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Month: April 2019

Arunachal: Meet the Modern-Day Saul Who Became Paul

April 17, 2019 Team ICM News

By Fr Felix Anthony – Tezu: Amidst the grim stories surrounding the Church, God has his unique and mysterious ways of restoring shattered hopes. Here

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Pope Expresses Deep Anguish Over Notre Dame Fire

April 16, 2019 Team ICM News

Vatican: The Holy See has received with shock and sorrow the news of the terrible conflagration that has devastated the Cathedral of Notre Dame, symbol

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There’s Reward in Self-Sacrifice

April 16, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By Fr Adolf Washington In 1970, a team of American surveyors were on duty in the northern Virginia forests. At their lunch they suddenly heard

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Homily for Youth: The Preaching Tuesday – Listen

April 15, 2019 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – Isaiah 49: 1-6; John 13: 21-33,36-38 After Jesus cleansed the Temple and drove the money changers and vendors out

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Mumbai HC Restores Good Friday as Gazetted Holiday

April 15, 2019 Team ICM News

Mumbai: The Mumbai High Court on Monday directed the administration of the Centrally-administered Union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli to

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Bernadette of Lourdes: Penance, Repentance, Prayer, Healing

April 15, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Saint Bernadette Soubirous, also known as Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, is best known for the Marian apparitions of a “young lady,”

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Part XIII: Towards a Progressive Development and Articulation of Youth Pastoral Plan

April 15, 2019 Team ICM Youth

By Fr. Soroj Mullick, SDB Effort is being made to study and clarify the fundamental elements of the Youth Pastoral Plan (YPP) in the context

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Do You Need a ‘Special’ Room?

April 15, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By Fr. Adolf Washington – An old Spanish proverb reads “Whoever gossips to you will gossip ‘about’ you”. Both, people who gossip, slander and destroy

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Part XII: An Inculturized Youth Pastoral Plan as a Response to New Situation

April 15, 2019 Team ICM Youth

By Fr. Soroj Mullick, SDB – Along with the traditional educational agencies “new presences” emerge, which can transmit values to the young, especially towards holistic

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BCCRS’ 40-Day Lenten Celebration: Dr Moras Urges All To Welcome Jesus With Clean Hearts

April 15, 2019 Team ICM News

By C V Joseph – Bengaluru: Archbishop emeritus Dr Bernard Moras called upon the faithful to prepare themselves to welcome Jesus into their hearts in

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Homily for Youth: The Task – Cleanse

April 14, 2019 Team ICM Youth

By Fr Antony Christy, SDB – Isaiah 42: 1-7; John 12: 1-11 This is the day that the conflict between the Jews and Jesus erupted

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Palm Sunday: Cardinal Oswald Urges Faithful to Go Forth in Peace Like Jesus

April 14, 2019 Team ICM News

Mumbai: His Eminence, Oswald Cardinal Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay urged people to embrace peace and follow the example set by our Lord Jesus. On Palm

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Part XI: Church Leaders and Youth Animators Chart New Direction

April 14, 2019 Team ICM Youth

By Fr. Soroj Mullick, SDB- As Jesus took the initiative to animate the disciples on the way to Emmaus, so too the Church leaders and

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God on the Mountains, God in the Valleys

April 14, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By Fr. Adolf Washington – Our lives are a mixture of a ‘mountain experience’ and a ‘valley experience’. The mountain experience is that of peace,

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Arunachal: Youth Walk for Better Government in India

April 14, 2019 Team ICM News

Miao: A group of 200 youth from around Miao in Changlang District of Arunachal Pradesh walked for 17 kilometers to pray for better Government in

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