Reflections on Ps 80 (Bro Cornelius Ching)

Have we ever contemplated how great our God is? How much he looks after us, in spite of our complaining, despair, unfaithfulness and even when we take him for granted? Verse 6&7 of Psalm 80 reads -

I freed his back from burdens;

his hands were freed from heavy loads.

In your tribulation you called on me and I freed you,

I heard you from the heart of the storm,

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

He had been there helping me all along the way, in ways known and unknown. Oh how often have I taken the Lord for granted and only turned to him when I am in need. If only I will be aware of his mighty presence, especially in the good times in my life. In verse 13&14 he gives this promise -

The enemies of the Lord would be overcome with weakness,

Israel’s would be the good fortune, for ever:

I would feed them full of richest wheat

and give them honey from the rock,

to their heart’s content.

May I never take the Lord for granted and trust in his mighty hand in my life. If I look back in the events in my life, I can never deny that he helped me overcome my weaknesses and given me more than I can ask for. Such is his love for me.


Even in the first reading of today, St Paul tells us that nothing in heaven and on earth can ever separate us from the love of Christ. Now is the time for me to dwell in his presence and bask in his love.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Andrew Stephen on 01st Nov 2009.

Reflection Psalm 50 (Bro Peter Anthoney)

A priest walking through a garden was amazed to see several devils sleeping under a tree. Out of his curiosity he woke one of the devils and asked, "Why are you so free, just sleeping under the tree? The devil replied that they were jobless for almost all their work had been overtaken by the people here. "We have simply become redundant. The humans can be left alone; we need not rouse hatred, feelings of anger, envy and greed among them and to make them lustful and revengeful. They have proven themselves to be much better than us in these areas. I suppose they have acquired PhDs in these areas and therefore we are just useless. However, for you there are abundant, difficult and challenging work to do. Go and see if you can free the world from sin which is growing in leaps and bounds maybe then we can start work again." they said

Reflecting this story with Psalm 50 gives me further insights on how we are to work towards overcoming sin in our life, sin in the world today. The psalmist of psalm 50 is in his wisdom able to recognize the situation of sin he is in, he owns them, seeks pardon and therefore is able to free himself and live again.

However, we and many others might be treading into the depths of sin without even realizing or being fooled by the lures of the world. To make matters worse we are simply justifying our sin and continue living as though nothing has happened. By doing so we are not only drowning ourselves but also blinded by our sin resulting in us being feeling alienated from God loosing our inner freedom. We are becoming responsible for leading others to this sinful way of living.

Today as we pray this psalm, let us pray for the Grace of God, for the power of the Holy Spirit to open our minds and hearts to help us see the reality we are in, and then to give us the courage to own the responsibility for these sins and then the humility to seek reconciliation with God. At the same time we also pray the Good Lord will use us to bring this awareness to the people we are called to minister to. Together we will be able to experience the peace, love, joy and tranquility of the Kingdom of God here on earth.

Indeed you love truth in the heart
Then in the secret of my heart teach me wisdom
Give me again the joy of your help,
With a spirit of fervour sustain me.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Cornelius Ching on 29th Oct 2009.

Reflection on Christ, Servant of God- Phi 2:6–11 (By Bro Jovita Ho)

Though he was in the form of God,
Jesus did not count equality a thing to be grasped.
He emptied himself,
taking the form of a servant,
being born in the likeness of men.
And being found in human form,
he humbled himself and became obedient unto death,
even death on the Cross.
Therefore God has highly exalted him,
and bestowed on him the name which is above every name.
That at the name of Jesus every need should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

Once someone shared with me, "Jo, it seems that odd that whenever I feel close to God, God seems to be making it more difficult for me to love Him... He seems to move further away from me, whenever I get closer to Him." I think sometimes in my faith journey, and I am sure for some of us, this seems to be the case with our spiritual lives.

I wonder at times, whenever we feel this spiritual dryness, especially when we have no reason for it... more so after an uplifting retreat or seminar. Is it because we want to hang onto this feeling of being 'filled up', that we are unable to empty ourselves, and allow God to 'top-up' us in His own ways?


In this canticle, we are reminded that Christ though in the form of God, emptied Himself, taking a form of a servant, in the likeness of man. Do not be discouraged when you feel that you have reached a spiritual plateau and a sense of spiritual dryness permeate you... Christ himself (when all seems lost) fully experience that power of God filling him up only when he emptied himself completely and surrendered totally to the Father. Take courage and do not be afraid! Be emptied and be filled!

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Peter Anthoney on 27th Oct 2009.

Reflection on Ps 35 (Bro Gregory Chan)

I was very taken up by our visit to the Old Ford Factory. Looking at the old black & white photographs in the Museum brought me back in time.


It spoke of so many stories, including the British Scorched Earth Policy, which basically destroyed many of the oil refineries in Singapore and beyond. I remember the time when I was in my first year at law school, and we covered this subject of the Scorched Earth Policy. The issue was whether compensation was payable for blowing up the oil refineries. The courts drew a distinction between an exercise of the Royal Prerogative (for which no compensation was payable) and battle tactic (for which compensation was payable): Burmah Oil –vs- Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75.
The point of all this is what is our battle tactic in regard to combating sin? The Psalmist tells us today that “Sin speaks to the sinner in the depths of his heart.” Indeed, the sinner is oblivious to God:

“He so flatters himself in his mind
That he knows not his guilt.
In his mouth are mischief and deceit.
All wisdom is gone.”

Our weapon is none other than the Lord himself:

“In you is the source of life
And in your light we see light.”

Let us turn away from sin and look to the Lord to illumine our lives, and let Him be our light of life.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Jovita Ho on 25th Oct 2009.

A Reflection on Psalm 32 (Bro Edward Seah)

Once when I was a young Brother, someone asked me how my community prayed. I said we use the Divine Office and the man’s reply was that we were outdated because for him it was meaningless since he had found a spontaneous way of praying to the Lord. As a young Brother in a community of mostly elderly Brothers, to expect the latter to do away with the Divine Office was not impossible [since those Brothers were surprisingly more open and detached than I thought] but rather unnecessary. Out of curiosity I decided to survey the state and especially the style of the prayer life of the elderly Brothers. My conclusion was that they were not only men of deep prayer but had well integrated lives of Christian simplicity, compassion, generosity and total abandonment to the will of God.

Psalm 32 mentioned about ‘giving thanks to the Lord’ and singing a ‘song that is new’.
Can praying the same old Psalms every few weeks be a way of thanking the Lord and like singing a song that is new? For those who believe, the word of God is certainly alive and active. Each time we break the word, it is like unrolling the scroll which contains a new song – a song of the Lamb. Its newness is evident in that it renews the life of the pray-er helping him or her not only to praise and honor God but also walk in newness of life in Christ each day – and a life of deeper relationship with the Blessed Trinity resulting in gracious Christian living.

It seems two things are needed when we praise God using the Psalms:
first, the pray-ers need to have a repentant heart. Second, the pray-ers need to have a combination of fidelity and docility.

For the elderly Brothers who had faithfully prayed the living word of God, in savouring God’s word and being nourished by it every day, I noticed they were graced with the Spirit of Faith. In Lasallian terms, it means that they would not look upon anything except with the eyes of faith; not do anything but in view of God and attributing all to God. In this way, they were always able to enter into the sentiment of Job: “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; as it has pleased the Lord, so it is done”.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Gregory Chan on 23rd Oct 2009.

Reflections on Psalm 92 & 148 (Bro Benedict Chng)

Our recent Cameron Highland trip certainly brought me closer to our community and God. Just standing at the top of the tea plantation watching the vast vegetation below or gazing into the pin hole of the dark with the cool bracing wind blowing past my face simply brings an element of awe.


Reflecting on Psalm 92 and 148, one can only acknowledge that God is an artist extraordinaire. Easy to be impressed, most brilliant, creative artist ever to exist. While at the garden, I asked myself “Why did God make flowers? They're not necessary. Although they may have some purposes, one kind of flower in one single color could have been made to meet all the needs.


The fact is: flowers are not needed. They are "extra," something far, far beyond merely what was needed. We could live without flowers, but life is so much more beautiful with them.

God desires our joy to be full. It is indeed a great joy when we have a close fellowship with the Creator, and can be able to appreciate and thank Him for all the wonderful things He has provided for us because of His great love. In that context, things are a great
blessing, because they are a constant reminder of the goodness
and love of God. Whenever I see flowers, or whenever I think of the abundance God has provided, it reminds me of His love, and I say, "Thank You Lord, for flowers. Thank you Lord for the Hills and Trees"

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Edward Seah on 21st Oct 2009.

Reflection on Ps 42 (Bro Alphonsus Dominic)

“Thirsting” for God

“I thirst! I thirst! I thirst!”. Upon reflecting on Psalm forty-two, one of the books written about a world renowned great woman who was awarded the Noble Peace prize came into mind. She is non other then Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. In that book it states that she was inspired and in awe of these words, “I thirst!”. These very words she wrote on the wall of her room below a painted cross.

In these words, she saw Christ’s thirst for justice, peace, compassion and love where there is a lack of it. She saw the Lord thirsting for love especially in those who are suffering in poverty, sickness, pain, lack of love and in those who are abandoned.

Another dimension is her thirst for God that is to have an intimate relationship with Him. Although being close to Him, she often felt distant from His presence.

The psalmist in psalm forty-two in the second stanza challenges us to thirst for God just as Blessed Teresa thirsted for God as it states,
“My soul is thirsting for God,
the God of my life
when can I enter and see
the face of God?”

In this day and age, we are clouded by countless commitments and are easily distracted by work, studies, entertainment, etc. As a result, we are too tired or not focused in realising that we are forgetting the presence of God in our lives, least to say thirsting for an intimate and deep relationship with Him. Apart from that, to thirst to live a life that is life-giving to others.

Let us reflect on our own lives and ask ourselves, how much do we thirst for an intimate relationship with our loving Jesus who is just waiting for us to respond to His love? How much do we thirst for a life that is life-giving to others?

As we pray and praise the Lord in the psalms this morning, let us ask the Lord for the necessary graces to truly thirst for God who is the source of life so that in turn we can be life-giving to others. Let us thirst to labour for His Kingdom.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Benedict Chng on 19th Oct 2009.

Reflection on Ps 145 (Bro Samuel Lim)

[Dedicated to our beloved Carmelite Sisters]

We’re all crazy!
We’re crazy because the way we think doesn’t make sense; our flow of thoughts is illogical, irrational.

We’re like the sick man who wants to be cured of his illness, and he knows for a fact that only the doctor can help him. But instead of looking for the doctor, he went to look for the nurse. Well, perhaps it is because she’s pretty and more attractive – but the fact remains: she cannot help him. Remember, the man’s initial intention was to be cured from his sickness. So not only did he look for the wrong person, he focused on the wrong thing.

We, too, sometimes can catch ourselves looking at the wrong place for the wrong thing. We know for a fact that only God can help us, but we turn to people and things. Instead of turning to God, we put our trust in ourselves, in others, in worldly ideas, in human suggestions. It really doesn’t make sense at all; it’s illogical – because we know all these cannot help us.

Psalm 145 (146) reminds us to “Put no trust in princes; in mortal men in whom there is no help.” Instead, the Psalmist says that a happy man is the one “who is helped by Jacob’s God, whose hope is in the Lord his God.”

Deep down within us, we know all these already, but as mentioned earlier – we’re crazy. We know that our God can do everything, but we don’t seem to trust him for anything – so in the end, we’re left with nothing.


Today, as the Church celebrates the Memorial of St Teresa of Avila, let us remember and pray for the Carmelite nuns who have been praying for all of us unceasingly and unconditionally. They, too, are crazy. It doesn’t make sense at all that one would freely choose to leave the world and lock herself behind the walls of the monastery… for life! In the eyes of the world, that’s insanity!

But here’s the big difference. They may be crazy, but it is because they are in love. For them, their greatest joy is to give their whole lives to the One whom they were madly in love with.

So, my dear friends, either way, we are all crazy. But at least, let us be crazy for the right reason, for the right Person.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Alphonsus Dominic on 17th Oct 2009.

Reflection on Ps 62, 121 & St Teresa of the child Jesus (Bro Joseph Zhang)

Psalm 62 presents us a picture of the psalmist’s deep longing and desire for God. His desire for God keeps him awake. His desire for God drives him to use every moment to praise God. The psalmist’s desire for God is also the desire of St. Teresa of the Child Jesus. In her autobiography, she expressed her desire to be united with Jesus; she expressed her desire to become a saint one day to live always with her bridegroom Jesus Christ.

She had this great desire but how did she achieve it? Unlike St. Francis Xavier, she did not have the opportunity to go to a far-off land to offer her life to proclaim the gospel. However, her great desire for God and for evangelization made her seize every opportunity to grow in holiness and in mission. She took every little event in her cloistered life as a stepping stone for growing towards God. She was like the three young men in the furnace who could call upon everything to praise God. St. Teresa of Lisieux used her daily ordinary experiences as stones to build her holiness.

There is a Chinese idiom which goes like this, “drops of water can pierce through a stone”. The power and effect of a drop of water is insignificant but when the little power and effect of drops of water accumulate for a long time. Its power and effect will be seen.

Like St. Teresa of the Child Jesus, let us cultivate in us the holy desire for God and for holiness. And let us also be sensitive and use every small event in our daily life to grow in holiness.


Also, in Psalm 121, the psalmist expressed his joy on entering Jerusalem, the dwelling place of God. However, the psalmist was aware that the dwelling place of God was not always at peace. That is why he said, “for the peace of Jerusalem pray: ‘Peace be to your homes! May peace reign in your walls, in your palaces, peace’”.

Even when St. Teresa was still very young, she aspired to enter the Carmelite monastery where God also dwells. She applied for the entrance but was refused because she was too young. With special permission sought from the pope with her father’s help, she was accepted. She was very joyful for this. However, when she entered the monastery, she found that the place was not full of roses but there were also thorns coming from her fellow sisters because of human weakness. What did she do? She did not run away by coming out. Like the first antiphon expressed, she kept herself chaste. She was single-minded and single-hearted. She put her trust in God and built herself upon the rock of Christ. In this way, she found peace in her despite the sometimes turbulences in the community. Because her dependence on God, she not only found peace in her but also got strength to say, “For love of my brethren and friends I say: ‘Peace upon you!’” “For love of the house of the Lord I will ask for your good”.

Let us learn from St. Teresa to put our trust in God, depend on him and be single-minded despite the difficulties we sometimes experience in our community. And let us be like her, for love of the house of God, pray for the good of each other.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Samuel Lim on 15th Oct 2009.

Reflection on Ps 118 (Bro David Arulanatham)

Give thanks to the Lord for he is good,
For his love endures for ever
(Ps 118:1)

This verse is from the first psalm prayed by the universal church every second and fourth Sunday of the Psalter. Throughout the psalm the psalmist gives praise and thanks to the Lord for the wonders he has done to him and his people of the Old Testament.

For me at a personal level, I am able to relate with the goodness and the enduring love of the Lord but there was still a longing to express this love and goodness of the Lord from my very own, intimate and personal encounter of the Lord that I spent sometime praying just this one verse in the silence of my heart. It was then I was drawn to gaze at the crucifix.

In that crucifix I recalled the power of love, the Father's love for the world, for us; the Son's love for us and his obedient and faithful love for the Father. It was a painful and bloody scene but love was simply oozing out beyond space and time. The act of God, boundless, beyond space and time has, is and continues to invite us to enter and partake in this realm of love and live a life of faithfulness.

So as we enter into a relationship with him through the praying of this psalm let us enter the realm of the love of our God, take delight in his enduring love and radiate it to all we encounter today. Together let us, give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his love endures for ever. Emmanuel.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Joseph Zhang on 13th Oct 2009.

Reflection on Jer 14:17-21 (Bro Aloysius Tan)

“Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease, ……. And if I enter the city, behold, the diseases of famine! …….” (cf Jer 14:17-21)

As I reflect on the words of Jeremiah which we prayed during the canticle this morning, the horrific scenes of death, pain, suffering and destruction of typhoon, earthquake and tsunami victims play in my mind. The newspapers, news and online websites carry hard to read or watch photos and articles on the suffering of thousands of victims in the Philippines, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam and Samoa.

Surely these victims would share the same sentiment as Jeremiah in lamenting their misfortune. Surely these victims would question God as they mourn their loss.

Seeing all these natural disasters, I also tend to ask God a lot of “Why” type of questions. And, most of the time, there are no answers for these questions.


Jeremiah also seemed to not find the root cause of the suffering, but he acknowledged that it was the wickedness of the people that caused suffering. In today’s context, I wonder if this wickedness could refer to our wanton destruction of mother earth, the gift of God to humanity.


But, as I continue to pray these words of Jeremiah, I can feel his full trust in God as he continues to storm heaven to remind God of their covenant.

In the same way, as I see people suffering great pain and being tortured by unanswered questions, I also see the beautiful side of people reaching out to them, trying to save their loved ones and belongings, foreign aid pouring in, people leaving their jobs and families to head for the disaster sites to volunteer their services.

Last weekend, the catechists of Our Lady of the Star of the Sea together with catechism students took the initiative to raise funds during weekends masses for these victims of natural disasters, I was touched by the efforts of these young boys and girls from the parish who were galvanized to help all these thousands of unknown, faceless victims.

They might not be there with the victims, they might not know their actual situations but they reached out to them in love and solidarity, I believe this is the most powerful lesson for their catechesis to exemplify the meaning of “love your neighbours”.


Thus, if you were to ask me what the positive element from all these disasters was, my answer would be: It reminds me to love more ... to love the people around me, to love those near or far from me, and to love the environment. And of course, the most important thing: To love God, the God who never forgets His covenant with us.”

“We know our offences, O Lord; we have sinned against you.” (Antiphon for the canticle)

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro David Arulanatham on 11th Oct 2009.

Reflections on the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary (Bro Martin Arlando)

Today the Church commemorates the memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. This was established for the purpose of thanking God for the victory of Christians over the Turks at Lepanto. A victory attributed to the praying of the rosary. I believe that this victory would not have been achieved if not by their persistent faith in praying the rosary. How?

It is like this messenger who came to an old castle and knocked with the huge iron knocker. But there was no answer. He tried again, only a hollow echo was heard. But he knew there people at home because he had seen them in the window. So he continued to bang away the iron knocker for at least 20 to 30 times. Then there was a slow and soft answer. A lady with wrinkled face popped out and enquired whether the man wanted to come in. He was angry and replied, "Surely anyone who has knocked as I did would want to come in?" "Well you see?", said the old lady, "Please don't get angry. There are so many children around here who came up, bang the door a few times and then scamper off. So we have learned not to pay attention to them. But when I heard your knock, I really felt that you wanted to come in?"


The praying of 150 Hail Marys has just that. It is the same attitude of persistency and perseverance in praying the rosary that evokes within us to contemplate deeper the mysteries of God, the mysteries of our salvation. We can sense that Jesus and Mary are with us in joys and sorrows of our life. We pray today that we may grow in hope that God will bring us to share in the glory of Jesus and Mary forever.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Aloysius Tan on 09th Oct 2009.

Reflections on Ps 83 (Bro Moses Rayappan)

"One day within your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere,
The threshold of the house of God I prefer to the dwellings of the wicked."


People who go fishing often pay attention to their fishing rod, baits and finding a good location to fish. All this however has no guarantee that the person will get a big fish for 3 things could happen. He might go back empty handed, get a small catch in the form of a little fish or prawns or he might just get a big catch. Whatever the outcome is, one thing is certain and that is, he will most certainly talk about his experience to others and chances are he will want to go fishing again.

I guess this is the experience of the psalmist of Psalm 83. He has had a deep and profound encounter with God that he expresses his desire to be with God again. God is also touching us daily through events and people but does it draw us nearer to Him. It's not how many times we have a profound experience with God, but how we cherish and are grateful to the experience which will ultimately draw us closer to God.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Martin Arlando on 07th Oct 2009.

Listen - Reflections on Ps 95 (Bro Lionel Itheraj)

Listening to another person isn’t always an easy thing, maybe because we have made up our minds already and are quite closed to listening to anything or anyone else; or maybe prejudices gets in the way. We are not always prepared to accept the consequences of what we hear, so we may prefer not to give our attention.

Really, to listen to somebody requires sympathy and humility. It means trying to understand and to receive the message with open minds. Because real listening is an act of love, a sort of hospitality. It gives welcome to another human being. And in the same manner if we want to hear the Spirit we have to let go of everything else that hinders us and be truly open to the Word of God. As the psalmist in Psalm 94 calls upon us: “O’ that today you would listen to His voice, harden not your hearts.”

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Moses Rayappan on 05th Oct 2009.

Reflections on Ps 116 (Bro Andrew Stephen)

It was during the seminary mid-term break and I decided to stay in the parish of St. Philip in Segamat, Johor. There were four of us staying in the parish, two priests, a deacon and myself. It happened that one weekday, there was to be a penitential service for the ‘Orang Asli’ community, or better known as ‘Orang Asal’ in their Kampung. So the four of us prepared to make our way to their Kampung, which is situated somewhere in a Palm plantation.

As we were coming out of the parish it started to drizzling and five minutes into our journey it began to rain ‘cats and dogs’. We could not postpone the service and had no choice but to make our way there somehow. I was seated at the back seat of the ‘Kembara’ (a Malaysian car) the priest was driving. While we were chatting in the car, I was observing the car wipers moving up and down the screen of the car, clearing the rain water so that the driver may be able to see the road more clearly.

At that particular time it occurred to me. What would happen if these car wipers were to stop functioning suddenly? Can we continue the journey without these wipers working, especially right now, when it is raining ‘cats and dogs’? We will have to stop driving and wait for the rain to stop or else we will be endangering not only our lives but also the lives of others.

It is the same with our lives my dear brothers and sisters in Christ. The ‘car’ symbolizes ourselves and the ‘rain’ (also thunder and lightning) symbolizes the temptations, sins and all the bad influences of this world. The car ‘wipers’ symbolizes our spiritual lives and our relationship with Jesus. If we have not establish a strong relationship with Jesus, it will be just like a car whose wipers are not functioning. Somehow our journey will become harder, more difficult and more dangerous, just because Jesus is not in our lives.

Psalm 116, reminds us to “walk in the presence of the Lord”.With the Lord in our lives only then will we be able to resist all the temptations, sins and bad influences of this world. Even if we have to go through hardships, difficulties or sufferings, they will be meaningful because Jesus is strong in our lives.

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Stay tuned for the next post by Bro Lionel Itheraj on 03rd Oct 2009.