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Understanding Mass From a Laity Perspective

August 2, 2024 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Jacqueline Kelly – Mass is a mystery. It means that although every year we will grow to appreciate it’s meaning more and more, we

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Making a Difference: The Fast That Pleases God

February 15, 2024 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Tony Magliano – Are you wondering what to fast from this Lent – sweets, alcohol, or just simply eating less? This kind of fasting

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Corpus Christi: Sacrifice, Covenant, Banquet

June 9, 2023 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

Leon Bent – The Eucharist is a Person! The Cross is a Person! Christianity is a Person! The Kingdom of God is a Person! The

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Heeding to the Call

May 6, 2022 Team ICM Faith / Spirituality

By Tom Thomas – A voice broke through the silence on an early morning pre-dawn muggy summer day. I was walking into the Church for

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I Thought Love is Shaped Like a Heart; But Actually, Love is in the Shape of a Cross

April 14, 2022 Team ICM Features

By Sr Lini Sheeja MSC – The cross on which Jesus the Saviour of the world was hung was a cross of love. When the

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The Priesthood of Jesus Christ

March 14, 2022 Team ICM Biblical Studies

By Fr. Vivek Lionel Basu – Introduction: Generally mediated by the category of priesthood, the presence of numerous ministries emerged in the New Testament, whose

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Toolkit for Lent: Ten Ss for a Special Season

February 28, 2022 Team ICM Features

By Fr. Cedric Prakash, SJ – It is Lent once again: a very Special Season for Christians throughout the world. It is a time for

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What’s so ‘Good’ About ‘Good Friday’?

April 9, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Fr. Adolf Washington Oliver Cromwell, the 17th century, English military leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England,ordered a young soldier to

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A Psychology of Healing: A Season to Perfect Grace Through Sacrifice

March 1, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Abhishek Prasad – There’s a famous saying which goes like this – “There is always a moment in life where we have to make

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Parenting: Sure Path to Holiness

July 29, 2019 Team ICM Family

By Lorraine & Leon Bent The call to love is “the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being” (Familiaris Consortio) In the vocation of

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Pro-life Heroes: To Love is to Live

July 26, 2019 Team ICM Family

By Dr Jeanette Pinto – I taught Anoop Chakravarthy a spastic student, the subject of History at the undergraduate level at St. Xavier’s College Mumbai

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Experience the Salt of Life

June 10, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By Fr Adolf Washington – Can you imagine any food without even a pinch of salt? In the Indian cooking even the sweet payasam dessert

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Sharings on the Way of the Cross: From Prayers of Life by Michel Quoist

April 18, 2019 Team ICM Features

(Snippets to mull over on GOOD FRIDAY modified by Jacqueline Colaco) 1. Jesus you are condemned to death because you stood up for honesty, simplicity,

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There’s Reward in Self-Sacrifice

April 16, 2019 Team ICM Reflections

By Fr Adolf Washington In 1970, a team of American surveyors were on duty in the northern Virginia forests. At their lunch they suddenly heard

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Parables for Today: I Have No Address

April 4, 2018 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Joe Mannath SDB – I heard of him first from some seminarians who came around to collect money for his heart surgery, which,

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