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    There is a mother somewhere right now who has made breakfast, resolved an argument between two children before eight in

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    By Lavoisier Fernandes – A rumor used to travel slowly. Someone would mention something after Mass, at work, or over

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    There is a priest somewhere right now who has said Mass three times this week for people he barely knows,

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Walking Pilgrimage in Goa: A Journey of Hope, Prayer and Renewal

February 23, 2026 Team ICM News

Br. Malvino Alfonso OCD & pictures by Joseph Fernandes – The Archdiocese of Goa and Daman organised its 8th Annual Walking Pilgrimage (Bhavarthachi Yatra) on

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Lenten Reflection: How Do You Listen to the Voice of God?

February 22, 2026 Team ICM Catholic Culture, Faith / Spirituality

THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – FIRST WEEK MONDAY February 23 – Leviticus 19: 1-2, 11-18; Matthew 25: 31-46 Listening to the right voice, is

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Lent Calls Us to Love Differently

February 22, 2026 Team ICM Catholic Culture

There is something quietly unsettling about the way many of us observe Lent. We follow the calendar, choose our sacrifice, and complete the forty days

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Lenten Reflection: Listening… to the Right Word!

February 21, 2026 Team ICM News

The voice of the serpent? the voice of death? or the Voice of God? THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT February

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Lenten Reflection: ‘Follow Me’

February 21, 2026 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

THE WORD IN LENT 2026 – SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY February 21 – Isaiah 58: 9-14; Luke 5: 27-32 Lent as a time of conversion

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Lent in Terms of Fasting

February 19, 2026 Team ICM Features

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Between the Screen and the Sanctuary

February 19, 2026 Team ICM Tech / Media

In early February 2026, Don Alberto Ravagnani, a 32-year-old priest from the Diocese of Milan, Italy, announced that he was leaving the priesthood. Since he

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Lenten Reflection: Lent as a Time of Conversion

February 18, 2026 Team ICM Features

By Fr. Antony Christy, sdb – February 19 – Deuteronomy 30: 15-20; Luke 9: 22-25  Lent as a time of conversion – that is a

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Dust Thou Art and unto Dust Thou shalt Return

February 18, 2026 Team ICM Catholic Culture, Faith / Spirituality

Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent, has been a very difficult day for me since the death of my Dad. The finality

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Lenten Spirituality for Total Union with God

February 18, 2026 Team ICM Features

Leon Bent – Jesus prepared himself in arid land for 40 days for his public ministry. The hermit yearns for a indwelling Jesus-presence in him,

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Ash Wednesday: Lenten Reflection: Listening and Fasting

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Making a Difference: Lent Urges Us to Venture From Darkness into the Light

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By Tony Magliano – With dust-like ashes crossed upon our foreheads, each one of us is firmly presented with Ash Wednesday’s wake-up call that our

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Sindhudurg Bishop-Elect Agnelo Pinheiro: A Shepherd Formed in Prayer and Pastoral Surrender

February 17, 2026 Team ICM News

Br Malvino Alfonso OCD – On 14 February 2026, at noon in Rome and 4:30 p.m. in Goa, the Church announced that Pope Leo XIV

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Fasting for Families: Finding Peace in the Chaos

February 17, 2026 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

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