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  The grim world Jesus was born into

  Dec 17, 2021

  It’s been a tough year, and we have been through a lot in our households and in our churches, and also as a nation.

  
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  A Christmas miracle – when enemies became brothers

  Dec 17, 2021

  As the first Christmas of World War I approached, Pope Benedict XV on Dec. 7, 1914, asked the leaders of all warring governments to agree to an official ceasefire. He begged "that the guns may fall silent at least upon the night the angels sang."

  
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  Listening to our souls …

  Dec 17, 2021

  Today we are witnessing a trivialization of soul within the culture. Few things are sublime anymore, meaning few things are soulful anymore.

  
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  Wednesdays with Pope Francis: Catechesis on the Letter to the Galatians: Foolish Galatians

  Dec 17, 2021

  They are foolish because they are unaware that the danger is that of losing the valuable treasure, the beauty, of the newness of Christ.

  
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  Young people, stand up and bear witness!

  Dec 17, 2021

  “Stand up, I appoint you as a witness of what you have seen!” was the theme for the 36th Diocesan World Youth Day (WYD), celebrated all over the world on the Solemnity of Christ the King, November 21, 2021.

  
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  Listening to the Shepherd

  Dec 17, 2021

  Having listened to the Word of God, participants were invited to listen to their local church community and leaders with the MJDYPD Assembly the next morning, November 20.

  
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  Be leaders with the heart of Christ

  Dec 17, 2021

  Fifty young people from the parishes of South Johore participated physically in the Eucharistic Celebration to conclude the Malacca Johore Diocese Young People Day (MJDYPD) November 21 at Majodi Centre.

  
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  Philippine archbishop dies in Mindanao

  Dec 17, 2021

  Catholics in the Philippines are mourning Archbishop Romulo de la Cruz of Zamboanga, who died after a long illness. He was 74.

  
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  Former HERALD staff passes away

  Dec 17, 2021

  Edwin Asa Ngau Eng, a former staff of the HERALD passed away on Thursday, December 16 at Sg Buloh Hospital.

  
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  'Give' to famished Afghanis this Christmas

  Dec 17, 2021

  The official aid agency of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has joined forces with the Disasters Emergency Committee to send aid to Afghanistan, where over 8 million people are on the brink of famine, and where over the next three months over one million children under the age of five risk dying.