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  • Praying or saying prayers

    Aug 30, 2024

    Prayer is like falling in love with God. For those new to prayer, there is a tendency to talk more. We spend most of our time saying prayers, reciting prayers, reading from prayer books.

  • Finding courage in adversity with faith as the guiding light

    Aug 30, 2024

    Deuteronomy 31:8 - The LORD himself will lead you and be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you, so do not lose courage or be afraid.

  • Celibacy — what’s to be said

    Aug 30, 2024

    Celibacy does consign one to live in a loneliness that God himself condemned, but it is also the loneliness within which Jesus gave himself over to us in a death that is perhaps the most generative expression of love in human history.

  • Saving Mother Earth … and ourselves!

    Aug 30, 2024

    The Season of Creation is upon us! Each year from September 1 to October 4, Christians unite for this worldwide ecumenical celebration of prayer and action to protect our common home.

  • The Simple Life

    Aug 30, 2024

    Created by Dr Steven Selvaraju, this is a comic strip that wishes to tell simple stories of life and faith.

  • Lord, to whom shall we go?

    Aug 23, 2024

    Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Sr Shanti Mariadass FdCC

  • What makes us human?

    Aug 23, 2024

    Dementia forces us to make a choice. Confronted with someone who perceives the world differently than us, who cannot conceptualise a range of options or contribute to the productivity of material society, we are forced to decide whether we will accept them as a person or not.

  • In the name of God?

    Aug 23, 2024

    God so loved the world that he sent Jesus to redeem it. He loved the world - everyone, everything in it.

  • Living on borrowed time

    Aug 23, 2024

    Living on borrowed time

  • Loving your own church and your neighbour’s church as well

    Aug 23, 2024

    It’s time to move beyond five hundred years of misunderstanding and embrace each other again as fellow pilgrims, struggling together on a common journey.