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Visit the Dead Online

02 November 2012 | International Theologate

Manila (Agenzia Fides) - A "virtual tour" via the web at the cemetery, with prayers for their dead, listening to a meditation, a chance to leave an offering: is an initiative launched by the Office o…

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When Saint Pedro Calungsod Becomes a Top Model

01 November 2012 | International Theologate

by Aime, SX From an Indio to a helper, from a helper to a catechist and altar boy; from altar boy and catechist to a missionary to the “Island of Thieves”, as Magellan mistakenly named what is now k…

United Nations Day

31 October 2012 | International Theologate

For the commemoration of the United Nations Day, a group of children from St. Guido Maria Conforti Tutorial Center gathered in our Theology House to mark the worldwide event. Amazingly, children not…

Prayer Vigil for World Mission Sunday 2012 - Saint Francis Xavier Parish

22 October 2012 | International Theologate

[gallery] Reflection done by Fr. Thiago, sx. - We have listened to in the first reading the apostle Paul saying to the Corinthians: “Thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in C…

Vatican II: a catalyst for a great deal of change in the Church

21 October 2012 | International Theologate

By Edmond TASSE, SX Fifty years ago, some 2,800 bishops, hundreds of theologians, lay participants and non-Catholic observers from 116 countries gathered in Rome. This assembly, “quite possibly the…

Preparing World Mission Sunday

21 October 2012 | International Theologate

By Elvis s.x “Woe to me if I don’t preach the Gospel” (1 Cor 9:16) October 17 and 18, 2012 have been days set apart by our Theologate community to visiting various classrooms of St. Francis Xavier Ca…

Ciao Pietro!

20 October 2012 | International Theologate

A few days ago, we have received a message from Pietro Rossini, one of the Italian youth who, last August, visited the Philippines spending a few weeks with our community. Among other things, Pietro…

The canonical age to stop going to mass (?)

16 October 2012 | International Theologate

Done by Aime, sx It was in the midst of a research on the mysticism of Karl Rahner that I came across this question voiced by a teenager who, to my view, was quite serious about it: “At what age is n…

The Year of Faith

12 October 2012 | International Theologate

by Heritier , sx Today, October 11, 2012, as we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the second Vatican Council and the twentieth anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church…

Befriending: The Art of Doing Mission

10 October 2012 | International Theologate

By Martin, sx Today, more than ever, doing mission raises a certain number of crucial questions that no responsible missionary can overlook. Here are some of them: first, what does the word mission m…

Praying is not boring

06 October 2012 | International Theologate

By Fr. Thiago, sx - When I was attending English classes in the Ateneo de Manila University, one of my classmates told me: “Father, my family is very much catholic, but I don´t go to church because…

The cradle Christian

05 October 2012 | International Theologate

By Theodore Kabundi Christian life needs a process for growing and becoming adult in the faith. Like the human life, Christian life follows also some steps like: being gentile, being catechized, bei…

The Church in The Philippine Modern Society

05 October 2012 | International Theologate

By Heritier Mesa - On October 1st and 2nd, at the beginning of the Mission Month, the Xaverian Missionaries gathered for their regional assembly, here in Manila, at the International Theologate Comm…

MISSION AS A REAL EXPERIENCE OF GOD

04 October 2012 | International Theologate

By Elvis, s.x. Every time we celebrate the Feast of St. Therese of the Child Jesus (October 1st), I always wonder why the Church has made her the patroness of Missions. Actually, unlike St. Francis…

Bishop Antonio R. Tobias among us!

27 September 2012 | International Theologate

Last Saturday, September 22, our community had the happiness to receive the visit of Bishop of Novaliches, Antonio Tobias and to spend the whole morning with him. The first part of the meeting was le…

An amazing experience

05 September 2012 | International Theologate

From August 11 to 29 our community welcomed some young people from Italy accompanied by Fr. Simone. They came in order to have a missionary experience here in the Philippines. In their second week of…

A growing community!

03 September 2012 | International Theologate

The end of August is always a moment of great excitement for our community because it is around this time that the new brothers arrive. This year as well, we have gladly welcomed five of them who - i…

SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY

18 August 2012 | International Theologate

By Elvis, sx On August 15, 2012, The Loyola School of Theology organized a Theological Hour with the topic SEXUALITY AND SPIRITUALITY: Claiming and Coming Home to My Body, having as speaker Fr. Percy…

BENVENUTI!

15 August 2012 | International Theologate

In these weeks, our Theologate Community is receiving a group of four youth from Italy, accompanied by Fr. Simone Piccolo, SX. They arrived in the Philippines last Saturday, August 11, bringing us a…

MARY: GRACE AND HOPE IN CHRIST

14 August 2012 | International Theologate

by, Martin, sx It was a blissful and historical event for Catholics when Pope Pius XII on November I, 1950 declared officially the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The new Marian dogma cheered…

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