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Feast of Ss. Simon & Jude (Year B)

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10). Therefore, each one of us is an artefact of the workmanship of God. Our li…
Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (Year B)

Devotion to Mary, the mother of Jesus, is not the exclusive privilege of the Roman Catholics. The Eastern Orthodox Church has a more, if not equally, solemn tradition of devotion to Our Lady. It is a pity that the Bachel…
What did the Thessalonians worry about?

Unlike Christians in ancient time, modern Christians do not have to struggle with too many theological issues. Most of these issues have been settled in the last twenty centuries. We receive systematic instructions. Most…
Feast of James the Greater

Today, the Church celebrates the feast day of James, the brother of John. He was the first apostle to suffer martyrdom, killed by Herod in 44 A.D. (Acts 12:2). Herod did it to please the Jews. This was a grim reality for…
Feast of St. Benedict

I started writing this blog some 550 days ago to put down my reflections on the daily reading of the Bible. Thus far, I have made it no closer to Divina Lectio. I have not followed the Rules of St. Benedict (480-543) and…
14th Ordinary Sunday (Year B)

Today, Fr. John Baptist Kwan celebrated the 11 a.m. mass with us. He informed us that Fr. Lejeune had returned to his home town in France and would return in mid-September. We wished him bon voyage. Fr. Kwan also thanked…
Feast of Ss. Peter & Paul

Peter and Paul were two most unlikely people to whom God would entrust the building of the Church. On their own, Peter and Paul were not charismatic enough to lead even a tiny band of rebels. Yet, God did build the Churc…
Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

The Catholic Church continues to celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary takes on a different character from that to the Sacred Heart of Jesus which signified the…
On Social Justice

We live in a world with limited resources. Whenever we need to handle the problem of the allocation of resources, we cannot run away from the question of fairness. What is the fairest way to allocate the limited resource…
Feast of St. Barnabas

The Church celebrates the feast of St. Barnabas today. We are able to find his activities recorded in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline epistles: First Epistle to the Corinthians, Galatians and Colossians. To a ce…