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Ordination of Bishop Stephen Chow of Hong Kong

Bishop Stephen Chow takes office as 9th bishop of Hong Kong

December 8, 2021January 18, 2022 adminWorld

The ordination ceremony of the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, which was vacant for nearly three years, was held on 4 December last year at 3 p.m. at the Hong Kong Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Caine Road, Central. Father Stephen Chow Sau Yan, 61, President of the Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus, took up his duties as the 9th Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong. The ceremony was officiated by bishop emeritus John Cardinal Tong Hon, Apostolic Nuncio, with Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha, and Monsignor Javier Herrera Corona, Chargé d’affaires of the Diocese of Hong Kong and Macau concelebrating. The service was conducted in Cantonese and English.

Colbert: faith and fun

December 8, 2021 adminFaith & Life, World

Colvert’s zeal comes from his mother’s upbringing. He was the last of her eleven children. “She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain — it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”

A vision that led to reconciliation

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 adminFaith & Life, World

The two shepherds Maximin Giraud and Melanie Calvat were uneducated, illiterate, did not practice much of their Catholic faith or prayed much before the visions. For example, Melanie did not even know the full words of the Our Father.

Bishop D. Stephen Lee to preside at closing Mass of the Year of St Joseph

December 2, 2021December 2, 2021 adminFaith & Life, Local, World

May the “Year of Saint Joseph,” which ends on coming December 8, not “end,” but serve as an impetus for greater devotion and experience of the Catholic faith on the part of the faithful together with such a high saint, the earthly father of Jesus. If the child God and his Mother, by Divine Will, lived under the care and protection of St Joseph, so let us also seek greater intimacy with him in our lives. May St Joseph grant us this grace, for our journey in faith under his care, for his Glory and Glory of the Holy Church and God the Father.

“Everyday, I speak with Him”

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 adminFaith & Life, World

He said he prays for his family, children, wife, parents, for happiness and a good family life. “But I can say the reality is I never go to the church to speak with Him about football. Never!”

First UK Catholic Prime Minister

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 adminWorld

Johnson’s ancestors are from several faiths and nationalities: Christian, Jewish and Muslim from Turkish, Ashkenazi Jewish, some Swiss-German, German, French, European Royal, and Irish, then more distant Cornish, Dutch, Belgian, Scottish, and Scots-Irish/Northern Irish and Lithuanian and Russian.

Mother Angelica – “media giant”

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 adminFaith & Life, World

“You want to do something for the Lord … do it. Whatever you feel needs to be done, even though you’re shaking in your boots, you’re scared to death – take the first step forward. The grace comes with that one step and you get the grace as you step. Being afraid is not a problem; it’s doing nothing when you’re afraid.”

Catholic James Bond – “God has been good to me”

November 24, 2021November 24, 2021 adminFaith & Life, World

Pierce Brosnan knows he has had a wonderful life and still has, but his faith has been his “constant” support. “God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear. It is a constant, the language of prayer,” he stated in Irish TV RTE’s Late Late Show.

“A very blessed” life at 100

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 adminFaith & Life, World

As a child her family and her uncle and aunty shared the same house – 22 people crammed into two small flats above the family shop with no fresh tap water. The house later burned down. Her father was paralyzed at 40, her priest brother died at 33, the other brother seven years later. Schidell’s husband died of Alzheimers. Shidell said faith got her through those challenges.

From prison to stardom to faith

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 adminWorld

“The first thing I do when I start my day is I get down on my hands and knees and give thanks to God,” Wahlberg said. “If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I’m doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way.”