Commentaries

This long march to authenticity is achieved only when we learn to move from untruth to truth.

Let us hear His voice in our mutual support during these challenging times

What was she like? What kind of woman would be chosen by God to bear His Son, and what kind of woman would have the faith and grace to do it?

Yes, we feel death of every friend diminishes us. How to we maintain our humanity and grow out of these dark days? We need to cry at the loss. Since we have love, our hearts are broken. To shed tears is the ultimate sanctity of human relationships. Jesus wept at his friend Lazaro’s death.

We offer all our people to the protection of God. Our people's destiny is more and more in the hands of God as we sail through these stormy seas of fear, despair, anxiety and pandemic.

'I appeal to the authorities to facilitate the secure participation of all the health workers'

"Let each one of us start a spiritual pilgrimage of not colluding with dark forces of evil but have the courage to confront evil and like the apostles"

In mourning him, we also commit ourselves to his dream of a new world of justice and peace.

For the last five months, our faith is challenged. How to believe in a God when everything goes against God’s love in the reality?

Peter and Paul were free because they were set free. Let us reflect on this central point.

We have an urgent message for today and it comes from the Second reading: St Paul says “As Christ became poor for our sake, so must we share with those in need from our abundance.”

"Dear Myanmar people, this darkness will go away. Let us believe. Let us hope. Let the God of Moses who walked with the Israelites in the desert lead us to the promised land."

"The poor, always and everywhere, evangelize us, because they enable us to discover in new ways the true face of the Father"

The Church has always stepped in in times of crisis, and its religious personnel are usually in the frontline.

Statement of Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Yangon following the reported attack on churches in eastern Myanmar

Today is Pentecost, a day when we celebrate the birth of the Church by the coming of the Holy Spirit. It is also a day that launched the Church’s participation in Jesus’ mission to the world.

As the apostles looked up to heaven when Jesus ascended into heaven, we too look up to heaven praying for peace in our land.

In an increasingly socially-fractured India, we need many more such sterling examples like the late Tarun Gagoi who would set a new benchmark in building an inclusive and tolerant society.

"The Church is called to go out into the streets of every existential periphery in order to heal wounds and to seek out the straying"

We pray to the Good Shepherd, protect all of us, our children, lead us to the green pastures of peace and hope. Even if we walk in the valley of darkness, let you hand guide us.