Alleluia! Listen! Oh Jerusalem, the Lord is risen indeed!
On the third day, as he foretold the disciples many a time.

Setting: Boston College, Boston. The revolutionary thinker and educationalist Paolo Freire was giving a course on Conscientization.

Jesus said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

Your reference to the Bible is from the speech of St. Paul at the Areopagaus of Athens where many Greek Philosophers were gathered to hear Paul speaking to them.

Third Sunday of Easter - Cycle C - 5 May 2019

Acts 5:27-32, 40-41; Ps 30:1-13; Rev 5:11-14; John 21:1-19

Fourth Sunday of Easter - Cycle C - 12 May 2019

Acts 13:14, 43-52; Ps 100:1-5; Rev 7:9, 14-17; John 10:27-30

All of us, one way or another, long for recognition, acceptance and love from others, and there’s nothing wrong in it as recognition brings feelings of acceptance, joy, and contentment in our hearts.

Definitely prayers are powerful. But the way we pray makes our prayers either effective or ineffective. Normally, we are more worried about the words than the faith entailed in the prayers.

‘On 11 March 2019, a blurred video of a young woman crying and begging a group of men not to harm her was posted on the website of a Tamil magazine.

“I can’t explain why my two sons turned out this way. I don’t think I did anything wrong.