In my younger days, I tried keeping pets with some disastrous and hilarious results. My Betta fighting fish lost the brilliant blue colour it had to turn a dull brown, and my goldfish spent their time trying to jump out of the receptacle they were held in. I did keep terrapins for a longer duration, but eventually released them into [...]
The Solemnity of Corpus Christi is celebrated in the Latin Church on the Thursday after Holy Trinity Sunday. It is transferred to the subsequent Sunday in some dioceses. Celebrating the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, this feast (all solemnities are feasts) honours Jesus as our Eucharistic Lord and proclaims the truth that Jesus is truly, really, substantially, and [...]
As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Holy Body and Blood of Christ, we are called to remember that the Catechism of the Catholic Church, states that, the Eucharist is “the source and summit” of the Christian life. This an echo of the document Sacrosanctum Concilium promulgated in 1963. The Eucharist is the summit of our Christian life, a sacrament [...]
There is an oft told medieval tale that speaks of how St. Augustine as he was writing his treatise about the Holy Trinity, was walking along the beach when he encountered a little boy trying to fill a hole that was found in the sand. The boy kept running back and forth from the ocean, and each time he did, [...]
The dogma of the Holy Trinity is a central teaching tenet and pillar to the Catholic Faith – embedded in this teaching is the truth and mystery, is that God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit, are three distinct persons, but one God. God the Father is God, Jesus the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is [...]
While many of us are familiar with the liturgical readings for the celebration of Pentecost Day – The First Reading: Acts 2: 1-11 when the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles and they began speaking in foreign languages, the Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:3-7,12-13 where St. Paul tells us that while we are many parts, we are one body, and [...]
There is a tendency to compartmentalise the lives that we lead in Church and the life that we live outside of it. For us who do, we lead a kind of a double and disconnected life – on one hand, one that is interiorly aligned and connected to God – I attend the Eucharistic celebration every Sunday, I frequent the [...]
Suffering is something that everyone wants to avoid. No one intentionally wants to suffer for nothing. Why do you avoid suffering? Where there is deep love, there is less suffering and yet there is tremendous suffering as well. When a parent loves the child deeply, there is nothing the parent would not do for the child. If the child has [...]
The readings remind us that God is always with us and always caring for us, no matter where we are or our circumstances. The first reading tells of how Peter and John went from Jerusalem to Samaria to pray with the people there and call down the Holy Spirit on them. The psalm is our response to God’s loving care [...]
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (John 14: 15). A “commandment” refers to an order from an authority, and comes from the Old French word, commander – “to enjoin”, “to order”, and “to entrust” (Online Etymology Dictionary, n.d.). This entrustment has to come from someone who wields the supreme authority, who has, in military terms, a complete [...]
