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The One Gift

March 17, 2019 Team ICM Best of ICM, Features

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – What is it that one gift which we must pray daily to God for, as a community of pilgrims negotiating life

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The Promise of the Transfiguration

March 16, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – The season of Lent coincides with election season this year around, and we have seen our political leaders at their

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Where Our Strength Runs Out, God’s Strength Begins

March 15, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Larissa D’Souza – We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that he injects to

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Your Guide To A Catholic Lent

March 14, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Lent is the forty-day liturgical season of fasting, special prayer and almsgiving in preparation for Easter. The name “Lent” is from

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Jesuit Superior General’s Visit to Goa: Impressions and Challenges

March 12, 2019 Team ICM Features

Not often does the head of one of the world’s largest religious orders of the Catholic Church spend time with simple shepherds at one village

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Women: The Feminine Genius at Work

March 7, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Sr. Teresa Joseph, FMA – International Women’s Day (IWD) 2019 with its Official UN theme: Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change is already

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Ash Wednesday: From Ashes to Glory

March 5, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Among the beautiful, meaningful and solemn ceremonies of the Catholic Church, is the gathering of the faithful on Ash Wednesday. This

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A Cry for God’s Mercy and Forgiveness

March 5, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Bro John Malvino Alfonso, OCD – Today, 6th March 2019 the Church observes Ash Wednesday. In the Roman Catholic Church, Ash Wednesday is the

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Lent A Time Of Spiritual Renewal

February 28, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – What is Lent? Lent is a solemn 40-day period in the Church’s liturgical year in which we prepare ourselves spiritually for

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The Joys of the Elderly

February 26, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Dr. Jeanette Pinto – The Fourth Commandment reads: “Honour thy Father and Mother.” It means not only when they are young, agile and productive

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U.N.’s International Year of Indigenous Languages

February 8, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages, that is: dedicated to raising awareness

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Pedro Arrupe: You Are God’s hand

February 4, 2019 Team ICM Features

Photo courtesy Jesuit Midwest: Pedro Arrupe, SJ, with Mother Teresa By Francis Gonsalves, SJ When asked: “Doesn’t it give you great joy to see the

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Not So Much Jazz: Adi Shankaracharya and St. Thomas of Aquinas

January 29, 2019 Team ICM Best of ICM, Features

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – Saint Thomas of Aquinas was considered foolish by his classmates because he was an introvert. Maybe, he was dyslexic. Maybe, he

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Need for an Indian Academy of Religion Mooted

January 27, 2019 Team ICM Features

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – There is a distinct Hindu way of life, and there is a distinct Christian way of life. But the problem is

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It’s Christmas, Rejoice and Be Glad!

December 24, 2018 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – It’s Christmas once again! Rejoice and be glad! May we catch and live some of this spirit as we commemorate the

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Regina Caeli, 25 May 2025
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Meeting of the Holy Father with Employees of the Holy See and the Vatican City State (24 May 2025)
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To Members of Pontifical Mission Societies (22 May 2025)
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