austraLasia

?

Shortcut

PrevPrev Article

NextNext Article

Larger Font Smaller Font Up Down Go comment Print Attachment
Views 1344 Comment 0

20180528_CIN.jpg


World day of prayers for China Catholic community


By Our Own Correspondent


Hong Kong, 24 May 2018 -- Since the Letter of Pope Benedict XVI to the Catholics of China (2007) for past 11 years the Universal Church set up May 24, Feast of Mary Help of Christians as a special occasion to express our solidarity in prayer with our sisters and brothers in this largest country in the world.


Pope Francis addressed last Wednesday: “… Feast of Mary Help of Christians, particularly venerated in the Marian shrine of Sheshan, near Shanghai, invites us to be spiritually united to all the Catholic faithful who live in China, so that they may live their faith with generosity and serenity, and so that they may carry out concrete gestures of fraternity, concord and reconciliation, in full communion with the Successor of Peter".


Since 2008, the Day of Prayer for the Church in China, established by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007, is celebrated on May 24th, all over the world. Referring to this anniversary, Pope Francis also addressed the "dearest disciples of the Lord in China, the universal Church prays with you and for you, so that even amid difficulties you may continue to entrust yourselves to the will of God. Our Lady will never fail to help you and will safeguard you with her maternal love".


But for whom we pray?


According the recent updated estimates of the Holy Spirit Study Center in Hong Kong (SAR), in the PRC (Mainland China) there are only about 10 million of Catholic believers (NB number of Catholic is decreasing due to very low birth rate and few new conversions): 144 diocese and apostolic vicariates (only 96 recognized at present time), 101 bishops (77 in ministry and 24 not in ministry), open Bishops 58 in ministry (7 not in ministry), underground Bishops 19 in ministry, 17 not in ministry; 2550 priest of the Open Church and 1320 priest of the underground Church, 8 major seminaries (398 seminarians), and 6 underground seminaries (100 seminarians).


On the World Day of Prayer for the Church in China (May 24) we are invited to ask God the Holy Spirit to pour forth His abundant blessings to the Catholic Church in China through the intercession of Our Lady of Sheshan, Help of Christians, with the prayer of our beloved Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2007:


    Virgin Most Holy, Mother of the Incarnate Word and our Mother,
    venerated in the Shrine of Sheshan under the title "Help of Christians,"
    the entire Church in China looks to you with devout affection.


    We come before you today to implore your protection.
    Look upon the People of God and, with a mother’s care, guide them
    along the paths of truth and love, so that they may always be
    a leaven of harmonious coexistence among all citizens.


    When you obediently said "yes" in the house of Nazareth,
    you allowed God’s eternal Son to take flesh in your virginal womb
    and thus to begin in history the work of our redemption.
    You willingly and generously cooperated in that work,
    allowing the sword of pain to pierce your soul,
    until the supreme hour of the Cross, when you kept watch on Calvary,
    standing beside your Son, who died that we might live.


    From that moment, you became, in a new way,
    the Mother of all those who receive your Son Jesus in faith
    and choose to follow in his footsteps by taking up his Cross.
    Mother of hope, in the darkness of Holy Saturday you journeyed
    with unfailing trust towards the dawn of Easter.


    Grant that your children may discern at all times,
    even those that are darkest, the signs of God’s loving presence.


    Our Lady of Sheshan, sustain all those in China,
    who, amid their daily trials, continue to believe, to hope, to love.
    May they never be afraid to speak of Jesus to the world,
    and of the world to Jesus.


    In the statue overlooking the Shrine you lift your Son on high,
    offering him to the world with open arms in a gesture of love.
    Help Catholics always to be credible witnesses to this love,
    ever clinging to the rock of Peter on which the Church is built.
    Mother of China and all Asia, pray for us, now and for ever.


    Amen!




20180528_CIN1.jpg


20180528_CIN2.jpg


20180528_CIN3.jpg


20180528_CIN4.jpg


20180528_CIN5.jpg


20180528_CIN6.jpg


Attach

Drag and drop your files here, or Click attach files button.

Maximum File Size : 0MB (Allowed extentsions : *.*)

0 file(s) attached ( / )

  1. 5446(IV)_First Native Vocation in Taiwan Perpetually Professed

    ALA_5446 Salesian Brother Paul Giligiliaw Tamauwlul By Fr. Lanfranco Fedrigotti, SDB Taipei, Taiwan, 16 August 2020 -- Today, 16 August 2020, was a golden letter day for the Salesian Family in Taiwan. In the afternoon, the Saint John Bos...
    Date2020.08.17 CategoryCIN Reply3 Views865 file
    Read More
  2. 5445(I)_Annual Retreat 2020 for Hong Kong - Macau SDBs

    ALA_5445 By CIN provincial secretary Hong Kong, China, 13 August 2020 -- Between August 2 - 8, 2020, some forty Salesians of China Province held the second batch of annual retreat with the theme of GC28: "What Kind of Salesians for the You...
    Date2020.08.16 CategoryCIN Reply0 Views460 file
    Read More
  3. 5441(I)_Farewell to Fr. John Ma - one of the Taiwan pioneers

    ALA_5441 First Rector in Taiwan (1926-2020) By Fr. Lanfranco Fedrigotti Taipei, Taiwan, 9 August 2020 -- At about 14:00 hours on Friday, 07 August 2020, the Good Lord has called to himself our beloved 93-year-old Fr John Ma Yeong Ding (192...
    Date2020.08.10 CategoryCIN Reply0 Views765 file
    Read More
  4. 5434(II)_When we serve, we become like Jesus!

    ALA_5434 First profession of two Salesians in Hong Kong By Cl. Andrew Chan and Cl. Thomas Li Newly professed Salesians Salesian Missionary House, Hong Kong, China, 30 July 2020 -- The 12 novices for 2020-2021 in Lawaan - Cebu (FIS), Novice...
    Date2020.07.30 CategoryCIN Reply0 Views755 file
    Read More
  5. 5415(III)_Ordination of Anthony Pun Ming Chi

    ALA_5415 By Ms. Phyllis Tang Hong Kong, 7 July 2020 -- Last Saturday, July 4, Deacon Anthony Pun Ming Chi was ordained priest in St Anthony’s Church, where he had been baptized, confirmed and served as an altar boy during his childhood and...
    Date2020.07.07 CategoryCIN Reply0 Views584 file
    Read More
  6. 5414_Statistics on Religions and Churches in China

    ALA_5414 Upcoming feast of 120 Holy Chinese Martyrs By our own correspondent Rome, 3 July 2020 -- The liturgical feast of China's Catholic Martyrs (July 9) - St. Augustin Zhao and Companions - is coming soon. We celebrate the 120 Catholic ...
    Date2020.07.05 CategoryCIN Reply0 Views969 file
    Read More
  7. 5403_Macau Bosco Youth Service Network Annual report 2019

    ALA_5403 By Ms Jacqueline Leung Bosco Youth Service Network, Macau, China, 18 June 2020 -- As is the case every year, this June 2020 too, the Bosco Youth Service Network has released its 2019 Annual Report (download: Boscolink). Almost one...
    Date2020.06.18 CategoryCIN Reply0 Views615 file
    Read More
  8. 5400(II)_Macau, Instituto Salesiano starts rebuilding (2020-2024)

    ALA_5400 By Fr. Joseph Hung Instituto Salesiano, Macau, 14 June 2020 -- Founded in 1906, the first Salesian work in South China, the Instituto Salesiano, Macau (a primary and secondary school) is undergoing an extension construction projec...
    Date2020.06.15 CategoryCIN Reply0 Views1234 file
    Read More
  9. 5397(IV)_Miss Audrey Donnithorne, Extraordinary Laywoman, Salesian Parishioner, Lover of Don Bosco, R.I.P.

    ALA_5397 By Fr. Lanfranco M. Fedrigotti, SDB Hong Kong, 9 June 2020 -- Miss Audrey Donnithorne died today, 9 June 2020, in Hong Kong, aged 97. She was born in 1922 in Sichuan Province (China) of a missionary couple of the Anglican Church M...
    Date2020.06.10 CategoryCIN Reply2 Views1177 file
    Read More
  10. 5387(II)_Interview with Archbishop emeritus of Taipei, Joseph Ti Kang, ASC

    ALA_5387 By Fr. Lanfranco Fedrigotti, SDB Taipei – Saint John Bosco Parish, 26 May 2020 -- On the Feastday of Mary Help of Christians (24 May 2020) Archbishop Joseph Ti-Kang, emeritus of Taipei (92 years old, Archbishop of Taipei: 1989-200...
    Date2020.05.26 CategoryCIN Reply1 Views1350 file
    Read More
List
Board Pagination Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 24 Next
/ 24