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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Tag: Sacrifice
Making a Difference: The Fast That Pleases God
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
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
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
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
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
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’?
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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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