Category: life experience and life as it is
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“Come mek we sidung a wait”
By. Fr. J.Lucas (2024) BENCH – Metaphor for Advent Many people – in the wake of realities like the pandemic, war, migration, poverty, violence, and climate disasters- are asking themselves; why is this happening to me? Why me? And why now? But the real question in life instead is instead: for whom am I living?…
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HOW DID YOU REACT?
Sep 21, 2024 fr.jayLucas+ I work in an inner city school that is considered the least in the society but working among these educated individuals who impact these children day and night, I have encountered boys and girls with big hearts. There are always the black sheep but not as many as there are angels…
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Mama Wa Yesu
Hail, Mary, Mother of God, venerable treasure of the whole world. You are the lamp that is never extinguished, the crown of virginity, the rule of orthodoxy, the incorruptible temple containing the one whom nothing can contain, the mother and virgin, through whom the one who comes in the Name of the Lord receives in…
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THE ASSUMPTION
Fr.jayLucas+ 15th August 2024 As St. John Paul II commented, the Assumption is like the continuation of Easter. We can also say it is like Christmas because we celebrate Our Lady’s birth in heaven. It is such a great feast that the Church, in its liturgy, uses the word “TODAY! … On this day!”—a word/phrase…
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LET’S TALK
f there is something you need to do, say or confess don’t wait for tomorrow because it is not guaranteed. For the past six months I have either attended a burial or lost someone I knew or was close to. The grim reaper is on a roll and he is not stopping, March was Bigga…
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JUBILE
SPES NON CONFUNDIT BULL OF INDICTIONOF THE ORDINARY JUBILEEOF THE YEAR 2025 FRANCISBISHOP OF ROMESERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD TO ALL WHO READ THIS LETTERMAY HOPE FILL YOUR HEARTS Everyone knows what it is to hope. In the heart of each person, hope dwells as the desire and expectation of good things to come,…
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I killed Him
But he endured the suffering that should have been ours, the pain that we should have borne. All the while we thought that his suffering was punishment sent by God. But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole…
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REARVIEW MIRROW SYNDROME
One of the most crippling causes of mediocrity in our life generally is a condition that is called rear-view mirror syndrome (RMS). Our subconscious minds are equipped with a self-limiting rear-view mirror, through which we continuously relive and recreate our past. We mistakenly believe that who we were is who we are, thus limiting our…
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Children cry for love
Fr. Don Chambers’ is my godfather. He picked me when I almost gave up on my vocation. He is not only a priest but he’s a writer. BREAKING NEWS He wrote and this was Published:Thursday | February 1, 2024 | 12:09 AM THE EDITOR, Madam: Every day, stories are like writings on the wall, communicating…
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I AM A VICTIM OF POINTING FINGERS
As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath, his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain. At this the Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” Mark 2:23–24 I am a victim of pointing fingers at others. I…
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