Former CHIJ classmates with disabilities share how their friendship helped them for O levelsLeah Tee (left), who is visually impaired, and Laura Lee, who has hearing loss, have been classmates since Primary 1.One is visually impaired while the other suffers from hearing loss. However, through each other’s support and encouragement, Leah Tee and Laura Lee [...]
Jesse Manibusan’s dulcet tones filled the Church of Divine Mercy on a tranquil Jan 10 evening.The American musician and songwriter, whose forebears were from Guam, spreads the Word through music and song. When not touring, he serves as a youth and music minister in various parishes in the US.During the recent concert here, the father [...]
During Easter Vigil 2014, I had the joy of baptising six adults in our parish of Holy Rosary. All of a sudden – out of the blue – one of the newly-baptised voiced out, “Father, are not all people in the world the children of God?”I replied, “Yes, you are right, but many, many people [...]
TO MANY the word “convent” brings to mind a picture of austerity and silence, of gloomy .repression, of long grey corridors along which the nuns, heads bowed, glide unsubstantially wrapped in perpetual contemplation of the spirit.They remember perhaps subconsciously the Victorian lithograph, which showed a wan and wistful nun lifting her eyes from her book [...]
Vatican City, 23 April 2014 (VIS) – Following today's general audience, the Holy Father launched an appeal for the workers of the Lucchini steelworks in Piombino, which closed down a few days ago causing mass layoffs. Pope Francis urged them not to despair, remarking that “when human hopes are extinguished, the divine hope that never [...]
Vatican City, 9 April 2014 (VIS) – In today’s general audience Pope Francis began a series of catechesis dedicated to the Holy Spirit, which “constitutes the soul and the vital lymph of the Church and of every Christian”. The Holy Spirit is “God’s quintessential gift”, and in turn “communicates many spiritual gifts to those who [...]
Vatican City, 16 March 2014 (VIS) – “The Christian’s first task is to listen to the Word of God, to listen to Jesus, because He speaks to us, and He saves us with His Word. And He makes our faith stronger and more robust, with his Word”. Pope Francis addressed these words to the faithful [...]
Vatican City, 25 November 2013 (VIS) – The rite of admission to the catechumenate took place this afternoon in the Vatican Basilica, convoked in the context of the Year of Faith and presided by Pope Francis. More than five hundred catechumens participated in the rite, from 47 countries and all five continents, accompanied by their [...]
Vatican City, 8 May 2013 (VIS) – Eastertide, which culminates with the Solemnity of Pentecost when the Church relives the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, is the perfect time of the Holy Spirit,” the Pope explained to the 75,000 persons present in St. Peter’s Square to attend his Wednesday general audience. After winding through the [...]
03/26/2010 VATICAN - THAILAND: The testimony of Fr Adriano Pelosin, in Bangkok, who cares for street children, saved from the grips of prostitution and slavery. Abuse must be reported but compassion is also needed for the abusers and their victims. It is a time of purification for the Church and an examination of conscience for [...]