Catholics can fully live the Paschal mystery by embracing Christ’s suffering with conviction. To live the spirit of Easter season to its fullest is to walk together as humanity and to recognize the suffering of others, accepting that true joy is only found in the Risen Christ.
The Resurrection is a truth that is beyond the grasp of mere human understanding. It takes submission to grace that allows us to overcome the empty tomb of despair and pain to embrace the serenity and peace of Easter.
Very often we rely more on maps or signposts than on our own sense of direction, of whose unworthiness we have plenty of experience. When we follow the signposts we don’t have any sense of being imposed upon; rather do we welcome them as a great help, a fresh piece of information which we immediately proceed to make our own.
Although we are inured by a violent world, it is the mystics and saints that draw out compunction and repentance for sin with their intimate revelations of the true depth of cruelty our Lord and Savior was subject to.
Duchesne applied a rigorously historical method in his scholarship. Although in this period, all of this could be viewed with suspicion, as at times the supernatural element was completely eliminated by “naturalizing it” (a theological trend that remains very much alive up to our time).
It is good that in churches there is an environment conducive to the preservation and showcasing of the many sacred furnishings no longer in use but, nonetheless, singular for their art and value.
The Lusophone Scouts Group of Macau (GELMac) acquired more than two dozen new members last Sunday, when the annual Scout Promise ceremony was held. This increase in Scout numbers bodes well for the future of the organization.
Caritas Macau will conduct two lectures to prepare its workers for a possible fresh outbreak of Covid-19.
Caritas Macau aims to better understand the needs of its Anglophone population with the help of a survey to be conducted until the end of June.
The exhibition brings together more than 30 pieces representative of the heyday of the Tang Dynasty and opens the door to a better understanding of China’s economic, cultural and artistic prosperity during that era.