During my maiden visit to the central provinces of India, a fascinating thing that caught my attention was the round tables in the community dining halls. As the days went by, I realized that this…
2024: Dreams and fears
Four young Jesuits in formation share their anxieties, dreams, and plans for the year 2024 [auth] I’ll look for those moments The Greeks speak about two different ‘times’: firstly, chronos, the time that keeps moving,…
‘The Face of the Faceless’ – a powerful…
The way the film opens is intriguing. It highlights the water crisis faced by the villagers. The director’s deliberate choice to start the film with this scene is a clever way to emphasize the context…
To script a new beginning
Christmas is upon us once again at a time when “the still sad music of humanity,” that William Wordsworth talked about has become a screeching scream. This is so obvious in the context of the…
Christmas reveals God’s disponibility
By choosing the Incarnation as the way to involve themselves in the world, the three divine persons - the Father, Son and Spirit - placed themselves at the mercy of human beings. Of the many…
Did the Synod succeed?
Although everyone understood the historical importance of the Synod on synodality that began in Rome on 04 Oct 2023, many wondered if it will succeed. [auth] Well, the first Session ended on 29 October. Did…
“The Christmas I still cherish”
The star was hung and candle lit - M.K. George, SJ [auth] This is an old memory. To be precise, five decades old. The setting was a village in central Kerala, where life was still…
Christmas in a world of war, death and…
As I write this, the media are full of the sad, shocking, sickening news of the Hamas-Israeli war in the very land Jesus was born. The Ukraine war is still going on, with no hope…
“Tell me a Christmas story!”
Once upon a time, as all good stories begin, a young man, displaced from his village, found himself in a strange town with nowhere to stay. He was anxious, and rightly so. He was from…