The totality of Jesus’ forgiveness is immeasurable. We witness the mercy and compassion of the Lord in the readings of this week - from Jesus’ mercy towards the adulterous woman in the Gospel, to St Paul’s testimony of himself as a forgiven sinner, to Isaiah’s proclamation of new life in God by leaving our sinful past behind. We are reminded [...]
The 1st reading reveals to us that the Lord’s plans will be carried out in His time; a plan to prosper his people. It took them 40 years to realise this. In the 2nd reading, says that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person and the old life is gone. It is a gift from God, [...]
Moses was curious about the bush that was burning but not burnt. It would make any of us curious but not everyone of us daring enough to have a closer look. Sometimes we prefer to remain afar and wonder at what is going on. Our faith in the Lord invites us to be involved and not to be mere [...]
The transfiguration is an example of what will happen when we walk in the ways of the Lord with faith. A faith that is not tested, is a faith that is rather new. A faith that has withstood the trials of time and events, is a faith that is certain. The transfiguration is an example of what we will be [...]
This week marks the first Sunday of Lent and we are reminded through the readings that our journey this season will be filled with temptations, struggles, challenges, pain and salvation as individuals and as a community. In the first reading, we hear about the challenges of the Israelites during their time in Egypt - they were mistreated, oppressed, and made [...]
We must be careful when choosing whom to follow lest we stumble into a pit alongside our blind guide. A corollary is that we have no business trying to guide others unless we ourselves can see clearly. Jesus, however, does not intend for us to go through life blindly accepting everything that we see or hear. He indicates that there [...]
The first reading is an indication of God’s mercy as Saul’s life was spared. When David saw Saul asleep along with his men, his partner Abishai told him to kill Saul with Saul’s spear beside him. However, his obedience to God overwhelmed his desire to kill him proclaiming that he would not raise his hand on God's anointed. David took [...]
The readings for today implicitly and explicitly invite us to “trust”, “believe”, and also speak of “blessings and woes”. Babies learn to trust their parents, especially their mothers, when they constantly care for them - when they are fed, changed, cuddled when they need it, and when they baby talk to them. As soon as they learned to [...]
Theme: Discipleship The first reading reveals the solemn calling of Isaiah by God to be a prophet. However, due to the death of king Uzziah, Isaiah was filled with sorrow. He was then unable to recognise that it was the Lord sitting upon the throne and not that it was empty. Similar to Isaiah, many of us with all our [...]
In the first reading we see that God did not call us by accident - the call was a deliberate action from God who knows us personally. We are tasked to proclaim the good news to all nations. Just like how Jeremiah the prophet had to preach to corrupt kings and religious leaders of ancient Judah who opposed him fiercely, [...]