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Liturgical Reflection for Feast of Archangels

In the Gospel passage, Jesus gave us a practical suggestion to seek the treasure that will last. Yet, so often we are blinded by what is in front of us and that causes us to just cave in to that immediate gratification to satisfy ourselves. A nice car, a new phone or the next NETFLIX series and at times, in [...]

By |2022-09-22T15:21:30+08:00September 22nd, 2022|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for Feast of Archangels

The Cry of the Poor

According to the World Health Organisation, malnutrition can be defined as stunting, being underweight, wasting, undernutrition, obesity, and/or being overweight as a result of inadequate or improper intake of macro and micro nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, that eventually lead to diet-related diseases such as diabetes, or beriberi (World health Organisation, 2021). The statistics reveal that in 2020, across the globe, [...]

By |2022-09-15T15:02:08+08:00September 15th, 2022|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on The Cry of the Poor

Liturgical Reflection for 25th Ordinary Sunday

The first reading reveals how unscrupulous people treat the poor in the ancient times - ‘Lowering the bushel, raising the shekel, and tampering with the scales’ for financial gains. Fast forward 2000 years later, similar practices abound. The rich get richer and the poor continues to be poor. How is it that these situations persist? ‘Never will I forget a [...]

By |2022-09-15T10:06:25+08:00September 15th, 2022|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 25th Ordinary Sunday

Building Community at Tenteram

The Jalan Tenteram area has many new and young families, and the Holy Spirit was speaking powerfully to Jennifer Noronha when she discovered that during the parish's recent outreach to that area, that many Catholics and parishioners of the Church of St. Michael living in the vicinity did not know many people and each other. With the Feast Day celebrations [...]

By |2022-09-11T22:38:54+08:00September 11th, 2022|Building Koinonia, Featured story, Stories & Testmonies|Comments Off on Building Community at Tenteram

Liturgical Reflection for 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

How do we feel when we have gone out of our way to help someone but see that our acts of kindness are soon forgotten or treated lightly? Even though the Israelites had witnessed amazing miracles which had been worked on their behalf, they forgot them very quickly and, worse, turned back to their familiar idols and gods of Egypt. [...]

By |2022-09-08T16:33:35+08:00September 8th, 2022|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Church’s Teaching on IVF

A couple of months back, I did a spinal and postural check just to see if things were functionally okay. From the front, things appeared to be in alignment and good, but from the side, the advanced Scientific scanning equipment revealed that my posture was destabilised and tilted off a couple of angles. This resulted in a forward thrust of [...]

By |2022-09-08T21:34:27+08:00September 8th, 2022|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on The Church’s Teaching on IVF

Liturgical Reflection for 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

In today’s Gospel, we hear Jesus challenging us to give up our possessions and desires and dedicate ourselves to the work of the Gospel. “Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple”- Luke 14:27. The call for us to take up the cross and follow Jesus is not something easily understood especially so [...]

By |2022-09-01T15:08:42+08:00September 1st, 2022|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Dignity of a Person

In John 10:10, Jesus says, “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” Since the creation of Mankind by God our Father, Humanity has been invited to enter into the fullness of life that is offered by God. This fullness of life has dimensions beyond one’s earthly existence. Intrinsic in this, is a call to partake of [...]

By |2022-09-01T08:45:06+08:00August 30th, 2022|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on The Dignity of a Person

Liturgical Reflection for 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

“For everyone who exults himself will be humbled, and the man who humbles himself will be exalted.” Of all the ways others have described you, how many have described you as a humble person? His state was divine, yet Christ Jesus did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave, and became as men [...]

By |2022-08-24T09:37:26+08:00August 24th, 2022|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

A Catholic Approach to Addiction

Beginning in the Victorian era and continuing into the 1960s, there were many floating pseudo-Sciences and quackeries that were masquerading themselves as legitimate medical practices. Women were often sent to asylums to treat their monthly hysterias, while supposed medical practitioners often advocated extreme and shocking measures such as lobotomies to eradicate temperaments. An infamous case in point was Rosemary Kennedy [...]

By |2022-08-26T13:46:11+08:00August 22nd, 2022|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on A Catholic Approach to Addiction