Suffering is something that everyone wants to avoid. No one intentionally wants to suffer for nothing. Why do you avoid suffering? Where there is deep love, there is less suffering and yet there is tremendous suffering as well. When a parent loves the child deeply, there is nothing the parent would not do for the child. If the child has [...]
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (John 14: 15). A “commandment” refers to an order from an authority, and comes from the Old French word, commander – “to enjoin”, “to order”, and “to entrust” (Online Etymology Dictionary, n.d.). This entrustment has to come from someone who wields the supreme authority, who has, in military terms, a complete [...]
John 15: 26-27 says, “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.” And Luke 24: 48-49 states, “You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the [...]
In Matthew 8: 19-20, a scribe comes up to Jesus and declares that he would go wherever Jesus would go, and Jesus gives a somewhat cryptic reply: “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.” Perhaps, the scribe was expecting that in following Jesus, this journey would [...]
On the 11th of April 1964, Pope Paul VI broadcasted a radio message. It was to be the start of the first World Day for Vocations. Pope Paul VI then went on to explain how the readings of the day, present Jesus, the Good Shepherd who has a heart to shepherd his people. The presence of healthy vocations to the [...]
Emmaus was a town that was 7 miles away from Jerusalem, and on the road heading towards that destination, were two despondent disciples who having experienced the Passion and the death of Jesus, were heading as far away as they could from Jerusalem. They needed to recalibrate their thoughts and process the grief that they carried in their hearts, so [...]
Like Peter am I bold enough to proclaim the Word of God to others? What happened to Peter the fisherman, the disciple who denied Jesus three times? What made him speak so eloquently? Do we choose to keep quiet even though prompted by the Holy Spirit to speak and share the Word of God. Perhaps fear has crept in that [...]
The Second Sunday of Easter marks the last day of the Easter Octave, and is also a designated Sunday, that has been set apart to celebrate the Graces and the Mercy of God our Father. As the Closing Prayer of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy states, “Eternal God, in whom mercy is endless and the treasury of compassion inexhaustible, look [...]
In my prayer, this year, I heard and saw the cry of a teenage girl saying, “I waited for someone to show me mercy”, her face revealed the pleading of her heart and her following words showing the crushing of her hope: “I used to be religious, I used to be…” What difference can we make in the life of [...]
Encounter St Luke's Night Sat, 29 April 2023 Have you been yearning for a more authentic and deeper conversation with someone or yourself? What if God our Father is inviting you to a conversation with him? St. Luke's Night is a specially curated event for non-Catholics to know more about the Catholic Faith, but your non-Catholic friend [...]
