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All are called to holiness
Jan 26, 2025
The call to holiness is universal, but the call is varied. The call can be lived as a single person, married and raising families, consecrated life as religious brothers or sisters, or priestly life. Each role contributes to the building of the Church and society.
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Life and the sin against the Holy Spirit
Jan 26, 2025
There is nothing as psychologically and morally dangerous as lying, as denying the truth. Jesus warns us that we can commit a sin that is unforgivable which (in his words) is a blaspheme against the Holy Spirit.
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Catechetical formation of candidates for Holy Orders
Jan 17, 2025
Catechetics is the systematic study of the history, nature, goals, principles and process of catechetics.
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I thank God for giving me a mission
Jan 17, 2025
From the historic town of Malacca, Sr Margarete Sta Maria has dedicated her life to the Canossian Sisters, inspired by the selfless lives of St Magdalene of Canossa and St Josephine Bakhita, who left behind a legacy of nuns and priests in Italy, dedicated to serving the poor, opening charity schools for children, evangelising the Gospel, and caring for the sick.
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Why Christian Unity?
Jan 17, 2025
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (WPCU) is an ecumenical Christian observance that is celebrated worldwide. This year, the World Council of Churches (WCC) together with the Catholic Church’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU) has set January 18-25 2025 and has chosen the theme Do you believe this? (John 11:26).
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The silent wife
Jan 17, 2025
To be fair, the congregation at the wedding, including the bride and groom, had no issues with the reading, (aunties and uncles were probably even proud), so this is just the rant of a wayward Catholic woman!
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Coming to peace with our lack of recognition
Jan 17, 2025
We crave few things as deeply as self-expression and recognition. We have an irrepressible need to express ourselves, be known, recognised, understood, and seen by others as unique, gifted, and significant
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May 2025 be a year in which peace flourishes!
Jan 17, 2025
In these early days of the new year, many of us are probably feeling a mixture of anxiety and hope – anxious about the many crises in our nation and world, yet hopeful that 2025 will be better.
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Christ’s baptism illuminates the path to eternal life
Jan 10, 2025
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Sr Shanti Mariadass, FdCC
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Hope, by way of gratitude in the Spirit
Jan 10, 2025
St Paul, in his letter to the Philippians, begins with a “song of thanksgiving.” He states, “I give thanks to my God at every remembrance of you, praying always with joy in every prayer for all of you, because of your partnership for the Gospel from the first day until now.”



Sunday Reflection
Trusting in God: The key to true prosperity
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Philip Tay, OCD
