In life, each and every one believes in change if not all. Given the situation in which the world is now, everyone hopes for a positive change. Before the beginning of the Lenten season this year, we were already in the midst of this pandemic and no one knew it was going to claim millions…
The world’s Orthodox Christians are celebrating Easter – the most important festival in their calendar, amid a series of restrictions and bans. Officials in Europe, the Middle East and Africa urged people not to attend services, fearing this would lead to a spike in coronavirus infections. However, in Georgia, worshippers are still able to attend…
The 20th anniversary of the feast of Divine Mercy takes place this Sunday. To mark the day, Pope Francis will celebrate a special Mass at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Sassia, the centre of the devotion to Divine Mercy in Rome. The Mass will be televised live and streamed online around the world….
Saint Augustine speculated that in heaven the glorified bodies of the martyrs might bear some traces of their sufferings. ‘Such scars will not be blemishes’ he wrote, ‘but, rather, marks of honour. Although corporeal they will shine out with a truly spiritual beauty.[1]’ This speculation reminds us of something important about the wounds on the…
If you would like to structure your prayer life during Eastertide why not follow the Easter Retreat from the Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Glasgow? Source: ISC Glasgow Read more
Central to Thomas’s and our faith in the resurrection is not so much that there is life after death in a risen body, but that Jesus is vindicated as Lord and God. ‘God raised him on the third day,’ said Peter in the house of Cornelius, ‘and allowed him to appear, not to all the people but…
Cardinal Turkson highlighted the need for the commission and the importance of looking to the future “so as not to be unprepared.” He said: “The health crisis has already triggered an economic one.. The risk is that a social crisis will be provoked if this economic crisis is not dealt with immediately. One crisis risks…
When we started the formation year in August 2019, I was assigned to Kenyatta National Hospital for weekend pastoral experience. During one of my visits to the hospital, before the outbreak of COVID 19, I had an experience with one of the patients. I greeted the patient and he responded in a positive way. ‘I…
“South Sudan is a broken nation. The families of this nation are broken. The ethnic communities of this nation are broken. Individual citizens are broken. This nation needs special God’s intervention. Reconciliation is the only remedy to this broken nation,” Archbishop Stephen Ameyu of Juba Archdiocese wrote in his Easter message addressed “to all faithful…
During Missionary Experience Program in Uganda- Kotido Diocese , I was always amazed at the active participation of the Christian during celebrations either in church or in the community. In every celebration in Loyoro parish, both in church and in the village, I was always struck by the interior, external, and material elements that characterized…
One thing is clear from the Emmaus account: as the visible Christ becomes the invisible Christ, he is no less present in a relationship with the disciples that moves them to mission and proclamation. The breaking of the bread is the visible, prophetic, life-giving gesture of Jesus which actually takes shape in the lives of…
Christ, the Consoler. I would like to begin unpacking this idea with a thought experiment. Imagine someone comes to you and says something like the following: I’m really struggling at the moment. I am so busy after a recent promotion at work meaning much longer hours, with three kids at home, not to mention the…
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