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Rudolph: The Beloved Reindeer

December 19, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

Fr Hedwig Lewis SJ – The popular song at Christmastide, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer seems to have always been an essential part of our season’s

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I’m Waiting for Two Babies This Advent!

December 18, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr Joshan Rodrigues – Every Advent season, we are reminded that it is a season of ‘waiting’, of hopeful anticipation of the coming of

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Coming To Christmas!

December 15, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Jacqueline Colaco – Advent, which commenced on 3rd December this year is significant in the calendar year of the Church as it continues to

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Are You Going to A Christmas Dance?

December 14, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Susanna D – First of all, I would like to go on record to say that I have no objection to fun. Nor do

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Girl, You’re Courageous!

December 14, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Venita D’Souza In a world where “Actions speak louder than words”, I want to be “The pen that’s mightier than the sword”. Welcome to 2017 where

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Digitally Ours: Pastoral Guidelines for a Christian Community

December 13, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr Renold Pascal, SSP – I was amused to read an interesting piece of news, recently, where there was a ‘tooth and nail’ brawl

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Cleanse Your Heart for This Advent Season

December 8, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Domnic Emmanuel Ablutions and bodily bath are absolutely necessary before one begins one’s prayers or worship, be it for the pujari (priest) or

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The Real Meaning of Christmas

December 7, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Marianne Furtado de Nazareth — It’s that time of year again. December has come and with it all the joys of Christmas. The malls

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Christmas: Pieces or Peace?

December 6, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Leon Bent — Christmas is round the corner. I asked the Lord, give me a dream, a theme! And, lo and behold, peace versus

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Word of God; Our Eternal Food! Spiritual Quest of a Clinician

December 6, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture, Healthcare

By Dr Job Cyriac — “But he answered and said, it is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that

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Striving to be the Rule: Ethics for Wedding Guests

December 5, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr Warner D’Souza — The Bible is filled with analogies and parables relating to weddings. Yahweh was the bridegroom to His people Israel, in

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Time to Say Thank You Lord

December 3, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Most Rev. Lumen Monteiro, CSC, D.D, Bishop of Agartala — What  does  one  do  18  times  a  minute, 1800 times an hour and 25,920

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Of Things Past, Passing and Yet to Come

December 3, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

Fr. J. Pulinthanath, SDB — There is something puzzling about the speed with which December always comes, bringing with it tad regret and surprise. Surprise

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Avoiding Eye Contact and Other Ways to Kill Your Soul

November 30, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Susanna D – Are you a good person? Yeah, me too. I’m basically a good person. Aren’t we all? Most people think of themselves

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It’s Time to Bell the Cat – Revisiting Human Traditions

November 28, 2017 Team ICM Catholic Culture

By Fr. Warner D’Souza – My dear friend, the late Fr Larry Pereira always said that religion is like a river; at its source it

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