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Tues Jan 5
Yesterday I took part in a most enjoyable hike to Big Wave Bay,
with 3 other O.M.I.s - Fr Luc, Fr Paul and Fr Roy - and 2 HK friends.
....observing social distancing etc. One again the weather was perfect and the
whole trip went super smoothly - thank you Jesus! (and see 
below!)
MercyHK January financial report - here
Breaking news: Fr Luc Young
O.M.I., a member of the China Delegation for more than 30 years, has been
appointed by Pope Francis as Apostolic Administrator of his home island of
Rodrigues, Mauritius. Congrats and God bless, Luc! (more details in coming
days)
Pope Francis - Fratelli
Tutti:
MOVING BEYOND
OURSELVES
88. In the depths of every heart, love
creates bonds and expands existence, for it draws people out of themselves and
towards others. Since we were made for love, in each one of us "a
law of ekstasis" seems to operate: "the lover 'goes
outside' the self to find a fuller existence in another". For this
reason, "man always has to take up the challenge of moving beyond
himself".
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Ecclesiastes
6-7: Even if a person studies wisdom, what use is
it?
Wise person and fool both must die. Yet wisdom gives protection and
strength.
And wisdom reminds us that all of us make mistakes.
Therefore we should be slow to condemn others.
Lord, may the memory of my own
mistakes make me slow to judge other people
My
recording of this reading
Psalm
31: Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in
distress.
My eyes are full of tears, my heart full of sorrow. Everyone makes fun of me. My friends don't want to know me.
Save me, Lord, from this mess. I praise you Lord, for you protect those who trust you.
You keep them safe from slander and lies. Be strong, let your heart take courage,
all you who trust in the Lord
I trust in you, Lord. My life
is in your hands
Listen
Philippians
4.4-9: I want you to be happy, always happy in the
Lord.
Let your tolerance be evident to everyone. If there is anything you need, with prayer and
thanksgiving ask God for it. Fill your minds with everything that is true,
everything that is noble, everything that is good and pure, everything
that is worthwhile. Then the God of peace will be with you
Jesus, please fill my mind with good things
Listen
Matthew
15.21-28: Jesus went to the coastal district near Tyre
and Sidon.
A foreign woman followed him and shouted
"Sir, Son of David, have pity on me.
My daughter is tormented by an evil spirit." At first Jesus did not answer her, so his
disciples said to him
"Help her, because she keeps shouting after us." Jesus replied "I was sent only to the
people of Israel".
The foreign woman by now was kneeling at Jesus' feet.
"Lord, help me" she pleaded. Jesus said to her "Woman, you have great
faith. Your wish is granted". At that very moment, her daughter
was healed.
Jesus, please give sick people
great faith in you
Listen
Reflection
on the above readings: The older
we are, the more we should realise the truth of today's first reading
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Yesterday morning I took the MTR and a mini-bus to get to
Sai Kung for a bus to Pak Tam Au for the O.M.I. hike. But on the MTR I was so
absorded in
this story from Australia about the funeral of a homeless man, I missed my
station (Choi Hung) and had to get off at the next station (Kowloon Bay) and go
back to Choi Hung
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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 Jan 4
Apart from a brief shopping trip at lunch time and an afternoon
visit to the local church, I spent most of yesterday at the desk, working away
at a backlog of prison-related jobs. For background music I listened many, many
times to various versions of "We
Three Kings" (for yesterday's feast of the Epiphany)
Australian
woman arrested in Tanzania
Australian
woman police officer dies trying to save woman student from China
Pope Francis - Fratelli
Tutti:
CHAPTER 3:
ENVISAGING AND ENGENDERING AN OPEN WORLD
87. Human beings are so made that they
cannot live, develop and find fulfilment except "in the sincere gift of
self to others". Nor can they fully know themselves apart from an
encounter with other persons: "I communicate effectively with myself only
insofar as I communicate with others". No
one can experience the true beauty of life without relating to others, without
having real faces to love. This is part of the mystery of authentic human
existence. "Life exists where there is bonding, communion, fraternity; and
life is stronger than death when it is built on true relationships and bonds of
fidelity. On the contrary, there is no life when we claim to be self-sufficient
and live as islands: in these attitudes, death prevails".
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Ecclesiastes
4-5: So many things we do are motivated by
jealousy. Two people working together can
succeed.
One person alone is easily defeated.
It is better to be content with what you have,
than to be greedy for wealth.
Lord, please help me not to be
greedy
My
recording of this reading
Psalms
29-30: The Lord gives us strength, the Lord blesses
us with peace.
Thank you, Lord, for so often helping and healing me.
I cried to you when sickness surrounded me, and you healed me. You changed my mourning into dancing.
So I will thank you always.
Thank you, Lord, for all the
times you have healed me
Listen
Philippians
3-4: Our homeland is in
heaven. We wait for the
Savior from heaven who will transfigure these wretched bodies of ours
into copies of his glorious body. He will do this by the same power he has as
C.E.O. of the universe. So, do not stop running but
remain faithful in the Lord
Jesus, please increase my longing for heaven
Listen
Matthew
15.1-20: Some religious leaders asked Jesus "Why
do your disciples ignore many external practices of our religion?"
Jesus answered, with the words of the prophet
Isaiah:
"This people honors me with external lip-service,
while their hearts are far from me." Jesus also said
"It's not certain foods or lack of washing that makes a person
unclean.
It's evil in the heart that makes a person unclean. Evil intentions like murder, adultery,
fornication, theft, perjury, slander. These are the things that make a
person unclean."
Jesus, please clean my
heart
Listen
Reflection on the above readings: What makes a person good is not what people see but what's "in the heart"
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One
video I watched/listened to yesterday concerning the Feast of the Epiphany
taught me that the three Kings/Wise Men/Magi were probably magicians ....since
the Gospel of Matthew calls them "magi" which comes from
"magic"! If only they could have witnessed some of the miracles Jesus
worked during his ministry!
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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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I wish all dear readers every blessing for 2021!
Sun Jan 3
The
Epiphany
MercyHK Dec 2020 financial report - here
Shenzhen's
996 culture (working 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week)
Today is the anniversary (1970) of Gladys
Aylward, a missionary whose story is told in the The
Inn of the Sixth Happiness (... but note "Historical accuracy"
section!)
Pope Francis - Fratelli
Tutti:
86. I
sometimes wonder why, in light of this, it took so long for the Church
unequivocally to condemn slavery and various forms of violence.
Today, with our developed spirituality and theology, we have no excuses. Still,
there are those who appear to feel encouraged or at least permitted by their
faith to support varieties of narrow and violent nationalism, xenophobia and
contempt, and even the mistreatment of those who are different. Faith, and the
humanism it inspires, must maintain a critical sense in the face of these
tendencies, and prompt an immediate response whenever they rear their head.
For this reason, it is important that catechesis and preaching speak more
directly and clearly about the social meaning of existence, the fraternal
dimension of spirituality, our conviction of the inalienable dignity of each
person, and our reasons for loving and accepting all our brothers and sisters.
Bible Study: The
Epiphany
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c.f. readings for Feast of the Epiphany
Isaiah
59-60: Arise, shine
out, for your light has come. The glory of the Lord is rising on you, though the
rest of the world is still in darkness. The nations come to your light and kings
to your dawning brightness. People
from other lands are coming to you, bringing gold and incense and singing the
praise of the Lord. No more will the sun give you daylight, nor moonlight
shine on you, for the Lord himself will be your everlasting light. Then your
days of mourning will be ended.
Lord Jesus, you are the light of the world. Please give more light to my
life.
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
Recording
Ephesians
3.2-6: You have probably heard how I
have been entrusted by God with the grace he meant for you, and that it was by a
revelation that I was given the knowledge of the mystery. This mystery that
has now been revealed through the Spirit to his holy apostles and prophets was
unknown to any men in past generations; it means that pagans
now share the same inheritance, that they are parts of the same body, and
that the same promise has been made to them, in Jesus Christ, through the gospel
Recording
Matthew
2.1-12: Jesus was
born in the town of Bethlehem, during the reign of King Herod. Some months after
Jesus' birth, several wise men from the East came to Jerusalem. They said
"Where is the infant king of the Jews? We saw his star as it rose and
we have come to offer him honor." King Herod felt threatened by this news.
He knew from the Scriptures that the promised Saviour would be born in
Bethlehem. So Herod sent the wise men to Bethlehem, pretending that he too would
like to offer honor to the child. The wise men headed for Bethlehem, guided by
the star. The star filled them with joy. The star stopped over the place where
the child was. The wise men fell to their knees and honored the child. They
offered him gifts of gold, incense and myrrh. Then they returned to their
own country by a different way, having been warned in a dream not to go back to
Herod.
Jesus, help me to honor you like the wise men
Recording
Reflection
on the above readings: 
We
Three Kings (6m
views)
Video
commentary on today's readings - in Italian, Chinese, English, and
Spanish
(+
Cantonese audio)
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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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Three
wise men (kings?) ... three camels .... kings & other important people
travelled by camel. Jesus travelled by ... donkey
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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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I wish all dear readers every blessing for 2021!
Sat Jan 2
Apart from a visit to Rosary Church in Tsim Sha Tsui and lunch in a nearby canteen, most of my day yesterday was spent at the desk working on a backlog of prison-related jobs .... and ... processing around 200 W/App NYD messages from kind friends in HK and other places (... God bless them all!)
Nigerian
Drug Lord shot dead in gun fight with police in Philippines
Many thanks my dear Voice
for Prisoners associate "Mr M. Li" for helping overseas prisoners
and their families communicate over the past year! Mr Li's report for 2020 here
Pope Francis - Fratelli
Tutti:
85. For Christians, the words of Jesus have an even deeper meaning. They compel us to recognize Christ himself in each of our abandoned or excluded brothers and sisters (cf. Mt 25:40.45). Faith has untold power to inspire and sustain our respect for others, for believers come to know that God loves every man and woman with infinite love and "thereby confers infinite dignity" upon all humanity. We likewise believe that Christ shed his blood for each of us and that no one is beyond the scope of his universal love. If we go to the ultimate source of that love which is the very life of the triune God, we encounter in the community of the three divine Persons the origin and perfect model of all life in society. Theology continues to be enriched by its reflection on this great truth.
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Ecclesiastes
3: There's a time and a season for
everything: A time for giving birth,
a time for dying. A time for tears and mourning,
a time for laughter and dancing. A time for embracing,
a time to refrain from embracing. A time for keeping silent,
a time for speaking.
Dear Lord, please help me to do
the right thing at the right time
My
recording of this reading
Psalm
28: To you, O Lord, I call, my rock, hear me.
If you do not heed, I shall become like people in the grave. Lord, you are my strength and my
shield.
In you my heart trusts. Thank you, Lord, for so often hearing my
prayer.
I will always thank and praise you. You are the strength of your people Israel.
Save your people. Be our shepherd and carry us for ever.
Lord, please help people who
are in big danger today
Listen
Philippians
3.12-14:
I am not yet perfect. I have not yet won the
race.
But I am still running,
trying to capture the prize for which Christ Jesus captured me. I forget the past, and strain ahead for what
is still to come.
I am racing for the finish,
for the prize to which God calls us to receive in Christ Jesus
Jesus, please help me keep running each day!
Listen
Matthew 2: Jesus
was born in the town of Bethlehem, during the reign of King Herod. Some months
after Jesus' birth, several wise men from the East came to Jerusalem. They
said "Where is the infant king of the Jews? We
saw his star as it rose and we have come to offer him honor."
Reflection on the above Bible readings: In these days between Christmas and the Epiphany, let's keep thinking about Bethlehem ... and the wise men on their way to honor the Baby
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Advance joke about the 3 wise men on way to
Bethlehem. If they had been women, they would have been more practical .... and
brought some diapers as gifts!
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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 Jan 1
I
wish all dear readers every blessing for 2021!
Jesus, thank you for all your blessings in 2020. Please protect us in
2021!
For
the final day of 2020 I watched this traditional end of year song: Now
Thank We All Our God and also Cliff Richard with The
Millenium Prayer
TVB report in Cantonese
(but film footage most eloquent!) of wonderful project by Gingko
NGO to provide clothing for poor people in Yau Ma Tei during the present
cold weather (... as well as 350 rice boxes every day)
Moving Christmas
Eve letter from UK man in prison for drug trafficking - how he was recruited
to go to Addis Ababa and take drugs to HK .... the pain of being away from his
family .... the hardships of being in detention. And
a letter in
Chinese from a 32 year old HK man in prison for drug trafficking ... how he
has been involved with drugs since he was 15
Pope Francis - Fratelli
Tutti:
The plea of the
stranger
84. Finally, I would note that in another
passage of the Gospel Jesus says: "I was a stranger and you welcomed
me" (Mt 25:35). Jesus could speak those words because he had an open
heart, sensitive to the difficulties of others. Saint Paul urges us to "rejoice
with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep" (Rom 12:15). When
our hearts do this, they are capable of
identifying with others without worrying about where they were born or come from.
In the process, we come to experience others as our "own flesh" (Is 58:7).
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c.f. Readings for January 1, Feast of Mary, Mother of God
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
Reflection - -
really beautiful - words
of today's first reading: Blessing
Song
Bible Commentary - New Year's Day
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A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one year
and out the other
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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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I wish all dear readers the peace of Christmas right through 2021!
Thu Dec 31
Thank you Jesus for all the graces of 2020. Please forgive
the wrongs of 2020. Please bless everyone I have met in 2020.
Must admit 2020 was the busiest year of my whole life - starting with a month in Africa, then meetings in Australia, then the launch of street stalls morphing into a shop to help the homeless ... accompanied by the renting of dozens (now 41) of rooms for homeless people (now 61), thanks to the help of many kind people in HK. And with Covid continuing to take its toll on the HK economy, the number of homeless will, unfortunately, continue to grow .... so that 2021 is not likely to be any slower than 2020!
Yesterday morning I was at the High Court for the application by
a prisoner from China for a hearing by the Court of Appeal .....followed by a
visit to the nearby office of the Chinese University to enroll a number of
prisoners for courses.
Pope
Francis - Fratelli
Tutti:
83. This explains why a Samaritan woman, when asked
by Jesus for a drink, answered curtly: "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a
drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" (Jn 4:9). The most offensive charge
that those who sought to discredit Jesus could bring was that he was
"possessed" and "a Samaritan" (Jn 8:48). So this
encounter of mercy between a Samaritan and a Jew is highly provocative; it
leaves no room for ideological manipulation and challenges us to expand our
frontiers. It gives a universal
dimension to our call to love, one that transcends all prejudices, all
historical and cultural barriers, all petty interests.
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Chris McDonnell
This Christmas Season
I would prefer that we ask ourselves a few personal questions and then have the
courage to act on the answers
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Ecclesiastes 1-2: Everything is
temporary and passing.
What's the use of all our toil?
Our life is over in a few days.
What's the use of all our toil? The same fate awaits
both wise person and fool.
Death is always just around the corner.
Dear God, please
help me understand the meaning of life. Help me understand that there is life in heaven after life on earth
Recording
Psalm 27: The Lord is my light and my
help, whom shall
I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life, before whom shall I shrink? Though
an army encamp against me, even then would I trust. There is one thing I ask of the Lord, for this
I long:
to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. It is your face, O Lord, that I seek. Hide not
your face.
I am sure I will see your goodness in the land of the living. Hope in the Lord, hold firm and take heart.
Hope in the Lord!
Lord, you are my light and my
help.
I will always praise you.
Recording
Philippians 3.7-11: Because of Christ, I have come to consider
all my former advantages as a scholar as disadvantages. Nothing is more important than knowing Christ
Jesus my Lord. For him I have accepted the loss of
everything, and I look on everything as so much rubbish if only I can have
Christ. All I want is to know Christ and the power of
his resurrection.
I want to share his sufferings by carrying the Cross with him. This is the way I can hope to receive eternal
life
Christ Jesus my Lord, knowing you is No. 1
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
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Yesterday morning on exiting from Admiralty MTR station on my way
to the High Court, there was a lone hawker at the top of the stairs ....selling
just one product: scalves ... a clever man ....as the temperature started
dropping to today's expected
minimum of 7 degrees!
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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 31st 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 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, Thursday, please pacify Al-Qaeda
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I wish all dear readers the peace of Christmas right through 2021!
Wed Dec 30
I spent much of yesterday working on support letters for two
prisoners soon going to court - one for an application to the Court of Appeal,
the other applying for bail
Yesterday was the anniversary of Wang
Zhiming, one of ten 20th-century Christian martyrs memorialized above the
Great West Door of Westminster Abbey with a statue
MercyHK updated Dec financial report - here
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Pope Francis - Fratelli
Tutti:
82. The parable, though, is troubling, for Jesus
says that the wounded man was a Judean, while the one who stopped and helped him
was a Samaritan. This detail is quite
significant for our reflection on a love that includes everyone. The
Samaritans lived in a region where pagan rites were practised. For the Jews,
this made them impure, detestable, dangerous. In fact, one ancient Jewish text
referring to nations that were hated, speaks of Samaria as "not even a
people" (Sir 50:25); it also refers to "the foolish people that
live in Shechem" (50:26). ((the
term "Judean" here is
strange. Gospel does not say man was a Judean, just presupposes he was Jewish.
Maybe a translator's mistake?))
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Proverbs 30-31: Every word of God is true and of great value.
Do not change or misinterpret God's words. Do not give way to sexual excess.
Do not give way to drunkenness. Be the voice of the poor, the
unwanted.
Uphold the rights of the needy. Happy the man who finds a good wife.
She is far beyond the price of pearls. She looks after her household with care.
She works diligently for her family. She holds out her hand to the poor.
She opens her arms to the needy. Charm is deceitful, and beauty empty.
The woman who is wise is the one to praise.
Lord, thank you for all the
wisdom in the Book of Proverbs!
My
recording of this reading
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
Philippians
2.13-16: It is God who gives us the spiritual energy to
be good and to do good. Don't be someone who is always complaining and
arguing. Live a life of light in our dark world.
May your life of light offer the world the word of life
Jesus, help me avoid complaining and
arguing
Listen
Reflection on the above readings: In every parish church, every chapel .... there is an elderly "Anna" whose prayers are powerful!
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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 30th
of
the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Haiti
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 Shanghai
And praying for one
Islam-related intention each day of the week:
Jesus, today, Wednesday,
please pacify Al-Shabaab
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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:
Aug 16, 2020: CNN - Indonesian women recruited to take drugs to Hong Kong
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: Chinese no more mules page
((Facebook: AddisAbabaDrugTrade; KenyaDrugTrade; TanzaniaDrugTrade; JohannesburgDrugTrade; SaoPauloDrugTrade; MalaysiaDrugTrade; ThailandDrugTrade; HongKongDrugTrade; CambodiaDrugTrade; IndonesiaDrugTrade)) (blocked by FB Oct 2020)
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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