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Sunday Homilies: May 2015
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Click the links under My Blog List to get to Chinese and English weekday homilies. Saturday, May 30, 2015. Trinity Sunday, Year B, 31.05.2015. Deut 4:32-34, 39-40 / Romans 8:14-17 / Matthew 28:16-20. We know what a plank is. Or at least we know what the initial meaning is. It is a long, thin, flat piece of timber, used especially in building and flooring. But words have a tendency to morph from its initial obvious meaning to some other meanings that might make us wonder where they come from. Sounds too g...
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Weekday Homilies: January 2015
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Saturday, January 31, 2015. 4th Ordinary Sunday, Year B, 01.02.2015. Deut 18:15-20 / 1 Cor 7:32-35 / Mark 1:21-28. There was (and there still is) a practice in the Church of the blessing of throats, although not much emphasis is given to it. It falls on the day after the feast of the Presentation, which is on the 2nd February. The candles blessed on the feast of the Presentation, which is the day before, is made into a shape of a cross and placed over the throat as the priest says the prayer of blessing.
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Weekday Homilies: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Mary,Mother of God, Thursday, 01-01-15. Numbers 6:22-27 / Galatians 4:4-7 / Lk 2:16-21. Today is a special day in terms of the time-line of the events in our lives. Today we begin a new year. We look at what lies ahead of us, and we wonder what it will be like. Yet we can look back at the not-so-old year, and we can see what it had been like. So as we look at what lies before us and what lies behind us, the Church invites us to look at Mary. From the Annunciation to the Crucif...
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Sunday Homilies: 13th Ordinary Sunday, Year B, 28.06.2015
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Click the links under My Blog List to get to Chinese and English weekday homilies. Saturday, June 27, 2015. 13th Ordinary Sunday, Year B, 28.06.2015. Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 / 2 Cor 8:7,9, 13-15 / Mark 5:21-43. When we say that something is unbelievable, it means that it is unlikely to be true or that it is too difficult to believe. Call it incredible, or improbable, or impossible, or unbelievable, it all means more or less the same thing. 8220;Un-un-un-un-unbelievable, that’s what you are,. You can go a...
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Sunday Homilies: April 2015
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Click the links under My Blog List to get to Chinese and English weekday homilies. Saturday, April 25, 2015. 4th Sunday of Easter, Year B, 26.04.2015. Acts 4:8-12 / 1 John 3:1-2 / John 10:11-18. One of the most prominent Church figures in the 20th century is Pope John XXIII. He was canonized on the 27th April 2014. Besides the fact that it was he who got Vatican II Council started when nobody expected a 78 year-old Pope to do so, he was also prominent because of his figure. We are called to reflect upon ...
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Sunday Homilies: 17th Ordinary Sunday, Year B, 26.07.2015
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Click the links under My Blog List to get to Chinese and English weekday homilies. Saturday, July 25, 2015. 17th Ordinary Sunday, Year B, 26.07.2015. 2 Kings 4:42-44 / Ephesians 4:1-6 / John 6:1-15. Coming for Mass can be quite distracting and challenging, especially if we are hungry. In Singapore where eating is like a habit and a lifestyle, (despite the fact that our country produces hardly any food) to be hungry for a prolonged period of time sounds abnormal and strange. The cook replied that it is be...
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Sunday Homilies: February 2015
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Click the links under My Blog List to get to Chinese and English weekday homilies. Saturday, February 28, 2015. 2nd Sunday of Lent, Year B, 01-03-2015. Genesis 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18 / Romans 8:31-34 / Mark 9:2-10. One of the must-have delicacies during this festive season is the barbequed meat, aka “bak kwa”. Bak kwa is usually made from pork but it is difficult to say which part of the pig it comes from. But it doesn’t really matter; as long as it is delicious, we won’t bother. If animals have feelings, t...
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Sunday Homilies: March 2015
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Click the links under My Blog List to get to Chinese and English weekday homilies. Saturday, March 28, 2015. Palm Sunday, Year B, 29.03.2015. Isaiah 50:4-7 / Philippians 2:6-11 / Mark 14:1 -15:47. During the last couple of days of national mourning for the founding father of our nation, there were long queues to the Parliament House where the body of the late Mr. Lee Kuan Yew is lying in state. What was astonishing was that Singaporeans were advised NOT to join the queue to pay their last respects. In th...
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Weekday Homilies: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. 2nd Sunday of Lent, Year B, 01-03-2015. Genesis 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18 / Romans 8:31-34 / Mark 9:2-10. One of the must-have delicacies during this festive season is the barbequed meat, aka “bak kwa”. Those bak kwa smell as good as they taste, and although they may not be worth their weight in gold, but at more than $50 a kilogram during this season and having to queue up to get it before the Chinese New Year, they are like more precious than gold. God put him to the test, and Ab...
