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The two great feasts of the Catholic Church are preceded by a period of preparation. Christmas, which celebrates the humanity of Christ, is ushered in by the Advent season, and Easter, which celebrates the divinity of Christ, has the Lenten season as its preparatory period. Both periods of preparation is a time to reflect and pray, a time for repentance and reconnecting with God.
Servant of God Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz died on March 16, 1992, from Lou Gehrig’s disease which left him incapacitated for years. He died in the presence of his Sisters of Mary and Brothers of Christ, which he founded in Busan, South Korea, and brought to Manila in 1985.
The rising temperatures should not be an excuse to go to church wearing skimpy, stringy clothes.
Food and drink figure heavily in many Biblical passages. Bread and wine, the wheat in the fields, grapes on the vine, figs on the tree, oils and spices, loaves and fishes for the hungry multitude. The Last Supper became the cosmic, universal sacrament of faith for Christian believers.
In last week’s column, we showed how the early Catholic hierarchy tried to marginalize Mary Magdalene by portraying her as a prostitute and a repentant sinner, although there is absolutely no evidence in the Bible that this was so.
