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Wednesday 1 st  December 2021:         (Isaiah 25:6-10a); (Matthew 15:29-37)                         "Strong Faith" Dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, today as we contemplate upon to the words of the Scriptures, we are given the accounts of God's care and existence, His bequest and faithful deliberation for each one of us. God has helped all of us to reason of this authenticity as we set out on this Advent scheme, setting ourselves up in our souls and intelligences to invite the Lord into our reality and lives. Along these lines, we are totally called to regenerate our adoration for Himself as well as our self-assurance in Him, recollecting precisely the amount He has cherished us first. In our first   reading today, we heard from the Book of the prophet Isaiah where we heard how God sure His kin through Isaiah that He will continually accommodate them and that He will attain His salvat...

30 th  November 2021:   (Rom 10:9-18); (Mt 4:18-22)       "Feast day of  St. Andrew" On 30 th  of November the Catholic Church celebrates the feast day of  St. Andrew. So, we will reflect on the life of St. Andrew. St. Andrew was one of the disciples of Jesus Christ to whom Jesus called personally. He was the elder brother of St. Peter. He was a fisher man. But Jesus said to him, “Come and follow me. I will make the fishers of people”. At once he left his net and followed Jesus. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today we celebrate the memorial  Apostles of Our Lord, one of the Twelve Apostles and indeed the first among them to be called, that is St. Andrew the Apostle, the brother of Simon, who was subsequently known as St. Peter the Apostle, head of the relative multitude of Apostles and the Church. St. Andrew was by the custom, one of the followers of St. John the Baptist, and was one of his teaches that chose to follow the Lord just...

Monday 29  November 2021: (Isaiah 2:1-5); (Matthew 8:5-11)                    "The Healing   Power of Jesus" Dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, today as we listen to the Words of the Lord in the Scriptures, we are all recapped to have belief in the Lord, in Whom alone is our redemption and magnificence, and through Whom we shall receive true delight and happiness, true contentment and fulfilment, for the Lord is our Courage and our Light, the Light of our salvation and our restoration. As we enter into this season of Advent, we are all called to ponder on this truth and transmit our attention to the Lord Jesus Christ, our Saviour and King. In today’s first reading, which is taken from the Book of the prophet Isaiah, we hear that the Lord spoke to Isaiah concerning the coming of God and His salvation to His people, Israel and all the countries, in the revelation that He has given to Isaiah, then a prophet workin...

28 th   November, 2021  "1 st   Sunday of Advent Year (C)" (Jeremiah 33:14-16)   (Ps 25:4-5,8-9,10,14);  (1Thessalonians 3:12-4:2);  (Luke 21:25-28,34-36)   Advent is the holy season. This is the season in which holy Mother Catholic Church calls us to prepare ourselves worthily to commemorate the anniversary of the historical coming  of Jesus Christ into the world. At the same time Church provides to  the faithful a time to reflect upon and prepare themselves for the  second coming of Jesus Christ at the end of the time. If we all walk around and see the shopping centers and many other places, we would have seen the Christmas adornments are already up in full force, in some places even as early as from September onwards. We assuredly have heard the usual Christmas songs and the festive mood being all around us, with Christmas trades and shopping on the improvement literally everywhere. But before we...

"The Voice of God" (Psalm 29: 3-9) The theme chosen for this Holy Hour is:  "The Voice of God"  This theme arises strongly from both the Sacred Scripture as well as through the life of Saints. The first thought came to my mind was,  “does God has a voice?”  followed by another question,   “Do I hear the voice of God?”  immediately I remembered what the Psalmist wrote 4,000 years ago,  “The voice of God is powerful, the voice of God is full of majesty”.  The scripture writers saw God’s active voice in everything metaphorically:      In wonders of creation;   echoing over the ocean,   God’s voice in thundering and lightening,   in earthquakes and even in falling of leaves.  And literary speaking, God’s voice is in conversation with Noah about the ark, to Abraham telling him that he will be the father of many nations, to Moses in the burning bush, to free the people of Israel from the bondage of Egypt,...