Joseph Masilamany

Peace, in this vision, is not something imposed from above or enforced through strength. It begins in vulnerability. God enters history not as a ruler but as a child, dependent on a mother’s care.

From cathedrals to parish churches across the country, the nine Catholic dioceses in Malaysia marked the close of the Jubilee Year 2025 on Sunday, December 28, through solemn Masses and thanksgiving celebrations.

Brothers Gabriel, Michael, Anthony, Peter, and Francis, each carrying a different temperament, a different way of being “Christmas-ly” present are no more.

Juan Diego’s reaction reveals his heart. “I am a nobody,” he told her. “Choose someone important, respected.”

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception, celebrated each year on December 8, now speaks to me not of perfection, but of preparation, how God readies hearts long before miracles unfold.

Crisis must be understood not merely as danger but as a doorway through which the Church can grow, Archbishop Simon Poh of Kuching said, urging Asian Catholics to confront modern challenges with confidence and hope.

When Cardinal Sebastian Francis spoke, his words carried both warning and blessing. “We need children,” he said, “otherwise there is no future.”

A two-day weekend session in Kuching, Malaysia, has highlighted the rapid expansion of Oral Bible Translation (OBT) and the impact of audio Scripture tools among indigenous communities in Borneo and other Southeast Asian regions.

As over 1,000 delegates from various countries across Asia gather in Penang for the first major continental assembly of the Church in 20 years — the Great Pilgrimage of Hope (Nov 27–30) — the theme, “Journeying together as peoples of Asia” (“And they went a different way,” Mt 2:12), could not be more fitting for a continent as vast and richly textured as ours.

The dream of an Asian Christianity is not uniformity, but harmony. It is a Church that wears local colours yet speaks the universal truth of love.