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What makes my Christmas this year much more special, patience learned from Stollen. Christmas or the feast of the nativity is an annual festival, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. In the Catholic culture, Christmas is preceded by the season of Advent, which is four weeks time period before Christmas. You might have seen four candles in the Christmas cards. This is an Advent wreath. The ke..

20201201 Tuesday of the First Week of Advent - The place the more God shall be - After our mass and prayer this morning, I have stayed in the chapel for a while. Two images came up in my mind. In the first image, there are several people standing together. They all look confident and well built. They all can stand still on their own in a good shape. They were all smiling beautifully in a bright ..

There was a presidential election early this month. About 160 million out of 239 million voters cast their votes. Almost 100 million voted in advance and over 65 million joined the election by Mail. It was a controversial and unprecedented election, indeed. Quite a while in my congregation American election has been a big issue at our dinner table. Another surprising unprecedented scene was the ..

Tuesday of the Thirty-second Week in Ordinary Time ( Memorial of Saint Leo the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church) What had been overwhelmed my mind for the last few weeks has finished on last Saturday. It has been my deep agony that made me not be able to focus on my prayer or meditation. My mind and my body have been A little cranky. Kind of sensitive. But luckily I could finish that up with..

I believe we all have a certain amount of desire for making the community we live in a better one. Let us reflect on our history of the effort to make it. I do believe, like me, all of you have loads of stories about it. Some delightful, and some painful. For me actually mostly painful. What about you? We live in the community of the family, the neighbour, the school, or the country. We make our..

Thursday of the Twenty-seventh Week in Ordinary Time - evangelical poverty - Today's 1st reading shows us a dramatic change. The change from Judaism to Christianity. Apostle Paul said we receive the holy spirit not from works of the law but from faith in what you heard. This scene shows the change form 'action of keeping the law' to ' listening and believing the Good new'. This change identifies..

From today's Gospel, I got two keywords that helped me to reflect my life. "School" and "my profession'". Ivan Illich was ex-priest and one of the talented progressive theologist. When I was in the first year, I read a book about his interviews. That book made me think again about School. Ivan Illich criticised the systemical function of the school. Usually, when we think of school, we consider ..

In our spiritual journey, I often empathize with many prophets and righteous people in this sentence. " many prophets and righteous people longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it.(Mt 13:17)" In my daily life, I wish to stay close to God. While I am praying I desire to feel intimacy with Jesus. During my meditation, I try to get any messages fr..

The agony of The Passion of Christ was "Why Should I die?" The agony of The Passion of Mary was "Why Should He die? not me." From these two agonies, I learn two ways of love. Today we celebrate the Day of Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. People usually think Mary suffered from watching his son had gone through all the pain and contempt. So did I. However this time I could see there was something..

When I have a talk or consultation with Christian people, I often found many people were obsessed with this commandment, Love your neighbour. This is one of two the most important commandments for us Cristian, with the other commandment, Love your Lord. So many people told me they felt guilty for not loving other people enough. The more faithful life someone wants to live, the more guilty they f..