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BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (143) What does “penance” mean?
When we offend someone who loves us, we feel sorry and we try to compensate for the offense. That is what penance is.
Missionaries From Macau to the World – Saint Lazarus Island (60)
The achievement of Vasco da Gama’s grandson is clearly demonstrated in the work of Joseph Nicolas Delisle, to whom, in 1731, the Russian Academy of Sciences entrusted the task of mapping the North Pacific.
Post theism or post reason?
“When people stop believing in God, it is not true that they do not believe in anything, because they believe in everything.”
Understanding the mystery of the Trinity
Is there a way to make this mystery of the faith more understandable?
I thirst…on a train journey
The first fortnight of September is full of memories of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. It was on a train journey, during the night of September 10, 1946, from Calcutta to Darjeeling, India, that Jesus called her to found the Missionaries of Charity. She passed away on September 5, 1997 and the Church annually celebrates her feast on this date. However, as she was canonized by Pope Francis on September 4, 2016, the 4th joins the 5th and the feast lasts for two days.
Doing Small Things with Great Love
The Sisters of Charity Mission celebrated Mother St Teresa’s Day on Sunday, September 5, at 10:00 am. As always, families and seniors were invited to join the Sunday Mass.
“Born so that God could be born from her”
The Universal Church celebrates the Nativity of Mary on September 8th. Tradition says that the Virgin was born in Jerusalem, near the pool of Bethesda, where a crypt under the church of St Anne is currently venerated as the birthplace of Our Lady. The Feast of the Nativity is celebrated nine months after the celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (December 8th).
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (142) – Why is it said that the Church is a “field hospital for sinners”?
We Catholics know we are sinners. We believe that the Catholic Church has the means to forgive our sins. A faithful Catholic seeks forgiveness and healing. A faithful Catholic goes to confession.
Cathedral Parish relaunches catechesis for preschool children
First in Taipa, then in Macau. The local Catholic communities are priming themselves for a new catechetical cycle. The new year begins a week apart in the two parishes. The Parish of Our Lady of Carmel, in Taipa, marks the beginning of the new catechetical year with the feast of the Holy Childhood. In the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady, the new cycle will start a week later, with fewer catechists and something fresh: the rehabilitation of catechesis for preschool children.