António dos Santos The Catholic Church celebrates the dogma of the Assumption of Our Lady on August 15th, this coming Sunday. St Germanus of Constantinople (733) puts on the lips of Jesus, who is preparing to take his Mother to…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (58)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The execution method chosen for Father Diogo de Carvalho was, instead of the usual bonfire, ice water tanks, as it was the middle of winter.
PANDEMIC IN LATIN AMERICA – Church reaches out to the vulnerable (2)
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong correspondent In Mexico, with the second largest population in Latin America at 122 million, a high number of Covid cases was expected. Recently, cases reached 2.9 million, fourth in the world, following higher totals in India, Brazil,…
PHILIPPINE BISHOP APPEALS FOR FOOD FOR POOR AHEAD OF STRICT LOCKDOWN
(Catholic News Service) The head of the Philippine bishops’ conference has appealed to Catholics to give food to the poor so that they do not go hungry during a near-total lockdown Aug. 6-20.
POPE “May we grow in friendship with Jesus, the Bread of Life”
(Vatican News) In his reflections before leading the recitation of the Angelus prayer on Sunday, Pope Francis recalls the day’s Gospel reading when Jesus reveals himself as the Bread of Life. He underscores that Jesus alone nourishes our soul and…
BENEDICTINE MONKS RETURN TO HISTORIC SOLIGNAC ABBEY FOR FIRST TIME SINCE FRENCH REVOLUTION
On Aug. 1, Benedictine monks moved into the emblematic Solignac Abbey in west-central France after a 230-year absence.
N.J. CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ALUM BREAKS WORLD RECORD TO WIN 400M HURDLE GOLD
(Catholic News Service) When U.S. runner Sydney McLaughlin crossed the finish line to win the gold in the 400-meter hurdles Aug. 3 in Tokyo, she had the cheers of fans supporting her from the New Jersey Catholic high school where…
The prisoner who saved a married man
In 1941 at the height of World War II and while its fury raged in Poland, a conventual Franciscan was arrested because he had started publishing published a journal which was designed to ‘illuminate the truth and show the way…
IN MEMORIAM – Mass in commemoration of Fr Matthias Christian SVD
On the evening of 22 July, 2021, the SVD community held an in-house Mass to commemorate the passing away of one of their confreres Fr. Matthias Christian SVD (1941-2020).
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (140) – What kind of veneration should we render the Eucharist?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org The Catholic faith uses three degrees of veneration. They are as follows: (1) Latria. It is the act of adoration or worship given only to God. “And God spoke all these words, saying, ‘I am…