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The Good News in the New Year 2025

December 30, 2024 Team ICM Features

I know it may sound odd, but in recent years I’ve felt much happier on New Year’s Eve than on New Year’s Day. I’ve come

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The Feet, the Light and the Word

December 25, 2024 Team ICM Features

Hope that Shines for Us – Christmas 2024 A Happy and a Holy Christmas! This day naturally fills us with immense joy, for it is

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Christmas: History or Mystery?

December 6, 2024 Team ICM Features

chhotebhai – Where was the Holy Family when Herod ordered the killing of the children in Bethlehem? As we approach Christmas, this question began to

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Illness and Wellness: ‘The Hundred Guilder Print’ by Rembrandt (1647 – 1649)

February 12, 2024 Team ICM Art / Book / Film

By Joynel Fernandes – ‘It is hard to describe the greatest painter of the north and the greatest printmaker of them all, because Rembrandt is

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The Power of the Word

February 1, 2024 Team ICM Features

By Tom Thomas – “Oh no! Here they come!”  At sharp 8 am, this is the thought going through my mind as the gates open

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St. Ignatius of Loyola

Jesuit Founder St. Ignatius of Loyola – A True Mystic

July 30, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

On July 31, the Universal Church marks the feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola. The Spanish saint is known for founding the Society of

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Experience a Renewed Encounter wIth Jesus

May 13, 2023 Team ICM Features

The memories about the death of Jesus on the cross on Calvary were very fresh in the minds of the apostles (and other disciples) and

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Mark’s Paschal Mystery Internalised

April 24, 2023 Team ICM Features

Leon Bent – Oscar Wilde in A Woman of No Importance, narrates: “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that, every saint

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He is Our Only Hope

April 7, 2023 Team ICM Reflections

Francis Gayang csc – Easter Vigil marks the end of Lenten observance. On this night the church invites us to contemplate on the necessary death

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Waiting in Joyful Expectation of the Messiah

November 30, 2022 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – The Catholic Liturgy is an album in which every epoch of Church history immortalizes itself. Therein, one can find various pictures

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The Resurrection of Christ and its Optimistic Impact on Man and Culture

April 12, 2021 Team ICM Features

By Fr Mathew Thankachen O.Praem. – Ever since the origin of humanity, based on Biblical account and evolutionary records, life has been one of continued

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A Good Friday Reflection on Jesus’ Suffering with the World

April 1, 2021 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Tony Magliano Pope Francis has often urged us to prayerfully meditate before the crucifix. Because by prayerfully meditating before the crucifix, one can see

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Incarnating Christmas

December 24, 2020 Team ICM Advent

By Soroj Mullick, SDB – Unlike other years, we are forced to face this Christmas differently, without much of feasting with family and friends. There

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The God of Christmas Never Sleeps Nor Slumbers

December 3, 2020 Team ICM Advent

By Most Rev. Dr. A. Stephen Bishop of Tuticorin Christmas as we know, is a period of joy and celebration, exchange of gifts, families coming

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ICM Anniversary Special: The Desert Experience During Lockdown Period

July 22, 2020 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Carrying on from yesterday’s inspiration article on facing crisis, Fr Antony Christy sdb reflects with us the desert experience of our forefathers during the Biblical

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Audio: Fr Christopher White's Daily Reflection

Friday reflection on readings 1, Isaiah 29:17-24 & the Gospel of Matthew 9:27-31. Please click link and scroll down a bit to listen to the audio.

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To the Delegation of "The National Italian American Foundation" (4 June 2025)
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01.06.2025
The Holy Father attends and blesses the passage of the Giro d'Italia through the Vatican (1st June 2025)
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Regina Caeli, 1st June 2025
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Holy Mass for the Jubilee of Families, Children, Grandparents and the Elderly (1 June 2025)
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06.06.2025
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