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Agere Contra: Conquering our Fears

December 4, 2024 Team ICM Features

Tom Thomas – With the Advent Season underway now, the line up towards the Christmas season has begun. The stores start to wear the festive

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Ahead of 2024 Elections, Catholic Church to Observe Friday as ‘National Day of Fasting and Prayer’

March 19, 2024 Team ICM News

Verghese V Joseph – In a move reflecting both spiritual fervour and civic duty, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) has designated Friday, March

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Making a Difference: A Resolution Worth Keeping!

January 11, 2024 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Tony Magliano Whether you’ve made a dozen resolutions or none at all, here’s one that will make 2024 the best year of your life:

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The Tiny Bits

April 21, 2023 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Tom Thomas – It’s all in little tiny bits here and there; at home and in the office; and in the memory lane of

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The Circle of Life

April 3, 2023 Team ICM Family

By Tom Thomas – “It’s the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, ’till we find

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The Light is On for You

March 12, 2023 Team ICM Catholic Culture

Tom Thomas – “Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. .

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Lent a Season for Repentance, Renewal and Reliving in Christ

February 19, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Vivek Lionel Basu – In the annual liturgical cycle of the Church, two long periods of Lent and Easter play an important role

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Prayer: An Act of Total Surrender to God

June 27, 2022 Team ICM Features

Sr Lini Sheeja MSC – “Any proposal for your son?” last month I asked a mother who was waiting for a proposal for her son

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10 Traits & Tips on Eucharist:  An Inner Journey during the Holy Week

April 10, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Fr. Gilbert Choondal, SDB – Easter Triduum begins with Maundy Thursday and ends with Easter. Eucharist is the main theme that runs through all

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The Significance of Psalms 22: My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?

April 7, 2022 Team ICM Features

By Tom Thomas – “If the psalm prays, you pray; if it laments, you lament; if it exults, you rejoice; if it hopes, you hope;

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Priesthood

The Exorcist Heard:  “Break the Pride of  This Demon by …”

April 4, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Paul Suski – “Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the LORD, because he had threatened to destroy you.” (Deuteronomy

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Lessons from the Garden

April 3, 2022 Team ICM Features

By Tom Thomas – Prayer is one of the three pillars of Lent.  However, it is not only during Lent that we are exhorted to pray

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Every Saint has a Past and the Sinner a Future!

March 23, 2022 Team ICM Features

By Sr Lini Sheeja MSC Many poverty-stricken children leave home in search of good fortune and end up in prisons after committing a series of

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Two Years Ago, Pope Francis Led a Solitary Mystical Pandemic Lenten Prayer Service

March 18, 2022 Team ICM Features

By Tony Magliano – On a rainy Rome evening, two Lents ago, a solitary elderly man in white, climbed the numerous steps leading to the

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Marriage is All About Celebrating Differences

April 14, 2021 Team ICM Family

By Jennifer and Chris D’Souza – Let’s ask you a question – did God put you and your spouse together? First take a few moments

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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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