Saturday of the 5th Week of Eastertide Acts 16:1-10Jn 15:18-21 “...my choice withdrew you from the world” Throughout my decade-long career in education and now during postgraduate studies, I have always spent a fair amount of effort charting my own path. If I set my sights on an endeavour, I will explore and assess all... Continue Reading →
7 May, Friday – His Greatest Commandment
Friday of the 5th Week of Eastertide Acts 15:22-31Jn 15:12-17 “What I command you is to love one another.” While this is a familiar scripture passage which I have come across countless times, what struck me as I reflected upon today’s gospel is verse 16 “You did not choose me, but I chose you …” Prior... Continue Reading →
6 May, Thursday – The Father’s Love
Thursday of the 5th Week of Eastertide Acts 15:7-21Jn 15:9-11 As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you 6 years ago, during Mission Week, which was held a week before World Youth Day, I was placed in a foster home with a family of 2 parents and their 2 teenage children. The... Continue Reading →
5 May, Wednesday – My Heavenly Vinedresser
Wednesday of the 5th Week of Eastertide Acts 15:1-6Jn 15:1-8 “Every branch in me that bears no fruit he cuts away” It is strange how an experience can totally change how one perceives and understands the world around him. In today’s Gospel, our Lord Jesus talks about how His Father, the vinedresser, cuts away every... Continue Reading →
4 May, Tuesday – Permeating Peace In Our Lives
Tuesday of the 5th Week of Eastertide Acts 14:19-28 Jn 14:27-31 "Peace I bequeath to you; my own peace I give to you, a peace the world cannot give..." Most of us are familiar with the context of 'peace' in the scriptures which isn’t limited to the idea of an absence of conflict, isn’t fleeting,... Continue Reading →
2 May, Sunday – Let Not Our Hearts Fall Into Despair
5th Sunday of Easter Acts 9:26-311 Jn 3:18-24Jn 15:1-8 ...only by this can we be certain that we are children of the truth and be able to quieten our conscience in his presence, whatever accusation it may raise against us, because God is greater than our conscience and he knows everything. In this day and... Continue Reading →
27 April, Tuesday – Knowing God
Tuesday of the 4th Week of Eastertide Acts 11:19-26Jn 10:22-30 "I know them and they follow me." How do we know somebody? Is it through the various identification papers which he/she has, or even the occupation in which they are engaged in? Such an approach is what the world adopts but it certainly is not... Continue Reading →
26 April, Monday – Living life to the fullest
Monday of the 4th Week of Eastertide Acts 11:1-18Jn 10:1-10 “I have come so that they may have life and have it to the full.” What does it mean to live life to the full? This question has been attempted to be answered by many philosophers, but I believe that Jesus shows us the way which... Continue Reading →
25 April, Sunday — We are God’s Proxies
4th Sunday of Easter Acts 4:8-121 Jn 3:1-2Jn 10:11-18 “We shall be like Him” In the past few years, my wife and I have been blessed to be on the receiving end of many beautiful prayers, songs and music. Even within this Oxygen ministry, many of the sharings that my fellow writers contribute have been really... Continue Reading →
24 April, Saturday – The Bread Of Life
24 Apr – Memorial for St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, priest & martyr St. Fidelis Sigmaringen (1577-1622) was a lawyer and teacher of philosophy. Disgusted by the greed, corruption, and lack of interest in justice by his fellow lawyers, Mark Rey abandoned the law, became a priest and a Franciscan friar with his brother George. He changed... Continue Reading →
OXYGEN 