The Prophet Elijah in today’s First Reading took on 450 Baal worshippers and had them executed as a witness to the true living God of Israel. After this, this brave man of God became intimidated by a single woman Jezebel who threatened to kill him and so he ran away to hide in a cave. When one goes through [...]
In my current capacity, and for a time and for a season, my day job sees me working with a cluster of Catholic schools to build Catholic ethos and identity in these schools. During my orientation week, I had the honour and privilege of sitting in for a lesson observation for a Religious Education class held in one of the [...]
Before I started my journey in the faith, the Bible was a vast book using very complex words, and most of the time, I had no idea what they were talking about. Even when I started attending RCIA, I didn't believe reading the Bible would help me know God. But in December 2022, I came across a YouTube video [...]
There is often a piecemeal approach to Scripture. People are confused because they take bits and pieces of Scripture, or they pick and choose the Scripture passages to suit their own purposes. These commit a serious fallacy, presenting an imprecise and erroneous way to approach Scripture. Scripture is not considered in its entirety and as a whole. For example, people [...]
Why would our Lord Jesus Christ bring only three of his apostles up a mountain and leave the rest behind? The choice of the Lord dwells within the mystery of his plan of salvation for each person. We can only propose opinions without any clarity as to how close we are to the truth or how distant are we from [...]
Our family recently attended a Family Camp 2023 in Batam, organised by our parish Church of Saint Michael. It was a new experience for us, as my husband is a free thinker, my son is in the beginning stages of his faith with Catechism class level 1, and I am still learning about my faith through RCIA. It was also [...]
Drinking more deeply from the living waters of our faith Young one, words of wisdom, you must listen! To refuse, you cannot. Retreats are woven into the RCIA process to give our catechumens opportunities to encounter God, delve more deeply into our faith and bond with one another. The second retreat of our journey, the Faith and Life Retreat, was [...]
In Genesis 31: 34-35, “Meanwhile Rachel had taken the household images, put them inside the camel’s saddlebag, and seated herself upon them. When Laban had rummaged through her whole tent without finding them, she said to her father, “Do not let my lord be angry that I cannot rise in your presence; I am having my period.” So, despite his [...]
The First Reading and the Responsorial Psalms contain tones of restlessness and complain. The prophet Jeremiah in the First Reading was experiencing such tumult as he fought futilely against the onslaught of despair, sorrow, and terror. As a prophet of God, he was afraid for his life, so much so that he scolded God for beguiling him with a [...]
My family keeps a pet hamster, well technically it belongs to my sister, but we take turns taking care of it when she goes away on holiday. Recently, this pet hamster passed on. It was 2 and a half years old – considered very old in hamster age, and when it died, it had been struggling with hamster cancer in [...]
