Anastasios The minor basilica of San Bartolomeo all’isola is a kind of singular church in Rome, for reasons that will soon be quite clear. The first reason is in the name, “in the island,” because the church is in Tiber…
POPE FRANCIS’ LATEST ENCYCLICAL LETTER NOW IN MACAU – Fratelli Tutti: antidote against individualism plaguing the world
Marco Carvalho His Holiness Pope Francis has called for a “better kind of politics,” a more “open world” and paths of renewed encounter and dialogue in his latest social encyclical. With Fratelli Tutti, the Pope hopes to promote a “rebirth…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (100) – Is heaven only a marketing gimmick?
Rev José Mario O Mandíajmom.honlam.org Every man and woman yearns to be happy with an unlimited and unending joy. Jesus Christ came to tell us that that yearning can be fulfilled. “If you keep my commandments, you will abide in…
CARLO ACUTIS BEATIFIED IN ASSISI – A saint in jeans, sneakers, and sweater
Fr Leonard Dollentas Carlo Acutis was beatified on October 10, 2020 in the town of Assisi in Italy after the Vatican ruled in 2013 that he miraculously interceded from heaven to cure a Brazilian boy suffering from a rare pancreatic…
Chancery Notice
CN/28/031/2020 Chancery NoticeWorld Mission Day 2020 On Sunday, 18th October, we celebrate World Mission Day with the theme “Here am I, send me” (Isaiah 6:8). The Mass “For the Evangelization of the Peoples” (in the Roman Missal) may be used…
COLLECTION TO REMAIN CLOSED UNTIL LATE DECEMBER – Treasure of Sacred Art closed for maintenance
Marco Carvalho It first opened to the public four years ago, but not many Macau residents know about it. The Treasure of Sacred Art of Saint Joseph’s Seminary closed its doors at the end of September for maintenance work. The…
October, month of the Holy Rosary
Danilo Perez Ngo The extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion of the English community at the Se Cathedral led the Holy Rosary on the first Sunday, October 4, 2020.
POPE FRANCIS’ THIRD ENCYCLICAL – “FRATELLI TUTTI”: A CALL TO DISRUPT OUR LIVES AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE WORLD
(Vatican News) Fratelli tutti is “a devastating challenge to our ecological, political, economic and social life”, but above all, it is the “proclamation of an ineradicable, joyful truth, presented as a well-spring for a fatigued world.”
Feast of St Daniele Comboni
Jasmin Yiu The Combonian Fathers celebrated the Feast of St Daniele Comboni, the founder of the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus, last Saturday evening at St Joseph the Worker’s Church.
AUSTRALIAN, FRENCH THEOLOGIANS AWARDED RATZINGER PRIZE
(Aleteia) Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has at least five important qualities or gifts that ensures that he continues to be an important voice in Catholic thought, said a theologian who was awarded a prize named for the German pontiff and…