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Mission Sunday (Year B)

Isaiah once said that God's thoughts were not our thoughts. How true he was! For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my w…
Feast of St. Teresa of Avila (Year B)

We are reading Romans 3 today. I suspect that the readers of this epistle were mainly Jews because Paul suddenly quoted extensively from the Psalms and Isaiah (See the Appendix). Frankly speaking, reading Romans 3 is not…
Does God need a Temple?

Cyrus, the Persian King, sent the Jews back to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. The Samaritans disrupted the project and the rebuilding came to a halt for some eighteen years. The remnant that had chosen to return lost t…
The humility of John the Baptist

Today, the Catholic Church celebrates the martyrdom of John the Baptist. The Baptist preached and baptized to prepare the Jews for the coming of the Messiah. He also baptized Jesus. Then he was arrested by Herod Antipas…
Feast of St. Bartholomew (Year B)

The Church celebrates the Feast of Bartholomew the Apostle today. Very little is known about the life of this apostle. The canonical gospels focus on only a handful of apostles. Even Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, t…
Twenty First Ordinary Sunday (Year B)

In the beginning, we thought we chose to believe in God. It was a conscious and voluntary decision. Therefore, people object to the practice of infantile baptism. They think that it is better to wait until the baby has g…
Cannibalism in Jesus' teaching

Cannibalism has been practised by men for various reasons. Sometimes, men eat men out of insanity. Some psychotic killers are reported to have cut up the corpses of their victims, put them in the freezer and eat them wh…
Nineteenth Ordinary Sunday (Year B)

We continue to read the controversy Jesus created when he taught about the bread of life to the Jews who sought him after the feeding miracle. Jesus was trying to teach the Jews something totally beyond their understandi…
Feast of Ignatius of Loyola

Again, I will not write anything about of the life of this wonderful soldier of faith, St. Ignatius of Loyola. His loyalty as a soldier of Christ is worth respecting and imitating. I pray that we can follow his example a…
18th Ordinary Sunday (Year B)

Dear friends, I am back. I have been lying in bed, suffering from flu. I suppose it is not swine flu. I will make up the missing entries in due course. Yours in the Risen Lord Alex Kwok. The Sea of Galilee is not a s…