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    Year A / Lent / Week 1 /Sunday
    Readings: Genesis 2.7-9, 3.1-7 /Psalm 50.3-4, 5-6a, 12-13, 14, 17 (R/v cf 3a) / Romans 5.12-19 / Matthew 4.1-11


    “The good act of one man brings everyone life and makes them justified” (Romans 5.19)

    Here is Paul teaching the Romans about the good act Jesus makes for everyone’s salvation. His self-sacrifice on the Cross wins for everyone eternal life. His resurrection assures us of God’s reconciliation. 

    This life is for us. It is not a future promise of God we must just anticipate. Rather, it is the fullness of life Jesus promises us now. We can enjoy it and its fruitfulness by living in God’s ways. 

    We are good Christians. We strive to live the Catholic way of life to the best of our ability. We love God and serve our neighbour. We keep the commandments. We pray, go to confession and attend Mass. We share with the poor and care for the needy. We believe God appreciates our sincerity and efforts. We’ve experienced his mercy. We know he loves us.

    Yet, many times, we forget God with our unChristians habits and choices. We fall into sin like Adam and Eve who disobeyed God. Sin scarred their lives; their nakedness expressed it. Sin scars our lives too. It opens our eyes and we see ourselves up close. Too often, we are guilt-ridden, shame -filled and hope-less. This isn’t a pretty sight to God and others, let alone to ourselves.

    It’s a bit like this experience I had as the principal at SJI. I was sharing with a close friend about my struggles and temptations as a priest while walking along East Coast Park. I took for granted that no one there would know me and surely no one would bother to listen. Little did I know that a parent from SJI was walking behind us. At a certain point she passed us, waved hello and greeted me. Suddenly, I felt exposed. She had seen me up close. 

    Lent is a time when scripture and the Church invite us to look closely at ourselves, even to seek out our darkness and our shortcomings. We know it is difficult to do this honestly, even bravely. We’d rather not examine ourselves. Yet, this is the first step we must take to repent from sin and convert for better. 

    God desires we do this. Through the Prophet Isaiah, we hear: “Now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart.” Through the Apostle Paul, we find the Lord saying, “Now is the day of salvation.”. Throughout Lent, God will repeat these messages.  Will we hear them, and turn our lives around to God and for others?

    Today’s readings invite us to take those first steps for conversion. They bring us face to face with the darkness of our temptations and the exact sinfulness when we fall. Many would rather deny that sinful part of ourselves. We will because we don't want others to be horrified by our struggles and temptations. Also, we are afraid because temptation and sin bring us to the verge of falling. Like Adam and Eve we cover our nakedness with lies, not fig leaves.

    It is painful to face the reality of our temptations. However, facing them in light of Jesus strengthens us to continue living. It emboldens us to move onward.  

    We learn this from Jesus’s battle with Satan and his temptations. Jesus chooses to surrender himself  to God alone. To make any other choice is to choose a false god. Jesus’s choice must also be our choice when we are tempted to sin. Our faith must therefore be grounded in the knowledge that God and his love are greater than whatever sin any of us commits. No one else’s opinions and judgments matter, least of all Satan’s.

    I’d like to believe that when we choose God, we need not even fear living on the verge of falling. For in that moment, we will be leaning on God. Then, we can say with deep faith, like the psalmist, “Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.”

    Let me elaborate using this anecdote about hitchhiking. When I was younger, I hitchhiked around New Zealand one holiday. Now and again, I would stand on the side of the road with my thumb out and hundreds of cars went by. When a car stopped I'd suddenly forget that I’d been standing there for an hour or more. This one act of mercy by this one driver erased the fact that hundreds drove by and were completely apathetic. This one act of grace was a profound experience of goodness, and yes, safety, that I experienced as God’s blessing.  

    We need such grace to live in today’s world. It may be very cruel in many ways but that one act of grace on the part of Jesus once in history, and now daily, changes everything. It must because, as Paul proclaims, “the good act of one man brings everyone life and makes them justified.”

    For many, Lent’s focus is penitential. It is also hope-filled. We are instructed to seek out our darkness, face it and convert. We do this not to condemn or punish ourselves. Rather, we seek the light of Christ; he alone reconciles us with God and restores us to God’s life. This is why the spiritual writer Thomas Merton insists that Lent is a season of healing. When we begin to realize this, in that light, we will be surprised that we are not at all on the verge of falling. Rather we are really on the verge of God’s grace at work: it’s called salvation.

    We begin Lent with this Good News. Do we hear it?




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  2. Year A / Lent / Ash Wednesday
    Readings: Joel 2:12-18 / Psalm Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17.  (R/v 3a) / 2 Corinthians 5.20-6.2 / Matthew 6.1-6, 16-18


    Sisters and brothers, have you ever experienced that moment when you’ve had to draw a deep breath? When you had to pause and breathe deeply? 

    We often think of this moment happening during exercise or physical activity.  Like the breath we draw after a fast dash or a long run. Like breathing hard after a quick intervention in a rugby match or a speedy run down the flank in a soccer match.

    To draw a deep breath, we must stop.  We breathe in.  We exhale.  We recompose. And then we can carry on.

    Today we pause on our life’s journey and we draw a deep breath to enter this time of Lent. For many of us, Ash Wednesday, like the rest of Lent, is a time to take stock and reorientate our faith life. It is also a reminder of our mortality. The ashes imposed on our foreheads make real these words we hear today: “Remember that you are dust and to dust we return.” 

    These ashes; these words: they call us to repentance and conversion, to a new way of living. We practised the Lenten discipline of fasting, alms-giving and prayer. 

    Many of us choose to give up something: meat, sweets, drink, gossiping, the social media Others will donate more to the poor. All of us will make a greater effort to pray more be it Stations of the Cross, adoration, or the rosary. Some will add on: more prayer; more good works; more fasting. 

    Whatever Lenten practices we choose, we sincerely want to become better, saintlier, more Christian. This desire behind every practise is necessary; it opens us up to God who is really the One who brings about our conversion. 

    This is the Prophet Joel’s call in the first reading. He calls us to sanctify our fasting—to make it a holy thing. To make something holy is to set it apart. For Joel, we must  set our lives apart for God. We can by choosing to turn our lives back to God. We should not be afraid to do this because “God is all tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in graciousness, and ready to relent.”

    How can we turn back to God? By first remembering who we are and who God is.

    Here is a story to help us understand this invitation to remember.

    Once there was a newly ordained priest. He was spending his first year working in the parish. He gave himself to the ministry.  

    He did everything he was asked to do. He made himself available to everyone. He was always ready to answer every phone call to attend to the sick and the dying.

    He told his friend that he was working really hard to always get it right, to have the correct answer for everyone, to always know what to do, to speak the right words, to be strong and in control, to accomplish what he set out to do with perfection. 

    On and on he went describing the expectations he had for himself. And finally he said with a bit of exasperation, “It’s not working; I can’t hold it all together; Things aren’t turning out as I planned.” 

    His friend laughed. Her laughter was loud and hearty. When she stopped laughing, she said, “Well, welcome to the human race. Who do you think you are?” 

    She could just as well have said, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” 

    The priest finally realised that somewhere along the way he had forgotten his dustiness. He had forgotten his mortality –  that he is human and a creation of God. 

    The young priest heard about his dustiness. Today’s readings and liturgy focus us on our dustiness.

    And to drive home this point, we will shortly come up and have ashes imposed on our foreheads. We will hear these words said – “Remember you are dust and to dust you will return.” 

    These ashes; these words: they remind us of our dustiness. Remembering our mortality before God and one another is the first step we take towards healing the many ways our lives have become distorted and disrupted. 

    Ashes on our foreheads; words touching our hearts. They invite us to begin reordering our lives and re-establishing ourselves in God and with one another.  This is what repentance looks like. 

    There is a Hebrew word for the repentance the Prophet Joel calls us to. It is “Nacham.” It means "to draw a deep breath, with groans of grief from our sins.” To breathe like this to begin to repent and convert. This is what we are doing today.

    But this is hard work. We’ll have to overcome our fear, arrogance and pride. When these overwhelm us, we get caught up in a cycle of forgetting. We forget our mortality. When we do, we forget God and the immortality he offers us through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
               
    Ash Wednesday interrupts the cycle of our forgetfulness. It shows us another way to begin living anew – by taking a deep breath and  “Remembering that you are dust and to dust you shall return.”

    This is why we begin Lent with ashes on our foreheads.  They remind us that God marks us out for salvation.  These ashes are therefore also signs of hope, like these words from the prophet Joel also are: “Even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart.” 

    Yes, this is God’s desire, God’s yearning, God’s loving plea for us to repent and come to God. So, let us draw deeply, breathe and come to God.  Shall we?




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    This homily was preached at the February 2023 ‘Encouraged Retreat’


    Year A / Ordinary Time / Week 7 / Sunday 
    Readings: Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18 / Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13 (R/v 8a) / 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 / Matthew 5.38-48


    "You must love your neighbour as yourself" (Leviticus 19.19)


    The Lord himself declares this instruction. We know it well; Jesus teaches it in word and deed throughout the gospels.  We strive to practise it as Jesus's disciples. Today, he demands we go beyond loving our neighbours: "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” As Christians we must love more completely. 


    We are hearing this call while on retreat. We are here praying to love our family and friends who are same-sex attracted or identify as LGBTQ.  And God is teaching us to love them with his tender compassion. 


    We've all experienced this tenderness. In a child's forgiveness when we hurt them. In a friend's loyalty when we've failed. In a community's acceptance and welcome when we've repented and come home. With faith, we know these express that God is love.


    Jesus calls us to love like God does. We do in many ways. When a parent sacrifices self-interest to spend time with her child. When children choose a family holiday over hanging out with friends. When a friend takes leave to accompany a friend in hospice. Even when an elderly priest  picks up the 3am phone call to anoint a dying stranger. These should remind us that God loves by attending to the person before us. Love isn't abstract; it is concretely enfleshed in every human effort to care for another. 


    St Paul preaches about the kind of love we ought to practise: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails” (1 Corinthians 13:4-8).  However, there is one thing that Paul didn't say about love  – it is also often quite inconvenient. 


    Loving an LGBTQ family member or friend is indeed inconvenient. We struggle with the moral question in Church. We face the ridicule of others in society. We hide in the closet of our shame and guilt. Yet we choose to love them. 


    What have you and I learnt about loving and forgiving, supporting and caring for our LGBTQ loved ones? 


    That our love is self-forgetful; the other comes first. His well being, her happiness, their salvation matter to us. That our love is repeatedly boundless self-giving; however messy, untidy or haphazard this is, it is always sacrificial and cannot be contained. That our love poured out longs to be loved in return but we will never ask or demand it. That when you and I love, we are vulnerable, easily hurt, easily elated; this is real loving. That loving our LGBTQ loved ones challenges us to gather them in and include, not cast side or excuse. That to love the LGBTQ community demands our conviction that they and us absolutely share family resemblance in God’s likeness.


    No matter our struggle with the moral question of right and wrong, we know, if we are honest, the most human call God has put deep into our hearts: to love as he loves -- totally and completely. This is Jesus's message in today's gospel when he tells us to be perfect as his Father is perfect: that no one gets left out or left behind. God’s love welcomes and includes everyone. Jesus showed us how to love like this. Do others see such love in us?


    If we humble ourselves and let God perfect us in Jesus, then His command that Moses and the Israelites be holy as He is holy will become our way of life over time. God desires this because He has fallen in love with us. He wants to give all of Himself. Totally and completely. In Jesus God says, "All I have is yours." 


    Receiving Jesus draws us into appreciating what 'belonging' must mean for Christians. “You belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God,” Paul writes to the early Christians. He does because he knows who he really belongs to. Do we?

    Everybody wants to belong to someone. Our LGBTQ loved ones especially yearn to belong to us – through blood and kin, through friendship and companionship. And to belong to each other as friends in the Lord. For Catholics, no moment so beautifully expresses our desire to belong than in the Eucharist. In Jesus, who is Eucharist, we know we are welcomed, accepted and affirmed by God, regardless of our state of grace. In this moment, we experience the tenderness of God. Could God be challenging us to be as tender as He is towards our LGBTQ family and friends?

    In this retreat, we are praying and reflecting on the Parable of the Prodigal Son. We hear the Father declare that his younger son who was lost is found, who was dead is alive. All of us are that son. We have repeatedly lost our way because of sin. Jesus shows us the way home. And when we return, God who is our Father rushes out to meet us and he restores us to dignity as his own.  Indeed, aren’t we at home now here at Eucharist, whether we’ve lived this past week faithful to Jesus's teachings or squandered it away? Here, God meets us. He embraces us tenderly with love. And if we were to use our imagination to contemplate this moment, we might experience God burying his face into the dirty crooks of our necks to love us ever more. Then, we might even hear him whisper, “You are mine.”

    Shall we go forth and say to LGBTQ loved ones, as God says, "You are mine"?



    Inspired by the writings of the Trappist monks at Spencer Abbey, Massachusetts, USA


    Preached at the ‘EnCouraged Retreat’
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    Year A / Ordinary Time / Week 6 / Sunday 
    Readings: Ecclesiasticus 15.16-21 / Psalm 118.1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34 (R/v 1b) / 1 Corinthians 2.6-10 / Matthew 5.17-37


    “The things that no eye has seen and no ear has heard, things beyond the mind of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Corinthians 2.9).


    Here is St Paul encouraging the early Christians in Corinth to hope. They can because God is faithful; he will fulfil his promises and he will reveal them through his Spirit. Today this message is for us. 

    We need to hear it. Pauls’ hope-filled words lift us up from our everyday pains and burdens and move us onward. Like now, for those suffering from earthquakes in Turkey and Syria and the ongoing war in Ukraine; these words comfort and console. They help many get on with life.

    Most of all, we need hope to live our Christian faith. With hope, we can desire the kingdom of God. With hope, we can trust in Jesus’ promises, not on our own strength. With hope we can entrust ourselves to the Holy Spirit that empowers us to discern all the good things that God has prepared for our happiness.

    We must discern because making choices is hard work everyday. What we choose determines the life we live, the relationships we value and the happiness we seek. Significantly, the choices we make enable us to fulfil God’s given purpose for our lives or squander it. Indeed, "the choice is yours" is how a priest often concludes his homilies. We might laugh hearing it repeatedly but it’s important we think seriously about our choices as Christians. This is indeed the reminder we hear in our reading from Ecclesiasticus. We have a choice in how we act, that we are not forced, but can choose to follow God's will.

    Spiritual discernment can guide us to choose wisely the things and ways of God. “They are happy who follow God’s law!” This is the response as we sang the psalm. It is really a prayer for God to give us his Spirit to discern his law. Throughout the gospels Jesus taught us this law: it is the giving of our self to God and others. Jesus showed us how to do this, through his selfless life and generous ministry.

    We all want to live like Jesus who always prayed to discern God’s will. However many of us are fearful to ask for this grace. We are afraid to risk and find out what God wants of us, especially if we have to accept, obey and live it out in our lives when we hear his will. Yet, discern we must if we want to live like Jesus.

    What is spiritual discernment? Simply put, it is about recognising how God moves us to use the goodness in us to do good for others. God gives us this goodness. It is inextricably woven into the very DNA of every human person. It is because we are created in the likeness of God who is goodness himself. 

    Discernment is therefore not an intellectual exercise reserved for the wise and holy. It is in fact the capacity of the meek before God and the simple in faith. We are this people too, the meek and simple. When we practise discernment, we can begin to recognise God’s grace moving within us to do good, especially, for those in need. We already have this goodness to share, if we want to. I wonder if we do and how often.

    In today’s gospel Jesus challenges us to do good towards and for others. He is doing much more than listing prescriptions of what we should and should not do. If this is the only way we interpret Jesus’s message, we are no better than the scribes and Pharisees. They lived their faith solely and rigidly according to do’s and don’ts. They failed to discern the Spirit of God labouring within them to do good. We can be too when we are pharisaic and self-righteous. Then, we are equally hardhearted, blind and deaf to God’s Spirit working within us. 

    What Jesus offers is a set of core principles or values to help us discern how to do good for others. He is insisting that it is not enough for us to obey the prohibitions of the laws passed down and all "thou shalt nots” of the Ten Commandments. It is not about avoiding them. Instead, he challenges us to be proactive in settling our grievances with others, to avoid anger, to be pure of heart, to be trustworthy, and to have integrity.  He is inviting us to live like He did –  to turn the cheek, to give up our cloak and to love our enemies. This is a demanding way to live.

    Christians can when we choose to be open to the work of the Spirit within us. This Spirit forms us with every good choice we make. Over time, we become the spiritually mature Christian. This person has true wisdom – wisdom that comes from God as Paul teaches in the second reading. I’d like to suggest he receives it by practicing spiritual discernment that leads him to a oneness with God’s will. His choices will be in accord with God’s law. And he will grow into the person God created him to become. Indeed, this is the promise God has prepared for everyone who loves him. Do you want this promise? How much do you want it?




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    Year A / Ordinary Time / Week 5 / Sunday 
    Readings: Isaiah 58.1-10 / Psalm 111.4-5, 6-7, 8a and 9 (R/v 4a) / 1 Corinthians 2.1-5 / Matthew 5.13-16


    “You  are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5.13-14)

    Jesus says this to his disciples in today’s gospel reading. He is teaching them about who they are. They are more than followers. They actually share in his prophetic identity and mission. With Jesus, they are to reveal God’s presence and salvation. Their prophetic identity is also ours.

    This is why Jesus invites them – and us – to be salt and light. If we are to be, we must imitate Jesus. Our lives must be imprinted with his Christ-likeness – that is,  a life lived for the good of others.  This is because he himself is the Salt of our Earth and the Light of the world. By coming to us in his compassion and embracing us in God’s mercy, he transforms our dim and bland humanity. Like salt, Jesus gives it meaning, hope and redemption from the dark, tasteless trap of our sinfulness. Like light, Jesus shines through all the darkness within and around us, all that troubles and dismays to uplift us. This is how Jesus’s life is for the good of others.

    If you and I are to be salt, let’s not lose the gift of saltiness that can bring relish, delight and loving kindness to all around us. And if we are to be light, let’s not hide it under cover and deny others the illumination, warmth and glow they are struggling to find in the dark. Simply put, all of us have a certain something that only each one of us can offer, to make things better. This "bit," our little "bit" can transform things and, more so, change many lives for better. Dare we believe it? 

    If we do, I wonder if we will still want to follow Jesus now that we understand Christian discipleship is really about being ourselves – that is, for others, like salt and light are, never for themselves.

    We hear this message after the last three Sundays. Each time we heard about the story of the beginnings of Jesus’s ministry. He went to be baptized. He chose his first disciples. And last Sunday he taught the Beatitudes, that portrait of himself, for followers to imitate. 

    Today, he presents his disciples and us with a choice.  Be salt that seasons the world with God’s Word or become tasteless and so discarded.  Be light that faithfully shines forth God’s presence or be hidden. What will we choose?

    If we choose to follow Jesus, then get ready because Christian discipleship is demanding. Listen again to the expectations Isaiah details. Share your bread with the hungry. Shelter the homeless poor. Clothe the naked. Do not turn away from your own. Do these and you’ll improve their lives, and your light will indeed shine in the darkness. Jesus did the same, even laying down his life for them. What else are these but becoming ourselves – Jesus’s disciples?

    Our world promotes a different message and culture about being ourselves. Listen to these slogans. From Nike, ‘Just Do It’.  From L’Oreal, “Because You’re Worth it.’ And from our Singaporean Teamy the Bee, ‘Good better best! Never let it rest, If it's good, make it better, if it's better, make it best!’ These messages promote a culture of ‘I-me-and-myself’. That is, ‘do whatever I want,’ ‘be number one,’ and ‘if it’s good for me, it’s good for all.’ 

    Jesus’s message is counter-cultural. He teaches that God created us for himself and others.  We exist for God’s pleasure and to delight everyone. And when we share our lives lovingly, fully with them, especially, sacrificially when we lay down ourselves, we truly become ourselves – Christ-like. 

    In those moments when we are Christian selves, nothing less than Jesus’s love will become us. It will reveal what we were created to be for one another: givers of love and forgivers of mercy, sharers of God’s providence and carers for God’s own, particularly, the cast-off and lowly.  This reminds me of Jesuit Fr Pedro Arrupe who said, “Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.”

    There is no other way for Christians to be ourselves as persons for others than to proclaim Jesus as St Paul does: in “weakness and fear and with much trembling.” We need to have this stance; it acknowledges the truth of who we are before God. Paul’s words express this. He knows his limitations as an apostle yet is firmly convicted in his belief that in Jesus he knows God. This is what humility looks like. We need it. It humbles us to take that first step towards becoming ourselves with Jesus. Then, we can truly become ourselves – genuinely Christian.  Shall we?



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    Devotion to the Sacred Heart – Friday,3 February
    Reflection based on John 19.28-30 


    “It is accomplished” (John 19.3)

    It is often said that nothing satisfies those who must work or study more than getting the task done. “It is accomplished” could very well be the words they long to cry out in relief. They could indeed be what we sigh in relief after working or studying today with its many demands and expectations.

    “It is accomplished” are Jesus final words as his life ends. More significantly, they proclaim that he has completed his mission. That he was sent into the world in order that everyone might come to know and believe in God, and so have relationship and life with God. 

    Jesus calls Christians to make his mission our mission. Like him we are to preach it to all peoples more in deeds than words. We express this by loving God totally and loving our neighbour selflessly. When we do this well and happily, our Christian lives attract others to know, believe and have life with God. How can we do this in order that we can say, “it is accomplished” when our lives end?

    The spiritual writer Henri Nouwen identifies three essential practices Christians should adopt to live a fruitful, Spirit-filled life, like Jesus led. They are solitude, community and ministry. 

    Solitude, the time one makes to be with God in prayer and reflection.

    Community, the space of encountering God through relationships with one another

    Ministry, the action of bringing God to many, especially those in need.

    Each of these practices requires us to be disciplined. That is, we need to make the conscious effort to focus on God and create space for God. We must therefore work diligently to avoid filling up every area of our lives with worldly distractions; these will take us away from God.

    The gospels show us how Jesus lived these 3 practices.

    He would go off to a quiet place to pray after ministering to many all day. 

    He was always in the company of others, interacting with them and helping them encounter God through each other’s words and deeds. 

    He lived to bring God to many through his teaching and shepherding, his healing and reconciling, ultimately, in laying down his life. 

    He practised solitude, community and ministry in two ways: by keeping his focus on God and creating space for God to work in his life. Jesus’s death is the ultimate expression of how these ways worked for the good of everyone – salvation for all. In this very moment, Jesus says, “It is accomplished.” And we, the redeemed, can gratefully say these words too.

    However I wonder if we will say these same words when our lives end. Perhaps, it would be good for us this evening to petition Jesus for the grace to speak them as he spoke them. For truly, only a heart, like Jesus’s Sacred Heart, can entrust itself to God, and so do and complete God’s mission. So, let us pray, “Jesus meek and humble of heart, make our hearts like Yours.”



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