My Islam File

Prayer from yesterday's Mass:

Father, through this sacrament may we rejoice in your healing power, and experience your saving love in mind and body

Pope Francis as media role model for (all leaders)

Jesus now enrolled at OUHK:

Many thanks to two kind HK readers who have responded to my appeal for help in funding African inmates' study at the Open University of HK. Final cost for 4 inmates was 5075 + 5075 + 4700 + 4700 = HK$19,550.  Donations received = HK$9,500

Isaiah 53

And yet ours were the sufferings he bore, ours the sorrows he carried.

He was pierced through for our faults, crushed for our sins.

On him lies a punishment that brings us peace, and through his wounds we are healed.

We had all gone astray like sheep,
and the Lord burdened him with our sins.

Harshly dealt with, he bore it humbly, never opening his mouth.

He let himself be taken for a sinner, and all the time he was suffering and praying for sinners.

Jesus, these words refer to you.
Thank you for all you suffered to redeem the world.

Psalm 40

I waited, I waited for the Lord and he stooped down to me. He heard my cry.

He saved me from distress. He put fresh hope into my heart.

How many, O Lord my God, are the times you have helped me. They are too many for me to describe.

My God, in the depth of my heart I delight in your law. You do not want external offerings. You want my heart.

Lord, I offer you my heart, my love. You deserve all my love

Recording

Beautiful song based on words of Isaiah on today and yesterday's menu: With What Great Love

Philippians 1.13-25

My chains have become famous and have given courage to many other believers. Many others are now becoming more daring in announcing the Message without fear

I hope and trust that I will always have courage for Christ to be glorified in my body, whether by my life or by my death

My heart wants to go two ways. One part wants to depart this world  and live for ever with Christ in heaven. The other part wants to stay in this world to help more people to know the Lord

Jesus, give me courage in spreading the Good News

Recording

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

 Luke 12.15-21

Jesus told the people this story: There was a rich man who, having had a good harvest from his land, thought to himself "What am I to do? I don't have enough room to store my crops". 

Then he said to himself "This is what I will do: I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and store all my grain in them, and I will say to my soul: My soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to come; take things easy, eat, drink, and have a good time"

But God said to him "Fool! This very night your earthly life will come to an end. And all your possessions, who will get them?"

So it is when people store up treasure for themselves, instead of making themselves rich in the sight of God

Jesus, please help me to be satisfied with what I have, and not to be greedy

Recording

New photos

Lunar New Year happy visit to Ricci Center by the Zhang family

All material of my site www.riccicenter.com has been transferred to http://v2catholic.com/riccicenter/index.htm   

c.f. Matteo Ricci one step closer to sainthood - Vatican Insider  

 Pages 424 to 479  show how the Russian declaration of war on Japan, and immediate invasion of Manchuria, had more effect on the decision making of the Japanese leaders, especially the military leaders, than the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Also described: 
- the crucial role of the Emperor in forcing the military leaders to agree to unconditional surrender.
- when the Emperor recorded a radio broadcast announcing the surrender, it was the first time the people had ever heard his voice.   People weren't supposed to hear "the voice of god".
- US denial about deaths caused by radiation

An excellent book to read for the 70th anniversaries in August this year

c.f. Japanese crown prince says country must not rewrite history of WW2

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 24th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Inner Mongolia

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 24th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Zambia

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 HK Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

Lent is a time of battle against evil

The Pope said he wanted to renew his advice to the faithful to read the Gospel every day and reflect on its meaning, even for just 10 minutes, and carry around a copy in one’s pocket or bag every day
(Pope on annual retreat this week)

'Nobody consoled Marco': Last rites denied for prisoner executed before Bali nine duo

- see quotes from Fr Charlie Burrows O.M.I.

Isaiah 52-53 

See, my servant will prosper,
he shall be lifted up and exalted.

As the crowds were appalled on seeing him - so disfigured did he look - so will the crowds be astonished at him, for they will see something that has never happened before.

Without beauty, without majesty,  we saw him. He was despised and rejected, a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering. He was despised and we took no account of him

Thank you Jesus for suffering so much for the world's salvation

My recording of this reading

Psalms 38-39

O Lord, please forgive my sins and heal me. Heal my body which is sick because of my sins.

Protect me, Lord, from those who gloat over me now that I am brought low and unable to help myself.

Lord, you have shown me how short a time I have on earth. Lord, give me wisdom of heart to live my life better.

Lord, pleasse help us understand the meaning of life

Recording

Pilippians 1.1-9

From Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the believers in the Church at Philippi

We wish you the grace and peace of  God our Father and of the Lord Jesus Christ

I thank God whenever I think of you. Every time I pray for you, I pray with joy, remembering how you helped to spread the Good News

You have a permanent place in my heart. God knows how much I miss you. I love you as Christ Jesus loves you

My prayer is that your love for each other will increase more and more, helping you always to know what is good and to avoid what is bad

Jesus, thank you for all the people
who have a permanent place in my heart

Recording

Luke 11.37-54

Jesus said to the religious leaders "You worry so much about cleaning dirty dishes, but don't care about having a dirty heart full of extortion and wickedness

At meetings and in the market, you like being treated as people of importance. But in fact you are like unmarked tombs that people walk on without knowing it

You expect ordinary people to observe unreasonable laws, while you excuse yourselves from such laws

You don't care about obtaining real wisdom, and you prevent others from obtaining wisdom"

The leaders were stung by Jesus' words, and they intensified their efforts to trap him in his speech

Jesus, help religious leaders be sincere people   

Recording

 Pope Francis ….Parting the "Red Sea"
It is highly questionable, whether, maintaining the Curia, which is replete with old  men,  is going to bring about curial reform or bring the Church into the 21^st century, no matter how religious the old men may be

China to neighbours: Send us your Uighurs

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 23rd of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Guangxi

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 23rd of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Djibouti

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 HK Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

 “Cardinal Zen, don’t you believe in miracles?” - a strong criticism of Cardinal Zen

c.f. Readings for "Lent 1"

Genesis 7-8

Noah's family and many animals went into the big boat, the "ark".

Then for about 40 days there was heavy rain which caused a great  flood.  The ark floated on the water.

The people and animals inside the ark were safe, but people and animals outside the ark died.

When the rain and flood stopped,
Noah and his family and the animals went out of the ark.

God made a special agreement (covenant) with Noah to bless Noah and his family.

God told Noah that the rainbow would be a sign of their agreement.

Dear God, thank you for making the rainbow so beautiful

My recording of this reading

Psalm 24

Recording

1 Peter 3.18-22

In the body Jesus was put to death, in the spirit he was raised to life, and in the spirit he went to preach to the spirits in prison.

Now it was long ago, when Noah was still building that ark which saved only a small group of eight people ‘by water’, that these spirits refused to believe. 

That water is a type of the baptism which saves you now, and which is not the washing off of physical dirt, but a pledge made to God from a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ

Jesus, please help me remember my baptism anniversary each year

Recording

Mark 1.12-15

Recording

Song for Lent based on the Gospels for Lent 1:

Jesus fasting in the desert

Recommended by
  a reader in Australia

Should We Pray for the Defeat of ISIS, or Their Conversion?

 Bogus orphanages in Cambodia: Aussie do-gooders 'tearing families apart'

10 years ago
 today

2005-02-22 Special visitor at Zhaoqing Ricci Centre for school-less children: Rom from Melbourne

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 22nd of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Zhejiang

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 22nd of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Rwanda

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

Life after El Chapo: Kingpin's arrest spells new era in Mexican drug war

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 HK Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

Pope's Lent message:
Be islands of mercy in a sea of indifference

Obama's short memory

Stop calling for a Muslim Enlightenment

After every terror attack the call rings out for the Muslim world to become modern. But Muslims have strenuously engaged with all that is new for hundreds of years 

Isaiah 51-52

Pay attention to me, you peoples.
Listen to me, you nations.

The islands put their hope in the Lord. They put their trust in his strength.

How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of one who brings good news, who proclaims peace and salvation, and tells Zion "Your God is king!"

Break into shouts of joy, you ruins of Jerusalem, for the Lord is redeeming his people.

All the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

Lord, may more and more people in more and more countries know you and love you

My recording of this reading

Psalms 35-37

O Lord, please save me from people who slander me, you who rescue the weak from the strong, you whose love is so precious,
you in whose light we see light.

We believe that if we find our delight in you, you will grant our heart's desire.

And so we commit our lives to you, confident you will help us in time of trouble.

Lord, please deepen our trust in you, especially in time of trouble

Recording

Ephesians 6.18-24

Pray all the time, asking for what you need. Pray in the Spirit on every possible occasion.

Never tire of praying. Pray for me that I may proclaim the Good News boldly

Grace and eternal life to everyone who loves our Lord Jesus Christ

Jesus, help me to put Paul's teaching into practice in my life

Recording
 

Luke 11.27-32

While Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd called out
"Blessed the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you"

Jesus replied "Even more blessed are those who hear the word of God and put it into practice!"

Jesus also said "On Judgement day, the Queen of the South will rise up with the people of this generation and condemn them, because she came from a distant country to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here"

Jesus, greater than Solomon, please help me put your teaching into practice

Recording

Only God can square the circle

BBC Panorama: Muslim First British Second
- the complexities of trying to address the issues of terrorism and radicalisation. 
 Not just a UK problem. A problem for whole world

 Nagasaki was not the original target. It took the place of Kokura which was spared thanks to bad weather. The Nagasaki bomb was twice as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb. The Nagasaki bomb detonated several kilometres from the city centre, over the densely populated Urakami district - Japan's largest Christian community and the city's medical and educational district......a few hundred metres from Urakami Cathedral. It was a lie to say the point of detonation was a military target.   Pages 406-411:

     
An excellent book to read with the coming of the 70th anniversaries in August this year

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 21st of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Yunnan

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 21st of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Benin

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

Top Australian footballer on cocaine charges

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 HK Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

Vatican, Italy step up security over threat posed by Islamic militants

Italy has been swept by alarmist rumors in recent days since the posting of a video showing the Islamic State group's beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya, which is a former Italian colony.

The tape includes a warning that Libya could be used as a platform for attacks on Italy and that IS fighters were "at the south of Rome."     

Doha recalls its ambassador from Egypt after air raids on Libya
So, Qatar (Doha) is supporting ISIS. Should we support World Cup in Qatar??

The truth About Islam
- it is not a religion of peace.
Sorry Mr Obama,
what you say here is not correct. Islam has a basic flaw, a DNA for violence

Indonesia: priest says awaiting death is torture, maybe causing insanity

Seven years ago Irish priest Charlie Burrows O.M.I. witnessed the execution of two Nigerian heroin smugglers 

It took the Nigerians up to eight minutes to die. Their haunting deaths crystallised Fr Charlie's opposition to capital punishment.

Isaiah 50

The Lord has opened my ear to hear his message. The Lord has given me words to proclaim his message.

For my part, I made no resistance,
neither did I turn away.

I offered my back to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who tore at my beard.

I did not protect my face from insult and spittle.

I set my face like flint. The Lord will help me.

Lord, please help me understand how these words refer to Jesus

Psalm 34

I will bless the Lord at all times,
his praise always on my lips.

In the Lord my soul shall make its boast, the humble shall hear and be glad.

Glorify the Lord with me, together let us praise his name. I sought the Lord and he answered me. From all my terrors he set me free.

The angel of the Lord is encamped around those who revere the Lord, to rescue them.

Taste and see that the Lord is good. They are happy who seek refuge in him.

The Lord is close to the broken-hearted. Those whose spirits are crushed he will save.

Lord, by our Bible reading and prayer, may we taste and see your goodness each day

Recording

Ephesians 6.10-17

To resist the Devil's tactics, put on God's armor:

- the belt of truth
- the breastplate of integrity
- the shoes of eagerness to spread 
  the Good News of peace
- the shield of faith
- the helmet of salvation
- the sword of God's word

Jesus, help me put on these six pieces of armor

Recording

Luke 11.9-13

Jesus said to his disciples "Ask, and it will be given to you. Search, and you will find.  Knock, and the door will open

If children ask their parents for something good, their parents will always give it to them

Even more so  will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him

Heavenly Father, please give me your Holy Spirit!

Recording

Will China Inc. Fall Victim to Accounting Fraud?

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 20th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Sichuan

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 20th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Gambia

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 HK Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

Happy Lunar New Year!

The Year of the Sheep/Ram/Goat !

Chinese New Year - numbers

Yesterday was spent at Hei Ling Chau drug treatment centre, where I shook hands with about 300 inmates, wishing them a Happy LNY and Good Health. 

Last night at dinner they would have been happy indeed, because LNY Eve is one of three times in the year when they receive a special treat: a chicken leg! Normally they have only chicken wings.

Anniversary today of a Chinese Billy Graham: Pastor Hsi

I have read and highly recommend  Pastor Hsi, a struggle for Chinese Christianity

c.f. readings for Lunar New Year's Day

Genesis 1-2

God made the world.  God made  the sun, the moon  and the stars ....the whole universe.  God said "Let there be light" and there was light.

God made the earth with all its plants and trees and animals and fish and birds.

God made the first people .....the first man and first woman.  God made them in his own image, and said to them "Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth."

God saw all that he had made, and all of it was good, very good

Dear God, thank you for making such a beautiful world!

My recording of this reading

Psalm 100

Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before him, singing for joy.

Know that he, the Lord, is God. He made us, we belong to him. We are his people, the sheep of his flock.

Go within his gates, giving thanks.
Enter his temple with songs of praise. Give thanks to him and bless his name.

Indeed, how good is the Lord,
eternal his merciful love. He is faithful from age to age.

Dear Lord, please help us to serve you with gladness

Recording

Ephesians 1.1-7

From Paul, appointed to be an apostle of Christ Jesus. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ

Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Before the world was made, he chose us in Christ, to live through love in his presence

He chose us, in Christ, to be his adopted children, to make us praise the glory of his grace

This grace is his free gift to us in his Beloved Son, through whose blood we gain our freedom
and the forgiveness of our sins

Father, thank you for upgrading me  from human child to Divine Child!

Recording

John 1.1-14

From all eternity the Word existed.
The Word was with God the Father. The Word was God the Son.

The Word was the source of life for all creatures

The Word became a man, and lived among us. We saw his glory, full of grace and truth

Many people did not recognize and did not accept the Word.
But to everyone who did accept him, he gave power to become children of God

Jesus, please help me understand how you are the Word-made-flesh

Recording

Things have become so dire that it’s well past time for diplomatic subtlety

Cardinal Joseph Zen

CY Leung dishes out favors in return for help for his son’s institute

10 years ago today

2005-02-19 Ricci Centre article on front page of Guangzhou Yangcheng Evening News

(and ....42 years ago today - DG!)

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 19th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Shanxi

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 19th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Sudan

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 HK Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

Double-layered veils and despair … women describe life under Isis

“I went once with my wife to one of the old souqs to do some shopping, and after a short while I lost her among the crowd. The problem was that all the women were wearing veils and it was hard to know who was my wife. I was utterly scared to make a mistake and go for the wrong woman"    

Yesterday morning I attended the 40th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Oblate Primary School in Tokwawan. Then to the Open University of HK for registration of another inmate, then to Shueng Shui to visit elderly Oblates (one in hospital, one in a nursing home), then to Lai Chi Kok detention centre to collect one more OUHK application form (deadline for OUHK applications was last night), then back to OUHK ....the whole day in the company of St Eugene de Mazenod who on Feb 17, 1826 received "international approbation" for the Oblates of Mary Immaculate from Pope Leo XII

c.f. readings for Ash Wed

Joel 1-4

My country has been invaded.
Joy has disappeared from the land.

Priests, put on sackcloth and lament. Proclaim a fast to pray for our nation.

Turn to the Lord your God again,
for he is all tenderness and compassion.

Call out to the Lord for help.
"Spare your people, Lord!"

The Lord replies: " I will save and rescue you.

I will pour out my spirit on all peoples. Every one will prophesy and see visions.

You will learn that I am the Lord your God. Jerusalem will be a holy place."

Lord, let our land be filled with knowledge of you and love for you

Psalm 51

Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness, and cleanse me of my sin.

My offences truly I know them.
What is evil in your sight I have done.

But in my defence please don't forget that sinfulness is part of the human condition, part of our DNA.

A pure heart create for me, O God.
Put a steadfast spirit within me.

Give me again the joy of your help. With a spirit of fervor sustain me.

Lord,  you will not spurn a humbled, contrite heart

Recording

2 Cor 5.14-19

The love of Christ is like a tsunami.
It overwhelms us and sweeps us away when we remember how Jesus died for everyone

God, through Christ, has repaired his friendship with humanity. We must spread the news of this reconciliation

"And when I think, that God his Son not sparing,   sent him to die, I scarce can take it in"
- from the song "How Great Thou Art"

Recording

Matthew 6.1-15

Jesus said to the crowds:

When you do a good deed,
do it for its own sake, not just to get people to praise you.

When you pray, love to pray in private in your heart. Don't be looking for people to notice and praise you.

When you pray, there's no need to rave on and on. God is not deaf. Prayer is not a lawyer arguing a case. Prayer is a child speaking with simple trust like this:

Our Father in heaven, may everyone love and honor you. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as in heaven. Thank you for enough food for today.
Forgive us as we forgive others. Save us in time of trial. Protect us from evil

Jesus,  help me remember that each time I pray "The Our Father",
you are praying with me. "Your Father = my Father = our Father"

Recording

Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only
With Ash Wednesday and the start of the Season we call Lent there is a call to spiritual awareness, an opportunity to strip down to the bare essentials and see what really matters. Who we are, where we are and where we might be heading

 I used my holiday time last month to go to Africa instead of Australia - a moving experience.
A Brisbane couple did the same thing - they spent two weeks of their holidays, including Christmas, with the Good Samaritan Sisters in the Philippines:
Bacolod visit a good reality check

Robert Mickens

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 18th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Shandong

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 18th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Côte d'Ivoire

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 HK Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK)

Pope Francis:
Thank you Holy Spirit

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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

My Islam File

Political leaders who live(d) a simple life style and care(d) for the poor

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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 Sacred Space  Daily prayer online.
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 
(click to enlarge)

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

Video: Sydney Peace Prize Lecture by Julian Burnside  

16 Documents of Vatican II

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

Be careful of junk reading re Pope:
Chancery report in English
Chancery report in Chinese

Why I collect rubbish for Pope

Taking a stand

Navigation Aids      

  Standing up to bullies

"Reform of reform" agenda

Too Western/European 

Abortion - a true story

The evil of compulsory celibacy

Link between compulsory celibacy
 and sexual abuse

"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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