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  • Lenten Reflection: Living for God is Openness to New Life!

    Listening to God is living for God THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – SATURDAY SECOND WEEK March 07 – Micah

  • Lenten Reflection: Living for God to the Extent of Dying for God!

    Listening to God is living for God THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – FRIDAY SECOND WEEK March 06 – Genesis

  • Lenten Reflection: Living for God is Mindfulness of God!

    Living for God is mindfulness of God! Listening to God is living for God THE WORD IN LENT 2026 –

  • Sanju Samson and the Quiet Power of Belief

    By John Singarayar SVD – On March 1, under the lights at Eden Gardens, Sanju Samson, a player in the

  • Lenten Reflection: Living for God and the Pit-Digging Enemies!

    Listening to God is living for God THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – WEDNESDAY SECOND WEEK March 04 – Jeremiah

  • Lenten Reflection: Goodness and Justice – Signs of Living for the Other!

    Listening to God is living for God THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – TUESDAY SECOND WEEK March 03 – Isaiah

  • Andhra: Hearts Renewed as 300 Youth Gather for Lenten Recollection at Guntur

    Guntur (Andhra Pradesh): The Lenten Youth Recollection 2026, organised by the Diocesan Kolping Centre for Youth, was held on Sunday,

  • Lenten Reflection: Living for God is Living for the Other!

    Listening to God is living for God THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – MONDAY SECOND WEEK March 02 – Daniel

  • Lenten Reflection: Listening to the Voice Makes Us People of God

    THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – SATURDAY FIRST WEEK Deuteronomy 26: 16-19; Matthew 5: 43-48 Listening to the right voice

  • Odisha: Mayurbhanj District Christians Harassed During Prayer Time

    By Purushottam Nayak – Mayurbhanj: Odisha Christians from Mayurbhanj home district of Indian President Smt. Droupadi Murmu were harassed during

  • Lenten Reflection: Choose to Listen; Choose to Forgive; Choose to Live!

    Listening to the right voice THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – FIRST WEEK FRIDAY February 27 – Ezekiel 18: 21-28;

  • Lent and the Grace of Returning

    Each season in the liturgical calendar brings with it a quiet summons – a call to reflect, to decide, and

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CBCI Expresses Solidarity; to Offer Prayers for Cyclone Victims

December 5, 2017 Team ICM News

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) on Tuesday expressed its solidarity with the people of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Lakshadweep and assured its prayers

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Sr. Nirmala: The Guiding Light

December 4, 2017 Team ICM News

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – Sannyasa means effecting an ontological break with one’s past; sannyasis let the dead bury their dead. They are themselves dead to

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Time to Say Thank You Lord

December 3, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

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

December 3, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

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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When Able Meet Not So Able!

December 2, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

By Jacqueline Colaco Rheumatoid arthritis has slowly decreased my ability to move normally so I limp around. My fingers too are bent out of shape.

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It’s Advent: Yearning For His Arrival!

December 2, 2017 Team ICM Homilies

By Fr. Eugene Lobo, SJ – First Sunday of Advent: Yearning For God Isaiah 63:16-17; 64:1.3-8; 1 Corinthians 1:3-9; Mark 13:33-37 Today we begin the

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Unite the League

December 1, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – If you are a fan of superhero movies, choosing between the DC Universe and the Marvel Universe is a tough

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Avoiding Eye Contact and Other Ways to Kill Your Soul

November 30, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

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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Keeping Our Self-Esteem for Good!

November 30, 2017 Team ICM Offbeat

By Jennifer Pinto – Hi Everyone! So last time I talked about how we beat ourselves up over everything we do wrong and how there

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Chapter XVIII: A Descriptive Definition of Heaven

November 29, 2017 Team ICM I Believe

By Fr. Joseph Francis — What is this heaven into which Jesus ascended? Heaven that awaits each one of us and for all could be

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It’s Time to Bell the Cat – Revisiting Human Traditions

November 28, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

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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Fr. Horace Rozario SJ: Guided by the Holy Spirit

November 28, 2017 Team ICM Best of ICM, Faith / Spirituality

By Subhasis Chattopadhyay – The Desert Fathers pointed out that only a fool has himself for a spiritual director. In other words, the primacy of

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Guidelines for Family Prayer: Prepare the Prayer

November 28, 2017 Team ICM Family

By Fr Hervé Morissette, CSC – Introduce variety into your family prayer, especially when you gather for prayer every day. You may pray together on

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The Lourdes of India: Our Lady of Vailankanni

November 27, 2017 Team ICM News

Aleteia‘s international English edition editor Daniel Esparza writes about the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health at Vailankanni, popularly known as “the Eastern Lourdes.”

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Parables for Today: Why Not Me?

November 27, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture, Offbeat

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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