1 March, Sunday – Called and Loved, Called to Love
2nd Sunday of Lent Gen 12:1-42 Tim 1:8-10Mt 17:1-9 …who has saved us and called us to be holy — not because of anything we ourselves have done but for his own purpose and by his own grace. This grace had already been granted to us, in Christ Jesus. The 3 passages for this second…
28 February, Saturday — Let us follow His ways to love as He loves
Saturday of the 1st Week of Lent Deu 26:16-19Mt 5:43-48 …you will be a people consecrated to the Lord… We are in the early days of the Lenten season, in preparation for the celebration of our Lord Jesus Christ’s resurrection. Today’s readings have much to offer our prayer, fasting and almsgiving practices. When read together,…
27 February, Friday — To forgive and forget is divine
Friday of the 1st Week of Lent Eze 18:21-28Mt 5:20-26 “All the sins he committed will be forgotten from then on.” There is a common saying, “To err is human, to forgive is divine,” which I feel is really incomplete. I know a lot of people — I admit I am guilty as well –…
26 February, Thursday — What if I asked for a stone?
Thursday of the 1st Week of Lent Est 4:17Mt 7:7-12 “Is there a man among you who would hand his son a stone when he asked for bread?” As I reflected on the Gospel today, I imagined it being read to a cheeky child who, after being read to, asks, “Then what if I asked…
25 February, Wednesday — Change is difficult
Wednesday of the 1st Week of Lent Jon 3:1-10Lk 11:29-32 “…there is something greater than Jonah here.” Back when I was a young adult, I underwent what one might term a transformation of a certain aspect of myself. Over the years that I spent in school, I had been wondering about friends’ responses to things…
24 February, Tuesday — Being present in prayer
Tuesday of the 1st Week of Lent Isa 55:10-11Mt 6:7-15 “So you should pray like this:…” On a particularly cold Saturday a few weeks ago, a warning for ice was issued in the northeast region of the Netherlands. For some reason, I missed the warning and was therefore shocked when I slipped and fell almost…
23 February, Monday — The choice is yours, and mine.
Monday of the 1st Week of Lent Lev 19:1-2,11-18Mt 25:31-46 “…in so far as you did this to one of the least of these….. in so far as you neglected to do it to one of the least of these…” The choices we make, more than the words we speak, determine where we will spend…
22 February, Sunday — A Greater Gift
1st Sunday of Lent Gen 2:7-9,3:1-7Rm 5:12-19Mt 4:1-11 …but the gift itself considerably outweighed the fall. One activity during training or teambuilding makes use of a white sheet of paper and the facilitator asking people to draw one dot. Immediately, everyone’s attention is on that one dot and it seems as if they have forgotten,…
21 February, Saturday — Am I being a Pharisee?
Saturday after Ash Wednesday Isa 58:9-14Lk 5:27-32 Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? 2025 was a year of nostalgia for me. I had several class reunions. The first one was around Chinese New Year. My Hwa Chong junior college class of 1982 met for dinner. It was a good turnout…
20 February, Friday — To eat or to fast?
Friday after Ash Wednesday Isa 58:1-9Mt 9:14-15 “…then they will fast.” Ash Wednesday fell on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. There was no fast and abstinence. My family welcomed many relatives and friends that day. Lunch was hearty and delicious. Today is the first Friday of Lent. It is also fast and abstinence…
19 February, Thursday — Choose Life
Thursday after Ash Wednesday Deu 30:15-20Lk 9:22-25 “Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants may live, in the love of the Lord your God, obeying His voice, clinging to him…” I am probably dating myself here, but I used to love the British pop group from the 1980s, ‘Wham!’. Yes, that fabulous duo,…
18 February, Wednesday — On Aging
Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs forty days before Easter (excluding Sundays). It falls on a different date each year, because it is dependent on the date of Easter; it can occur as early as Feb 4 or as late as Mar 10. Ash Wednesday gets its name from…
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