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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Lord Jesus, help me prove my identity as your disciple through the way I handle suffering Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, It is appropriate that we begin this long stretch of Ordinary Time with what is perhaps the central question of Christianity: “Who do you say that I am?” (Lk. 9:18-24). This

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Lord Jesus, help me acknowledge my guilt, atone for it and enjoy communion.   Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The three little words “I am sorry“ have an almost incredible potential for transformation. But they often go unsaid, because they seldom roll easily off the human tongue. As a result

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Lord Jesus, have mercy on me a sinner; come to my heart and reign in me. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, “Do this in remembrance of me”. With these words (2nd reading, 1Cor. 11:23-26) and the gift of himself – body and blood in the form of bread and wine – Jesus left another means (besides the

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Holy Trinity, One God, help us trust in the Father, make us love like the Son and inspire us to listen to the Spirit.  Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, In the month of June, as spring moves into summer, a new season of the liturgical year is also beginning. Called Ordinary Time, this

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Lord, fill us with your spirit to promote unity, understanding and peace amidst people. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Anyone who has had the experience of the hurricane knows the fright and awe it can inspire, as well as the strength it can wield. The phenomenon of fire is the

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Lord, fill us with your spirit to continue your mission and to bring the good news to every heart. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Two versions of Jesus’ ascension are set before the praying assembly today, in the text from Acts (1:1-11) and in the Gospel (Lk. 24:46-53). Both

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Blow in us, O Spirit of God, as we prepare to celebrate your continued presence with us and within us.  Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today’s readings remind us of the gift of the abiding Spirit. The action of the Spirit transformed our ancestors in the faith, strengthening them for the work of

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Lord,  help us bring the good news to life and allow it to speak God’s love to all the unloved as well as the unlovable. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, This Sunday, as we continue our look back at our beginnings, we are reminded that the quality and character by which we are to be known and identified

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Lord, help us find a lasting home with you and all those who have gone before us, tracking the path of the Holy Spirit. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, One of the advantages of tracking hurricanes is the possibility of preparedness; knowledge of the storm’s path and power allows

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Lord,  help us make our love for you real by feeding and tending others. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Feed my lambs. Tend my sheep. Feed my sheep. With this triple imperative, the risen Jesus opened the way for Peter to come out of his despair and experience redemption. He who had

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Lord,  transform us radically from within and make us ministers of your forgiveness. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Easter, the central feast of the year, is unique in many respects. It is the only feast that lasts for 50 days in the church calendar. St. Athansius called the seven weeks from

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Lord, help us live the Easter joy in our day-to-day life.  Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, “We are an Easter People; Alleluia is our song.” This declaration was made almost 15 centuries ago by St. Augustine as an expression of Easter joy. But living our joy and enunciating our faith in

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Lord Jesus,  stay with me and help me reach out to those who walk the way of the cross. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, On this Palm Sunday, we begin the week called “Holy”. Our intent during this week is to remember the suffering and death of Jesus. Those sufferings were borne in fidelity to God

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My Dear Brothers and Sisters: A 31-year-old Nigerian Muslim woman named Amina Lawal was sentenced to death by stoning eight years ago, because she had been found guilty of adultery. Civil rights groups around the world were outraged at the sentence that Lawal should be buried up to her neck and then have stones hurled at her head until she was dead. Under pressure from these groups, the judge

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  Lord Jesus, help me overcome anger, pent-up hostilities, negative feelings and negative attitudes. AMEN. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Imagining ourselves to be on a journey, we should think of God waiting for us at our destination. God sees us “while we are still a long way off.” In case we may not see our God coming toward us, provisions

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  Lord Jesus, who hears our cries, knows our struggles, strengthen us along our way. AMEN. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, On each of Lent’s Third Sundays, the selected scripture readings remind us that ours is a spirituality of un-rootedness. As we see in today’s first reading from Exodus(3:1-8, 13-15), ours has always been a people on the move,

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I.   My Dear Brothers and Sisters, It is part of human being’s dream to have “a place to call home”. This Sunday’s readings illumine and illustrate this aspect. In Genesis (15:5-12, 17-18) we see how the promise of homeland changed Abraham’s future and outlook on life. In the transfiguration scene (Lk. 9:28b-36), we see Peter offering to

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Fasting from food and feasting on the presence of God are the two important spiritual exercises during Lent. In between comes offering with almsgiving. This six-week long intense preparation for Jesus’ saving death and resurrection can be considered to be a “time-out” in every calendar year. Sports

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us to have perfect trust in your wisdom and providence. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, “In God We Trust; all others must pay cash!” this sign, hanging over the cash register in a store, always brings a smile to the passers-by. Jeremiah, in today’s

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMILord Jesus, make use respond to the call of your children who are in need Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,God’s call comes to us in different ways. Few among us have probably experienced a summons to ministry as dramatic as that of Isaiah (1st Reading Is 6:1-2,3-8), or as decisive as that of Peter, James and John (Lk 5:1-11). Few of us can boast of seeing

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, empower us to make the word of God resonate within social situations. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, According to a myth popular among the ancient Greeks, Sisyphus, the king of Corinth and reputed founder of the Isthmian Games, was punished by gods because he outwitted them. Punishment was to push an enormous boulder up a steep incline.

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us face the future united and strong interpreting the word of God for life. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, This week’s readings invite us to face the future united and strong. Reading the word of God and interpreting it for life are the best means to meet this challenge. In the 1st reading (Nehemiah 8:1-4,5-6,8-10) we find the

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Infant Jesus, help me to be faithful, forgiving and generous in love. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, God’s love for humankind is often pictured in the bible as spousal love or marital love. Unlike the relationship that unites the parents and children and brothers and sisters, spousal love is born of a choice; two

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Lord Jesus,  help us face the struggles that are inherent to our solidarity with you by remembering and repeating the blessing, “I am the beloved of God”.  Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Last Sunday we reflected on “Travelling towards God” keeping the journey of the Magi in focus.“ Are we, the baptized

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Infant Jesus, make us insightful travellers in the world so as to see your manifestation everywhere.  Amen. Today’s feast, Epiphany of the Lord, is characterized by traditional motifs like astrologers and kings, rising stars in the east. Apart from this there is another underlying theme, travelling

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Infant Jesus, bless all the members of our family with reverence and faith-filled prayer. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, In recent years, words such as “dysfunctional” have been used to describe the changing face and growing fragility of family. Almost every day media brings before us some horrific account of abuse or neglect or worse. Parents

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Infant Jesus, you take away the sins of the world, grant us your peace. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, God chose Bethlehem for his Son. Why? If Jesus was born in Rome or Alexandria or Athens or Corinth, it would have made more sense from the point of view of spreading His message. Sophisticated Rome would have been an excellent home base for

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Infant Jesus, instil in us your justice and mercy as we await your coming. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The weeks of preparation for Christmas is an opportune time for cultivating a spirituality of waiting. The characteristics of the one we await affect the character of our waiting. Jesus is the loved one whose coming we await. And so joy and

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us imitate our mother who said in her waiting, “Let it be done to me according to your word”. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, A reflection on the book “A Spirituality of Waiting” authored by Henri Nouwen (1993) seems worth considering for this advent.  As Nouwen has affirmed, waiting is not a very popular posture. Many consider

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me transform myself by putting on your mind, your will and your heart. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The last Sunday of the liturgical year is always celebrated as the Solemnity of Christ The King. How do the worldly monarchs prepare us for understanding the kingship of Jesus Christ? Unfortunately for the most part, they do not.

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us to be more attentive to the ways of God here and now. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The last Sundays of each liturgical year invite our attention to the last things: the end of the world, death and judgment, reward and retribution. The intended purpose of this focus on the end time is to prepare us for the final reckoning

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, empower me to practice sacrificial giving. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Do you give from your surplus of your store? Another way to ask this is, do you offer your leftovers or the food you obtained for your main meal? In today’s Gospel (Mk 12:38-44), the widow in Jesus’ example contributed “her whole livelihood”, everything that she

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, make us a community of hope following the footprints of saints. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today we celebrate the Feast of All Saints. The word saint comes from the Latin word sanctus, which means “holy”. Literally, the word saint means “holy one”. It recalls God’s command to the chosen people: “Keep yourselves holy, because I am

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, give me enough insight to understand that my call is to be faithful to you in all my life situations. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, “God has not called me to be successful. He has called me to be faithful” (Mother Teresa). This inspirational quote was printed on a memento when Mother Teresa died on September 5th 1997. May her

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us give ourselves fully and freely to the God-given mission and become your witnesses. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Go west young man and make the country grow!” Thus read the title of an 1881 editorial by John B. L. Soule that was first published in the Terre Haute Express. Taking those words to heart, many made their way

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us attach ourselves to you as if to a lifeboat in a stormy sea. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Once upon a time, long long ago, two men lived in an arid land. Nothing grew there except cactus, lizards and sand fleas. Growing weary of being so thirsty, they decided to travel to Niagara Falls. Upon their arrival, they discovered water

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us pull out the weeds in the garden of marriage and nurture self-giving love, the love that calls for compromise  Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The readings of this week focus on the foundational relationship of all families: the partnership between a husband and a wife. The first reading from Genesis (2:18-24) presents God’s

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, foster in me a positive outlook and help me guide others to find the way. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The readings of this Sunday present us with several challenges. The first reading and the gospel remind us that God’s Spirit is not confined to our church or even to Christianity. The Spirit of God can be bestowed on whomever God

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, show me how to serve and make me grow.  Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Karl Rahner, our most mature theologian in several centuries, has this to say about children: “In the child, an adult begins who must undergo the wonderful adventure of becoming a child of God, for this is the task of maturity”. The readings of every Sunday invite us

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, when I grow deaf, make me attentive to your voice. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The theme set forth in today’s scriptural reading is the danger of deafness as regards to hearing and heeding the Word of God. Those who allow themselves to become deaf to the whisperings of God are inviting tragedy by placing their relationship with God

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, make me understand that the heart of religion is not ritual and law, but love of God and neighbour. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Is our holiness skin deep or heart deep? This is the question that the readings of the day place before us. The first reading from Deuteronomy (4:1-2,6-8) reminds readers that the rules by which they are to

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMILord Jesus, bread of life, help me make right decisions which reflect your mind and will.Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,You don’t get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now.” These words of folk singer Joan Baez resemble the thought of Spanish philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset who said,

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, bread of life, help us experience your abiding presence with us. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,The Gospel reading for this Sunday also remains centred on the theme of Jesus as “the bread of life” (Jn 6:51-58) Jesus continues to teach the crowds about the salvation he offers the world while the Jews continue to quarrel about the meaning of

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMILord Jesus, enable me to experience Eucharist as the channel of God’s love and your abiding presence with us. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,Food is a basic human need that has sustained each of us since birth. It speaks of loving and caring, giving and sharing, living and growing, and even dying and rising. Through the giving and receiving of food,

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMILord Jesus, the bread of life,thank you for filling the void in my heart. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,As we continue to read from the 6th chapter of John’s gospel (Jn 6:24-35), we focus today on the bread from heaven. The first reading (Ex.16:2-4,12-15) recounts the gifts of quail and manna that God sent to the Israelites in the desert. Jesus

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMILord Jesus, challenge us to rethink our needs and share with the hungry.Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,On this Sunday and for the next four Sundays, the praying assembly will be the honoured guests at a summer “picnic” hosted by God. There on the mountain overlooking the Sea of Galilee, all who wish may gather with the multitude that was fed by Jesus for

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMILord Jesus, help us maintain our centre in God and become peacemakers in the world. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,This Sunday we are invited to focus our attention on Shepherd’s Mission. The readings place before us a comparison between good leaders and those in whom the character and qualities of leadership are sorely lacking. In the 1st reading (Jer.

St. Edith Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01502509811355796207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601847.post-52458537997974335782009-07-12T13:30:00.000-04:002009-07-12T13:30:00.740-04:00

Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMILord Jesus, enable me to accept the pain of rejection as a sharing in your redemptive suffering and empower me to proclaim your word effectively.Amen. How do you handle rejection? How do you feel when another refuses to recognize and accept what you have to offer? Rejection has been proven to be an inevitable companion on the bumpy road to success. Take for

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMILord Jesus,give me your grace and strengthen me in my weakness Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,In his book “The cost of Discipleship” (1963), German martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote: “When Jesus Christ calls us, he bids us come and die.” Obviously, the same could be said of any call from God. As is evident in today’s 1st reading, Ezekiel (2:2-5) knew quite

St. Edith Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01502509811355796207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601847.post-32525142736609805072009-06-29T21:13:00.001-04:002009-06-29T21:15:10.320-04:00

Bishop Grecco's VisitClick to view all the pictures.

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMILord Jesus,make us heroes and models of suffering in hope. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,The feast of Peter and Paul that marks the end of the Jubilee Year of St. Paul, brings us face to face with the twin pillars of the original church. They are popularly known as the “Apostle to the Jews” and the “Apostle to the Gentiles”. Both Peter and Paul suffered

St. Edith Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01502509811355796207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601847.post-21457649073758492242009-06-21T22:06:00.000-04:002009-06-29T22:07:59.517-04:00

Pilgrimage to Churches named after St. Paul

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMIA Greater Power Lord Jesus, help us cultivate trusting faith by daily giving ourselves to God’s care. Amen.My Dear Brothers and Sisters,Natural disasters like tsunami of 2004 that struck 12 countries in Asia and Africa, floodwaters of 2005 that ravaged India and Pakistan and the hurricanes like Katrina that hit North America made the whole world look on in

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMICovenantal Companions Lord Jesus, strengthen us through the Eucharist to give our own life’s blood in loving service to others.Amen.My Dear Brothers and Sisters,Mass is both sacrifice and meal. On this solemnity of body and blood of Christ we remember those two aspects in festive mode. The sacrifice is the broken body of Jesus given in death on the cross. The

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMITrinity in Liturgy Lord Jesus, may your loving action lead us to the transformative power of the Holy Trinity.Amen.My Dear Brothers and Sisters,Trinity Sunday is one of the four solemnities of the Lord during Ordinary Time. Since these feasts are dependent upon the celebration of Easter, they are called movable solemnities of Ordinary Time. The solemnities are:

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMIRisen Jesus, revive us in the Spirit so as to experience the Pentecostal spring of the early church. Amen.My Dear Brothers and Sisters,This Sunday we celebrate the solemnity of the First Pentecost, the gift of the Spirit unleashed upon the world. Those who knew themselves to be the recipients of that gift became newly identified as Church. And so Pentecost

St. Edith Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01502509811355796207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601847.post-4892199615227631942009-05-24T09:46:00.001-04:002009-06-17T22:13:52.110-04:00

Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMIAscension and SalvationRisen Jesus,fill us with your Spirit and inspire us to involve ourselves in the problems of the poor, needy and the lostAmen.My Dear Brothers and Sisters,Today we celebrate the feast of the Ascension of the Lord. Jesus, who rose from the dead as the conqueror of sin and death is now returning to the glory that was His from all eternity.

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Jesus, fill me with your spirit to live Calvary Love.   Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, It has been pointed out that when all is said and done, love boils down to a question of giving. It is a question of self-giving. It’s a question of forgiving. And it’s a question of thanksgiving. Today’s readings

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Jesus, help us stay united to you and give visibility to your presence when we gather as Church Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, On any given Sunday, we gather from places near and far to be nourished with the Living Word and the Living Bread. We come from different racial and ethnic backgrounds.

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I.Risen Jesus,good shepherd, transform your priests into a miracle of sacrificial love. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters,Today’s readings grace us with the assurance that we are God’s very dear and beloved children (1Jn 3:1-2) and that Jesus, by whose name we are being saved (Acts 4:8-12) is our good and caring shepherd. Though the images of shepherds and

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Risen Jesus, touch me and transform me through the redemptive power of your mercy. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Last Sunday we celebrated the feast of Divine Mercy giving importance to the scriptural readings. This Sunday’s readings also remind us of the redemptive mercies of the

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Risen Jesus, help us become a spark of Easter light in a world still filled with Good Friday darkness.   Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Jesus transformed the greatest tragedy in life into Easter Power and the speciality of that power is that it is communicable. Have we experienced this communicable

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Risen Jesus, help us open our hearts to the grace you won for us on the first Easter Sunday. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The grave becomes a holy place of communion and remembrance because of the person and the event we celebrate today: Jesus, alive, sprung from death to live forever.

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, transform the Jerusalem within us and help us become what we are meant to be. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Jesus made His entry into the city of Jerusalem over 2000 years ago. The city called holy now continues to be an unholy melting pot of fighting factions - both religious and

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us to die to our own will and offer our lives to you for whatever use you wish to make of them.  Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today’s scriptural texts give us a few images to feed our faith. In the Gospel (Jn 12:20-33), Jesus will offer the image of the grain of wheat falling to

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us experience eternal life as we journey in our covenantal relationship with God. Amen.   My Dear Brothers and Sisters, For the first three Sundays of Lent we have been hearing about the covenants that God established with Noah, Abraham and Moses. The covenant with Noah was

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me become a sharer in your self giving through the sacrificial offering I give during the Sunday Mass.  Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, In today’s gospel (Jn 2: 13 -25) we see Jesus cleansing the temple driving out those who made his Father’s house a market place. This event should

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me face the ups and downs of glory and humiliation in such a way as to radiate “Jesus effect”. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, In 1999 a book came out with the title, “The Nicholas Effect: A Boy’s Gift to the World”. In that book, author Reg Green was narrating the

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me rediscover the peace and power of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Keeping the joy of resurrection in focus, let us begin our Lenten journey. The gospel of this First Sunday of Lent (Mk.1:12-15) presents before us two of the bywords that

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, make the sick experience your healing through my presence while they receive anointing. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today’s gospel story of the healing of the paralytic (Mark 2:1-12) can serve to remind us of the importance of friends and family and members of the community in the care

St. Edith Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01502509811355796207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601847.post-66141483432731046852009-02-08T20:31:00.000-05:002009-02-04T20:31:44.332-05:00

Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us proclaim the hope that you whisper in our ears, through our lives. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today’s readings whisper hope in our ears. In the first reading (Job 7:1-4,6-7), Job’s sad harangue might bring us down except for the fact that we know the rest of his story. Just when it

St. Edith Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01502509811355796207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601847.post-86802867620702082772009-02-01T20:04:00.000-05:002009-01-28T20:05:58.265-05:00

Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, free us from within by our connection with God’s word and lead us to understanding, insight and faith. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, It may be both helpful and challenging to take our cue for this week’s reflection from today’s responsorial psalm (Ps. 95). In an appeal to the

St. Edith Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01502509811355796207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601847.post-15637098249667581192009-01-25T08:04:00.000-05:002009-01-19T20:05:26.172-05:00

Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us repent and reform our lives so as to bring all the churches together to a new orientation. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, At the end of this week for Christian Unity, the readings invite our attention to two categories of missionaries. In the first reading (Jonah 3:1-5

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Infant Jesus, make me respond to your call, listening to your voice in the poor and the sick. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, God’s call can come to us at any moment, in any place and in any circumstance. Samuel’s dramatic call to service, as narrated in today’s first reading (1 Sam. 3:3b-10,19) is

St. Edith Steinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01502509811355796207noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5601847.post-17423754315627120302009-01-11T08:39:00.000-05:002009-01-05T20:40:49.249-05:00

Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, empower me for the mission you gave me in baptism. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Christmas season is coming to a close this Sunday with the celebration of the Baptism of the Lord. This gives us an opportunity to celebrate the gift of our own sacramental baptism. Celebrating our baptism is

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, bestow on me “the gift of inclusiveness” and help us recognize our oneness in You. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, We gather today in this season of Christmas joy to celebrate the manifestation of the Lord to all the peoples of the earth. The three wise men paid homage to the

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us to decide that people are more important than things.   Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today’s liturgy invites our attention to two families: Abraham and Sarah, Joseph and Mary. Their adventurous acts in forging their way and in forming themselves as God’s people are reminiscent

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me to become a new creation through the gift of God’s presence.   Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Every year we celebrate Christmas. In every Christmas we celebrate the presence of God. How should we celebrate this wonderful gift of God’s presence in Christmas 2008? This Sunday’s

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, transform my anxieties into your joyful presence. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today is Gaudete Sunday. The name comes from the Entrance Antiphon from today’s liturgy. Every mass has an Entrance Antiphon (usually a phrase from scripture) assigned to it, and it used to be a custom to

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus,  help me to spread your good news with power and joy. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, A newspaper gives us news and also comments on news, which we call editorial. What about the good news we preach? The power of the good news which Jesus brought effects change with its full power when it is handled as a

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us become a power that no evil can defeat by our renewed attentiveness to God in our midst. My Dear Brothers and Sisters: Popular among the Greek and Roman tragedians was a theatrical device known in Latin as deus ex machina. That phrase, literally translated, means “God from the

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, open my eyes to care for the needy and make my life a liturgy pleasing to you. My Dear Brothers and Sisters: We are standing together on the threshold of a liturgical year now ending and another soon to begin. When endings mesh with beginnings, it seems only natural to look over our

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us acknowledge our gifts and talents and place them freely at the service of others. Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters: Do you remember Shel Silverstein’s parable The Giving Tree (Harper and Row Publishers, New York:1964)? “Once there was a tree”, it begins, “and she loved a little boy.” Regularly from

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me to encounter God in others and thereby enjoy communion with God.  Amen. Last Sunday we gave importance to holy people by commemorating all the faithful departed. This Sunday we are invited to focus attention on holy places. Today is the feast of the Lateran Basilica, the mother

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, strengthen our relationships with those who have gone before us to God through prayer and forgiveness.  Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today’s feast of All Souls and scripture texts that accompany it challenge us to become aware of the ecumenical and universal quality of life with God

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On October 26, 2008 the Archbishop of Toronto, Thomas Collins visited St. Edith Stein Parish. The occasion was the 10th anniversary of the canonization of our patron St. Edith Stein. This was the first visit of an Archbishop to our small parish but during the mass His Grace said that he was a long way from retiring and planned on coming back.    For more photos click on the picture below...

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me live your love tending the hurts of my “neighbour”.   Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, His Grace Archbishop Thomas Collins recently celebrated mass for the Knights of Columbus. The Gospel reading was that of the Good Samaritan. One of the Archbishop’s messages in the homily was

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me to appreciate your special love when you feed and fill me. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, As we celebrate World Mission Sunday 2008 on October 19th, the liturgical readings invite us to reflect on our mission in this world. It is one of involvement in a world and a culture imbued

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, strengthen me in my personal attention to discern your real presence in the Eucharist. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, In today’s Gospel (Mt 22:1-14) we see one man coming to the wedding banquet improperly dressed. He might have thought he was correctly attired. But the host spotted an

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, we are afraid of being rejected; strengthen us to become a vineyard that produces good fruit. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, What do you think of celebrating this Sunday’s liturgy having two banners depicting a vineyard on either side of the church? Today’s readings present us with a fine

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, make me a catechist teaching your mercy and generous forgiveness through my life My Dear Brothers and Sisters, The readings of this Sunday seems to invite our attention to the importance of catechesis in the church. The U.S. Catholic bishops have designated this third Sunday of September as

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, make me aware of my sinfulness, whenever I see your cross as salvific sign. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today we celebrate the Feast of the Exaltation of the cross. Is it not ironical that we exalt an instrument of execution? Despite its obvious cruelty and infamy, the cross has become a

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me to give caring correction instead of criticizing and complaining. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today’s readings invite our attention to the watchman’s role given us by God. As believers we are bound to one another by our shared faith in the same God. By virtue of that bond we

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, C.M.I. Lord Jesus, transform me by the renewing of my mind and make me a living sacrifice My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today’s word from St. Paul about offering our bodies as a living sacrifice offers us an ideal opportunity for some liturgical catechesis. That term can refer both to catechesis about the

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, give me the power to nurture others. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Authority is the focus of today’s readings, authority conferred, authority revoked, authority abused in the service of self, and authority used rightly, in the service of kingdom. By definition, the word authority means: 

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, stretch my arms with yours on the cross in the saving embrace of all mankind. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, All three of today’s readings and the responsorial psalm mesh today to focus our attention on the universality of God’s offer of salvation. God’s mercy and salvation is for all people,

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help me learn the new language and the new vision you teach and have an experience of understanding and oneness with others. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today’s scripture texts from the first book of Kings, from Paul and from Gospel according to Mathew invite us to an experience of understanding and

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, give me wisdom, courage and patience to risk all for the reign of God. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, A new era dawned in Sydney, Australia last week. The youth from all over the world with Pope Benedict XVI amidst them were brimming with life. The long awaited World Youth Day 2008, inaugurated with the

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, help us accept the seed, your Word, take it home with us and lovingly tend to it.   Amen. My Dear Brothers and Sisters, One much-loved teacher gave everyone in a first grade class a lima bean along with an explanation that each of them would be solely responsible for what became of it. With

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Message from Fr. Jose Koluthara, CMI Lord Jesus, make me ever approachable learning from you how to be gentle and humble of heart.  Amen My Dear Brothers and Sisters, God, as is revealed in today’s liturgy, remains utterly approachable. In today’s first reading (Zech 9:9-10), the prophet Zechariah celebrates the approachableness of God,

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