Book Review - Carpe Jugulum

I have never read Terry Pratchett books, despite pressure from several friends to do so. But after two years, Nutella finally coerced me to try reading one book. She took me to Bishan Community Library and showed me the whole array of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. She bade me pick one.
I chose the one titled [...]

Monday, September 10 - Finding God Through Morality

Colossians 1:24 - 2:3
It makes me happy to suffer for you, as I am suffering now, and in my own body to do what I can to make up all that has still to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church. I became the servant [...]

Thursday, August 23 - Life and Death

Judges 11:29-39
The spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, who crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through to Mizpah in Gilean and from Mizpah in Gilead made his way to the rear of the Ammonites. And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, “If you deliver the Ammonites into my hands, then [...]

Sunday, July 15 - Guarding the Deposit of Faith

Deuteronomy 30:10-14
Moses said to the people: “Obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping those commandments and laws of his that are written in the Book of this Law, and you shall return to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.”
“For this Law that I [...]

A fine line

The working group for the youth page in the UG was supposed to get responses from youths and young adults on why they watch certain television series with morally questionable content. So we sat down to decide which shows we wanted to get the youths talking about. Top of the line [...]

Wednesday, June 6 - God of sex

Tobit 3:1-11, 16-17
Sad at heart, I, Tobit, sighed and wept, and began this prayer of lamentation:
“You are just, O Lord,
and just are all your works.
All your ways are grace and truth,
and you are the Judge of the world.
“Therefore, Lord,
remember me, look on me.
Do not punish me for my sins
or for my heedless faults
or for [...]

Abortion kills “two Dunblanes a day”: Scottish cardinal

As the United Kingdom marks 40 years since the 1967 Abortion Act, Edinburgh Cardinal Keith O’Brien has slammed the “pack of lies” behind the law saying that abortion in Scotland now kills the equivalent of two classrooms of children or two Dunblane massacres a day.
The International Herald Tribune reports [...]

Sunday, May 27 - Are you a dead duck?

The Day of Pentecost
Today we celebrate the great day of Pentecost when Christ filled the Church with the power of his Spirit and sent it out into the world to bring his peace, joy and forgiveness to all mankind.
- the Sunday Missal
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Why No Temptations
A boy was [...]

NFP and more

I find that when we talk about NFP, some of us have a fuzzy idea of what it really is and how it works, particularly those who are not currently practising it, or have forgotten why they practise it.
Here is a recommended website: Natural Family Planning International, Inc
On this website, you [...]

Cocksucking to be legal in Singapore

Today I received an email that said that the Singapore government is going to amend the Penal Code, particularly pertaining to homosexual behaviour. One of the amendments is to legislate that anal and oral sex, if done in private between a consenting adult heterosexual couple aged 16 years old and above, [...]