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Month: March 2020

COVID-19: Vatican Grants Special Indulgence to Patients and Caretakers

March 21, 2020 Team ICM COVID-19, News

By Verghese V Joseph – Vatican: The Apostolic Penitentiary in Rome on Friday issued a decree granting the gift of special indulgences to the faithful

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COVID-19: Church Bells Across India to Peal on March 22

March 20, 2020 Team ICM COVID-19, News

By Verghese V Joseph – Expressing solidarity with the nation that is combating the challenges of COVID-19, churches across India will peal their bells on

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Open your Heart With Humility

March 20, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Vimal Kumar, CSC – Readings: Hos 6: 1-6; Lk 18: 9-14 Today’s readings invite us to meditate on the theme of humility and profound

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Joseph’s ‘Yes’ Banking on God

March 19, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Fr Francis Gonsalves, SJ Thirty-plus Nishant was so shy that, after ten years of courtship, his fiancée Nisha felt he was never going to

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Replace Violence and Injustice With Love

March 19, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Jijo Philip, CSC – Readings: Hos 14:2-10; Mk 12:28-34 The readings of the day present to us the greatest commandment of God: the love

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COVID-19: Biblical Rules for a Disciplined Society

March 19, 2020 Team ICM COVID-19, Healthcare

By Dr. Marianne Furtado de Nazareth – The world has been hit by COVID-19 and the state of Karnataka and India at large has come

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Churches Across India Further Tighten Norms Against Corona Threat

March 19, 2020 Team ICM News

By Verghese V Joseph – With Covid-19 cases showing no signs of abating, and in keeping with the government directives, Catholic churches across India have

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Journey Through Lent with the Our Father

March 18, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Our Father, Who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy Name To call God “Father” is to declare and profess that we

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St Joseph – God Spoke to Him Through Dreams

March 18, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – Blessed John Paul II’s Apostolic Exhortation of 1989, Redemptoris Custos (Guardian of the Redeemer), teaches us that Joseph’s “fatherhood is expressed

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Face Uncertainties of Life With Faith

March 18, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Friny Peter Ruwnglal, CSC – Readings: 2Sam 7: 4-5, 12-14, 16; Rom 4: 13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1: 16, 18-21, 24 Dreams do come

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Belagavi: Lenten Programme at Nangad Cross Cancelled

March 17, 2020 Team ICM News

By Louis Rodrigues – Belagavi: While stringent measures are being initiated in order to prevent the onset of the dreaded corona virus across the nation,

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Gain Confidence in Faith

March 17, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Nibin K Cyriac, CSC – Readings: Deut 4:1, 5-9; Mt 5:17-19 Laws and rules bring order to the life of a person. Everything in

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Untimely Death of 2 Priests With Strong Connection With Belgaum Diocese

March 17, 2020 Team ICM News

By Louis Rodrigues – Belagavi: Untimely death of two priests having strong connection to the Diocese of Belagavi Rev Fr Arun D’souza (32) and Rev

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Reflect on Forgiveness

March 16, 2020 Team ICM Reflections

By Akhsi Wary, CSC – Readings: Dan 3:25, 34-43; Mt 18:21-35 The message we get from the Gospel reading is forgiveness. Forgiveness is one of

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Pope Prays for People Who are Isolated Due to Corona Threat

March 15, 2020 Team ICM News

Vatican: At 12 noon on Sunday, the Holy Father Francis led the recitation of the Angelus prayer from the Library of the Vatican Apostolic Palace.

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