WIS 7:7-11; HEB 4:12-13; MK 10:17-30 – Fernando Armellini SCJ Claretian Publications, Macau The gospel presents a just and blameless person seeking for eternal life. Jesus responds with a counter question that can be paraphrased thus: You already have “an…
– Joaquim Magalhães de Castro Dhubri? We are told that it is “a few miles ahead,” but the truth is that there is no way to find it. I will end up locating Dhubri (possibly homonym of the desired one)…
– Anastasios Objection 1: How we can be sure that the Bible is talking about Jesus when it makes prophecies in the Old Testament? Objection 2: The Jews, those who were waiting for the Messiah, did not recognize him as…
– Miguel Augusto (*) On October 4th, the Catholic Church celebrates one of Her greatest saints, Saint Francis of Assisi, founder of the Order of Friars Minor (OFM), approved by Pope Innocent III in the year 1209. We take the…
– Fr Leonard E Dollentas It is in our Catholic tradition to have our patron saints. This tradition extends to the practice of naming places after saints and assigning protector saints to certain careers, or events. In the United States,…
– Fr James Chang Woo Ho BCM As you know well I was ordained to a priest a few days ago. Today I’d like to talk about how I became a priest and what I feel like today.
– Angela Chong I was in Taiwan last week on a spiritual-cum-ecoIogical tour named “New Exodus”. As the Chinese name “同行覓主踪” suggests, it was aimed at seeking encounters with God through close contact with Mother Nature.
The history of Our Lady of Czestochowa is the history of Poland. Traditional holds that this picture of Mary was painted by St Luke the Evangelist on a piece of wood cut from the table of the Last Supper. It…
– José Maria C.S. André The Synod of Bishops, about youth and vocation, began on the September 3, in Rome. In the opening address, the Pope asked the participants to speak frankly and make themselves available to listen. “We are…
– Aurelio Porfiri Father Juan José Silvestre is a liturgist and a priest of the Opus Dei personal prelature. Despite his young age he has had several responsibilities in the prelature and in the Church. He teaches at the Holy…