Catholics worldwide will celebrate World Mission Day on Sunday. In Macau, the alms collected at the local churches will fund the Church’s missionary activities. Formerly an advanced outpost of evangelization in the Far East, Macau is nowadays mission territory and an incubator of new vocations. O Clarim spoke with four Macau-based missionaries about the challenges of Evangelization at the beginning of the third millennium.
Lord, Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me. I do humbly beg You with all my heart for Your mercy and compassion. Though I am unworthy, I seek Your grace and trust in Your goodness. Jesus, I trust in You.
Note the emphasis on personal confession and absolution. Christ, the Good Shepherd, always tends his sheep one by one.
The Universal Church celebrates on 22 October the feast of Pope St John Paul II. The Holy Father lived for and in Christ, giving himself to his neighbor entirely through the hands of the Virgin Mary, for whom he had a deep devotion, having dedicated to her his papal motto: Totus Tuus (All yours). He left a vast legacy and travelled tirelessly around the world to carry the message of the Gospel, a message of Hope, of Love and of God’s Mercy. When told to slow down his work and travel, he used to reply with a smile: “I will rest in Eternal Life.” St John Paul II was certainly one of the most outstanding figures of the 20th century.
As a result of a long contact, it was not long before the Portuguese influence was felt in the city of Manila.
It is often said that our age is a time in which we suffer from a crisis of ideals, our young people no longer know what to believe. Why not offer them the ideal of beauty again? But not beauty only in an aesthetic sense, but as a profound value behind which they will always find God. The Church had understood this, promoting the most artistically valid sacred music, the sacred art of the highest level, literature at the highest levels: true beauty is the seed of holiness.
I am a priest from the diocese of … I always follow you and read with great interest, trying to implement your precious indications in the parish entrusted to me. I would like to open my mind to tell you what the liturgical formation we have had since the seminary and then the refresher courses … We were told that the liturgical books should not be mandatory, but should be used as a general indication to guide our creativity. In short, the book was not to be read, but recreated with our own words according to the assembly for which it was celebrated. We were all afraid of being considered ‘rubricists’ and we felt (in good faith) authorized to freely remake rites and texts. It seems that this was not the Church’s thinking … Please clarify …
When taking her vows, she added Mary’s name to her name. She always had visions of Our Lady, but she never spoke of this mystical experience. She remained among the Visitandines for over twenty years, receiving extraordinary graces, but also performing many penances and mortifications, always with a smile on her face. However, the nuns and superiors did not believe her, in fact, they even mocked her, implying that she was sick or crazy.
“She was about 12 years old when her mother died, and she implored the Virgin Most Holy to be her mother.”
Pope Francis, who has been vaccinated against the virus, has spoken about about the altruistic and health value of vaccinations amid the pandemic, which is seeing a resurgence in many countries. But today, one of the challenges of Covid-19 vaccination efforts is guaranteeing an equitable distribution of vaccines around the world. To address this situation, some Catholic-inspired institutions and companies are working to give vulnerable communities and countries better access to health resources.
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