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Life and mission in inter-cultural living

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It’s not rare that we experience cultural shock when we step into a new cultural milieu. Cultural shock is the feeling of anxiety that we experience after we move into an entirely new environment. To me cultural shock surfaced within a few days of my arrival to Chad. I could experience the difficulty in assimilating the new culture and its gestures without knowing what was appropriate and what w...

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Summer Day Camp for Children

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Jesus famous words, “Let the little children come to me”, is often used to underline the importance of child evangelization and profoundly reveals God’s affection for children. Habitually, during summer our parishioners travel across the world, but due to Pandemic, the situation was not so favorable and so we at St. Benedict Church, Shatin, organized a three days SUMMER DAY CAMP for the chi...

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Pastoral care of the earth

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Day by day, we are becoming increasingly aware of the enormous destruction of our planet earth and its inhabitants. However, contextual and creative reflections/actions continue to emerge in order to combat ecological crisis, making environmental challenges central to Christian life and praxis. Often we have heard of the pastoral care in hospitals, schools, villages, etc,.  But Pastoral care of t...

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Leave the sandals behind

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The day of Pentecost, 2009, was indeed a memorable one, the day I received my mission destination to be a missionary in Guinea Bissau, an African Country. A paradox knocked my heart with diverse feelings of joy as well as fear. In fact, it was a hard reality, the apprehension about Africa was overshadowing my ecstasy of going to the people of Guinea Bissau. It wasn’t easy to leave my home town, ...

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Praying in Khulna- Boyra…to grow as brothers and sisters!

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271. The different religions, based on their respect for each human person as a creature called to be a child of God, contribute significantly to building fraternity and defending justice in society. Dialogue between the followers of different religions does not take place simply for the sake of diplomacy, consideration or tolerance. In the words of the Bishops of India, “the goal of dialogue is...

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World day of grandparents and the elderly

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“The voice of the elderly is precious, because it sings the praises of God and preserves the roots of the people.” – Pope Francis Responding to the invitation of the Holy Father Pope Francis who instituted the maiden World day of grandparents and the elderly on 25th July 2021, we the Sisters of Vijayawada Province celebrated this day with joy and gratitude uniting ourselves with the grandpar...

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The unexpected celebration of my missionary mandate

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The two days of celebration of my missionary mandate which was held in my home parish Kurada on July 11th 2021 in the diocese of Alotau was something amazing. It was programmed and well planned out by my family along with our parish priest Fr. Basil Dekeuya involving the whole parish of Kurada with the four sub stations. It was held both in traditional as well as in spiritual way to balance the c...

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