Sermon for 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year B Homily: The End!


The Last Days of Hope
33rd Sunday – Year B (Mk 13:24-32)
Everything comes to an end
We are moving towards the end of the liturgical year.  Next Sunday will be the feast of Christ the King.  And the following Sunday will be the first Sunday in Advent – the new year in the liturgical calendar.  The Liturgy of the Word today takes advantage of this time of the year to remind us of a difficult theme, namely, the end of times!
The theme of ‘the end of times’ or ‘the end of the world’ is indeed a difficult one. So are the readings of today.  Similar passages from the Gospels, together with the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelations, are the most misinterpreted texts in the Bible.  I personally found the preparation of this reflection quite difficult.  For sure, these texts […]

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Well-being and religious commitment amongst South African and Kenyan students.

Fadiji, A.W., Khumalo, I., & Selvam, S.G. (2023). The well-being correlates of religious commitment amongst South African and Kenyan students. South African Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/00812463231199960
Religious commitment is a prominent feature in the lives of many students in Africa. The present study investigated the well-being correlates (emotional well-being, social contribution, and depression) of religious commitment, and compared them across sex. A cross-sectional sample of 471 students from South Africa and Kenya (men = 244; women = 227; with an average age of 22.8 years) completed the Religious Commitment Inventory, Patient Health Questionnaire, Social Well-being Scale, and Mental Health Continuum Short-Form. Structural equation modelling in Mplus was used to estimate direct effects of religious commitment on emotional well-being, social contribution and depression, and comparison across sex. The results showed significant direct effects, attesting to the association […]

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Youth Caught in the Web

Nairobi, 15 April 2011

A three-day symposium organised by the Institute of Youth Ministry (IYM), came to an end today at Tangaza College.  On three afternoons different experts shared their ideas to a large audience on the theme of www.youthcaughtintheweb.com The symposium is an annual event, and this year’s one was specially planned by Fr Hubert Pinto.  On the first day, Mr Ronald Omboto, an IT-expert, led a three hour session on the history of Internet and  the World wide web (WWW).  He spoke also of the tremendous possibilities that exist due to this relatively new development. He also enumerated the socio economic political and cultural impact of the internet.

On the 2nd day, Fr Sahaya G. Selvam, SDB led the discussion on three sub-themes related to ‘youth caught in the web’.  He began […]

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