The youth of Sacred Heart Cathedral parish has launched a project in conjunction with the Extraordinary Month of Mission. We would like to invite all parishioners to join us in praying for a very important group of people when it comes to mission: our shepherds, our priests! Priests today are very much under attack, because [...]
Prophet Amos sends chilling warning to the rich who indulge in luxury and pleasure. The rich man in the gospel is found everywhere today. There was really nothing much wrong with the rich man. All he did was to enjoy his wealth and his good food, his big house, his fashionable and expensive clothes. Though [...]
What is the right use of our wealth? The Gospel speaks about stewardship. A steward is a person who is made responsible to handle the goods and property of his employer. The steward in the Gospel today was a bad steward because he was wasteful of his master’s property. He was going to be fired; [...]
The Pharisees and Scribes were grumbling, “This man receives sinners and eats with them.” Jesus owns up to the Pharisees’ charge and defends himself by telling three parables. They all make the same point, although with different emphasis: God goes to great extent to seek the lost sinners and greatly rejoices when they repent. If [...]
Today we celebrate the feast of the birth of Mary. The gospel reflects on the discipleship. While she is the mother of the Son of God, in Mary we have also his perfect disciple. “None of you may become my disciple, if he doesn’t give up everything he has,” Jesus says. Mary surrendered herself totally [...]
C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity, called pride “the great sin.” “According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leacs to every other vice: it is the complete [...]
Salvation is not assured by birth or by being part of a sect, but by conscious decisions to go through ‘the narrow door.’ Being among ‘the chosen people’ of God as Jews believed or being baptized as Christians do not guarantee salvation. On the other hand, people from far and wide who were considered as [...]
Prophet Jeremiah suffers terribly at the hands of his own people, but he remains faithful to his mission. The author of the letter to the Hebrews reminds us of the suffering and rejection Jesus endured in fulfilling his mission, and invites us to draw strength from Jesus in our own struggles in witnessing to the [...]
After having reflected last Sunday on foolishness of relying on earthly possessions, today we hear “wake up parables” – a short one about a thief’s break-in and a longer one about responsible stewardship. It tells us that to be truly ready is not building up our financial and material security, but being good stewards of [...]
Jesus’ teachings are centred on the value of the kingdom of God. The real richness is to merit the kingdom than getting a lot of material goods on earth. People make a false god out of possessions of this world. Through the parable of the foolish rich man, Jesus teaches that we should not seek [...]