Jose Mario O. Mandia – Angela Chong In response to Pope Francis’ appeal for the celebration of the Extraordinary Missionary Month, an open-air Mass was held at the site of the Ruins of St Paul’s on 19th October 2019. As…
CATHEDRAL CHRISTMAS NOVENA MASS
– Fr Leonard Dollentas The churchgoers of the English-speaking community of the Macau Cathedral are welcoming the coming of the Advent season with excitement. This is because the Christmas novena Mass which was organized starting last year will again be…
ASILO DE BETANIA – CARITAS DE MACAU ON ITS 50TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY – Looking Back, But Moving Forward – Giving Light and Hope to the Elderly
– Ross Belle Santos-Balatbat Asilo de Betania, one of the homes under the elderly services department of Caritas de Macau, held its golden jubilee celebration last 13th to 15th of November 2019 the leadership of Center Director Sister Laurence Thusnevis…
USJ commission film on engaged students, produced by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions
Vítor Teixeira – Marco Carvalho It is not exactly a novelty elsewhere, but in Macau it stands out as an unprecedented case. A former inmate of Coloane prison is currently attending the Social Work course at the University of Saint…
FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Life in Christ, We are called to happiness (20)
OLD LAW AND NEW LAW
IERUSALEM, SURGE – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
Liturgical Mass Sheet
THERE IS NO LOVE WITHOUT TRUTH
– Corrado Gnerre In his last encyclical, Caritas in veritate, Benedict XVI insists that charity must always start from the truth and that even charity without truth cannot exist. What do you think about it? I agree, but someone has…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (56) – How can we profit from evil?
– Rev José Mario O. Mandía Evil is a reality that we need to learn to face, to accept, and to sanctify. Learning to do this is, in fact, a lifetime task. Many spend their lives complaining about evil, or…
COURAGE, LIFT UP YOUR HEAD! – 17th November 2019, 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, C
Luke 21:5-19 – Fr. Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau Luke wrote his Gospel around the year 85 AD. In the fifty years that passed since the death and resurrection of Jesus, there were wars, political revolutions, catastrophes and the…
FROM THE BOOK OF PSALMS TO THE RESPONSORIAL PSALM (1) – The Book Of Psalms: an introduction
– Aurelio Porfiri There is no Christian who is not familiar with the Book of Psalms: these 150 poems are the base for our way of praying. And for us Catholics, the liturgy is filled with texts taken from the…