CHRISTMAS SANS CHRIST

One person whom the world  hates the most is Jesus Christ. Looks  a bit exaggerated? But it is true. Nations once   prided  in their Christian faith and  Christian way of life,...

WESTERN WALL, WAILING WALL

Once it was a magnificent temple. Solomon built it. After centuries Herode rebuilt it. So magnificent was the temple that  the disciples exclaimed about it;  ‘Look, Teacher, what...

DIVINE MERCY

We have been told umpteen times that the   mercy of our God is  infinite. And there is  nothing wrong in proclaiming  the fathomless mercy of  the Heavenly Father. It is  beyond ...

ARE YOU READY?

Are you ready ‘to stand before the Son of Man?’ (Lk 21:36). This is perhaps the only question  that is   relevant in the life of a Christian. If we are ready, our...

CELEBRATE CELIBACY

Why should  Catholic priests take a vow of celibacy? No other religion insists on priestly celibacy. Why should the Church intervene in a personal matter like celibacy? Though it is an age-old...

MATTER OF PERCEPTION

Who is Jesus?  Peter had already  answered this question on behalf of all  those  who were going to believe in Jesus. ‘You are the Messiah, the Son  of the  living God’ (Mt...

IT IS ABOUT THE TEMPLE

 ‘I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the Lord!” (Ps 122:1), says the Psalmist. David who once wrote that ‘it is zeal for your...

HOURS OF PASSION

What was the  real  suffering of  Jesus? Was it the time at  Gethsemane when his sweat became blood? Or  the betrayal by his  own disciple, or the  scourge and crown of thorns...

INNER HEALING

To have wounds is natural  and  time will heal them.  But wounds remaining  unhealed for a long time point to the  poor health of a person. Wounds  can happen  in all three...

Novena Prayer to Mary Assumed into Heaven

Novena Prayer to Mary Assumed into Heaven Mary, Queen Assumed into Heaven, I rejoice that after years of heroic martyrdom on Earth, you have at last been taken to...