Christmas 2020
Nowhere else in the world can you witness Christmas celebrations lasting longer than in the Philippines. It starts in September and ends with the Epiphany. Simbang Gabi “night masses” in December is one of the main features of the season.
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P. Manuel António Machado, comboniano: Ser uma «pedra escondida» e «silenciosa» a Oriente
Sexta-feira, 22 de Janeiro de 2021
O padre Manuel António da Silva Machado, missionário comboniano, que passou 25 anos em Macau, dá conta de um caminho de “altos e baixos” no encontro com uma cultura e língua “muito diferentes” em terras asiáticas. “Não se podia fazer muito. Não somos muitos, mas em colaboração com a Igreja local e outros grupos missionários, procurámos ser uma presença dos valores do Evangelho, numa cultura que não conhecia ou até os desvalorizava”, explica à Agência Ecclesia o missionário que actualmente reside na comunidade comboniana, em Viseu.
Christmas in the Philippines: The Longest Ever!
The Comboni magazine from the Philippines “World Mission” receives two Awards
Tuesday, December 22, 2020
World Mission magazine won the Best Opinion Column award for the column “Defending the Most Defenseless” by Tony Magliano and received a special recognition for the feature written by Archbishop Gilbert Garcera titled “Passing on the Faith to the Young” at the Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) on December 19, 2020 in Manila. [World Mission]
Celebration of St. Daniel Comboni’s Feast in the Philippines
Thursday, October 15, 2020
All the Comboni Missionaries of the two communities of the Philippines, joined also by the Postulants, gathered together, on the evening of October 10, Feast of Saint Daniel Comboni, in the residence of the Novitiate in Quezon City, Manila, to witness the official acceptance of the postulant Francis Xavier Dao Quang Vinh to the new formation stage of the Novitiate. Francis comes from Vietnam and has joined our formation program after a working experience.
Bellarmino Award received by Fr. Víctor Manuel Aguilar Sánchez
Monday, May 25, 2020
On April 30, 2020, the office of the Vice-Academical Rector and the Commission in charge of evaluating the nominations for the Bellarmino Award, after an in-depth evaluation of the research work carried out by the individual candidates, has decided to nominate Dr. Víctor Manuel Aguilar Sánchez winner. The award ceremony took place at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome on May 25, 2020, with an open link YouTube connection to watch the ceremony to Víctor Aguilar, who lives in Macau, China. Hence, Dr. Prof. Henryk Pietras, sj, director of Victor’s dissertation, received the award on behalf of Dr. Aguilar.
Asia: official visit of Fr. Tesfaye and Fr. Alcides and resumption of the novitiate
Friday, October 18, 2019
The Delegation of Asia joyfully welcomed Fr. Tesfaye Tadesse and Fr. Alcides Costa for their official visit to the Delegation from the 1st. to the 14th. of October. Though the time was not too long, they managed to visit all the communities and have their personal dialogues with all the confreres. This was certainly a great moment of animation of all the confreres and of a greater communion with the whole Institute.
The Comboni Missionaries in Asia thank God for the gift of missionary vocation
Monday, July 22, 2019
On the 20th of July 2019, the small parish of St. Anne in Wugu District, New Taipei City, became the center of what the Archbishop of Taipei, Most Rev. John Hung Shan-Chuan, SVD, who presided the Eucharist, described as a 3-in-1 celebration. It marked the ordination to the deaconate of the Sc. Eduardo Antonio Revolledo Villanueva, which coincided with the parish feast and the installation of the new parish priest.