António dos Santos Today, August 6th, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which has been celebrated in the East since the 5th century. The mysterious episode of Jesus’ Transfiguration takes place on a high…
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The song of praise by Our Lady of the Snows
Aurelio Porfiri In August, at least before the pandemic, the Italian population for the most part flocked to the holiday resorts to enjoy the well-deserved scraps of sunshine and then return refreshed in body and mind to the fatigue of…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (139) – What’s special about the Real Presence?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org The CCCC (282) teaches us that “Jesus Christ is present in the Eucharist in a unique and incomparable way. He is present in a true, real and substantial way, with his Body and his Blood,…
The oriental trend
Corrado Gnerre Dear friend, your effort does a worthy work for the enhancement of the true roots of the West, so that – let’s face it frankly – we can become more and more attached to this West which seems…
Let us try to be patient (2)
Fausto Gomez OP Thomas a Kempis tells us that patience is necessary because we have to face many adversities in this life (cf. Imitation of Christ). What is the road to patience? God is patient with us. The omnipotent and…
ST ALPHONSUS LIGUORI – From lawyer to priest to saint
António dos Santos On Sunday, 1st August, the Universal Church celebrates St Alphonsus Liguori. In an audience in St Peter’s Square on March 30, 2011, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI spoke to us about St Alphonsus Liguori. When presenting the holy…
The Red Priest
Aurelio Porfiri I believe there are few musicians who have a posthumous contemporary fame like the Venetian Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), who died 280 years ago on 28 July in a situation of near poverty and buried in a mass grave…
The Bread Business
1 August 2021 – 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year BThe Bread Business Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau We are continuing the discourse on the bread of life from last Sunday. Today, the people have caught up with…
Need for patience in dangerous times (1)
Fausto Gomez OP The novel coronavirus Covid-19 is giving us time to reflect, to meditate on the priorities of our life. During the quarantine, or confinement at home, a hospital or a hotel, people, psychologists, pastors and friends invite us…
RETIRED AND ELDERLY PRIESTS – Will you still love us when we are old?
Fr Leonard E Dollentas Pope Francis has established the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, to take place annually on the fourth Sunday of July, close to the feast of the grandparents of Jesus, Sts. Anne and Joachim.