By Lavoisier Fernandes – Every month, the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV invites Catholics to pray for a particular intention. This May, the prayer intention
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Tag: Jesus Christ
Are We Untouchables? Rethinking Purity in the Light of Christ
Fr. Pencer Xavier – Ancient Jewish law took purity very seriously. If you touched a dead body, you became unclean. If you came into
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Mercy Isn’t Easy, But It Changes Everything
By Lavoisier Fernandes In 2017, I took my octogenarian father to the Divine Mercy Sanctuary in Kraków, Poland. He had long been devoted to the
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Jesus is Risen: The Promise of Easter
Br. Malvino Alfonso OCD – Every year, millions around the world gather to celebrate Easter Sunday, the most important feast in the Christian calendar. For
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The Tomb Is Empty and That Is Not Nothing
My grandfather kept a small wooden cross above his bed his entire adult life. When he died, we found a note tucked behind it that
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Maundy Thursday: More Than a Meal, A Message of Love and Service
Br. Malvino Alfonso OCD – Holy Thursday, also known as Maundy Thursday, marks the beginning of the most sacred days in the Church—the Easter Triduum.
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Seeing Leonardo’s Last Supper in Milan
Fr. M. Titus Mohan – “The spiritual life is perhaps nothing other than the material life carried out with care, calm and fullness: when the
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Why Is It Called Holy Week?
Fr. M. Titus Mohan – Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday and moves toward the silence of the tomb, before opening into the joy of
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Understanding The 14 Stations of The Cross
Dr Marianne Furtado de Nazareth – The Way of the Cross is one devotion which seems to come alive for me during Lent. It is
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Christ’s Family Teaches Us to Serve
Dr. John Singarayar SVD – Last month, a young nun confessed something that made her formator pause. “Sometimes I wonder if choosing religious life means
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Going Within Before Going Out – Exaltation of the Cross
By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Looked at from a purely secular and historical perspective, the Cross would not be considered an object to be exalted
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Does God Have a Sense of Humour?
By Lavoisier Fernandes – As a millennial, God was never humorous for the majority of my life. Before he revealed something really remarkable to me
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The Profession of Faith: ‘The Incredulity of St. Thomas’ by Caravaggio
By Joynel Fernandes – On the evening of the first day of the Resurrection, Christ appeared to His apostles and bestowed upon them the gift
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Bear Witness to the Lord Jesus
Most Rev Prakash Mallavarapu Archbishop of Visakhapatnam Looking at “The Crucified and Risen Christ”…. Besides the accounts of the event of the Resurrection of Christ,
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Faith and Art: Christ Healing the Mother of Simon Peter’s Wife
By Joynel Fernandes – Balance, elegance, harmony, symmetry of composition, flatness of paint….these are probably the ad hoc adjectives to describe the painting in consideration.
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