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“ Precious in the Sight of the LORD is the Death of the one of His Faithful Servants .” Psalm 116: 15 Fr Sngi Silvanus Lyngdoh calls it a day obliging God’s call to his heavenly home. He was born on 03 rd January, 1921 and was born to eternal bliss on 28 th May, 2016 at 5:30 am Saturday. He spent his last days in pain and suffering in the Nazzareth hospital for a month and finally, breathed his last on 28 th May, 2016 at 5:30 am Saturday. On the death of Fr Sngi (our father) we deeply feel sorry for the loss of his physical presence with us; yet, we are happy today because we have won a powerful intercessor in heaven on our behalf.        No doubt Fr. Sngi Silvanus Lyngdoh is a legend who lived among us leaving the glimpses of God’s love for His people. He is truly God’s beloved son who gave everything to God and to his people. He lived a life that was coupled with nature and grace. He endured pain and suffering to any ex

On love in the FAMILY/The Joy of LOVE Amoris Laetitia is a post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation resulted out of the pastoral heart of the Holy Father Pope Francis. In this lengthy document he offers new pastoral methods and the ways on how to help and accompany families towards wholeness and well-being.  It is basically a catholic approach that deals about the contemporary issues of the families from a very realistic point of view. Well, this noble document was first signed by the Roman Pontiff on 19 th March, 2016 on the feast of St Joseph the head of the holy family. It is a lengthy document divided into nine chapters, 325 paragraphs and has 270 pages. The document beautifully delves the theme on the joy of love from a triangle structure in a language that is lucid and simple; first it addresses the situation of the contemporary families in different contexts and backgrounds and then it sets scripture as an example where Jesus himself grew in a family setting; finally it spe

On love in the FAMILY/The Joy of LOVE...  Amoris Laetitia is a post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation resulted out of the pastoral heart of the Holy Father Pope Francis. In this lengthy document he offers new pastoral methods and the ways on how to help and accompany families towards wholeness and wellbeing.  It is basically a catholic approach that deals about the contemporary issues of the families from a very realistic point of view. Well, this noble document was first signed by the Roman Pontiff on 19 th March, 2016 on the feast of St Joseph the head of the holy family. It is a lengthy document divided into nine chapters, 325 paragraphs and has 270 pages. The document beautifully delves the theme on the joy of love from a triangle structure in a language that is lucid and simple; first it addresses the situation of the contemporary families in different contexts and backgrounds and then it sets scripture as an example where Jesus himself grew in a family setting; finally it spe

1. Mercy and Sin: At the very beginning of the article of CCC, gives the scriptural  reference from the New Testament, Jesus as the forgiving face of God. Lk 15: “Gospel is the revelation in Jesus Christ of God’s mercy to sinners.” Jesus is thus revealed in the scriptures as the symbol of God’s mercy for humanity. Mt 1: 21 Angel told Joseph “you shall call him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” Later the same is expressed in Jesus own words at the last supper that in His blood we have salvation. Mt 26: 28 The same is true of the Eucharist, the sacrament of redemption this is my blood of the covenant......poured out for the forgiveness of sins. The truth of our being is that God created us without us but He needs our response and will. Therefore St Augustine : God who created us without us cannot save us without us, to receive his mercy, we must admit our faults. We deceive if we deny our sins. However, Good news is that God’s grace is ever at our disposal prov

Theme: “ GOD of the Things or The Things of GOD” Readings: Amos: 8.4-7; Psalms: 112. 1-2, 4-6, 7-8; Timothy: 2.1-8; St. Luke: 16.1-13 . No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”  Introduction : Buddha said “Desire is the root cause of all evil. Jesus Said “Where your treasure is there your heart is…” Mt 6: 21. Dear friends in Jesus Christ, today the world has become attractive that everything we see, hear and talk about comes from our hearts. Therefore, as Jesus said “from the abundance of heart the mouth speaks.” Lk 6: 45. So we need to introspect and ask ourselves what do I Speak ? What is my Treasure? And who is my Master ? At this point I leave to your personal reflection and to answer to oneself to these three questions.  Well the book of Genesis tells us that God created us in his own image and likeness and entrusted us with al

            We are living in an age that is very much at home with sin. It reveals that the current generation is so much engrossed in sin that this age lost even the sense of sin. This reminds me of the words of Jesus where, he said ‘this generation is seeking for sings to believe in the Son of God’. But now I would like to say that, no sings, no symbols and not even miracles are sufficient to make this generation not to sin. Such is the state of sin. The Chinese story that goes, there are two wolves (good and evil) in every person ever at fight. Given the question who would win? The answer is the one that you and I feed the most. [1] This simple story reveals what is happening to the people of the time. And even the age old saying, “God gives and forgives, man gets and forgets” [2] and another saying, “to forgive is divine and to err is human.” [3] Therefore, it is in human nature to sin and err. The unfortunate thing about this is, that human is happy to commit sin and get