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Singing is praying twice

Oct 20, 2023

Christians sing in Praise and Worship. Christians have hymns and songs of praise, thanksgiving, adoration and worship.
Looking at poverty beyond statistics

Oct 20, 2023

Lower allocations for Welfare mean that charitable organisations, such as Church outreach ministries, may have to pick up the slack in our ration distribution and food basket programmes.
Happy are those who serve the Lord

Oct 20, 2023

Like the exhausted yet dedicated RCIA leader who prepares the deep discourses to present to adults who are seeking to convert — he is indeed obeying the command of Jesus to share the Good News.
Our lifestyle and our over-strained planet

Oct 20, 2023

In a book, The Book of Hope, which he co-authored with Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams makes this statement: Creating the human race may be the single biggest mistake evolution ever made.
Pope Francis’ urgent plea on behalf of planet Earth

Oct 20, 2023

Reflecting on the worsening climate change crisis in the eight years since he wrote his environmental encyclical letter Laudato Si’ — concerning the urgent importance of caring for our common earth-home — Pope Francis laments, “I have realised that our responses have not been adequate, while the world in which we live in is collapsing and may be nearing breaking point.”
Say ‘Yes’ to the invitation

Oct 13, 2023

To believe that all are invited to heaven, and to recognise that some accept and some decline, is not the end of the matter.
Context is everything

Oct 13, 2023

The Church is universal, and so is stupidity. Being a member of one automatically co-opts me into the other.
Our deepest loneliness

Oct 13, 2023

Moral loneliness is what we experience when we ache for moral affinity, that is, for a soulmate, for someone who meets us, understands, and honors all that’s deepest and most precious inside us.
The Kingdom of God can never be destroyed

Oct 06, 2023

“Below expectation and beyond expectation” could be a perspective from which to reflect on today’s readings, especially the Gospel. Our way of life and the fruit we bear fall below God’s expectation.
Catechesis and the Kerygma

Oct 06, 2023

From the time of the Middle Ages (500AD-1500AD), the common form of catechesis was the homily preached by the clergy at Mass.