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Paschal Mystery and Discipleship…

April 5, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Most Rev Prakash Mallavarapu, Archbishop of Visakhapatnam – We will be celebrating in this month the Paschal Triduum and Easter. It is the celebration

Role of Prison Ministry Amidst COVID-19 Outbreak

April 1, 2020 Team ICM COVID-19, Features

By Bishop Most Rev Allwyn D’Silva, PMI Chairman – Corona outbreak devastates humanity. Mankind undergoes an unparalleled crisis. COVID-19 epidemic paralyzed most of the countries

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

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

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

Lent is a Season for Blessing

March 8, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Larissa D’Souza – One night, at 11:30 p.m., an older woman was standing on the side of a highway trying to endure a lashing

Types and Symbols of Lent

March 6, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Leon Bent – “Bestir thyself, Lord…and awake; do not banish us from thy presence forever…prostrate, we cannot lift ourselves from the ground. Arise, Lord,

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

The Gospel as Revealed to Italian Catholic Mystic Maria Valtorta

February 27, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Nishant Xavier – Italian Catholic anti-modernist writer Antonio Socci tells us, “Well, if it is true that all would have desired to have been

The Best Revenge is Achieving Massive Success

February 23, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Dr. Marianne Furtado de Nazareth As a child one tends to get pleasure in revenge, if someone has irritated you or demeaned you. School

Mondays with Mary: Our Lady of Bandra

February 23, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Tom Perna – After a few weeks off, I turn our attention to the second National Marian Shrine in the country of India –

Prayer Does Not Change God, But it Changes Him Who Prays

February 21, 2020 Team ICM Features

By Larissa D’Souza – The prayer of the righteous man is powerful and effective. Our prayers are answered sometimes without realizing. If the only prayer