Capernaum Have you seen it, Capernaum*? I saw it, last night, before I nuzzled in. It vampire-d me. Capernaum: a world of sin where lives are smeared in macabre tales of dread, death. There is no birth here; only regurgitation of distress. With no name and no day to remember children are disgorged …
By Fr. Ayar Kujur S.J. It was time for me to leave Tipling for Pokhara. When my community in Tipling knew that I had to be in quarantine on arriving in Pokhara, they teased me saying that my transfer was a “moving from freedom to captivity.” Frankly, I was not looking forward to experiencing what …
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A Poem by Fr. Jomon Jose S.J. You Are Never Alone She came… not a windhover, but a sparrow into my locked, blocked room; bolted, where food is served outside the sealed door pushed through with a sanitized stick. Sick- life tested, caged, and crushed by the virus I caught her… peeping through the sill …
By Vatican News In his prayer intention for October 2020, Pope Francis asks everyone to pray that women be given greater leadership roles in the Church. It has become the custom of Pope Francis to release a video message detailing his prayer intention for each month. This month, the video is a collaboration with the …
He is content, just being around…
lying at the feet of his Master.
He is calm, quiet, composed, relaxed
in the presence of his Master.
He allows himself to breath in…
deeply.
He lowers the antenna of his senses;
he shuts his eyes…droops his ears. …..
By Fr. Ayar Kujur S.J. The elders of Tipling village claimed a medicine for corona virus in the very beginning of the pandemic. They were so confirmed that the pandemic won’t touch them anyway and it is God’s providence or the herbal medicine has protected us till now. I have never heard of it few …