By Fr. Cedric Prakash SJ – April 7 is a significant day! This day is pregnant with meaning: it brings to mind the hate, violence,
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The Significance of Psalms 22: My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?
By Tom Thomas – “If the psalm prays, you pray; if it laments, you lament; if it exults, you rejoice; if it hopes, you hope;
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The Power and Beauty of the Cross
By Leon Bent – Adam and Eve, even while enjoying eternal bliss, somehow poured their egos into their relationship with God. In doing so, they
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Making a Difference: Disarming Our Hearts, Disarming the World
By Tony Magliano The world is awash with weapons! Handguns, semi-automatic assault weapons, grenade launchers, tanks, anti-tank missiles, artillery, attack helicopters, drones, fighter jets, bombers,
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Lessons from the Garden
By Tom Thomas – Prayer is one of the three pillars of Lent. However, it is not only during Lent that we are exhorted to pray
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Am I My Brother’s Keeper?
By Sr Mary Thadavanal MSMHC Where is your brother? Am I my brother’s keeper? These fundamental questions will continue to keep reverberating in the air,
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Lenten Vision: Do We Dare Point To Jesus?
By Leon Bent – Lent is a special period of transforming grace which opens “The Door of Faith” (Acts 14:27; Also see, Pope Emeritus Benedict
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Every Saint has a Past and the Sinner a Future!
By Sr Lini Sheeja MSC Many poverty-stricken children leave home in search of good fortune and end up in prisons after committing a series of
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Remembering Romero: A Martyr for Faith
By Fr Cedric Prakash, SJ Exactly forty two years ago today (24 March 2020), Archbishop Oscar Romero was brutally gunned down, whilst he celebrated the
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St Andrew Bobola: Life, Death, and Private Apparitions
By Paul Suski – Saint Andrew (Andrzej), a true hero for Christ, was born in 1591 to a noble family. The recent historical research indicates
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St. Joseph: The Man with That Empathy
By Sr. Molly Fernandes SFN – “The man of dreams who journeyed the path making his dreams a reality” is my thought about the most
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Two Years Ago, Pope Francis Led a Solitary Mystical Pandemic Lenten Prayer Service
By Tony Magliano – On a rainy Rome evening, two Lents ago, a solitary elderly man in white, climbed the numerous steps leading to the
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The Noonday Demon
By Tom Thomas – We are well underway into the desert season of Lent. The fasting from the worldly things that we took up enthusiastically
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Saints Perpetua and Felicity: Third Century Martyrs
Sr Lini Sheeja MSC – Saints Perpetua and Felicity were thrown into an arena of wild animals, but they were not killed. Tragically, the emperor
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Church in India: More the Persecution, More the Grace!
By Sr Lini Sheeja MSC – In a report by the Indian organization Persecution Relief, the crimes against Christians increased by 60% from 2016 to
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