Today, we welcome Doug Lee to our stable of contributors. Doug and his wife Cindy make their home in Los Angeles, CA. He is in the empty-nester chapter of his life. He is a part-time Christian freelance writer and also enjoys writing anonymously for a self-help service group. He teaches religious education, volunteers as a... Continue Reading →

2nd reading of Easter Vigil Gen 22:1-18Ps 15(16):5,8-11Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me. Trite phrases like “blessings in disguise” and “every cloud has a silver lining” aren’t particularly effective in the here and now... Continue Reading →

3rd reading for Easter Vigil Exo 14:15-15:1Exodus 15 The Lord is a warrior! ‘The Lord’ is his name. Slippery socks in shifty shoes, buggy software, loose strings, and bent spatulas. Niggling things that get in the way of what we set out to do. When equipment fails and the tools that we trust let us... Continue Reading →

1st reading for Easter Vigil Gen 1:1 – 2:2Ps 103(104):1-2,5-6,10,12-14,24,35 God said… and so it was. I think most of us would have read this reading. After all, it’s the first chapter of the first book of the Bible. And because it’s been read so much, a lot of us might just gloss over the... Continue Reading →

4th reading for Easter Vigil Isa 54:5-14Ps 29 But with everlasting love I have taken pity on you, says the Lord, your Redeemer I always have a great admiration for pet owners. They patiently take care of the pets which they own and faithfully take care of them when they are ill. They are ever... Continue Reading →

5th reading for Easter Vigil Isa 55:1-11Isa 12 “Seek the Lord while he is still to be found, call to him while he is still near.” The cornerstone of our Christian faith is the resurrection of Jesus. After a period of austerity and abstinence, we look forward to Easter Sunday, rejoicing that Jesus has conquered... Continue Reading →

6th reading for Easter Vigil Bar 3:9-15,32-4:4Ps 18 (19):8-11 Learn where there is wisdom, where there is strength, where there is understanding, so that you may at the same time discern where there is length of days, and life, where there is light for the eyes, and peace. Wisdom is not over-rated. I was never... Continue Reading →

7th reading for Easter Vigil Eze 36:16-17, 18-28Ps 41(42):2-3,5,42:3-4 You shall be my people and I will be your God. I have spent much of the past 2 weeks or so working from home, getting used to an unprecedented situation where we are about to shut down our campuses. While working from home is not... Continue Reading →

Epistle for Easter Vigil Rm 6:3-11Ps 117 (118):1-2, 16-17, 22-23 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus. I did not quite comprehend the concept of my baptism being the death of my old self and that “all of us who have been baptised into Christ Jesus... Continue Reading →