Category: life experience and life as it is
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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…
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Mwaitu / Shush Veronica Syomwiiu Mulila
By fr. JLucas254🇯🇲 – 6th April 2026 makes it one month since you left us Every Friday of Lent 2026, starting the 6th of March, I found myself forced to contemplate the cruelty of death—the death that took away my grandmother, Susu Veronica, as we used to call her. She was that woman. Many things…
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Finding Your Place to Belong
By fr. JLucas254🇯🇲 Truth changes everything, but everything is better when you go through life with a community. No one wants to walk alone. Every human being wants to belong somewhere. The real question is not if we belong, but where we belong. Working with the beautiful young souls at Holy Trinity High School, I…
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The Most Peaceful Place to Hide
By fr. JLucas254🇯🇲, 2 April 2026 As we anticipate the celebration of the Chrism Mass this evening, I find myself doing what I have learned to do as a young priest when the heart becomes heavy, the mind becomes crowded, and the expectations feel larger than the man inside the cassock — I go to…
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“IT WAS A SUNDAY LIKE THIS”
No love like that of a mother. It was a Sunday like this one — that strange, holy pocket of time between chocolate hearts and ashes. Three days after Valentine’s Day, two days before Ash Wednesday. Love still hanging in the air, Lent already clearing its throat in the distance. And right there in the…
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“Father, You Need a Woman”
By fr. JLucas, Feb 1, 2026 My babies, St. Patrick’s Primary school during their sports day The day’s Gospel had me reflecting on the Beatitudes, especially: “Blessed are the pure in heart.” In an age ruled by algorithms, infinite scrolling, and a marketplace of vulgarity available at the tap of a screen, the question feels…
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Where the Light Is Loud
Reflection by fr. JLucas. Jan 27, 2026 My rectory sits beside St. Patrick’s Primary School, a Catholic school tucked into the inner city of Bay Farm Road and Waterhouse. Many people lower their voices when they say that name—Waterhouse—as if danger itself might overhear them. Some call it a bad man’s place. For me, it…
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