“I believe killing time is the murder of creativity,” he says with a quiet smile. “COVID-19 poured time upon us like water off a duck’s back, plenty of it, yet easily wasted.”
Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrão, Archbishop of Goa and Daman and President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of India (CCBI), has extended New Year greetings to the people of Goa and the nation, while expressing serious concern over the growing insecurity faced by minority communities in India.
As the Year of the Ordinary Jubilee 2025 drew to a close in the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, southwest India, Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, Archbishop of Goa and Daman and President of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC) and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CCBI), speaking to Radio Veritas Asia, described the Holy Year as “a gift of grace” that has deeply touched the lives of the faithful.
Cardinal Ferrão stressed that holiness is nurtured through daily work done with dedication and faith, stating that “through our work, our families, our communities, and the Church become holy.”
The Karnataka–Goa Province of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, southwest India, organised the Scholastics’ Meeting for the academic year 2025–26 on December 27–28, 2025, at Pushpashrama, Institute of Philosophy and Religion, Mysuru.
The Archdiocese of Goa and Daman, western India, solemnly concluded the Year of the Jubilee on December 28, 2025, the Feast of the Holy Family, with a Eucharistic celebration at the Sé Cathedral, Old Goa.
In a recently published Christmas message, Filipe Neri Cardinal Ferrão, Archbishop of Goa and Daman and President of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences (FABC), urged the faithful in Asia to “become instruments of transformation, bringing peace to a disturbed world.”
The Diocesan Catechetical Centre of the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman organized a one-day Advent recollection on December 14 for lay catechists across the Archdiocese.
Thousands of devotees thronged the Basilica of Bom Jesus in Old Goa, western India, on Dec. 3 to celebrate the solemn feast of St. Francis Xavier, affectionately called by Goan Catholics Gõycho Saib, meaning “Patron of Goa.”
