Holy Saturday -- Fourth Reading Is 54:5-14Ps 30:2,4,5-6,11-12,13 “I did forsake you for a brief moment, but with great love will I take you back.” It’s easy to think that God has abandoned us when trials come our way, or when our prayers are not answered. I don’t think I’ve ever outrightly blamed God or accused... Continue Reading →
3 April, Saturday — Speak Lord, Your Servant is listening
Holy Saturday -- Fifth Reading Is 55:1-11Is 12:2-3,4,5-6 “listen, and your soul may live.” This line stood out for me. It is as if God is telling us to listen to him so that we may live (a purposeful life). A lot of the time, we probably don’t even know when God is actually trying... Continue Reading →
3 April, Saturday — Learning about the importance of wisdom
Holy Saturday -- Sixth Reading Bar 3:9 – 15,32 – 4:4 Who has found the place of wisdom? As someone who has not attended the Easter Vigil for years (or more accurately, decades), the Oxygen reflections were a good chance for me to find out more about the passages featured in this ‘mother of all... Continue Reading →
3 April, Saturday — Constant conversion through God’s grace
Holy Saturday -- Seventh Reading Eze 36:16-17,18-28 “You will live in the land I gave to your ancestors. You shall be my people and I will be your God.” When I read this passage from Ezekiel, it struck me as rather stern and remonstrating in tone, rather similar to the reading before it. Ezekiel was... Continue Reading →
3 April, Saturday — Baptism
Holy Saturday -- Epistle Rm 6:3-11 ...we too might live a new life. At the end of February, on a beautiful Sunday morning, I sat in a pew and meandered about my attachments – to things, people and meanings of these ‘things'. I thought about my hurts, betrayals, un-forgiveness, and how I have been judged,... Continue Reading →
3 April, Saturday — Getting out of my tomb
Holy Saturday -- Gospel Mark 16:1-7 He has risen, He is not here. A year ago, I painted a scene from today’s gospel reading. It was week 2 into Singapore’s lock down – the circuit breaker. Looking back, that period was tough; a difficult time in human history. Being stuck at home was like being... Continue Reading →
2 Apr, Friday — Death for Life
Good Friday There is no Mass today. The readings are used in the afternoon celebration of the Lord's Passion. Isa 52:13-53:12Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9Jn 18:1-19:42 See, my servant will prosper, he shall be lifted up, exalted, rise to great heights. The fourth song of the servant by the prophet Isaiah opens with such a dazzling and... Continue Reading →
1 April, Thursday – The Anointed One!
Maundy Thursday – Chrism Mass Isa 61:1-3,6,8-9Apo 1:5-8Lk 4:16-21 “...he has anointed me.” In preparing for today’s reflection, I did some searching, literally online, and then some soul searching too! I asked myself what does it mean to be the anointed one? I knew of course that our Lord Jesus Christ is THE anointed one... Continue Reading →
1 April, Thursday — God has my back!
Maundy Thursday – Mass of The Lord’s Supper Exo 12:1-8,11-141 Cor 11:23-26Jn 13:1-15 Jesus knew that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was returning to God..."At the moment you do not know what I am doing, but later you will understand.” How easy it is... Continue Reading →
11 April, Saturday – (Epistle) Dying and Rising
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 →
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