Jer 17:5-8; 1 Cor 15:12, 16-20; Lk 6:17, 20-26 Pope Francis MOST ENLIGHTENING … Nothing is more enlightening than turning to Jesus’ words and seeing His way of teaching the truth. Jesus explained with great simplicity what it…
SAINT THEODORE, SOLDIER – Sanctity is heroism
Aurelio Porfiri News can be alarming sometimes. Like right now, it seems that white should be now called black and vice versa. There is much talk of virility as a possible object of discussion and not as a fundamental…
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AT THE SERVICE OF SOCIETY (II) – The New Evangelization
Fr Leonard E Dollentas While Catholic schools have taught countless people about the faith, the ministry of the Catholic school will be more meaningful and relevant if they are able to form Catholic students who possess a strong Catholic…
Priests and seminarians celebrated New Year
Many priests and seminarians in the Macau Diocese had their New Year annual lunch on Wednesday, February 13. In the warm brotherly atmosphere, they also celebrated the birthday of Bishop Emeritus José Lai, which was on January 14.
MY LIFE IS JUST A MOMENT – Music by Aurelio Porfiri
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A PILGRIM’S NOTES – Reading good books
FAUSTO GOMEZ OP There is in Macau a chain of restaurants that provide, with just a minor order, free coffee for the elderly. One may see many of these elderly reading avidly the daily newspapers. Men and women reading…
SAINT FAUSTINUS AND SAINT JOVITA – Patrons of Brescia
Faustinus and Jovita were brothers, nobly born, and were zealous professors of the Christian religion, which they preached without fear in their city of Brescia in Lombardy, during the persecution of Adrian. Their remarkable zeal excited the fury of the…
Ricci Institute promotes charity concert – A rare musical confluence at St Joseph’s Church
Marco Carvalho Pipa soloist Yang Jing and Hong Kong’s organist Ernesto Mauricio Corpus will give a new meaning to the idea of musical confluence between East and West, when they perform, next Friday, on the premises of St Joseph’s…
AROUND THE USE OF CHURCHES – Marco Tosatti – Giorgio Spallone
By now it has become a fashion. For Christmas throughout Italy churches and cathedrals have become places where people eat and drink. The spearhead of this use – certainly singular, for many improper, for some almost blasphemous – of the…
Great Figures of the Missionary Work – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (39)
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Given the specificity of our visit, and after a breakfast of delicious and nutritious red rice, the option for this morning can only be the National Library, founded in 1967 with the aim of “preserving…