“The Caritas Macau Annual Charity Ball 2021” is an annual fundraising event organized by Caritas Macau. This year’s theme is “Act of Charity, Love Upon Love.” The charity ball will be held on 29th May, 2021 (Saturday) at The Grand Ballroom,…
Solidarity Mass for India
Fr Leonard Dollentas The world is experiencing painful moments caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Mankind faces great challenges and countless losses, the biggest of which is human lives. But nothing is more painful than what is happening now in India.…
CHANCERY NOTICE – World Communications Day
CN/9/013/2021 Chancery NoticeWorld Communications Day The 55th World Communications Day is celebrated this year on 16th May, Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, with the theme: “‘Come and See’ (Jn 1:46). Communicating by Encountering People Where and as They…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (127) – Does the Old Testament speak about the Eucharist?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Does the Old Testament speak about the Eucharist? Yes, it does. Let us first remember what Saint Augustine said: “In vetere Testamento novum latet, in novo vetus patet” – the New Testament is hidden (latet)…
A composer from Macau who is to be remembered
Aurelio Porfiri Perhaps someone may be surprised by thinking that a small city like Macau, China, can boast of a musical tradition in the field of liturgical music that has to be highly respected. Yet it is so, thanks above…
The oldest prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Aurelio Porfiri In his book on the greatest prayers to Mary, Anthony M. Buono rhetorically asks to quote the oldest prayer to the Virgin Mary. He states that most people would answer the Hail Mary, but they would be wrong,…
A call to love and fraternity
Fausto Gomez OP Pope Francis’ social encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” (all brothers, FT 2020) is “on Fraternity and Social Friendship.” The general purposeof the papal text (eight chapters, 287 numbers in 187 pages) is to contribute to the development of a…
Devotion to Mary has always existed
Corrado Gnerre Dear friends, I have thought of you to resolve my doubt. I am a devotee of Our Lady. I cannot imagine my prayer life without the beautiful and tender figure of Mary. However, some say that Marian devotion…
MISSIONARIES FROM MACAU TO THE WORLD – Saint Lazarus Island (45)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro The Macanese merchants had fleets capable of sailing from their city to other Asian commercial ports, having many members of religious orders among them, with the Jesuits being the most active in a trade whose profit…
USJ LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS SEMINAR -Language learning among missionaries
TOPIC Macau as a center and support for linguistic training – a comparative overview on missionary work ABOUT THE TALK Since the middle of the 16th century, Macau has been linked to the production of Western knowledge on China, deserving…