The Church dedicates the month of June to the Sacred Heart of the Lord. Today, the Friday after the feast of Corpus Christi, is the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
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Confirmation is not a “bye-bye sacrament”
Angela Chong In the few weeks prior to the day for my Sunday school students to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, I got increasingly anxious. I doubted whether they were adequately prepared. Realizing that their learning retention was limited, I…
Nihilism…dissolution of our times
Corrado Gnerre Dear friends of the magazine, I recently read an article on nihilism and it intrigued me a lot. I understood that this is a typical mistake of our times. But I would like to have a simple, concise…
The Fragile Body
Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 6 June 2021 – Solemnity of Corpus Christi- Year BMk 14:12-16, 22-26 The introductory lines of the gospel of today give us two symbols from the Old Testament. The Unleavened Bread. The Passover Lamb.…
People’s piety and Liturgy
Aurelio Porfiri We must try to understand the relationship that has arisen between popular piety and liturgy from a different perspective than from which we are used to.
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (131) – Can anyone receive the Holy Eucharist?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Several things are needed for a person to be able to receive Holy Communion. (1) He must be a baptized Catholic. As we have seen, Holy Communion signifies that a person is in communion with…
Divo Barsotti and the Life In The Spirit
Aurelio Porfiri We are very worried about what is happening around us, and we are certainly right. Work, family, responsibilities … all these things inevitably attract our attention, they instinctively hold us together because they are part of our external…
A miracle in the midst of darkness
José Maria C.S. André In last May 12’s audience, the Pope told of a miracle that he experienced close up when he was in Buenos Aires.
Yes to nonviolence (2)
Fausto Gomez OP Nonviolence literally means no to violence, or negation of violence as a path to social change, justice and peace. It does not mean passive resistance to social evil or withdrawal from the world, but active nonviolence as…
ANGEL OF PORTUGAL CELEBRATED ON JUNE 10 – God’s messengers in the life of the Church
Antonio dos Santos Devotion to the Guardian Angel is very old in Portugal. It gained a special place with the Apparitions of the Angel, in Fátima, to the Little Shepherds. Messengers of God, at decisive moments in the History of…