– Tej Francis COLOMBO, SRI LANKA SRI LANKA EASTER ATTACKS DRAW INTERNATIONAL CONDEMNATION, PRAYER FOR VICTIMS E05a photo1 (CNA) Religious and civil leaders have responded with condolences, prayer, and calls for justice after several explosions at churches and hotels in…

MISSIO AD GENTES AND MATTHEW 28:18-20 – Prof. Arnold Monera delivers lecture on Maximum Illud
– Fr Franz Gassner Many people turned up for the 2nd Maximum Illud Lecture on April 30th 2019 at the Gratia Hall of the St. Joseph Seminary. These lecture series mark the centenary of the important document Maximum Illud on…

MACAU’S NEWEST CHURCH WAS INAUGURATED ON THE 1ST OF MAY 1999 – Celebrating twenty years of God’s faithfulness in Iao Hon
– Marco Carvalho The last Catholic temple to be built in Macao was inaugurated two decades ago. The 20th anniversary was celebrated on Wednesday exactly to the day with a Mass presided over by Bishop Stephen Lee, during which a…

REBELO DE SOUSA CONGRATULATES INSTITUTION FOR ITS 450TH ANNIVERSARY – Portuguese President visits the Holy House of Mercy
– Marco Carvalho The Holy House of Mercy was honored this Wednesday with the visit of the Portuguese President. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa concluded in Macau a three-day state visit to the People’s Republic of China. His brief but intense…
GELMAC WILL SEND FIVE OF ITS MEMBERS TO THE WORLD JAMBOREE – Scouts pitch in, clean up Hac Sa beach
– Marco Carvalho The Lusophone Scouts Group of Macau (GELmac) pulled out of Hac Sa beach, in Coloane, fifteen bags of plastic and other debris, as part of the first coastal cleanup initiative conducted by the organization this year.

PRESIDENT MARCELO REBELO DE SOUZA’S BRIEF VISIT TO MACAO
Prof. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Republic of Portugal, took the time to receive the Chancellor, Bishop Lee, and the senior management of the University of Saint Joseph, during his brief visit to Macao. In his speech at…

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MIKE AQUILINA – And the choir converted the world
Zachary Houle from medium.com. – Aurelio Porfiri For everyone dealing with Patristics, the American scholar Mike Aquilina is certainly a familiar name. He is the author of countless books on early Christianity and Church Fathers. Recently he has published a…

FAITH ILLUSTRATED – Creed 10: LAST THINGS (4)
WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH

CHURCH FATHERS (53) – OROSIUS
Paulus Orosius, shown in a miniature from the Saint-Epure codex. (From Wikipedia) – Anastasios The Latin Spanish (or Portuguese) writer that goes under the name Orosius, or Paul Orosius (375-418), was a friend of Saint Augustine and of Saint Jerome.…

CHANCERY NOTICE
CN/7/008/2019 Bishop Stephen Lee Bun Sang, Bishop of Macau, announces the appointment for the next three years of the members of the Diocesan Commission for Life, effective on 1 May 2019: