Easter Sunday: Ito ang araw (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
May mga araw sa ating buhay na itinuturing nating pangkaraniwan lamang. Meron namang mga araw na tila ayaw nating dumating dahil sa pangamba o hindi kanais-nais na mangyayari. Subalit mayroong mga araw na tila kapanapanabik. Isang espesyal na araw, isang araw na batid nating tayo ay magiging masaya. |
Easter Sunday: You are the unnamed disciple (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
Befitting Easter, today’s gospel narrates the journey of Magdalene, Peter and the ‘other disciple whom Jesus loved’ from empty tomb to belief in the resurrection. |
Easter Sunday and Octave of Easter (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
APRIL 1 – EASTER SUNDAY. |
Catechumens exhorted to live in the light of Christ (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
Hong Kong (SE): On March 11, St. Andrew’s Church hosted the Rite of Scrutiny, officiated by auxiliary Bishop Joseph Ha Chi-sing. During his homily the bishop exhorted the catechumens not to forget what they learned during their catechumenate journey and to rely on Christ to live in the light of Christ, which they receive in the Sacraments of Initiation. |
China presence at organ trafficking conference called window-dressing (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
Hong Kong (UCAN): The presence of Chinese health officials at the March 12 to 13 conference on organ trafficking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican, would be more meaningful if such meetings weren’t just mere “window-dressing,” said a human rights researcher. |
Women’s Day protest highlights enslavement of foreign domestic workers (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
HONG KONG (SE): The International Women’s Day turned out be a protest day for foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong, who trooped to Immigration Tower in Wanchai, on March 8, objecting to policies they believe keep them down as modern slaves in the city. |
China tightens grip on religion with bureaucratic overhaul (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
Hong Kong (UCAN): China’s Communist Party has further stepped up control over all religions, dissolving its long-standing State Administration for Religious Affairs bureau and handing its functions over to the feared United Front Work Department. |
Christ is risen! Now what are you going to do about it? (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
Tricia Bølle |
Dialogue between Christianity and China indispensable (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
VATICAN (CNS): “If we see only our own reasons and insist on our own experience as the norm, thereby denying the basis of other people’s experience, then disagreement, quarrels and even wars will be inevitable,” between individuals, communities, nations and religions, the former bishop of Hong Kong, John Cardinal Tong Hon told symposium on Christianity and China. |
I believe in the Resurrection (Saturday, 31 March 2018 )
Alleluia! The Lord is Risen! Easter proclamation at the climax of the Service of Light during the vigil is perhaps the strangest and most radical message ever given, reminding the faithful of the victory of Christ over the powers of darkness and death: “Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.” We repeat the words too often that we’ve perhaps forgotten how weird and how wonderful they truly are. |
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