Dear Family!

Reflection: This weekend the Universal Church celebrates the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. This marks the end of our Liturgical Year, and we welcome a New Liturgical year with the 1st Sunday of Advent. As Pope Benedict beautifully teaches us that Christ’s Kingship is not based on ‘human power’ but on loving and serving others. It reminds me of the wise saying of Carl Jung, “Where love rules, there is no will; and where power predominates, there love is lacking.”

Dear Family!

Reflection: As we are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, let us be mindful of all God’s blessings for us. God has blessed our land with countless blessings: clean water, abundant food, opportunity, education, employment and the additional thousands of blessings which not many other countries are blessed with. Our blessings can be compared to the ‘Talents’ that the employer entrusts with his servants. We are blessed to receive the ‘Most’. As a country that has been blessed and entrusted with the responsibility, how we respond to that ‘vocation’ matters today and now.

Dear Family!

Reflection: This Sunday’s Gospel passage (Mt 25:1- 13) invites us to prolong the reflection on eternal life that we began on the occasion of the Feast of All Saints and the Commemoration of the Faithful Departed. Jesus recounts the parable of the ten virgins invited to a wedding feast, symbol of the Kingdom of Heaven. Christ is the Bridegroom, and we are like the virgins awaiting his return to begin the wedding feast of heaven.

Dear Family!

Reflection: We have just celebrated the Solemnity of All Saints and the Commemoration of All Souls day. I want to thank you for taking part in these beautiful liturgies especially praying for the dead and praying with the families who have lost their loved ones. The Bible teaches us that it is actually a holy thing to pray for the dead. Ecclesiastes 7:2 says, “it is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for that is the end of every mortal, and the living should take it to heart.”