Good morning good people may the Lord bless you with peace and good health. It is 21st January 2024. We celebrate the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. We reflect on Jonah 3:1-5, 10; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; and Mark 1:14-20. Repentance alters the judgement and sentence of God. The readings invite us to revisit our understanding […]
Good morning good people may the Lord give you peace and good health. It is 20th January 2024. We reflect on 2 Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 17, 19, 23-27 and Mark 3:20-21. Are we magnanimous during adversity? Friends beautify our lives and beatify our unsettled emotions and behaviours. The eulogy of David to Saul and Jonathan […]
Good morning good people. May the Lord give you peace and good health. It is 19th January 2024. We reflect on 1 Samuel 24:3-21 and Mark 3:13-19. Are we generous to God? God calls us to do good to all people especially for those who have vowed to harm us. We are called to lead […]
Good morning good people may the Lord give you peace and good health. It is 18th January 2024. We reflect on 1 Samuel 18:6-9, 19:1-7 and Mark 3:7-12. Are we jealous of someone we know and work with? Jealousy spills the fear of abandonment to rage and humiliation. Jealousy strikes all gender equally when imminent […]
Good morning good people may the Lord bless you with peace and health. It is 17th January 2023. We celebrate the memorial of St Antony, Abbot. We reflect on 1 Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 and Mark 3:1-6. Have we identified the Goliath in our lives? When God is in our lives, there is no more […]
God will not choose a leader by a human standard but chooses someone who listens the language of God
Good morning good people may the Lord bless you with peace and health. It is 16th January 2024. We reflect on 1 Samuel 16:1-13 and Mark 2:23-28. Though the world looks for a tall, good-looking, strategic, self-managing, skilful, innovative, creative, efficient, influential, interpersonal, expressive, goal-oriented, motivating, mobilising, confident, constructive, coordinating, and knowledgeable with endless lists […]
May the Lord give you peace. It is 15th January 2024. We reflect on 1 Samuel 15:16-23; and Mark 2:18-22. Obedience is not a skill to be learnt but it is the virtue to be acquired by unwavering humility. Even if the reason proves the other way, yet we go by the self-surrendering spirit to […]
It is 14th January 2024. We celebrate the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. We reflect on 1 Samuel 3:3-10, 19; 1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20; and John 1:35-42. A pastor who had financial difficulty running the parish on Sunday Mass gave an announcement before the offertory, “I would like to request all of you that anyone […]
It is 12th January 2024. We reflect on 1 Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19, 10:1 and the Gospel from Mark 2:13-17. We all are called by God to lead others and to be led by Jesus to God. Some of us are chosen to lead in a high level of responsibility while others are called to inspire […]
May the Lord bless with peace, grace, and good health in the Holy Spirit. It is 12th January 2024. We reflect on 1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22; and the Gospel from Mark 2:1-12. Rejecting theocracy and embracing democracy. The people of Israel demanded God to allow them to be ruled by their kind and a tangible […]