To celebrate the first day of the Year of the Pig last Tuesday, February 5, the Catholic Diocese of Macau offered Masses in honor of Our Lady of China, praying for a prosperous year ahead. Bishop Stephen Lee celebrated Mass…
PASTORAL CARE FOR MIGRANTS 2ND FUN DAY – Joy that unites
Ross Belle Balatbat The Pastoral Care for Migrants, led by the SOLT Fathers, organized the second yearly thanksgiving involving all those who volunteer in the ministry, the parishioners and the different members of the the various Filipino religious and…
SEPTEMBER 2018 PROVISIONAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND THE PEOPLEโS REPUBLIC OF CHINA – Duties of Chinese Bishops Received into Full Communion
(Zenit) The Vatican Press Office on February 2, 2019, released the following article, which appears in the February 3, 2019, edition of the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano. On 22 September 2018 in Beijing, the Holy See and the Peopleโs…
CHURCH FATHERS (42) – Saint John Climacus
– Anastasios When we talk of Saint John Climacus (525-605), we talk of a great protagonist of monasticism. He was a monk a the Mount Sinai Monastery, where he entered when he was 16. His monastic life at the beginning…
BITE-SIZE THEOLOGY (18) – How about the Bible?
– Rev Josรฉ Mario O Mandรญa The First Vatican Council defined the Bible in chapter 2 of its Dogmatic Constitution Dei Filius as the collection of books which, โwritten under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, have God as their…
FEAT NOT, BE BOLD, FOR GOD IS WITH US! – 3rd February 2019, 4th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Jer 1:4-5, 17-19; 1 Cor 12:31 – 13:13; Luke 4:21-30 – Paul Yeung Luke puts this episode at the beginning of Jesusโ public ministry for a reason. The remarkable contrast between the initial acceptance and admiration and the subsequent rejection…
A MEETING IN HEAVEN
– Vittorio Messori If I will be granted mercy to access the Paradise – of course, after an adequate โfeeโ to pay for the inconsistency between what I believed and how I lived – I will ask the great Custos,…
CARMELITE SPIRITUAL RETREAT AT CHOC VAN CONFERENCE CENTER
St Joseph Conference Centre (Choc Van) will hold a retreat on Carmelite Spirituality from 15 to 17 February (Friday to Sunday).
SAINT BRIGID OF IRELAND – Charity with no bounds
Saint Brigid was born Brigit, and shares a name with a Celtic goddess from whom many legends and folk customs are associated.ย There is much debate over her parents, but it is widely believed her mother was Brocca, a Christian…
ST JOHN BOSCO – To God who gladdens my youth
– Aurelio Porfiri If a Martian landed now from a distant planet on our land, what kind of news would he see about the Catholic Church? Reading the press, one would think that this religious institution is known almost only…