By Shirin Durban: From grade 6, I went to school in a school bus and came back home in it too. Going in a school bus was more exciting than school in many ways because we got to talk! In school, we were not allowed to talk much and everyContinue Reading
By Gilbert Choondal Kolkata: Easter Triduum begins with Maundy Thursday and ends with Easter. Eucharist is the main theme that runs through all these three days. We begin the Day-One with the Institution of Eucharist, Day-Two with the real sacrifice of the Lord (Qurbana), and finally Day-Three culminating the fullContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: A season of grace, Lent, has called us to a new life of Easter as we journey through it day by day, through fast and abstinence, and acts of good works. A little incident sharpened my awareness of the redeeming grace of God and his unconditionalContinue Reading
By P. A. Chacko Sahibganj: As the palm-fringed ‘God’s own Country,’ Kerala, is swaying with high speed winds unleashed by the electoral tsunami, beggars and crawlers are making a beeline in dramatic fashion. The hopeful, near hopefuls and the desperados are begging kingmaker voters for a pittance of their votes.Continue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: Readers would want to pack me off to the loony bin. Here we are in the middle of Holy Week and I am dreaming of Christmas! Am I nuts? There is a famous book, “Nine days to Christmas” by Aurora Labastida and Marie Hall Ets, published inContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore: Attacks on church institutions and harassment of Christian priests and nuns have become a routine affair now. The latest incident was on March 17 against two nuns travelling with young postulants in a train from New Delhi to Odisha. The nuns were in their traditional religiousContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur: This is being written on the first anniversary of another of those dramatic announcements by the pseudo sage on the stage. It was on this day last year that he did another “surgical strike” on the public, on the lines of notebandi and GST. All for dramaticContinue Reading
By Varghese Alengaden Indore: Celebrations of birthdays of persons, foundation days of institutions and jubilees of different types have become common in our society. Much money, time and energy are wasted for exhibiting pomp and show by persons and institutions. Often people count the years of mere existence instead ofContinue Reading
By Lissy Maruthanakuzhy Panaji: Quick decision, desire to help another, ready to dare, selflessness are some of the thoughts that run across my mind when I read the story of the little Hebrew girl and Naaman, the official (2 Kings 5:1-19) She was brought as a slave in the houseContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A Jesuit priest says the way Muslims celebrate the month of Ramzan helps him grow in God-consciousness as a Christian. The month of Ramzan falls in April this year “I consciously use the word ‘celebrate’ because I have personally experienced and seen Muslim friends—sistersContinue Reading