By Jacqueline Colaco – Advent, which commenced on 3rd December this year is significant in the calendar year of the Church as it continues to
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Category: Catholic Culture
Are You Going to A Christmas Dance?
By Susanna D – First of all, I would like to go on record to say that I have no objection to fun. Nor do
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Girl, You’re Courageous!
By Venita D’Souza In a world where “Actions speak louder than words”, I want to be “The pen that’s mightier than the sword”. Welcome to 2017 where
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Digitally Ours: Pastoral Guidelines for a Christian Community
By Fr Renold Pascal, SSP – I was amused to read an interesting piece of news, recently, where there was a ‘tooth and nail’ brawl
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Cleanse Your Heart for This Advent Season
By Fr. Domnic Emmanuel Ablutions and bodily bath are absolutely necessary before one begins one’s prayers or worship, be it for the pujari (priest) or
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The Real Meaning of Christmas
By Marianne Furtado de Nazareth — It’s that time of year again. December has come and with it all the joys of Christmas. The malls
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Christmas: Pieces or Peace?
By Leon Bent — Christmas is round the corner. I asked the Lord, give me a dream, a theme! And, lo and behold, peace versus
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Word of God; Our Eternal Food! Spiritual Quest of a Clinician
By Dr Job Cyriac — “But he answered and said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
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Striving to be the Rule: Ethics for Wedding Guests
By Fr Warner D’Souza — The Bible is filled with analogies and parables relating to weddings. Yahweh was the bridegroom to His people Israel, in
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Time to Say Thank You Lord
By Most Rev. Lumen Monteiro, CSC, D.D, Bishop of Agartala — What does one do 18 times a minute, 1800 times an hour and 25,920
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Of Things Past, Passing and Yet to Come
Fr. J. Pulinthanath, SDB — There is something puzzling about the speed with which December always comes, bringing with it tad regret and surprise. Surprise
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Avoiding Eye Contact and Other Ways to Kill Your Soul
By Susanna D – Are you a good person? Yeah, me too. I’m basically a good person. Aren’t we all? Most people think of themselves
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It’s Time to Bell the Cat – Revisiting Human Traditions
By Fr. Warner D’Souza – My dear friend, the late Fr Larry Pereira always said that religion is like a river; at its source it
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Parables for Today: Why Not Me?
By Fr. Joe Mannath, SDB — Last May, I met someone who impressed me a great deal. This is how we met. A parishioner I
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Sharing Supper With Our Lord
By Jacqueline Colaco – I was perusing through ancestral photographs to post milestone family occasions on Facebook. Many of these centred round cake cutting ceremonies
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