1. Year B / Lent / 2nd Sunday
    Readings: Genesis 22.1-2, 91, 10-13, 15-18 / Psalm 116.10, 15, 16-17, 18-19 (R/v 116.9) / Romans 8.31b-34 / Mark 9.2-10


    Have you had an “A-ha” moment? That moment when what you saw, heard or experienced changed your outlook on life or faith? That life-changing moment that altered your sense of identity and purpose?  

    The “A-ha” moment in Francis of Assisi’s life was when he encountered a leper whom he reached out to in compassion. In this moment, he realized that Jesus was calling him to serve the poor, and not to be rich like his father, a merchant of fine textiles.  

    The “A-ha” moment in Ignatius of Loyola’s life was when he reflected on the saints as he recuperated from a cannonball injury. In this moment, he realized that Jesus was calling him to be God’s solider to save souls, and not one to win wars for a Spanish duke. 

    What about you? Can you remember an “A-ha” moment when Jesus met you, and called you to more Christ-like action?

    Our gospel story on this 2nd Sunday of Lent is about an “A-ha” moment in the life of the disciples. 

    We are all familiar with the story of the Transfiguration: Jesus takes Peter, James and John up the mountain; they see Jesus transfigured; they observe him conversing with Moses and Elijah; Peter offers to build them tents; and they hear God’s voice. Yes, in this moment, Jesus’ three disciples witness his transfiguration. 

    More significantly, these disciples themselves undergo a transfiguration. They experience a change within themselves that enables them to hear God's voice announcing Jesus' identity as God’s ''beloved Son." Their own transfiguration also allows them to hear more clearly the terms of their own discipleship; God asks them to "listen to Jesus." 

    Their “A-ha” moment is about glimpsing the divine—that God is indeed with them—and learning the truth about being human—that in Jesus they are God’s chosen.

    Today, we are not just reading about the Transfiguration. We experiencing the scene unfolding before us; we are witnessing Jesus’ being transfigured; we are hearing God’s delight in his Son and God’s command that we listen to him. Yes, you and I are part of this moment; we are the silent, unmentioned participants in the Transfiguration. And like the disciples, we should be letting God transfigure us in this moment. But are we?

    This is the question we must ask ourselves in Lent because Lent is the time for transformation. To answer it, we need to pause and look honestly at the state of our Christian discipleship. How Christ-like is our living and our loving, our praying and our playing, our being in friendship with God and in relationship with one another? If we are honest, I think we will both confess that we can do better.

    If the grace of Lent is the promise of being transformed and so transfigured, it calls us to enter more fully into this liturgical moment. Like the Transfiguration called the disciples, so Lent calls us into it not as a calendar time of 40 days but as God’s time to redeem and renew us.

    The right disposition to enter Lent then cannot be that which we’ve come to associate with the phrase “carpe diem” (seize the day). All too often we think of Lent as that time we must seize for our conversion. But what use is this attitude if we don't have the deeper disposition to let God change us?

    This deeper disposition is described by the main character at the end of Richard Linklater's film, Boyhood: it is “to let the day seize us, and move us on its ebb and flow.” I see Peter, James and John in today’s gospel story having and practicing this disposition in their lives: they opened themselves to Jesus’ Transfiguration and allowed God to lead them into it and, more importantly, into their own transfiguration. This is the kind of disposition we need to let God transfigure us.

    But are you and I open to this moment of Lent and God's plan to transfigure us? Or, are we insisting that we alone must take charge of Lent, and control and manipulate how it must fit our plans and our goals?

    If we want to let God transfigure us, then, we have to seriously consider our response to the conversion Lent beckons us to. 

    In last Sunday’s gospel story, Jesus proclaimed that the time of fulfillment is now. Our present time can be one of conversion and fulfilment if we understand that being repentant is about opening ourselves up to God who  wishes to set our lives right again. But to open ourselves to God we need honesty to identify the necessary changes we must make, so that we can better cooperate with God’s plan to make us better disciples. I believe this can begin when we say yes to God’s command to “listen to Jesus.” What changes then must you and I make this Lent to truly listen to Jesus?

    Becoming more humble is one way. In our first reading, Abraham’s humility to listen to and obey God’s command transfigures his life. It does not lead to Isaac’s death in Abraham’s life but to the perpetuity of life for him through countless descendants. 

    Today, we are being called to humble ourselves so that we can really listen to Jesus who shows us how to do God’s will, not just for ourselves but also for the community we live in and serve

    And why should we bother to listen to Jesus?  Because God wants to bless us through Jesus. This blessing will transfigure us more and more into the fullness of God’s image and likeness that Jesus is. Christian discipleship is about growing into Christ-like fullness

    And listening to Jesus in humility is the way God instructs us on how best we can be saved, and so realize our truest identity as God’s own. This is why God taught the disciples at the Transfiguration to listen to Jesus.

    You and I know that the pressures of life will often keep us from taking the time to stop and listen—to each other, to ourselves, and to God. We are so distracted by so many things in our lives. Yet Lent offers us time to stop and listen to God. It invites us into possibility of being caught up in an “A-ha” moment, or two, each day, and in them, of finding God instructing us to live better and holier lives.

    It would be good for us then as each Lenten day closes to name these moments, and to recall God’s instruction in them. And let us also give thanks for them. Why? Because  these “A-ha” moments are God’s ways of transfiguring us to better celebrate the coming Easter joy. 

    My sisters and brothers, dare we miss the goodness of these “A-ha” moments this Lent?


    This homily was first preached in 2015 at St Ignatius Church, Singapore

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  2. Year B / Lent / Week 1 / Sunday
    Readings: Genesis 9.8-15 / Psalm 25.4-5, 6-7, 8-9  (R/v cf 10) / 1 Peter 3.18-22 / Mark 1.12-15


    Sisters and brothers, have you ever needed a push to get the job done? Perhaps, to get started on a difficult, uncomfortable and challenging task, like completing the term project in school or taking an employee to task or preparing for the recent Chinese New Year’s reunion dinner. 

    I think we all often do need a push. We do because most of us, myself included, tend to procrastinate. I’m sure you would agree that the human tendency is to want to put it off until later.  “There’s still time”. “No need to rush”. “Why so kan cheong?” We keep saying these mantras to convince ourselves we are in control. Yet, the longer we delay, the more anxious we become that something might just go wrong. Sometimes we panic and we feel lost: what to do next? how to get it done? where do I begin? I am sure you know the feeling.

    When we feel lost, like one might experience in a desert without Googlemaps or a GPS or compass, we become more aware of our vulnerabilities. We have similar experiences when we find ourselves lost in, or meandering aimlessly about, the deserts within us — the desert-like spaces of our broken hearts, our anxiety-ridden minds, our frighten imaginations, our disoriented lives. 

    May be we are in one of these desert-like spaces in our lives as we begin Lent. May be Lent is itself our desert-like space right now: we find ourselves indifferent, aimlessly meandering or lost and overwhelmed in this Lenten time.

    We find Jesus in the desert on this 1st Sunday of Lent. There is an urgency to Mark’s depiction of Jesus’ experience in the desert — the Spirit drives him there. 

    In the desert, Jesus faces his vulnerabilities. He is hungry in body, needy in want, and lacking in physical prowess. In the desert, there is nothing humanly familiar, comfortable and secure to support him. Being vulnerable, Satan tempts Jesus to overcome these by focusing on his own self, on his own needs, on his own strength, and not on God’s presence, providence and power. But Jesus rejects Satan’s temptations and chooses God. 

    What can learn from today’s gospel passage for our Lenten journey?

    That we can grow in our fidelity to God by acting like Jesus whenever we face temptations. Jesus struggled with Satan’s temptations but he choose God. To be fully human, as God created us to be, is to struggle with temptations, but in and through that struggle that we come to choose God. 

    Choosing to remain faithful to God is also the foundation of Jesus’ ministry. You cannot give what you do not have. The gospel of God Jesus preached is rooted in his choice for God first. More significantly, this time when Jesus overcame temptation was his own “yes” to God.  

    The Church offers us Jesus’ example on this 1st Sunday of Lent to remind us that “this is our time” to say “yes” to God’s particular call for our conversion. 

    Lent means “spring” in Latin. Spring is a time of new beginnings. Spiritually speaking it is a time to deepen our fidelity to God and live more faithfully in God’s ways, as Jesus did when he was tempted. 

    Those desert-like spaces in our lives are where we will be tempted most. When we are, let us turn to Jesus to learn how to overcome these temptations. He let God’s Spirit lead him in his struggle with temptations and deepened his faithfulness to God. Let us so the same.  

    Let us also appreciate these desert-like spaces in our lives in as holy spaces to encounter God. They cannot be those barren, painful and despairing places we fear. Rather, seeing them with eyes of faith, we will find God already there with us in our struggles and leading us through the temptations to choose His love and life. 

    In the Old Testament, the desert is where God calls a person out of the world to speak words of tenderness and truth. This intimate encounter between God and humanity amidst the desert’s silence and emptiness bears a gift. It is to know more clearly who God is — divine and holy. It is also to know more humbly who we are — human and in need of salvation. Most of all, it is to know more joyfully how God’s love saves — always and without reservation. 

    This gift is for not only for those called into the desert but also for all to grow in spiritual authenticity. Our Lenten journey is about growing in this authenticity to reclaim our rightful identity: we are God’s own. Lent demands that we keep our eyes on the promised Easter joy — that Jesus’ death and resurrection redeems for God alone. 

    Jesus’ struggle with temptations formed him to become more authentic. More authentic as the Son of God through love for God. More authentic as God’s Word to all through proclamation of God. He became more authentic through his humility: he put God first when he was tempted.

    As Christians, we commit to follow Jesus more closely.  Imitating Jesus’ humility by putting God first can help us overcome the many temptations we face. We cannot overcome them with our strength only. We need God to empower us to do this.

    Our need for God means we must stop hiding behind those masks we wear sometimes before God and others to appear spiritually strong, religiously devout, and morally upright. We wear these to hide the reality that we are sometimes not so holy or so charitable, not be so forgiving and so loving, not so Christ-like.The grace of Lenten conversion can only begin if we humble ourselves, take off those masks and be honest to God, to others and to ourselves that we need God. Then, we can come to Jesus as we truly are: God’s children who need God’s mercy to forgive us, God’s love to redeem us, and God’s life to transform us. 

    Today Jesus reminds that “The time has come and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.” Throughout Lent, we will hear this call echoed in our Lenten readings:  “Turn back to me with all your heart!” (Joel 2.12). “Rend your hearts and not your clothing” (Joel 3.13).  “Choose life!” (Deuteronomy 30.19b).  This is the indeed today’s key message too: choose life — choose God and God’s life, not Satan and the temptations to sin and death

    “Yes” is in fact the only proper response all humanity can make to a God who has said “yes” to save all. In the first reading, God promised Noah, and through Noah to all of humanity, that never again shall humanity perish. For Christians, Lent is the graced time to renew our “yes” to God, which involves deepening our fidelity to the covenant God makes us with through baptism, as Paul teaches in the second reading.

    Our “yes” then is to a God in in whom we live, and move, and have our being. This God does not destroy but saves. This God we believe loves us and wants the best for you and me. This is why this God calls us to let Him be our God — our God who desires to enter more fully into our lives this Lent. 

    We can ignore God’s call or put it off responding to it, as we do with many things that are difficult, uncomfortable, challenging. The wise among us however will know that God gives us the example of Jesus today to push us to begin Lent better so that we can live a more Christian life. Yes, the time has come for you and me to say “yes” to this push Lent offers us to change for the better. Let us wait no more. 




    Preached at St Ignatius Church and the Church of the Transfiguration, Singapore
    photo: “up the spiral staircase inside the Arc de Triomph” @www.jongarysteele.com

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  3. Year B / Ordinary Time / Week 6 / Sunday
    Readings: Leviticus 13.1-2, 44-46/ Responsorial Psalm 31. 1-2, 5, 11 (R/v 7) / I Corinthians 10.31-11.1 / Mark 1.40-45

    We have all seen and heard the advertisements promoting washing detergent brands. “Kao Attack: Makes Clothes Cleaner, Softer and Easier to Iron.” “Tide: For a Brilliant Clean Every Time.” “Breeze: Power Clean; Removes Stains.”

    They claim to remove the most deep-down, hard-to-remove stains, like ink blotches, greasy curry splashes, coffee marks and mud smears. They promise they make our clothes brighter and fresher again. They guarantee they can clean.

    “To make clean” is a theme in today’s readings. It is a good theme to reflect on as we approach Lent and its invitation to cleanse our lives through repentance and conversion. Today’s readings can prepare us to do this.

    The leper is the focus in our first reading. For the Israelites, leprosy is a sign of God’s displeasure. Hence, they feared that lepers could infect others and harm the community’s health. This is why Moses had God’s authority to cast out lepers. All must avoid lepers; they are unclean.

    Don’t we sometimes feel like lepers? When our ideas and suggestions are put down, even if they were well intentioned?  When others avoid us because of our race, nationality or language? Haven’t others looked down on us because we earn less than they do or we don’t have the same degrees as them? Who here hasn’t been ridiculed and bullied growing up?

    Today’s gospel story is about Jesus healing the leper. It offers us three insights for better Christian living.  We would be wise to reflect on them — for us who feel like lepers sometimes and we who treat others as lepers, now and again. 

    First, Jesus heals everyone. The leper came to Jesus with a simple hope and faith: “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Jesus’ response was a tender “I do will it. Be made clean.” Jesus put his words into action: his healing expresses God’s merciful ‘yes’ to all our cries to God for help.  

    Jesus healing the leper should give us hope. For whenever we feel like a leper, we can go to him. He will never turn us down for all he wants is to reach out and heal us. He does this because he wants us to experience God’s mercy, love and life. In Jesus, God never thinks of us as unworthy. Rather, he values us as his beloved. 

    Second, Jesus challenges us to heal as he does. Jesus heals by making a leper clean. We are to heal others and make them clean again in our eyes and in the eyes of others. 

    Often you and I judge others bad, wrong, evil, sinful, and unchristian. We act like this especially when we are hurt or disappointed and pained or frustrated by those we love and interact with. When we cannot forgive and we hate them, they become our enemies. We gossip and put them down. We ignore and exclude them. This how we make them lepers. I am ashamed I have hurt others like this before; you might have done so too. Not very Christian, are we?

    Today, Jesus shows us how to live better Christian lives by helping and healing those we cast out and those society condemns, rather than condemning and ignoring them. 

    There is no other way we can do this than to first have a merciful and tender heart, like Jesus had for the leper. Such a heart really listens to, tenderly feels for, and compassionately wants to response to another who says, “If you wish, you can make me clean.” Are our hearts as big-hearted as Jesus’ heart is to love, to care and to heal? Shall we ask him to make our hearts like his?

    Jesus heals the leper physically. He also heals by returning him to the community. Today, Jesus is asking us to welcome the lepers in our world— like the criminals, the refugees, the poor, the aged, the marginalised — and in our church — like the divorced, the separated, the homosexuals — back into our hearts and back into the community.  More than welcoming them back, Jesus is challenging us to never set them all apart again.

    Do we dare take up Jesus’ challenge to reach out to the leper-like and healed them, especially as this demands that we accept, welcome and include them into our lives, community and church?

    Third, Jesus’ healing gives joy.  Whether we feel like lepers or we make others feel like lepers, today’s gospel story invites us to present ourselves, as we are, to Jesus. To present ourselves, not as dirty, unclean and unworthy, but as one in need of Jesus’ healing.  

    Let us be honest: you and I will always be in some state of sin because of present faults and unholy actions. Even here at this Eucharist, some of us are not in the state of grace. Yet all us want come to Jesus in the Eucharist.  Why? I like to think that we all come to Jesus because we dare to hope in God’s’ forgiving and healing love. 

    If this is how we come to Jesus, aren't we like the leper who had enough hope to believe that his "If” —"If I ask Jesus, won't he healed me?" — will be answered? We might fear Jesus rejecting, ignoring and excluding us from God’s mercy because we are sinful and unclean. But like the leper, God gives us faith — enough faith — to say to Jesus, "If you wish, you can make me clean." Yes, enough faith for healing

    We can in fact say these words too. We can because of God’s constant faithfulness. Consider: if God has forgiven us each time in the past, how can God ever turn away from us now or in the future? God cannot and will not. God wants us to save us to be with Him forever. This is the depth of God’s love, eternal, and the breadth of his mercy, boundless. This is why we can have hope in our Christian life and be joyful.  

    The refrain in today’s responsorial psalm is “You are my refuge, O Lord; you fill me with the joy of salvation”. All of us have this cry deep within us for God to save us from sin and death. Jesus will respond by saving us. But do we really want Jesus to heal and save us?

    If we truly want Jesus to heal and save us, then, what we must strive to do better at all times in our Christian life, and especially, at this Eucharist, is to allow Jesus to wash us anew in his grace. 

    All too often, we grow complacent and accustomed to sin. We accept our sinful ways as habits we cannot stop. Thus, we sin repeatedly. However, we were created different. We were created very good and for holiness. This is our birthright. To reclaim it, we need to stop our tendency to only ask God for what we want or to only recount what God has done for us. Instead, we need to do more than these: we must choose to dedicate our whole lives to God by imitating Jesus more closely. This is Paul’s message in the second reading. 

    It will not be easy to do this. We will struggle because of our human tendency to sin. But we can live a life of holiness when we choose to make small changes in our lives to follow Jesus more closely. The sum of all these small changes will slowly and surely lead us to God. Asking Jesus to heal us and transform us is the first step. 

    If you and I believe that we can do this because of Jesus, we are professing that only Jesus and no other can indeed wash away our most unchristian sins. The detergents that wash do not always absolutely wash clean. Jesus’ healing does. And when Jesus does heal and cleanse for us, we will become much cleaner, fresher and brighter for God and one another. Let us ask for this grace as we approach Lent. 




    Preached at the Church of the Transfiguration, Singapore
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  4. Year B / Ordinary Time / Week 5 / Sunday
    Readings: Job 7.1-4, 6-7 / Responsorial Psalm 147. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 (R/v cf 3a) / 1 Corinthians 9.16-19, 22-23 / Mark 1.29-39


    “He went to her, took by the hand, and helped her up.”

    This is how Mark describes Jesus healing Peter’s mother-in-law in today’s gospel story. Jesus heals by touching.

    We can miss this detail altogether because we often focus on the miracle in this event. In fact, we tend to miss the small details in our lives because we are more preoccupied with the big picture that is the drama of our lives. It is a bit like missing the trees because we only see the forest.

    Touch. It is a simple action.

    Yet it can say so much more and communicate far more clearly than the words we use. We chose and structure words carefully to interpret and give our point of view. We safeguard our innermost feelings with words. A touch, on the other hand, is more personal and intimate. It more freely expresses our deepest feelings. Touch is not an insignificant gesture.

    We know the richness of our parents’ love by their warm embrace. We know the depth of mercy when we are forgiven with a hug. We’ve experienced another’s friendship when they’ve laid their hands on our sick bodies. We’ve witnessed the genuine care of elderly friends as they holding hands to cross the busy street. Yes, you and I know love because another’s touch never lies.

    Perhaps, the deepest yearning we all have is to be touched. To be touched and accepted as we are. To be touched and cared for in our pain. To be touched and loved because we need love.

    As much as we yearn to be touched, I know we all struggle to share a touch with someone else. Did you give a loved one a hug or a kiss this past week? When was the last time you patted a friend heartily on the back to encourage? Isn’t it easier for us to say “sorry” than to stretch out our hands in reconciliation? I suspect our answers to these questions will be a “yes”. “Yes” because we suffer from a poverty of touch in our lives.

    Jesus healed Peter’s sick mother-in-law by coming to her, taking her hand and helping her up; then her fever left her. He healed her in a very personal way: by touching her. His touch reveals God’s bountiful grace at work in our lives.

    But Jesus’ touch isn’t meant for one; it is meant for all. In the gospels, Jesus heals many in the same way: whether by approaching them or letting them come to him, he healed and transformed them with his touch. He rubbed his spittle to give a blind man sight (John 9.6). He touched many in the marketplace, healing them (Mark 6.56). A haemorrhaging woman touched his cloak and was healed (Mark 5.25-34). He touched a leper to cleanse him (Luke 5.13). Jesus’ touch is God’s power at work to save.

    Yes, we can hope in Jesus. He is indeed the healer in our lives, the healer of our lives. He is because Jesus’ healing restores us to life. Jesus’ healing is life-giving. Without him and his healing, life can be a “drudgery" and an "enslavement” as Job describes the misery of the human condition when hope is absent and despair reigns. Haven’t we all experienced such suffering and misery before? I believe that in those moments we turned to Jesus. We did because Jesus is our hope in God.

    Mark wants to do more than assure us that Jesus is our hope. He wants to deepen it by showing us how Jesus’ touch is fundamentally God’s way of being with us, amongst us and for us. Throughout Jesus’ life and ministry, touch was his way of being friend and companion, teacher and master, and even, of being savior in our lives. Through his touch—those acts of healing and forgiving, of comforting and accompanying others that he did—Jesus revealed God’s great love at work in people’s lives. And Jesus continues to do this whenever we love and care for each other.

    "Jesus went to her, took by the hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she began to wait on them".  Jesus’ healing restores Peter’s mother-in-law to health.  It also returns her to the community to do what he does—touch others: she waits on them. She does this by serving them, Mark writes. And what is service but touching another’s need to be welcomed, fed, and cared for.

    This is why I am convinced that the real miracle of today’s gospel story will happen when we let ourselves be touched by Jesus, God’s Word, and we let him restore us to do our Christian duty better—to touch and transform another’s life as Jesus did.

    “Go and do likewise”, Jesus said at the Last Supper. We call ourselves Christians. We say we follow Jesus. Our identity and mission as Christian will mean nothing unless we imitate Jesus’ life of touching, healing and transforming other lives. This why Paul's exhortation in our second reading matters: Christian life is really about preaching the Good News to all peoples.

    Imitating Jesus is how we can let God’s life take root and come alive in us. Indeed, touching another like Jesus did is how we become a little more divine by being a lot more human, like Jesus was by being human and touching another. Today’s good news is that in Jesus you and I have a meaningful example of how to be fully human and truly Christian. Through Jesus’ example, God is challenging us to make God’s love more real through our deeds than in our words.

    Think of the saints in heaven and on earth the priests and religious, the lay catechists and church volunteers who show us how to live this challenge. Remember Pope Francis who responded to this challenge when he embraced the man with boils on his face and body. Celebrate our parents and friends who teach us that we can meet this challenge through all the life-giving ways we touch each other’s lives.

    Truly, all these actions express the love of God touching us in our brightest moments and in our darkest days—touching us to give us life, always. I believe we all already doing this because we want to share God’s love and life. This is why our kind words, our sincere care, our merciful forgiveness, our Christian charity matter. They are the more concrete, real and better way to help others in need than the many words preached or written by priests and theologians, the many words in Church writings we are to read or ponder on. Deeds touch and transform us much more than words.

    Our world is broken by injustice and hatred, persecution and strife. We can begin to heal it by making God’s love and life real through our everyday acts of kindness and forgiveness, love and care. Our homes are a good place to start doing this. So, parents, hug your children often. And families, sit and hold grandpa and grandma’s hands repeatedly. As for friends, do hold your down-and-out friend’s hand and support her. Today’s gospel illustrates that what matters most in troubled times is the personal touch and presence of another who cares and restores life.

    We all want God to touch us with His love and life. And God hears us by touching us in faith, with hope, and through love. All God expects from us in return is that we pay God’s goodness forward by doing what Jesus did—touch others to heal and transform them. So let us do this. 

    As we do, I pray that we will appreciate how today Jesus has come to us, taken us by our hands, and has indeed helped us up—helped us up to go forth and touch and care for others as he did. And as we touch and care for them, may we meet our good and loving God who, through them, will touch us in return.


    Preached at the Church of the Transfiguration and St Ignatius Church, Singapore
    photo: pope francis kissing a disfigured man; credit: rex features via associated press


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