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Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth — When we think of saints, all of us have our own favourites. Some might even think this or that person shouldn't have been canonised etc. Beyond that, two interesting notions are It is a great call, which is not within the reach of all. A call for all It's a…

A beautiful model of evangelization — (This article is written more in the form of a homily. The readings are…First Reading: Wisdom 11: 22–12: 2 Second Reading: Second Thessalonians 1: 11–2: 2 Gospel: Luke 19: 1–10) The second reading commences with an exhortation from Paul; We always pray for you, that our God may make you…

Thinking through images — I will write less and try to say the story through images. One of the idealized images of society is

Reflecting on the “ignorance” of St Jerome — This celebrated saying of Jerome, the one who did the Latin translation of the Bible in the 4th century, brings out the deep relation between the scriptures and the Christ. There are a few occasions in the gospel where Jesus asks the disciples, “have you not read so in the…

How they can be a help for a Christian understanding — The celebrated phrase of Rudolf Otto speaks about the divine who is a “wholly other” from us. This is a mystery which is tremendous and fascinating. Or it is a mystery that repels and attracts. It repels by its tremendous nature, or by its awe, wholly other nature etc. Divine…

To think beyond my prejudice — On the feast of Peter Claver — known as the slave of the slaves — a post on a social reality makes a lot of sense. For those uninitiated into the life of Peter Claver, he was a jesuit priest who left Spain to work as a missionary on the…

Two commandments — When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart…

But we should join his project with all our imperfections — Today’s gospel has an interesting parable with a complicated ending. The invited guests didn't turn up for the wedding feast; the master told the servants to invite people from the streets; but some of them were thrown out as they didn't have wedding garments. If we don’t understand the context…

May be the whole life of Jesus — Today is the feast of the transfiguration of the Lord; God who became man in incarnation, who did a kenosis (self-emptying of everything of his divinity) had a rare show of the divine nature. We also have the manifestation of the Holy Trinity in all these scenes. For me, the…