Sunday Reflection
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Are you the One, or are we to wait for another?
Dec 09, 2022
Today, we are officially past the half way mark of Advent, with only one more Sunday to go before Christmas. We call this Sunday Gaudete Sunday. It means ‘to rejoice’. We are given reasons for rejoicing.
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Getting ourselves ready for the Messiah
Dec 02, 2022
John’s message interrupts the circumstances of our life. His message disrupts the patterns and habits of our life within our family, social circumstances, business transactions, and consumer activities.
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Advent is a wake-up call from God
Nov 25, 2022
Today the Church begins the new Liturgical Year with the season of Advent. This season can be seen as a kind of wake-up call to us to ask us how we are preparing for the coming of Christ.
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Jesus is King … a crucified King
Nov 18, 2022
Leadership is rather about searching for the lost and saving them, like the good thief and Zacchaeus, the lost sheep, the lost coin, the lost son, the woman of ill-repute, etc. It is about serving the deprived, the oppressed and the scum of the earth. It is about forgiveness. It is about service in
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How shall we endure?
Nov 11, 2022
Stand firm to the end, Jesus tells us. “By your endurance, you will gain your souls.”
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Believing in the Resurrection
Nov 04, 2022
In today’s first reading, which is the moving story of the martyrdom of the seven brothers, we see our own story as Christians in this age and time.
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God gives us the grace to repent endlessly
Oct 28, 2022
For Catholics, this truth is also part of our Sunday Mass. Our Eucharistic prayer paraphrases the Roman centurion whose faith in Jesus allowed his servant to be healed without Jesus’ presence.
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Humility leads to a deeper knowledge of oneself
Oct 21, 2022
Comparisons can be diabolical. Jesus hardly ever compares people. We don’t find Him comparing Peter with John, or the younger son with the elder son in the story of the Prodigal Son.
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With God’s help we can make the impossible possible
Oct 14, 2022
Prayer after Communion, having been cleansed, we ask to be elevated – elevated through participation into the very mysteries we serve, so that the fullness of the majesty of the mysterium tremendum et fascinans be secured for us as eternal gifts.
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Being thankful and showing gratitude
Oct 07, 2022
Leprosy! This dreaded disease or word whenever spoken or heard, since ancient times, and still today, exists in some countries. As we reflect upon those who are suffering from it, our first thought is to avoid them at all costs rather than show compassion.
Sunday Reflection
Trap of the human heart
Reflecting on our Sunday Readings with Fr Dr Lawrence Ng Yew Kim