TAPPING (Season 1) Retreat for Consecrated Persons

It is a 6-day online retreat for consecrated people on the Power and the Beauty of belonging to God alone. This consists of 16 sessions including a inner healing session. All talks are based on the Scripture with a special focus on the meaning and the beauty of consecration.

Bangkok Lady in the Train

She slept whole day with mind preoccupied Asleep yet alert to phone calls All conversations end with Bangkok trip The next vacation – to Bangkok. Not a plan but to impress gullible common folks The Septuagenarian couple concealed their annoyance The duo student-youth suppressed their boiling blood The trio breadwinner youth listened in admiration For…

Parts of Holy Mass: A Step-by-Step Explanation

This “walk-through” explanation of the Mass will shed light on why we do what we do at Mass. I think these explanations will be helpful for the great numbers of Catholics who attend Mass regularly but don”t always remember the reasons behind the various actions of the Mass.

POWER in Meditation

It is a must for every Christian to be able to take his Bible and meditate on the Word of God. One who is able to reflect on the Word of God and draw lessons for life from the scripture is not easily shattered when troubles come on the way.

Ad hoc Modes in Life

There are individuals who have various modes of appearances; each mode is selectively applied based on a purpose one has in mind. Just as one carefully chooses dress codes to suit various occasions some train themselves to appear to be having a set of values, behavior patterns and at times even belief systems. These individuals…

Distanced from my self…

To feel distanced from one’s own self is a tough feeling to cope up with. This is a realization that the thoughts and feelings one goes through is not part of a process that he or she is able to own up. Such a situation arises when one is forced into making oneself believe something…

Let the Process be on…..

At times we are like a tiny grain that falls to the ground and begins a process of dying before it can bear friut. Everything of the grain comes to a gradual end: it’s identity, security, peace, sense of completeness, and so on. It loses its companions, friends, relatives and slowly, under the force of…

Decision Making (1)

We are often faced with choices that have similar appeal. We are left to opt for one at the expense of the others. Decision making, especially in the face of options that hold similar values, is a painful process as in chosing one we are compelled to give up the others. Most people have a…

In YOU I Regain…….

Starting afresh in life is a tough task. Many prefer to be deaf to the whisper in the inner self that pleads for a change in the manner we conduct ourselves. Some do this as they are happy not getting into the struggle that is part of the beginning days of one’s interior transformation. This poem depicts the struggle of one’s inner self in accepting the need for self transformation in the form of a conversation between his soul and the Lord.