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Tues May 5
Last Saturday morning when I was overwhelmed by more than 100
W/App messages in 12 hours, I asked Jesus to help me find someone to help me
look after the Temple Street stall project which had attracted so many kind
offers of help. Less that one hour later I received a message from a dear friend
who has been visiting prisoners for many years ... asking if I could help find a
job for a 22 year old guy whom she highly recommended. How to you spell
"PROVIDENCE"?! That night I met the young man, with the lady who
recommended him. And yesterday he started work - supervising the stall project
(which is about to grow in a few days with the addition of two more stalls
employing more homeless people... thanks to the enormous level of support the
project has received). So, if anyone has enquiries about offering items etc for
the stall, please phone or W/App Michael Lau - +852 92811545. Welcome Michael!
This sign continues on my phone .... and I was horrified
yesterday to find I had missed a large number of messages from last week! Now I
am being more careful and today will try to process unprocessed messages from
... last Friday! Total number of messages over the past 4 days is approaching
300!
Rising
food prices making life more difficult for the poor
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The
Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
Deuteronomy
8: Moses continued his
speech to the people:
"Remember how the Lord your God
led you for 40 years in the wilderness,
to humble you, to test you, to know your inmost heart
- whether you would keep his commandments or not.
He humbled you, he fed you with manna,
to make you understand that we do not live on bread alone
but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.
Learn from this that the Lord your God was training you
as a man trains his child.
Keep the commandments of the Lord your God.
Follow his ways and reverence him.
When you become prosperous in the land that God is giving you,
do not become proud and say your own efforts have brought you success.
Take care and do not forget the Lord your God."
Dear
Lord, don't let me ever forget all you have done for me
My
recording of this reading
Psalm
78: Listen, everyone, to my teaching.
I will recount the lessons of our history. The things our parents have told us,
we will not hide from our children,
but will pass them on to the next generation. We want the next generation to know all that the Lord has done for us in the past.
May the next generation in turn
pass on this knowledge to their own children,
so that they too will put their hope in God
and never forget all that God has done for us. May future generations not be like our
ancestors
who so often were unfaithful to God. Even though our ancestors had seen God part
the sea,
even though they had seen him provide food and water for them
in the desert, still they went on sinning. Yet he who is full of compassion forgave and
spared them.
He remembered they were only weak humans. Eventually he brought them to the promised
land
and gave a home to each of Israel's tribes. But still they sinned by building mountain
shrines
and serving idols. Then God raised up David to be their
leader.
God called him from looking after sheep to be the shepherd of his people.
Lord, help us not to forget all
you have done for us
01
02
Revelation
5.1-10:
I saw a sealed scroll that no one could open.
Then I saw a Lamb, which seemed to have been sacrificed. The Lamb took the scroll, and the 24 elders
sang a new song:
"You are worthy to take the scroll
and break its seals
because you were sacrificed, and by your blood
you ransomed us for God
out of every race, language, people and nation".
Jesus, Lamb of God in heaven. We praise
you Lord
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: Deuteronomy and Psalm 78 have the same message: pass on the Message of God's Love to the next generation!
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Our stall takings last night were not that great because
very few people attended the market, but when another seller asked me how we
went and I somewhat embarrassingly told her, she said "that's much more
than most other stalls!
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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 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
And praying for one
Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Tuesday,
please pacify Boko
Haram
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Mon May 4
HK
Chinese Catholic Media report about MercyHK helping homeless people and here
Over the past four days I have answered around 200 W/App
messages, but I still have more than another 100 to go. Please be patient. I
will eventually reply to all messages. I have been using Google translate for
messages in Chinese! It has been very moving to experience the concern so many
people have for the homeless. And I feel like I now have another 200+ special friends in HK! God bless everyone!
Today is the
101st anniversary of the
May 4 Movement which
saw China's emerging leaders turn to Marxism because China was treated so
shamefully at the Treaty of Marseilles. See my 2016 article Are
HK students radicalised? (.. but now in 2020, because of the
"deafness" of the HK govt, some students - a tiny minority - have,
sadly, become radicalised)
Click
"countries" here
for Covid-19 latest figures. Sobering
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The
Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
Deuteronomy
7: Moses continued his
speech to the people:
"You are a people consecrated to the Lord your God.
It is you that the Lord our God has chosen
to be his very own people out of all the peoples on the earth.
But know this:
if the Lord set his heart on you and chose you,
it was not because you outnumbered other peoples.
In fact you were the least of all peoples.
It was for love of you and to keep his promise to our ancestors
that the Lord chose you.
Listen then to these ordinances, be true to them and observe them,
and in return the Lord your God will be true to you.
He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers.
He will bless the fruit of your body and the produce of your soil,
your corn, your wine, your oil, the issue of your cattle,
the young of your flock.
No man or woman among will shall be barren,
no male or female of your beasts infertile. The Lord will keep all sickness far from
you.
Be loyal then to the Lord
and have nothing to do with the religious practices
of the people you will conquer."
Dear
God, please help us to love you as we should
01
02
Psalms
73-77:
Sometimes when I see how bad people prosper,
I wonder what's the use in trying to be good? But then I realize that
everyone someday has to pay the bill
for any evil they have bought in the world. Sometimes when I see
our world and religion in ruins,
I wonder why has God abandoned us? Then I remember that
God has promised to break the power
of the wicked. He has promised to give strength to good people. So may all people honor
the Lord our God and judge.
May the Lord give us his loving help.
Lord,
you are goodness itself. Please help us to be good
and to trust you always
Listen
Revelation
4.1-11: In my vision I saw a door open in heaven.
The same voice as before said to me
"Come up here. I will show you what is to come in the future". I saw God in all his glory,
being worshipped by the angels who sang: "Holy, Holy, Holy
is the Lord God, the Almighty". And I saw 24 elders around the throne.
They were praising God saying
"You are our Lord and our God.
You are worthy of glory and honor and power
because you are the Creator of the universe".
"Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God, Almighty.
Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee"
Listen
Luke
5.17-26: God's power was on display when Jesus healed
people.
People came from far and near to hear him teach, and to ask for healing. One day some people carried a paralyzed
man through a crowd to Jesus. The man was on a stretcher. Jesus knew that these people believed he could
help them,
so he said to the paralyzed man "My friend, your sins are
forgiven". Some religious leaders in the crowd were
thinking to themselves
that Jesus was wrong to say he could forgive sins. So Jesus said to the leaders "Which is
easier:
to say 'Your sins are forgiven', or to say 'Get up and walk'?" Then to prove that he had authority to forgive
sins, he said to the paralyzed man "Get up, pick up your bed and go
home". The man got up, picked up his stretcher and
went home.
The crowd praised God for what they had seen.
Jesus, please give me more faith
in your power to forgive, your power to heal
Listen
Reflection on the above readings: Today's Gospel is one of the very rare times when Jesus said there can sometimes be a link between sickness and sin ( ... as an English teacher I can't help noticing "s i n" is in "s i c k n e s s" .. )
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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 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
And praying for one Islam-related intention
each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Monday,
please pacify I.S.
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Sun May 3
Two days ago at the opening of the MercyHK 2nd hand stall in
Temple Street Market, so many kind people donated clothing that there was too
much for our two stall trolleys ... therefore many items needed to be stored in my
nearby home overnight (see final photo here).
In fact yesterday I gave some items to a charity group which will send the items
next week to a group in the Philippines which distributes clothing to slum
dwellers.
Yesterday was Day Two for the 2nd hand stall. Went really well Thank Goodness. Many thanks to all helpers, advisers, donors and patrons!
Also two days ago, thanks to so much help from so many people, I rented another room at the Ping On building, this time a room for three men. That makes 10 rooms for 22 homeless people.
For the 3rd day in a row W/App has been displaying the 99+ image.
Each day I try to reply to 30-40 messages (nearly all offering kind help for the
street stall) but I can't seem to get that 99+ image to go away! Please be
patient and I will try to answer all messages.
To
go with today's Gospel: For parents, teachers,
pastors, older brothers/sisters: Beautiful
story here:
The
sheep dogs. And
see, 
,
below for classic sheep joke.
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The
Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
c.f. readings for Easter 4
Acts
2.37-47: The
crowd was deeply moved by Peter's words, and asked "What should we
do?" Peter replied "You must repent and be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ. Then you too will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit".
That day about 3,000 people were baptized. These remained faithful to the
teaching of the apostles, to a
life of sharing and caring, to the
Breaking of Bread, and to prayer.
Many miracles were worked by the apostles, and this made a deep impression on
everyone. Each day the Lord added new members to their group.
Jesus, please help me
remain faithful to the Christian way of life
My
recording of this reading
Psalm
23: The
Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want. Fresh and green are
the pastures where he gives me repose. Near restful waters he leads me, to
revive my drooping spirit. He guides me along the right path. He is true to his
name. If I should walk in the valley of darkness no evil would I fear. You are
there with your crook and your staff; with these you give me comfort. You have
prepared a banquet for me in the sight of my foes. My head you have anointed
with oil. My cup is overflowing. Surely goodness and kindness shall follow me
all the days of my life. In the Lord's own house shall I dwell for ever and
ever.
Thank you, Lord, for
being my good shepherd
Recording
1
Peter 2.19-25: If
you are treated unfairly, put up with it for the sake of God. Christ suffered
for you and left an example for you to follow. He had done nothing wrong. He was
insulted and tortured, but did not retaliate. He bore our sins in his own body
on the Cross, so that we might die to sin and live for holiness. Through his
wounds you have been healed. You were like straying sheep, but now have come
back to the shepherd and guardian of
your souls.
Jesus, please help me put up with difficulties for your sake
Recording
John
10.1-10: Jesus
said to the religious leaders "I am
the gate of the sheepfold. If anyone enters the sheepfold by some other
means than the gate, that person is a thief. The person who enters by the gate
is the shepherd of the flock. The sheep hear his voice as he calls each one by
name and leads them out of the sheepfold. When he has brought them out, he goes
ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. The thief
comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come so that people may have
life, not just now but for ever".
Jesus, Good Shepherd,
please help more and more people hear your voice and follow you
Recording
Video
commentary on today's readings - in Italian, Chinese, English, and
Spanish
(+
Cantonese audio)
Daniel Daring: Fulness of life (with Chinese text below English text)
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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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To
go with today's Gospel:
A
shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW
advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni
suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks
the shepherd, "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock,
will you give me one?" The shepherd looks at the man, obviously a yuppie,
then looks at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answers, "Sure, Why
not?"
The
yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his
AT&T cell phone. He surfs to a NASA page on the internet, where he calls up
a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he
then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an
ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe
Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been
processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an
ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas.
He
uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after a few
minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page
report on his hi- tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to
the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1,586 sheep."
"That's
right. Well, I guess you can take one of my sheep," says the honest
shepherd. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused
as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the shepherd says to
the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will
you give me back my sheep?"
The
young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, Why not?"
"You're
a consultant." says the shepherd. "Wow! That's correct," says the
yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No
guessing required." answered the savvy shepherd, "You showed up here
even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
knew; to a question I never asked; and you don't know anything about my
business.......now give me back my dog."
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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 3rd
of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Gansu
And praying for one of the
world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 3rd of the month, Jesus
please bless the people of Burundi
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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Sat May 2
Photos of yesterday's Day One of the
MercyHK stall in Temple Street Market - here.
I am still way behind in processing W/App messages. So many kind people have
offered help for the Temple Street project - very inspiring. I will need some
days to catch up. Also, like others in HK, I am finding that W/App phone calls
last only 30 seconds. Anyone know how to solve this problem? - jdwomi@gmail.com
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The
Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
Deuteronomy
6: Moses continued his
speech to the people:
"Listen Israel. You shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength.
Let these words I urge on you today
be written on your heart.
You shall repeat them to your children and say them
when you are resting in your house or going for a walk,
when you are lying down and when you get up.
You shall fasten them on your hand as a sign
and on your forehead as a circlet.
You shall write them on the doorposts of your house
and on your gates."
Dear
Lord, please help us to love you with all our hearts
My
recording of this reading
Psalm
72: O Lord, please bless the king,
that he might serve your people with justice. May the mountains bring forth peace for the
people
and the hills, justice. The kings of Sheba and Seba bring him gifts.
All nations will serve him. He will save the poor when they cry for help
and the needy who are helpless. He will have pity on the weak
and save the lives of the poor. May every tribe be blessed in him.
May every nation bless his name.
May all the nations know and
love you, Lord
Listen
Revelation
3.14-17:
He gave me this message for the church in
Laodicea: "You are neither cold nor hot. I wish you
were one or the other.
But since you are lukewarm, you are cutting yourself off from me. You are rich in this word's goods, but you are
spiritually poor. Listen to this message and repent"
Jesus, please don't ever let me become a
lukewarm Christian
Listen
Luke
5.12-16: In one town that Jesus went to, a leper fell
on his face and pleaded "Sir, if you want to, you can heal me". Jesus stretched out his hand, touched
him, and said "Of course I want to!
Be healed!" And the leprosy left him at once. Jesus' reputation continued to grow.
Large crowds gathered to hear him speak and to have their sicknesses cured.
But afterwards Jesus would always go to a quiet place where he could
be alone and pray.
Jesus, please help me understand
that you want sick people to be healed
Listen
Reflection on the above readings: Never once did Jesus say "No" to a request for healing. His policy was, and is, "Of course I want to heal you"
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To go with today's Gospel
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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 2nd
of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Fujian
And praying for one of the
world's poorest countries each day of the
month:
On this 2nd
of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Niger
And
praying for one Islam-related intention
each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Saturday,
please pacify the
Taliban
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Fri May 1
Feast of St Joseph the Worker
- & Labour
Day - an ideal date for the blessing and
opening our MercyHK's stall in Temple Street Market tonight! Yesterday, together
with a team of volunteers and 3 formerly homeless people now staying at the Ping
On building, I spent much time in the setting up of the stall. God bless
everyone involved in the operation and all kind donors of items for sale.
No change in the W/App situation of my phone. Even though I have
processed maybe 70 messages since two nights ago, there are still more than a
hundred to go. Messages from kind HK people offering to help the Temple Street
stall and our homeless group. God bless all the message senders & all kind
donors of help for the homeless.
A dear friend who helped many prisoners. May his prayers at THE
High Court help us here in the earthly public gallery until we meet
again: Gerard
McCoy, larger-than-life barrister, dies at 63
Covid-19
causes disaster in Amazon
Pope:
During Covid-19, pray Rosary at home in May
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The
Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from Simple
Bible
c.f. readings for St Joseph the Worker (For International Labor 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
90: O Lord you have been our
refuge from one generation to the next. Before the earth or the world
existed, you are God, without beginning or end. For you, a thousand years are
like yesterday, come and gone so quickly. We humans have a short life, our
life is over like a sigh. Our span is 70 years, or 80 for those who are strong.
Make us know the shortness of our life, that we may gain wisdom of heart. In the
morning, fill us with your love. Give success to the
work of our hands.
Lord, help us realize the shortness of our life,
that we may live our lives more wisely
Recording
Colossians
3.18 - 4.1: Wives
and husbands, understand and support each other. Children, be obedient to your
parents. Parents, treat your children fairly or else they will rebel. Slaves, be
obedient and respectful to your owners. Offer up your
work to the Lord, our
Heavenly Owner. Owners, be just and fair to your slaves. Remember your Heavenly
Owner.
Jesus, help families to live together in
harmony
Recording
Matthew
13.53-58: One day Jesus went to Nazareth,
his home town. In the prayer hall there he taught the local people. But the
local people would not accept him. They said "Where did he get such
wisdom and miraculous power? He is just a
carpenter's son. His mother is that woman called Mary. His brothers are
James, Joseph, Simon and Jude. His sisters are here, too. He's nobody
special." Jesus said to them "A prophet is despised only in his own
country and his own house". And he did not work many miracles there because
of their lack of faith.
Jesus, please give me more faith in you .... and
don't let me reject people
Recording
Reflection on the above readings: On this International Workers/Labor Day, may the example of the carpenter whom Jesus called "father" help us to offer up our work as a prayer to the Lord ... like a woman who used to pray "Jesus, I don't really like washing and ironing, but I offer it up as a prayer asking that you would keep my family safe". Let us also pray for the 50% of the world's workers who might lose their jobs because of Covid-19 (... including 30 million out of work in US)
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For
International Labor Day:
Pope
John XXIII was once asked how many people worked at the Vatican. "About
half of them" he replied
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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 1st
of the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Anhui
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, Friday,
please bless all Muslims
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Thu April 30
A public
holiday in HK for Buddha's birthday.
Dear God, please bless all Buddhists
This
appeared on my phone early last night and is unlikely to go away for a few days!
Nearly 200 Whats/App messages
from kind people in HK offering items for the
MercyHK stall due to open in Temple Street Market tomorrow night! God bless
them all! A humbling thought I had: this shows the extraordinary readiness and
potential of ordinary good people to "get involved" if they have a
chance. Maybe in the Church they don't have the opportunities they could have.
(And ... dear kind Whats/App friends ... last night I replied to about 30
messages ... please give me time to reply to more today)
Half
of world's workers could lose jobs because of Covid-19
296
kg of Ice seized 5 mins walk from police station ... and 5 mins walk from my
home!
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The Book Blog: 4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from Simple
Bible
Deuteronomy 5: Moses reminded the people of
the Ten Commandments:
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 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 about other people.
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
Recording
Psalm 71:
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
Revelation 3.7-9: He gave me this message for the church in
Philadelphia: "I am opening a new door of opportunity
for you
to spread the Good News. I will move people to accept the Good News
from you.
I will keep you safe in time of trial"
Jesus, please give me more opportunities to spread
the Good News
Listen
Luke 5.1-11: One day when Jesus was standing near the Lake
of Gennesaret, with people pressing round him listening to the word of
God, he saw two fishing boats near the bank. He got into one boat, it belonged to Simon
Peter, and taught people from the boat, away from the shore a little
distance. When he'd finished speaking he said to Simon
"Go out further to deep water and use your nets for a catch of
fish". Simon replied "Master, we worked hard all
night and caught nothing, but if you say so I'll lower the nets". They soon caught so many fish that the nets
began to tear. They called to their friends in the second boat to come and
help. Both boats were soon filled with fish. Peter fell at Jesus' knees and said
"Leave me, Lord, I am a sinful man", for he was overcome by the
catch they had made, as were James and John who were his partners. But Jesus said to Simon "Don't be afraid.
From now on, you will be fishers of men". Simon and his friends
then left everything to follow Jesus
Jesus, bless and protect all
"fishers of men"
Listen
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Last night I spent so much time before my PC screen processing moving W/App
green unread buttons/numbers from kind people offering help for Temple Street
stall (more than 200 messages), that last night I was counting buttons instead
of sheep?!
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Please join me in praying for one part of the world each day:
Sun:
Mon:
Tues:
Wed:
Thurs: S.E. Asia, Pacific
Frid:
Sat:
Cent,
Jesus,
today, Thursday,
please bless
the people of
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
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
& Nepal
And praying for one Islam-related
intention each day of the
week:
Jesus, today, Thursday, please pacify Al-Qaeda
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Wed April 29
Yesterday morning at the High Court I attended the sentencing of
two young Malaysians for drug trafficking to HK .... heroin in their shoes. Both
were given 3 months discount for help to my anti-drug campaign. From the HC I
went to a nearby restaurant for lunch with a kind lawyer who is trying to help a
number of special prisoners. Then to Chinese University office to enrol some
prisoners. Then to two book stores to get text books for prisoners. No lockdown
in HK!
S.E.
Asia migrant workers face Covid-19 tragedy
Top
HK lawyer asks for clarification of Beijing's legal power
China's
ambassador in Australia has unmasked
China's true face *** Australia
is like gum stuck to China's shoe ((stand by for Australian cartoons about
this!))
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Chris McDonnell
Come share
with me
You cannot truly share a meal that you watch taking place somewhere else
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The
Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
Deuteronomy 2-4:
Moses continued his
talk to the Israelites:
"God has been with us these 40 years,
watching over us and providing for us.
God gave us many victories
and continually told us not to be afraid of any enemies.
So now, Israel, do not forget God's goodness and help and laws.
Do not forget the things your eyes have seen.
Make sure to tell these things to your children's children.
God has brought you out of Egypt to be his special people.
If you seek God with all your heart and soul
you will find him.
Understand this today, therefore, and take it to heart:
The Lord is God indeed, in heaven above as on earth below,
he and no other.
Keep his laws and commandments as I give them to you today,
so that you and your children may prosper and live long
in the land that the Lord your God gives you forever."
Lord,
please help me to seek you with all my heart
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
Listen
Revelation
3.1-3: He gave me this message for the church
in Sardis: "I know all about you. You are a shining
red apple on the outside,
but inside you are rotten. Wake up, revive your faith and love.
Remember the eagerness you showed
when you first heard the Good News. Listen to this message and repent"
Jesus, don't ever let me become a rotten
apple
Listen
Luke
4.38-44: Jesus went to the home of Simon Peter.
Simon's mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever. Jesus was asked to
help her. He bent over her, rebuked the fever and it left her. She
immediately got up and served her guests. After the Sabbath finished at sunset, everyone
who had sick friends brought them to Jesus. Laying his hands on each of
them, he healed them. The next morning Jesus got up early and went
to a lonely place to pray. People found him and asked him not to
leave the area. But he replied "I must proclaim the Good News of the
kingdom of God to other towns too, because that is what I was sent to
do"
Jesus, heal my friend ... (name)... who
is sick
Listen
Reflection on the above readings: Jesus, please heal all the people fighting for their lives against Covid-19!
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Famous
professor's Twitter mistake
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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 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, Wednesday,
please pacify Al-Shabaab
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Tues April 28
Yesterday I paid my second visit to Dignity Kitchen (a wonderful social enterprise empowering handicapped people) at 618 Shanghai Street in Mong Kok - for lunch with 3 members of the No More Mules Team. We 4 guests were privileged to meet a blind man named Ming ... one of whose jobs is to make deliveries for DK, using Google Location to guide him!
On the way back to Jordan with 2 of the NMM team,
I did some shopping for the MercyHK
stall due to open this Friday night in Temple Street market. Shopping
included the ordering of this banner to be displayed in the stall:
Is
India heading for a crisis?
My article in today's Ming Pao newspaper has the topic: What is a "quisling"? It's on Ming Pao website - click "Australian in HK". Text without recording
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The
Book Blog:
4 readings + recordings
Comments welcome here
Readings are from
Simple Bible
Deuteronomy
1: After wandering in the desert for 40 years,
the Israelites reached the land of Canaan.
Moses then assembled the people
and recalled all that had happened over the past 40 years:
"When God first told us to take this land,
I said to you: Do not be afraid. God goes ahead of you
and will be fighting on your side, as he did in Egypt.
I also said how God carried you, as a man carries his
child,
all along the road you travelled to this place.
But you did not trust God
and God closed the door to Canaan for 40 years,
causing us to wander in the desert until now."
Dear God, please help me to
trust you a bit more
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
Listen
Revelation
2.18-22:
He gave me this message for the church in
Thyatira: "I know how charitable you are.
I see your faith and devotion, and your courage in suffering. But some of you are being misled by a false
teacher.
You are imitating her bad behavior. Listen to this message and repent"
Jesus, please don't let me imitate bad
behavior
Listen
Luke
4.31-37:
Jesus went to Capernaum, a town in Galilee.
On the Sabbath day he taught in the local prayer hall. In the hall there was a man possessed by a
devil which shouted "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are: the Holy One of
God". Jesus said sharply "Be quiet! Come out of
him".
And the devil left the man without hurting him. People in the hall said "He gives orders
to unclean spirits and they obey him". Jesus' reputation continued to
spread through the district
Jesus, please protect my family from evil
Listen
Reflection on the above readings: False teachers do exist (Revelation). Evil spirits do exist (Gospel). May the Lord protect us from both!
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Seen at front of a shop when I was walking along Shanghai
Street to Dignity Kitchen yesterday:
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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 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, Tuesday,
please pacify Boko
Haram
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On-going project to help homeless people in YMT-Jordan area
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Africa:
2020: My trip to Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Johannesburg
2017:
My trip to Southern Africa, Dubai (
The
Last Run)
2016:
My trip to Kenya, Uganda
2015: My trip to Tanzania, Malawi
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Latin America:
2019-05-10: No More Mules Peru FB boost 199,000 views!
2019-01-20: Article in El Pais, Uruguay - 01 02
2018-09-18: No More Mules Facebook campaign - more than 300,000 people reached in Venezuela
2018: My trip to Latin America
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South East Asia:
Oct 23, 2019: FM988 Breakfast program in Kuala Lumpur at which I was a guest
June 2019: My campaign featured in The Malaysia Drug Trade (6 written reports & documentary video)
2019-03-25: Eleven HK01 video and photo reports about Malaysian drug mules arrested in HK- here (one of the reports is about my anti-drug campaign).
Dec 2018 - My Jan 2019 trip to Malaysia
2018: My trip to Thailand and Cambodia
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Hong Kong:
July 2019: My warning to HK domestic helpers - published here in HK Filipino media
2018-09-22:
My
60 min video interview with Radio99,
in Cantonese, is here: 01 02
to help stop people going to prison
2018-07-29: SCMP- Beware drug lords luring domestic helpers, refugees into narcotics trade
2018-04-08: The Pearl Report on TVB - concerning HK's Long Term Sentencing Review Board and my anti-drug campaign
March 18, 2018: South China Morning Post report on my work
2017-12-01: Report in Chinese in Ming Pao Magazine
2017-09-27: SCMP Spirit of HK Awards (video starts after 20 secs)
2017-08-24: Cable TV video report on my anti-drug campaign and a Facebook report on the video report (click "translation" for English)
2027-05-18: SCMP - The prison chaplain who has stopped 150 drug mules reaching HK
2017-03-25: Oriental
Daily
report of case of South African woman given discount for help to my campaign
*** May
14 updates:
Oriental
Daily, Apple
Daily, Sing
Tao
Dec 1, 2016 - HK News: More women being recruited as drug mules
2016-10-13: HK01 report about campaign and about work for the poor
2016-09-11: Oriental Daily report about my campaign - and same day Editorial
2016-08-27: Oriental Daily article about court case and campaign
My
anti-drug campaign sites
(skillfully
managed by kind HK friends):
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nomasmulas/
Facebook: AddisAbabaDrugTrade; KenyaDrugTrade; TanzaniaDrugTrade; JohannesburgDrugTrade; SaoPauloDrugTrade; MalaysiaDrugTrade; ThailandDrugTrade; HongKongDrugTrade; CambodiaDrugTrade; IndonesiaDrugTrade
http://hkdrugblog.org/name-and-shame/index.htm
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Photos
from my time in China 2001-20008
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Australian Chinese for
Families Association
Gay marriage: Elephant in the room (by John W)
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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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