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Advent: An In-Between Season for an In-Between People (Five Ways to Make Advent 2024 Meaningful)

Fr. Satish Joseph

1 day ago4 min read

Advent: An In-Between Season for an In-Between People (Five Ways to Make Advent 2024 Meaningful)

The liturgical cycle has brought us once again to the season of Advent. The Advent season is unique in the sense that it anticipates...

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Celebrating the Covenant of Love: Becoming a Feet-Washing People

Fr. Satish Joseph

Mar 283 min read

Celebrating the Covenant of Love: Becoming a Feet-Washing People

Today is the Passover of the Lord. When Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples for the last time, it was different than all the...

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Obedience: Walking in the Footsteps of Christ

Fr. Satish Joseph

Feb 253 min read

Obedience: Walking in the Footsteps of Christ

Scripture Readings The story of Abraham willing to sacrifice his only son Isaac mystifies me on multiple levels. Even though surrounding...

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Shaped by God’s Love: A Vision for Lent 2024

Fr. Satish Joseph

Feb 134 min read

Shaped by God’s Love: A Vision for Lent 2024

Lent always raises a few all-familiar questions, “What are you doing for Lent?” or, “What are you giving up for Lent?” Answers to...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Dec 24, 20233 min read

Christmas 2023: Love and Tenderness

It has been quite a year. As parish priest of 5 parishes, life is a little complicated these days. The last two years have been...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Dec 2, 20234 min read

"If Only You'll Offer Shelter"

At the school Mass last week, I processed into Church with a manger – the very one in the picture. The students were intrigued but...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Apr 6, 20234 min read

"We Are What We Remember"

On Palm Sunday, I recall inviting everybody to make Holy Week a time to ‘remember’ the events of our redemption. I recall saying that as...

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"A Reflection on "The Jews" in the Gospel of John"

Fr. Satish Joseph

Apr 3, 20235 min read

"A Reflection on "The Jews" in the Gospel of John"

“Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him!” Proclaiming those words during Good Friday liturgy is always deeply moving for me. We’re...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Apr 1, 20232 min read

Holy Week: Remembering by Doing

Fr. Satish Joseph Memory is everything. Amnesia is like a death. This Tuesday, I lost my dear uncle, my dad’s only surviving brother. My...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Feb 22, 20233 min read

Lent: A Becoming

Fr. Satish Joseph Think about this for a minute. An entire people around the globe sets aside 40 days each year to live differently than...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Dec 25, 20224 min read

The Incarnation: Beyond the Obvious

There has been something inexplicable going on somewhere deep within me this Advent. I am finding it difficult to put it into words, but...

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"Neither do I Condemn You": A Rereading of the Story of the Woman Caught in Adultery

Fr. Satish Joseph

Apr 3, 20224 min read

"Neither do I Condemn You": A Rereading of the Story of the Woman Caught in Adultery

I hadn’t seen him in few months. Jerusalem, though, was abuzz with news about Jesus. Caiaphas, the high priest and the other religious...

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Lent 2022: Don't Let it Catch You by Surprise

Fr. Satish Joseph

Feb 17, 20225 min read

Lent 2022: Don't Let it Catch You by Surprise

Fr. Satish Joseph Super Bowl LVI is over, leaving some ecstatic and others crushed. Soon it will be time for March Madness – a thrilling...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Dec 27, 20212 min read

Everyone is Someone's HERO

I have never thought of myself as a hero... anyone's hero. I am keenly and painfully aware that I am an idealist. I have very high...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Dec 25, 20215 min read

Making Christmas Miracles

It was the summer of 1914. The Central Powers and the Allies had gone to war – the war we now know as the I World War. Both sides had...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Nov 27, 20214 min read

Advent: Beginning with the End

It is intriguing for many people that each Advent (on which we begin a new liturgical year), the scripture readings for Mass almost...

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The Resurrection is Not Magic! It is a Promise and An Invitation

Fr. Satish Joseph

Apr 4, 20215 min read

The Resurrection is Not Magic! It is a Promise and An Invitation

A question has always plagued my mind. If the incarnation of Jesus, his life, his death and resurrection was indeed meant to be the...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Apr 1, 20215 min read

The New Covenant - A 'New Normal'

When I prepared my Holy Thursday homily last year, the pandemic was raging. Public liturgies were suspended, everybody participated...

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The Road to Resurrection is through the Way of the Cross

Fr. Satish Joseph

Mar 28, 20212 min read

The Road to Resurrection is through the Way of the Cross

We have been through a lot in the last one year. As the human race, as a global community, as the people of God, we have been ground in...

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Fr. Satish Joseph

Feb 16, 20214 min read

From Dust to Dust

Dad had always wished to be buried in his ancestral grave. His grandparents and his parents are buried there. At his passing away in...

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