Better late than never. Last Saturday, the Vatican launched its official Twitter page. And it is available in no less than six international languages. As of writing this post, the Vatican Twitter (English) page has more than 2,000 followers. The Vatican is not new to social media as it launched its YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/vatican) as [...]
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10 Stunning Images for the Holy Week
Here is a collection of 10 stunning images that you can use as worship backgrounds, liturgy visuals, and desktop wallpapers this Holy Week. Not only are they well-designed, they are also inspiring. And in my case, they also led me to contemplate on the sacrifice Jesus did in order to let the world experience the [...]
7 Ways to Make Your Holy Week Really Holy
Holy Week is that time of the year when Catholics commemorate the passion and death of Jesus and celebrate his resurrection. Since it is also vacation time for most people, it is easy to forget that Holy Week is about prayer, devotions and penance, and not about going to the beach and partying all night. [...]
Do a Loving Act Each Day of Lent
Today is Ash Wednesday and today is the start of the forty-day Season of Lent. As I have said in my previous post, Lent is about radical conversion – leaving behind our old ways of being and doing in order to become like Christ. Here are forty practical suggestions on how to make a radical [...]
A Funny Take on Ash Wednesday
The music video begins with these words: “There’s a little black spot on your head today. I guess it must mean today is Ash Wednesday. And we enter a time when we will give things up. For some it’s so easy but for me it’s tough.” The title of the video is “This Time of [...]
Gloria.tv – a Catholic Videosharing Site
Gloria.tv aims to be “a Catholic pulpit on the internet.” Aside from the usual news and entertainment clips, the site also offers videos on catechesis, mission, liturgy, vocations, pilgrimages, Mary, the saints and other content of particular interest to Catholics. Gloria.tv encourages Catholics worldwide to upload parish events, homilies and other Catholic content to its [...]
5 Insightful Videos on Making a Difference this Season of Lent
Lent is a forty-day period of preparation for the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus. It begins on Ash Wednesday (17 February 2010) and concludes right before the evening Masses of Holy Thursday, however Lenten penance continues through Holy Saturday (03 April 2010). Sundays are skipped when we count the forty days, because each Sunday [...]
Spirituality and the Filipino Film
Communication Foundation for Asia (CFA) recently launched the book “Spirituality and the Filipino Film” during the three-day seminar on Film and Faith held in its compound in Sta. Mesa, Manila. The main objective of the book is to start a critical practice that will look at Philippine cinema in terms of faith and spirituality. It [...]
How to Make Christmas Merry and Meaningful
In his recent Christmas Vigil homily, Pope Benedict XVI said: “Time given to God and, in his name, to our neighbour is never time lost. It is the time when we are most truly alive, when we live our humanity to the full.” To make Christmas truly merry and meaningful we must find time to [...]
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