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 →
11 April, Saturday – (7th reading) Dear World…
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 →
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 →
11 April, Saturday – (Gospel) The Life we Treasure
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 →
11 April, Saturday – (2nd reading) Everything is a Blessing
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 →
10 April, Friday – Ctrl+Alt+Del
Good Friday Isa 52:13-53:12Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9Jn 18:1-19:42 he became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation. By now, the world would already have been engulfed by the COVID-19 virus and somehow, each of us would probably know of or even know someone who contracted the virus. And there could only have been... Continue Reading →
9 April, Thursday – Loving us better than we love ourselves
Maundy Thursday - Mass of the Lord's Supper Ex 12:1-8, 11-141 Cor 11:23-26Jn 13:1-15 It must be an animal without blemish In today’s reading, God required the Israelites to prepare an animal for their passover meal. He specifically said that the animal chosen must be that without blemish. Foreshadowing aside, it made me wonder if... Continue Reading →
9 April, Thursday – Kintsugi: To Bind Up Hearts that are Broken
Maundy Thursday - Chrism mass Isa 61:1-3, 6, 8-9Apo 1:5-8Lk 4:16-21 To bind up hearts that are broken In January 2019, I attended a retreat where the retreat director introduced the Japanese practice of kintsugi. Kintsugi is the practice where broken ceramics or potteries are repaired through the use of lacquer using gold. The repaired... Continue Reading →
7 April, Tuesday – I will follow you
Tuesday of Holy Week Isa 49:1-6Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later Many years ago, I rushed back from China to be at my mother’s side. Mom suffered a relapse of cancer and this time round, the doctors told our family she was on her... Continue Reading →
6 April, Monday – Is God still God?
Monday of Holy Week Isa 42:1-7Jn 12:1-11 Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased, upon whom I have put my Spirit Early in the New Year, the Spiritual Director (SD) of the centre we serve in called for a leadership change of all Ministry Heads. This was... Continue Reading →
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