The readings for this Sunday focus on God calling each one of us to be a missionary disciple. In the second reading, St Paul shares about God’s plan of salvation for the world with the eventual goal to “bring everything under Christ as head”. To achieve this, Jesus gave us the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20 – “Go therefore and make disciples [...]
The year 2024 marks 30 years since Apartheid was abolished in 1994 in South Africa. In terms of lengths and days, we are not too far away from an era of oppression that occurred in the time of 1948 to 1994, which saw the legal system in South Africa segregating South Africans by the colour of their skin into the [...]
In today's Gospel reading, the people during the time of Jesus, had seen many of his works and were also astonished by his wisdom when they heard him. However, they still took offense at him and questioned him. So, what is keeping them away from believing? Reflecting upon the scripture passage, there are 2 possible causes. First, pride is stopping [...]
“Did God really say, ‘You shall not eat from any of the trees in the garden’?... You certainly will not die! God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods, who know good and evil.” (Genesis 3:1, 4-5). If you are familiar with the story of Adam and Eve, [...]
Isaiah 60:22: “The least one shall become a clan, the smallest, a mighty nation; When the time is right, I, the LORD, will swiftly accomplish these things.” We spend a lot of our lives waiting – waiting for the bus, waiting for our results, waiting for that email, waiting for our breakthrough, waiting. This waiting can often seem arduous and [...]
Imagine you're on a plane, and it hits severe turbulence, causing it to drop suddenly. You'd probably panic, right? Most of Jesus' disciples were fishermen, used to the unpredictability of the sea. Yet, even they panicked during a storm. While we might not face literal storms at sea, we all have our own "storms" in life - an empty wallet, [...]
It is amazing to see how the providence of God unfolds. On the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul celebrated yesterday, we see how Peter, a poor fisherman, and Paul, once a fierce prosecutor of the early Christians, were marvellously called by Christ. We hear of their conversions stories - Peter once cowardly, hasty, abrasive and self-serving, becomes emboldened to [...]
2 Timothy 3: 14-17 states that, “But you, remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it, and that from infancy you have known [the] sacred scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, [...]
There are many times that we do something wrong or make some nasty remarks. When asked to tell the truth, we even lie. Most likely we would remember how we felt after we have sinned. Sin makes us feel ashamed. We would want to hide. Sin also makes us feel afraid. We are afraid of what will happen when people [...]
A 2019 Pew Research Center survey of 1,835 Catholics located in the United States of America revealed that 31% of those surveyed knew about the Church’s teachings on Transubstantiation and that 28% of this 31% actually believed in the Church’s teaching of Transubstantiation, while the remaining 69% comprised of people who have heard of Transubstantiation, but believe that the bread [...]
