The sixth International Day of Education will be celebrated on 24 January 2024 under the theme “learning for lasting peace”. UNESCO is dedicating the International Day of Education celebrated on 24 January 2024 to the crucial role education and teachers play in countering hate speech, a phenomenon which has snowballed in […]
4th Sunday of Year C – 2022
God’s ways are not our ways – we have been told long ago and we know it, perhaps… from experience! The prophet Jeremiah had certainly learned this from experience! The 1st reading of today is a good example of this (Jeremiah 1:4-5,17-19). « Get yourself ready. Stand up!” With these words, […]
International Literacy Day – 8 September
According to UNESCO, about 774 million adults lack the minimum literacy skills. One in five adults is still not literate and two-thirds of them are women. About 75 million children are out-of-school and many more attend irregularly or drop out. However, literacy is also a cause for celebration on the […]
Feast of the Transfiguration, Year A *
* (This feast takes the place of the 18th Sunday of Year) The gospel of this Sunday (Feast of the Transfiguration, Year A – Mt.17:1-9) presents us with a scene that is rather unusual in the life of Jesus. It is no wonder that the apostles are startled and even […]