Category: Faith & Life

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org  There is an early Christian work that shows that the Mass we celebrate in our days has the same basic content and structure as the Mass of the first centuries of Christianity. CCC 1345 cites…

Corrado Gnerre Dear friends, there are many accusations against the history of the Church. Among these is the issue of censorship, the one remembered as the Index of Forbidden Books. An argument like this is used to attack the Church…