May the Lord give you peace.  It is 15th January 2024.  We reflect on 1 Samuel 15:16-23; and Mark 2:18-22. Obedience is not a skill to be learnt but it is the virtue to be acquired by unwavering humility. Even if the reason proves the other way, yet we go by the self-surrendering spirit to […]

It is 14th January 2024.  We celebrate the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. We reflect on 1 Samuel 3:3-10, 19; 1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20; and John 1:35-42. A pastor who had financial difficulty running the parish on Sunday Mass gave an announcement before the offertory, “I would like to request all of you that anyone […]

It is 12th January 2024.   We reflect on 1 Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19, 10:1 and the Gospel from Mark 2:13-17. We all are called by God to lead others and to be led by Jesus to God. Some of us are chosen to lead in a high level of responsibility while others are called to inspire […]

May the Lord bless with peace, grace, and good health in the Holy Spirit. It is 12th January 2024.  We reflect on 1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22; and the Gospel from Mark 2:1-12. Rejecting theocracy and embracing democracy.  The people of Israel demanded God to allow them to be ruled by their kind and a tangible […]

May the Lord give you peace and health.  It is 09th January 2024.  We reflect on 1 Samuel 1:9-20 and the Gospel from Mark 1:21-28. The manure and medicine for the soul is a regular prayer to God who cares and provides.  Whatever we do without prayer questions its authenticity. Prayer however perceived as the […]

May the Lord give you peace and health.  It is 08th January 2024.  We celebrate the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.  The Christmas Season concludes with this celebration. “You are my beloved; in you I am well pleased” (Mk 1,11).  Baptism is not a ticket to the Heaven.  It is through the baptism […]

May the Lord give you peace and health.  It is 05th January 2016. “To lose Patience is to lose the battle,” reminds Mahatma Gandhi. “Do you believe?” (Jn.1:50).  Affirmation is the answer in us.  But without genuine love in people and nature, we cannot believe in God and Christ.  Our conscience is constantly sedated by […]

It is on 04th January 2024.  We reflect on 1 John 3:7-10 and John 1:35-42. Have you encountered the Messiah?  What do we want from Jesus? In the encyclical, Deus Caritas est, to the love of God, Pope Benedict XVI describes what it means to be a Christian.  “Being Christian is not the result of […]

May the Lord give you peace and health.  It is 03rd January 2024.  We celebrate the memorial of Holy name of Jesus.  We reflect on 1 John 2:29 – 3:6 and John 1:29-34. “At the name of Jesus every knee should bow.” (Phil.2:10).  To bear witness is to live in holiness.  Without leaving sins, there […]

May the Lord bless with His Peace and Blessings.  It is 02nd January 2024.  We celebrate the memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, bishops, Doctors of the Church.  St. Basil is hailed as “a luminary of the Church” while St. Gregory, the Theologian for their remarkable contribution.  The contributions of St. Basil […]