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  • Hearing the cry of the earth: A call to radical response

    Aug 30, 2024

    Pope’s prayer intention for September

  • 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