Go to your cell and your cell will teach you everything you need to know: Stay inside of your vocation, inside of your commitments, inside your legitimate conscriptive duties, inside of your church, inside of your family, and they will teach you where life is found and what love means. Be faithful to your commitments and what you are ultimately looking for will be found there.
We are all monks and it matters not whether we are in a monastery or are in the world as spouses, parents, friends, ministers in the church, teachers, doctors, nurses, laborers, artisans, social workers, bankers, economic advisors, salespersons, politicians, lawyers, mental health workers, contractors, or retirees. Each of us has our cell and that cell can teach us what we need to know.
Ron Rolheiser, 10th January 2010
His writings caught my attention today... of the reality of discovering our call and the importance of living it out in its fullness. May we have the grace to embrace the reality of our today and live in its fullness. Hopefully, we will be able to find what we are looking for, which will meet the deepest desires of our hearts.
Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Sunday, 3 January 2010
Epiphany Jan 3
When we hear the voice of the old king of death and fear and cynicism, let us have the courage to go our own way -- rejoicing. The star and the journey will send us onwards, by newer paths, to come into the presence of the Child of Light and the Prince of Peace, who is the fulfillment of humanity's deepest hopes and desires for light, justice, love and peace.
(Father Thomas Rosica)
(Father Thomas Rosica)
Friday, 1 January 2010
Welcoming the New Year Worshipping the Giver
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It had always been our desire to welcome the new year with a time of worship. So, after a nice plate of lasagne, we had a time of sharing, on how the year had been for us. As we share each other's joys and sorrows, we welcomed the new year with a time of worship, placing all our hope in God and trusting that He will hold us through the coming year.
Monday, 21 December 2009
Christmas Party with RAY Fellowship
Proud to be guests of the RAY Fellowship Christmas Party at Promenade Hotel. Everyone was dressed up and looked gorgeous!
Derek gave out most of the souvenirs and prizes for the evening. We also exchanged gifts at the party. What a joy to see the excitement around the room.
The organising committee receiving a souvenier presented by Bernard. Amazed to see them coordinate this event so well!!
Sunday, 20 December 2009
An extended breakfast
After mass at St Simon's, hopped on Joneville & Yvonne's car and drove to Menggatal for the famous beef noodles soup.
Hmmm cooking while chatting on the phone?? Is that the secret recipe???
Continued driving towards Tuaran and had barbecued corn... Look who's barbecueing...
Another speciality of the area... clams.
And some cheap coconut pudding... for dessert.
So, that's life in KK...
Monday, 14 December 2009
Carolers Visit
A visit from the Carolers of St Simon Church. Our turn to welcome them in our home... We have been carolers ourselves before leaving for the mission.
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They proclaimed, O come Divine Messiah, the world in silence waits the day... when hope shall sing of triumph and sadness flees away.
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Derek was out caroling last week with his colleagues from the Sacred Heart Parish.
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They proclaimed, O come Divine Messiah, the world in silence waits the day... when hope shall sing of triumph and sadness flees away.
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Derek was out caroling last week with his colleagues from the Sacred Heart Parish.
Saturday, 12 December 2009
3rd Sunday of Advent
by Father Thomas Rosica
Rejoice in the Lord
In today's second reading, St. Paul tells us to rejoice in the Lord always [Philippians 4:4-7; see also Philippians 2:18; 3:1;4.4). The rejoicing to which St. Paul invites us, and which forms the heart of the Advent season. But we must ask ourselves, what did persecuted Christians have to rejoice about?
The answer is their relationship with the Lord, which can even become stronger and more intimate in times of persecution. Their joy is not in their circumstance; indeed it is often in spite of their circumstance. Rather it is in the Lord.
Sheer joy arises out of a deep and abiding relationship with God that carries the believer through all sorts of trials and tribulations. Rejoicing in the Lord is a sort of adoration, and adoration often takes the form of prayer. Rejoicing constantly leads to praying and praising repeatedly. Since Paul refers to giving thanks after he mentions prayer, it is probable that the term "praying" refers to petitioning God in some form, perhaps interceding for self and others in some manner.
The opposite of rejoicing
The opposite of rejoicing and happiness is not sorrow, but deadness that often manifests itself through cynicism, meanness of spirit and smallness of mind and heart. Many of us know what that feels like: the deadness and dissatisfaction induced by a consumer culture that stimulates our senses and bombards us with largely meaningless choices, while leaving us starved for some deeper purpose.
Then there is jealousy, envy, and that gnawing feeling that we have accomplished so little because we have been so poorly motivated and made some bad choices. And when we realize that others have been able to do much because they have been rooted in God, we become jealous and envious. These are not new phenomena!
The desire to escape such deadness and dissatisfaction was one of the motives of the early desert fathers and mothers. They rejected a world whose agenda was defined by the pursuit of power, property, and pleasure. They went into the desert to tap into the source of life and joy, and discover their own true selves through constant prayer. Having found the emptiness of what their culture defined as happiness, they sought another way.
Rejoice in the Lord
In today's second reading, St. Paul tells us to rejoice in the Lord always [Philippians 4:4-7; see also Philippians 2:18; 3:1;4.4). The rejoicing to which St. Paul invites us, and which forms the heart of the Advent season. But we must ask ourselves, what did persecuted Christians have to rejoice about?
The answer is their relationship with the Lord, which can even become stronger and more intimate in times of persecution. Their joy is not in their circumstance; indeed it is often in spite of their circumstance. Rather it is in the Lord.
Sheer joy arises out of a deep and abiding relationship with God that carries the believer through all sorts of trials and tribulations. Rejoicing in the Lord is a sort of adoration, and adoration often takes the form of prayer. Rejoicing constantly leads to praying and praising repeatedly. Since Paul refers to giving thanks after he mentions prayer, it is probable that the term "praying" refers to petitioning God in some form, perhaps interceding for self and others in some manner.
The opposite of rejoicing
The opposite of rejoicing and happiness is not sorrow, but deadness that often manifests itself through cynicism, meanness of spirit and smallness of mind and heart. Many of us know what that feels like: the deadness and dissatisfaction induced by a consumer culture that stimulates our senses and bombards us with largely meaningless choices, while leaving us starved for some deeper purpose.
Then there is jealousy, envy, and that gnawing feeling that we have accomplished so little because we have been so poorly motivated and made some bad choices. And when we realize that others have been able to do much because they have been rooted in God, we become jealous and envious. These are not new phenomena!
The desire to escape such deadness and dissatisfaction was one of the motives of the early desert fathers and mothers. They rejected a world whose agenda was defined by the pursuit of power, property, and pleasure. They went into the desert to tap into the source of life and joy, and discover their own true selves through constant prayer. Having found the emptiness of what their culture defined as happiness, they sought another way.
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