It is 22nd January 2018. The readings are from 2 Samuel 5:1-7, 10; and the Gospel from Mark 3:22-30. Unity without love does not last long. Unity cannot be forced. As long as God is the spiritual connection and the meaning for the togetherness, the unity proposed does not hold good. Unity among people proposed […]

It is 21st January 2018. We celebrate the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. The readings are from Jonah 3:1-5, 10; the second reading is from 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; and the Gospel from Mark 1:14-20. Repentance alters the judgement and sentence of God. Our penance renovates the soul and demolishes the perverse manners and behaviors. Sincere […]

It is 19th January 2018. The readings are from 1 Samuel 24:3-21; and the Gospel from Mark 3:13-19. God calls us to do good to all people especially for those who have vowed to harm us. We are called to lead others towards good not the evil. Our vocation is from God as a gift […]

It is 18th January 2018. The readings are from 1 Samuel 18:6-9, 19:1-7; and the Gospel from Mark 3:7-12. Jealousy spills the fear of abandonment to rage and humiliation. Jealousy strikes all gender equally when imminent threat to one’s status, relationship and involves another person as a rival. When a valuable and admired relationship is […]

It is 17th January 2018. We celebrate the memorial of St Antony, Abbot. The readings are from 1 Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51; and the Gospel from Mark 3:1-6. When God is in our lives, there is no more fear of any amount of Goliath. God offers most of the times a very little resource that […]

It is 16th January 2018. The readings are from 1 Samuel 16:1-13; and the Gospel from Mark 2:23-28. God’s standard for choosing leaders is not like that of ours. In the first reading, having rejected the first king for his failure in obeying the voice of God, now, God is looking for a leader. God’s […]

It is 15th January 2018. The readings are from 1 Samuel 15:16-23; and the Gospel from 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 the higher […]

It is 14th January 2018. We celebrate the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. The readings are from 1 Samuel 3:3-10, 19; the second reading is from 1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20; and the Gospel is from John 1:35-42. A vocation is not for an avocation that provides the means of material gains rather for a vibrant […]

It is 12th January 2018. The readings are from 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 human person. Even though God reprimanded the people through the Prophet about the […]

It is 9th January 2018. The readings are from 1Samuel 1:9-20; and the Gospel from Mark 1:21-28. Our Christian live needs to be built and cemented by prayer, penance, regular examination of conscience and generous charitable actions. In the first reading we reflect about Hannah who dealt with her social stigma of being barren through […]