The 2nd part of the Final Competition of the 2nd Art of Living (AOL) Culinary Competition (Baking and Icing-Decorating category) was held on July 13 for girls between 10 -13 years old, at Wahn Tihng Centre. The judges were Agnes…
USJ AWARDS 370 DIPLOMAS AT 2019 CONGREGATION – “To love Macau is no longer enough,” Bishop Lee says
– Marco Carvalho Bishop of Macau D. Stephen Lee Bun-sang has exhorted the students who graduated from the University of Saint Joseph to be of service “to China and to the world” in a speech he delivered last Saturday at…
FATHER LUÍS SEQUEIRA, SJ – Macau was the place where my zest for priesthood grew stronger
– Marco Carvalho The Apollo 11 had barely landed on the Moon when young Luís Sequeira decided to embark on an even harder journey: without being certain of the strength of his convictions, he decided to devote his life to…
ASK THE LITURGIST (32) – Concert etiquette
– Enrico Finotti Is it possible for people to sit on the seats of the presbytery and also on the priest’s seat with the motive of a large crowd on the occasion of concerts or performances? What is said about…
CHURCH FATHERS (64) – Ioannes Maxentius
– Anastasios In our profiles of Church Fathers and important writers of the early Church, there are themes that are somehow recurrent. One of them is the fight against heresies. Today we never talk about this theme, we are very…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (40) – What does Sacred Tradition say about the Blessed Trinity?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía The things we believe do not come only from Sacred Scripture. We also know that it is important to consider what Sacred Tradition teaches us. These teachings can be found in the Fathers of…
ST JOHN GUALBERT – The benevolent
Saint John Gualbert was born in Florence in the year 999. He was raised with care in piety and the study of the humanities, but no sooner had he entered adult life than he acquired a taste for pleasures. God,…
CELESTINE V – When the Pope resigned
Pope Benedict XVI visits the relics of Pope St Celestine V in the 13th-century Santa Maria di Collemaggio Basilica, in L’Aquila, Italy, in 2009. (Photo: AP/L’Osservatore Romano) – Aurelio Porfiri Saint Celestine V (Pietro Angeleri or Pietro di Morrone –…
MACAU IN HONG KONG: NEW CLUB LUSITANO’S VISIONARY MANAGER – Ex-police chief Stephen Handley on how in WWII “God’s hand” saved his grandmother and her eleven children
– Robaird O’Cearbhaill Stephen Handley knows what forged him: Macau, Hong Kong and English roots, his Hong Kong Police Force top job, wise parents and faith with devotion. He rose to senior officer among 30,00O police by hard work, long…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (61)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro While reading the Relation, we learn that the traveller priests in the initial period of their itinerancy took the first steps in the local language. As Cacela confesses, “in these months we diligently seek to…