Focus

• Finding a musical identity in our liturgy for the English-speaking community

  Jul 24, 2014

  Our churches are currently going through a rather confusing stage regarding music in our liturgy.

  
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  A visit from the goddess of night

  Jul 24, 2014

  There are few more insightful studies into the spirituality of aging than the late James Hillman’s book, The Force of Character.

  

• Food For Thought

  Jul 17, 2014

  Jesus died because he was faithful to the mission of proclaiming the kingdom.

  
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  Is death willed by God? No, but our faithfulness is willed

  Jul 17, 2014

  We ask the question about many different people. “Why did he or she have to die?” The question grips our hearts especially when the person who died was young or a great leader or a good person.

  
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  Jesus didn’t back down from proclaiming the Gospel

  Jul 17, 2014

  The Nicene Creed and the Apostles’ Creed are summary statements of what Christians believe. Although the wording in these two creeds is somewhat different — the Nicene Creed is longer — they both express the same essential beliefs of the faith.

  
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  Disciples with many faces

  Jul 17, 2014

  In a new book entitled, Jesus of Nazareth, famed German scripture- scholar, Gerhard Lohfink, describes how people in the gospels relate to Jesus in different ways.

  

• Bishops urged to have open-door policy

  Jul 17, 2014

  At the 94th Plenary Session of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei (CBCMSB), Archbishop Joseph Marino addressed the Arch/bishops at the opening session.

  

• Food For Thought

  Jul 11, 2014

  This year, a group of US bishops celebrated Mass in Nogales, Ariz., close to the iron slabs that line the border between Mexico and the United States.

  

• Who is our neighbour?

  Jul 11, 2014

  It was a question posed in the midst of a discussion about gaining eternal life. When the scholar of the law asked Jesus what he must do, Jesus replied with the dual commandment to love God and love your neighbour.

  

• The riddle of my neighbours and yours

  Jul 11, 2014

  Neighbors are an enigmatic reality of life, a sort of riddle to solve. Many people are of two minds when it comes to “neighbours’ in the larger sense of the term found in the Gospels.