Suffering and tragedy are things that we don’t want to reflect or think too much about because of the pain that it brings to our lives.

‘I gave his mother the money for his abortion, now look at him and see what I got.’ These were the words of Ae’s father when we drove to our Mother Mary Home for teenagers in Northeastern Thailand. 

Whenever I have the chance, I watch a movie every now and then. Sometimes there is something at the movies that catches my attention and if I have the time, I’ll go and watch it as my form of stress-reducing recreation.

Whenever I have the chance, I watch a movie every now and then. Sometimes there is something at the movies that catches my attention and if I have the time, I’ll go and watch it as my form of stress-reducing recreation.

Whenever I have the chance, I watch a movie every now and then. Sometimes there is something at the movies that catches my attention and if I have the time, I’ll go and watch it as my form of stress-reducing recreation.

Whenever I have the chance, I watch a movie every now and then. Sometimes there is something at the movies that catches my attention and if I have the time, I’ll go and watch it as my form of stress-reducing recreation.

Dear friends, we are in the First Sunday of Lent, and the liturgy of the day invites us to look forward to these forty days of grace and hold firm to our faith,

All three readings of this Sunday offer us an insightful view into what conversion means through the stories of three characters: Isaiah, Paul and Peter. 

When one is invited to a party there is the expectation of a good time to be had: 

The power of the Word of God is at the heart of the readings in today’s liturgy.

I’m unashamed to say that I’m a “Mama’s Boy”. Whenever I need something and I can’t get it from my dad, I always turn to my mum and without a doubt my dad gives in. 

Today we are celebrating the feast of the Baptism of our Lord. A feast that upholds the sacrament of Baptism in our own life and invites us to participate in Jesus’ own Baptism.

At the recent Christmas mass for children, I passed the statue of the baby Jesus among the children asking them to touch and feel it, then tell me their feeling about the newly born baby Jesus. One kid quickly shouted: “He is naked, he has no clothes on”.

The words that came to me after these three readings like a summation of their content were “tender care and respect”.

Christmas time is also a time for telling stories because a story has a way of getting inside us. We become like children who learn by stories. So I would like to tell you a special story: