In my years as a theology student, an older missionary used to repeat with some frequency this adage: “Missus, missus, non intromissus“. With it, he was trying to get rid of a defect [...]
On the last day of classes, the Educational Community of the Colégio Internato dos Carvalhos (CIC) gathered at the Sanctuary of the Heart of Mary to celebrate the traditional Finalist Mass (final [...]
TUESDAY 20th JUNE 2023 Matthew 5, 43-48: “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. In this way you will be children of your Father in heaven, who makes his sun rise on the [...]
On Saturday 17 June, Heart of Mary Day, the Heart of Mary Shrine in Carvalhos (Portugal) hosted the priestly ordination of Adão da Costa Chaves cmf and the diaconate ordination of José Manuel [...]
MONDAY 19th JUNE 2023 Matthew 5, 38-42: “I, however, say to you”. Jesus corrects the old law of “an eye for an eye” and “a tooth for a tooth” and goes [...]
Matthew 9, 36-10, 8: Sunday, June 18th, 2023 (11th OT A) “When Jesus saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were worn out and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd… [...]
SATURDAY 17th JUNE 2023 Luke 2, 41-51: “His Mother kept all this in her Heart”. Today, on the feast of the Heart of Mary, we direct the gaze of our heart to that Immaculate [...]
The Summer Camp ‘Mysterious City’, organised by the Fatima YVM Team, with the aim of giving the best service to young people and their vocations, has changed its date. Thus, the [...]
FRIDAY 16th JUNE 2023 Matthew 11, 25-30: “You have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to ordinary people”. We always hold up as a model of [...]
I think that, in the World and in the Church today, many people -and I, a sinner, too- live in heresy. That’s right: vital heresy. This expression was used, quite a few years ago, by Igor [...]