Jer 31:7-9; Heb 5:1-6; Mk 10:46-52 May Tam www.FLL.cc Bartimaeus, though blind, was alert to Jesus’ coming. Despite his social disadvantage and his physical constraint, he did not give in to the crowd who attempted to silence him. He would…
GREAT FIGURES OF THE MISSIONARY WORK – Bengal and the Kingdom of the Dragon (25)
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Estêvão Cacela calls the river Torsa “Ganges,” a classification comprehensible at the time, since all the streams that flowed into the Bay of Bengal were Ganges or Gangá – literally “Indian river.” The author of…
GOOD LANGUAGE IS EVIDENCE OF LIVELY AND CHRISTIAN MIND – Lutong-Makaw
– Fr Leonard E Dollentas More recently, the Oxford English Dictionary added two more Filipino words into its list of some 1,400 Filipino words and phrases the dictionary had listed. Oxford included bongga, “which means extravagant, flamboyant, impressive, stylish or…
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FATHER ALESSANDRO ANDREINI – Around Culture
– Aurelio Porfiri Father Alessandro Andreini speaks about his fascination with the transformation processes in our lives, cultures and societies and in particular the role of Jesus Christ and the Church in that transformation.
MARIAN APPARITIONS (87) – Zakarpattia, Ukraine
On August 27, 2002, two girls from the village of Nyzhne Bolotne (in Western Ukraine) went to a grove to get some water from the spring there. Olenka Kuruts was ten years old, and her friend, Mar’yanka Kobal, was nine…
NEWS BRIEFS
– Tej Francis BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA RADICAL FEMINISTS ATTACK CHURCH AND TOWN HALL IN ARGENTINA (CNA/EWTN News) Radical feminists firebombed a town hall and spray painted a Catholic Church in Argentina. The series of attacks came during a women’s conference…
100 YEARS OF THE CONGREGATION OF DOMINICAN MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE ROSARY – Evangelizing in Macau for 60 years
– Jasmin Yiu Holy Family School (Escola da Sagrada Família) celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. At the same time, it is also the 100th anniversary of the school’s founding institute – the Congregation of Dominican Missionary Sisters of the…
JULIANA DEVOY, DIRECTOR OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTRE – We want every child to have the right to grow up in a family (II)
PHOTO – Ana Marques – Marco Carvalho Most of the cases the Center had to deal with concerned domestic violence, if I am not wrong … Yes. The huge majority of cases were related to domestic violence. Then, as you…
MILESTONE FOR THE DIOCESE SCHOOLS OF MACAU AND HONG KONG
Two schools under the Catholic Diocese of Macau have now become sister schools of two schools under the Diocese of Hong Kong: St Joseph Diocesan College No 6 with Raimondi College; and St Joseph Diocesan College (Nos 1, 2, 3,…
MACAU DIOCESE CELEBRATED MISSION SUNDAY
A sharing night was held at St Josephthe Worker’s Church last Satuday, 20 October. Nearly a hundred people attended, with representatives from St Lawrence’s Church, St Francis Church (Mong Ha) and St Joseph the Worker’s Church sharing their ways of…