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The Catholic Church commemorates 1^st November as “All Saints Day”, A day prior to “All Souls Day”. Why does the Church celebrate this special day? when we have the entire calendar earmarked by the days of Saints?

On this day Catholics honour all those who have entered heaven. Who is a Saint? A Saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God. However the use of the term “Saint” depends on the context and denomination. In Roman Catholic and other denominations the doctrine says all the faithful deceased in heaven are considered to be Saints. Generally all Saints day is a Catholic Holy day of Obligation meaning all Catholics are required to attend Mass. Other Countries have different rules according to the Bishops Conferences. Read more

My bond with the Souls in Purgatory began in the 1960’s when the smooth flow of life with its fun and laughter got disturbed. My older brother got ensnared in bad company, vices, and alcoholism. This habit of alcoholism did not exist in our family, so for me personally it had a damaging effect. Day time was unpredictable and every night was to be dreaded. His returning home late at night, after night duty, in a drunken state caused much concern and sleepless nights. Being of little faith then, I saw this as a punishment from God, sending us minor tragedies, making life unpredictable, stressful, and unhappy. Read more

We’ve all probably heard the quote, “You are what you eat”. Here I would like to emphasize on the fact that, it is we, who are responsible for choosing what we want to eat or what we want to feed our families. Dietetics is too vast a topic, yet we ought to know a few basics. If our bodies are human machines food is our fuel.   How well we eat, affects how well our bodies work. Thus balanced diet is that which can provide balanced energy required for use by the body and for storage. We often hear of various types of diets. Well then, when does one need to follow them?

To make it easier for one to understand, I would categorize dietetics into, normal diet, preventive diet, restricted, and special diet. Read more

Stacia Tauscher once said “we worry about what our child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that they are someone today”. Children’s day! A day dedicated to all the lovely children across the country. Also referred to as ‘Bal Diwas’ and is celebrated on the 14th of November in honour of the birth anniversary of our country’s first Prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as he had great love and affection towards children. Read more

All youngsters are having times of seconds, millions of minutes, scores of hours, many days and umpteen years in their pockets to equip with talent provided they can value talent at an early age coupled with smart and hard working.

There are various talents, like music, sports, crafts, art and many others, while some are limited to years of performance besides planting within oneself various attributes, while others make available dividends at any age in life. Read more

Unless one becomes like a little child, unless one is reborn, one cannot enter the kingdom of God. True greatness is in becoming small! It is to the little ones the secrets of God are manifested. Happy  is everyone who receives the little ones and woe to him who leads children astray!(Mt. 18.5)Surely the God who appears to us in Christ has a paternal and maternal heart , a tender and all-embracing heart in which every child finds a warm and caressing place. Read more

Our living will be accepted as ‘Righteous,’ if we maintain a right relationship with God, with self, with family members, with the society and with the environment.

Why God is first, and not Self?

Because, if God did not create me, would I be existing to have a relationship with anyone, including myself? So, we can, readily and rationally accept Jesus ‘Teachings: – Read more

Mogall Firgozkaramno,

Zaitea devoçao-a modem, soglleam von chodd vhodd devoçao mhollear Saibinnichem. Tantunt modem chodd ani soglleanger cholta tem mhollear – Ghorant Saibinn vhorun ladin korchem. Zaitea ganvamni Setembr-ache 8^ver Saibinn ghorant vhorunk suru kelem. Punn hanga Otumbrache 13^ver suru kortelim. Tea pasot soglleamnim hem korunk apli atmik toiari suru korchi mhonn mhozo usko. Read more

We missed it by just a whisker, yes, disappointing but true. Our nation’s bid to become the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon ended on a sombre note when our scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with the space satellite, ‘Chandraayan-2.’   It was disheartening to say the least, as we were only seconds away before the landing module was scheduled to touch down on the unexplored South Pole of the Moon’s surface. This was an effort conceived nearly a decade ago and would have made every Indian hold their head high with pride; but it wasn’t to be. Millions of people waited with bated breath to witness the landing, but the Read more

St. Luke the Evangelist or Gospel Writer amongst the four Evangelists whose feast we celebrate on 18^th October is one such Gospel writer who wrote the Word of God as narrated by St. Paul. He also wrote the ‘Acts of the Apostles’.

Born in Antioch, St. Luke was a Syrian Doctor (renowned Medical Practitioner), very well learned and a Christian convert. He arrived in Rome and stayed for two years with Peter and Mark. St. Luke spent considerable time in Palestine working with the Apostles and thus gathering lots of material for his writing. Read more