First Week in Advent (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
DECEMBER 3 – FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT. |
Waiting for his coming (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
To be alert and to keep watch are the key words of this passage. The evangelist invites all members of his communities to be vigilant in waiting for the coming of the Lord. |
Handa ka na ba? (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
Sa nakalipas na Linggo ating ipinagdiriwang ang Kapistahan ng Kristong Hari. Si Hesus ay muling babalik bilang Hukom at Hari. At sa Linggong ito, atin naman ipinagdiriwang ang unang Linggo ng Adbiyento, ang paghahanda sa unang pagdating ni Hesus dito sa lupa bilang isang tao. Nakipamuhay ang Diyos sa atin liban sa kasalanan. |
An Advent message from our bishop: A season of expectant hope (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
May Your Joy be Complete in the Joy of Christ! (cf John 15:11) |
Bishop proclaims Year of Youth (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
HONG KONG (SE): In declaring a Year of Youth to begin on December 3 this year and run until November 25 next year in his Message for Advent, Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung is inviting the young people of the diocese “to walk the talk in solidarity with one another through prayer and action, and together help build a better world for the greater glory of God.” |
Put your faith in the Party (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
BEIJING (AsiaNews): The county of Yugan in the southern province of Jiangxi, is quite poor and also has a significant Christian population, but a fresh government campaign has seen cadres visiting the homes of Christian people and presenting families with large posters depicting the president, Xi Jinping, to replace religious pictures in the main rooms of their homes. |
Vatican and China to stage joint exhibition (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
VATICAN (SE): There may be a common perception that the talks between Beijing and the Holy See are all about the appointment of bishops in China, but an announcement at the Vatican of a joint exhibition of Chinese historical treasures to be held simultaneously in Rome and the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in the Forbidden City in Beijing, reveals other topics are under discussion as well. |
Much hated but loved pope (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
HONG KONG (SE): A popular pope is one thing and Pope Francis enjoys a high popularity rating on a much wider front than members of his own flock, but he also has enemies, many of them powerful, articulate and with loud voices. |
The common good (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
An old ditty runs, “Who takes care of the caretaker’s daughter while the caretaker’s busy taking care?” But if we can raise our minds above the smut it suggests and parse the caretaker as the government and his daughter as the community, we have what is a vital question for any pluralist society of any era. |
Justice of the young injustice of the old (Saturday, 2 December 2017 )
DILI (SE): Lucille Abeykoon, a social worker from the Human Rights Office Kandy in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is wondering why one of the youngest countries in the world, Timor-Leste, has made so much progress in the protection of human rights, accountability and the rule of law, while her own land, which has been independent from its colonial power for 69 years, has made so little. |
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