Let us learn about Holy Week traditions and practices that are unique to the Filipino culture and create a spiritual appeal while promoting religiosity.
St Joseph’s Prison Outreach to Provide Prisoners with Second Chance in Life
Scholarships are to be awarded to academically-deserving inmates through the University of St Joseph’s Prison Outreach Program. This advancement in the program will benefit previously disadvantaged prisoners, giving them access to a better education and, consequently, a better life.
What do eggs have to do with Easter?
The Cardinal Newman Center of Cultural and Performance Arts promoted for the first time ever a workshop on how to make Easter eggs. But there’s more to the initiative than the creation and the decoration of the eggs. The Center aimed to explore the religious symbolism of the egg and to understand how it came to be associated with the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Public lecture series: Facts about Jesus’ fate
History is a discipline in which the political, philosophical, and religious opinions of historians very often influence their conclusions more than the historical data. Objectivity in the study of Jesus of Nazareth is extremely rare.
Pandemic restrictions: No Palm Sunday procession this year in Macau
The faithful are requested to arrive at the church at least ten minutes before the Eucharistic celebration, so that they may receive the palm leaves, and they may be blessed by the priest right at the beginning of the Mass.
Sacrifice is Integral to the Christian Life
Holy Week reminds us to die to the world and self, in imitation of Christ, the eternal king, in order to achieve the glory of God’s kingdom.
The banality of evil and the extraordinariness of love
Evil and violence have become normalized in the modern world. However, the account of Jesus’ Passion looks beyond mere evil actions, to the reasoning behind His suffering, the eternal love that He affords us through it all.
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (171): What factors can diminish freedom or enhance it?
It would seem that grace diminishes freedom because it comes from the outside. But St Paul, in his Second Letter to the Corinthians (3:17), tells us: “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Life of Contradiction
Aurelio Porfiri writes about the life of Pier Paolo Pasolini, a contradictory character in so many ways, nevertheless having contributed in diverse ways to the cultural ethos of Italy
Palm Sunday: Revelation of the True Kingdom of Christ
Palm Sunday shows us how ancient prophecies played out dramatically through Christ and what the true spiritual importance of those visible signs is.