In writing about the nation, and drawing upon concepts coined by Anthropologists such as Victor Turner, Sociologists such as Benedict Anderson have written about how the idea of a nation is a social construct and is by and large, "an imagined community" - "imagined" because "the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet [...]
I thank you Lord with all my heart! Though the roads are fraught with danger. Though I walk amidst reckless strangers. You stretch out Your hand over me, Thrice today protecting me from errant cyclists! Thank You for all the answered prayers. Thank you for the times You said "Nay" For Your way is surely better. Walking humbly with You [...]
Our Father is indeed merciful and patient, loving and forgiving, He stays faithful to His Covenant and waits patiently for us to return. The psalmist is so convinced of God’s mercy and love that he becomes a willing servant and seeks God for strength to go through the trials to do His will. This is the response that we are [...]
Lord, Your Sacred Heart has stirred within my soul, filling my weakling heart with Your Merciful Love. At the time of Adoration on Corpus Christi Sunday, You came when I most needed You. And today, on this very early morning Saturday of the Immaculate Heart, with that steady tread of rain pouring down from You, it is You, O Lord, [...]
"Disappointments are markers on the road of life, saying: Perfect happiness is not here. Though your passions may have been satisfied, you were never truly satisfied, because while your passions can find satisfaction in this world, you cannot. Start with your own insufficiency and begin a search for perfection. Begin with your own emptiness and seek Him who can fill [...]
In this week’s Liturgy of the Word, God is reminding us to set our sights on our end goal, our destination: which is the glory and grandeur of His kingdom at the end of our lives. Now how are we supposed to reach there? What is the path we must take? The First Reading points us to the Word [...]
The word, "accountability" can be traced etymologically as being in a "state of testimony or being answerable", while the Oxford Dictionary, states the definition of accountability as, "the fact of being responsible for your decisions or actions and being expected to explain them when you are asked." However, in the context of a Christian community, the concept of accountability takes [...]
“....although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned, you have revealed them to little ones.” (Mt 11:25) Have we ever wondered that our Eternal Father who knows all, who has seen humans from age to age would say this? Well, why wouldn't He? It was HE who created us from the womb of our mother and [...]
Sing joyfully to PaPa, all we children, Come before Him with a grateful heart and with my song of praise for Him. My PaPa Is God, the One and Only God. My Creator, my Provider, all that I need, all that I seek, my All in All. I am are His child and He calls me by name. Welcome Him [...]
With the Circuit Breaker in force, I decided, on the spur of the moment, to buy a watermelon from a nearby supermarket and place it anonymously at the doorstep of a parishioner to tell him and his family that they are loved. However, I had to duck under his window with the huge and heavy watermelon as he was working [...]