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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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