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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.

  
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  Readying my heart to see Him face to face

  Dec 21, 2024

  Advent, which began so coincidentally on December 1 this year, lasts until Christmas Eve, and is a season dedicated to preparing our hearts and minds for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

  
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  From saints to celebrities: our evolution in admiration and imitation

  Dec 21, 2024

  When I was a young boy growing up in a Catholic community, the catechesis of the time tried to inspire the hearts of the young with stories of martyrs, saints, and other people who lived out high ideals in terms of virtue and faith

  
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  We become heralds of Christ’s coming

  Dec 13, 2024

  Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Philip Tay, OCD