Forming Faith Communities
“The baptised who experience acceptance, healing and empowerment in the faith community are better prepared to bring an understanding ear, a reconciling touch, and an encouraging voice to alienated persons...” [...]
I will not leave you orphans… (John 14:18)
As I sat in front of my laptop and listened to the homily of Pentecost Sunday, I began to sense how the apostles must have felt after seeing their Lord, their friend, their mentor, tortured and killed. It reminded me of the ache in my heart when I realised, while on a short pilgrimage to celebrate the Feast of St [...]
My Brush with COVID-19
This is my short personal story which I thought to share with my Brothers and Sisters in Christ. As many may be aware, I am fighting my fifth Cancer with Lung Cancer being the latest. I currently go for weekly Blood test and Chemo treatment; every few months I also need to have a number of CT Scans with a [...]
Zoom with Jesus
Every year is different, however 2020 will be a year to remember for all of us. Due to the pandemic COVID-19, Eucharistic celebrations that are opened to the public have been cancelled and the churches have been closed since April. We are not able to celebrate the Eucharistic Celebration physically together as a congregation and pray with the Lord in [...]
Are we limiting GOD?
In the Creation narrative found in Genesis 1: 1-2, we read, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters." The story of Creation presents eternal truths about God and [...]
Symbols of the Holy Spirit
“When Jesus was baptised, he went up immediately from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and alighting on him.” (Matthew 3:16) “There appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the holy Spirit and [...]
The Challenges of Community Living
It is a myth and a fallacy to assume that there exists a perfect Christian community. The early Church faced as well its own set of challenges inter-community, intra-community – within and from external forces. For example we see in Acts 15: 37 – 40, that Barnabas wanted to take with them John Mark, but Paul disagreed with his [...]
Human Life and Dignity
A recent outrage swept over the globe as the news of a Minnesota policeman murdering George Floyd, an African American whose neck was pinned under his knee came into light via social media platforms. The victim was seen pleading for air as the police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for over 9 minutes. Of controversy was how [...]
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness as Strategies for the Disaffiliated
Timothy P. O’Malley in his review of Stephen Bullivant’s Mass Exodus, which examines the phenomenon of the mass exodus of Catholics out of the Catholic Church in the United States of America and the United Kingdoms, states that “Disaffiliation is rarely a single moment in the life of a Catholic. Instead, it is a process in which one no [...]
Can we Evangelize through Social Media?
Image source and credit: Dubai SIM Cards Internet, https://dubaisims.com/internet/ Many years ago, before the advent of the Internet and of social media platforms, I kept a snail-mail correspondence with a number of pen-pals that I had known through pen-pal forums in magazines. There was a certain romantic idea of keeping a far-reaching correspondence and receiving letters in the post. [...]