Our Lenten journey began on Ash Wednesday when we took up our crosses together with Him to walk in his footsteps. We witnessed his triumphant entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. He then showed true love, stewardship and humility on Holy Thursday when he washed our feet. On Good Friday, He gave the ultimate sacrifice – His life as He [...]
In Numbers 21: 4-9, we read of how the Hebrews lost patience with their journey and with God, and began to bitterly complain against God and to blame Him for taking them out of their security in Egypt. So God, as a response to their grievous sin, permitted venomous serpents to strike the people, causing many to die. The people [...]
Today marks the beginning of Holy Week, the holiest week in our liturgical calendar. This day commemorates two very significant events in the life of Jesus Christ – His triumphal entry into Jerusalem and the proclaiming of the passion. On this day, the Church re-enacts the entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem with a solemn procession, with songs and gestures [...]
In today’s first reading, Prophet Jeremiah spoke about God’s promise of the “New Covenant” Why is there a need for a “New Covenant” since God has been faithful to His promise to the forefathers? Throughout the Old Testament, the relationship of God with His people had been difficult, causing the old Covenant to be broken. Therefore, with God’s grace and [...]
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way. A voice of one crying out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.’” - Mark 1: 2-3 There are more than 150 mentions of the the word, "Prepare" , kun in Hebrew, [...]
"God saw all that He had made, and it was very good." - Genesis 1:31 We live in a world of flux, a world of pathos and bathos, bathed in the fragmentation of a post-modern sociological consciousness, where humanity has been taught to question the existence of God, and of which humanity has been exiled and inevitably spiraled into a [...]
The term, "Sea Change" can be traced etymologically to its first use in 1610, when William Shakespeare wrote and produced the play, The Tempest: “Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade/ But doth suffer a sea-change/ Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs [...]
What do we know about Lent, and why do we celebrate it in the first place? HISTORY Since the earliest times of the Church, there is evidence of some kind of Lenten preparation for Easter, but Lent only became more regularized after the legalization of Christianity in A.D. 313. The Council of Nicea (325), in its disciplinary canons, noted that [...]
A diapause is an indefinite period of time of suspended development in insects, invertebrate, or mammalian embryos, during seasons of unfavourable environmental conditions. The term "diapause" was coined by a German entomologist in 1893 to describe such a period of temporary limbo during the embryonic development of insects. He observed that insects had two cycles of rotation in their egg [...]
The year 2020 marks the centenary (100th anniversary) of the birth of St. John Paul II. He was born Karol Józef Wojtyła on May 18, 1920, in Wadowice, Poland, and as a youth growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland, studied for the priesthood in secret, and was ordained a priest in 1946. He was no stranger to suffering and persecution. After [...]