1. Year A / Ordinary Time / Week 3 / Sunday /Sunday of the ‘Word of God’
    Readings: Isaiah 8.23-9.3 / Psalm 27.1,4, 13-14 (R/v 1a) / 1 Corinthians 1.10-13, 17 / Matthew 4.12-23


    Sisters and brothers, we are beginning the fourth week of 2020 today. How does it feel? ‘Tired’ is the answer the seniors in SJI give because of IB deadlines. But the juniors, fresh from orientation, keep reminding us the year and everything about it is still new.

    We associate the new or newness with beginnings and promises. Lunar New Year celebrations remind us of this.  It is a springtime celebration; our attention is naturally drawn to new buds and the promise they bear. These will soon burst forth to bloom and blossom. Then, they will amaze and delight many with their colour, fragrance, and beauty. A newness awaits us.

    We hear about newness in today’s gospel passage.

    John the Baptist is arrested. His ministry is finished. This marks the end to the tradition of the Old Testament prophets. Enter Jesus. He inaugurates a new reality. Jesus calls Peter and Andrew, James and John to become his disciples. They leave everything and follow him. No more fishermen, they now proclaim the “gospel of the kingdom.” There is a newness to their identity and their life’s purpose.

    We also hear how humanity experiences this newness. Men and women move from darkness into “a great light.” With Jesus’ coming, there is newness. New teaching happens now. New healing comes now. New Life is given now. Now, a new Presence.

    This is the good news we hear today: Jesus is the new Presence in our lives.

    “So, what?” some may ask. “Don’t I hear this in every homily around this time?” they add. This is a dangerous attitude to have as Christians. It numbs, dulls and blinds us from encountering Jesus and deepening our faith.  

    Today is the Sunday of the ‘Word of God’. We are invited to strengthen our understanding of the Scriptures and so know God and God’s actions in daily life. Our Mass readings are providential; they help us reflect on how Jesus, the Word of God incarnate, can bring a newness to our lives, like he did by calling the first disciples.

    I often find myself asking the question “What’s going on?” when I read Matthew’s account of Jesus calling them.

    This is a question we have all grappled with. We do whenever we experience surprises and joys or disappointments and sorrows. We do because we trying to make sense of them. Sometimes we have an answer.

    Answers are rarer when we face a future we don’t know much about or we have no control over. This is my struggle with Jesus calling his first disciples — they said “yes” to an unknown future fearlessly. “Will I be like them if Jesus calls?” I’ve asked myself repeatedly. Maybe you ask this question too.

    I think we struggle because we have to choose — either, embrace an unknown future that is also new and promising or stay with the known and the familiar and be safe.

    The first disciples risked the new in their lives: they chose Jesus. As Jesus’ disciples, we too have to risk and choose. Not once like in Baptism or once in a while like in Lent and Advent. But daily, because Jesus comes and calls us like he did the first disciples. Calls us to know him more intimately, to love him more intensely, and to follow him more closely.

    Jesus calls so that we can grow in discipleship with him. This must involve stepping into a future only he knows. To do this, we need to risk anew. 

    Jesus walks with us to assure us can. In death, he fell lower than we can ever fall in sin. This is how he catches us in sinfulness and lifts us up into saintliness. The word for Jesus’ action is salvation. In and through Jesus’ saving actions we become God’s ‘new creation’.  
    Do we dare risk and choose this newness Jesus wants to give us, particularly as the future of this year unfolds? Can we?

    I suggest we can — with God’s light.

    “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light”. This is the kind of light we need to enter into the newness of any future we face. Today, Isaiah describes how this ‘great light’ transforms, uplifts, and gives life. It does this by shinning on all who are in darkness, whether in disappointment and regret, in sin and despair.

    The future of this year awaits us. We might be anxious, worried and fearful. While it is human to have these feelings, it is good that as believers we want this ‘great light.’ It draws us to God. It steadies our steps forward. It guides us onward. It emboldens us to stay the course to God.

    For Matthew, Jesus is this ‘great light’. He opens the small minds and the closed hearts of the first disciples to dream big and to dare try. They hear Jesus’ call: they are meant for greater work than fishing. “You’re the light of the world”. Jesus wants them to shine for others who can then see their good deeds and glorify God (Matthew 5:14-16). This is what newness of life with Jesus looks like.

    Today Jesus is calling us to this same life as his future for us unfolds this year. Will we let God’s light become our light so that we, in turn, can draw others to God? Or, will we just remain the same, blinking faintly, if not without any light?  

    This newness God promises us as this year begins will happen when we allow ourselves to really encounter Jesus. The first disciples did by the Sea of Galilee, and their lives changed. What about us?

    “When we meet the Lord, we are inundated by that love of which he alone is capable,” Pope Francis says. This love will transform our whole life, and “the need to announce it arises spontaneously.” He adds, “It becomes irrepressible”.*

    Such proclamation evangelizes. Jesus did this when he announced God’s Good News whenever he met and ministered to people. At the Last Supper Jesus commanded his apostles to go and do likewise. Daily, he calls us to do likewise too.

    This is why Paul teaches Christians in the second reading to unite with the same mind and the same purpose, and not to let personal rivalries divide. Then, our love for one another, and more so, for others, especially the poor, will shine as God’s light for others. Many can then see a newness in how we care and who we care for. Here is Christian compassion alive.

    How can we tell if we are living out this newness of Christian compassion well? When others seeing how we interact with one are touched that they say, “See how they love one another”. Is this what others will say of us?

    We cannot give what we don’t have. We have the love of God. With Jesus, we will always experience the newness of God dwelling in our hearts and moving us to love all. What matters now is for us to pass it on.

    Passing on is about sharing and empowering, like our seniors passing on the SJI spirit to the juniors. Passing on is also about witnessing: we announce the Good News as our parents handed it on to us. Finally, passing on enlightens and illuminates life. This is how Pope Francis describes passing on: “Let your joy in the gospel be contagious so that those who see it will recognize that this joy comes from the heavenly Father, not you”.  Joy is the fruit of letting the Word of God into our lives.

    Today, we are invited to pass on God’s light, Jesus. He is the new and radiant light dawning in our lives and in all we share him with. It will do us good, then, now and again throughout 2020, to recall this line we’ve all sang before: “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine!’”

    Shall we?



    *Pope Francis speaking at the international meeting, “Evangelii Gaudium: The Church which goes forth,” 28-30 November 2019.


    Preached at St Ignatius Church, Singapore
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  2. Year A / Ordinary Time / Week 2 / Sunday
    Readings: Isaiah 49.3, 5-6 / Psalm 39.2 and 4ab, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10 (R/v 8a and 9a) / 1 Corinthians 1.1-3 / John 1.29-34


    Sisters and brothers, do you look to see or do you look to recognize? The difference in how we look can affect how we know — know someone or something, even know if God is in our midst. 

    When I was a young boy, my father’s side of the family would gather for Christmas. We would catch up with one another and celebrate. I’d see my cousins and hear about their past year. I never really knew them. We met once a year after all.

    A cousin I admire is Fred. Each Christmas, I’d look and see him growing up, progressing well through life, getting married, becoming a grandfather. Yet, I never really knew Fred until recent years when we began sharing about family and faith. Then, I saw and recognized the good Christian man, husband and parent he is, even with his struggles.

    Maybe you have had a similar experience of seeing and recognizing someone in your family as he or she really is.

    Recognition is at the heart of today’s Gospel reading. 

    Today we hear John the Baptist’s testimony of who Jesus is. More than his cousin, Jesus is “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”. John makes this pronouncement about Jesus because God revealed to him that “whomever you see the Spirit come down on and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.”  This was the moment John saw and recognized. 

    I’ve always been puzzled about this. How could John not know who his cousin is as they were growing up? 

    Maybe John had the same experience I had with Fred. I knew about Fred because I looked and saw but I didn’t really know him until I could see him more clearly, Then, I recognized, and now I know.

    This, I believe, is John’s experience of seeing Jesus anew at the Baptism. God opened the eyes of John’s heart to see Jesus in a new light. He saw that Jesus is the Son of God. This is how he knew Jesus is Saviour. 

    John's experience of seeing Jesus more clearly is an important lesson for our Christian life this year. It invites us to recognize how Jesus is in our midst with us.

    Here we are at Mass. Our readings speak about Jesus. Our songs remind us of him. Our Eucharist affirms his presence in our midst. Yet there are other times and places when we do not recognize Jesus’ presence. Here and now, for instance, if we are distracted.  

    Distracted or inattentive is how we also interact with one another, so often on auto-pilot mode of how we already do so using our same old same old ways.

    Parents, consider how you love and treat your children. Children, consider how you honour and relate to your parents. Husband and wives, consider the openness you have to hear, really hear, each other. For all in authority, do we really listen to those we teach, we employ, we make decisions for? For all in employment, do we try to understand those who lead or do we gossip, gripe, and grumble? 

    I think we are all guilty of many ways we close our eyes, our ears and our hearts to one another, even hardening our hearts toward each other, now and again.

    Let’s be honest: aren’t these the same ways we also interact with Jesus sometimes? Like those we love, like those we study and work with, Jesus comes into our everyday life. But don’t we fail to let him surprise us with his presence as God with us? 

    Yes, we sometimes blind ourselves to those who matter to us. The greater blindness happens when we who matter to God turn our backs on Him. 

    Today John the Baptist’s testimony challenges us to pay attention to Jesus. He is the Lamb of God, the Christ to save us, the Son of God. His testimony builds on the two earlier revelations this year of who Jesus is. On the Feast of the Epiphany Jesus is revealed as God’s Light to the Nations. On the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, he is revealed as God’s Beloved Son.  

    The Church places these revelations about Jesus at the beginning of the year to guide us who follow Jesus. They help us to be clear about who Jesus is and why God sent him into the world — to save us and give us life to the full. 

    Let me suggest that “to be clear about” — clear about who Jesus is, what his mission is about, why God gifts him to us — is a grace worth praying. It can help us enter more deeply into relationship with Jesus and follow him more closely, especially by living lives of service for all.

    Imagine a friend seeking to meet her spouse. Each man she dates isn’t the one. Finally, she meets the person she wants to spend the rest of her life with, and confiding to you says, “I think this is the one.”  

    Funnily enough, John the Baptist recognizes Jesus with the excitement and ardor as your friend does. “Behold…he is the one”, John announces. Yes, John’s context is different from a woman who’s dating, but don’t we hear the same desire to look for, to be clear about and to recognize Jesus as the long expectant one, the one who will not disappoint, the one who offers real fulfillment?

    What about you and me? We’ve heard John reminding us today who Jesus is. For each one of us, he is the Son of God. He must be the one, the very foundation on which we build our faith and life. Do we have that same sense of recognition, of recognizing Jesus as the one we’ve been waiting for, longing for?   

    Can you and I imagine ourselves saying the same words about Jesus: “This is The One”?  

    I believe we can when we make the effort to see Jesus like John did — with clarity and certainty. This is the challenge John’s Gospel makes to all who read and pray with it. That we are to see, to look, to behold Jesus, to check him out, to encounter and to know him, to let what we see of him transform us, to go out and do as he does — to save the world.  This is too is the Lord’s call to Isaiah and to us in our first reading: to be “a light to the nations”.
      
    I suspect many of us will say it is hard to see Jesus. How can we when we have sinned or we keep repeating the same sin?  Yet, our desire to see Jesus more brings us here. Isn’t this the truth? Not to tick the box “Sunday Obligation”. Rather, because we want to see Jesus, hear him, touch him, receive his forgiveness, be nourished again by his saving presence and have him dwell in our hearts.

    Isn’t it good news then that the recurrent refrain throughout John’s Gospel is “come and see”. In fact, in the section after today’s gospel reading, Jesus will say to two of John the Baptist’s disciples, “What are you looking for? Come and see”.

    You and I, we want to see Jesus. And God wants us to see more of Jesus in our lives. Why? So that we can share Jesus with all peoples. We see how Paul embodies this in our second reading. He introduces himself, as well as his work: he Jesus’ apostle bringing God’s grace and peace to all. 

    God came to us in the person of Jesus once in history so that we might see, believe and follow. In our present times, God comes and calls us to do likewise for all. He comes through the gift of others — cousins, family, friends, strangers.

    Shouldn’t we pray then to see more clearly in their visible faces the traces of our invisible God? Of God calling us to recognize him more truly so that we can live with him more fully and serve all more generously?

    Sisters and brothers, what is stopping us from looking around and recognizing Jesus in our midst?





    Preached at Church of the Transfiguration and St Ignatius Church, Singapore
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  3. Year A / Christmastide / Sunday: Feast of the Baptism of the Lord 
    Readings: Isaiah 42.1-4, 6-7 / Psalm 29 (R/v 11b) / Acts 10.34-38 / Matthew 3.13-17


    Sisters and brothers, how much do you want to belong? Belong to a group, to your class or workplace, to your family and friends, to the one you love? And what does it mean to belong?

    When I was in high school, I longed to be part of the coolest group around. This was the track team. Though I represented my class in the sprints, I was never good enough to be part of the school team. It should have been obvious to me that I couldn’t. I am short. I do not have the physical built of a sprinter.  Yet all through secondary school, I wanted to be counted amongst the sprinters.

    I suspect many of us have had a group we wanted to belong to when we were younger. Can you remember your group? 

    Our need to belong to a group, and to be counted among its members, speaks of the human need to be recognized as someone. More significantly, it is to fulfill the deepest human desire we all have: to be in a relationship. If you have fallen in love, you know how true this is. 

    The American writer Flannery O’Connor explores this need to belong in her story, ‘The River’. It is about Bevel, a child of alcoholic and abusive parents. One day he is taken to a baptizing by his sitter, Mrs. Connin. The preacher man promises Bevel that baptism would wash away his sins and assure him of a place in God’s kingdom. 

    After plunging Bevel’s head into the water and saying the words of baptism, he jerks Bevel up and looking sternly at the gasping boy, he cries out, “You count now; You didn't even count before."  

    “You count now,” the preacher man says. In a similar manner, the Church assures us that we count too; baptism makes us members of God’s family. Our baptism as infants or adults saved us from Original Sin and made us part of the body of Christ. Today’s Feast of the Baptism of the Lord should encourage us to remember this truth with joyful gratitude.

    But how we can experience the truth that we belong to God? I’d like to suggest we can by listening and by sharing. 

    By listening like Jesus does in today’s gospel passage. Listening to God speaking to him personally. In Matthew’s narration of Jesus’ baptism, we hear God say to Jesus that he is God’s beloved Son and God is well pleased with him.  In theology, we call this revelation of who Jesus is an epiphany. But an epiphany also reveals who God is: he is the loving Father. 

    Shortly, we will say the ‘Our Father’ in this Mass. We will pray to God whose fatherly love provides for our every daily need. In God, we will experience merciful forgiveness. We can make this prayer daily because you and I have already experienced God as Father. Our Father who has said to us repeatedly that we are his beloved in whom he is well pleased. This is who each one of us is to God.

    Consider these three ways God might have done so to you and me in our lives.

    When you took some time off from work to spend a bit more time with your family: didn’t God meet you through your spouse or child or parent who said, "Thank you for loving me?"

    When you got up from your MRT seat or gave way to another car at the parking lot for someone else in need: didn’t God speak to you through the aunty’s smile or the driver’s grateful wave, saying, "I’m pleased you cared for another?"

    When you found yourself tempted to join in the gossip about that pregnant and unmarried office worker or to close the door and indulge in a bad addiction like drinking or pornography, but chose not to: didn’t you experience God smiling at you for choosing to do better?

    If you have experienced these or something similar, you have indeed experienced God being present and alive in your life as Jesus did at his Baptism — of God’s delight in his own, his beloved.

    Often, we find it difficult to share such a personal experience of God with others. Our limited human language doesn’t help: we struggle to describe it fully and well. Besides, who would believe us when we tell it, right? 

    Many of us then keep our personal experiences of God to ourselves. The irony of doing this is that these experiences of God in our life are meant to be shared. Yes, to be shared with all, even as we struggle to find the right words to do so.

    And share we must because God’s presence breaking into our everyday experiences has the power to move us to share with others. This is because God coming into our lives and loving us changes who we are and how we live our lives. Encountering God changes all our bearings, and we need help from others to chart our new course forward. 

    In Matthew’s narration, Jesus’s experience of God was a personal experience. He alone sees the Spirit descending upon his soggy head and he alone hears the well-pleased voice of God calling him Beloved Son. Yet this personal experience of God’s love is the source of his ministry: it moves him to share God’s love with the disciples, and through them with all.

    And so it must be for us who follow Jesus. As Jesus listened to God first and then shared with others the good news of who God is to humankind, so are you and I are being invited today to do the same. 

    Our Christian faith is not meant to be private. It is meant to be shared. It is meant for community. And when we share with one another, we will come to know that we really belong to God, and through God, that we also belong to each other. 

    Today is last day of the Christmas season. Throughout Christmastime, we remember God loves us very much by giving us Jesus. The Christmas call is to us to gift each other Jesus too. We do this in Christ-like actions for each other. 

    I believe this is the invitation God makes to makes to you and me as each new year begins: to become more Christ-like as we accompany one another in our experiences of God. Though we do not share the same experience, we share the same God. Or, if nothing else, we share the same longing for God, and even that is enough.

    It is true that we will each have to work on our own salvation this coming year. But we can be assured that we do not have to do this alone. We have the gift of each other’s support and encouragement, and most definitely God's guiding presence in our lives. This is why it is good and right and true that we do belong to God and to one another. Together for the same journey of life and faith you and I make toward God this year. Together too in Jesus’ good company.

    This then must be the very good news we have and we can proclaim today – because for God, you and I, we really do count!




    Preached at Church of the Transfiguration, Singapore
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  4. Year A / Christmastide / Solemnity of the Epiphany
    Readings: Isaiah 60.1-6 / Responsorial Psalm 71.2, 7-8, 20-11, 12-13 (R/v cf 11) / Ephesians 3.2-3a, 5-6 / Matthew 2.1-12


    Sisters and brothers, as you look back on the Christmas presents and gifts you received this year, which one do you prize most of all? Why? Because it was filled with love? Because it surprised you? Because you really needed it? Because Santa knew you were good and answered your wish? 

    Presents and gifts. These are part of how we celebrate the Christmas season. We give them to one another and we receive them from others. They express our Christmas joy to family and friends. They also speak of our thanksgiving for them in our lives. Most of all, they express our love for one another.

    Our gospel passage today presents us with a picture of gift-giving. The Three Kings come to adore Jesus as the newborn King. They heard about his birth and they made the journey to pay him homage. They bring gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. These three non-Jewish kings represent people from different parts of the ancient world. 

    By adoring Jesus, they acknowledged who Jesus is: the Saviour of all peoples. By searching for Jesus, by coming to him, by bending down to adore him, God revealed to them, and through them to the world this truth: Jesus is the light of God's saving love for all the nations, including us. We have every reason to rejoice on this Feast of the Epiphany. 

    I would like to suggest that this image of gift-giving is an appropriate image for us to consider how we can live our Christian faith better as we take our first steps into 2020. 

    Let me explain by beginning with this lesson I learned this Advent. It has to do with a tree. 

    This Christmas we have a real fir tree in St Joseph's Institution (SJI) where I work.  The day it arrived the Facilities Team and cleaners unpacked it, put it up, trimmed and decorated it. Two cleaners, Aunty Nagama and Aunty Saras kept touching and smelling the needles of the fir tree as they cleaned up after the tree was put up. They continued to do this every morning after. I kept looking at them. 

    I wondered why they did this. What could they possibly be looking at or for? I asked myself. To me, it was just a tree.

    One morning, I asked Aunty Saras why they touched and smelled the tree. “It’s a Christmas tree, Father!”  “I know”, “I replied.  I kept asking until she said, “It’s a real Christmas tree. I have never seen or smelled a real Christmas tree!” said this woman much older than me.  

    Then, it dawned on me, I had taken for granted that such trees are the norm. I have seen them around town. I enjoyed the aroma in my siblings’ homes. I touched them when I was in Boston.  I had taken the real fir tree in SJI for granted. I had forgotten the wonder of how it is a gift. Surprising. Unexpected. Delightful.

    I had failed to wonder.  Aunty Saras and Autny Nagama had wonder. This is why they were delighted. This is why they kept touching and smelling. They cherished this tree because it was more than a tree; it was Christmas come alive for them who could not afford a real fir tree.

    The Three Kings had this same wonder. They were wealthy kings and learned scholars — in stark contrast to the ignorant, simple folk in Bethlehem. Yet God came for them too. God’s star drew them to Jesus. They could have dismissed this as another star. But they were able to find wonder as they saw and followed the star as it drew them onward to Jesus. Though they were learned enough to read the stars, their wonder moved them to search for a truth beyond human learning. They were able to 'adore' and to wonder. Perhaps, their wonder made them truly wise. All this was possible because they didn’t take the star for granted.

    Today Aunty Nagama, Aunty Saras and the Wise Men challenge us not to take for granted God’s most precious gift at Christmas, His Son, Jesus.

    We should not because God does not take us for granted. No matter whether we are simple and poor like shepherds or learned and rich like the Magi, God comes to us because we matter a lot to Him, even if we are far from being saintly whenever we are sinful.  In Jesus, God is with us; He comes to us because we are simply God's own and good enough for God.  

    Through Jesus, with Jesus and in Jesus, God comes to us always because He wants to be with us. All Jesus did and said on earth expresses this profound desire God would say to you and me, "You and your friendship is what I desire most". 

    If this is what God wants of us by giving us Jesus, then, it would be good for you and me to pause today and to ask yourselves, "What gift can I give to God this year?" 

    The Three Kings brought rich and expensive gifts from their Kingdoms. Maybe, we can be like them and bring gifts from the treasury of our lives.

    What might be some of these rich and precious gifts be that you and I can present to Jesus who reveals the face of God's love?  Perhaps, we can bring to Jesus the gift of our precious time for prayer. Or, we can offer him our treasured energy to care more for others in need. We might want to give him the gift of our forgiveness by reconciling with a family member or friend who has hurt us. Maybe, we can offer Jesus the gift of our sincerity and determination to give up our bad habits like gossiping and our unhealthy addictions like drinking and pornography. 

    Whatever our gifts might be, could it really be that what we most desire to give Jesus is the precious gift of ourselves? The gift of ourselves as we truly are; the gift of all that we do and all that we say. 

    I believe God is not asking us to give ourselves as we would like to present ourselves to God, like a nicely wrapped up Christmas present. No, God is asking us to bring ourselves as we honestly are — ordinary people who want to live good Christian lives no matter how much we struggle with our sinful ways.  This real, honest self that you and I are is who God wants to be in friendship with.  And we know this is God's deepest desire because God comes to be with us as one like us.

    And if we do this, we might experience something of the surprise the poet TS Eliot wrote about in his poem, 'The Journey of the Magi'. In it, he described how the encounter between the Three Kings and the baby Jesus led the kings to experience the surprising gift of a new way of seeing the world, a new of going about their everyday life, a new way of living in the world. Eliot spoke of this new way is the gift Jesus brings and it is ours when we die to our old ways so that we can be born again anew in God's ways. 

    I'd like to suggest that this is God's beautiful gift for us if we dare to offer God nothing less than the gift of our total selves this year. And if we do, we may discover that this gift of our very selves to Jesus is indeed the very gift, the most prized gift that God desires above all else from each of us this year.

    Will you and I, then, be like the wise Three Kings and come before Jesus, kneel before him who is God with us, and offer no other gift than ourselves to him who has bestowed on us all that is good?




    Preached at St Ignatius Church, Singapore 
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