Dear Family!

We have been reading about the various aspects of the ministry of Jesus the Good Shepherd. We see him teaching, healing, and this week, feeding. This shepherding role is extended to all the Apostles. This aspect of ‘Feeding’ is the theme of the readings this Sunday. The Church guides us to John Chapter 6 for the next five Sundays (17th to 21st Sunday).

Dear Family!

We are both followers and leaders at the same time. A wise man once stated that the ‘Leadership is the ability to articulate a vision and get others to carry it out.’ As leadership continues to be in a constant threat under priesthood these days, I am almost at the verge of finding a grip in the efficacy and relevancy of priest-leadership in the modern world.

Dear Family!

There is so much pressure on young people to develop an image of faith in themselves. Most of their friends do not go to church anymore; their parents are either divorced or not practicing Catholics; there is always a Sunday Sports in the morning (as Taxpayer, you cannot question the system). The young are forced to create their own excuses such as ‘headache, body pain, homework’ and the like.

Dear Family!

July 4th brings in a lot of memories of ages past. The Declaration changed the meaning of American freedom forever. Eric Foner in his book, "Give Me Liberty" writes, “It completed the shift from the rights of Englishmen to the rights of mankind as the object of American Independence. No longer a set of specific rights, no longer a privilege to be enjoyed by a corporate body, liberty had become a universal entitlement.” Those words are prophetic indeed.