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Tag:independence, individualism, prayerWe are a very small family of 2 children, wife and myself. One son is 14 and the other is 4. Since some time last year we made a practice to pray before meals that we have together. However, on weekdays the only meal we partake together is dinner. Even breakfast is consumed […]

Tag:coronation, coronation of Mary, heaven, princess diaries, saintsLast month, one of the cable channels screened “The Princess Diaries 2″. We watched it as a family and we throughly enjoyed the movie which we had watched when it was screened in the cinemas some years back.
One of the most memorable moments for me was towards the […]

Tag:God, St. Patrick, trinitySt. Patrick is well known as the patron saint of Ireland and there are annual celebrations of St. Patrick’s day in many countries where the Irish have settled. St. Patrick’s day revelry has become nothing more than wearing green and losing oneself in self-gratification. This is the familiar story of how the […]

Tag:lent, penance, relationshipI must admit that this Lent, I’ve not been fasting or sacrificing much on the material front. The readings of Saturday from Hos.6:1-6 and Lk. 18:9-14 made me see things from a different perspective though.
Here God very clearly states that he values improved relationships more than sacrifices. It made me reflect on how […]

Tag:christian, movies, surveyRobert Redford’s Sundance Films Festival appears to be a permissive and perversive environment for movies that test and extend the boundaries of chastity and decorum. Most recently “Zoo” has been receiving exalting reviews from the secular society.
We know too of the disdainful attitude of Hollywodd towards Christian theme movies. Most of us would […]

Tag:humility, lent, penanceOften we hear that during Lent we must surrender ourselves to God thus becoming humble. The operative word during Lent is humility, that helps us in enhancing our relationship with God via improvement of our relationships with other people, especially those we have hurt or who have hurt us.
This year humility seemed an […]

Tag:abortion, diagnosis, italyDoctors in Italy, had to perform an about turn and rescue a baby that they had just aborted because they made a mistake (nothing new here about any doctor in any country). During a prenatal check up a diagnostic test detected that the child in the womb had a malformed gastrointestinal tract and […]

Tag:catholic, church, hierarchyRecently Pope Benedict stated that the hierarchical nature of the Catholic Church was willed by God to ensure unity of faith. The biblical evidence for this is when Christ, after his resurrection, asked Peter if he loved the Lord. After the third and final resigned answer by Peter, Christ asks him to feed […]

Tag:father, prodigal, sonAren’t we all familiar with the story of the prodigal son from the Gospel of Luke 15:1-3, 11-32. We have read and heard this account so many times that some of us may be numbed to the lessons that this story teaches.
Lesson 1: Be Like the Prodigal Son. We are advised to develop […]

Tag:chosen, jews, peopleThe reading in Mt.21:33-43,45-46, makes me wonder if Jews are still the chosen people of God. For a long time, I’ve thought that when Jesus died on Good Friday and the Temple veil was torn in turn it ended the Old Covenant the Father had with the Jews and it was replaced with […]