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What’s Your Garden?
by fr. JLucas, July 12, 2026 Today marks the seventh day of my retreat, and while preparing for Mass, I found myself praying with the Gospel of Matthew 13:1–23, where Jesus tells the parable of the sower and the seed. At first, my attention rested on the different kinds of soil. Then my mind drifted…
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Different Is Beautiful
by fr. JLucas, June 15 2026, 5 am (I was reflecting and praying for my students and their way of life) Recardo from grade 8 is passionate in cooking. He is preparing june-plum to make juice. One of the greatest mistakes we make in life is comparing ourselves to other people. We look at someone…
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Finding Home in the corridors of Holy Trinity
by fr.JLucas, 10th June 2026 As a boy, my career goals changed almost as often as my appetite. Some days I wanted to be a chef, although my main qualification was eating whatever was put in front of me. Other days I wanted to be a teacher, which I practised as a Sunday School teacher.…
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The Gift Everyone Needs
BY fr. JLucas254🇯🇲, June 5, 2026 God keep them safe One thing we all long for as human beings is someone who will LISTEN. Not someone who will interrupt us. Not someone who already has all the answers. Not someone waiting for us to finish speaking so they can tell their own story. We simply…
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I WANNA SEE WHAT I AM PLANTING
fr. JLucas245🇯🇲. June 4, 2026 That’s a thoughtful question. If I were to answer it from a human perspective, one thing many people would love to see but may never personally witness is a world where every child has an equal opportunity to flourish—regardless of where they are born. A world where no child goes…
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𝓙𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓮𝔂 𝓸𝓯 𝓛𝓲𝓯𝓮
by JLucas254🇯🇲 1 June, 2026 St. Patrick’s Primary School, Africa🇰🇪 Day 2026 As we bid farewell to May, I find myself carrying millions of lessons in my heart. Every lesson arrived wrapped in a different package: pain, faith, hope, disappointment, gratitude, confusion, courage, and growth. Such is the journey of life. We never know what…
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Airport Blessings, Benga Music, and a Missionary Heart
fr. JLucas May 20, 2026, in Trinidad and Tobago There is something refreshing about stepping out of routine. My trip to Trinidad has already been exciting, not just because I was travelling, but because for a few days I could breathe outside my normal cycle of school, parish, meetings, and the endless “Father, can I…
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When Peace Feels Far Away
By fr. JLucas. May 7, 2026 Today, I feel tired. Not the kind of tired that a quick nap fixes, but the kind that sits deep in the bones. My body feels drained, my energy low, and if I am honest… I feel a bit worthless. It is a hard thing to admit, especially when,…
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Mental Health Is Real for Clergy Too
By JLucas 25, April 2026 This morning, somewhere between Half Way Tree and Highgate, the road preached to me. I was heading to a funeral—my “pumpkin lady” went to be with her Lord. That’s a story for another day. But grief was already sitting quietly in the passenger seat. As I reached Constant Spring, I…
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HAPPY MOMENTS
What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness Happiness does not always arrive in grand moments; more often, it whispers through the ordinary. It is found in the stillness—those quiet pauses at the start or end of the day when the noise fades and the heart can breathe again. In that silence, we are…