Chinese New Year, known in China as the Spring Festival and in Singapore as the Lunar New Year, is a holiday on and around the new moon on the first day of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar. This calendar is based on the changes in the moon and is only sometimes changed to fit the seasons of the year based on how the Earth moves around the sun. Because of this, Chinese New Year is never on January 1. […]
6th Sunday of Easter, Year C – 2022
Among us, people, we often exchange services of different kinds. We go to a neighbor, a friend, a doctor, a teacher, a builder, asking them to provide us with whatever we need at any given time. And, we do the same… with God! Very often, our prayer to God takes […]
17th Sunday of Year B – 2021
The methodology of… God can be quite surprising and sometimes rather upsetting – we have all experienced it! He has told us about this long ago through his prophet, Isaiah, when he said openly: “My ways are not your ways” (Is.55:8). But it seems that we do not get used […]
28th Sunday of Year C – 2019
There is an English expression used quite often by people. It refers to the situation of ‘taking something for granted’. It describes the attitude of making use of something as if it was ‘normal’ to have it. We think that a certain object is meant to be at our service. […]
Baptism of the Lord, Year C
During the Christmas season, we have been exchanging gifts of all kinds. Gifts – small ones and bigger ones, ordinary and more unusual, wrapped in colourful paper and ribbons. Some of them have brought delight, others we may have politely shown pleasure at receiving them but… we may have found […]
30th Sunday of Year B
Let us imagine for a moment that someone would tell you: “God is calling you.” What would your reaction be? Many people would possibly think: “What does God want from me?” But should the question not rather be: “What does God want FOR me?” This thought came to me as […]
Epiphany, C
We often hear the Feast of the Epiphany being called ‘the Feast of the Three Kings’. Yet, the Bible does not mention that they were kings nor that there were three of them! But tradition goes on telling us this and telling us something else as well. Yes, it speaks […]