Finding Christ in the liturgy

I was sitting on my chair, waiting for the priest, Carmelite Father Thomas Lim, to come celebrate Mass. The congregation was small, a handful of elderly folk. I glanced around to the back, where a lady in red was anxiously awaiting the arrival of the celebrant.
Lily was her name, and she worked in the Society [...]

Contemporary music in church

I found this post on contemporary music quote interesting. It’s taken from the blog “Extraordinary From Singapore“. I must admit though, that what caught my attention are the words “Final Fantasy” more than anything else.

It remains a fallacy that the kind of music young people necessarily like to listen [...]

Book review - When Ministry Is Messy

I received this book as a birthday/Christmas present, and it’s very timely. It is a must-have for any Christian in ministry. It has helped me to understand the whys and hows conflicts in ministry take place, and it has taught me how to resolve such conflicts or prevent [...]

An Extraordinary Discovery

I’ve often heard some Singapore Catholics complain that Holy Communion ministers should be called by their proper name “Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion” and since they are “extraordinary”, they should only give out Holy Communion when there are insufficient priests.
While reading the book “Foundations of Vatican II Liturgy” by [...]

Monday, October 29 - Communion

Romans 8:12-17
My brothers, there is no necessity for us to obey our unspiritual selves or to live unspiritual lives. If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put an end to the misdeeds of the body you will live.
Everyone moved [...]

Primary purpose of the Mass

I realised that it’s been a while since I last wrote anything in this blog, except for my daily reflections which aren’t so daily these days!
Just a couple of quotes here, regarding the liturgy from a book that I’m reading, the first one is aimed particularly at those who say that [...]

I had sex with Jesus!

Now before you get all your feathers ruffled up, let me just say that yesterday was a great day for me. It started the night before, actually, when I was writing out a sharing on how Theology of the Body changed the way I practised my faith.
According to what I learnt, [...]

Friday, September 28 - The Glory of the New Surpasses The Old

Haggai 1:15 - 2:9
In the second year of King Darius, on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord was addressed through the prophet Haggai, as follows, “You are to speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the high commissioner of Judah, to Joshua son of [...]

Bring bread, bring wine… why?

Have you ever wondered why did Jesus use bread and wine at the institution of the Eucharist? Why did the faithful in the early Church bring bread and wine to the Mass, some of each was used by the priest for the sacrifice?
There are three reasons. Do you know what [...]

A flair for the dramatic?

IN AN INTERVIEW with progressive Italian bishop Luca Brandolini by Italian daily La Repubblica (Sunday edition), on his immediate reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio on the liturgy “Summorum Pontificum”, Bishop Brandolini says “This day is for me a day of grief. I have a lump in my throat and [...]