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  • Ageing as a natural monastery

    Mar 15, 2024

    The process of aging is a natural monastery. If we live long enough, eventually the aging process turns everyone into a monk. Monks take four vows: poverty, chastity, obedience, and perseverance.

  • Embracing Divine Mercy: A call to transformation

    Mar 10, 2024

    Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr George Vaithynathan

  • The God of second chances

    Mar 10, 2024

    Insanity, says Albert Einstein, is repeating the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. That is why this Lent is going to be just another failed diet for many.

  • Repentance and change

    Mar 10, 2024

    The challenge of maintaining change

  • Reindeer games

    Mar 10, 2024

    Admittedly, you do see hatred and violence even within these crowds because, a crowd by the very fact that it is a crowd, will invariably have its rogue elements.

  • True worship is everywhere

    Mar 01, 2024

    Today’s Gospel indicates what true religion is all about for Jesus. In the temple Jesus finds a new form of oppression of God’s people, especially the poor. For the Jews, going up to Jerusalem to the Temple, was the high point of their religion.

  • For the new martyrs

    Mar 01, 2024

    Pope’s prayer intention for March

  • Doing God’s work or working for God?

    Mar 01, 2024

    Doing God’s work requires us to be prayerful and submissive to God’s calling. It is not about doing what we like or doing our best within our skills or knowledge, but trust in God always.

  • Try something different this Lent

    Mar 01, 2024

    Philippians 2:3-4 - “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility, value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.”

  • After the bloom has left the rose

    Mar 01, 2024

    The classical mystic John of the Cross saw things differently. For him, the deepest center of anything is the furthest point attainable by that object’s being and power and force of operation and movement.