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DG - Since 2013, this website's anti-drug campaign has saved many dozens of Africans & others from going to prison in HK.    To intensify the campaign, new websites are being constructed:

Hong Kong Indonesia Kenya Nigeria Philippines South Africa

South America

Thailand Tanzania Uganda Europe

  August 13, 2013:  How this campaign began               Hong Kong - how many years in prison for drug trafficking?                    A related concern:  www.AsylumSeekerHK.com 


 Thank you for a prayer!    Dec 28 to Jan 30: my trip to South Africa, Lesotho, Zambia and Dubai.    See daily reports, below.  God bless all benefactors! 

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My mobile number in South Africa: +27 (0)788228537 (South Africa is six hours behind HK)

 I wish all dear readers a Happy New Year! 

Sunday January 1         Feast of Mary, Mother of God

Pope (267, below): Freedom is something magnificent, yet it can also be dissipated and lost.


A woman from South Africa in prison in Hong Kong asked me to visit her sister in Soweto, next to Johannesburg. This I did yesterday, meeting the sister and her family at the famous Regina Mundi O.M.I. church in Soweto. 

The woman in prison and her sister both are abandoned wives (very common here). Each has two children. The six of them were living in a two-room garage for whose rent they paid 1,000 Rand (US$73) per month. Their only income was a government allowance of R350 per child. That's R1,400 per month. After paying rent they had R400 to live on.

Which is why the older sister got caught up in drug trafficking ....desperate to get money for the family. Now the younger sister is minding all four children....sometimes not able to give them food. The children going to school sometimes go on an empty stomach.

Thanks to kind HK friends I've been able to give them enough to pay 5 months rent ...plus a bit extra. And I've asked the younger sister to use the ideas in Good News for the Poor to break out of the poverty cycle. In fact I've given her a job: translate GNFTP into her native language, Sotho. Almost impossible for her with so many children to find work.

With the younger sister and four children yesterday was an unemployed male cousin (with health problems) and another abandoned mother with a one month old baby (a neighbour of the younger sister), and three other young friends of the children. 

Photos of the group are Here (shown with permission of the family). And see "Smile", below. 

Jesus, thank you for Day Four!  

 


The Book  Blog
4 readings + recordings

Readings are from Simple Bible
 (which has Chinese translation available)

c.f. Readings for January 1

Numbers 6

God said to Moses and Aaron: "This is how you are to bless the people. Say to them:

May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord let his face shine on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord uncover his face to you and bring you peace."

Dear God, please bless everyone in the world

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 


Galatians 4.4-6

When the appointed time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born a subject of the Law, to redeem the subjects of the Law, and to enable us to be adopted as children of God, brothers and sisters of his Son

The proof that we are children is that God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts: the Spirit that cries "Abba, Father"

Jesus, help me understand how I have been adopted, how you are my Brother

Recording  

 

Luke 2.21

 

When the eighth day came and the child was to be circumcised, they gave him the name Jesus, the name the angel had given him before his conception.

Jesus - "God saves" - you are our Saviour

Recording  

 

 

The Church in its early centuries said Mary was the Mother of God, not to glorify Mary, but to counter people who said that Jesus was not God. Today we also remember that the name "Jesus" means "God saves" ....and we pray for peace on this World Day of Peace

 



The Joy of Love
- Pope Francis' letter - on love in the family      
Full English text   Full Chinese text

267: Recording

Freedom is something magnificent, yet it can also be dissipated and lost.

Moral education has to do with cultivating freedom through ideas, incentives, practical applications, stimuli, rewards, examples, models, symbols, reflections, encouragement, dialogue and a constant rethinking of our way of doing things; all these can help develop those stable interior principles that lead us spontaneously to do good.

Virtue is a conviction that has become a steadfast inner principle of operation. 

The virtuous life thus builds, strengthens and shapes freedom, lest we become slaves of dehumanizing and antisocial inclinations. 

For human dignity itself demands that each of us “act out of conscious and free choice, as moved and drawn in a personal way from within”

 


Fr. Harry Winter O.M.I.

Lutheran Friends - Encouragement and Caution

More items at Fr Harry's website Here


 

 

Full English text

Full Chinese text

Pope's letter on climate change:
Laudato Si
     我主應受讚美 

Today I am reading Day Six of this excellent little book 40 Days of Pilgrimage with Pope Francis: Care for Our Common Home" (used with permission)

 



Pope  Francis: The Joy of the Gospel        Full English text     Full Chinese text

00: Recording

 In her dialogue with the State and with society, the Church does not have solutions for every particular issue.

 Together with the various sectors of society, she supports those programs which best respond to the dignity of each person and the common good.

 In doing this, she proposes in a clear way the fundamental values of human life and convictions which can then find expression in political activity.

 


Hour of Love  HK radio program 9.05pm HK time each Sunday night
- with messages about African inmates in HK prisons (c. 9.25pm). Tonight Bruce will play recordings from the three families I've visited so far.

Yesterday I felt so sorry for the family I visited - they really are struggling to exist - that I gave them everything I had in my wallet ...including my taxi fare home ...planning to get money for the driver on my arrival. But three teenagers in the family group got wind of this and thought they would be helpful by explaining my predicament in Zulu to a taxi driver I was negotiating with. Driver promptly declined to take me as a passenger. So I said to the teenagers, please don't tell the next driver I ask! (Next driver no problem ...got paid on arrival)


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
1st of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of
Anwei

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month: On this 1st of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Congo

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Sunday, please bless all Muslims in my own country


 

Vacancy: a new Facebook editor for this website. Kind volunteer editor of the past few years, Vincent, in Melbourne, is due to be married today - congratulations Vincent and Maria! .."May you live to see your children's children" (Psalm 128)  - and the time has come to pass the baton to another kind volunteer. Please contact me if you are interested in this vacancy: jdwomi@gmail.com

Saturday December 31

Pope (266, below)We need to be trained in childhood to say "Please", "Thank you" and "Sorry"

 

On my previous visits to Africa - to meet families of prisoners in HK - I often met two or more families at a time. But on this visit, with a little bit more time available, I'm meeting one family at a time ....and learning a lot about the circumstances in which people took drugs to HK. 

Yesterday I spent quite a while travelling to meet a remarkable family, and spent a couple of hours with them. They want their story - the story of an inmate in HK - made public (in fact the arrest details are already public) ...in order to stop a local Drug Lord who is continuing to recruit women as drug mules. 

Story will, DV, be on this website in the coming week or so ....after facts are checked.

Photos of the meeting yesterday are Here (with permission of the family)

Thank you Jesus for Day Three!

 


The Book  Blog
4 readings + recordings

Readings are from Simple Bible
 (which has Chinese translation available)

Exodus 3

The Israelites begged God to free them from slavery in Egypt.

God heard their cry and called Moses to be their leader.

God appeared to Moses in a burning bush and said to him "I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I have heard the prayers of my people in Egypt. I now send you to Pharaoh to win the freedom of my people."

Moses asked what was God's name. God replied 'I Am who I Am. Tell the people "I Am has sent me to you".'

Dear God, God of life, God of Abraham, we praise you Lord.

My recording of this reading

Psalm 136

O give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his great love is without end.

It was his wisdom which made the skies,
for his great love is without end.

It was he who made the sun, moon and stars, for his great love is without end.

It was he who rescued and protected his people Israel, for his great love is without end.

He gives food to all living things, for his great love is without end.

To the God of heaven give thanks, for his great love is without end.

We praise you, Lord, for your great love is without end

Recording  

 

 

 

Acts 13.1-3

In the church at Antioch in Syria, the following were prophets and teachers:
Barnabas, Simeon, Lucius, Manaen and Paul

One day while they were offering worship to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said "I want Barnabas and Paul set apart for the work to which I have called them"

After fasting and prayer, the leaders prayed for Barnabas and Paul with the laying on of hands and sent them off on a missionary journey

Holy Spirit, help me be attentive to your guidance

 Recording 

 

 

 

Luke 1.67-80

When John (the Baptist) was named, his father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit
and said "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel. He has visited his people.
And you, little child, you shall be called a prophet of the Most High. You will go before the Lord to prepare a way for him"

When John grew older, he lived in the wilderness until the time came for him to begin his ministry

Jesus, please help me prepare your way
by helping people to know you

 

 

Recording  

On this last day of the year we give God thanks for all his goodness to us in 2016, we ask pardon for our sins of 2016, and we ask his continued help and protection in 2017



The Joy of Love - Pope Francis' letter - on love in the family      Full English text    Full Chinese text

266: Recording

Good habits need to be developed.

Even childhood habits can help to translate important interiorized values into sound and steady ways of acting. 

A person may be sociable and open to others, but if over a long period of time he has not been trained by his elders to say “Please”, “Thank you”, and “Sorry”, his good interior disposition will not easily come to the fore.

The strengthening of the will and the repetition of specific actions are the building blocks of moral conduct; without the conscious, free and valued repetition of certain patterns of good behaviour, moral education does not take place. 

Mere desire, or an attraction to a certain value, is not enough to instil a virtue in the absence of those properly motivated acts.
 



Full English text

Full Chinese text

Pope's letter on climate change:
Laudato Si
     我主應受讚美 

Today I am reading Day 5 of this excellent little book 40 Days of Pilgrimage with Pope Francis: Care for Our Common Home" (used with permission)

 



Pope  Francis: The Joy of the Gospel      Full English text     Full Chinese text

240: Recording

It is the responsibility of the State to safeguard and promote the common good of society.

 Based on the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, and fully committed to political dialogue and consensus building, it plays a fundamental role, one which cannot be delegated, in working for the integral development of all. 

This role, at present, calls for profound social humility

 


I'm not sure what New Year's Eve will be like tonight here in Johannesburg ...but I'll never forget New Year's Eve last year in Meru, Kenya ...when someone on the street outside the O.M.I. centre where I was staying was firing a rifle!


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
31st of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of
Tianjin

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month: On this 31st of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Nepal

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Saturday, please bless the Taliban


 

Friday December 30

Pope (265, below)Often we prove inconsistent in our own convictions


Yesterday I travelled to Eastgate shopping centre to meet the family of a lady in prison in Hong Kong. Was a lovely experience meeting two of her daughters and five little grandchildren, including two babies she has never seen, but I was saddened to learn that the father of one group has abandoned them, and the father of the other group refuses to get a job. 

Before the meeting I planned to go to an internet shop in Eastgate to check on some broken links on my websites ....and just as I was wondering where I'd find an internet shop, who should I see coming towards me but two of Mother Teresa's Sisters of Charity. As we started chatting they told me they were going to the post office, which had computers for customers to use! So we went to the post office. I told them about the family I was about to meet (I knew in advance of their situation, which is why they were the first on my visit list.) The sisters kindly offered to help them in the future, so I gave them the sisters contact details. 

I'm having internet connection problems ...which is making it difficult for me to prepare this website ....and catch up on a very large backlog of emails. Sorry ... 

Thank you Jesus, for Day Two!

 


The Book  Blog
4 readings + recordings

Comments/reflections welcome here
Readings are from Simple Bible

c.f. readings for Feast of the Holy Family

 Sirach 1-3: 

All wisdom comes from God. Love for God is the source of wisdom.

If you desire wisdom, keep the Lord's commandments, in private as well as in public.

Keep the commandment to honor your parents. Respect for your father will atone for your sins. Honor for your mother will gain you blessings.

Support your father in his old age. Even if his mind should fail, show him kindness. Do not despise him in your health and strength.

Be gentle in the way you live your life. The greater you are, the more humbly you should behave.

Dear God, please help me always respect and honor my parents

My recording of this reading  

 

Psalm 128

O blessed are those who love the Lord and walk in his ways.

By the labor of your hands you shall eat. You will be happy and prosper:

your wife like a fruitful vine in the heart of your house; your children like shoots of the olive, around your table.

Indeed thus shall be blessed the people who love and honor the Lord.

May the Lord bless you from Zion all the days of your life. May you see your children's children in a happy Jerusalem!

On Israel, peace!

Dear Lord, may all married people live to see their children's children

Recording 

 

 

 

  

   

Colossians 3.16-21:

Let the message of Christ, in all its richness, find a home with you. Teach each other, and advise each other, in all wisdom. 

Wives, give way to your husbands, as you should in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and treat them with gentleness.

Children, be obedient to your parents, because that is what will please the Lord.

Parents, never drive your children to resentment, or you will make them feel frustrated.

Jesus, please bless everyone in my family
Recording  

   

 


 

 

Luke 2.39-52

Joseph and Mary moved back to their own town of Nazareth. The child Jesus was filled with wisdom as he grew older

Each year  Joseph and Mary would take Jesus to Jerusalem for the celebration of the  Passover. When Jesus was 12 years old, they went to Jerusalem as usual

But when their traveling group left Jerusalem, Jesus stayed behind without his parents knowing it.  They presumed he was somewhere with the group . When they couldn't find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him

After 2 days, they found him,  in the Temple, listening to the religion teachers and asking them questions. People who heard him were astounded at his intelligence

His mother said to him "My child, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been really worried about you"

Jesus replied "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I must be concerned with my Father's work?"  But they didn't understand what he meant

He went with them to Nazareth and lived under their authority. His mother stored all these things in her heart

Jesus, please help all "lost children" to be found!

Recording

 

 

   

 

In today's world, family life is under attack. If families are to survive, they more than ever need to get on their knees and pray together. 


Australian police seize more than a tonne of cocaine – video


 

The Joy of Love - Pope Francis' letter - on love in the family      Full English text    Full Chinese text

265: Recording

Doing what is right means more than “judging what seems best” or knowing clearly what needs to be done, as important as this is. 

Often we prove inconsistent in our own convictions, however firm they may be; even when our conscience dictates a clear moral decision, other factors sometimes prove more attractive and powerful.

We have to arrive at the point where the good that the intellect grasps can take root in us as a profound affective inclination, as a thirst for the good that outweighs other attractions and helps us to realize that what we consider objectively good is also good “for us” here and now. 

A good ethical education includes showing a person that it is in his own interest to do what is right. 

Today, it is less and less effective to demand something that calls for effort and sacrifice, without clearly pointing to the benefits which it can bring

 



 

Full English text

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Pope's letter on climate change:
Laudato Si
     我主應受讚美 

Today I am reading Day 4 of this excellent little book 40 Days of Pilgrimage with Pope Francis: Care for Our Common Home" (used with permission)

 



Pope  Francis: The Joy of the Gospel      Full English text     Full Chinese text

239b: Recording

In a culture which privileges dialogue as a form of encounter, it is time to devise a means for building consensus and agreement while seeking the goal of a just, responsive and inclusive society. 

The principal author, the historic subject of this process, is the people as a whole and their culture, and not a single class, minority, group or elite.

 We do not need plans drawn up by a few for the few, or an enlightened or outspoken minority which claims to speak for everyone. It is about agreeing to live together, a social and cultural pact.

 


10 years ago today

Marco Polo children   + HK Cecilia & Winnie + English Corner


Stung into Action

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
30th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of
Shanghai

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month: On this 30th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Haiti

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Friday, please bless all Muslims


 

Thursday December 29

Pope (264, below)Parents are also responsible for shaping the will of their children, fostering good habits and a natural inclination to goodness.


Hello from Johannesburg where I arrived yesterday around midday after a 9 hour flight from HK to Dubai (where I had a long meeting ...1am to 2am local time.... with airport security officials re drugs arriving on transit flights from Sao Paulo, Brazil ...then given to couriers to take to HK), then an 8 hour flight to Johannesburg (after one hour on Dubai tarmac ...take off delayed by fog). 

Immigration computers at J'burg not working and staff undermanned ...so getting through immigration took about 90 minutes ...with a crowd of many hundreds not amused...and at times jumping the queue.

Then I stayed another hour at J'burg airport getting hooked up, so to speak: USB modem for my trusty Toshiba notebook + sim card for mobile phone (number at top of this menu)....then 20 minute trip by taxi to accommodation location in J'burg South. Am staying in a very peaceful but very secure place with the latest security fence and security team. Am due to meet the first of some 20 families in the J'burg area tomorrow Please God  (families of prisoners in HK). 

Thank you Jesus for Day One!


The Book  Blog
4 readings + recordings

Comments/reflections welcome here
Readings are from Simple Bible

Exodus 2

One Israelite mother hid her baby boy for three months.

When she could no longer hide him she put him in a basket and placed the basket among reeds near a river bank.

The basket was found by Pharaoh's daughter
when she went to bathe in the river. She felt sorry for the baby and decided to keep it.

The baby's sister saw all this happen and asked Pharaoh's daughter if she'd like a nurse for the baby.

Pharaoh's daughter agreed, and so the baby's mother was paid by Pharaoh's daughter
to be the baby's nurse.

When the child was weaned, he was taken to Pharaoh's daughter
who treated him like her own son. She named the baby Moses.


My recording of this reading

Psalm 135

Praise the name of the Lord, praise him, servants of the Lord.

Praise the Lord for he is good. Sing a psalm to his name for he is loving.

I know the Lord is great. He does whatever he wills in heaven, on earth, in the seas.

Pagan idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

They have mouths but they cannot speak. They have eyes but they cannot see.

Sons of Israel, do not trust in useless idols.
Sons of Aaron, trust only in our Creator and Lord.

Dear Lord, please help people who worship idols to know and love you

Recording

 


Acts 12.20-23

Wearing his robes of state and sitting on a throne, King Herod made a speech to the leaders of Tyre and Sidon. People acclaimed him saying "It is a god speaking, not a man!"

At that moment, the angel of the Lord struck him down, because he had not given the glory to God. He was eaten away with worms and died

Jesus, please help us remember that all our talents are a gift from you. "Not to us, Lord, but to your name be the glory"

Recording

 

 

Luke 1.1-4

Dear Friend of God, there are  already many  reports written about Jesus.

These reports come from  people who were the earliest eyewitnesses and ministers of the Good News.

After checking the whole story, I also have decided to write a report, so that you may see for yourself the truth and accuracy of the Good News

Jesus, help me understand your Good News

Recording

 

Today's second reading (Psalm 135) speaks about having mouths and eyes. When we remember how virtually every creature has mouths and eyes, how can anyone say this old world did not have a Creator? How come we "just happen" to have vitally necessary things like eyes, mouths, ears, noses ....not to mention legs and arms? "Only a fool says in their heart that there is no Creator" (Psalm 14)



 

The Joy of Love - Pope Francis' letter - on love in the family      Full English text  Full Chinese text

264: Recording

Parents are also responsible for shaping the will of their children, fostering good habits and a natural inclination to goodness.

This entails presenting certain ways of thinking and acting as desirable and worthwhile, as part of a gradual process of growth.

The desire to fit into society, or the habit of foregoing an immediate pleasure for the sake of a better and more orderly life in common, is itself a value that can then inspire openness to greater values.

Moral formation should always take place with active methods and a dialogue that teaches through sensitivity and by using a language children can understand. 

It should also take place inductively, so that children can learn for themselves the importance of certain values, principles and norms, rather than by imposing these as absolute and unquestionable truths.

 



Full English text

Full Chinese text

Pope's letter on climate change:
Laudato Si
     我主應受讚美 

Today I am reading Day 3 of this excellent little book 40 Days of Pilgrimage with Pope Francis: Care for Our Common Home" (used with permission)



Pope  Francis: The Joy of the Gospel       Full English text     Full Chinese text

239a: Recording

The Church proclaims “the Gospel of peace” and she wishes to cooperate with all national and international authorities in safeguarding this immense universal good. 

By preaching Jesus Christ, who is himself peace, the new evangelization calls on every baptized person to be a peacemaker and a credible witness to a reconciled life.

 


10 years ago today

Macau groups- Canossian group, A-Yau'group, Clara's group, Cecilia & Winnie  - thank you for helping poor children!


As I entered the plane for my flight from HK to Dubai on Tuesday night, I was surprised that it was a "double decker" plane ...an A380. But more accurately it was an A190, since it was only half full of passengers


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 South East Asia and the Pacific

And praying for prisoners in one part of China each day of the month:
On this
29th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of Chongqing

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month: On this 29th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Mauritania

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Thursday, please pacify Al-Qaeda


 

Please God, as you read this, I am on a plane on the way from HK to Dubai, then another plane to Johannesburg ...where I'm due to start meeting families of prisoners in HK ...and do some publicity to stop drug mules coming to HK. See coming days for fuller reports and photos.

Wednesday December 28

Pope (263, below)Physical or emotional absence creates greater hurt than any scolding which a child may receive for doing something wrong


Congratulations to this website's kind Facebook editor in Melbourne .... for his wedding on Dec 31. 
Dear V and M, may you live to see your children's children (Psalm 128)!

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Speaking of parents and children, the father of the little guy in the manger is an asylum seeker currently in detention.  More photos of baby Here (with other photos of recent Sunday night gatherings for the poor at St Paul's YMT)

Chris McDonnell  
(UK blogger)
 

The end of another year

We are entering a period of uncertainty that is possibly more dangerous than the Cold War of the late 20th C. We have to chart our course in the coming year with both care and prayer


The Book  Blog
4 readings + recordings

Comments/reflections welcome here
Readings are from Simple Bible

Exodus 1

After about 300 years, when the Israelites had grown to a huge number, the Egyptians began to see the Israelites as a danger to Egypt.

So they forced the Israelites into slavery and made their life miserable.

The Egyptians forced the Israelites to make bricks and build cities.

But the more the Israelites were oppressed, the more they increased in number.

So the Egyptian king told the Israelite midwives to kill all new-born boys.

But the midwives let the baby boys live, and God was pleased with the midwives and blessed them.

Pharaoh then ordered all Israelite baby boys to be drowned in the river.

 Dear God, please stop people, especially children,
 from being used as slaves

Psalm 134

O come, bless the Lord, all you who serve the Lord, who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

Lift up your hands to heaven and bless the Lord through the night.

May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made both heaven and earth.

Lord, please  protect my family tonight and every night

Recording  
 

 

Acts 12.1-17

About this time, King Herod began persecuting the church. He beheaded the apostle James, brother of John. He arrested Peter during Passover time. He put Peter in prison and planned to have him put on trial and killed after Passover

Each day Peter was in prison, the believers stormed heaven praying for him. On the night before he was to be put on trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, fastened with chains, with more soldiers at the prison entrance

Suddenly Peter's cell was filled with light, and an angel told him to get up. The chains fell from his hands. The angel led Peter out of the prison, without the guards knowing what was happening

Peter then left for another place. Herod was unable to find him

Jesus, please help Christians who are in prison for their faith

Recording 

Today's Gospel:

For today's Feast of the Holy Innocents:

Matthew 2.13-23

After the wise men left Bethlehem, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and said "Go quickly to Egypt, because Herod wants to kill the child".

That same night, Joseph got up
and set out for Egypt with Mary and Jesus.

Herod was angry after being tricked by the wise men. He got his soldiers to kill all baby boys two years old or younger in Bethlehem.

After Herod died some months later, an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream and told him to return to Israel.

Joseph, Mary and Jesus moved to the town of Nazareth, thus fulfilling the prophecy about the Saviour: "He will be called a Nazarene".

Jesus, you were once a refugee.
Please bless all refugees in the world today  

Recording 

  


What a contrast: people saving babies from being killed (today's first reading) and people killing babies (today's Gospel).

Not much has changed ... people still killing babies (abortion) and people trying to stop babies being killed (anti-abortion groups).

This is a special day each year when Catholics pray that governments do more to support unmarried mothers (so they will not need abortions), that governments do not allow abortions (especially abortion right till the moment of birth, as in Victoria, Australia) and that that the Lord will give wisdom and courage to all who trying to protect unborn babies



The Joy of Love - Pope Francis' letter - on love in the family     Full English text  Full Chinese text

263: Recording

Parents rely on schools to ensure the basic instruction of their children, but can never completely delegate the moral formation of their children to others. 

A person’s affective and ethical development is ultimately grounded in a particular experience, namely, that his or her parents can be trusted.

This means that parents, as educators, are responsible, by their affection and example, for instilling in their children trust and loving respect.

When children no longer feel that, for all their faults, they are important to their parents, or that their parents are sincerely concerned about them, this causes deep hurt and many difficulties along their path to maturity.

This physical or emotional absence creates greater hurt than any scolding which a child may receive for doing something wrong.



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Pope's letter on climate change:
Laudato Si
     我主應受讚美 

Today I am reading Day 2 of this excellent little book 40 Days of Pilgrimage with Pope Francis: Care for Our Common Home" (used with permission)

 



Pope  Francis: The Joy of the Gospel       Full English text     Full Chinese text

238: Recording

Evangelization also involves the path of dialogue. For the Church today, three areas of dialogue stand out where she needs to be present in order to promote full human development and to pursue the common good: dialogue with states, dialogue with society – including dialogue with cultures and the sciences – and dialogue with other believers who are not part of the Catholic Church.

 In each case, “the Church speaks from the light which faith offers”, contributing her two thousand year experience and keeping ever in mind the life and sufferings of human beings. This light transcends human reason, yet it can also prove meaningful and enriching to those who are not believers and it stimulates reason to broaden its perspectives.


10 years ago today

2006-12-28 Fr Martin's SDB Macau group - visited all centers these past few days - gave up
school holidays to spend time with the poor

As I set out on my third Africa journey, I think of my dear Dad who was a volunteer soldier in North Africa (..a Rat of Tobruk..)....and I ask the Good Lord to give me a bit of Dad's courage .... as in this poem of Dad's: Seeing It Through


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
28th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of
Beijing

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month: On this 28th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Lesotho

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Wednesday, please pacify Al-Shabaab 


 

Tuesday December 27 

Pope (262, below): Education includes encouraging the responsible use of freedom to face issues with good sense and intelligence. 

 

 

 


Moving letter (in Thai and English) by a Thai women in prison in HK for drug trafficking - saying how she was tricked by her Nigerian husband to go from Thailand to Brazil and bring drugs to HK. PDF Here (scroll down to English ...once you start reading, you won't stop...)

I've posted this story at Nigeria's number one Blog: Here 

Tonight I'm due to leave from HK for South Africa. I'm not sure when I next will be able to update this website. 

DV on reaching Johannesburg I'll buy a mobile phone card and then put its number at the top of this menu by Dec 29. 

Each day while away I'll try to check email. But in some of the places I'm due to visit, the internet connection may not always be working.

Aims of my trip are the same as Jan 2015 (Tanzania) and Jan 2016 (Kenya and Uganda): to visit the families of prisoners in HK, to promote awareness about the danger of drug trafficking to HK, and to lobby for prisoner transfer agreements.


The Book  Blog
4 readings + recordings

Comments/reflections welcome here
Readings are from Simple Bible

c.f. readings for St John the Apostle 

John 13.34-35:

Jesus said to his disciples at the meal "I give you a new commandment: love one another.
Just as I have loved you, you also must love one another

By this love you have for one another, everyone will know that you are my disciples"

Jesus, please help all Christians to love one another as you have loved us

 Recording of this reading

 

John 20.1-10

Before dawn the next morning, Sunday, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb.  She saw the stone had been moved from the tomb's entrance

She ran to Peter and John and said "Someone has taken the Lord out of the tomb"

They ran back to the tomb. Peter went in first. He saw that the linen cloths were on the ground. But the cloth that had been around Jesus' head was not on the ground. It was neatly folded and in a place by itself

Then John went into the tomb. He saw, and he believed

Jesus, I believe you rose from the dead. Please increase my faith

Recording

  

1 John 1.1-2

Something which has existed since the beginning - that we heard, that we saw with our own eyes, that we touched with our hands: the Word, who is life
- this is our subject

That life was made visible.

We saw it, and we are giving our testimony, telling you of the eternal life which was with the Father and has been made visible to us

Jesus, Word-made-flesh, you are the Way, the Truth and the Life

Recording

   

 

Revelation 1.9-17

I, John, share your sufferings. I was on the island of Patmos, imprisoned for having preached about Jesus

One Sunday the Spirit possessed me. I heard a voice shouting
"Write down all you see, and send it to the seven churches of
Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea"

I turned to see who had spoken to me, and I saw Jesus, full of glory. His face was like the sun shining with all its force

He said to me "Do not be afraid. It is I, the First and the Last. I am the Living One"

Jesus, Living One, we praise and adore you, Lord

Recording

  

In these days after Christmas let us often reflect on the words of St John (at the start of his gospel and in today's third reading): "In the beginning was the Word". The Baby in the manger of Bethlehem is the C.E.O. of the Universe. Some Kid! ....and he wants to be friends with each one of us! 


How China is using the media as a form of soft power in Australia

Tanzania President, mystery nun and 2015 election outcome
- why President attended a Christmas Mass


The Joy of Love - Pope Francis' letter - on love in the family      Full English text    Full Chinese text

262: Recording

Were maturity merely the development of something already present in our genetic code, not much would have to be done.

But prudence, good judgement and common sense are dependent not on purely quantitative growth factors, but rather on a whole series of things that come together deep within each person, or better, at the very core of our freedom. 

Inevitably, each child will surprise us with ideas and projects born of that freedom, which challenge us to rethink our own ideas. 

This is a good thing.

Education includes encouraging the responsible use of freedom to face issues with good sense and intelligence. 

It involves forming persons who readily understand that their own lives, and the life of the community, are in their hands, and that freedom is itself a great gift.


Interactive Bible Quiz - Job
Based on the actual words of the Bible. 
How many times you can get 3/3 ?!

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Pope's letter on climate change:
Laudato Si
     我主應受讚美 

Today I am reading the introduction to this excellent little book 40 Days of Pilgrimage with Pope Francis: Care for Our Common Home" (used with permission ...tomorrow: Day 1...)

 


Pope  Francis: The Joy of the Gospel        Full English text     Full Chinese text

237b: Recording 

The good news is the joy of the Father who desires that none of his little ones be lost, the joy of the Good Shepherd who finds the lost sheep and brings it back to the flock

The Gospel is the leaven which causes the dough to rise and the city on the hill whose light illumines all peoples. The Gospel has an intrinsic principle of totality: it will always remain good news until it has been proclaimed to all people, until it has healed and strengthened every aspect of humanity, until it has brought all men and women together

 


10 years ago today

Helping the poor in Zhaoqing- Fr Victor, Clara & friends from
Macau;  Fr Stefano, Candy and friends from Hong Kong


Little boy in "Outback" Australia had never seen rain. 
There had been a drought for more than 5 years.
Then just before Christmas the clouds began to form.
On Christmas Eve water fell from the sky.
The little boy ran to the window to see what was happening.
He called out to his mother "Mum, what's that?"
His mother replied "That's rain, dear"  (..reindeer..)


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
27th of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of
Tibet

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month: On this 27th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Uganda

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, please pacify Boko Haram 


 I wish all dear readers the peace of Christmas right through 2017! 

 

Yesterday in my homily at Mass, I used this 4 min video:
Christmas Truce of 1914: 

On returning home, while catching up on loads of office work, I watched/listened to this moving documentary:
Peace in No Mans Land - The Christmas Truce (1914)

And then this one:

The Great War: Christmas Truce  which has the words "these young boys were not made to kill each other"

And lastly: A World War II Christmas story from 1944

 


Photo and details of Chuck Valentine Ezeh, a Nigerian Drug Lord in Kuala Lumpur who has put 5 Indonesian women in prison in HK for drug trafficking. Here (Dec 15).
And see my post at Nigeria's number one blog - Here (scroll down to my name)

Letter (in Indonesian) from an Indonesian woman, an asylum seeker, a resident of HK, in prison in HK on a drug trafficking charge - saying how she was tricked by an African man in HK to receive a parcel of drugs from Brazil: Here (Dec 16)

Letter (in Chinese) from a Mainland woman recruited by a Nigerian man in Guangzhou to take drugs from Malaysia to HK -Here (July 13 ...scroll down to this second letter) - with photos of the Nigerian man.

Letter in Spanish from a Mexican man in HK for drug trafficking: Here (Dec 16)


The Book  Blog
4 readings + recordings

Readings are from Simple Bible
 (which has Chinese translation available)

Feast of St Stephen - 
THE STORY OF STEPHEN

Acts 6.8-15

One of the seven deacons, Stephen, was filled with grace and power. He began to do many miracles

A group of Jews tried to beat Stephen in a debate. But they could not win, because the Holy Spirit was guiding Stephen in his speech

The group then got some men to falsely accuse Stephen of being disloyal to Moses and to God

The group had Stephen arrested and brought before a meeting of the religious leaders. At the meeting, false witnesses accused Stephen of speaking against Moses and the Law

Jesus, please protect people who are accused by false witnesses

Recording of this reading

 

Acts 7.1-54

The meeting of religious leaders had falsely accused Stephen of being disloyal to Moses

So Stephen gave a long speech, full of loyalty to Moses. Then he made a stinging attack on the leaders: "You stubborn people, with your pagan hearts and pagan ears. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.

Your ancestors killed the prophets who foretold the coming of the Just One. You have gone further: you have killed the Just One himself"

When the leaders heard these words, they were very angry and wanted to kill Stephen

Jesus, Just One from heaven, please don't let me resist the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit of God, please increase your influence in my life

Recording

  

Acts 7.55-58

Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, looked up and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand

"I can see heaven thrown open", he said, "and Jesus standing at the right hand of God"

At this, the religious leaders at the meeting covered their ears with their hands. They sent Stephen out of the city and stoned him. The false witnesses (who were required to throw the first stones) put down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Paul

Recording

 

YouTube:
The stoning of Stephen

 

Acts 7.59 - 8.3

As they were stoning him, Stephen prayed "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit". Then he knelt down and prayed "Lord, do not hold this sin against them". Then he died. Paul entirely approved of the killing

That day a bitter persecution started against the church in Jerusalem and everyone except the apostles fled to the countryside

Paul began working for the destruction of the church. He went from house to house arresting men and women and sending them to prison

Jesus, thank you for the example of Stephen who, like yourself, forgave those who were killing him

Recording  

  

Feast of Stephen. His extraordinary forgiveness of Saul surely had something to do with the deradicalization of Saul.  A powerful lesson for today's radicalized IS world 


For today's Feast of St Stephen:

Good King Wenceslas with Lyrics - sung by a children's choir
- a famous story about helping the poor

The Joy of Love - Pope Francis' letter - on love in the family     Full English text   Full Chinese text

261: Recording

Obsession, however, is not education. 

We cannot control every situation that a child may experience. 

Here it remains true that “time is greater than space”. In other words, it is more important to start processes than to dominate spaces. 

If parents are obsessed with always knowing where their children are and controlling all their movements, they will seek only to dominate space. 

But this is no way to educate, strengthen and prepare their children to face challenges. 

What is most important is the ability lovingly to help them grow in freedom, maturity, overall discipline and real autonomy. 

Only in this way will children come to possess the wherewithal needed to fend for themselves and to act intelligently and prudently whenever they meet with difficulties.

The real question, then, is not where our children are physically, or whom they are with at any given time, but rather where they are existentially, where they stand in terms of their convictions, goals, desires and dreams. 

The questions I would put to parents are these: “Do we seek to understand ‘where’ our children really are in their journey? Where is their soul, do we really know? And above all, do we want to know?”.

 



 

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Pope's letter on climate change:
Laudato Si
     我主應受讚美 

246d: Recording

God of love, show us our place in this world as channels of your love for all the creatures of this earth, for not one of them is forgotten in your sight.

Enlighten those who possess power and money that they may avoid the sin of indifference, that they may love the common good, advance the weak, and care for this world in which we live.

The poor and the earth are crying out. O Lord, seize us with your power and light, help us to protect all life, to prepare for a better future, for the coming of your Kingdom of justice, peace, love and beauty.
Praise be to you! Amen.
  

 



Pope  Francis: The Joy of the Gospel          Full English text     Full Chinese text

237a: Recording

To Christians, this principle ("the whole is greater than the part") also evokes the totality or integrity of the Gospel which the Church passes down to us and sends us forth to proclaim. 

Its fullness and richness embrace scholars and workers, businessmen and artists, in a word, everyone. The genius of each people receives in its own way the entire Gospel and embodies it in expressions of prayer, fraternity, justice, struggle and celebration. 

 


10 years ago today

2006-12-26 Visit to CAS, Marco Polo & Ricci School by HK St Aflred's group.  Also
at Ricci- Clara's Macau group

All HK prison inmates received a special treat yesterday for Christmas Day - a leg of chicken ... Christmas Day being one of just a few "leg" days each year...most days being "wing" days!


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
26th of the month,  Jesus please bless the prisoners of
Xinjiang

And praying for one of the world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 26th of the month, Jesus please bless the people of
Togo

And praying for one Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, please pacify ISIS 

Letters from (mainly African) inmates in Hong Kong prisons - and other drug trafficking items:   2016

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


 

Pope's surprise visit to drug treatment centre

Pope is practising what he preaches: "get out and mix with the poor"

 

HK readers might like to join me in praying each day for one group of HK prison inmates:  Sun: Lo Wu    Mon: C.I.C., Siu Lam, Tai Lam     Tue: Stanley   Wed:  Hei Ling Chau    Thu: Lantau       Fri: Lai Chi Kok       Sat: Hospitals, Pik Uk & other centres


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