– Pedro Daniel Oliveira Nicole Azevedo Barros is director and teacher of Nicole Dance School, which works with children and adults in different ways. The group from Cape Verde took part in the International Youth Dance Festival. Speaking to O CLARIM, she said the doors to take great strides have opened in Macau, since she’s now considering to organize a…
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SAME DOCTRINE, DIFFERENT APPLICATION – Pope Francis: ‘death penalty inadmissible’
August 10, 2018– Linda Bordoni (Vatican News) Pope Francis has approved a new revision of paragraph number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, according to which “a new understanding has emerged of the significance of penal sanctions imposed by the state,” thus “the death penalty is inadmissible.” The decision was announced by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith…
FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Creed 07
August 9, 2018Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son of God (6)
BITE-SIZE PHILOSOPHY (75) – And how about solidarity?
August 4, 2018Bayanihan. http://mattersmost.deviantart.com – Rev José Mario O Mandía Last time we spoke about the third principle — subsidiarity. Today, we will take a look at its complementary principle: the principle of solidarity. We could say that in the same way that the principle of subsidiarity arises from human dignity (the first principle), the principle of solidarity arises from the need…
THE EUCHARIST (4) – Thanksgiving and Praise to the Father
August 3, 2018– Joni Cheng The Eucharist – Jesus Christ has offered Himself as our “Paschal Lamb” (1 Cor 5:7) and “Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” who sacrificed Himself on the Cross for man as the sacrament of our salvation (CCC 1359). Through His death and the Resurrection, the whole of creation loved by God is…
APOLOGIA – Is Jesus the Son of God?
August 3, 2018– Anastasios Objection 1: How can Jesus be the son of God and then pretending to be God? Does it mean God has a wife? Objection 2: Jesus call himself “Son of Man.” Does it mean he is claiming that is not “Son of God”? On the contrary, Matthew 3:17 states: “[A]nd behold, a voice out of the heavens said,…
THANKSGIVING PRAYER AFTER MASS
August 3, 2018– St Thomas Aquinas I thank you, holy Lord, almighty Father, eternal God, who deigned to feast me, sinful and unworthy servant, with the precious body and blood of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, not for any merit of mine, but only because of your merciful goodness.
THERE IS BREAD THAT GIVES ETERNAL LIFE – 5TH August 2018, 18th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B)
August 3, 2018Ex 16:2-4,12-15; Eph 4:117,20-24; Jn 6:24-35 Fr Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau After the multiplication of the bread the crowd tried to make him king. He knew that they were doing this not because they were hungry for his Word but to continue to have food in abundance, for free, without…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (15)
August 3, 2018– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro During the short trip to the riverside we came across two black wooden boats with high deck and a flat bottom stranded on the sand. On the whole, they did not seem to have a single nail, but pegs of wood. It would have been in a boat of the sort that Cacela and Cabral…
THE CHRISTIANS MARTYRS WERE SEEDS AND ROOTS THAT FLOWERED AND GIVE FRUIT – The work of God endures for all eternity
August 3, 2018– Miguel Augusto Recently the Church celebrated the Solemnity of the Apostles St Peter and St Paul (June 29). Each with his mission, both are considered the pillars of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church. In March of this year, we reported on the new movie “Paul, Apostle of Christ.” The Diocesan Social Communication Center did their best to bring the…