Sunday Reflection

• The Solemnity of Corpus Christi: Beyond the Carousel

  Jun 19, 2014

  A few weeks ago I came upon a beautiful carousel. Instant reflections of early childhood hit me as I remember the merry- go-rounds I would go on at Seaside Heights back in the day when the term “Jersey Shore” had no connotations of immorality.

  

• “Grace, love, and fellowship”

  Jun 12, 2014

  June is traditionally the month to honour the Holy Trinity. It is also the month when fathers are honoured. That’s an opportune, if delicate, congruence.

  

• “What the Spirit brings is very different.”

  Jun 05, 2014

  There are many gifts in the Church, many ministries, many works, many members.

  

• Jesus looked up to heaven

  May 29, 2014

  Jesus had a good season this Eastertide (1996). During Holy Week he made the covers of Time, Newsweek, and US News and World Report — a phenomenon that might lead us to think that he had really changed the world for good, except for the fact that the Unabomber appeared on all three covers the following week.

  

• As Good as the Christian Samaritans

  May 23, 2014

  They were the people that everyone hated. They were the Samaritans. The Romans and Greeks and other gentiles hated them because they saw them as just another group of Jews, only ones who could not benefit the empire much.

  
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  Irony behind attack on the two nuns in Seremban

  May 23, 2014

  The attack on two nuns of the Infant Jesus religious order outside the Church of the Visitation shocked many.

  

• How Do I Get There?

  May 16, 2014

  How do I get there from here? That question used to be part of every car trip to an unfamiliar place, at least when the wife got her way and the husband asked for directions. About twenty years ago, a newly married couple from the parish invited me to dinner.

  
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  The hudud debate: Stepping back from the chasm

  May 16, 2014

  So the two Pas private members’ bills, originally supposed to be tabled in Parliament in June, have been shelved.

  

• The Voice of the Lord

  May 07, 2014

  In the United States, most of our ranches are self contained. By that I mean that the rancher has his own fields for crops or grazing and his own facilities to care for his livestock.

  

• Apostolic Witnesses

  May 02, 2014

  Last weekend was amazing. The world’s attention was focused on the canonizations of Pope St. John XXIII and Pope St. John Paul II.