In Christian spiritual tradition, the state of perfect acceptance of the will of God by an entire resignation is...
Binoy Puthusery
God’s will as our Will to Meaning
Victor Frankl in his famous book, The Will to Meaning, writes that Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation...
The Poor Are Our Masters
Pope Francis in his encyclical, The Joy of Gospel, when he wrote about the social dimension of Evangelization he...
The True Light, Which Enlightens Everyone
Stars which symbolize light are the most fascinating symbol of Christmas. In the book of Numbers, we read about Balaam who prophesied the coming of messiah with the symbol of a star. “A star shall come out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel” ( Num...
A Time to Wait for God’s Coming
St. Luke, in his Gospel, before writing about the birth of Jesus, speaks about the coming of God in the life of Zechariah and Elizabeth (Lk1:5-24). Both of them were righteous before God, living blamelessly according to all the commandments of the Lord. But still...
A Missionary’s Voice: The End Times
As we are in the last week of the liturgical year, the scriptural passages for the liturgy speak about “end times,” which in theological language is called as eschatology or apocalyptic. In the book of Daniel we have two famous eschatological visions. The first vision...
Living with the Awareness of Human Mortality
In one of the Indian myths, there is a saying that, “the greatest wonder in the world is that every day we see many people dying, but those who live lead their lives as though there is no death.” As the liturgical year of the church is coming to an end, the scripture...
Surrounded by a Great Cloud of Witnesses
“After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, robed in white, with palm branches in their hands” (Rev.7:9). This is how St....
To Be Witnesses of the Mercy Shown to Us
One of Fr. Thomas McKenna's previous articles on .famvin titled, “Memories of Mercy,” narrates a beautiful story from the French novel, Les Miserables, Les Mis. It’s about Jean Valjean, and the life he leads in the very turbulent times of 19th Century France. The...
St. Vincent on How to Conclude Well the Jubilee Year
On October 15, 1641, St. Vincent gave a conference to the sisters on the significance of jubilee year and the means of gaining treasures of God’s mercy in the jubilee year (The Conferences of St. Vincent, By Joseph Leonard C.M, Vol. I. 7). As we are about to conclude...
We are Missionary Disciples of Christ
One of the often referred teaching from the Second Vatican council is about the missionary vocation of all the baptized. Pope Francis in his first apostolic exhortation, “Joy of Gospel,” explains this theme very beautifully. According to him, among the followers of...
God Who is Rich in Mercy
The second encyclical of Pope John Paul II was Dives in Misericordia (The Mercy of God, November 30, 1980). In this encyclical he speaks elaborately on God’s mercy, as revealed in the Bible. This is a reflection in the light of this encyclical. The core of divine...
