A unique recording of vocal music by one of Macau’s foremost composers Áureo Castro was launched on 6 April 6 April at 5pm at the Paço Episcopal. Fr Castro rendered invaluable service to Macau as composer, conductor and music educator…
CLOSE TO TWO MILLION CYCLONE VICTIMS NEED AID – GELMac raises 50,000 patacas to help Mozambique
– Marco Carvalho The Lusophone Scouts Group of Macau (GELMac) joined forces with the local Diocese and the Friends of Mozambique Association and raised 50,000 patacas to help the victims of the cyclone that struck the center of Mozambique in…
SEMINAR ON FIELD EDUCATION IN SOCIAL WORK – USJ celebrates World Social Work Day 2019
To celebrate World Social Work Day 2019 on the 19th of March, the Social Work Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS) of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ), organised a seminar on Field Education in Social Work, on…
SOWERS OF THE WORD – Launching of Books about Missionaries in Macau
On March 29, two Chinese-language books on two missionaries who have worked in Macau, Fr Aureo Nunes e Castro and Fr Luiz Ruiz Suarez, were launched in the auditorium of the Diocese of Macau.
SECOND SCRUTINIES – A time for examination
Candidates for baptism this coming Easter from all the Macau parishes gathered in the Cathedral on Sunday for the second scrutinies, presided by H.E. Bishop Stephen Lee. The scrutinies is part of the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, the…
REVEREND STEPHEN MORGAN – Maximum Illud recognized that the Church is always in the world but not of it
– Marco Carvalho One hundred years ago, the Church’s approach to the world changed forever. World War I and its aftermath not only forced an adjustment of the map of Europe, but also erased the last manifestations of temporal power…
A TALE OF TWO BROTHERS – 31st March 2019, Fourth Sunday Of Lent
Jos 5:9a, 10-12, 2 Cor 5:17-21, Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 – Edmond Lo Let’s get to the heart of the matter. What’s wrong with the older son’s reaction to his father’s joyous celebration of the younger son’s repentance and homecoming…
LIGNUM CRUCIS – THE RELIC OF THE TRUE WOODEN CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST – Crucem tuam adoramus, Domine!
Bishop Stephen Lee carries the Lignum Crucis contained in a reliquary during the procession of Our Lord Bom Jesus dos Passos on March 10. – Miguel Augusto (*) The Cross on which Our Lord was crucified became one of…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (25) – What are mysteries? Why dogmas?
– Rev José Mario O Mandía We often talk about mysteries and dogmas. What do we mean by “mystery”? And what do we mean by “dogma”? Let’s take up mysteries first. In ordinary language, a mystery is something that…
PIERCED AND CAGED – St Mark, Bishop and Confessor
St Mark was a priest in Syria during the reign of Constantine. He became the Bishop of Arethusa. There were many conversions to Christianity during this time. Mark undertook the challenge of transforming pagan temples into Christian churches. He suffered…