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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.
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Embracing Divine Mercy: A call to transformation
Mar 10, 2024
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr George Vaithynathan
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
Sunday Reflection
Jesus did not turn away from His mission
Today, Palm or Passion Sunday, is the first day of Holy Week, the high point of the Church’s year, climaxing in the Easter Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.