“Hear me, all of you, and understand. Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person; but the things that come out from within are what defiles” (Mk. 7:14 – 15).
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I am pleased to communicate to you all, that through a Decree of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (No. 271/18) dated 30th January 2018.
Today, we begin our Lenten Season with a call to change, a change in our personal life, a change in our family life and a change in our societal life.
Ash Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Ash Wednesday is one of the most popular and important holy days in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church. Ash Wednesday opens Lent, a season of fasting and prayer , in our preparation for Easter. God in his providence offers us each year the season of Lent as […]
In His work of healing, Jesus gives us an indication of His mission – namely the salvation of all. Already, we saw this yesterday with the healing of the daughter of the Syrophoenician woman. Today, with joyful spontaneity the cured man forgets the restriction not to tell anyone and announces the good news of what […]
From our gospel passage we read a Syrophoenician woman with exceptional qualities of faith, persistence and humility which moved Jesus to grant her appeal. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. He replied, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and […]