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Dr. John Singarayar, SVD

Dr. John Singarayar, SVD, a priest of the Society of the Divine Word from the Mumbai Province in western India, holds a doctorate in Anthropology. He contributes regularly to journals and publications focusing on sociology, anthropology, tribal studies, spirituality, and mission.

By Dr. John Singarayar, SVD

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Vocation to Religious Brotherhood

Brothers' lives will not make headlines, but they will change hearts. And perhaps that is the most important bridge of all, the one between despair and hope, loneliness and belonging, indifference and love.
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St Devasahayam: India’s Laity Find Their Champion Saint

“We have a new patron saint,” he said, his voice carrying across the small congregation of shopkeepers, teachers, and daily wage workers. “Pope Leo has declared Saint Devasahayam the patron saint of all lay people in India.”
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Screens and Silence at the Dinner Table

We can choose to look up and rediscover that the sacred has always been waiting in the faces of those we are called to love most deeply.
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Mary at the Cross & Earth at the Crossroads

In Mary’s embrace, creation finds not just a mourner, but a mother who will never stop believing in the power of love to triumph over death.
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Mary & SVD: Two Anniversaries & One Mission

The evening air in Mumbai carried something special on September 8, 2024. At St. Theresa’s Church in Bandra, hundreds of parishioners filled the courtyard, their hands cradling flickering candles and fresh flowers.
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Mother Teresa: Seven Timeless Lessons

Seven principles guided her extraordinary life, and they offer timeless wisdom for anyone seeking to lead with genuine meaning.
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Living the Fruit of the Spirit Online

The fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, emerges as essential architecture for souls navigating digital turbulence.
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God specializes in broken things

“The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost,” Luke 19:10.
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Whispered Rosaries, Silent Resistance: Mary’s Queenship in Persecuted India

Every whispered “Hail Mary” becomes an act of rebellion. Every clandestine gathering for Mass becomes a declaration that Christ’s kingdom cannot be silenced.
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One Day Carries Two Dreams of Liberation

Every August 15, something remarkable happens in India. Two celebrations unfold on the same day, one honoring the Assumption of Mary into heaven, the other marking India’s independence from British rule.

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