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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

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

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    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;

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Devotion to the Most Holy Rosary

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By Fr. Joe Mannath, SDB – Clara comes from a wealthy Japanese family. Her father was a director in the world-famous finance company, Mitsui. Her

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Chapter X: Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary (2)

October 4, 2017 Team ICM I Believe

By Rev. Fr. B Joseph Francis – The importance of the question about the virginal birth of Jesus  In this chapter we reflect on the

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Being a Franciscan Means ‘Doing Penance’ through  Prayer

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By A Franciscan Friar –  Francisco Bernardone was not born a saint (in the common understanding of that word), that is, as one who went

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A Tribute to Cardinal Ivan Dias

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An Act of Indifference Can Cause Much Harm

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By Chris D’Souza – But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things;

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Living In All Humility For The Father’s Grace

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By Fr. Sam Koonamplackil, VC – Revolutions were great milestones in the building up of our civilized society. Christianity too becomes inexplicable without revolutions. For

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Being a Welcoming Church

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By Susanna D – A few months ago I was at a weekday Mass, and it was pretty crowded. First Friday of the month, and

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Chapter IX: Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary (1)

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By Rev. Fr. B Joseph Francis – The existential situation of the human being in sin or the meaning of sin The Nicene Creed here

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New(ton) Testament: Jesus in the Latest Bollywood Film

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