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  Put love and you will draw out love

  Oct 27, 2023

  As Christ’s good disciples, let us love one another with a love that is so great that we all became models for all believers, even in times of great affliction and trials, even in times of those who contract and fail to love us, because just like St John of the Cross would say, “when there is no love, put love, and you will draw out love.”

  
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  The terrible siege of Gaza

  Oct 27, 2023

  Long ago, when I attended catechism in secondary school at a mission school, a religious brother told us matter-offactly that Jews from around the world were returning to the state of Israel, established in 1948.

  
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  Pray with clay

  Oct 27, 2023

  “Go down to the potter’s house and there you will hear what I have to say.” (Jeremiah 18:2)

  
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  A subtler kind of poverty

  Oct 27, 2023

  Cardinal Francis George was once asked what he thought of the radical pacifism of people like Dorothy Day and Daniel Berrigan, prophetic figures who believed in absolute nonviolence.

  
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  There is only one God — the Creator of the universe

  Oct 20, 2023

  God was God not only of the Jews but of all humankind, including the Roman Emperor. He had created every human person in His own image (Gen 1:27).

  
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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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.

  
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  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.”