Family Corner

Redemptive Suffering

Rose Mary Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done – Luke 22:42 The feast of St Alphonsa, the first Indian woman to be canonized, was celebrated month of July at Bharananganam as well as in many other churches in Kerala. Understandably, the celebrations were […]

GUILT

Prema Jayakumar Guilt has been pictured with great feeling in a number of great works of literature. Of course, as usual, it is Shakespeare who springs to mind and in the first instance in Macbeth, that great play about crime and guilt. The destructive power of guilt on the husband and wife which reduces them […]

Shepherding in the Post-Covid Era

Rose Mary I am the Good Shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me. – John 10:14 Perhaps one of the hardest hit institutions in the present times is the Church in its entirety – the clergy and the congregation. Till now, it has been a watch-and-wait situation where church goers as well […]

Anger

Prema Jayakumar ‘Who is man that is not angry?’ That was Shakespeare. He had a lot of angry characters, didn’t he? People who railed against fate, against injustices, against betrayals. Some of them use their anger to good effect too. And yet, we have all been told that anger is a bad emotion, a destructive […]

Homes – Ours and Theirs

Home is a place where, when you go there They have to take you in. I should have called it Something you somehow haven’t to deserve. That was Robert Frost. I had been thinking of what homes meant when I came across these lines. One of the by-products of the whole Coronavirus scare has been […]

Journeys and Destinations

Rose Mary Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life – John 8:12 An old friend sent me a link to an online adoration service which she said was devotional and inspiring. And indeed it was. The priest had carefully put together a service of praise and worship […]

When Roles Blur

The world is changing much more rapidly as time passes. Changes that would have occurred over a couple of generations earlier are now taking place in the course of a couple of years. Maybe because the dissemination, whether of information or infection, is worldwide in a matter of weeks or even days. And yet, attitudes […]

WRONGFUL DEEDS

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding – Proverbs 3:5 The country-wide shut-down left many of us with more time in our hands than we could manage. The strict house arrest meant that though there was housework to complete, there was always time to watch our […]

Indian bishops slam terror attack on tourists in India’s Kashmir

No action taken against police who assaulted Catholic priests in India