A deeper look at confession — One of the most important activity for priests is to hear the confessions. Lenten season is also the time, people would like to go for this sacrament. I had 3 days of confessions in our parish, extending for around 5 hours each day. Except for a little back pain towards…

Process nature of miracles.. — The question was asked by Jesus to a person who was suffering from paralysis for 38 years. He was lying near a pool, which was stirred once in a while (we don’t know the frequency of the stirring event) and the first person who entered the pool was healed…

Next to door saint — Joseph, the husband of Mary and the foster-father of Jesus is one of the most interesting characters in the Bible. Nothing much is known about him; even when his name is mentioned, its just mentioned in passing many a times. He decided to marry a young girl named Mary. But…

Are they really worth it?? — In the contemporary world of media, social media and AI, its good to check whether ordinary or regular or monotonous is so-often forgotten and has given its way to the extra-ordinary or wonderful or amusing. I don't find any thing wrong with either of these categories. But life is always…

A help for Peace or Disaster — A magician turned his son (by the pronouncement of his magical mantra) to a bird. The magician had a sudden death, and boy turned bird was in a dilemma. How he will become a human being again or will the birds atleast will accept him as one of their own…

Yes, the love of the prodigal father is Christianity. — As part of this initiative, I read my favourite parable, which is also a parable to which I often get in my homilies. I think i have written atleast two or three times about the same. Links are there at the end of the articles.

A spring time of life. — Two words that are etymologically connected to Lent are spring and forty. Lent is considered the spring-time of spiritual life, where we prepare to produce better fruits and flowers. It’s very much inscribed in the tradition of events that had forty in the Bible — 40 years in the desert…

Forgiveness is an answer — Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? What does this question of Paul tell each one of us? I am the temple of God, and everyone around me, friend or enemy, is also a temple of…

Translation from Malayalam — In the olden days, if I get a beating from the teacher, I shake my hand, wipe on my trouser and take the next one. I am very particular of cleanliness. All my teachers did the teaching in a standing position… Why?? Because of their respect to me and my…