To the Summit!

During this summer vacation, our Chinese editors visited Hua-Shan (Flowery mountain), one of the most scenic mountains in 陝西 Shǎnxī, China. It’s breath-taking for the grandeur mountain ranges floating in the clouds like a great lotus and the tourists cannot resist but to climb up to the highest summit of 2160m (The South-Mount).

Shǎnxī, in China

On the way to the mountain is a village where there are Catholics for the past 300 years. These are simple people who have maintained their faith in the midst of immense difficulties. With great effort they managed to build a Church and now they have a priest who accompanies them. People are very poor and it is common for children to leave school to help in the field.

With the help of the pastor and the help from scholarships the village is giving importance to giving education to its children. They are ecstatic that for the first time they manage to give collegiate education for eight of its students this year. These guys told us that their secret is discipline and good example and with the help they receive from the priest, they mature in their faith.

To enjoy the scenery up the mountain of Hua-Shan takes 4 hours of hazardous trekking! These young people need lots of love, support, opportunities (and "discipline" ... as they say), to climb the mountain of their lives. They are the 'rock' upon which the Church is built.

To assist in their training, we will install in this village a "parish library." Click here to know more about the "Parish Library" Project

In the (Middle) Kingdom of God

The editors of US Catholic magazine interview
Claretian Fr. Francisco Carin in their August issue.

Please click the picture to enlarge and read.

Mission partners

We are also privileged to have Frs. José Ornelas Carvalho, Superior General and P. Aquilino Mielgo, General Treasurer of the Priests of the Sacred Heart (Dehonians) as our Mission partners. China is a magnet for missionaries as we look forward to take the Good News to the remotest frontiers.

Our Chinese Team

Fr. John Miao

Our collaborators are scattered in several countries.
We comunícate via Internet. Today we present to you one of them,
Fr. John Miao, who visited us recently.

Our Special Guest!

Mr. Chunnong Li is our main contact in the Amity Printing (Nanjing, China). It is 12 years since we are aassociated with Mr. Li. He is a man of professionalism coupled with great friendship. We consider him "part of our family". Mr. Chunnong Li [in the middle] with Fr. Rossa and Divine

Mr. Li handles all our work in print - this year we have already printed more than half a million books in Amity. We maintain direct communication day in and day out, and indeed members of the "family" are always such!

The Majestic Tianmen Mountain

Tinamen mountains1

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Lay missionary mandate for 305 : A sign of the vitality of the Diocese of Liaoning China
About 305 lay missionaries of the Parish of Fu Shun in the Diocese of Liaoning, have received the missionary mandate on the feast of Pentecost, confirming their desire to be faithful to the service of evangelization and the pastoral care during the next two years.

Fushun – Liaoning - China

A certificate of the mandate and the Cross were delivered to the 305 lay people, to carry out its mission in the basic Christian communities. It is a sign of vitality of the Diocese of Liaoning, led by the young Archbishop Paul Pei Junmin.

Archbishop Paul Pei Junmin, 
The Diocese of Liaoning

Evangelisation, pastoral care and Formation are the main priorities of the diocese. On 5 and 6 July, the diocese has organized a seminar on "Current development and future of the Church in China, according to the Ecclesiology of Vatican II" to help priests to know the reality of the Church and the conciliar magisterium.

Graduate seminary of Shijiazhuang - Hebei

The seminary in Shijiazhuang is the largest in China.

On 21 June 26 seminarians graduated from the seminary in Hebei. For the first time parents, relatives and friends of the seminarians were invited to participate in the ceremony.

This year 110 have graduated from seven seminaries in China: 26 from the seminary in Hebei, Four from the seminary in Beijing, 14 from Shanghai, 14 from Shaanxi, Sichuan - 24 seminarians, 19 seminarians from Zhongnan and nine from the seminary at Shenyang.

243 Baptisms at the Cathedral of Tianjin

Tianjin - 130 klms. Beijing ...and just a half hour by train!

The Cathedral Church at Tianjin

After months of preparation, 243 catechumens were baptized on 28 May. The average age of the baptized is 30 years.

The new Christians of Tianjin

Adventures of Fr. Jojo for three weeks in China

It was a journey thousands of miles visiting Beijing, Tianjin and Huangshan, where the Claretian Missionaries worked in China since 1927 until they were expelled in 1950.

Let the pictures speak ...

In Bejing
Jojo in Tiananmen

Fr. Peter Chao in the National Seminary, Beijing
Paco at the Beijing Seminary
Jojo and Friends at the "Great Wall"
Fr. Joseph in Beijing

This was once a Claretian Mission ... Huangshan

Eucharistic Celebration at Huangshan
Fr. Mario with Nicolas ... an old friend of the Claretians
Jojo & Nicolas... He was an Altar Boy, when Claretians were
Serving at Huangshan

Jojo Speaks:
My experience in this journey through the interior of China is that I have been evangelized by the treatment and the generosity of our bishops, priests, religious and laity whom I met in China. I was impressed by their immense hospitality, culture and tolerance. I feel really happy and proud of our Chinese brothers and sisters because through them I experienced the love, peace and joy of Jesus. My prayer is that openness and dialogue bring genuine love, peace and joy for all.