytery lends itself to the access of all, who do not always respect the altar, making it hold the most varied things: sheet music in…
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (070) – What is cooperation with evil?
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…
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…