Columns
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My top ten books for 2024
Jan 10, 2025
Full disclosure, I don’t read enough. A busy, pressured life affords me only small windows of time to read anything not directly related to my ministry.
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Why the Mass isn’t meant to entertain
Jan 10, 2025
The Mass isn’t a show, a concert, or a motivational seminar. It’s something far more profound: an act of worship.
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For the right to an education: Reimagining the Church’s mission
Jan 03, 2025
Pope’s prayer intention for January
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Change and discernment
Jan 03, 2025
Amazing things can happen when we stop looking to self-comfort, and search instead for ways to be the comforter.
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Allow us time to grieve
Jan 03, 2025
Losing a parent is never easy, no matter how prepared one can be.
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Christ’s birth in Bethlehem – soothing or disturbing?
Jan 03, 2025
We see this today (and this will constitute a judgment on our generation) in the reluctance, almost all over the world, to welcome new immigrants, to make room for them at the inn. If Christ is in the poor, in the stranger, and the Gospels assure us that he is, then Christ is surely in the immigrant
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High hopes for the Jubilee!
Jan 03, 2025
The Jubilee Year 2025 is upon us and we journey on as Pilgrims of Hope, celebrating the 2,025th anniversary of the Incarnation of our Lord. We are invited to have hope amidst situations of war, economic uncertainty and poverty because it is God who has put that hope into our lives through faith.
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Embracing Love: Lessons from the Visitation
Dec 21, 2024
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Bro Gabriel Puvan
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My wish list if I were to have Dementia
Dec 21, 2024
Melody has cerebral palsy, a condition that makes simple things like eating, moving and even talking extremely difficult.
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Silent Night, all is calm? But a genocide is taking place now
Dec 21, 2024
This hamlet, in occupied Palestinian territory today, where Jesus was believed to have been born, is overshadowed by an illegal “security wall” built by the Zionist regime.



Sunday Reflection
Jesus calls us to be courageous and embrace risks
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Andrew Kooi
