High Court orders bailiffs
 to clear HK barricades

My HK Democracy File

WWI ended on this day in 1918.
8 million soldiers died 1914-1918

Remembrance Day      Veterans Day

India and the Forgotten War
70,000 Indian troops died fighting in World War I (that's more than Australia (60,000) and US (54,000)

How a  US doctor's prayer 
brought healing for one of his patients: 

From: Raising the Dead by Doctor Chauncey Crandall (175-178)

CBN TV - Dr. Chauncey Crandall - Raising the Dead

Proverbs 1: 

If you listen to these sayings, you will acquire wisdom. These sayings will help you develop virtue, justice and fairness.

Be careful of bad people who try to mislead you. A net is spread in vain if the bird is watching.

Wisdom calls aloud in the streets.
She delivers her message at the city gates:

"How much longer will you prefer ignorance to knowledge? The complacency of fools works their own ruin.

But whoever listens to me will live in safety. Whoever listens to me will choose good and avoid evil."

Dear God, please give us more wisdom

Psalm 93:

The Lord is king, with majesty enrobed, he has girded himself with power.

The world you made firm, not to be moved. From all eternity, O Lord, you are.

The oceans and coastlines of the world are majestic and powerful.

But greater than the roar of mighty waters, more glorious than the surging of the sea is the Lord on high.

Such a Lord, such a Creator, such a God. Truly your decrees are to be trusted.

Holiness is fitting to your house
O Lord, always and everywhere.

We praise you, Lord, our Creator 

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Romans 6:

When we were baptized, two things happened:
1: We went into Jesus' tomb and joined him in death. We died.
2: We rose from the dead with Jesus. We came back to life

This dying and rising means we have died to sin, and risen to a new life. 

We died to an old life, and  we came back to a new life. We have been re-born, born again

Jesus, please help me leave my old life behind. Help me live a new life with you

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Recommended: check these readings early morning, think about them during the day, check them again at night. This habit gives us extra energy, courage, motivation, peace and compassion for each day

 Mark 10:

The brothers James and John were two of Jesus' disciples. One day their mother said to Jesus "When you become king, allow my sons to sit at your right and left".

Jesus said to his cousins James and John "Only my Father in heaven can allocate seats on my right and left". 

The 10 other disciples were angry at James and John for seeking honor.  So Jesus said to them all  "In most places, people in power like to dominate and control others. But this is not to be your way of exercising authority.

You must exercise authority by serving others, not dominating them, just as I came not to be served, but to serve, and to give my life as a ransom for the world"

Jesus, please help me want to help and serve other people, not dominate and control them

Recording

The life of a dying young man is a model for us all
Gordon Aikman has motor neurone disease. He doesn't check work emails at home, fret over tiny problems or neglect friendships

Suicide bombing at Nigerian school kills dozens  (Boko Haram ...)

My Islam File 
-  the videos I have watched
 and learnt from

My weekly article in today's Ming Pao newspaper
with the topic: Wen Jiabao as CE: Wen's wealth?
is on Ming Pao website - click "Australian in HK".
Free access to article with recording today from about noon to 8pm HK time. Text without recording

Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:

Sun: Africa        Mon: Europe & Russia     Tues: South Asia      Wed: East Asia  
Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific       Frid: South America       Sat: Central & North America 
  
Jesus, today, Tuesday,  please bless the people of South Asia

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:
On this 11th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Hunan

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 11th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Eritrea

Jesus, please give peace to the world's trouble spots, especially:
Nigeria (Boko Haram), Sudan, Central African Republic, Somalia (Al Shabab), Israel-Palestine, Iraq-Syria (Isis), Ukraine

This website's Tanzania File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from Tanzanian inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's South America file 
(stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from South American inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's Hong Kong file
(encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)

HK Chief Executive meets President Xi for discussion about HK protest movement

Big problem: Beijing leadership keeps misreading HK situation, and keeps thinking that force and bullying will win (...the basic policy for the Mainland)      

Today in Beijijng - APEC meeting  

APEC:
Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation

John Garnaut:

In the name of the father:
the ancestors haunting APEC
- scholarly article on the influence of their fathers on the leaders of China, Japan and South Korea

First sign of China-Japan thaw

Job 40-42: 

Job said to God " My words have been frivolous. I will not say anything else."

God then reminded Job how God was creator of everything, including amazing animals like the hippo and crocodile.

Job then said to God "I know you are all-powerful. I have been speaking about things I don't fully understand. I retract all I have said and in dust and ashes I repent."

God then praised Job for his fidelity. God restored Job to good health.

God restored Job's possessions, more than he had before, with 10 more children and thousands of animals. Job lived to be 140 years old and died full of peace.

Dear God, you never really answered Job's questions about the mystery of evil and suffering ....but I know your Son Jesus gave us the answers

Recording of this reading
for English students

Psalm 92:

It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to make music to your name, O Most High,

to proclaim your love in the morning, and your truth right through the night.

Your deeds, O Lord, have made me glad. For the work of your hands, I shout with joy.

To me you give the wild ox's strength. You anoint me with the purest oil.

May we love and praise you right through our lives, right till the end of our days.

May we keep on proclaiming your goodness, proclaiming that in you, our rock, there is only goodness.

Lord, it is right and fitting to love and praise you

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Romans 5:

Through one man, Adam, the virus of sin entered the world, and sin infected everyone with death

Through one man, Jesus, the divine anti-virus of grace entered the world, and brought the gift of eternal life to everyone who allows it to be installed in their heart

The divine anti-virus of grace is more powerful than any sin virus

Jesus, please download and install in my heart your anti-virus program of grace

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Mark 10: 

On behalf of all the disciples, Peter asked Jesus "What about us?  We have left everything to follow you."

Jesus replied "You will be leaders in the church on earth.

Anyone who has left home, family or country for the sake of my name, will receive a 100-fold blessing in this life, and will also receive eternal life in Heaven."

Jesus, please bless all Gospel workers

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It All Starts with that Mustard Seed of Faith!
The Saints were mustard seeds of faith and always an inspiration

Every Sunday the pastor would observe Sam Campbell and his wife Sara, holding hands. And they held hands all through the service. It made him happy to see two such loving old folks. One Sunday, greeting the congregation as they filed out the door, the pastor said to Sam and Sara, "It sure does my heart good to see two such loving people as you, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell. It's quite an inspiration." Sara looked up at him and grinned, saying, "That ain't love, Pastor. It's the only way I can keep him from cracking his knuckles during the service."

Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:

Sun: Africa        Mon: Europe & Russia     Tues: South Asia      Wed: East Asia  
Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific       Frid: South America       Sat: Central & North America 
  
Jesus, today, Monday,  please bless the people of Europe & Russia

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:
On this 10th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Hubei

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 10th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Guinea

Jesus, please give peace to the world's trouble spots, especially:
Nigeria (Boko Haram), Sudan, Central African Republic, Somalia (Al Shabab), Israel-Palestine, Iraq-Syria (Isis), Ukraine

This website's Tanzania File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from Tanzanian inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's South America file 
(stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from South American inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's Hong Kong file
(encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)

High rent, low salaries: how young Hongkongers are scheming to secure subsidised housing

My HK Democracy File
 - with photos

How a  US doctor's prayer 
brought healing for one of his patients: 

From: Raising the Dead by Doctor Chauncey Crandall

CBN TV - Dr. Chauncey Crandall - Raising the Dead

This week is an especially sensitive one in China with the APEC meeting. There are reports of people being put on hold in the application of visas ...and local Beijing people being subjected to all sorts of extra controls.  Despite everything, May this APEC meeting do a bit of good for our troubled world!

c.f. Feast of St John Lateran

Ezekiel 47: 

The angel brought me to the entrance of the Temple, where a stream came out from under the Temple threshold and flowed eastwards

He said, ‘Wherever the river flows, all living creatures teeming in it will live. Fish will be very plentiful, for wherever the water goes it brings health, and life teems wherever the river flows.

Along the river, on either bank, will grow every kind of fruit tree with leaves that never wither and fruit that never fails; they will bear new fruit every month, because this water comes from the sanctuary. And their fruit will be good to eat, and the leaves medicinal.’

O Holy Spirit, River of Life, may the sick find healing in your medicinal love 

Recording of this reading
for English students

Psalm 46:

O Holy Spirit, River of Joy, thank you for your protection and guidance

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1 Corinthians 3:

O Holy Spirit, please increase your influence in our Christian community, your temple 

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John 2:

Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the Temple he saw people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, with money changers sitting at their counting tables

Jesus made a whip out of some cord, then drove the sellers out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well. He scattered the money changers' coins, knocked their tables over, and said to the pigeon sellers "Take all of this out of here and stop turning my Father's house into a market"

Some religious leaders asked him "What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?"

Jesus answered "Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up".  The leaders replied "It has taken 46 years to build this sanctuary"

But Jesus was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when he rose from the dead, his disciples remembered his words

Jesus, please don't let churches and prayer centers become centers of commerce

Recording

Daniel Daring:
 Reflection on readings - Sun 32    

Chinese text    Previous reflections

Every second Saturday morning, I put my bed sheets in bucket to soak during the day, then rinse them out at night and hang them out to dry.
Operation went well yesterday morning ...until I realised I had put into the soaking bucket the new sheets for the coming week.
Old sheets are now back on bed, waiting for new sheets to dry!  

Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:

Sun: Africa        Mon: Europe & Russia     Tues: South Asia      Wed: East Asia  
Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific       Frid: South America       Sat: Central & North America 
  
Jesus, today, Sunday,  please bless the people of Africa

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:
On this 9th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Henan

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 9th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Central African Rep

Jesus, please give peace to the world's trouble spots, especially:
Nigeria (Boko Haram), Sudan, Central African Republic, Somalia (Al Shabab), Israel-Palestine, Iraq-Syria (Isis), Ukraine

New letter (in Swahili) from a Tanzanian inmate in a Hong Kong prison: re African passport holders subject to extra scrutiny because of Ebola

This website's Tanzania File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from Tanzanian inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's South America file 
(stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from South American inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's Hong Kong file
(encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)

World’s largest bible factory publishes 125 millionth copy in China

Two new bishops for Melbourne:
Monsignor Terence Curtin
and Fr Mark Edwards O.M.I. 
Fr Mark was a student of mine
at Mazenod College in 1973

Congratulations Mark, family and the Australian OMI province.  May the Good Lord bless you Mark with the spirit of the Oblate founder St Eugene de Mazenod and (the soon to be beatified) Archbishop Oscar Romero      

HK’s ‘Umbrella Square’:
 how are protesters living?
With tents to rent, a study zone, WiFi, and a growing art activity, the  movement has evolved into a functional utopian collective

Problem for HK government: not a few student protesters are happy about the chance to be arrested and imprisoned ....so that they can put their arrest on FaceBook!  Not a few also happy to be on TV and in the newspapers on a regular basis. Prisons have a maximum of 2,000 spare suites. Students number in the tens of thousands!

Job 32-39: 

Job's three friends had no more to say. But a young  man named Elihu, decided to join the conversation.

He said to Job "How can you claim to be innocent and yet say that God is persecuting you without cause?"

As Elihu continued his speech, suddenly  the voice of God himself was heard.

God asked Job "Have you ever given orders to the morning for day to begin? Have you ever arranged the stars in the sky?

Was it you who gave all the animals their various powers?
Who do you think you are?"

Dear God, when we are confronted by the mystery of suffering and evil, please help us realize that these things do not come from you

Recording of this reading
for English students

Psalm 91:

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High, says to the Lord "you are my refuge in whom I trust".

The Lord will hide you and protect you. Under his wings you will find refuge.

You will not fear any night time terror, nor any attack during the day.

Upon you no evil shall fall, no plague approach where you dwell.

For you has he commanded his angels, to keep you safe in all your ways.

Dear God, thank you for your protection day and night (...and please protect people from Ebola)

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Romans 5:

By faith and through Jesus we can live in the friendship of God

We look forward to heaven and an end to all suffering

In the meantime our suffering teaches us patience. Patience produces perseverance. Perseverance produces hope

This hope is not imaginary. It's real, since the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us

Jesus, through your Holy Spirit, please give me more hope

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Mark 10:

A young man asked Jesus "Master, what do I have to do to get to Heaven?"

Jesus replied "Keep the commandments: do not kill;  do not commit adultery; honor your father and mother; care for others as much as you care about yourself".

The young man said "I have kept all these commandments. What else do I need to do?"

Jesus said "If you want to do something really special with your life, go and sell all your possessions, give the money to the poor, then come and follow me as one of my disciples".

When the young man heard these words he went away sad, because he was very rich.

Jesus then said to his disciples
"It is hard for a rich person to get to Heaven".

Jesus, please don't let riches endanger my eternal life

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Pope Francis and Pepe Mujica: Why Are Modest Leaders Making Waves?

     Society's overwhelming suspicion of 'foreigners' will eventually lead to its decline

Beijing dismisses scathing EIA report on wildlife trade which claims ivory haul of Xi Jinping delegates in Tanzania doubled price on illegal market

10 years ago
 on this day

 ISIS is a wake-up call to learn more about Islam. Please check the videos at my Islam File.
I have found these videos most useful as I keep trying to better understand Islam

Wife beside husband, husband wheeling pram, small child in pram slipping out ...forwards....wife stops pram...rushes to re-insert child into pram ....wife takes over pram ...husband looks at sky to check for rain?
- a sight I saw recently in local street while walking to Metro station for trip to prison

Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:

Sun: Africa        Mon: Europe & Russia     Tues: South Asia      Wed: East Asia  
Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific       Frid: South America       Sat: Central & North America 
  
Jesus, today, Saturday,  please bless the people of Central & North America

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:
On this 8th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Heilongjiang

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 8th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Sierra Leone

Jesus, please give peace to the world's trouble spots, especially:
Nigeria (Boko Haram), Sudan, Central African Republic, Somalia (Al Shabab), Israel-Palestine, Iraq-Syria (Isis), Ukraine

Msgr. William O’Brien, 90, Dies; Innovator in Treating Drug Abuse “It’s been a very rewarding life,” he told The New York Post in 2009. “Bringing the young ones back from the brink of destruction.”

This website's Tanzania File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from Tanzanian inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's South America file 
(stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from South American inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's Hong Kong file
(encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)

Beaten, abused and afraid: the plight of Hong Kong’s part-time sex workers

As Briton is charged, exploitation of domestic workers trying to boost meagre wage is rife

A HK Catholic group is urgently looking for a school or church where they can have Sunday Mass.  Despite a supporting letter from Cardinal John Tong, no one has offered to help them.  They have asked many schools and churches ...always getting a "no" answer.   Shame, HK, shame!

We need a room at the inn

Job 25-31:

Bildad then reminded Job that God's power is beyond human understanding.  No one should question God's actions.

Job replied: "I swear by God who denies me justice that as long as I have breath, I will live a life of innocence.

I remember how I have always lived as a friend of God: how I helped the poor, the orphan, the dying, the widow, the blind, the lame.

I remember how I made a pact with my eyes, not to linger on any other woman but my wife.

I remember how I have never put my trust in riches or fame. I have always trusted only in the Lord.

Yet now people laugh at me and make fun of me. They avoid me and even spit on me. When will God answer me?"

Dear God, please help me to imitate Job's way of life

Recording of this reading
for English students

Psalm 90:

O Lord you have been our refuge 
from one generation to the next.

Before the earth or the world existed, you are God, without beginning or end.

For you, a thousand years are like yesterday, come and gone so quickly.

We humans have a short life,
our life is over like a sigh.

Our span is 70 years, or 80 for those who are strong.

Make us know the shortness of our life, that we may gain wisdom of heart.

In the morning, fill us with your love. Give success to the work of our hands.

Lord, help us realize the shortness of our life, that we may live our lives more wisely

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Today's Gospel

Romans 4:

Remember our ancestor Abraham. He put his faith in God, and this was how he became holy

We too must put our faith in God the Father who raised Jesus from the dead to make us holy

Jesus, please increase my faith. Help me believe like Abraham

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Mark 9-10: 

Some people brought their little children to Jesus. They hoped Jesus would  put his hands on the children and bless them.

Jesus' disciples told the people to go away and not bother Jesus. But Jesus said "Don't stop the little children from coming to me". Then he put his hands on them and blessed them.

Jesus also said "Anyone who welcomes one of these little children in my name, welcomes me. But anyone who causes scandal  to one of these little ones,  commits a great crime"

Jesus, please help all children to know you from their earliest days.
Please don't let parents prevent children from coming to you.
Please heal children who have been scandalized  by adults

Recording

Can't say: Neither do I condemn you?

"It is sad when we see a man who seeks this office and does all he can to get it and when he gets it does not serve, instead goes around like a peacock and lives only for his vanity."

10 years ago today

Archbishop mauls Monsignor

Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:

Sun: Africa        Mon: Europe & Russia     Tues: South Asia      Wed: East Asia  
Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific       Frid: South America       Sat: Central & North America 
  
Jesus, today, Friday,  please bless the people of South America

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:

On this 7th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Hebei

Jesus, please give peace to the world's trouble spots, especially:
Nigeria (Boko Haram), Sudan, Central African Republic, Somalia (Al Shabab), Israel-Palestine, Iraq-Syria (Isis), Ukraine

This website's Tanzania File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from Tanzanian inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's South America file 
(stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from South American inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's Hong Kong file
(encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)

My HK Democracy File (updated)

Student leaders of HK's democracy movement are discussing a possible trip to Beijing next week while APEC is on.  No doubt China will not let them enter the Mainland. And probably, as a result of Beijing pressure, the HK government will not let them leave HK (by blacklisting their ID cards for travel). This whole affair will be an embarrassment to Beijing during APEC   

 "The Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong is not only proving more durable than anyone imagined. It is uncovering all kinds of aspects of both mainland and local politics and attitudes that have long lain buried under platitudes and wishful thinking"

There's been a noticeable increase in the prison population of several detention centres in HK ....the new arrivals having come from Stanley Prison .....which is being readied for democracy protesters if the situation requires. 
But no more than 2,000 protestors can be arrested, because there's no room for more. So, if protestors act in big numbers, HK government has a big problem

Job 22-24: 

Eliphaz then said that God was punishing Job because justice demanded that Job be punished for his sins.

Job replied: "I know that God sees everyone and everything. God sees every step I take. But I cannot contact him.

He has filled my life with sadness and fear, and yet he doesn't answer my prayer."

Dear God, in times of darkness,  with Jesus we pray "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?"

Recording of this reading
for English students

Psalm 89:

I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord. Of this I am sure, that your love lasts for ever.

The heavens proclaim your wonders, O Lord. The heavens are yours, the world is yours.

Blessed the people who find joy in you, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face.

Thank you, Lord, for our beautiful world

Recording

Romans 3:

Only by faith in Jesus can we really become holy in God's sight.
This faith is a free gift of God's grace to us

Only when Jesus is in our hearts, can our hearts become holy in God's sight

Jesus, please live in my heart! May you live in me, and I in you

Recording

Song recording:
Jesus, live in my heart

Mark 10:

One day some religious leaders put Jesus to the test by asking him "Is it against the Law of Moses for a man to divorce his wife?"

Jesus replied "God created male and female, for the two to become united as one body.  What God has united, no one should separate."

The religious leaders then asked
"But why did Moses allow divorce?"

Jesus replied "Moses allowed divorce because people were so hard of heart.  But divorce was not God's plan.

So I say to you, anyone who walks out on their partner and marries someone else, is guilty of adultery."

Jesus, please help married people stay together

Recording

Bishop of Islamabad:
Couple burned alive, barbaric act shrouded by a guilty silence
- parents of five children (one in the womb)

Patten blames lack of leadership for impasse

    At least six church leaders have private jets! (They need a Pope Francis!)

On the ferry on the way to Hei Ling Chau detention centre yesterday, I read a book encouraging Christians to pray for the power of the Holy Spirit for healing. At the detention centre God's power was present:  an inmate from Nigeria whose name is Godspower!

Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:

Sun: Africa        Mon: Europe & Russia     Tues: South Asia      Wed: East Asia  
Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific       Frid: South America       Sat: Central & North America 
  
Jesus, today, Thursday,  please bless the people of S.E. Asia & Pacific

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:

On this 6th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Hainan

Jesus, please give peace to the world's trouble spots, especially:
Nigeria (Boko Haram), Sudan, Central African Republic, Somalia (Al Shabab), Israel-Palestine, Iraq-Syria (Isis), Ukraine

This website's Tanzania File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from Tanzanian inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's South America file 
(stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from South American inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's Hong Kong file
(encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)

My HK Democracy file
- with photos

My Islam file

       Admiralty protest site yesterday      

 
Occupy originator Benny Tai
(grey suit) being interviewed

 Yesterday with a visitor from Australia I visited the Admiralty & Mong Kok protest sites. Both sites show signs of becoming more, not less, permanent - despite the great inconvenience they are causing to the wider community. Both sites are now popular tourist attractions for Mainland and overseas visitors

Job 20-21: 

Zophar then said it was unreasonable for Job to think that his situation was an exception as regards God's justice.

Job replied: " I can't help asking why do wicked people prosper while good people suffer?"

Dear God, please help me understand a little bit more about the mystery of good and evil

Psalm 88:

Lord my God, day and night I call to you for help. Please turn your ear to my cry.

For my soul is filled with evils.
My life is on the brink of the grave.

I am reckoned as one in the tomb.
I have reached the end of my strength.

Will your love be told in the grave? Will your wonders be known in the dark?

Fear surrounds  me like a flood.

All my friends have deserted me.
My only companion is darkness.

Lord, please help people who are in despair

Recording

Romans 2:

People become holy in God's sight by doing what is right. Listening to God's Law is not enough. We have to put it into practice in our lives

Non-Jewish people who follow a good conscience and do what is right, have God's Law engraved on their hearts

What matters is not circumcision of the body, but circumcision of the heart. The real Jew is one who is a Jew in his heart

Jesus, help me to love you with all my heart. May my love for you not be just something external, but something real, in my heart

Recording

Mark 9:

Jesus' apostle  John, said "Master, we saw a man who is not one of our group casting out devils in your name. Because he was not one of us, we tried to stop him"

Jesus said "You must not stop him. No one who works a miracle in my name is going to speak evil of me. Anyone who is not against us is for us

In fact, even someone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to me, will be rewarded"

Jesus, please help me stop dividing people into "us and them"

Recording

At the start of November
Pope Francis began his address to the Pentecostal bishops visiting him in Rome by thanking participants for their courage, adding: “Yesterday I was at the door of the synod hall with a Lutheran bishop. I said, ‘You’re a brave man! In a previous age they burned Lutherans here!’”

Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the week:

Sun: Africa        Mon: Europe & Russia     Tues: South Asia      Wed: East Asia  
Thurs: S.E. Asia & Pacific       Frid: South America       Sat: Central & North America 
  
Jesus, today, Wednesday,  please bless the people of East Asia

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:

On this 5th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Guizhou

Jesus, please give peace to the world's trouble spots, especially:
Nigeria (Boko Haram), Sudan, Central African Republic, Somalia (Al Shabab), Israel-Palestine, Iraq-Syria (Isis), Ukraine

This website's Tanzania File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from Tanzanian inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's South America file 
(stopping South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters  from South American inmates  in Hong Kong prisons

This website's Hong Kong file
(encouraging local drug addicts to come off drugs)

Pope Francis:
Thank you Holy Spirit

Inspiring photos:

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(war, global warming, exploitation of the poor, globalisation of indifference, liturgical "reform of the reform" & other anti-Vatican II forces etc)

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The unjust treatment
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Hans Küng:  Letter to bishops  

Revolution to stop authoritarianism 

Fr Joseph Ratzinger: 
Writings on Vat II 

Robert Mickens:  
Vatican Implosion

Nicholas Lash:     Vatican II: 
Of Happy Memory - and Hope?

Robert McNally:  
Crisis & Criticism in the Church 

Priests 9 Masses a day
 - need to ordain married men

Why are women not being
 ordained to priesthood?   (updated)

A Call to Action
Assn Catholic Priests Ireland
Bp Pat Power
Bp Geoff Robinson
Bruce Duncan
Catalyst for Renewal
Catholica
Catholics for Ministry  
Catholics for Renewal 
STANDUP4VATICAN2
The Swag
VII - Voice of the Church
We Are Church

Excellent articles on Mission
  Hugh McMahon SSC

Imposter Priests
- refusing to pass on the teaching of Francis' The Joy of the Gospel

HK Democracy File - essential reading

HK Asylum Seekers File

IS (ISIS) File - Essential Reading

Gaza File - essential reading

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1998 ICEL Sacramentary

Misguided Missal 

The new translation
Ghastly process/result

Ron Schmit:
 1962 Mass a condemnation of Vat II

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Available in 19 languages

Jackie Evancho  - To Believe

Pray-as-you-go.org
Daily prayer with beautiful music

Whole text of 1966 Jerusalem Bible

The Last Supper -  Bohdan Piasecki 
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Bob Welsh - My Christmas Eve

 A Tale of Two Brains

The Story of Jonah 
as Told by The Cutest Little Girl
(gets even better as it goes along)

YouTube from KLM!

North Africa refugee boat - Link

Abortion Survivor’s Letter
 to the Abortionist

Tribalism lives on, 
for better and for worse

16 Documents of Vatican II

This website's 
Reflections on the 16 documents
 of Vatican II 

Why I collect rubbish for Pope

Taking a stand

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"Reform of reform" agenda

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Abortion - a true story

The evil of compulsory celibacy

Link between compulsory celibacy
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"Same-sex marriage": 
two elephants in the men's room     

     Near Death Experiences

Globalisation of Indifference

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China Library
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