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Tues Feb 20
Yesterday after I spent some thank-you time (for Feb 19, 1973) at the Mariners' Club chapel in Tsim Sha Tsui, I had a chat with the chaplain, Fr Valan SDB ....who told me that the Club and chapel will be closing on Feb 27 ....for 4-5 years...while the site is redeveloped....and that a Catholic chapel will for the next 4 years be housed in premises at 20 Saigon Street, Yau Ma Tei....just near my home....and that other groups are welcome to use the temporary chapel. This is good news on many fronts!
It's
now a crime to protest against the murder of unborn babies
When "You Raised Me Up" was among my background songs last night, I
checked it on Wikipedia
...which relates when and where the song was performed for the very first time
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The
Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
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
96: O sing a new song to the Lord.
Sing to the Lord, all the earth.
O sing to the Lord, bless his name. Proclaim his help day by day.
Tell among the nations his glory,
and his wonders among all the peoples. It was the Lord who made the heavens.
Give the Lord, you families of peoples,
give the Lord glory and honor. Bring an offering and enter his temple.
Worship the Lord in his sacred place. Let the heavens rejoice and earth be glad.
Let the sea and all within it thunder praise. Let the land and all it bears rejoice,
all the trees of the forest shout for joy.
Everyone and everything,
give the Lord glory and honor.
Lord, you are our Creator. We
love and praise you
Listen
Acts
1.1-5: Dear Friend of God, in my first book (the
Gospel of Luke) I wrote
about everything Jesus did until the day he was taken up to heaven. For 40 days after his death, he appeared to
his apostles many times, and taught them about the kingdom of God.
He told them to stay in Jerusalem and wait for what the Father had
promised: "You will soon be baptized with the Holy Spirit".
Jesus, please baptize me with the Holy Spirit.
Holy Spirit, increase your influence in my life
Listen
Luke
3.1-6:
In the 15th year of the Roman Emperor
Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judaea, Herod was
ruler of Galilee and during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas,
God's message entered the heart of John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.
John went through the whole Jordan River area
proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. This had been foretold by the prophet Isaiah
when he said
"A voice cries in the wilderness:
Prepare a way for the Lord".
Jesus, help us prepare your way, like
John
Listen
Reflection on the above readings: Is there anything more I can do to "prepare a way for the Lord" in my own heart and in the world around me? Anything special I could try to do during Lent?
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10 years ago: Update photos of Lina at Marco Polo
- please keep the prayers going!
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For the Year of the Dog (to which I belong)..... when I was
in Mariners' Club chapel yesterday I found myself using these words "Thank
you Jesus for being so good to this dog" (....c.f. 2 Samuel 9.8!)
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Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day:
Sun: Africa
Mon: Europe,
Russia
Tues: South
Asia
Wed: East
Asia
Thurs: S.E. Asia,
Pacific
Frid: South
America
Sat: Cent, N 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 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
And praying for one
Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Tuesday,
please pacify Boko
Haram
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Mon Feb 19
A new year resolution I hope to keep: after YMT St Paul's 8.30am Mass each Sunday, to have a "cup of tea" with a different group of parishioners each week....so that by the end of year, Please God....I have tea'd off with everyone who attends the 8.30am Mass. Started yesterday - photo here
My prayer/song for Lent: Jesus
fasting in the desert
Latest updates from Sr. Anastasia, M.M. (黄修女）:
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The
Book Blog:
Today's readings from this day in 1973
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10
years ago: Congratulations Marco Polo Center special guest A-Mui on birth of son at 3.15
a.m. on January 29
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For
Lent:
A priest spied a parishioner enjoying
some tasty smoked sausage on Friday during Lent -- a strict no-no in
the church. The priest, being a pragmatic soul, told the man for his penance he
was to bring a load of lumber to the church to help repair the roof.
The man grumbled, but went off to do his
penance.
He arrived at the church on the next
Friday and proceeded to dump a huge load of sawdust into the parking lot.
"What's this?" the priest
wanted to know. "I told you your penance was a load of lumber, not
sawdust."
The man replied cooly, "Well, if
that sausage I ate was meat, then this sawdust is lumber."
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Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day:
Sun:
Africa
Mon: Europe,
Russia
Tues: South
Asia
Wed: East
Asia
Thurs: S.E. Asia,
Pacific
Frid: South America
Sat: Cent, N. 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 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
And praying for one Islam-related intention
each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Monday,
please pacify I.S.
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I WISH ALL DEAR READERS A HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE DOG!
Sun Feb 18
It has been really lovely over the past three days of Lunar New Year to see families together everywhere in Hong Kong. What a great custom this is in Chinese culture ....LNY is family time. May the love of Chinese culture for family life help protect family life throughout the world in these troubled times when family life is under attack in so many ways.
My good friend Dr Slaa is
now Tanzania's ambassador to Sweden. See my 2015
photos with Dr Slaa
Chris
McDonnell
A
time of waiting
The vast majority of us live far from the desert experience, yet we also can
find that odd moment of peace and stillness, a slip-away time that is valued, a
time when we can be ourselves and breathe the solitude we rarely encounter.
Russia:
The troll factory at the heart of the meddling allegations
(This is scary...it's the sort of thing which big corporations also do)
On East Africa's largest blog - Jamii
Forums - I put a
post yesterday....to keep up the publicity. As the above article about
trolls shows, publicity is effective (for good or bad)
Unhealthy
reading:
George Monbiot: Resisting
Resistance
A US-UK trade deal threatens to export the horrors of US corporate livestock
production
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Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
c.f. readings for 1st Sun of Lent
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
Psalms
24-26: The Lord's is the earth and all its peoples.
It is the Lord who is Creator of the universe. May all hearts open their doors to the Lord.
Let him enter, the king of glory. Lord I hope in you all the day long.
Forgive my sins and help me walk in your truth.
God my savior, teach me your
way of truth
Listen
Mark
1.9-13: About this time Jesus came from Nazareth in
Galilee
and was baptized by John in the river Jordan. As soon as Jesus came out of the water, he saw
the sky open
and the Spirit, like a dove, coming down on him. Then a voice came from heaven
"You are my Son, the Beloved. My favor rests on you". Straight after this the Spirit led Jesus into
the wilderness for 40 days.
During this time Jesus was tempted by Satan.
Holy Spirit, please increase
your influence in my life
Listen
Reflection
on the above readings:
Video
commentary on today's readings - in Italian with English, Chinese and
Spanish subtitles
Daniel Daring: Retreat in the desert
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10 years ago: Day
Six of Zhaoqing District teachers' tour to Hong Kong
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Hour
of Love HK radio program 8.30
pm HK time tonight
- with items about HK prison inmates
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Pope
Francis has called on Catholics to slow down for Lent and think about the
meaning of life etc. One problem for me and I guess most people so far this Lent
in HK: fasting is almost out of of the question during Lunar New Year
celebrations! But when you think about it, this is what the Pope is saying:
slowing, not fasting?!?!
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Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day:
Sun: Africa
Mon: Europe,
Russia
Tues: South
Asia
Wed: East
Asia
Thurs: S.E. Asia,
Pacific
Fri: South America
Sat: Cent., N 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 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 Ivory Coast
And praying for one Islam-related
intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Sunday,
please bless all Muslims in my country
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I WISH ALL DEAR READERS A HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE DOG!
Sat Feb 17
Yesterday
morning at LNY Mass at St Paul's YMT I used this photo (for theme of family):
Long letter in English from a 31 year old Ethiopian
man recently arrested at Hong Kong airport for drug trafficking. I feel that his story is
impossible for a jury in HK to believe - here
On this day in 1826 Pope Leo XII approved Eugene de Mazenod's group of priests and brothers to become an international
congregation known as the Oblates of Mary Immaculate
Nuclear weapons US wasting billions on bombs that serve no purpose, experts say
Article
in magazine of HK Columbian Consulate-General
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Book Blog:
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Readings are from
Simple Bible
c.f. readings for Sat after Ash Wed
Isaiah
57-58: Tell my people their faults,
tell the House of Jacob its sins. Tell them that their fasting is a
sham.
Fasting and injustice cannot go together. This is the sort of fast that
pleases the Lord:
breaking unjust fetters,
sharing your bread with the hungry,
sheltering and clothing the homeless poor. Do this and you will find healing
and peace.
Do this and the Lord will give strength to your bones.
Lord, please help me do more to
help poor people
My
recording of this reading
Psalm
86: Turn your ear, O Lord, and give answer
for I am poor and needy.
O Lord, you are good and forgiving,
full of love to all who call to you. All the nations shall come to adore you
and glorify your name, O Lord,
you who alone are God. Show me, Lord, your way, and guide my heart
so that I may walk in your truth. I will praise you, Lord my God, with all my
heart
for your love to me has been great. O give your strength to your servant
and save your handmaid's son.
Dear Lord, thank you for
all your
love
Listen
Luke
5.27-32: As Jesus walked along, he noticed a tax
collector sitting by the customs house. The collector's name was Levi
(Matthew). Jesus said to him "Follow me".
Leaving everything, he got up and went with Jesus. In Jesus' honor Levi
held a banquet in his house. Many tax collectors and social outcasts
were present. The religious leaders complained "Why do
you eat and drink with tax collectors and outcasts?" Jesus replied "It is not those who are
well who need the doctor, but the sick. I have come to call sinners, not
the virtuous, to repentance"
Jesus, thank you for befriending people who
were looked down on.
Please help me do likewise
Listen
Reflection on the above readings: Archbishop Helder Camara of Brazil was someone who spent much time with "outcasts" (Gospel) and who tried to "break unjust fetters" (first reading). His famous saying: "When I give food to the poor, I am called a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, I am called a Communist".
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10
years ago: Day Four of Zhaoqing District teachers' tour of Hong Kong
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Group of seminarians was totally confused after confusing
morning lecture on the Book of Revelation by a confused professor. In the
afternoon, as the seminarians were finishing a game of basketball in the college
gym, they noticed the old Black cleaner reading his Bible. "What part are
you reading?" they asked. "Revelation" he replied. "But
that's so complicated. Can you understand what it's about?" "No
problem...it's very simple: God wins"!
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Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day:
Sun:
Africa
Mon: Europe,
Russia
Tues: South
Asia
Wed: East Asia
Thurs: S.E. Asia, Pacific
Frid: South
America
Sat: Cent. & N
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 17th
of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Shaanxi
And praying for one of the
world's poorest countries each day of the
month:
On this 17th
of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Malawi
And
praying for one Islam-related intention
each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Saturday,
please pacify the
Taliban
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I WISH ALL DEAR READERS A HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE DOG!
Fri Feb 16
Lunar New Year's Day!
Yesterday when I did some research before booking an airline ticket for a former prison inmate to return to their own country, I came across this amazing deal: Hong Kong Airlines - Los Angeles return for HK$2,825 ...and see other locations!
I used to check the statistics of this and my other websites each month ....but
about 6 months ago that job went into the "not urgent" folder. So
yesterday I had a look ....and was most grateful to see that last month v2catholic had 5,375 unique visitors ...not including dear FaceBook friends.
Thank you Jesus! (Also:
SouthAmerica blog - 2209; HK DrugBlog - 1,382; JesusTower - 2129; SimpleBible -
1,739; GoodNewsforPoor - 961; DrJesus 1,033; NigeriaBlog - 1,010)
Also on the computer front: since my Chrome browser had become very slow, yesterday I uninstalled and again downloaded Chrome...with excellent results....Chrome now much faster.
HK now has political screening for
polls - lawyers
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The
Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from Simple
Bible
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
Listen
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
Listen
("In the beginning was the Word")
Reflection on the above Bible readings: Lunar New Year is like Christmas - a time for family gatherings... remembering our parents....and remembering where all life came from, from our Heavenly Father.
Fridays
of Lent:
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10 years ago: Day Three of Zhaoqing District teachers' tour of Hong Kong
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Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day:
Sun: Africa
Mon: Europe,
Russia
Tues: South
Asia
Wed: East
Asia
Thurs: S.E. Asia, Pacific
Frid: S.
America
Sat: Cent, N. 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 16th
of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Qinghai
And praying for one of the
world's poorest countries each day of the
month:
On this 16th of the month, Jesus please bless the
people of Afghanistan
And praying for one Islam-related
intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Friday,
please bless all Muslims
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I WISH ALL DEAR READERS A HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR OF THE DOG!
Thu Feb 15- Lunar New Year's Eve
After spending the day at Tai Lam women's prison on Tuesday, I stayed home yesterday to make a start on all the follow up jobs from the visit (...support letters etc) plus trying to start catching up on a backlog of mail and other jobs.
Then late in the afternoon when I checked my mail there was a letter from Lo Wu
women's prison to say that a refugee mother and baby are due to be released this
morning ....and have nowhere to stay. Last night I rang Lucia (manager of our
Mercy Centre on Cheung Chau Island) with the news that she might be looking
after a third baby (she already has two baby ex-inmates) ....and she joked about
a new name for the centre: Mercy Nursy
Why
the Vatican's potential deal with China is a good thing
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Book Blog:
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recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
c.f. readings for Thurs after Ash Wed
Deuteronomy
30:
Moses called the whole
of Israel together and said to them:
See, today I set before you life and prosperity,
death and disaster.
If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God,
if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways,
if you keep his commandments, his laws, his customs,
you will live and increase,
and the Lord your God will bless you
in the land which you are entering to make your own.
But if your heart strays, if you refuse to listen,
if you let yourself be drawn into worshipping other gods
and serving them,
I tell you today, you will most certainly perish;
you will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan
to enter and possess.
Recording
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today:
I set before you life or death, blessing or curse.
Choose life, then, so that you and your descendants
may live in the love of the Lord your God,
obeying his voice, clinging to him.
For in this your life consists,
and on this depends your long stay in the land
which the Lord swore to your fathers
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob he would give them."
Dear
Lord, please help more and more people
to choose life and blessings...and not to turn their backs on you
Recording
Psalm
1:
Happy the person who
avoids evil and evil entertainment.
Happy the person who reads and meditates on God's words. Such a
person is like a tree planted beside a river, getting plenty of
nourishment, bearing plenty of fruit. Such a
person is on the Way of Life.
People who do evil are on the Way of Death.
Dear
Lord, please help me do good and avoid evil
Listen
Luke
9.22-25:
Jesus now began explaining to his disciples
how he would suffer, die and rise from the dead. He also said
"If you want to be my disciple, you must deny yourself,
take up your own cross, and follow me. Selfishness will ruin your life.
Self-sacrificing will bless your life. What use is it to have everything in this
world
yet miss out on Heaven?"
Jesus, please help me find my life by losing
it in service of others
Listen
Reflection on the above Bible readings: Today's readings remind us at this joyful time of Lunar New Year that only joy from the culture of life is real joy. "Joy" from the culture of death is deceptive and dangerous.
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10
years ago today: Day Two of Zhaoqing District teachers' tour of Hong Kong
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Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day:
Sun:
Africa
Mon:
Europe, Russia
Tues:
South Asia
Wed:
East Asia
Thurs: S.E.
Asia, Pacific
Frid:
South
America
Sat:
Cent, N America
Jesus,
today, Thursday,
please bless the people of South
East
Asia
And
praying for prisoners in one
part of China each day of the month:
On this 15th
of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Liaoning
And
praying for one of the
world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On
this 1th
of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Zimbabwe
And
praying for one Islam-related
intention each day
of the week:
Jesus,
today, Thursday,
please pacify
Al-Qaeda
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Feb 14
Yesterday I was at Tai Lam women's prison from 9am to 6pm ...seeing inmates whose families I met in Latin America last month and visiting other inmates who will be soon at the High Court. The Latin Americans were especially happy about receiving my photos of their families ...posted last Thursday, received yesterday. And the year has got away to a good start: as far as I know, not one person from Africa or Latin America arrested this year at HK airport for drug trafficking. Dear Jesus, please let there be as few as possible this year!
Ash Wednesday - no meat
What
is the meaning of the word "Lent"?
Valentine's Day: There are so many bad things happening - and they get so much publicity - that it's good to let Valentine's Day remind us that "love makes the world go round" ....only love gives meaning to our lives....when we do something good/loving we feel good ....when we do something bad/unloving we feel bad....the key to improving things for ourselves or our group or our world is ...more love/compassion/care towards others, especially people in need. As in the old song "What the World Needs Now" - at this simple but beautiful YouTube, with lyrics
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Chris McDonnell
Looking
two ways now
Our calendar reminds us of a journey we undertake
whether we like it or not, the passage through space of our Earth round the star
that is our sun
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Book Blog:
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Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
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
My
recording of this reading
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
Reflection on the above readings: It's Valentine's Day, it's Lunar New Year time.....so how should we observe Ash Wednesday's fast? No meat ....and smaller meals. Simple. No big deal.
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10 years ago: Day
Two of Zhaoqing District teachers' tour of Hong Kong
(Tuesday
part A: bus to Star Ferry, on Star Ferry, Central Pier, Lantau
International School, Po Lin Monastery, SkyTrain, Airport)
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Ash Wednesday, Valentine's Day, Lunar New Year approaching
.....already a full menu....and I can add one more item, from this day in 1965:
the day I left my family's home in Brisbane to get the train to Victoria for the
start of seminary life. Can remember it very clearly....53 years have gone
quickly!
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Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day:
Sun: Africa
Mon: Europe,
Russia
Tues: South
Asia
Wed: East
Asia
Thurs: S.E.Asia, Pacific
Frid: South
America
Sat: Cent, N 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 14th
of
the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Jilin
And praying for one of
the world's poorest
countries each day of the month:
On this 14th
of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Ethiopia
And praying for one
Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Wednesday,
please pacify Al-Shabaab
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Please
also join me in praying for the very many deformed and
handicapped people from China who are on the streets of HK as beggars...as well
as deformed people in China itself ...like Hung
Chun Cai
My Africa trips:
2015: Tanzania, Malawi
2016:
Kenya, Uganda
2017:
Southern Africa, Dubai (
The
Last Run)
2018:
My trip to Latin America
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Australian Chinese for
Families Association
Gay marriage: an elephant in the room (by John W)
Video:
What "gay
marriage" did to Massachusetts
同志婚姻自2004年立法後，美國麻省的改變
（ 廣東話附字幕版）
Frightening
YouTube reports:
LGBT radical impact
on educational institutions (No.
5); LGBT
infiltrating churches
(No. 6); US corporations massively
supporting LGBT agenda (No. 7). What
has happened in the US is now starting to happen in other places. Some
day our children will ask "why didn't you do more to stop this evil?"
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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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