My Islam File     Muslim map of world

 As a HK citizen of 30 years I am totally ashamed of the ghastly behaviour of some HK extremists towards Mainland shoppers as in this video ...shouting at a child and making the child cry ....calling out "Go back to the Mainland"  
c.f. Ambrose Lee condemns 'barbaric' protest     

Frank Brennan S.J.
Good race relations is not just an American thing, it's democracy

The movie Selma is a great though imperfect study in race relations, which still has a long way to go, as it does in Australia

Jeremiah 8-11

Jeremiah said sorrowfully:

My people have forgotten God.
My people ignore God.
My people follow false gods.
My people have no time for the real God.

Lord, you know how weak we are.
Correct us gently, Lord.

Correct us gently, Lord, correct us gently

Psalm 71 (let's pray this on behalf of people being attacked by IS)

In you, O Lord, I take refuge.
Please hear me and help me.

Be a rock where I can take refuge.
Rescue me from people who want to hurt me.

It is you, O Lord, who are my hope. In you I have trusted since I was young.

From my mother's womb you have been my help. My hope has always been in you.

Now that I am old, please do not forget me. Now that my strength fails, do not abandon me.

Now that I am old and grey-headed, may I continue to trust in you and proclaim your help.

To you I will sing with the harp.
All day long my tongue will tell of your goodness to me.

Lord, may all elderly people put their trust and hope in you

Recording

Colossians 1.9-14

I pray that you will continue to grow in your Christian life, a life full of good deeds

Never give in when trials come, but bravely, even joyfully, carry your cross each day

Keep on thanking the Father who has rescued us from the power of darkness, and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins

Father, thank you for letting me be a Christian. Help me be a good Christian

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 18.9-14

Some people prided themselves on being virtuous, and despised others. Jesus told them this story:

Two men went to the Temple to pray, one a religious leader, the other a social outcast

The leader stood there and said "I thank you, God, that I am not greedy, unjust and adulterous like other people such as this outcast here"

The outcast did not even raise his eyes, but beat his breast and said "God, be merciful to me, a sinner"

The outcast, I tell you, went home a friend of God. The leader did not. People who exalt themselves will be humbled. People who humble themselves will be exalted

Jesus, be merciful to me, a sinner

Recording

(Jesus, please move President Joko to hold a referendum on the death penalty!)

- may he who authorised bombing of UN schools in Gaza soon be deposed

• A humble Jesuit - a rarity!
• A Jesuit Pope - an impossibility!
• A humble Jesuit Pope - a MIRACLE!

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

My Islam File        Muslim map of world

David Timbs (Australia)

The Great Disaffiliation 
Following the Second World War, while the Catholic Church in Africa and Latin America grew rapidly, in the West it was the opposite. There the Church suffered a massive haemorrhage of membership   

Boko Haram declares allegiance to Islamic State

Click to enlarge map 

In this map of the Muslim world, notice how the top half of Africa is Muslim. With Boko Haram in Nigeria, and Al Shabaab in Somalia, how much longer before all of Northern Africa falls to IS unless strong measures are taken to prevent this?

Jeremiah 7 

At the gate of the Temple in Jerusalem, Jeremiah proclaimed the word of the Lord:

"You people of Judah who come here to worship, amend your behavior and actions, and then I, the Lord, will meet you here in this Temple.

Do not exploit the stranger, the orphan and the widow. Do not follow alien gods, do not break the Commandments.

If you don't care about bad behavior and yet keep on coming to my Temple for worship,
your worship is useless and you are turning this Temple into a robbers' den.

This nation refuses to listen to the Lord. Sincerity has vanished since worship and behavior are not related."

Lord, please help me "practise what I preach"

My recording of this reading

Psalms 69-70

Save me, O God, for the waters have risen to my neck. I am sinking fast and can't keep afloat much longer.

So many people hate me without cause. I have no more strength to resist them.

May my situation not cause anyone to lose faith in you. May people realize that it is for your sake that I am taunted.

Taunts have broken my heart. No one shows me any compassion.

For food they give me poison. In my thirst they give me vinegar to drink.

Lord, do not hide your face from your servant. Answer quickly for I am in distress.

You are my rescuer, my help, O God. O Lord, do not delay to help me.

O God come to our  assistance. Lord make haste to help us

Recording

Colossians 1.1-6

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

I always pray for you and give thanks for your faith in Christ Jesus, and the love you show to others because of the hope which is stored up for you in heaven

The Good News is spreading all over the world, bringing blessings to so many people

Jesus, increase my faith, hope and love. Help me  spread the Good News in my corner of the world

Recording

Luke 18.1-7

Jesus told his disciples a story about the need to pray continually and never lose heart:

There was a judge who had neither fear of God nor respect for people. In the same town there was a widow who kept asking the judge for justice against someone who had wronged her

For a long time the judge refused to help her, but at last he said to himself "I must give this widow her rights or she will pester me to death"

Even more so God will  see that justice is done for those who cry out to him for help day and night, even if he delays to help them

Jesus, please give me the perseverance to pray each day

Recording

The fate of the prophet

In speaking the truth, have you ever felt like you were figuratively thrown off the cliff?

 China's environment minister ignores pollution documentary

In my sermon on yesterday's Gospel, I mentioned how all of us have "cattle, sheep and pigeons" in our hearts - that need to be driven out.  After Mass one man, not in confession, said "Father, I've got ducks as well"!

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 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 Republic

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)

My Islam File

Today's Gospel: Jesus clearing Temple 

This is a most important video.
It has opened my eyes.
An Historical Critique of Islam's Beginning

Much (most?) material about Mohammad is fictitious.

Koran was written by a committee.

The Francis revolution
In only two years, Pope Francis has changed the face of Catholicism by radically re-imagining how it presents itself to the world

'The Francis Miracle:' Mercy is the bedrock of this papacy

c.f. Readings for "Lent 3"

Exodus 20

The Ten Commandments given by God to Moses:

 1: I am the Lord your God. Do not worship anyone or anything else.

 2: Use my name with respect. Do not insult my name.

 3: Make the Sabbath Day a holy day each week.

 4: Honor your father and your mother.

 5: Do not kill.

 6: Do not commit adultery.

 7: Do not steal.

 8: Do not tell lies.

 9: Do not lust after someone else's wife.

10: Do not desire what belongs to someone else.

Dear God, please help us 
to put these commandments into practice

My recording of this reading

Psalm 19

The heavens proclaim the glory of God, the starry skies are the work of his hands.

The stars can't speak, but they are  God's handwriting. The sun is God's love shining on  the whole world.

The universe is a masterpiece, and so is God's law which shines in our hearts.

The precepts of the Lord enlighten our lives each day. The law of the Lord gives joy and wisdom to our hearts.

The decrees of the Lord are to be desired more than gold, they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.

But  often we are unaware of  our errors. Lord, please protect us from making mistakes.

Lord, may the words of my mouth
and the thoughts of my heart  be pleasing to you

Recording

1 Corinthians 1.18 - 2.9

The language of the Cross doesn't make sense for some people. But for us it is God's power to save

While the Jews demand miracles and the Greeks require philosophy, here we are preaching a crucified Christ: to the Jews an obstacle they cannot get over, to the pagans madness

During my stay with you, I relied not on philosophy or my own efforts, but only on the power of the Spirit

The wisdom we teach is about things no eye has seen, and no ear has heard, things beyond human understanding - all that God has prepared for those who love him

Jesus, crucified Lord, please increase my faith in you

Recording

John 2.13-22

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

Jesus, you said to ask for anything good:
Well, would you please move the hearts of Indonesia's leaders to hold a referendum on the death penalty ...thank you Lord!

Indonesian Executions Harm Jokowi, Country

International Women's Day

 Grassroots women's groups going it alone, despite rhetoric on gender

New photos

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 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

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)

My Islam File

Cardinal Dolan: ISIS is Muslim like the IRA was Catholic 

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Austria's new law on Islam could be a model for Germany
Why such a law? Watch this!      

Tanzania's Mwanachi paper kindly had six reports about my visit to Tz in January. But a Mwanachi article of March 3 has unfortunately got a few facts wrong. 
Article, in Swahili, says 8 Tanzanian women were arrested recently at HK airport. Not true. Only one in past 11 months (on Feb 18). Seems that the  arrests were made in China.  (Very sad if true, because of death penalty)

Jeremiah 3-6

The country has no rain because its people have forgotten the Lord.

The people refuse to repent, and so the land has many sorrows.

Stop and think about the past: which was the good way to live?
Follow that way now and you will find peace for yourselves and the land.

Lord,  please bless our land - by helping us be better people.

My recording of this reading

Psalms 66-68

O God, be gracious and bless us
and let your face shine its light upon us.

Let all the peoples praise you, O God. Let all the peoples praise you.

O sing to the Lord, make music to his name. Rejoice in the Lord, exult at his presence.

Father of the orphan, defender of the widow, God provides a shelter for the homeless.

God gives his people strength.

May all the peoples of the earth know you and praise you, O God

Recording

Philippians 4.11-20

I have learnt how to manage on whatever I have. I am ready for anything anywhere: full stomach or empty stomach, poverty or plenty

There is nothing I cannot master
with the help of the One who gives me strength

I thank you my friends for supporting me financially, 
especially when I was in great need. 

Jesus, bless everyone who has helped me in any way since the day I was born

Recording

Luke 17.11-19

On the way to Jerusalem, Jesus entered a village where 10 lepers came to meet him. They stood at a distance and called out "Jesus, Master, take pity on us!"

Jesus said to them "Go and show yourselves to the priests".
As they went away, their leprosy disappeared.

Seeing that he was healed, one of them turned back praising God at the top of his voice. He threw himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him.

This made Jesus say "Were not all 10 healed? Where are the 9 others?"

Jesus, please don't let me forget to say "thank you" when someone helps me

Recording

Garry Kasparov

Let’s be honest. We ignore Congo’s atrocities because it’s in Africa

Kevin Walters (UK)

10 years ago
 on this day

Funniest thing I saw yesterday (on way to Lai Chi Kok Detention Centre) ...as I passed a shop near my home ....was the look on shop's cat (nearly all HK shops have a cat, to deter rats)...sitting at door of shop ....just after two young dogs unexpectedly passed by door. Cat's face had look of consternation, anger, resentment, embarrassment, surprise, indignation ...you name it. Wish I'd had camera with me!

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

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 7th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Burkina Faso

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

HK customs seize ICE at Lo Wu Control

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)

My Islam File

Powerful video about people in Tanzania using methadone to try to come off heroin

New hope for heroin addicts in Tanzania - has link to video "Tanzania's heroin fix"

Gone home to Heaven:
Brian Lewis, aged 90, died March 4 at St John of God Hospital, Ballarat, Australia. 
Brian was one of Australia's leading moral theologians and his works are still widely used in seminaries and colleges. Brian's articles were a great help at the launch of this website and can be found here. Thank you, Brian, for a prayer from Heaven!
Google: brian lewis moral theologian australia

Jeremiah 2

This is what God told Jeremiah to shout out loud in Jerusalem:

"The Lord says: I remember the love you used to have for me.
But now you have forgotten me.

Priests and prophets have no knowledge of me. King and princes have rebelled against me.

Not only have you abandoned me,
you now follow false gods.

You have abandoned the fountain of living water in exchange for muddy pools."

Lord, please don't let anyone else  or anything else ever replace you as number one in my life

My recording of this reading

Psalms 61-65

O God, hear my cry,
you who are my refuge and help.

In you alone is my soul at rest. 
My help comes from you.

Take refuge in God, everyone in trouble. Trust him at all times.

O God, you are my God, for you I long. My body and soul thirst for you like a dry, weary land without water.

Your love is better than life, my lips will speak your praise.

On my bed I remember you. On you I muse through the night.

You are the Creator of the world.
You care for the earth, you give it water.

To you our praise is due, wherever we are on earth.

Lord, my soul clings to you. Your right hand holds me fast

Recording

Luke 16.19-26 (a)

Jesus told this story to the people: There was a rich man who used to
dress in expensive clothes and feast magnificently every day

At his gate there was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to eat scraps that fell from the rich man's table. Dogs even came and licked his sores

The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. In his torment in Hell, the rich man looked up and saw Abraham a long way off with Lazarus at his side

Recording

Luke 16.19-26 (b)

So the rich man cried out "Father Abraham, pity me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames"

"My son", replied Abraham, "remember that during your life, good things came your way, just as bad things came the way of Lazarus. Now he is being comforted here, while you are in agony"

Jesus, please help me understand how I should do more to help poor people 

Recording

Fridays of Lent: 

Prayer before a Crucifix

The Jesus Stabat Mater

Politicians and the media are using Vladimir Putin and Ukraine to justify military expansionism. It’s dangerous folly

It is the enterprises, rather than the government, that generally initiate overseas investment decisions

Lack of water endangers the entire region

Anniversary

Thanks to two more donations from HK kind friends, my debt has now been cleared for helping Jesus, I mean four African prison inmates, study by correspondence for a semester at the Open University of HK. A further donation has helped pay another bill - for Bibles and other books for prisoners. God bless kind donors! 

A new man is brought into the Prison Cell. Already there is a long-time resident who looks 100 years old. The new man looks at the old-timer inquiringly.
The old-timer says: "Look at me. I'm old and worn out. You'd never believe that I used to live the life of Bill Gates. I wintered on the Riviera, had a boat, four fine cars, the most beautiful women, and I ate in all the best restaurants of France."
The new man asked: "And... what happened?"
"One day Bill Gates reported his credit cards missing!"

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 6th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Haian

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 6th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Liberia

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)

My Islam File

Pope:
A society where the elderly are discarded, carries within it the virus of death

Ugandan chess prodigy's story to become Hollywood film

A new Disney production telling the story of Phiona Mutesi’s rise from nine-year-old chess enthusiast to international star player (but see comments?)

When a foreigner is arrested in HK it can sometimes be many weeks, even months, before their family knows about their detention ... because of slow mail deliveries (e.g. Africa) and because inmates' use of phone is very restricted ... which is why I sometimes use email to help notify families (inmates are allowed to post letter to me which I then forward)

Luke 15.11-24 (a)

Jesus told this story: a man had two sons. The younger said to his father "Father, give me the share of the estate that would come to me"

So the father divided his property between them. A few days later, the younger son left for a distant land where he wasted his money in wild living

When he had used all his money, that country had a severe famine, and he began to feel the pinch, so he got a job on a farm  feeding  pigs. He would willingly have eaten the pigs' food, but no one offered him anything

Recording

Luke 15.11-24 (b)

Then he came to his senses and said "How many of my father's paid servants have more food than they want, and I am dying of hunger 

I will leave this place and go to my father and say: Father, I have
sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be
called your son. Treat me as one of your paid servants." 

So he left the place and went back to his father

Recording

Luke 15.11-24 (c)

While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was moved
with pity. He ran to the boy, clasped him in his arms and kissed him tenderly. 

Then the son said "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son"

Recording
   

Luke 15.11-24 (d)

But the father said to his servants "Quick! Bring out the best robe
and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
Bring the calf we have been fattening, and kill it. We are going to have a feast, a celebration, because this son of mine was dead and has come back to life. He was lost and is found."

Jesus, please help me understand how much you love me, no matter what  mistakes I make

Recording

State secrets exposed in new thriller

A Tanzania paper kindly did several stories about my visit in January - spreading the news about the dangers of drug trafficking to HK -  but unfortunately spelt my name as "Wootherspoon". Yesterday they ran another story, in their Swahili edition, using a new formula - "Wotherspon".  I can hear Mum and Dad in Heaven chuckling.  

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

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 5th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Chad

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)

My Islam File

Putting an end to prelates' purposeless pontificating

But, like most messages by most of the world’s bishops’ conferences, this one will provoke little interest or discussion, let alone action. In fact, like most such messages, it is likely to remain largely unread

China’s Cadres Face the Future 

The NPC and CPPCC are not off Wang’s radar and as a result, the hundreds of cadres traveling to Beijing for this year’s conclave are keeping an extremely low profile.  Expensive cars are out, along with flashy jewelry

My job as a prison chaplain is now beginning to involve more time communicating with inmates' families - especially in Africa.

The shock experienced by a family when a family member goes to prison is one of the hardest blows we can receive in this life. In some ways, the pain of the family is greater than the pain of the inmate

Jeremiah 1

Jeremiah lived in a village not far from Jerusalem. Jeremiah's father was a priest.

God said to Jeremiah: "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. I have appointed you as prophet to the nations."

Jeremiah said to God: "Lord, I do not know how to speak. I am so young."

God then touched Jeremiah's mouth and said: "I now put my words into your mouth. Go and tell the people everything I ask you to speak.

Do not be dismayed by anyone. I am making you strong.

You must confront Judah's kings, priests and people. They will oppose you, but will not overcome you, for I am with you."

Lord, please give special courage
to people who speak your message for the world

Psalms 52-60

Lord, I will tell everyone about how good you are. You are our Creator. Everyone should love you.

Thank you for so often rescuing me from trouble. You uphold my life.

Sometimes I have so many troubles and cares that I can't get to sleep.

Sometimes I wish I was a bird 
and could fly away to a safe place.

When I fear, I will trust in you,
in you whose word I praise.

My heart is ready, O God, my heart is ready. I will sing, I will sing your praise.

Each morning I will sing of your strength, and each morning acclaim your love.

O God, please help me to praise and love you every day

Recording

Philippians 4.4-9

I want you to be happy, always happy in the Lord. Let your tolerance be evident to everyone

If there is anything you need, with prayer and thanksgiving ask God for it

Fill your minds with everything that is true, everything that is noble, everything that is good and pure, everything that is worthwhile. Then the God of peace will be with you

Jesus, please fill my mind with good things

Recording  

Luke 14.12-14

Jesus said to the meal guests "When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not ask your friends, family, or rich neighbors

Rather, when you have a party, invite the poor, the crippled,
the lame, the blind

That they cannot repay you means you are fortunate, because repayment will be made to you when the virtuous rise again"

Jesus, help me do more to help poor people

Recording

Chris McDonnell (Wed UK blogger) 

Iconoclasts
The murderous treatment that we have seen in recent weeks in an attempt to subjugate people and enforce control through fear has filled our screens and newspapers, evil acts that belie the Moslem faith.  To destroy the historical and sacred links with their past only adds to their indignity

10 years ago today

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 4th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Guangdong

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 4th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Mozambique

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)
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Pope Francis:
Thank you Holy Spirit

Inspiring photos:

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Newness, harmony, mission

Engagements of Pope Francis

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Priests 9 Masses a day
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Why are women not being
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Excellent articles on Mission
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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:
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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

Video: Sydney Peace Prize Lecture by Julian Burnside  

16 Documents of Vatican II

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Reflections on the 16 documents
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Be careful of junk reading re Pope:
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Why I collect rubbish for Pope

Taking a stand

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Abortion - a true story

The evil of compulsory celibacy

Link between compulsory celibacy
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"Same-sex marriage": 
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     Near Death Experiences

Globalisation of Indifference

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