25 July 2021 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year BJohn 6:1-15 The Miracle of Sharing Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau The events leading to the solemn proclamation of Jesus that He is the bread of life begin…
AMID CATHOLIC OPPOSITION, STATES ARE LEGALIZING COMPOSTING OF HUMAN REMAINS
(NCR Online) Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for the body of the deceased.” Meanwhile,…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (137) – How should each faithful participate at Mass?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org The Holy Mass is an action of Christ where He offers Himself: He is both Priest and Victim; He is both Offerer and the one Offered. The Church (which is Christ’s Mystical Body) and everyone…
Christianity it is not only an “experience”
Corrado Gnerre Dear friends, I am a university student. I have recently approached the Faith, thanks to some friends who are part of a fairly famous ecclesial movement. However, there is something that does not convince me of what they…
Empowering Prayer and Immersing Work
Fr. Jijo Kandamkulathy CMFClaretian Publications, Macau 18 July 2021 – 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year BMark 6:30-34 The gospel we read today is the continuation of the passage we heard last Sunday where the twelve apostles were sent…
Crucial native ecology knowledge – care of the planet
Robaird O’CearbhaillHong Kong Correspondent The second title of Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato si’, is On Care for Our Common Home. As “St Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister….our sister, Mother Earth, who sustains…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD -Saint Lazarus Island (54)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro There were Christian nuclei in Sendai, Miwake (today Mizusawa), Yamori (today Maesawa), Shizu, Ichinoseki, Sannoseki and Ishuzumori and the port of Akita functioned, as today, as a maritime antechamber for isolated Hokkaido, the name through which…
DEAF PRIEST WORKS TO HELP OTHERS UNDERSTAND DEAFNESS AS A CULTURE
(CNS) Father Min Seo Park, one of fewer than two dozen deaf priests worldwide, thinks deafness is hardly a disability and is working to help others realize that as well.
G.K. Chesterton: Prince of Paradox (2)
Robaird O’Cearbhaill Hong Kong Correspondent After the author’s death, there was much acclaim. Pope Pius XI sent telegrams (through Cardinal Pacelli, who would later become Pope Pius XII) to Chesterton’s wife and Cardinal Hinsley, head of the Catholic Church of England…
CALGARY POLICE INVESTIGATE AFTER AT LEAST 11 CATHOLIC CHURCHES VANDALIZED WITH ORANGE AND RED PAINT
(Calgary Herald) Calgary police are investigating after at least 11 city Catholic churches were vandalized. The acts of vandalism discovered on Canada Day appear to be the latest in a series of recent protests against the church’s historic involvement in…