Every year is different, however 2020 will be a year to remember for all of us. Due to the pandemic COVID-19, Eucharistic celebrations that are opened to the public have been cancelled and the churches have been closed since April. We are not able to celebrate the Eucharistic Celebration physically together as a congregation and pray with the Lord in [...]
In the Creation narrative found in Genesis 1: 1-2, we read, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters." The story of Creation presents eternal truths about God and [...]
“When Jesus was baptised, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him.” (Matthew 3:16) “There appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the holy Spirit and [...]
It is a myth and a fallacy to assume that there exists a perfect Christian community. The early Church faced as well its own set of challenges inter-community, intra-community – within and from external forces. For example we see in Acts 15: 37 – 40, that Barnabas wanted to take with them John Mark, but Paul disagreed with his [...]
A recent outrage swept over the globe as the news of a Minnesota policeman murdering George Floyd, an African American whose neck was pinned under his knee came into light via social media platforms. The victim was seen pleading for air as the police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for over 9 minutes. Of controversy was how [...]
Timothy P. O’Malley in his review of Stephen Bullivant’s Mass Exodus, which examines the phenomenon of the mass exodus of Catholics out of the Catholic Church in the United States of America and the United Kingdoms, states that “Disaffiliation is rarely a single moment in the life of a Catholic. Instead, it is a process in which one no [...]
Image source and credit: Dubai SIM Cards Internet, https://dubaisims.com/internet/ Many years ago, before the advent of the Internet and of social media platforms, I kept a snail-mail correspondence with a number of pen-pals that I had known through pen-pal forums in magazines. There was a certain romantic idea of keeping a far-reaching correspondence and receiving letters in the post. [...]
“Stretching out his hand toward his disciples, Jesus said, ‘Here are my mother, and my brethren! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother.” (Matthew 12:49-50) “God said, ‘I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord [...]
“Through Him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord; in Him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” Ephesians 2: 21-22 For a long time, the Church and its members have existed in silo – each person going about doing their own thing. While [...]
When the soldiers came to arrest Jesus at the Garden of Gethsemane, we read that the disciples were so filled with fear that “they all left him and fled” (Mark 14:50). This was not an ordinary fear that the disciples experienced, but the fear which was intense to the point of even a young man tearing himself out of the [...]