Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native born American to be canonized by the Catholic Church. Born two years before the American Revolution, Elizabeth grew up in the upper class of New York society. She was a prolific reader,…
BENGAL AND THE KINGDOM OF THE DRAGON (34) – Great Figures of the Missionary Work
Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Sangay takes us directly to the local monastery, the Chhuka Dzongkhag, after decades of total carelessness, recently rehabilitated. Seriously wrecked by an earthquake in 1978 – the cracks in the walls of a surrounding stupa is…
HONG KONG BISHOP MOST REVEREND MICHAEL YEUNG MING-CHEUNG’S DEMISE – Bishop Stephen Lee extends condolences
The Most Reverend Michael YEUNG Ming-cheung (楊鳴章), Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, passed away due to liver failure in Canossa (Caritas) Hospital at 1:30 PM on 3 January 2019. He was 73. Born on 1 December 1945…
‘Tis the Season to Be Overjoyed! – 23 DECEMBER 2018 – Fourth Sunday of Advent (C)
Mi 5:1-4, Heb 10:5-10, Lk 1:39-45 – Edmond Lo www.FLL.cc Micah’s proclamation of the Good News is almost hysterical. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, the prophet sounds so overjoyed he is, I’d venture to say, a little beyond himself:…
Dramatizing the liturgy of the Word?
– Enrico Finotti On some occasions the liturgy of the Word is dramatized with the children of catechesis and in certain celebrations images and films are projected. The opinions among us are somewhat divergent. What about this? The Church has…
CHURCH FATHERS (37) – Saint Augustine
– Anastasios Honestly speaking, one feels a sort of embarrassment when there is the need to talk, in such a little space, of a giant like Saint Augustine, a thinker, a saint, a bishop that would need volumes to…
MARIAN APPARITIONS (95) – Spoleto, Italy
– Tej Francis A devout man named Diotallevi d’Antonio Santilli was the owner of a modest house near the town of Spoleto, Italy, located on the road to Trevi. In all the documents of the time, the owner of the…
THE MOST BELOVED CHRISTMAS CAROL – The Story behind “Silent Night”
– Fr Leonard E. Dollentas It was Christmas eve in the small village of Mariapfarr, a small municipality in the district of Tamsweg in the state of Salzburg in Austria. The year was 1816, and the young village priest was…
Great Figures of the Missionary Work – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (33)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro As the vehicle struggled over the uphill zigzag path that came from the main road, we are able to see several houses in ruins, proving the ancestrality of the place. We had witnessed nothing of…
DEVOTION TO THE “TRINITY” OF NAZARETH — Families called to holiness
– Miguel Augusto It is interesting to note that after Christmas, the following Sunday, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Family, no later than 30th of December. Christ wanted to enter the world by a family, by the…