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The Teacher is gone and there comes another! Jesus said unless he was gone the Paraclete won’t come.  He had to go and He had to come. There is no interruption, there is continuity and the teaching goes on and will go on! The Teacher and the Teacher are different but not really? The work of the One gone is continued […]

On the day of Ascension, taken up, Jesus disappeared in the Clouds. The disciples gazing up looked for him in the clouds and did not find Him. Maybe we still continue gazing into the clouds looking for him and nobody so far has, found him there. Before he departed Jesus told the disciples that he was going off, for a while, […]

Imagine a city with no hustle and bustle of a city Centre, no token needed for an appointment, no buses, cars or tramways, railways, airports, no theatre, no arena, no special recreation parks, no dining halls with cash counters, with no need to go to the grocery store, no worrying to keep the house clean and well maintained, no commuting to and […]

There are many houses in the world, millions, may be billions. Who can say how many homes are there?  Many or most people are in the houses; how many are at home? In the first reading today it seems the apostles Paul and Barnabas were in a marathon race to ‘establish homes’ in different towns and cities. There were many […]

This is known as the Good Shepherd Sunday. When Jesus speaks of ‘my sheep’ he definitely shows an entitlement, a sense of them being his own with a certainty of providing them with eternal life, assuring them an imperishable future, strengthening them firmly grabbing with his hand and holding them in his hand close to his chest, his heart, […]

Peter and company are taken through a process before being appointed shepherds to feed the lambs and sheep. First their sinking spirit is brought up. They were disappointed, desperate and tired. They wasted a night and its sleep and caught not a single fish. Jesus gives them the catch of their life and boosts up their spirit. Secondly, they […]

It wasn’t someone from the modern secular world that for the first time said “I will not believe” in the resurrection of Jesus; it was St. Thomas, one of the beloved disciples of Jesus.  Many so-called believers today proudly distance themselves from their faith practices, which is an expression and evidence of open disbelief. However, the voices […]

The peoples of the world have been believers in many utopias, everlasting life beneath the pyramids, invincibility of the Roman Empire, later another empire where the Sun doesn’t set, the indestructible Titanic, the Communist and also the socialist revolutions where everyone is equal, the Capitalism which ensured the economy of the world, the stock market which is the best […]

In the life of the Church this is the week of suffering and death followed by Resurrection! From the temple Jesus challenged the Pharisee to ‘destroy this temple and he would restore it in three days’. Without even recognizing the meaning of the challenge they did destroy and He did restore.  We are commemorating the process of that […]