UCA News Podcast: Recent Episodes
Binu Alex, UCA News, Fr. Michael Kelly, Grithanai Napasrapiwong, John Laurenson, Father William Grimm
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The Lord is willing to support us in doing the impossible. What we need is enough faith to enable us to step out of the security of the boat we call everyday "sensible" life.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Listen to current week’s news from and about the Church in Asia in a capsule of around 10 to 15 minutes.
From forced religious conversions in India and media crackdowns in Pakistan to human trafficking protests in Indonesia and a Chinese dissident’s escape to Canada, human rights remain under intense pressure. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Fabian Antony, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News.
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What would happen if we were to take seriously God's willingness to do the impossible through disciples? Am I willing to take the risk today to find out?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Deadly protests in Pakistan, communal clashes in Nepal, student rights in India, and cybercrime laws in Myanmar highlight a week of intense unrest, religious tension, and policy changes across Asia. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Fabian Antony, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News.
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How can I become like some learned scribe who can speak with confident knowledge of the Reign of God?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Across Asia, tensions rise as India's youths supported by opposition leaders leads protests, rights abuses surface in Bangladesh and Cambodia, conflicts deepen in Myanmar and the Philippines, and Indonesia slashes its free meal budget. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Fabian Antony, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News.
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In our prayer, God makes the seemingly impossible happen. The seed of good flourishes, the world is leavened. All we need do is pray. But how?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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This week, China accelerates its severe crackdown on unregistered churches, while a deadly prison riot in Sri Lanka claims multiple lives. Plus, Pakistan delivers a rare mob conviction, and devastating monsoon floods ravage southeastern Bangladesh. All these stories and more. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Fabian Antony, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News.
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No matter where some of the seed may land and the odds against it, the growth of the Reign of God is unstoppable. That's the seed, but what of the sower?
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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India pushes divorce reform, Indonesia faces a rights backlash, a Pakistani blasphemy acquittal, South Korea’s ex-president remains jailed, Sri Lankans seek shrine access, plus border tensions in Cambodia and Taiwan. All these stories and more. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Fabian Antony, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News.
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The world around me may be in turmoil, but I will be in peace and calm, not because I am apart from the world, but because I am sharing God's deep love for that world.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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From South Korea’s World Youth Day laws and Philippine political protests, to deadly airstrikes in Myanmar and Pakistan, and rising ethnic tensions in China and India. All these stories and more. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Fabian Antony, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News.
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Part of the call of Christ is a call to repentance. It is not something I can reserve to Lent or an occasional confession. Because nearly my whole life is a nay-saying to God, my whole life must be repentance.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Legal, religious, and social shakeups sweep Asia via landmark church rulings, political arrests, and policy overhauls across Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka. All these stories and more. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
Filed by UCA News reporters, compiled by Fabian Antony, presented by Joe Mathews, Cover photo by AFP, background score by Andre Louis, edited and produced by Binu Alex for Union of Catholic Asian News.
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In a world full of terrors, we have been commissioned to share the Good News that we need not fear. God’s love protects us. God’s love embraces us eternally, overcoming fear, overcoming death.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Indonesian Catholic students joined nationwide protests against the government's flagship free meal program amid corruption allegations, food poisoning incidents and a constitutional challenge. In India, Human Rights Watch accused authorities of forcibly expelling ethnic Bengali residents to Bangladesh without due process, leaving families stranded along the border. Meanwhile, Chinese authorities detained two leaders of a prominent Protestant house church following a police raid, as the government continues its crackdown on unregistered religious groups. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
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My life as a Christian is not some sort of fortuitous accident. I have been chosen by God just as the Twelve were chosen. Somewhere in this world there is someone for whom I am God’s gift.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Catholic bishops in the Philippines appealed for donations after a powerful earthquake killed at least 41 people and left hundreds injured. In China, a Buddhist monk was detained after briefly commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary, while in Hong Kong, a construction worker was jailed under national security laws for distributing leaflets calling for an election boycott. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
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Fortunately, Christ is not so choosy. He is willing to be present in the bread and wine that his people share. He is willing to be present in that people and in what they do as individuals and a community to show the love of God to the world.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Asian bishops urged churches in the region to deepen dialogue and common witness at an ecumenical gathering in Thailand. Rights group, CIVICUS accused Hong Kong authorities of using security laws to suppress activism and free expression, and Thailand signaled it would reject colonial-era maps used by Cambodia amid worsening border tensions between the two countries. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
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Christians called to show God's love to the world should show a love that is so full as to overflow us, bringing unity to a world of many persons.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Indonesian Catholics donated sacrificial animals to Muslims celebrating Eid al-Adha as a gesture of interfaith solidarity, families of Sri Lanka’s disappeared marched in Colombo demanding truth and justice for civil war victims, and Cambodia sentenced six Chinese nationals to life imprisonment over the murder of a South Korean student linked to online scam networks. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
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Our first concern must always be with those who have not yet come to know Christ. Whatever we do as Christians, it must be shaped by our vocation to tell the whole world the Good News that Christ is risen.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Cambodia accused Thailand of violating its sovereignty by opening a disputed Khmer temple to tourists and religious ceremonies, Indonesia’s military denied involvement in a bombing at a Catholic church in Papua, and Asian Church leaders urged stronger pastoral support for Christian families at a Bangkok gathering this week. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
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The Lord assures us that in his glory he is no longer limited by time and place and is with us today and always. That assurance gives us the confidence we need to obey his great command.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Philippine bishops urged senators not to delay Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial, Papuan students marched for justice after civilian killings, and Indian Church leaders condemned the murder of indigenous Christian leaders in conflict-hit Manipur this week. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
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Because the Spirit of the Risen Christ is in us we can face our own crosses with confidence that God is still at work, that God's will is done even when it is thwarted, as it so often is.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Protests erupted in Myanmar over plans to revive a controversial Chinese-backed dam project, while a Catholic actor-turned-politician reshaped South Indian politics and Bangladesh swore in its first Christian tribal woman lawmaker. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
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Jesus tells us today that the place where we live with God is not only this world we live in now. He has prepared another place for us, one with "many dwelling places," enough dwelling places for each of us to live with him in his Father's house.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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East Asian police unleashed a crackdown on child pornography production and use, while Sri Lanka witnessed scenes of multi-faith harmony as Buddhist monks undertook a week-long peace walk. Tune in for the latest developments from Asia.
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Often we sheep are to blame for being led astray by bad shepherds. The sheep of whom Jesus speaks in the Gospel can tell the difference between their own good shepherd and a bad one. We are not always so discerning.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Indonesia passes a historic domestic workers protection bill, while Myanmar’s leadership considers potential leniency for jailed Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. But, amidst a broadly positive week for global women’s and workers’ rights, Pakistani activists are questioning courts for blatantly disregarding a minority woman’s appeal for justice. Tune in for the latest developments from across Asia.
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We share the Eucharist, and in that sacrament we know that the Lord is with us on all our roads, at all our tables. Then, we go to share that Good News with all. A Christian's encounter with Jesus is always meant for the sake of others.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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As transnational repression sees a global surge, an alarming case of sexual harassment has sparked outrage across Indonesia. Read our weekly digest of these crucial events, alongside the newest updates on Indian Catholics reacting to Trump’s insulting comments about Pope Leo XIV.
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This is Easter time. We proclaim that Christ is risen. We say that God’s love has overcome the power of sin and death. We say that the power of evil is broken. Yet, when we check the news we see that evil seems to have survived the breaking of its power.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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This week there is a a wave of significant developments across Asia, beginning with a deadly military crackdown in Indonesia's restive Papua province and a shocking instance of animal abuse during an Easter ritual in the Philippines. From widespread human rights protests to a death threat aimed at forcing the marriage of a Christian girl in Pakistan.
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Easter is the anniversary celebration of your new birth in Christ through Baptism. It is the day on which eternal life became available to you through his Resurrection. It is the day you renew your commitment to living that new life for God and the world.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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From Easter holiday appeals in South Asia to the deportation of a major human trafficking ringleader in Cambodia, catch up on the region's top stories. Tune in to our weekly wrap-up for these events, plus the latest on Indonesia's fake news trials.
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Today is also a day of commitment to be a sign of God's love. God felt it worthwhile for Jesus to die in order that I might know love. My life is worth giving in the day-to-day as well as, if necessary, in death so that others may know that love.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Our sharing Eucharist is a service -- a service to the world. We can wash its feet, and we can bring it with us as we share union with Christ. It's all one and the same.
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We give thanks to Christ for uniting with us, embracing the fear, pain and death that are an ineradicable part of our lives. At the worst times of my life, Christ crucified is there with me.
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A new infantry battalion base in Christian-majority Papua has unleashed fears in the region, which has seen conflict and violence for decades. The Philippines has been added to a global watchlist of countries with severe restrictions on civic freedoms. We also bring you the latest on the Thai-Cambodia border tensions in this complete weekly news wrap-up from across Asia.
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The raising of Lazarus is a reminder that to be a Christian is not just to live in a certain way. Christians do have customs and commands that we obey and disobey, the chief among them being to love God and all those whom God loves.
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As retaliatory missiles light up the skies over the Middle East, reverberations of conflict and crackdowns are making headlines across the continent. From a controversial anti-conversion bill in India to a sweeping new scam law in Cambodia, we bring you the latest on the Iran crisis and your complete weekly news wrap-up from across Asia.
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The call to Baptism is an invitation to be cured of the blindness that afflicts the world. But, why us? Why should I be chosen to know the Lord when billions of better people than I will never have that chance?
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Faced with soaring prices and disruptions to their oil and gas supplies, Asian countries have started bringing in restrictions to protect their domestic markets. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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To accept that love and to be baptized is to accept as well the vocation that Christ has from the Father, a vocation he chooses to share with me. That is, the vocation to be an evangelizer, a missioner.
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The regional bishops’ group has called for restoration of diplomacy, dialogue, and emphasized interreligious solidarity in the Middle East region. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Pope Leo XIV highlights the ethical challenges of AI-generated art, warning that automated creativity risks devaluing human experience and replacing authentic authorship with soulless algorithms that simulate rather than create. Jesuit priest Antonio Spadaro observes in his regular column WayPoints. Read the story here:
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About the Speaker: Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro is the undersecretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See. He is a member of the board of directors of Georgetown University and a full member of the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon.
Spadaro has served as editor-in-chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, the oldest and most respected Catholic journal published in Italian from Rome, now also available in seven other languages, including English.
In the summer of 2013, Pope Francis, for the first time, gave three extended interviews to Spadaro, in which the late pontiff discussed his background, faith, and vision for the Catholic Church. The complete collection of these interviews was compiled and published as a book: My Door Is Always Open.
Spadaro is the author of numerous books on contemporary culture, art, and literature. He has co-authored a book, Conversations on Faith, with legendary film director Martin Scorsese.
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The Transfiguration reminds me of the mystery that Jesus, the fully human one, is also God. If I would know what it is to be truly human, I must look to Jesus. If I would know God, I must look to Jesus.
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Families of victims have expressed renewed hope for justice after a top intelligence official was arrested for alleged failure in stopping the attacks. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Lent is, among other things, an opportunity to prepare to make that renunciation at Easter by examining myself to find out where in my life temptation finds it easy to take root.
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Christian leaders in Bangladesh have welcomed the victory of a liberal party in the general election, urging the new government to prioritize constitutional values and minority rights. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Welcome to Lent, a time to reflect on our ashiness and our salvation. From now till the start of the Sacred Triduum we will remember that we are Cinderella sitting in sin.
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Jesus taught the adults and blessed the children, but the Church has gotten it backwards. That was not the case in the early days of the Church. The section of Matthew's Gospel that we call "The Sermon on the Mount" was intended by Matthew as a sort of catechism for adults.
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Leaders of Nahdlatul Ulama have lauded the support given by Christian churches during the centenary celebrations. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The proverb says that "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch." That may be true of a crate of apples, but in today's Gospel, Jesus tells us that it does not apply to people. Good is contagious.
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Sri Lanka’s Anglican Church has called for the withdrawal of the proposed law granting sweeping powers to authorities that could undermine fundamental constitutional rights of citizens. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Poverty of spirit frees me to accept God's greatest gift, the Kingdom, because I am not holding on to any illusions that my talents, my possessions, my time, or my life are my own.
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Ahead of a crucial national election in Thailand, Catholic bishops have urged people to remain vigilant against fraud and corruption. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The Church that follows Jesus must be as willing to subordinate everything else to the proclamation of God's love. If that means downplaying or even abandoning certain ways of doing things, so be it. If it means not looking for institutional results, no problem.
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Church leaders in Indonesia’s Christian-majority Papua have criticized the ‘excessive military’ presence in the region, terming it a flawed state policy to counter insurgency. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Spirituality is not so much a matter of prayer as of awareness, about sensitivity in ordinary time to the ordinary events and people around me. Christ is there among them as he was among the events and people of Israel two thousand years ago.
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Cambodian girls as young as 14 are being trafficked to China for forced marriages, a trade fueled by its decades-long one-child policy. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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In today's reading from the Acts of the Apostles, Peter tells the crowd what they can expect of fish people, followers of Christ who "went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil." We should do likewise.
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Christian clergy joined civil rights activists in a public demonstration in Sri Lanka to denounce the US kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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On Epiphany, we thank God for the gift of Jesus Christ, a gift given to all of us throughout the world, throughout time. Like the wise astrologers, we respond by bringing our gifts to the Lord: our ways of praying, our ways of singing, our ways of thinking, our ways of acting.
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Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your death. By word and deed, assure the world of my love."
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The word "holy" comes from the word "healthy." Holiness is a kind of health, and health may be the means for us to understand holiness and, therefore, what we celebrate on this feast of the Holy Family.
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Gospel Reflection by Father Bill Grimm
Today we remember and celebrate the fact that we can know God's glory and power not as some sort of information, but as a person. So, on Christmas Day we move from the story to the program, from what happened long ago to our vocation today.
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We live in a bad time, maybe so bad that we have no reason to celebrate Christmas. But there is a close relationship between bad times and the coming of Christ among us and for us. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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The one whose birth we are about to celebrate has many titles, but one name, the name he shared with so many other people in his land. It is wondrous because it is so common. The mystery that we celebrate in his birth is that the God of the universe is met in someone like us, someone with a simple name, an ordinary Tom, Dick or Yeshua.
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The Philippines’ communist party, waging a long-standing war against the government, has declared a ceasefire to let citizens peacefully celebrate Christmas and New Year. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Now as we practice the carols of "peace on earth, good will to all" it is time to renew our commitment to live as Christ who came not to condemn sinners, but to embrace and save them.
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Pope Leo XIV urged an end to hostilities as Thailand and Cambodia engaged in a fresh, undeclared war over a longstanding border dispute. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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A Vatican commission has said that there is insufficient historical evidence to support the ordination of women to the deaconate. This disappoints those who want to see women join the clergy. However, it should remind us that the really important diaconate in the Church is already being provided by women and men who are not ordained to service. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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"Advent" means "coming" and coming is something that happens from the future. At this time of year I remind myself that my whole life is lived in expectation of something that is coming, and that does not merely mean December 25.
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Churches and temples in Sri Lanka are providing emergency relief to thousands left stranded by Cyclone Ditwah. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Advent is about the other kind of wait, the doing wait, the moving wait, the heading toward a goal wait. Perhaps it is more like riding on a train than like sitting in a theater before the show starts.
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South Korea’s largest Buddhist order has called for the immediate withdrawal of a proposed special law that would offer government support for the Church-organized World Youth Day in 2027. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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If I am a servant of the cross-king, of a king who does not sit, then I too must not be a sitter. I must show my loyalty to my king by moving among others as he did, as he does, not to receive homage or reward, but to serve.
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We start with an18-year-old Cambodian worker was sexually assaulted while attempting to cross the closed border and return home. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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In a sea of negotiators, lobbyists, and policy experts at the UN Climate Change Conference, Lisa Sullivan stands out for saying it as it is: “This is no longer an environmental problem. It’s a human problem.”Sullivan, a lay missioner with the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns (OGC) engaged in global advocacy and education, is attending COP30 in Belem, Brazil.Her journey with the Maryknoll family spans over 40 years, including more than two decades in the parched fields of Venezuela and El Salvador.Now based in Washington, D.C., her work is spread across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, addressing the needs of communities that bear the brunt of climate change despite contributing little to its causes. Umar Manzoor Shah in conversation.
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Faith is not certainty, it is a choice. I choose, because of the evidence I have experienced of God's loving help in ages past, to believe that love will not desert me. If I am right, I will know. If I am wrong, I will not know. And in that case, neither being wrong nor having lived at all will matter.
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Christians and civil society groups condemn latest attack as move to destabilize peace and harmony in region amid blasts in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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This feast of one church building in Rome reminds us that we can and should appreciate and celebrate all the buildings in which we gather as a community. Those buildings, whether they be lowly huts or grand basilicas, are our homes.
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North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh told to pay compensation to Muslim man detained for alleged forced conversion of a Hindu woman. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The feast might be called All Sinners Day, for it is a day to recall that though we are called to sanctity and eternal life, we are not the saints we might be, the saints we hope to become.
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Indonesian authorities criticized for including former military dictator Suharto in a list of nominees for recognition as national heroes. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Love it or fear it, a new Church is being born. It will take several lifetimes, but eventually the Church throughout the world will be different because of what is happening at the back of the temple.
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An upcoming Bollywood movie, claiming the iconic Taj Mahal is a Hindu temple, has caused fresh controversy in the Hindu-majority nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Those in power who fear what people — especially those who have been deprived — have to say deprive themselves of the opportunity to change their lives for the better — in other words, of the chance to repent.
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Church leaders and rights activists have condemned a surge in violence against media workers in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We receive many gifts from God, but it is not the gifts nor even the recipient, but the Giver, upon whom we should focus.
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Singapore carried out its second execution in two weeks for drug offence, amid allegations by family of a Malaysian man that “critical evidence” was ignored. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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People and situations will always appear that will need a response from this servant of God. The more I respond, the more opportunities for service will open up to me.
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Violence broke out after the alleged rape of a tribal girl in the restive hilly region in southeast Bangladesh. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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This parable is a wake-up call to see that each and every man and woman is a child of God, and therefore my brother, my sister. Awareness can be the first step in conversion.
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A female journalist and five activists accused of aiding and abetting terrorism in the the Philippines are set free after spending seven years in jail. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Investing is a way to wealth in much of the world today. Ideally, an investment grows, leading to yet further investment. Can I do that with my possessions, putting at least some of them forward for the needy?
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A top Catholic official in Nepal has welcomed the interim government led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The triumph of the cross is that, though suffering is always with us and may make us think we are far from God, when we suffer, we share in the life of God. Defeat, then, is victory. The holy Cross triumphs!
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Pope Leo XIV has lauded people of different religions in Bangladesh for exhibiting unity amid natural disasters, tragedies. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Today, Jesus is telling us to be ready for fire so that when it comes, we will not be surprised, but resolute, knowing that the crisis today is one we took into account from the start.
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Chinese authorities are training children and youth to vilify religious groups deemed illegal in the communist-ruled nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We tend to think that reflection upon the Word of God, upon the Work of God, is something solemn, serious, and private. But, sometimes, we should be ready to hear the Word in the hustle and bustle of our lives, in the symposium of eating, drinking and gabbing that is our daily life.
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Timor-Leste’s national parliament’s approval to purchase 65 new cars for parliamentarians has been slammed by critics. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Salvation is the state of being fully what God intends one to be. What God intends is loving communion with each of us and for us to live in communion with one another. So, whatever I do that helps my brothers and sisters know God's love and share it is an aid to their salvation.
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Church officials in southern India denounce pro-Hindu politician’s attempt to portray the man’s complaint as a bid to discredit the temple and Hindus. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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God seems to give what we do not want, and then expects us to call 'Good News.' Do you know the answer to the question: How do you train a mule? First, you take a large plank, and hit the animal over the head to get its attention.
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A leading Asia-based rights group has condemned the ongoing violence in the Philippines against rights defenders after two activists were gunned down. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Today's Gospel reminds us that regardless of whatever else we may do in the interim, we are waiting. The servants may have a dance party while awaiting the master's return, but they still keep an eye out for that return. So, where is he?
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International aid agencies have sought extra funds to help displaced people, especially children, forced from their homes by the Thai-Cambodian conflict. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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August 6 is the feast of the Transfiguration and this year it is also the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which was followed three days later by the bombing of Nagasaki. Those bombings ended World War 2 but began decades of terror as the fear of atomic power and the lust after it force us to confront humanity’s fascination with violence.Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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The world is transfixed and bewildered by the government of the United States led by Donald Trump. In the U.S. there is increasing shock and anger even among those who voted for Trump at what is happening to their country. America’s bishops, many of whom supported him, are now trying to respond to policies and actions that violate human dignity and hurt various Church programs. It is, however, too late for them to effectively play a prophetic role in opposing the abuse of power. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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The love of God guarantees life. Might it be that I am greedy because deep down I am not yet ready to rely upon the love of God? Do I really believe that this world is the whole story?
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India’s Opposition leaders strongly condemned the jailing of two Catholic nuns on what they called false charges of human trafficking and religious conversion. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Jesus is telling us disciples that we need not worry that God will not understand our prayers. We do not have to use proper formulas, the right words. God loves us so much that our inadequate prayers suffice.
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In a dramatic escalation of a long-running border dispute, Thailand and Cambodia launched attacks using air strikes, rockets, and artillery. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Today, as the attitudes toward women that subverted the practice of Jesus are changing in many places, we in the Church are being challenged to once again accept the fact that Jesus still has something to teach us that seems subversive of the so-called "normal" ordering of society and the Church.
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Indonesian Muslims joined Catholics to celebrate a religious-cultural festival dedicated to Mother Mary in the country’s Christian-majority Island. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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As followers of Jesus, we are commissioned by him to serve any need we see, no matter what reasons we think there may be for passing by.
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A Thai court has issued a warrant for the arrest of a Cambodian tycoon, senator and confidant of former Prime Minister Hun Sen. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We must teach the world's wolves a new way of living. We must teach respect for the weak and service to them. We must teach the wolves that lambs are not for devouring, but for showing us something about God.
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A mentally ill man in Pakistan on death row has been freed by the country’s apex court. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We do not know, we never know, what the future will bring. What we do know is that God's love is real and that as Christians we are sent into the world to proclaim that good news.
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Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state have called for action against right-wing Hindu activists who assaulted and paraded four socially marginalized Dalit Christians naked through a village. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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God's love and blessings are not limited by the belief of the men and women through whom God chooses to work. A pagan priest-king not only has a place in the building of the Reign of God, but God uses him to bless believers.
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Thailand has been accused of engaging in activities detrimental to peace in the disputed border region with Cambodia. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Our glory as Christians is that God has chosen us to carry on the mission of the Son to be the love of God incarnate in creation. Our shame is that we so often fail as a Church and as individual Christians to live that mission.
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The Muslim men were acquitted of all charges of arson attacks on churches and minority-Christian homes in Jaranwala. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Today's feast is a celebration of our mission as Church to proclaim to the whole world that Christ is risen. Since it is also a day on which we recall Christ's gift of forgiveness, we must reflect upon the sins that might hinder that proclamation.
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Trade unions in the Philippines organized a rally urging lawmakers to turn a newly proposed wage hike into law. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We, the new people of God, have been prepared for our vocation. We are the apostles. Christ has stepped aside so that we might step forward. The Acts of the Apostles begins with the Ascension of Jesus; they continue with us.
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Authorities urged to take necessary measures to end the desecration of Christian graves in the Muslim-majority country. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The gift of peace would be glorious in itself, but as Christians we have a special vocation. We are called not merely to find peace, but to be the means of peace for others.
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Pakistani Christians have denounced the government for excluding Christian representatives from its official delegation to Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration ceremony. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Bringing the world to Christ is our vocation. Loving one another is the way to live that vocation.
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The former president was elected mayor of Davao by a landslide, despite his detention by the International Criminal Court. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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It is still Easter time. It is still the season of resurrection. It is still the season to recall that my life is not a matter of the merely day-to-day, but of eternity.
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As the College of Cardinals on May 7 evening elected the Chicago-born Augustinian Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost to succeed Pope Francis, the so-called official Church in China has elected two bishops, says a report. Listen to this and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We have a new pope, and as always when that happens people wonder if he will follow or change the direction set by his predecessor. By his choice of name and the words of his first address to the world, Pope Leo has indicated that he will continue in the footsteps of Pope Francis, showing special care for the poor, the outcast, the struggling. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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Peter was chosen to lead the disciples, to lead the Church, not because he was bright or well-spoken or a deep thinker. He was appointed to look after the Lord's flock because he loved the Lord.
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More than 50,000 Catholics were present for a requiem Mass for Pope Francis, the first pontiff to visit Timor-Leste since it declared independence in 1989. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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God entrusts us with a great gift. Overcoming evil depends upon our willingness to forgive. It is up to us. We can forgive, or we can refuse to forgive. God will accept our decision.
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Catholic bishops have condemned the attack on tourists by militants in India’s Kashmir that killed 26 people and injured 17 others. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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On this Sunday, this Easter Sunday, we remember what every Sunday is because of what happened one Sunday long ago when the mission of the Church was born in the proclamation, "The Lord is risen!"
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Malaysian police are probing an incident involving some university students carrying a cross while dressed in robes similar to those worn by the Ku Klux Klan. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We are frequently asked, reminded, or even commanded to pray for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life. But what if those prayers have already been answered in the negative? Perhaps it is time to quit wasting our breath on redundant prayers in spite of God’s clear answer and instead pray, think, and experiment to see what ministry might look like in the future. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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Today is also a day of commitment to be a sign of God's love. God felt it worthwhile for Jesus to die in order that I might know love. My life is worth giving in the day-to-day as well as, if necessary, in death so that others may know that love.
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Our sharing Eucharist is a service -- a service to the world. We can wash its feet, and we can bring it with us as we share union with Christ. It's all one and the same.
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We give thanks to Christ for uniting with us, embracing the fear, pain and death that are an ineradicable part of our lives. At the worst times of my life, Christ crucified is there with me.
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Catholic bishops have allied with Thai opposition parties to urge the government to abandon a bill that aims to legalize gambling. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Sin is serious, but the most important thing in the world is the love of God that forgives our sins. The scribes and Pharisees had forgotten that.
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Muslim leaders in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara have apologized for displaying the flag of a banned Islamic group during a parade celebrating Eid festival. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Lent is a time for me to come to my senses and return to my Father. I do not need fancy words. I do not need to buy forgiveness with good deeds or intentions. All I need is to say, "Father, I have flunked."
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The 22-year-old survived a murderous attack at his workplace over an alleged desecration of Islamic texts. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We are celebrating Lent, the season of repentance. We reflect upon our sinfulness and do what we can with God's help to change our lives. Rather than punishing us, God gives us chance after chance to stop causing divine and human suffering.
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A court handed down jail terms on eight indigenous people in Indonesia’s Christian-majority East Nusa Tenggara province amid a land dispute with a company owned by a Catholic diocese. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia
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Lent is a chance to live our true citizenship. In prayer, fasting and sacrifice, we weaken our ties to the world. We withdraw from our citizenship in this world in order to focus upon our true home, our true citizenship.
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Christians have mourned a Protestant bishop’s son, who was killed by men who also gang raped female tourists in southern India. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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In Lent we reflect upon sin in our lives. We might not notice, however, that besides being personal actions or failures, sin is also a pervasive reality from which we cannot escape even when we want to. Only Christ can free us from that reality and cleanse us for life with God.. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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It is Lent. It is good to begin the season by reflecting upon the temptations that Jesus faced and that we face that hinder us in living the Baptism commitment we renew at Easter.
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Education officials in Catholic-majority nation say student abuse will not be tolerated after two recent scandals. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Welcome to Lent, a time to reflect on our ashiness and our salvation. From now till the start of the Sacred Triduum we will remember that we are Cinderella sitting in sin.
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The bishops of the United States and even the pope have spoken against policies of the Trump administration that target people who have entered the country without authorization. Catholics in the administration have taken issue with those protests, a sign that the American bishops have failed to instill certain Gospel values in their flock. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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Repentance, prayer, reflection and study will remove the obstacles that keep one from being a wise guide and a clear-visioned healer for the wandering children of God looking for a vision of the love of God made real in their lives.
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In a historical move, the nation’s top court has agreed to hear an appeal by socially poor Dalit Catholics in southern India. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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It is not totally impossible to do love toward an enemy. One just has to do for others what one does for oneself. That still is not easy. But, knowing we can do it for our worst enemy is an encouragement that we can do it for others.
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Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, president of Caritas Internationalis, stresses situation of millions of people affected by sudden closure of USAID. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The Gospel presents us with a decision and a consequence. We must decide who Jesus is, and upon what authority he says some very strange things.
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The world is starving to hear of God's love, to see God's love. The world is swimming around in confusion, waiting to be brought into God's net. That is what counts.
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The House of Representatives backed impeachment of the vice president, paving the way for a tumultuous Senate trial that could see her removed from office. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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For some people their god may take the form of money, or a nation, or an economic system, or social achievement, or race, or religion or family. For some people who consider themselves "good Catholics," it may be a particular form of piety or Church structure. In all these cases, devotees hope to gain special advantages by their devotion.
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A global abuse tracker has released a new list of 84 individuals accused of sex abuse, alleging many remain in active ministry in the Catholic-majority country. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Parrhesia, speaking truth to power, is an important part of the prophetic ministry of the Church. It is seldom popular among those at whom it is directed, as can be seen when an Episcopal bishop in the United States confronted the president of that country in a sermon that has provoked both praise and condemnation. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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The Word of God is, or should be, a reminder of God's presence among us. That is the reason we treat a Bible or Lectionary with special respect.
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Hun Manet has refuted allegations that his government was involved in the assassination of Khmer-French politician Lim Kimya. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Jesus the Lamb presents us with the wine of peace because he overcomes the sin of the world in his death and resurrection.
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Close to 2 million people from an influential Christian group gathered in Manila to demand a halt to congressional efforts to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The difference between us Christians and the rest of the world is the knowledge that there is an answer for our anticipating hearts, and the answer is the Son of God present among us.
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Lawmakers, NGOs, activists, and citizens express anger toward the Cambodian government after assassination of an opposition politician in Thailand. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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If we want to see God, we need not spend years doing spiritual calisthenics or wait until we die. God has come among us as one of us. If you wish to see God, look at Jesus, the manifestation of God among us.
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Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your death. By word and deed, assure the world of my love."
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As the boy Jesus "increased in wisdom and in years and in divine and human favor, " so, too, the Church grows in wisdom, years and favor.
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Today we remember and celebrate the fact that we can know God's glory and power not as some sort of information, but as a person. So, on Christmas Day we move from the story to the program, from what happened long ago to our vocation today.
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Christmas is, of course, much more than a child's feast. But, it is, indeed, a time for us to reflect upon children and the gifts we give them, the legacy we leave them.
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Residents of a village in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh have restrained tribal Christians from celebrating Christmas and demanded they revert to Hinduism or their indigenous faith. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Mature faith can have much in common with mature atheism, since believers and non-believers face the same questions in the same world and both recognize that whether they believe in God or not is a choice based upon their understanding of that experience. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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What we really want has already been given us. We do not have to wait until Christmas Day to receive it. We do not have to wait until we start following all the good advice we have received.
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Christians in conflict-torn Papua in Indonesia marked International Human Rights Day with Way of the Cross for an end to state violence. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Advent is the season in which the Church recommits itself to living a great adventure. We are a band of companions walking through a world of marvels and dangers to a promised goal, eternal life with God.
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Arbitrary detention of protesters was the most prevalent violation of civic freedoms across countries in the Asia-Pacific region, a global rights group said in its report. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Can I believe that when troubles come the Lord comes as well? How can I deepen my faith in that coming? The Lord's answer is "Pray constantly."
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The global rights group has criticized Myanmar’s military junta for use of anti-personnel mines that have killed and maimed thousands in the conflict-stricken nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia
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November, at least in the northern hemisphere, is the month when winter darkness prevails, and nature seems to enter its night. But while night is an end, it is also a prelude to new beginnings. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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When we say Christ is King, we say we belong to him and to no others. We cannot, then, be used or abused, since that is an attack upon his subjects and his sovereignty.
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Junior has stated that a Filipino woman sentenced to death in Indonesia on drug charges will be handed over to Manila. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The Good News is not that God will make everything work out as we wish but that he is with us in a special way when it seems our world is ending.
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A cardinal in Singapore has called for religious and racial unity after a priest was stabbed in the face during Mass sending shockwaves across the nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Every religion has weird practices and ideas attached to it that, while not essential to the religion, and maybe even inimical to it, can influence the way it is seen. They can alienate or drive away people who try to live and believe sensibly, intelligently, and without having to apologize for the bizarre. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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The woman knew better. She knew that what she had was nothing compared to what God offers. God offers me eternity. Can I, in gratitude, find ways to offer up my treasure of time?
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The claim by a Hindu leader that churches are involved in drug trade in India’s northeast region has sparked widespread anger among Christians. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Being a Christian is not about behaving toward others in a certain way. It is about having a special kind of relationship with God. All else follows from that.
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A new bishop ordained in China shortly after the renewal of the Sino-Vatican agreement on appointment of bishops in the communist nation for another four years. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Bashō made several journeys through the country writing haibun, a combination of haiku poetry and prose observations.Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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The Gospels do not hesitate to put us followers of Jesus in a bad light. We, represented by the disciples, can be so dense that we miss something that evil demons know and that even a blind man can see. That is, that Jesus is the presence of the Reign of God among us.
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A bishop’s request to the pope asking not to be made a cardinal has surprised Catholics in Muslim-majority Indonesia. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Nihon Hidankyo, Japan’s nationwide organization of atomic bomb survivors, was awarded the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The award announcement said one reason the organization received the award was that the personal testimony of its members has advanced “stigmatizing the use of nuclear weapons.” Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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Sometimes, being a Christian means going against doing what comes naturally. The whole world does what comes naturally, and that is why it needs salvation.
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Indian Church leaders welcome maiden government-sponsored peace talks between tribal Christians and Hindu Meitei community in conflict-torn Manipur state. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Jesus is challenging us to live in the real world, to give up all that might allow us to avoid the truth that there is no easy way to share in everlasting life. And everlasting life is what we all really want; all our other searches are symptoms of that desire.
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Pope Francis announced 21 new cardinals including five Asians, which observers say once again shows his thrust for going to the peripheries of the Church. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Jesus defended two groups in his society that had no defense. He forbade discarding wives or denying children their right to a place among his followers. There is no toleration in the Reign of God for the bias that infected his society and infects our own.
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Religious hardliners target Sufi shrines, minorities and culturally important places in Muslim-majority Bangladesh following the political changeover. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We companions of Jesus have an essential vocation. All men and women are called to live in the dignity of children of God.
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Sri Lanka’s first leftist president sparks hope for change in the crisis-laden island nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We can all understand the argument the disciples had. We spend much of our lives seeking status, protecting our status, or mourning the loss of status.
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Christian leaders say Indian government’s new “road map” for peace in strife-torn Manipur state is too late and too difficult to achieve as warring parties continue “to stick to their guns.” Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Christ's call for us to take up the cross is an invitation to learn that though suffering is always with us and may make us think God is far from us, it is actually a share in the life of God who also takes up the cross.
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Pope Francis wrapped up the longest apostolic journey of his pontificate covering four nations in Asia and Oceania, infusing joy and hope among millions in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The way to make God's love present in this creation is to groan with Christ. Anyone who has tried to share God's love with the world comes to know that.
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Pope Francis arrived at the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Tuesday, kicking off the longest apostolic journey of his pontificate covering four nations in Asia and Oceania. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Do my devotions, practices and thoughts deepen my understanding of real Christianity, or am I in danger of wandering from the truth? Have the customs I learned from my family, from my community and from the teachers of my faith begun to warp or replace that faith?
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Devastating floods left dozens of dead and millions affected in Bangladesh and India in recent days. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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If Jesus is indeed who he and the Church say he is, then there really is no place else to go. If he is real, then any alternative is unreal. We have no choice. If we accept the truth of Jesus' divinity, we must accept the reality of the Eucharist we share.
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Pakistani Christians marked the first anniversary of the anti-Christian violence in Jaranwala with a protest rally, calling for justice and an end to abuses. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Would someone watching us at the Eucharist be so stirred or disturbed by our conviction that the sacrament is the real presence of Christ for us that he or she might think I was involved in some form of cannibalism?
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Global rights group Human Rights Watch slammed the military junta and rebel forces for atrocities against civilians in the conflict-scarred nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The Eucharist we share is food like that the angel gave Elijah. It is food that enables us to persevere in our long journey to God. It is the strength of God.
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Impoverished Timor-Leste faces criticism for allocating US$12 million for Pope Francis’ visit in September including US$1 million for an altar for a papal Mass. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The Lord sets a banquet before me, but all too often, I look over, under and around the table for the sort of nourishment I think I need instead of feasting on what I am offered, the only real nourishment I need.
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Indians mourn as a series of landslides destroyed hundreds of homes and killed at least 200 people in India’s southern Kerala state. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The Eucharist is the miracle in which Christ takes "the work of human hands" and presents it to the Father as himself. Our own little bit, our own willingness to search out what we can do, becomes part of that. God is looking for the Andrew in each of us.
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Bangladesh dismisses controversial civil service quota system after deadly violence, prompting the government to enforce nationwide curfew, deploy military and internet blackout. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The Lord tells the apostles and us to pack up the picnic basket, get in the boat and get away from it all. Our bodies, minds and souls all need an occasional break. Sometimes, to find prayer and God's love, all I need do is not do.
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At least nine students were killed, and hundreds injured in escalating violence in Bangladesh amid protests for reforms in the government job recruitment policy. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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It is hard to believe that God is relying upon me, when I thought I was supposed to rely upon God. But, that's the case. God needs me, needs us, to bring the Good News to a world waiting unawares for it. So, Jesus tells us to wear our shoes, ready to go forth and ready to be ready.
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The Vatican has approved sainthood process for first Korean Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, known for his love for the poor, efforts for lay participation in the Church, and support for democracy. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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God does not force us to accept love. In today's Gospel, we hear that Jesus could not perform miracles because people would not believe in him. They were not willing to accept the love God offered them because it came in a form they did not expect.
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Monsoon flooding hit parts of South and Southeast Asian nations affecting millions of people. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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In many cases, Christian formation consists of providing answers to questions that no one has asked. So instead of becoming an encounter with Christ it becomes a source of irrelevant information. But the world is looking for something else; it is looking for answers to the questions that disturb and motivate people today. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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The world as God wills it and the world as we experience it are both real. To accept only one while ignoring the other is not realistic.
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The deadly civil war in Myanmar continues to worsen as two monks were shot and killed allegedly by the military in three days. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The night prayer of the Church recognizes the connection between sleep and death. Our night prayers are meant to be a preparation both for dropping off to sleep and for death, when we will have to let go of everything.
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The pro-Hindu party ruled Rajasthan state to become the 12th Indian state to enact a draconian law to criminalize religious conversions. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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'Your mustard seed is what the Reign of God is about. Your little faith, your little effort is enough. Give your little bit and stand by amazed as you see what God will do with it. Your mustard seed will flourish.'
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Myanmar’s embattled military junta is resorting to indiscriminate bombings and brutal atrocities to hold back advancing rebel forces. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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If we do not admit our wretchedness, we will not open ourselves to allowing God to embrace us, forgive us, and welcome us into what St. Paul calls "a dwelling provided for us by God, a dwelling in the heavens, not made by hands, but to last forever."
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India’s Hindu-theocratic Bharatiya Janta Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi secured a third-consecutive victory in the national election but failed to gain an absolute majority. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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On this feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, we once again say "Amen" to being Christ for the world, confident that his real presence with us will help us act as we truly are, his ongoing real presence for the world.
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A powerful cyclone hit Bangladesh and India, leaving dozens of people dead, scores injured and a trail of mass destruction days after a deadly landslide killed scores in Papua New Guinea. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Trinity Sunday reminds us that God can "get into our pocket" and become knowable and lovable not because of what I do, but because God chooses to be known and loved, chooses to be in my pocket.
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Taiwan held the inauguration of its pro-democracy president William Lai Ching-te in presence of dignitaries including Vatican envoy Archbishop Charles Brown. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The Church exists not to be a club of the saved, but to be the herald of the Gospel. Our first concern must always be with those who are outside, for the men and women who have not yet come to know Christ.
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Killing of civilians by communist insurgents and rights abuses during anti-insurgency operations in the Negros island have triggered concerns. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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There are people suffering the effects of illness, poverty and injustice. There are people who are ignorant of God's love for them. Evangelization, the fulfilment of our Christian vocation, means finding practical ways to answer those needs.
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Tribal people in Manipur state of northeast India marked the first anniversary of the deadly ethnic violence with a daylong shutdown to remember the victims and call for justice. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Today's continuation of our Easter celebration is a joyous proclamation of the great love God shows in calling us to be united with Christ. It is a day to look at our faults and failings and put them in perspective.
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People in South and Southeast Asia are bracing for more extreme heatwaves this week, prompting authorities to issue health warnings and close schools. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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In the Acts of the Apostles, Saul shows what love calls for. He continues to proclaim the fact that he has met the Lord though no one trusts him and some even want to kill him. That is the basic vocation to which all followers of Jesus are called.
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Asian nations continue to trample human rights by muzzling freedom of speech and shrinking civic spaces, says the annual human rights report from the US State Department. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Jesus announces himself not merely as a shepherd, but as the Good Shepherd. He is the one shepherd we can trust because he is the one shepherd who is not a sheep himself.
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As Indians brace for national elections, the ruling Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is accused of using draconian laws to curtail civic freedoms. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Let's face it — the Resurrection is unbelievable. Even seeing the risen Lord is not going to convince us otherwise. It's easier to believe in ghosts or to doubt one's own sanity.
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A top Vatican official is on a six-day visit to Vietnam to strengthen diplomatic ties with the communist-ruled nation. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Living a Christian life takes courage. However, we need not search for it. We have it. Each Sunday when we join the community of disciples we take the greatest risk, that of meeting the Lord.
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Catholic Church in Taiwan has pledged help to the victims after the strongest earthquake in decades left nine dead, over 800 injured and damaged dozens of buildings. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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On Easter we celebrate on behalf of all the world God's love that embraces all the world. We celebrate for that boy, for all the dead and for ourselves, the living who are promised a share in the life of Christ who rose.
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Today is also a day of commitment to be a sign of God's love. God felt it worthwhile for Jesus to die in order that I might know love. My life is worth giving in the day-to-day as well as, if necessary, in death so that others may know that love.
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Our sharing Eucharist is a service -- a service to the world. We can wash its feet, and we can bring it with us as we share union with Christ. It's all one and the same.
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We mark this Holy Week with solemn joy. Death is real. But this week we know that love is even more real.
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In conflict-torn Myanmar, political fighting crossed religious lines when a Christian pastor was shot dead by three unknown attackers in Kachin state this week. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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John "lets the beans out of the bag" by telling us that Jesus is actually talking about the way he will die, lifted up from the earth on a cross. Do I really want to be drawn to him there?
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International experts and organizations have expressed concerns over freedom of religion in Hong Kong after the authorities introduced a new security law stipulating tough penalties. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Lent is the season when we prepare to renew our baptismal commitment in solidarity with those being baptized at Easter. It is a time of preparation to re-dedicate ourselves to proclaiming to the world the good news that God indeed loves us now, here, as we really are.
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Indian nuns and priests join women activists to demand end of crimes against women and ensure their rights and empowerment ahead of the national election in May. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Mid-way to our celebration of the Cross and Easter, we reflect on how we are like the animals, tables and vendors in the temple, interfering with others' finding the Lord. As individuals and as a community, we must repent. But, we are called to more than guilt feelings.
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A Filipino Catholic laywoman who quit her job to become a full-time volunteer catechist is slated for sainthood. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Today's Gospel is a Lenten reminder that the gift of being a beloved child of God that I received in Baptism leads to my own transfiguration. I walk the way of the Cross in this world, but it is a way that leads to incomparable glory.
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Minority Christians in India continue to face threats and harassment as hardline Hindu groups push for a Hindu-centric cultural and religious nationalism. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The Lord calls us to a change of life, a change we exercise in some small way in Lent as a means of recommitting ourselves at Easter to the big reform we accepted in our baptismal commitment.
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One person died and 53 were injured when part of the second floor of a Catholic church collapsed during a packed Ash Wednesday Mass in the Philippines. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Welcome to Lent, a time to reflect on our ashiness and our salvation. From now till the start of the Sacred Triduum we will remember that we are Cinderella sitting in sin.
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We followers of Jesus are called to be supernatural. In other words, we must be people noteworthy for our willingness to go beyond the natural in us. That means developing the ability to look upon others as the sons and daughters of God, our brothers and sisters.
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An airstrike on a school in Myanmar’s Demoso township in Kayah state killed four children, all boys aged 12 to 14, and injured at least 15 other children. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Like Jesus, we must be ready and willing to leave our prayer for those who seek us out. Like Peter's mother-in-law, our encounter with God must get us back to normal stuff.
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Catholics in China welcomed three new bishops who were ordained with the approval of the Vatican and the communist government within a week. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The first step in repentance is to admit our guilt, as when we go to confession. We admit our faults and failures out loud, making them painfully and embarrassingly real to ourselves. Then, we are presented with the sin-overpowering love of God when we most recognize our need of it.
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Asian countries are among top persecutors of Christians, says a report from US-based Christian rights group, Open Doors. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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The clearest presence of the reign is Jesus, God's reign made flesh. "The time of fulfillment has come" is another way of saying, "Here I am!"
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Taiwanese defied threats of punishment from Beijing and elected pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as their new president. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Some of Pope Francis’ pastoral moves, for example his making provision for the blessing of couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples, have drawn criticism and opposition from those who see this as deviation from precedent. However, the pope may actually be following the deeper precedent of Jesus. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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When the disciples went with Jesus, they entered into a path of healing, forgiveness, and liberation for others. Such lives will lead us to what it is, whom it is, we are seeking.
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Christians in conflict-torn Myanmar paid their last respects to 17 ethnic Chin Christians killed in a military airstrike. Listen to the story and more in this wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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We are called to be Stars of Bethlehem, leading men and women to Christ. The chief vocation of the Church is to proclaim the Good News to all nations. How do I share in that great vocation?
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Pope Francis prayed for the victims of a deadly earthquake that hit Japan on New Year’s Day. Listen to this story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your death. By word and deed, assure the world of my love."
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If there were no answer to our search and longing, then, indeed, our lives would be futile. What use is there for a hunger that cannot be filled? What sense can there be to an existence defined in part by something that is meaningless?
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Today we remember and celebrate the fact that we can know God's glory and power not as some sort of information, but as a person. So, on Christmas Day we move from the story to the program, from what happened long ago to our vocation today.
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God doesn't choose the way we would. God chooses worldly weakness to proclaim divine power. That's the reason Mary was chosen and the reason we have been chosen.
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Christians across Asia have prepared culturally and spiritually to celebrate Christmas and New Year despite hardships and challenges. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Our focus on the Christ child at Christmas can distract us from seeing the deeper reality of the Incarnation, that in Christ’s coming among us as one of us our whole life, including our death, has been embraced by God. We are invited at Christmas to strengthen our embrace of the whole reality of life, believing that God is with us in it all. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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The place we really live our faith is not in a church. It is in the desert of our workplaces, our schools, our streets, our homes. There is no other place for the world to hear our call to prepare the way of the Lord, to join us on the way of and to the Lord.
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A group of Catholics in an Indian archdiocese hailed the resignations of two senior leaders of their Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church amid an ongoing crisis over a liturgy dispute and land scams. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Our Advent meditations and prayers include reflection on the end of the age and the disasters that lead up to it. Today we face the dual disasters of war and climate change. We are not likely to see the end of either. But we can begin the long process of healing the world for the sake of future generations. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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About the Speaker: Father William Grimm, a native of New York City, is a missioner and presbyter who since 1973 has served in Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York, he is the active emeritus publisher of UCA News. Now based in the United States, he regularly contributes columns, some of which have been collected in the UCA News e-book Spoutings. He is also the presenter of popular Sunday homilies telecast by UCA News each week. A collection of those homilies has been published as Dialogue of One.
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In Advent we make a bit more effort to welcome the Lord into our lives and into our hearts, so that we can indeed know him as Son of God, as Good News.
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A bomb attack at a Sunday Mass left four university students dead and several injured in the insurgency-plagued Mindanao Island in the Philippines. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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Faith, hope and love are virtues directed toward past, future and present. In Advent, we remind ourselves to be ever ready to meet and love the Lord who has come, who will come, who comes.
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A bishop, priests and religious fled Christ the King cathedral in Loikaw as military junta took over the complex in conflict-torn Myanmar. Listen to the story and more in a wrap-up of the weekly news from Asia.
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An increased understanding of gender issues has led to contention in the Catholic Church as Pope Francis acts on the principle that a pastoral approach to all people is the true role of the Church. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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We must be such followers of the crucified Jesus, giving our strength and even our lives for the sake of others that they will respond to us as the bystander at the crucifixion did who tried to give Jesus something to drink.
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Heavy rains and severe flooding left at least six people dead and thousands stranded in Vietnam and Philippines. In this weekly podcast we present stories from Asia you need to know.
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It is to us as servants and for the sake of being servants that God gives us talents. Let us not bury them, but put them forth for the whole world.
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Archbishop Joseph Li Shan of Beijing, president of China’s state-run Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association was in Hong Kong on a five-day visit that began on Monday. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Signs of God’s kingdom are all around us. If we remember that, we will see them and thus build up our supply of oil so that at any time, in any way that God comes to us, we will be ready.
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An earthquake killed at least 157, injured scores and made thousands homeless in Nepal, prompting the government and charities to rush aid to the affected families. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Even though we may recognize the danger in ourselves of ostentatious religiosity that draws attention to ourselves rather than God, we frequently fail to realize that we sometimes encourage and abet it in others.
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At least 11 people were killed and scores injured in ongoing political violence in Bangladesh ahead of national election to be held next January. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The law of Christ is simple. Love. Love God by loving your neighbor. And your neighbor is anyone close enough to be loved, anyone in the world.
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Indian Catholics have hailed the Vatican’s approval to the beatification process for 35 martyrs of the worst anti-Christian riot in Kandhamal district of eastern Odisha state in 2008. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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We Christians have been shown Christ, the image of God, so that we can proclaim that image to all the world. In order to do so, we must clear away whatever mars that image in us.
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Fear of possible violence by hardliners gripped minority Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh at the start of five-day Durga Puja, the biggest annual Hindu religious festival. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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In the Eucharist, in the worship and service of the community of good and bad folks that Jesus invites to the banquet of God's Kingdom, I am offered a foretaste of heaven. How could I do other than rejoice?
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Catholic Church in Sri Lanka takes on President Ranil Wickremesinghe after he refused an international probe into the 2019 Easter Sunday attack. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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There is one other thing we must do. We must hear and heed the messengers God sends to us workers in the vineyard. For we, too, need to be converted throughout our lives.
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Indian Catholics have paid rich tributes to first tribal Cardinal Telesphore P. Toppo, hailing him as a guiding light and defender of the poor, particularly of the indigenous people. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The test of Christian faith is not merely whether or not we are in church on Sunday. Going to church is the renewing of our "yes" to the call of God. But, do we follow through on the promise?
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Korean Catholics have been urged to protect the rights of migrants and refugees amid a state crackdown on undocumented immigrants. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Just as the parables of Jesus show the love of God in stories about lost coins, vineyards and generous landowners, the followers of Jesus must make the events of everyday life point to God's loving presence among us.
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Korean martyr Andrew Kim Tae-gon became the first Asian saint to have his statue installed on the wall of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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As the synod of bishops prepares for its sessions on synodality, many people look forward to big changes in the Church. Realistically, however, huge change is unlikely. The synod meetings are just the beginning of a process that will take generations. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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The way out of the paradox is to realize that forgiving and being forgiven is not a parade of activities that happen in order – God forgives, then I forgive, then God forgives. God’s forgiving me and my forgiving others go on together.
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Christians in India face rising persecution and discrimination in the hands of hardline Hindu groups. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The Lord's command to confront sin in ourselves and others is never easy to fulfill. It is even harder, perhaps, to be the object of that confrontation, whether as individuals or as societies. So, what are we to do?
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Sri Lanka's Catholic Church demanded an international probe into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings after a British documentary claimed they were orchestrated to tip that year’s election outcome. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The temptation to avoid the cross is not one that Jesus alone faced. We, too, face it. That is the reason Jesus tells us that we must be willing to take up the cross.
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Pope Francis arrived in Mongolia on Friday to kick off his historic four-day visit. He is the first pope to visit the Buddhist-majority Asian nation bordered by Russia and China. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The important thing about Peter and the important thing about me is that Christ has chosen us to be Church. He has set us up in all our weakness and declared that the gates of death will not prevail against us.
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Church leaders and rights activists urged Filipinos to fight corruption and human rights abuses on the 40th death anniversary of democracy icon Benigno Aquino. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The Incarnation means that Jesus really was a man of his time, his place and his people. He spoke their language, he dressed as they dressed, he had the same prejudices they had.
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Mobs of Muslims attacked some 21 churches and dozens of Christian homes after two Christians were accused of committing blasphemy by desecrating the Quran in Pakistan’s Punjab province. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The war in Ukraine gives new urgency to the problem of peacemaking. What must those opposed to violence do in the face of violent injustice? Does pacifism mean allowing injustice to succeed or does the fact of injustice make pacifism a naive and worthless pose? Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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The Lord is willing to support us in doing the impossible. What we need is enough faith to enable us to step out of the security of the boat we call everyday "sensible" life.
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Vietnam’s President Vo Van Thuong met with the country’s Catholic bishops to strengthen ties between the state and the church following his recent visit to the Vatican. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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August 6 shines a bright light on our possibilities both as a human race and as individuals. As individuals, nations and a world, we must choose the path of glory lest we go down the path of destruction.
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Catholics in Vietnam hope for more religious freedom after the communist-ruled nation signed a deal allowing the Vatican to have a resident papal representative in the country. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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How can I become like some learned scribe who can speak with confident knowledge of the Reign of God?
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Young Asian Catholics head to the Portuguese capital Lisbon to attend the World Youth Day to be held from August 2-6. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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In our prayer, God makes the seemingly impossible happen. The seed of good flourishes, the world is leavened. All we need do is pray. But how?
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The Vatican reiterates its stand to continue “dialogue” with China as Pope Francis recognized Bishop Joseph Shen Bin of Shanghai who was transferred and installed unilaterally violating the 2018 Sino-Vatican Agreement. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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No matter where some of the seed may land and the odds against it, the growth of the Reign of God is unstoppable. That's the seed, but what of the sower?
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Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals including two from Asia – Malaysian Bishop Sebastian Francis of Penang and Bishop Stephen Chow Sau-yan of Hong Kong. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The world around me may be in turmoil, but I will be in peace and calm, not because I am apart from the world, but because I am sharing God's deep love for that world.
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A crackdown on religious groups including Christians continues in Communist China. A Protestant church has appealed for prayers for the release of four arrested Christians. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Part of the call of Christ is a call to repentance. It is not something I can reserve to Lent or an occasional confession. Because nearly my whole life is a nay-saying to God, my whole life must be repentance.
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Innocent lives continue to be lost as fighting intensifies in military-ruled Myanmar. This week, 10 civilians were killed and eight wounded when the military bombed a village. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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In a world full of terrors, we have been commissioned to share the Good News that we need not fear. God’s love protects us. God’s love embraces us eternally, overcoming fear, overcoming death.
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Arson and unrest continued in India’s violence-hit Manipur state after more than 50 days with no end in sight for the ethnic conflict between warring communities. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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My life as a Christian is not some sort of fortuitous accident. I have been chosen by God just as the Twelve were chosen. Somewhere in this world there is someone for whom I am God’s gift.
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Government sources say there are no deaths reported but a few injured after tens of thousands were evacuated from harm’s way as Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall in Gujarat. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Fortunately, Christ is not so choosy. He is willing to be present in the bread and wine that his people share. He is willing to be present in that people and in what they do as individuals and a community to show the love of God to the world.
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Taiwan’s democracy supporters remember the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown despite China’s all-out efforts to erase memories related to the brutal massacre. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Christians called to show God's love to the world should show a love that is so full as to overflow us, bringing unity to a world of many persons.
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Human rights activists, lawmakers, and the church have lamented the decline of democracy in Indonesia as the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the fall of military dictator Suharto and the return to democracy. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Our first concern must always be with those who have not yet come to know Christ. Whatever we do as Christians, it must be shaped by our vocation to tell the whole world the Good News that Christ is risen.
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Timor-Leste independence hero Xanana Gusmão returns to power after his party won the parliamentary election. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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The Lord assures us that in his glory he is no longer limited by time and place and is with us today and always. That assurance gives us the confidence we need to obey his great command.
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Cyclone Mocha left a trail of devastation in Myanmar and Bangladesh, prompting humanitarian responses from church groups and aid agencies. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Because the Spirit of the Risen Christ is in us we can face our own crosses with confidence that God is still at work, that God's will is done even when it is thwarted, as it so often is.
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Catholic Church leaders have called for peace as communal riots left at least 60 dead and over 23,000 displaced in India’s northeastern state of Manipur. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Jesus tells us today that the place where we live with God is not only this world we live in now. He has prepared another place for us, one with "many dwelling places," enough dwelling places for each of us to live with him in his Father's house.
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Asian nations have been listed among the worst violators of religious freedom by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom. Listen to this story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Japan needs immigrants but is not able or willing to integrate them into the country. Immigrants now predominate in the Catholic Church in Japan. The Church could be a model to Japanese society of a re-creation of what it means to be Japan, but that would require more creativity and effort than the Church’s management is putting forth. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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Often we sheep are to blame for being led astray by bad shepherds. The sheep of whom Jesus speaks in the Gospel can tell the difference between their own good shepherd and a bad one. We are not always so discerning.
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Church leaders in southern India met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed various issues concerning the Christian community including the rising attacks and discrimination. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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We share the Eucharist, and in that sacrament we know that the Lord is with us on all our roads, at all our tables. Then, we go to share that Good News with all. A Christian's encounter with Jesus is always meant for the sake of others.
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Hong Kong’s Jesuit Bishop Stephen Chow began his first visit to mainland China as tensions mount between the Vatican and China over the secretive 2018 deal on the appointment of bishops. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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This is Easter time. We proclaim that Christ is risen. We say that God’s love has overcome the power of sin and death. We say that the power of evil is broken. Yet, when we check the news we see that evil seems to have survived the breaking of its power.
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Christians across the globe celebrated Easter Sunday, while many Christians continued to face abuses and violence in various Asian nations. These stories and more are in this week’s podcast
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Easter is the anniversary celebration of your new birth in Christ through Baptism. It is the day on which eternal life became available to you through his Resurrection. It is the day you renew your commitment to living that new life for God and the world.
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Today is also a day of commitment to be a sign of God's love. God felt it worthwhile for Jesus to die in order that I might know love. My life is worth giving in the day-to-day as well as, if necessary, in death so that others may know that love.
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Our sharing Eucharist is a service -- a service to the world. We can wash its feet, and we can bring it with us as we share union with Christ. It's all one and the same.
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Perhaps some of the people who demanded Jesus’ death at the end of the week had begun the week singing hosannas. Who knows how or why they changed? What would I have done?
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A court in central India granted bail to a Catholic priest who was arrested amid a flurry of inspections of church-run schools over alleged religious conversion. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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The raising of Lazarus is a reminder that to be a Christian is not just to live in a certain way. Christians do have customs and commands that we obey and disobey, the chief among them being to love God and all those whom God loves.
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People displaced by conflict in Myanmar return to their homes from camps despite security concerns, uncertainty, and no viable plan for rehabilitation. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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The call to Baptism is an invitation to be cured of the blindness that afflicts the world. But, why us? Why should I be chosen to know the Lord when billions of better people than I will never have that chance?
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Filipino victims of sex slavery by Japanese forces during World War II have rejected a move for compensation, saying the money is useless at this age. This report and more are in this week’s podcast.
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To accept that love and to be baptized is to accept as well the vocation that Christ has from the Father, a vocation he chooses to share with me. That is, the vocation to be an evangelizer, a missioner.
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As the world celebrated International Women’s Day, female migrant workers in Hong Kong have called for an end to their ‘slavery.’ This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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In Lent we examine our lives in light of the Gospel, preparing to renew our baptismal commitment at Easter. Does my examination involve only personal matters or do I look as well at the social dimension of sin and salvation? Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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The Transfiguration reminds me of the mystery that Jesus, the fully human one, is also God. If I would know what it is to be truly human, I must look to Jesus. If I would know God, I must look to Jesus.
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Catholics and rights activists have demanded a thorough inquiry after a deadly riot left 12 people killed in Indonesia’s Christian-majority Papua province. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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Lent is, among other things, an opportunity to prepare to make that renunciation at Easter by examining myself to find out where in my life temptation finds it easy to take root.
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Christians in India marched in the national capital Delhi to demand action from the government, judiciary, and civil society to stop rising anti-Christian hate crimes in the country. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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Welcome to Lent, a time to reflect on our ashiness and our salvation. From now till the start of the Sacred Triduum we will remember that we are Cinderella sitting in sin.
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I once asked a political activist what he hoped to achieve in life. His answer was simple. "I want to be holy." That is what God needs of us and what God wants of us.
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Catholics in Myanmar prayed to Mother Mary for peace as deadly conflict continued to rage in the military-ruled nation. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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The world’s population exceeds eight billion people, more than the planet can easily bear. The environment, other species, and all of us face a bleak future that calls us to a deeper trust in God’s love that used Jesus’ embrace of the way of the cross to bring about an unexpected hope for the world. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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Jesus taught the adults and blessed the children, but the Church has gotten it backwards. That was not the case in the early days of the Church. The section of Matthew's Gospel that we call "The Sermon on the Mount" was intended by Matthew as a sort of catechism for adults.
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Pope Francis joined the world to grieve and to seek global solidarity after the massive loss of lives in a devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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The proverb says that "one bad apple spoils the whole bunch." That may be true of a crate of apples, but in today's Gospel, Jesus tells us that it does not apply to people. Good is contagious.
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Protesters in Myanmar marked second anniversary of the military coup with a “silent strike.” Christians joined prayers for peace in the conflict-torn nation. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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Poverty of spirit frees me to accept God's greatest gift, the Kingdom, because I am not holding on to any illusions that my talents, my possessions, my time, or my life are my own.
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A former soldier was sentenced to a life term for allegedly killing four civilians in Indonesia’s restive, Christian-majority Papua region, a verdict hailed by rights activists advocating justice and peace. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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The Church that follows Jesus must be as willing to subordinate everything else to the proclamation of God's love. If that means downplaying or even abandoning certain ways of doing things, so be it. If it means not looking for institutional results, no problem.
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The military junta in Myanmar torched and completely destroyed a 129-year-old Catholic Church amid ongoing violence against Christians in the conflict-torn country. This and more in this week’s podcast
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Spirituality is not so much a matter of prayer as of awareness, about sensitivity in ordinary time to the ordinary events and people around me. Christ is there among them as he was among the events and people of Israel two thousand years ago.
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The pope finally meets Hong Kong’s outspoken cardinal andcritic of the warming up China-Vatican ties at the expense of the undergroundCatholic Church in the People’s Republic. This story and more are in thisweek’s podcast.
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The death of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict 16, may be one more step toward the end of an era in the history of Christianity as we move from a Euro-centric millennium and a half to a more catholic, universal Church. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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On Epiphany, we thank God for the gift of Jesus Christ, a gift given to all of us throughout the world, throughout time. Like the wise astrologers, we respond by bringing our gifts to the Lord: our ways of praying, our ways of singing, our ways of thinking, our ways of acting.
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Church and political leaders in Asia paid tributes to PopeEmeritus Benedict XVI, hailing him for his contributions to peace, harmony, anddialogue in the world. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your death. By word and deed, assure the world of my love."
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Today we remember and celebrate the fact that we can know God's glory and power not as some sort of information, but as a person. So, on Christmas Day we move from the story to the program, from what happened long ago to our vocation today.
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Christians in Asian nations such as Pakistan and Sri Lanka prepare to celebrate Christmas amid violence and financial crisis. A bright new year looms for other nations despite everyday struggles for freedoms and rights. These stories and more are in this week’s podcast.
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The one whose birth we are about to celebrate has many titles, but one name, the name he shared with so many other people in his land. It is wondrous because it is so common. The mystery that we celebrate in his birth is that the God of the universe is met in someone like us, someone with a simple name, an ordinary Tom, Dick or Yeshua.
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Catholics in India have urged the federal government to come clean on the custodial death of Father Stan Swamy, after US-based experts revealed the elderly Jesuit priest’s computer was hacked to plant false evidence. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Now as we practice the carols of "peace on earth, good will to all" it is time to renew our commitment to live as Christ who came not to condemn sinners, but to embrace and save them.
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The right to dissent is under attack across the Asia-Pacific region as ruling regimes use repressive laws and brute force to silence protesters. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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Vatican-China’s 2018 deal on appointment of bishops hit a hard rock as Chinese authorities transferred and installed a bishop without papal mandate, prompting an unusual reaction from the Vatican. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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"Advent" means "coming" and coming is something that happens from the future. At this time of year I remind myself that my whole life is lived in expectation of something that is coming, and that does not merely mean December 25.
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Advent is a time to remember that we are waiting and to examine the way we wait, both in loving activity today, and in hope for the future.
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The decades-old liturgical dispute in India’s Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church has intensified as an archdiocese seems on the verge of snapping ties with the Vatican. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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If I am a servant of the cross-king, of a king who does not sit, then I too must not be a sitter. I must show my loyalty to my king by moving among others as he did, as he does, not to receive homage or reward, but to serve.
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Christians in India continue to face accusations and harassment from right-wing Hindu groups over alleged forced religious conversions. This story and more are in this week’s podcast.
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Faith is not certainty, it is a choice. I choose, because of the evidence I have experienced of God's loving help in ages past, to believe that love will not desert me. If I am right, I will know. If I am wrong, I will not know. And in that case, neither being wrong nor having lived at all will matter.
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What does war do? It destroys, it destroys humanity, destroys everything, Pope Francis said as he once again called for dialogue to end conflict and loss of lives in Myanmar, ahead of the ASEAN leaders’ summit in Cambodia. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Pope Francis’ historic, three-day apostolic visit to Bahrain aims to promote dialogue, unity, and peace. In other parts of Asia, natural and man-made calamities have claimed hundreds of lives. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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In the northern hemisphere, November is a gloomy month that reminds us of death. It is a month in which we pray for the dead. It is a month in which we might profitably reflect upon our personal and communal relationship with death to more deeply know in the death and Resurrection of Jesus the role of death in our lives. Father William Grimm shares some thoughts on this.
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It is important, though, to remember that penance is neither punishment nor the purchase price for forgiveness. So it should not be extreme. When in doubt, don't do it or consult with someone first.
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The Church in Asia searches for new ways to make progress in the multi-religious continent as Catholic leaders ponder over the emerging realities and ways to revise their pastoral plans and priorities for the vast continent during the ongoing FABC general conference in Bangkok. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Love it or fear it, a new Church is being born. It will take several lifetimes, but eventually the Church throughout the world will be different because of what is happening at the back of the temple.
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Some half a million Catholics and 450 priests in southern India have severed all links with their apostolic administrator, further escalating a five-decade-long liturgical dispute within the Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church. The unprecedented move by priests and laity of the Kerala-based Syro-Malabar Church may amount to 'defying papal authority’. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Those in power who fear what people — especially those who have been deprived — have to say deprive themselves of the opportunity to change their lives for the better — in other words, of the chance to repent.
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Asia’s Catholic bishops gathered in Bangkok to celebrate the golden jubilee of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, one of the biggest religious summits in the world, for two-weeks starting October 12, aiming to “renew and revitalize” the Church in Asia. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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We receive many gifts from God, but it is not the gifts nor even the recipient, but the Giver, upon whom we should focus.
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Percival Mabasa, a hard-hitting radio commentator, is the latest in a long line of targeted killings of newspersons in Philippines, a Catholic-majority nation often dubbed as one of the deadliest places in the world for journalists. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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People and situations will always appear that will need a response from this servant of God. The more I respond, the more opportunities for service will open up to me.
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Hong Kong’s outspoken Cardinal Joseph Zen faced a trial with fellow democracy supporters as the Vatican drew renewed criticism for its silence and attempts of warming ties with China’s communist regime. The high-profile case involving one of Asia’s senior most Catholic clerics has brought back focus on the warming ties between Beijing and the Vatican. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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This parable is a wake-up call to see that each and every man and woman is a child of God, and therefore my brother, my sister. Awareness can be the first step in conversion.
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The martial law imposed by Ferdinand Marcos Sr. on Sept. 21, 1972, is still remembered as one of the darkest periods in the nation’s history vowing to never forget the abuses of the dark period. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Investing is a way to wealth in much of the world today. Ideally, an investment grows, leading to yet further investment. Can I do that with my possessions, putting at least some of them forward for the needy?
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The military junta has been accused of abuses against the Christian minority, destroying their places of worship and targeting the clergy. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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God keeps coming after me, offering forgiveness and wisdom. The reason could not be in myself. Someone so perverse as I cannot deserve God's searching love, but I receive it all the same. It can only be because God loves me regardless of how I act.
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Mother Teresa’s legacy of love and compassion for the poor, sick, and destitute continues even 25 years after her death. Her death anniversary is observed as the International Day of Charity honoring her philanthropic and humanitarian endeavors. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Today, Jesus is telling us to be ready for fire so that when it comes, we will not be surprised, but resolute, knowing that the crisis today is one we took into account from the start.
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The four champions of the poor and a polluted river in Asia have been selected for the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Awards honoring their extraordinary contributions toward transforming human lives and societies. This and more in this week’s podcast.
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The Church in many places seems to be dying, and the response to that is often a panicked attempt to ward off the inevitable. But what if this dying and the being dead that will follow it are actually God’s will to bring about something completely new? Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan shares some thoughts on this.
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We tend to think that reflection upon the Word of God, upon the Work of God, is something solemn, serious, and private. But, sometimes, we should be ready to hear the Word in the hustle and bustle of our lives, in the symposium of eating, drinking and gabbing that is our daily life.
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The plight of the Rohingya must not be forgotten as the Myanmar military set about massacring, torturing, raping, and burning their villages in Rakhine State in 2017. Around one million refugees are waiting to return to their country in dignity with their full rights restored. Rights group have called for protection of the rights and justice for Myanmar’s Rohingya minority as they mark fifth anniversary of a military crackdown. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Salvation is the state of being fully what God intends one to be. What God intends is loving communion with each of us and for us to live in communion with one another. So, whatever I do that helps my brothers and sisters know God's love and share it is an aid to their salvation.
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Ongoing fighting between the military and rebel groups has led to at least 170,000 civilians being displaced from Christian-majority Kayah state, most of them sheltered in churches and other Christian institutions. This and more in this week’s podcast
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Every feast of the Church is ultimately a celebration of what God has done in Jesus Christ. The Assumption is an encouraging reminder of what Christ has done for us and a challenge to live as what we have become through baptism.
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God seems to give what we do not want, and then expects us to call 'Good News.' Do you know the answer to the question: How do you train a mule? First, you take a large plank, and hit the animal over the head to get its attention.
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In 1982, the United Nations declared August 9 as the day to celebrate the indigenous peoples globally, but across Asia they are constantly battling to defend their cultures, territories and, above all, their rights. This and more in this week’s podcast.
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Just about everyone wants peace. That has certainly always been so. Yet, we do not have peace, and that, too, has probably always been so. We have never been able to build peace, and it is likely that we never will be. Either God will do it, or it shall not be done. Yet, we can and must join in God’s work through prayer and action. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan shares some thoughts on this.
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Today's Gospel reminds us that regardless of whatever else we may do in the interim, we are waiting. The servants may have a dance party while awaiting the master's return, but they still keep an eye out for that return. So, where is he?
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The offer made by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, which came after he announced a six-month extension to the current state of emergency and execution of four political prisoners, was too little too late, say rights groups. This and much more on today’s podcast.
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The love of God guarantees life. Might it be that I am greedy because deep down I am not yet ready to rely upon the love of God? Do I really believe that this world is the whole story?
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Myanmar’s military regime executed four political prisoners including a former minister and a veteran activist, drawing shock and revulsion at the ‘cruel’ use of capital punishment in decades. This and more in today’s podcast
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Jesus is telling us disciples that we need not worry that God will not understand our prayers. We do not have to use proper formulas, the right words. God loves us so much that our inadequate prayers suffice.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksha is gone, but the 22 million people of the island nation are in no mood to trust his successor to lead them out of the terrible mess he left behind. The country’s worst-ever economic crisis has reduced Sri Lankans to buy less, eat less and work less. This and more in today’s podcast
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Pope Francis has appointed three women to a key office in the Vatican. It is a small step toward the long delayed acceptance of the radical equality between male and female disciples that marked the ministry of Jesus. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan shares some thoughts on this.
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Today, as the attitudes toward women that subverted the practice of Jesus are changing in many places, we in the Church are being challenged to once again accept the fact that Jesus still has something to teach us that seems subversive of the so-called "normal" ordering of society and the Church.
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Sri Lanka’s debt-laden economy has collapsed, its president on the run and the island nation is now on the verge of political instability. These and more in today’s podcast
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As followers of Jesus, we are commissioned by him to serve any need we see, no matter what reasons we think there may be for passing by.
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Father Stan dedicated his life to ensure the constitutional rights of indigenous peoples as equal citizens of India. The Jesuit was a modern-day martyr who followed Jesus, who became a threat to the discriminatory social, political and religious system of his time. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Most of Japan’s Catholics are not Japanese. They have come to alleviate a shortage of native workers. While the Church has tried to respond to their pastoral needs, little has been done to integrate them into the life of the Church as a missionary presence. There is a tendency on the part of local clergy to treat foreigners as a pastoral problem to be handled rather than as a missionary opportunity that requires a vigorous response. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan shares some thoughts on this.
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We must teach the world's wolves a new way of living. We must teach respect for the weak and service to them. We must teach the wolves that lambs are not for devouring, but for showing us something about God.
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Hong Kong marks the 25th anniversary of the British handover to China as pro-democracy campaigners lament the erosion of the once-vibrant city’s freedom and rights. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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What do we think we are doing when we pray to saints? Are we applying extra pressure on God? Are we relying upon some sort of magical powers that we think a saint might possess? Does the communion of saints that includes all of us offer a better understanding of what we are doing? Father William Grimm, who lives in New York, shares some thoughts on this.
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When the Lord calls us, it is because he wants a response in action from us now, not a minute from now, not an hour from now, not next week or next year. He does not call upon us by appointment. He will not be penciled into our over-full schedules.
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Natural disasters have hit Asian nations, affecting millions of people from Afghanistan to Bangladesh, India and China. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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God's love and blessings are not limited by the belief of the men and women through whom God chooses to work. A pagan priest-king not only has a place in the building of the Reign of God, but God uses him to bless believers.
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Rising attacks against Christians have triggered alarm in India and Myanmar. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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Whether or not they really exist, ghosts teach us something about what is happening in the Church. The Church as we have known it is dying in much of the world. We can, like ghosts, hang on to what and where we have been. Or, we can trust that the pattern of Christ’s cross, grave, and resurrection is the way that God is drawing us into a new creation.Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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Our glory as Christians is that God has chosen us to carry on the mission of the Son to be the love of God incarnate in creation. Our shame is that we so often fail as a Church and as individual Christians to live that mission.
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The Indonesian government has invited Pope Francis to visit the world’s largest Muslim-majority country. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Today's feast is a celebration of our mission as Church to proclaim to the whole world that Christ is risen. Since it is also a day on which we recall Christ's gift of forgiveness, we must reflect upon the sins that might hinder that proclamation.
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Catholics in Asia cheered as Pope Francis named six new cardinals from the continent including the first cardinal from the marginalized Dalit community. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The world is in an ecological disaster and needs the People of God to show a way of hope. However, it is unlikely to be heard because those who speak too often do not speak to be heard. As a result, when Pope Francis actually does speak to be heard, we are ill-equipped to listen, let alone respond. Laudato si’, his response to the ecological disaster, must have a greater influence on Christians if we are to be a sacrament of hope for the world. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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We, the new people of God, have been prepared for our vocation. We are the apostles. Christ has stepped aside so that we might step forward. The Acts of the Apostles begins with the Ascension of Jesus; they continue with us.
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Hong Kong’s outspoken Cardinal Joseph Zen remains defiant after appearing in court in a case under the national security law. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The gift of peace would be glorious in itself, but as Christians we have a special vocation. We are called not merely to find peace, but to be the means of peace for others.
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Attack on Marian shrines in India and Myanmar shocked Catholics, while grief continued over the results of the Philippine elections amid the joy of sainthood for India’s first lay Catholic. These and more in this week’s Podcast.
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Bringing the world to Christ is our vocation. Loving one another is the way to live that vocation.
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The Catholic Church in Asia operates in ignorance. We don’t really know ourselves or the world in which we are called to proclaim the Good News. There is a realm of research to which we must turn, the social sciences. They can tell us not only about the world outside the Church, but about ourselves as well. Professional research in sociology and psychology would enable us to escape the trap of no-longer-effective answers to no-longer-existing problems. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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The arrest of Hong Kong’s Cardinal Joseph Zen has sparked global outrage about communist China’s iron-fisted grip on freedoms and rights in the former British colony. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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It is still Easter time. It is still the season of resurrection. It is still the season to recall that my life is not a matter of the merely day-to-day, but of eternity.
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Thousands of mainly Christian ethnic Karen have fled their homes as Myanmar’s military junta intensifies air strikes and mortar shelling in Karen and Mon states. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Peter was chosen to lead the disciples, to lead the Church, not because he was bright or well-spoken or a deep thinker. He was appointed to look after the Lord's flock because he loved the Lord.
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Pope Francis has called for the truth behind the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka. In other parts of Asia, the struggle for press freedom and human rights continues. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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Faith and ideals give us dreams, but the reality we inherit limits how we can work toward making those dreams and hopes come true. Incarnation means that we, like Jesus, live in a world we are given, a world in which we achieve less than we wish to advance the Reign of God. The war in Ukraine is such a situation, one in which hopes for peace may have to work through violence. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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God entrusts us with a great gift. Overcoming evil depends upon our willingness to forgive. It is up to us. We can forgive, or we can refuse to forgive. God will accept our decision.
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Easter celebrations triggered mixed feelings for Christians in Asia. While there was joy at returning to churches after two years due to the pandemic, many people continued to endure social, economic and political turmoil. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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On this Sunday, this Easter Sunday, we remember what every Sunday is because of what happened one Sunday long ago when the mission of the Church was born in the proclamation, "The Lord is risen!"
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Today is also a day of commitment to be a sign of God's love. God felt it worthwhile for Jesus to die in order that I might know love. My life is worth giving in the day-to-day as well as, if necessary, in death so that others may know that love.
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Our sharing Eucharist is a service -- a service to the world. We can wash its feet, and we can bring it with us as we share union with Christ. It's all one and the same.
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It is early spring in Japan, the time when cherry trees bloom. Even in Tokyo, the world’s largest metropolis, nature calls us to reflect on beauty and its passing. For Christians, cherry time is part of Lent and the beauty of the flowers becomes an opportunity to recall God’s gifts as we prepare to celebrate Easter and renew the gift of our baptism. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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We give thanks to Christ for uniting with us, embracing the fear, pain and death that are an ineradicable part of our lives. At the worst times of my life, Christ crucified is there with me.
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Catholic bishops, priests and nuns join street protesters in Sri Lanka as the island nation faces an economic crisis. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Sin is serious, but the most important thing in the world is the love of God that forgives our sins. The scribes and Pharisees had forgotten that.
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India’s Dalit Christians have continued to protest the appointment of a non-Dalit Catholic archbishop, terming it discriminatory. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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Lent is a time for me to come to my senses and return to my Father. I do not need fancy words. I do not need to buy forgiveness with good deeds or intentions. All I need is to say, "Father, I have flunked."
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The ordination of 13 new priests in conflict-torn Myanmar is seen a sign of hope and blessing for the minority Christian community. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The division of the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western halves led to the same division in Christianity. Different histories in East and West then caused the development of different approaches to civil and social power. The responses to the Russian war against Ukraine shows problems in both approaches. It is high time we recovered from the ills of the Roman Empire. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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We are celebrating Lent, the season of repentance. We reflect upon our sinfulness and do what we can with God's help to change our lives. Rather than punishing us, God gives us chance after chance to stop causing divine and human suffering.
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The Pakistani Church has started the formal process of sainthood for the country’s first Servant of God. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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The war in Ukraine has ended three-quarters of a century of comparative peace in Europe. Democracy, economic integration, and Christianity were supposed to maintain and spread peace. They have not, and we are left wondering what comes next. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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Lent is a chance to live our true citizenship. In prayer, fasting and sacrifice, we weaken our ties to the world. We withdraw from our citizenship in this world in order to focus upon our true home, our true citizenship.
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A Dalit woman’s elevation to the post of mayor in India’s Chennai city has been hailed as a breakthrough for her marginalized community. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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It is Lent. It is good to begin the season by reflecting upon the temptations that Jesus faced and that we face that hinder us in living the Baptism commitment we renew at Easter.
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Asian Catholics pray for peace in Ukraine
Asian Catholics pray and fast for peace in Ukraine as they mark the beginning of Lenten season. This story and more in this week’s podcast.
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As we enter Lent, we reflect on the role of sin in our lives. But we often – maybe generally – look too narrowly at what constitutes sin. The problem is that we start the reflection by looking at ourselves rather than God. When we focus on God, we realize that our lives and whatever sin infects them are part of a larger reality of community and responsibility.
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Welcome to Lent, a time to reflect on our ashiness and our salvation. From now till the start of the Sacred Triduum we will remember that we are Cinderella sitting in sin.
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Repentance, prayer, reflection and study will remove the obstacles that keep one from being a wise guide and a clear-visioned healer for the wandering children of God looking for a vision of the love of God made real in their lives.
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Indian bishops are campaigning to end discrimination against Dalit Christians. It came as violence and rights abuses resonated across Asia. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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It is not totally impossible to do love toward an enemy. One just has to do for others what one does for oneself. That still is not easy. But, knowing we can do it for our worst enemy is an encouragement that we can do it for others.
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A year after the military coup, Myanmar continues to burn as new evidence emerges of the junta’s horrific atrocities. Efforts for justice and peace are being made against a tide of oppression and attacks. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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The Gospel presents us with a decision and a consequence. We must decide who Jesus is, and upon what authority he says some very strange things.
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Vatican scoffed media speculations that it pulled out representatives in Taiwan and Hong Kong for potential diplomatic ties with China. These and much more in this week’s podcast.
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After every new exposé of abuse in the Catholic Church, bishops, superiors and other managers end any statements with a pro-forma claim that their priority is the protection of vulnerable people. By now, the claims are merely threadbare formulas, empty words that convince no one because repeating them is so often necessary. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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The world is starving to hear of God's love, to see God's love. The world is swimming around in confusion, waiting to be brought into God's net. That is what counts.
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As Catholics in Pakistan welcomed “Servant of God” status for a man who died a hero, the murders of clergy in Vietnam and Pakistan shocked minority Christians. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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Either there is something wrong with Jesus, or there is something wrong with our expectations. We either have to abandon him as a savior or accept him on his own terms. There seems to be no other possibility.
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Myanmar is facing a humanitarian crisis as it prepares to mark the first anniversary of the military coup that ousted a civilian government. Meanwhile, rights abuses and radicalism threaten peace and stability across the region. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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The Word of God is, or should be, a reminder of God's presence among us. That is the reason we treat a Bible or Lectionary with special respect.
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Election fever is heating up in Timor-Leste as a former Catholic priest stands for president. Justice and human rights remain major concerns for Christians and other vulnerable groups in Asia. These stories and more in this week’s podcast.
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Catholics, including those whose vocation is to proclaim the Word of God, have become strangers to the Word, and by doing so have put the mission and the very existence of the Church in jeopardy. The world needs us to be men and women moved by God’s word, and the only way to be moved by it is to know it.
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Jesus the Lamb presents us with the wine of peace because he overcomes the sin of the world in his death and resurrection.
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Catholics in Asian nations offer hope and support to communities in distress amid conflict, oppression and the pandemic. These and much more in this week’s news summary.
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The difference between us Christians and the rest of the world is the knowledge that there is an answer for our anticipating hearts, and the answer is the Son of God present among us.
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Shock and anger abound over India’s pro-Hindu government targeting of humanitarian groups like Missionaries of Charity. In other Asian nations, people grapple with injustices, oppression and the pandemic.
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The Catholic Church is preparing for a new kind of synod involving all of us. Its roots lie in an ecumenical council 60 years ago, Vatican 2. Looking back to that event can give us the foundation we need to take part in the synodal process. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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If we want to see God, we need not spend years doing spiritual calisthenics or wait until we die. God has come among us as one of us. If you wish to see God, look at Jesus, the manifestation of God among us.
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Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your death. By word and deed, assure the world of my love."
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As the boy Jesus "increased in wisdom and in years and in divine and human favor, " so, too, the Church grows in wisdom, years and favor.
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Christmas spirit is slowly gripping Catholics in Asia despite challenges including natural calamities, the coronavirus and oppressive regimes. The New Year looms with new hope against adversities. These and much more in this year's last dispatch. We are taking a year end break and will return in the new year.
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Today we remember and celebrate the fact that we can know God's glory and power not as some sort of information, but as a person. So, on Christmas Day we move from the story to the program, from what happened long ago to our vocation today.
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Last year, we had a Covid Christmas. We thought, or at least hoped, it would be the only one. But now we face our second. In a real sense, every Christmas, every year, every day is a Covid day, with the word Covid standing in for all the disasters and disappointments that are a part of life. Does the Christmas feast offer us any encouragement in our various Covid Christmases? Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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Christmas is, of course, much more than a child's feast. But, it is, indeed, a time for us to reflect upon children and the gifts we give them, the legacy we leave them.
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Catholic-run institutes bear the brunt amid an anti-Christian purge in India. In other Asian nations, people grapple with the impacts of natural and manmade calamities.
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What we really want has already been given us. We do not have to wait until Christmas Day to receive it. We do not have to wait until we start following all the good advice we have received.
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In the early Church, there was quite a contest between the followers of John the Baptist and the followers of Jesus about who was preeminent. But the evangelists used that contest to underline the important things they wanted to emphasize about Jesus in their communities. Whatever John’s Gospel was emphasizing always came back to two things - faith in Jesus and God’s love us and our love of one another.
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Politically troubled and divided Hong Kong has welcomed a new Catholic bishop who promises healing and bridge building. In other parts of Asia, people cling to hope for freedom, justice and unity in unfavorable environments.
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Jesus birth is attended by various pointers to its significance and meaning for redemption and God’s fidelity to his plan to redeem the human race. One of those concerns Elijah and misrule in pointing to the meaning and significance of the coming of Jesus. But, in the mind of the Evangelists, the Elijah pointing to Jesus is John the Baptist and the people rejected him and Jesus has been rejected, neglected and overlooked.
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The Church year begins and ends with disaster stories. They are a style of biblical literature called apocalypse that has now become a genre of popular entertainment. We are fascinated by apocalyptic stories because in many ways, they are our own stories. But there is more to apocalyptic than disaster. It is an important part of the Bible and faith because it tells us something about God’s presence with us. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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This Gospel today contains more material to again show the focus of one of the early contests in the first Christian communities: how did Jesus fit into the unfolding history of Christianity and what was John the Baptist’s role announcing Jesus? But while the evangelist presents the material, it remains up to the believer drawn to hear that story to accept it and live with and from it.
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Today’s Gospel is the most emphatic statement by Jesus about how determined he is to seek out and save whatever might be lost among us. He just won’t, perhaps even can’t give up on us. The implication for us and how we engage with and treat each other is completely obvious. What is completely obvious that God will go to any extent he can tisane, renew and invigorate us as believers.
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The crowds are staggered and amazed that Jesus can heal as he does, perform the miracles that he does, achieve the mighty outcomes that he does. But Jesus wants the crows to appreciate he has more he can do than just overwhelm natural problems we face and the set backs that confront us. He can actually turn lives around through the healing and forgiveness he can complete.
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Sunday Gospel Reflection by Father Bill Grimm
Advent is the season in which the Church recommits itself to living a great adventure. We are a band of companions walking through a world of marvels and dangers to a promised goal, eternal life with God.
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Today’s Gospel announces the mission and message of John the Baptist who comes in anticipation of Jesus to open the way for his mission and message. The evangelist seeks to be precise and exact about when this action took place because God’s entry into our history is very practical, exact and precise. And becomes with a very clear message proclaiming renewal and redemption.
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Compensation bought some consolation for two sexually abused altar boys in Indonesia this week as Christians and other groups ramped up their battle against injustice and discrimination.
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Healing is the characteristic action of Jesus’ ministry. People in Jesus’ time saw illness and disease as an effect of sin and so the banishment of sickness and the healing of disease is part of the renewal that comes with Jesus’ ministry. Healing is a multidimensional activity. Delivering that transformation is part of new life of the Kingdom which God wants us to enjoy through Jesus’ agency. Let’s give ourselves to the action of his grace.
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St. Francis Xavier whose feast we celebrate today is a saint of wide significance for the Church across the world but especially for those of us in Asia and Australia. In Australia, he is a national Patron Saint and he did his saintly work of evangelization in Asia - in India, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan. But everywhere he went, he came to the poor and needy, healing the sick and binding up hears that are broken. And that is what he comes to us as today.
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One of the main things that discourages people from exploring the message of Jesus and becoming Christians is the life that Christians live that is so obviously at odds with message and example of Jesus. It is the hypocrisy of Christians that scandalizes aspiring Christians. Christians who live at odds with what Jesus lived and taught and are only Christians in name but not in deed doo themselves and others looking to them for light and guidance great harm. In today’s Gospel, Jesus is asking us to be authentic.
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This is a parable of Providential abundance - of God providing for his people in their acute and extreme need. We are in Advent and preparing to welcome the abundance of Jesus at Christmas - the fulfillment of God’s promise to provide for his people. What does this ask of us? Alertness and a readiness to be attentive to God’s fulfillment of his promises to be faithful to his people and to save them from their slavery and entrapment. That is the freedom that Christmas brings - the freedom promised to Israel throughout their history.
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This invitation to the two sets of brothers comes very early in Matthew’s Gospel and even before he starts to preach his message. And the four Apostles in these stories have a basic role in grounding and founding the first Christian communities. Today’s feast of St. Andrew celebrates the Apostle seen as the fountainhead of the Church of “the East” which we would now see as he Greek Church. But whatever Church we want to celebrate, they all go back to the founding message of Jesus as given to the earliest communities and still venerated today.
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This Gospel today recounts the evangelist’s way of accommodating in Matthew’s Gospel the reach of Jesus’ message: completely beyond the boundaries of Israel but still taking up its foundation in the way God has been revealed to Israel. It is an event recalled everyday in every Mass we celebrate by stating just how graciously blessed we to be welcoming Jesus as Communion and then to look forward to to the healing union with Jesus that lasts forever.
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Can I believe that when troubles come the Lord comes as well? How can I deepen my faith in that coming? The Lord's answer is "Pray constantly."
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Happy New Year. Well this is the Church’s New Year’ Day when all begins again as we enter Advent and build up to Christmas. But we haven’t left the Apocalyptic readings behindhand we open the with one for the First Sunday in Advent. What is the point of this literature and imagery? It serves to underline that history’s unfolding and the passage of our lives are in the hands of God and if we are to avail ourselves of the meaning and richness of this type of discourse, it should take us to a place where ask God to take hold of us and see us through the unevenness and uncertainty of the raid and deep changes.
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Catholics in strife-torn Myanmar continue to be targeted by the military junta. In other Asian nations, Catholics and others leap to support communities in distress and join forces to battle for rights and justice.
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If ever we needed reminders about what real sacrifices our service of Jesus requires we are reminded of them by today’s gospel but also by today’s feast of Vietnamese martyrs. The following of Jesus is a way of life that costs us not less than everything. But, as today’s Gospel reminds us, we cannot pay that price all on our own. It is only with God’s grace - the power and presence of the Spirit and God’s support that coms to us through the generous attention of others - - that we can do and offer all that is asked of us.
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The number of people outside and even inside the Catholic Church who trust the institution is shrinking. When the Church’s management engages in coverups, avoids admitting to bad news, and attacks those who present embarrassing facts its proclamation of the Gospel suffers. People will not believe the truth of the Gospel if its messengers are afraid of the truth of its mundane life. The Church needs honest journalism for the sake of honest evangelization. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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It is difficult to exaggerate the significance of the destruction of the Temple for Jewish identity. The Temple is the point of intersection between God and God’s People Israel to destroy the Temple is to knock out that point of meeting. So, Jesus advice on this point is vitally important for the Jews to appreciate and for the Christian community to absorb and accept as the new People God.
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Today’s feast is an instructive moment for the way the Church celebrates features of Church life. It is the feast of Saint Cecilia and there is no reliable evidence that she ever existed. But she is patron of music in Rome and devotion to her has produced some rich musical outcomes for the Church and indeed the city of Rome. But often what happened in the past was the attribution of achievements and outcomes collectively to a single person when in fact the artistic works or “opus” are those of several people. Each puts in their own best efforts which are at times only part 9f all that is claimed by the person celebrated at the feast, if anything can be claimed by that person, if they existed. The same is true of St. Christopher. Earlier generations did things differently.
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When we say Christ is King, we say we belong to him and to no others. We cannot, then, be used or abused, since that is an attack upon his subjects and his sovereignty.
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We have reached the moment we’ve been waiting for in all the Gospels - Jesus is before Pilate and is being asked to answer Pilate’s questions about who he is. The most important thing about the questions Pilate’s asks is not what answers he receives from Pilate but the degree to which the answers Jesus offers take Pilate and us as we try to answer them in our lives into the mystery of Jesus and our own search for meaning and identity.
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Timor-Leste paid tribute to independence heroes on the 30th anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre. In other parts of Asia, there were stories of triumphs and struggles against oppression and injustice.
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We know in our own lives that trying to be too smart can lead to our demise and it does for the scribes in today’s Gospel. But what is most important then is that this incident becomes an opportunity for Jesus to take the scribes right out other comfort zone and into a place where Jesus can explain just how different life with him is. A life lived close to Jesus takes us to a place where we don’t control its process or its outcomes. That’s what being in God’s hands means. And it’s not something to be afraid of because God is taking us through it and he only wants us to prosper.
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Luke the evangelists uses the event of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD - decades after his crucifixion - to put into Jesus’ mouth what he would have thought about it. And what is he making of it? That the destruction of Jerusalem comes because Jesus own people have failed to grasp the opportunity to respond to God’s compelling invitation to welcome the Kingdom Jesus is inviting them to become part of so God’s Reign may commence. They continue trading and seeking to make of their worship at the Temple something completely inconsistent with the new moment that Jesus is offering them to be part of.
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The Gospel is written after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD by the Romans and uses the event to put into Jesus’ mouth what he would have thought about it. And what is he making of it? That the destruction of Jerusalem comes because Jesus own people have failed to grasp the opportunity to respond to God’s compelling invitation to welcome the Kingdom Jesus is inviting them to become part of so God’s Reign may commence.
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The context in which Jesus tells this story 9is while Jesus is on his journey to Jerusalem. That means Jesus is on a journey of faith and this story informs what that journey requires and expects. And what does it require and expect? Not only faith but a readiness to take risks for the sake of creating the space for the Kingdom of God to grow.
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There is a lot of action and movement in this story and it’s all for our instruction - Jesus is on a journey to Jerusalem; each of the people that the Lord in this story entrusts with wealth is on a journey to assume more authority; everyone in all the stories is asked to show initiative in their journeys. The point of the travel and action is that God invites us to respond and that is the meaning of our faith journey.
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People can be very discouraging in our lives. They can focus, and lead us to focus on all that is against our accomplishing what is desirable for our growth, happiness and better contribution to others’ lives. What does Jesus lay about this? This story is important for seeing how Jesus cuts through all that negativity so that the blind man is healed. Our perseverance in prayer, asking God for the healing we need, can have just the same effect. But we need to persevere.
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Sunday Gospel Reflection by Father Bill Grimm
The Good News is not that God will make everything work out as we wish but that he is with us in a special way when it seems our world is ending.
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More extreme apocalyptic language in today’s Gospel and all is calculated to make us alert to the dramatic acts of God that seek our urgent reaction in response to the call of the Gospel. We are approaching the end of the Church’s year and the beginning of a new year with the approach of Advent in preparation for the world changing event of God’s birth among us in Jesus.
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The Indian Church will see its first lay Catholic martyr become a saint next May. In other parts of Asia, Christians have joined other groups in calling for justice and an end to oppression.
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Today’s Gospel takes inside Jesus and what he must have felt every day when his followers should such complete ignorance of who he was and what his message meant. He felt isolated and disappointed- He couldn’t depend on any of his followers to appreciate what he was offering. In so far as we know such abandonment, we can discover what Jesus found - intimate union with God as his only reassurance.
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At the end of the year, as we head towards Advent and prepare for the beginning of the Church’s year in Advent, the gospel readings become more and more mysterious. But a focus on what God might be doing in these mysterious circumstances is the best place to be so we can hear what God is inviting us to embrace every day.
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Our human reconstruction of the Kingdom of God is s distraction from what it really is. It isn’t in time and space. it doesn’t refer to a locality. It won’t be observable like an invasion and political takeover. It is the action of God and needs sensitivity to the action of God and the movement of the Spirit.
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Once again, faith is what triggers Jesus miraculous action and the mighty deed of cleansing is there to show something more of just who Jesus is and what his message is. But this cleansing has something more to say: it is an act that reaches to an outsider - to a Samaritan. In that, the evangelist is emphasizing the reach of God’s grace beyond the confines of race, ethnicity and even the borders of religion.
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Poland’s bishops were recently in Rome for their ad limina visit that bishops make every five years. While there they complained about the rigor with which the Vatican now deals with bishops who have been derelict in their duty by failing to respond properly and promptly to sexual abuse by clergy. They are learning how the real world responds to dereliction. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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Today’s Gospel is not as simple as it might appear to be. It can’t just about having trading and worship compete because offering the animals is considered an appropriate sacrifice and can’t be dismissed out of hand as an unwarranted degradation of worship. The important consideration clearly is purpose and intention. We are buying off Good’s attention. We are simply giving back to God what he first gave us.
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At this stage in Luke’s Gospel, we are being introduced to a series of stories teaching us simple wisdom about how we grow in the love of and avoid the ways we can take people own the wrong path into darkness. Underlying this story today is the testimony to God’s relentless determination to fog, renew and restore us to God’s love.
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Sunday Gospel Reflection by Father Bill Grimm
The woman knew better. She knew that what she had was nothing compared to what God offers. God offers me eternity. Can I, in gratitude, find ways to offer up my treasure of time?
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This is one of the most profound and moving stories from Jesus about just what generosity really means - surrendering all we have to live on and trusting that God will supply whatever it is we need. That is the heart of this story - trust. It means trust in God and trust in others and together God and the others supply all we need.
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The meeting of Narendra Modi and Pope Francis as well as the Indian PM’s invitation to visit his country made global headlines. Religious leaders have appealed for peace and unity amid repression and abuses.
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Jesus commends the pragmatism of the cunning servant and suggests that his followers should be just as pragmatic when it comes to their own dealings and negotiations with God so that they aren’t trapped in their own deviousness. This pragmatism is yet another instance in the Gospels of the lack of any obsession with perfectionism. Why? Because perfectionism is something humans seek without any reference to God and the only thing Jesus recommends is dependence on the grace of God to see that his followers recognize what discipleship really means - living from God’s goodness and not their own virtue.
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Jesus finds immense depth in a moment of deep bigotry and prejudice among those seeking to find fault with him and he puts it to good use in taking his message even deeper into the lives of the people of his time. He uses the exclusive judgment his critics put on him to emphasize something essential to his meaning and message - forgiveness that results in the inclusion of people seen to be not good enough to be. Included among those blessed by God.
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Luke’s gospel is very strong and consistent in emphasizing that faith begins with God’s invitation. But then the evangelist is very insistent that the invitation requires our response if anything is to be made of the the invitation. And that is very much to the fore in today’s text: Jesus is emphasizing the response to his invitation and the costly nature that response. And the cost of response is not less than everything. But in paying everything, again it is the grace of God that allows us to let go and give ourselves to God in a fully generous way.
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Remembering our dead - what we do today, on All Souls Day - is a deeply mysterious event. It’s mysterious not simply because it is a direct engagement with something that all of us face and will face though we know nothing about what will become of us as such. But as well, it is an event we already are engaged in and have many intimations of “the next life” because we are engaged with it in memory of the deceased, in praying for them and in asking for their prayers for us. And in those acts, we are adventurously moving into an aspect of the next life before we have joined it. But the more we move into that space and anticipate that transition and the more we engage with those who’ve gone before us to fuller life with God, the more real it all becomes.
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The Feast of all Saints today is both a solemn celebration of the destiny of us all and the actual condition of so many simply not recognized in the formal lists of those welcomed by God into everlasting life. But the presence of the Beatitudes as the Gospel for today’s Mass also reminds us of how we are all empowered to get to the saintly state - by God’s grace meeting us in all the ordinary events and occasions of our lives, all the common people who make upper days and in whom we see God inviting us to grow into the loving people we are invited to come every day.
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Being a Christian is not about behaving toward others in a certain way. It is about having a special kind of relationship with God. All else follows from that.
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Here Jesus summarizes in simple and direct terms what is at the heart of his message - God is above all and for all and self-sacrificing love is our way of responding to God’s love for us.
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The battle between the underground and state-sanctioned churches continues in China after a bishop was detained for the sixth time.
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We could read this Gospel as an encouragement to adopt an attitude of “enlightened self-interest” when it comes to management of our engagements with others. That is a kind way to interpret it. But really what’s going on is that Jesus is recommending something absolutely basic to the attitude we need to adopt in the following of Jesus every day: putting others before us so that hey may prosper and benefit well ahead of us.
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Today’s Gospel has two important messages: first of all, being bound and inhibited by the Law is a disservice to faith and love but, secondly, that is especially because Jesus as the Son of God, is Master of the Sabbath. Love and faith. Need recognition and following always. But that is made so important because our following of Jesus makes all compliance with laws and customs a very relative matter and needs the prior question answered first: is what we propose to do actually the most loving way to behave?
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Today is the Feast of two Apostles - Simon and Jude. So today’s Gospel is one account of the call and commissioning of the Apostles who are given their rolling the early Christian community as the initial and principal witnesses to Jesus’ Resurrection.
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We are seeing more and more each day the impact of human-caused damage to the environment. We need a familial sense of our connection with the rest of creation. It may be too late to head off even more problems. However, the present crisis may cause us to reflect upon our relationship with all of life and, as the Japanese bishops say, “Protect All Life.”Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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Not surprisingly, there are some followers of Jesus who want to know whether all their efforts and sacrifice will yield them any benefit with their standing in God’s eyes. What does Jesus do when asked that question? He replies by suggesting his followers should not concern themselves about that, put themselves in God’s hands and that will see their prospects are safeguarded.
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Once again, Luke the Evangelist comes to the fore as vivid story teller, providing pictures and images so that weight grasp something more of the deep mystery of the Kingdom and God’s transforming power at work in us - the transforming yeast that works in with the flour to produce the satisfying fulfillment of a batch of bread and the mustard seed that grows into a tree to provide cover and safety for all those blessed to enjoy its reach.
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What today’s Gospel underlines is God will not be imprisoned by human laws, conventions or constraints. God and God’s spirit at work in us “can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine. Hypocrites are those who invoke the name of God and then contain God’s work by the limitations that human restraints place on it. What are we to do? Open ourselves to God and pray “Come Lord Jesus!”
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The Gospels do not hesitate to put us followers of Jesus in a bad light. We, represented by the disciples, can be so dense that we miss something that evil demons know and that even a blind man can see. That is, that Jesus is the presence of the Reign of God among us.
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This healing story is a classical one - it is healing by Jesus in response to the faith Bartimaeus has in Jesus. It is classic not only in the sense it fits everything the healing miracles display - they are all in response to the faith of the person seeking the miracle of Jesus. It is classic in that it highlights what Jesus can and does do - open our eyes and show us the way to see life as God wants us to not sa we willfully determine.
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Religious minorities face hard times amid rising intolerance and anti-minority sentiment in Asian nations.
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Perseverance and commitment are what is needed inner faith journey as well as as God’s grace. Today’s Gospel shows that in our lives, Jesus is asking us not simply to seek and search but also to never give up hope. Are we ready to wait and to keep seeking? If we are, we will find that God notices and blesses our enduring commitment to seeking God’s blessing. That is our faith journey.
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All too often in life and no less in our relationship with God we think it’s all and only God’s work to bring the change we seek or the remedy we long for. This Gospel underlines that it is in our hands to read the “signs of the times” and make a response that is appropriate as we reckon with what needs to be done. God works with us but not without us.
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Conflict and division, however unpleasant and undesired by us they may be are nevertheless an unavoidable part of life and sometimes those are closest to can become those with whom we have the deepest and most painful divisions. What are we to do? Often enough it is only the grace God that can bring these divisions to be healed. It is only when we let gothic God can be God and bring the healing we need.
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Faith is a matter of an invitation we receive from God and then the response we make to that invitation. God doesn’t do everything for us because, to be effective, we have to be ready and full in our response as God has been generous in his invitation to us to join the Kingdom and give ourselves in his service.
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The mission of the Church is to point to the coming and the presence of the Lord. And sometimes the is a costly vocation as it was for the first Jesuit missionaries in North America who paid with their lives in gruesome martyrdoms for doing just that among the North American indigenous population. Ours too can be a costly vocation in a different way but still costing us our lives.
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Luke is the best writer in the New Testament at narrative description and story telling. His stories are rich in detail, color and context, making his point clearly and openly. Today’s text is no different and goes to what is entailed in following and witnessing toJesus so we can follow him and do his work.
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Sometimes, being a Christian means going against doing what comes naturally. The whole world does what comes naturally, and that is why it needs salvation.
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Despite being with Jesus for as long as they have been with him, his followers really get very little of what his message and meaning is. Lest we think ourselves to be a cut above these simple rustic types, we need to recognize that we are in much the same situation. Every day is a new day and every day we are asked to make a fresh start and begin again the search for God and the discovery of how Jesus is calling and drawing us. And we have something new to learn each day.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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A brave Filipino journalist has won the Nobel Peace Prize in a world of shrinking press freedom. Asian nations are confronting natural disasters, oppressive regimes and extremist forces.
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We continue today the “hard sayings" of Jesus in Luke’s Gospel. Luke is the master of narrative and tells some of the richest stories in the New Testament. He makes Jesus message vivid, rich, deep and often consoling. But heals describes how high the stakes arena how difficult the challenges are. We can’t hope to meet those challenges without the saving blessing of the Spirit’s guidance and support.
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St Teresa Avila is a most remarkable woman. She is a Doctor of the Church, a mystic, a Church reformer in a time of great disturbance and turmoil in the Church and one who today points us towards where we can find the sure foundation for our service of God and the Church - in our own mysterious union with God in the Spirit.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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This section of Luke’s Gospel is brutal and extreme in the way it paints Jesus’ grim attitude to his contemporaries and the choices they make about following or abandoning him. What he is saying is that in the grimness of the times, Jesus wants his followers to make a choice for him even in the darkness and in that choice seek the light of Christ even as it appears to be a choice in the midst of darkness.
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Jesus is plainly very angry with the religious hypocrites of his times. He sees what counter-signs they re to the very with they think they are promoting and protecting. But what actually can he do about their attitudes and behavior? Nothing! He upsets them but he can’t change them. For them to change would require personal examination and choices based on things where they lose control. Without faith and a deep relationship with the God who renews and sustains them, that change is very unlikely.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Again, Jesus testifies to the fact that he just doesn’t fit into the narrowband controlling categories prescribed for him by the religious authorities of his time. Jesus is remarkable because besides not fitting, he actually goes about then creating the world where he can fit and one where others can join him and discover the liberating richness of the grace filled space offers for his followers to live and grow in.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s Gospel proclaims just what faith in Jesus is about - not marvel at the signs and wonders he works but trust in the steadfast love he has for us and which can save us. This is about our relationship with Jesus and not simply an account of the benefits accruing to us because of what Jesus can and does do for us.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Jesus is challenging us to live in the real world, to give up all that might allow us to avoid the truth that there is no easy way to share in everlasting life. And everlasting life is what we all really want; all our other searches are symptoms of that desire.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Sometimes people take an attitude to faith that vindicates Karl Marx’ judgment of religious faith - that it is the opiate of the people. Not so Jesus for whom faith is always presenting us a challenge and another aspect of the challenge is in today’s Gospel. The reality is we don’t get what we want when we want it just because we ask for it. What we need is dedication and perseverance as we persist in the requests we make of our God who is generous and attentive but not instantly compliant with what we might request or demand. We have a relationship with God that is mutual and interactive, not driven by “command and control on either side.
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People in Asian nations strive for freedom, rights and justice as politics, violence and the pandemic cast long shadows on their lives.
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Responding to flattery of both him and his mother, Jesus cuts straight to the bone and emphasizes what is essential to faith: not blood relations but the spiritual bonding that comes with being children of the same father – God.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s Gospel goes to the heart of the perennial question posed to us believers: how can we be confident that God is at work in whatever is moving us? There is really only way to answer that: are there the signs of the Spirit’s life at work in us, are we at peace, are we joyful and are we more attentive to others needs and energetic in responding to them?
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Our relationship with God is not simply a matter of our rejoicing in God’s largesse. Yes, our faith is based on God’s abundant generosity. But as in any real relationships with God: it is not matter of simply stating our terms and conditions. God does not act at our whim. Perseverance is what God asks of us in our relationship with him and in seeing from God what we need.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Jesus is many things to us including a patient teacher and in today’s Gospel he isa patient teacher of prayer. Today’s version of the Our Father begins with the words that remind us of our original and unifying bond as human beings - that is the creation of us by God, our Father. We could spend all day simply contemplating that mystery.
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Martha’s objection to the apparent laziness or at least irresponsibility of her sister in paying attention to serving their guests and asking Jesus to correct her behavior produces from Jesus one of the sharpest lessons in just what discipleship asks of Jesus follower - keep and focused attention to discipleship rather than the routines, as in this case, of hospitality. Putting the service of Jesus ahead of all that shows how the key priority of serving God first and above all must prevail in our following of Jesus.
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St Francis of Assisi is the preeminent reminder of just how inexhaustible God’s love is, how far and wide it reaches and how challenging it is to live as a disciple of Jesus. We can only do it with God’s helpful which we need to ask every day.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Jesus defended two groups in his society that had no defense. He forbade discarding wives or denying children their right to a place among his followers. There is no toleration in the Reign of God for the bias that infected his society and infects our own.
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There are two hard stories in today’s Gospel - first that God asks us some things will never b able to realize left entirely our own resources; and that we need to recover the innocence and trust of a child if we are to come to appreciate what God’s love can accomplish in and through us. Both are part of our faith journey and both can only be discovered by doing and enacting them.
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Extremism remains a threat to minorities in Asian nations as vulnerable communities reel from natural and man-made calamities.
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Angels in Jewish and then consequently Christian though and piety have a simple force and purpose: they are the carriers of God’s presence who come into our experience to prompt our openness to God’s invitations and to assure us of God’s enduring and effective presence in our lives Our alertness to God’s presence and action gets shape and focus by our alertness to the angelic promptings.
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Although today is the Feast of St. Therese, the Little Flower, there is nothing flowery about the Gospel we have for this feast day. At this stage of Luke’s account of Jesus journey to Jerusalem, Luke shows Jesus to be very frustrated and expecting much more of the crowds following him than they appear to be ready to offer. Perhaps the richest and deepest prayer for us at this time in Luke’s Gospel comes when we spend time with Jesus in his frustration and disappointment and wait with him for the Father to indicate what steps he should take next.
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Today is the Feast of St. Jerome to whom we are indebted for several foundational elements in our faith - collecting together what became the the Canon of the New Testament and secondly for translating those books in the New Testament into Latin for the Vulgate edition. Jerome saw how foundational the Word scripture is to founding and developing our faith. Today’s readings specify just how foundational the Word is to grounding and sharing our faith.
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Nathaniel is declared by Jesus to be “an Israelite incapable of deceit” or one in whom there is no double dealing. Nathaniel is straightforward, reliable and honest. Nathaniel is astonished at Jesus’ judgment but all the same and for Jesus, this assessment is made only as the first step to introducing Nathaniel to something much deeper and more significant - that he will be offered direct engagement with God through the angels ascending and descending where the angels are the carriers of God’s presence and gifts.
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October is World Mission Month, but mission is not just something to think about for a few days out of the year or one among many activities of the Church that other people and groups also do. Mission is the reality of God and our life as God’s people. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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Today’s Gospel is a further instance showing how far Jesus’ disciples have to go to understand who he is and what his message is. They are trapped tribalism. But as today’s Gospel demonstrates, so are the Samaritans and that blocks them from hearing Jesus message and living a new life. That is a gift for God to give.
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What an appropriate Gospel reading for today’s Feast of St. Vincent de Paul. This French priest became a model of sacramental ministry but also someone to urge and encourage service of the poor as a hallmark of not just of Christian service but of Christian discipleship too. There is a highly acclaimed film of the life of St. Vincent de Paul that has the Saint on his death bed speaking to a young and enthusiastic follower who, in his innocence asks the saint for the secret to his holiness and St. Vincent replies “Give, give all you have for as long as you can and then ask the poor you serve to forgive you for what you are doing and how you think you are making a difference”.
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We companions of Jesus have an essential vocation. All men and women are called to live in the dignity of children of God.
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How do we manage people who’re like us and doing things we are familiar with but don’t subject themselves to the same institutional constraints we do? We can see them in all sorts of negative ways or we can look at them, appreciate and celebrate the good things they do and put to one side the competitive instinct that seeks to overpower them. The key is to allow god to share the space with us and not allow our own power drive to dominate.
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Christians face violence as Myanmar continues to burn under military rule. Rights abuses haunt vulnerable and minority groups as well as dissenters.
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Today’s Gospel is the text focused on Jesus’ identity and what that means for what is to become of him, his mission and to his followers. Jesus faces the full prospect of failure and defeat and warns his followers that their destiny won’t much different. So he invites them to face this prospect with courage and confidence based on their union with him.
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Today’s Gospel text goes to the heart of just what Jesus is afraid of seeing develop among his disciples: marveling at signs and wonders and through paying attention only to them, missing the centerpiece of Jesus’ real message. That message is simple: you will only appreciate what God is offering in Jesus if you appreciate that he is inviting his followers to surrender to God in the heart of suffering. Jesus’ message is good news for those enmeshed in tragedy.
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In today’s gospel episode, Herod shows all the insecurity someone in power can display when one more apparently threatening event occurs and the insecure person seeks to eradicate the threat. The insecure power holder really wants to eradicate the threat but dares not allow his real fears to become known. That is what Herod is trying to do unsuccessfully because his ploy is so obvious. What should he or we, when we rein such a position, do to overcome our fears? The truth will set us free.
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Today’s Gospel makes it very clear how Jesus expects his followers live and act while on their missions for him - with full dependence on God’s mercy and provident generosity. Placing their trust in God’s provident generosity does two things at least: it specifies where their strength and commitment comes from and explains who is adding the increase bringing the fruit from these events in God’s service. It is the Spirit that adds the increase and it is God’s service that Jesus’ followers are performing. There is no other source or center of their lives and work.
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Suitably enough, we have the Gospel text telling of the calling of St. Matthew to be read and heard on this, his Feast day and this particular text sums up one of the most important things Jesus teaches - that his followers are not the ritually pure or the always correctly living. He came to call sinners and being righteous and pure can be a big obstacle in our way to recognizing our real condition - before God and one another. Tax collectors are the agents of the Imperial invader. The morally lax are the least observant of the Law. But these are the ones Jesus wants to be with and draw to God.
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Today is the Feast of the Korean martyrs who are the seed bed of one of the most lively churches anywhere in the world. Martyrdom is the abandonment of any control or direction of lives into the hands of people who may or may not bring our lives blessing. Martyrdom means surrender to the will of God who does infinitely more than we can or imagine It means recognizing are in God’s hands and it is God’s work to make something of our efforts and plans. It is the journey of faith in its most basic format.
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We can all understand the argument the disciples had. We spend much of our lives seeking status, protecting our status, or mourning the loss of status.
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Clearly, this parable comes from the period of Church life after the death and resurrection of Jesus and reflects the way the early Christians are coming terms with the reality that lots of people don’t enthusiastically embrace Jesus and his message. It has a lot of reference for us any Christian community today too. Through it all, the message is clearly that the initiative is with God and our response depends on our readiness to allow God to lead and change us and not allow ourselves to be swamped and distracted by voices and messages that will take us away from the Lord’s loving way of leading us.
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Religious and ethnic minorities continue to face discrimination and abuses across Asia, even as Catholics in Pakistan and Vietnam sought divine intercession from Mother Mary to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The most important thing about today’s Gospel is not that here Jesus describes four types of disciples and we can portray ourselves according to one of the characterizations Jesus offers us. The most important thing to appreciate is that God is always at work in whatever situation or circumstance we find ourselves and inviting us to grow deeper in God’s loving embrace if only we can recognize that this is God’s work, not ours, and that God can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.
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Today is also the Feast of St. Robert Bellarmino, Doctor of the Church
Today’s Gospel gives us a look at how Jesus and his community of disciples were sustained and provided for - who among their group bought and prepared food, and most likely how the group was able to find support and resources in the community through the network of attentive women serving the “out reach” project is leading.
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Some people can use their faith to structure the way they categorize other people, control their own behavior, use the characteristics of faith to make them feel secure in their superiority. Faith of course has nothing to do with such selfish purposes. It provides a platform to launch us into life, interact respectfully with others and be alive to the promptings of God’s Spirit.
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Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The Cross is exalted so everyone can see it so that they not only behold the means of our redemption but so that we are drawn to it and taken up into its healing and saving strength. The Cross is lifted up so that we are both drawn to it but saved by it and through it.
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Today is the Feast of St. John Chrysostom, an early Doctor of the Church. He stands as an example of what we need more of today - leaders who can stand between contesting parties and bring them together. The Gospel today suggests some of the characteristics needed to effect real reconciliation: humility before God as the giver of the gifts needed for respect and unity and deep abandonment to God as the one who brings unity and understanding unseen and unexpected.
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Authentic humility is a great gift because it allows us to appreciate and appropriately value the gifts we have been given and on which our lives depend. The Centurion in today’s gospel is, of course, not a Jew. But he is still overtaken by the abundant generosity that flows over him from Jesus’ goodness. Underling that is the fact that God’s gracious abundance knows no boundaries of family, ethnicity, nationality or loyalty.
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Christ's call for us to take up the cross is an invitation to learn that though suffering is always with us and may make us think God is far from us, it is actually a share in the life of God who also takes up the cross.
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Today’s Gospel text in many ways briefly summarizes the message of Jesus - that it is only by throwing in our lot with Jesus and letting go of the pursuit of our own self interest that we can give a welcome to the freedom and liberation that Jesus promises. The only question we have to answer and we have to answer it every day is this: are we will to let go into God’s mercy and take all that life brings as gifts of God’s goodness, even if they are dark blessings?
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Minorities and vulnerable communities are facing threats and rights abuses from repressive regimes and extremist forces, while economic hardships from Covid-19 are increasing the woes of millions.
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With the practical and indeed rustic common sense so characteristic of Jesus in his story telling, where he tells stories in simple terms that the people of his time and all times will grasp the meaning of, he once again goes to metaphors and stories that people in rural settings will grasp immediately. Firstly, today it’s about the simple truth that only good trees bear good fruit. Then it’s Jesus making the simple point that buildings only survive if they rest on firm foundations. What does this mean for our faith journey? It means it all rests on the deepening relationship we develop with God in the Spirit.
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One of the most arresting effects of finding fault with other people’s views or behavior is that we become completely blinded to our own shortcomings and limitations while we focus on where others are at fault. How do we get away from this destructive distraction? Simple: every time we see or feel a rush of negative judgment come over us about others, simply turn to God and seek the blessing of the Spirit on the one we are finding fault with.
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Today is the feast of St. Peter Claver to whom I have a special devotion. He spent his life serving African slaves in a city to the north of Latin America. They were left out and neglected to a point where they were expected to die of the neglect, hunger and disease that became their lot in the service of their Spanish and Portuguese “owners” who thought themselves well above the slaves in social standing and in the eyes of God. Claver was there to make hose delivering this misery think again.
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The justly very famous Lutheran theologian Karl Barth made a very helpful distinction that applies to today’s feast of Mary’s nativity: there is a profound difference between the miracle happening by God’s grace and the mystery it points to which in this instances the birth of the Son of God, Jesus, because Mary is acclaimed as the “theotokos” or the God Bearer.
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Something that has people glued to Jesus is his capacity to heal them of the possession by evil spirits who torment and destroy them. One of the things he empowers his followers to do is share that healing power he has and bring tormented people to some stability. At the heart of Jesus ministry and the ministry of his followers is the Spirit who brings healing, renewal and strength.
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It’s hard to exaggerate how mind numbingly self-destructive we humans can be. So it’s comforting to know that Jesus saw just how self-defeating we can be and offers a way that can see such futility reversed or neutralized. What Jesus does is stand on the firm ground of common sense to break the spiral of self-defeating religious mumbo jumbo and just asks his detractor to fault that appeal to commonsense and what they know to be the foundation of their religion. But guess what? The fanatics still find cause to fault him!
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The way to make God's love present in this creation is to groan with Christ. Anyone who has tried to share God's love with the world comes to know that.
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The story in today’s Gospel recounts the reversals which have come one man’s way. Jesus enters that life to reverse the fortunes of the man afflicted with the reversals and lead him to a fuller, richer, deeper life of blessing. Bu the core message is that whatever our life brings - blessings or hardships - they are all opportunities for engagement with and gratitude to God.
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The prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award has honored the role of individuals in transforming lives and societies across Asia. In other parts of Asia, calls continue for an end to oppression, injustice and corruption.
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Common sense and recognizing the priority attending to actual needs rather than simply standing on his dignity to see that the rules are kept is a hallmark of the way Jesus operates. Throughout the Gospels, Jesus demonstrates how down to earth and practical he is. He invites his followers to focus on people, service and self-sacrifice a long way ahead of keeping the rules.
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In today’s Gospel story, Jesus faces the recurrent question of what is needed to bring lasting change - How deep and complete does the change need to go? To the roots? Case by case and a bit here and a bit there? Jesus asks the question because the change he invites is transformative and no half measures will bring the transformation he is inviting his follower to embrace.
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Today’s Gospel is as powerful a story as we find in the New Testament about God’s determination to see his will done and to the limits ways in which we can block or impede God accomplishing the very purposes and outcomes that the divine purposes have been focused on. God’s will is done apparently without the disciples even noticing. That is in fact our daily experience if only we can open our eyes.
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Today, we see a focus on two of the key features of Luke’s Gospel - Jesus contest with dark spirits that bring confusion, division and death with his Spirit, which brings joy, peace life and love. Curiously, the demons know who Jesus is. The disciples are confused and uncertain - very much like us in our shallow and uncertain faith. To compensate for the shallowness of their faith, they try to get hold of him, control him and keep him from his mission. They are just like us when loves’ substitutes hold sway. But he moves on and he does take them with him.
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Today’s Gospel is taken from early in Luke’s account. The Synoptic Gospels all share presentation and portrayal of Jesus as then leading God’s fight against the spirits of death and darkness and offering life and love with which the dark and evil spirits are vanquished. This is not just a weird and eccentric account of a world afflicted by evil spirits which our more sophisticated and science based explanations of human behavior can dispense with. Evil spirits are at work in and among us bringing death. Just look at the record of human destructiveness in our times. It’s that deathless that Jesus wishes heal and renew if we will let him.
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Here at this stage in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus receives the clearest outline of his prophetic mission, as Luke recalls what that mission is as described as being by the Prophet Isaiah. Then Jesus goes on to describe what the mission of a prophet will cost the candidate for the prophetic mission - misunderstanding and rejection. Jesus knew his destiny from the beginning his ministry.
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Do my devotions, practices and thoughts deepen my understanding of real Christianity, or am I in danger of wandering from the truth? Have the customs I learned from my family, from my community and from the teachers of my faith begun to warp or replace that faith?
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Jesus makes it very clear that what he calls his disciples to is not a religion of empty formalism but one that lives from and is nourished by a conversion of heart that aims to transform the lives of his followers and make them new as saved and redeemed people. He wants to change our hearts and so change our lives rather than just change our behavior and that is all - conformity to a new etiquette - as if that can answer the hungers of our souls for redemption.
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Asia is reeling from the fallout of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and the lethal spread of Covid-19 while vulnerable and marginalized communities call for rights and justice.
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To follow up the Gospel story we heard yesterday, this Gospel today directly addresses the matter of our response to Jesus’ generous call to us. God gives all the good gifts we receive not for the to sit-in the security of some place where we can ignore them but so that we do something with them, show some initiative in our response and make a return to the Lord who has blessed us so generously.
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The love of God and the call of Jesus in the Gospel can be talked about in a way that completely ignores that the call of Jesus invites a response. Jesus doesn’t simply present a call that that works its way without the need for any engagement by the humans to whom it is directed. Plainly God respects our freedom to respond or not to this invitation and the response to the invitation is the way we join the journey and pilgrimage with Jesus to our everlasting engagement with God in a life that knows no end.
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Once called by Christ and if we have responded openly and generously, it is incumbent on us to remain alert to where God appears in our lives and what he asks of us newly. What God asks us never remains the same because the circumstances and challenges we face will vary and so the terms of God’s invitation must change with the circumstances. Alertness to new terms and conditions and readiness and energy in our responses are the hallmarks of Jesus’ disciples.
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We are in a place in Matthew’s Gospel where the prophetic impulse in the Gospel is strongest. Jesus is declaring “Woe to you…” for being such two timing hypocrites and wants to show his followers how to live in God’s love, outside the judgment that comes on followers of Jesus who are "two-timers” and frauds and so therefore what integrity of faith delivers to us in our living.
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How do we come to faith? Everyone has their own mysterious biography - the people and events who spark interest and openness to Jesus’ presence and message, the arresting experiences that force us to sit up and take notice, the slow and enduring force of people and God’s presence that take us over gradually. Each of us has our own journey, our own milestones, our own turning points. But in them all is the power and strength of God’s Spirit drawing us on to follow Jesus.
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Jesus wants an alignment between what his followers say and what they do in their following of him. He wants us to be sincere and authentic. Sincerity and authenticity are relatively modern ideas - at most no more than 500 years old as fully developed concepts. Burt they take us right to heart of what Jesus is inviting us to be and to do as pilgrims on our faith journey. That’s all very welt to recognize. But living it and living from it is another matter and we can’t live from it if the spirit doesn’t give us the light and the energy to live from the grace God can give us to do so.
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If Jesus is indeed who he and the Church say he is, then there really is no place else to go. If he is real, then any alternative is unreal. We have no choice. If we accept the truth of Jesus' divinity, we must accept the reality of the Eucharist we share.
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Following Jesus requires making and living from a real choice: can we entrust our lives into God’s hands and leave to God making something of the surrender and sacrifice into God’s hands of all that God first gave us.? Because that is the journey of faith.
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The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan continues to dominate headlines across Asia and the world. The struggle against rights abuses, corruption and injustice lingers, but there are also glimmers of hope and resilience.
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Today’s Gospel is a very brief summary of just what following Jesus entails for us as relive our discipleship of Jesus. Are we ready to delay our own gratification and delay rewarding ourselves for following Jesus? Can we really entrust ourselves to god to allow God’s grace to add the increase?
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It can appear very simple: following Jesus is about two central things - loving God and loving our neighbor. And while that’s true, it’s simplistic to say that’s all it is because following those two simple commandments opens a door to a demanding and challenging pathway for us to follow. Of course we can’t do it on our own or just by our own energy and efforts. The energy and effort that matter are those that God gives us to follow Jesus.
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Clearly there was puzzlement in the early Christian community over why the Chosen People were not rushing the callow Christ. What are they to make it? The only answer the Gospel gives is that people are free not to hear theca of Jesus but if they don’t respond that is their responsibility. This call from Jesus is an entirely free offer. But failure to respond has consequences.
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We have a sequence of Gospels in these days that underline what a paradoxical, surprising and unpredictable message Jesus is proposing. Jesus is not saying that following him will be simple and yield predictable results by following the pattern that comes with a rule book or set of instructions which, if followed, bring a predictable result. In fact, Jesus is saying that following him will mean the pathway is unpredictable and outcomes anything but what you would expect - the first will be last for example.
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It is difficult for us humans - apparently so well endowed and swell resourced - to discover and accept that all the gifts and blessings we have can bean impediment for us in our faith journey. The only way they can assist us in that journeys to accept that they are gifts, put them tone side and allow the Spirit total us on the next stepson our journey.
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We are caught in a whirlwind of change. New realities call for new responses, but where are hints of how to go about them? Perhaps looking at the past will help us move toward the future. But, when we look to the past, what should we hope to learn? Past answers may have been good for past situations, but they can only help us deal with present situations if we view them as process rather than program. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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It is difficult for us to see and name much less surrender what stands between us and God’s deeper embrace of our lives. We are often blind to what blocks our growth as loving people building God’s Kingdom. That can be because we think it’s all our work and so handgun to what we think will best serve God’s purposes. But mostly it’s because we can’t seesaw we are trapped in the good gifts God has given us and can’t see beyond them. That’s why Jesus ask us toilet go and let God lead us, don’t think that we have in our hands all the is needed for our divinely devised mission and let God the work through us - infinitely more than we could asked imagine.
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Every feast of the Church, no matter what its name, is ultimately a celebration of what God has done in Jesus Christ. The Assumption is such a feast, an encouraging reminder of what Christ has done for us and a challenge to live as what we have become through baptism.
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Today’s Gospel cuts straight to the heart of who Mary is for us and why we should be so grateful to her: she embodies discipleship and shows us the way to follow her son, Jesus. The story of the Assumption is plainly miraculous but is only that so so that we can enter more deeply into the mystery of our relationship with God and what that relationship will mean for what becomes of us.
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Religious and ethnic minorities are enduring abuses and discrimination in various Asian nations, while Catholics are on the front line of the battle against the raging Covid-19 pandemic.
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Today’s Gospel reading at Masses, curiously enough, about as appropriate as a reading could be for the saint whose feast we celebrate today - St. Maximilian Kolbe. He was executed in a Nazi concentration camp in WW2 after he substituted himself for a Jewish refugee headed for a gas chamber. It takes the innocence of a child to do something as innocent and generous as that. It takes someone as wondrously unselfish as as an innocent child to surrender their life for a needy and vulnerable person who needs all the help they can get.
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Jesus’ teaching on marriage seems very harsh and restrictive if it is taken literally. But understood as a teaching as applying to all who might ambition to marrying as God would have us do, this teaching really narrowly specifies the criteria that must be met for a marriage that Jesus would bless. As such, we follow an ancient principle in interpreting Scripture and interpret hard teaching in a narrow and restrictive sense.
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The forgiveness we are called on to offer those who have wronged is is a reflection of the forgiveness God has offered us. Forgiveness is the fluid of our faith life - flowing to us, through us and to all that wrong us. Why? Because God has first loved and forgiven us and invites us to be noels forgiving of those who wrong us that God is to us for our failures love and live from the love God has for us.
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Today’s Gospel is a special moment where we can see how the early Christians resolved conflicts and disagreements. The most important thing for us to grasp is that they kept things very personal and engaged. They didn’t allow the conversation to to float off into abstractions. They kept is very personal, very engaged and very communitarian.
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This extract from the Gospel of John comes after the declaration of John’s message through the SIGNS Jesus uses to express what he wants to say and before he goes into the long Last Supper discourse. Curiously, this short and sharp expression summarizes exactly what John is saying is the way into Jesus life and the service of his mission - letting go so God can be and do do all.
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Today’s Gospel is a further gloomy prediction: that the one whom the apostles are following is to comet a painful end when he is given into the hands of ruthless people. Haunted by the looming Cross, Jesus suggests to the grief stricken disciples that will only find their way along the pilgrim path with the Complete faith in God.
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The Eucharist we share is food like that the angel gave Elijah. It is food that enables us to persevere in our long journey to God. It is the strength of God.
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In our journey in faith, we are invited to journey every day deeper into the life of God in our midst. God wants us to share the life of Father, Son and Holy Spirit every day in a deeper and deeper way, for God to b our inspiration and our energy for the journey of faith. And the Eucharist is our nourishment for that journey and the way welcome to share the life of the Trinity every day.
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Asian nations have reported repression against minorities including Christians as strong calls are made for an end to injustice, corruption and human trafficking. These stories and more.
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This Gospel scene is a decisive statement of just what Jesus' miraculous work is really about: faith - inviting it and nourishing it. It’s not about signs and wonders with Jesus provoking people to “look at me!”. It’s about inviting people to faith, it’s about nourishing their faith and actually it begins with their faith!
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The Transfiguration which we celebrate today is the feast that keeps our eyes and attention focused on what God’s grace can do even as we are smothered in circumstances and impacts that seem destructive and overwhelming in their impact that we feel powerless the face of them. This text appears at Mass in Lent to take us from despondency over our own mediocrity and into the confidence and vitality that come-on the full flower offer love of God.
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Today’s Gospel is really what someone would call the clearest and simplest mission statement Jesus could articulate - that he is from God, has a mission from God, this will entail renunciation and suffering but the sacrifice will save people from their sins and that his followers need to embrace that pathway of self-sacrifice and suffering if they are to be his followers and be part of the reception he offers.
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In preparation for the reopening of churches, bishops have an opportunity to raise the quality of liturgical service. Workshops for clergy on preaching and liturgy can be done remotely while waiting for the resumption of normal activities. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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Things never happen as and when we want them to happen and today’s story in the Gospel is one underlining the force and significance of perseverance in our requests for Jesus’ intervention. It jolts Jesus into action.
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Today we have a powerful sequence of stories about the healing that Jesus’ presence brings. This powerful effect is completely free of any effort on the part of the apostles, and in some instances even of their requests. Overwhelmed and bewildered as they seem to be, they are transformed by Jesus’ healing power.
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Today’s Gospel is a decisive turning point in the fortunes of Jesus because the fate of John the Baptist - his execution by Herod’s agents - is a pointer for Jesus to just what lay ahead for Jesus himself. Personal courage and faith in God’s care for him as he remained committed to what he knew God was calling him to are the hallmarks of Jesus journey in faith now.
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The Lord sets a banquet before me, but all too often, I look over, under and around the table for the sort of nourishment I think I need instead of feasting on what I am offered, the only real nourishment I need.
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We have reached the climax of John Chapter 6 and the climax of John’s teaching on the eucharist - that this is how God nourishes us for the journey of life and faith with the body and blood of Jesus, blessed and broken as he will do in the Passion narrative which in John’s Gospel comes after this long section. This chapter addresses the deep hungers that beset a searching disciple and offers the richest nourishment we could hope for.
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Catholics in Asia have experienced both joy and grief this week with clergy ordinations in China and Vietnam and the battle against natural disasters, coronavirus and repressive regimes.
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On the Feast off St. Ignatius Loyola we would do well to consider his two great contributions to the life of the Church - firstly the way he provides for sand introduction to the mystical life and the following of Jesus though his Spiritual Exercises and then what he has done in the way he describes and organizes the lives of Religious through the book of the Jesuit Constitutions and so provides a structure for the lives of active apostolic religious as no undid before him and so provides a framework for religious life that has been instructive for the last 500 years.
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Human beings - like all of us - don’t like change and do everything to resist it. This is especially so hen we have grown comfortable with a familiar view of other people or the circumstances we have experienced and have some control of. Jesus is dealing with just this circumstance in today’s Gospel. Those familiar with him cannot fit a new experience of him into the categories they’ve used to interpret, understand and control him in the past. This is a very familiar challenge for believers.
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Feast of St Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Today we celebrate the feast day of some friends of Jesus who turn up in the Gospel narratives at various points and are very instructive when they do. Today’s Gospel text allows Jesus in John’s Gospel to display the last of the signs his book of signs when he brings Lazarus back to life.
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Again, Jesus uses some very simple but just because they are simple, they remain extremely powerful images and metaphors for the action off God in our world. They suggest just what we need to do in response to the invitation to live by faith: give our lives into God’s hands as we live from God’s goodness and not our own virtues and strengths.
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This text explains the parable of the sower which is a simple story but one which even from New Testament times has been difficult for disciples to appreciate. So, the evangelist goes through the story so everyone listening to the Gospel as proclaimed will work out exactly what the evangelist wants the early community of Christians to get and that is that the initiative remains with God both in the story but also in producing outcomes. We are in God’s hands to do as God wishes and by God's grace.
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The feast of Saints Joachim and Anne has a special place in the calendar of Christian saints even though they are not Christians. It is special because they are Mary’s parents and the grandparents of Jesus. As in all families, parents and grandparents have a big impact on the faith development of their children and grandchildren. It’s right we should recognize and celebrate Joachim and Anne for the part they play in the unfolding the history of our salvation and turn to them in prayer asking for assistance in what we need: tom deepen our trust in God’s generous provision for us.
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The Eucharist is the miracle in which Christ takes "the work of human hands" and presents it to the Father as himself. Our own little bit, our own willingness to search out what we can do, becomes part of that. God is looking for the Andrew in each of us.
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Today’s Gospel story comes from John, chapter 6 which is in John’s narrative another of the signs John offers to demonstrate and explain Jesus' message. But it is also the heart and soul of John’s teaching on the Eucharist. Just as God provided for the people as they watered through the desert, so too, John shows God providing nourishment and sustenance through Jesus as they wander along their pilgrim way.
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Covid-19 and conflicts continue to grip Asian nations alongside endeavors for hope, solidarity and justice.
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Yet another use of an agricultural metaphor by Jesus to show the gentle and often mysterious way in which God nurtures the growth of the divine life among us. What it asks of us is patience and trust in a God whose infinitely more for us than we can ask or imagine.
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It’s a mystery we can behold every day - growth in people, growth in groups and growth in movements that is as certain as it is mysterious and often invisible. How does it happen? Why does it happen quickly and palpably in some circumstances and not in others? That’s the mystery. All we can do is give ourselves to god, receive the blessings that come our way and patiently wait till all that we pray for compass God has promised.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today is the feast of St. Mary Magdalene and suitably enough the gospel for today’s Mass is the one recording Mary’s most important contribution to our faith and the story of Jesus -her witness to the Resurrection. Mary of Magdalene is ne of the first and most important witnesses Jesus’ rising. It is the women following Jesus who are the outstanding witnesses to the Resurrection. What subsequent Church history and eve New Testament records have done to the standing of women in general and Mary in particular as apostolic witnesses and advocates cannot detract from just how foundational Mary’s testimony to the resurrection is.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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There is such a familiar accessibility to the stories Jesus tells and today’s Gospel is a classic instance of this - the way grain grows as metaphor for how the Word of God takes root and grows among those drawn to hear it and accept it. Today’s gospel has so much common sense in it, and you can almost imagine yourself in Jesus’ presence, listening to hat he is saying and agreeing that what he is saying makes smooch sense, you can just see yourself nodding and saying “yes, I want my faith to be that simple and my YES to God to be that complete” that I can move more deeply into my companionship with Jesus.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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One of the recurrent themes in Matthew’s Gospel is how the message of Jesus, originally meant for the people of Israel, is actually a universal message meant for all humanity. The same happens withe growth of Jesus’ own appreciation of the full reach of his mission - to Israel as constituted in his time, to “the lost sheep of the House of Israel (namely the lost 10 tribes) to in fact the full reach of the human community. But the message is the same - a new life of intimate engagement and salvation by God’s grace is available for all.
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Today’s Gospel puts the challenge of faith in Jesus very starkly: our faith is in the crucified and risen one and there will be no signs and wonders drawing us to faith beyond what we discover in the person and message of Jesus and ho0w our faith grows as we trace God’s vitality as active in our own biography. Are. We ready to be patient and wait for God to show his hand or do we want God to be active on our terms and as we command? If we want the latter, we don’t have faith in God’s mystery in our life and world but a conviction that God can be manipulated to our defined ends.
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The Lord tells the apostles and us to pack up the picnic basket, get in the boat and get away from it all. Our bodies, minds and souls all need an occasional break. Sometimes, to find prayer and God's love, all I need do is not do.
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The demands made of Jesus in his ministry - people relentlessly chasing him and drawing on him, in a way that exhausts him and his apostles - says something firm and direct about following Jesus and doing his work: if you commit to share his ministry, there is no exit from the demands of the daily following of Jesus. Every moment offers another invitation and another challenge to find, celebrate and respond to Jesus' invitations to praise and thank the Lord even in times that suggest the opposite is an easier response.
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Christians across Asia face a rising tide of intolerance and violence. Calls for justice are intensifying against abuses and persecution under oppressive regimes.
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In this Gospel text, we hear not only the declaration of what Jesus is doing and wants to do but also of how he is doing it and foreshadows his mode of operating hen he gets to Jerusalem. Jesus reveals with under pressure. But there is such complete coherence between what Jesus says here and what he will do in his Passion that this declaration must be taken s a major statement who Jesus is and what he would expect of his followers to effect the transformation his reception offers.
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Today’s Gospel reading has one of the most significant pointers to how we are to serve God, follow Jesus and live at the prompting of the Spirit: The Law is made not for our slash obedience because the Lord is the Maser of the Sabbath and what Jesus has told us is that slavish obedience is not the way to meet and serve God but to find the Prompting of the Spirit guide our journey in faith.
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One of the fastest-growing religious affiliations, or more accurately, disaffiliations is the large number of people who declare themselves to be former Catholics. Departures from the Church are especially pronounced among the young, but are not limited to them. In places like Australia, France, Germany and increasingly in the United States which for many years differed from other places, the Catholic Church is haemorrhaging members. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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What an important Gospel to hear on the Feast of a Doctor of the Church for the Franciscan St. Bonaventure. Come to me all youth labour is a familiar message in Franciscan circles where the love and gentle goodness of God is emphasized. But for Bonaventure, that underlines the spirit of the faith he embraces and so generously and lucidly explains in the significant work he did in theology.
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This gospel text is completely misunderstood if it is taken to recommend an infantile attitude as the only one for us to adopt if we are to draw close to God. Jesus recommends and invites nothing of the kind. What he is simply saying is that we need the vulnerability of a child and the sense of wonder children display so readily if we are to appreciate the starting point we need to find if we are to meet God.
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Two quite violent readings today - one from the Gospel and one from the Old Testament. Both show the dire consequences for people seeking to slide out of responsibility for what they do before and sometimes for God. The point is not the violence of the stories much less that the God we worship and the Redeemer whose way we search for are violent people. The point is that our lives are made up of decisions and they all have consequences.
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We have reached a decisive point in Jesus teaching in Matthew’s Gospel - we are at the end of his instruction of his disciples and Jesus is moving back to preaching and teaching all those drawn to hear his message and follow his way. He tells them it is not for the faint hearted or the weak spirited. It is demanding and requires decisiveness and courage and determination.
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It is hard to believe that God is relying upon me, when I thought I was supposed to rely upon God. But, that's the case. God needs me, needs us, to bring the Good News to a world waiting unawares for it. So, Jesus tells us to wear our shoes, ready to go forth and ready to be ready.
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This text from Matthews Gospel puts the choice before us as disciples very plainly: are we ready to allow the God of healing renew, love and reconciliation to be the dominant force in our lives? If we are not, we are on the side of death and darkness. If we are, we will be healed renewed, forgiven and become life enhancing agents of renewal. It’s our choice which way we go but it is God’s grace that makes our going the way of life and renewal possible.
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The tragic death of elderly Indian Jesuit activist Father Stan Swamy has triggered an outpouring of grief and criticism from across India and the globe. In other parts of Asia, Covid-19 and oppressive regimes pose renewed threats to people.
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Finding the God whom we can worship all our lives and the real person of Jesus whose following becomes the centerpiece of our lives are matters of the utmost importance and actually of the utmost simplicity. Why is it simple? Because it it the Spirit who shows us who and where God is if we will only take the distracting noises out of our lives and let the voice of God become dominant. Surrendering to the promptings of the Spirit and union with God then become the most enriching and life giving experience that grounds our lives.
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While God’s Providential care of us as we do God’s work is assured, that assurance does mean it will be easy or that we are assured of success in what we undertake What we can be assured is that nothing we do for God and the growth of the Kingdom will pass without impact or the attentive grace God brings to anything we do for the Kingdom. God will be with us - in company with Jesus, driven and energized by the Spirit.
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Today’s Gospel contains the simplest description of just hat the mission and message of Jesus’ followers is - the heal people and foster life; to bring peace and to depend on the care and providence of God delivered through his people. But it will also continue disappointments and challenges and a closeness to the Lord is the only way to strengthen ourselves for those reversals.
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In today’s Gospel, we re witnesses to privileged moment in the mission of Jesus. He has just just completed the section in Matthew’s gospel devoted to the core elements of his message and he specifies who it is that the apostles should take the message to -m not just the Jews of Israel but the lost sheep of the House of Israel. That invitation later reaches to the universal boundaries of the human race. Jesus grows in his understanding of what God is asking of him.
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The Gospel in today’s Mass says specifically just what a change the Good News provides as the way to find and serve God: It is not the predictable, “worthy” and obviously blessed to whom Jesus goes but to those who are especially in need and under-resourced. Jesus is always surprising us when he specifies how and where God works - not among the healthy and blessed but for and with those who are on the margins, unsupported and plainly great need.
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All sorts things can stand between us and hearing and receiving God’s invitation to faith. Often enough it’s the sheer noise in our lives that blocks us from hearing the call of Jesus. In this Gospel, it is noise from the people is with and from people cynical bout his power to heal, renew and change. Jesus cuts through the noise and does his healing work.
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Jesus learns something we all know: people don’t like change especially the sort pf change that invites them to reconsider some of their basic presuppositions about life and others but most especially when it comes to reconsidering God and what God might be asking of us. That is what this Gospel story is about and it is relevant to us every day of our lives: are we ready to let God be God and not the projection of what we want or need?
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God does not force us to accept love. In today's Gospel, we hear that Jesus could not perform miracles because people would not believe in him. They were not willing to accept the love God offered them because it came in a form they did not expect.
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India’s Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church is in hot water again over a controversial land deal. In other parts of Asia, there are stories of people craving rights and freedom along with messages of hope and blessings.
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The doubts that Thomas has about Jesus risen are representative of our human misgivings and to be expected of us all - anyone in the first century of the Christian Era or in the first century of the third Christian Millennium can be expected to be skeptical about belief in something happening when we die and are taken into a life that none of us has any experience of. But that is the lynchpin of our faith: being raised to a life with God that happens completely at God’s initiative and owing nothing to our capacity or achievement. To come to that belief we must put ourselves in God’s hands and be led to that depth of faith.
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Jesus calls us all in the real world we inhabit everyday. Sometimes that world naturally opens us to God and sometimes it obstinately blocks God out. Whatever that world does to our engagement with God, it really can’t block God out of our lives because obstinately refuses to abandon us. God is there always in every circumstances inviting us to follow Jesus.
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The American bishops have failed to influence their society on the matter of abortion, they want to override the democratic system and replace it with themselves as a Catholic version of the ayatollahs who rule Iran by vetting candidates and policies. Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 years’ experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia reflects that unless those “weaponizing the Eucharist” can get their fellow bishops to unanimously agree, anything they come up with must be approved by the Vatican that already told them to slow down.
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This story draws on what was a common perception in the time of Jesus - that physical affliction was part of punishment for sin. Jesus doesn’t believe that for one moment but people around him do. Jesus wants to show his power over something much more important than repairing physical impairment. He wants to demonstrate his power to completely refresh, renew, heal and renovate lives - to forgive sins.
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This is one of the most vivid stories in the New Testament about how Jesus has an impact in driving the demented and destructive spirits out of people. The demoniacs are possessed by evil spirits intent on destroying the people they possess. In a very Jewish way, the demons are sent to live in the loathed pigs whom they destroy. But the effect Jesus has is to cleanse and renew and bring toile what had been disordered by bad spirits.
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Today’s feast of Saints Peter and Paul highlights the two essential features of the Church: the rock of faith in Jesus on which the Church is built and the One we find through the sacraments and then the missionary impulse which drives the Church’s purpose. They are the two sides of the same coin and the two saints today embody those twin impulses.
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There are always reasons and occasions to do other things than respond to the invitations God offers us. But when the invitation comes, it is our turn to respond to God’s call and strangely our reluctance to respond to the invitation of the Spirit may itself be the best indication that now is the time to respond. That should be our first prayer: Lord, open my eyes and heart to her your call and respond.
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The world as God wills it and the world as we experience it are both real. To accept only one while ignoring the other is not realistic.
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Jesus is continuing to do battle with the spirits that bring death an here is an iconic instance of that battle in which Jesus asserts and then delivers on his assertion that he is in command the forces at work and no amount of darkness can prevail. How do we access that command asserted by Jesus? Have with in him and invite his assistance.
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Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing administration has put the last nail in the coffin of a free press and democracy by shutting down popular newspaper Apple Daily in a city once known as Asia’s media hub. In other parts of the region, people continue their struggle for rights and justice against oppression.
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This gospel is especially important because it invites us to embrace the message of Jesus not just in words but in deed - that Jesus is the one with the power of life over death who can create life and prospects for us out of nothing? That is what our faith invites us to do - to let God be God and be the one who can create for us and our world when we see no prospects at all.
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Jesus has just finished delivering what is clearly his biggest piece of teaching in Matthew’s Gospel - the Beatitudes - and then the evangelist has him engaged with what is central and extensively throughout his ministry: healing the sick. Jesus’ healing ministry is his preaching and teaching ministry in action. His preaching and teaching is intended to bring reconciliation and renewal as he so evidently does in this encounter.
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Today is the feast of the birthday of John the Baptist who was never a baptized Christian but all the same is a Christian saint. That’s unusual enough but what is truly extraordinary is the sort of Saint John is. John the Baptist is the most simple and explicit instance of what the vocation of every Christian is - his vocation was to be the first person to explicitly point to the coming and the arrival of Jesus, sent by God to b the Christ and to save us.
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Jesus and his follower were just as concerned as we and our contemporaries are about authenticity - who can be trusted. Is it just someone saying they are real and reliable or is there a way we can test for authenticity? That’s what Jesus asks and answers in today’s Gospel.
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Following the call of our Lord isn’t for people trying to avoid challenges. Following our Lord is following the call of Jesus on the journey to Jerusalem which also means to crucifixion - his certainly and ours too. Confronting as that journey is, we don’t take that path alone. We are following Jesus and accompanied by the spirit. Without their support we can’t make the journey. But God promises to faithfully accompany us all the time and all the way.
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Today is the feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga. A a boy I went to a school named after this saint and his memory was done no favors by the sentimental historians who told the story of his life. He actually came from a very destructive and dysfunctional family and lived at a time in the life of the Church that was was a bold challenge to authentic faith. But he discovered deep and true faith, learned to love those who didn’t really love him, especially in his family, and loved the weak and sick so much that he died of the bubonic plague which he caught while serving those afflicted with and dying of the Plague.
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The night prayer of the Church recognizes the connection between sleep and death. Our night prayers are meant to be a preparation both for dropping off to sleep and for death, when we will have to let go of everything.
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Today’s Gospel is a text to reassure us even in the face of circumstances where we feel completely swamped by challenges and circumstances beyond our control. This text takes us to places in our lives and prayer where we feel completely beyond our own resources. That is in fact a common place for us to find ourselves even though we are reluctant to accept it most of the time. But if we can accept it, we will move to a place where we find an even more enriching dependence on God comes to our aid.
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This week, strong calls for human rights and justice resonated in Asian nations, while stories of hope and resilience emerged amid calamities and conflicts.
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Throughout the Old and New Testament, there is the consistent message that whatever trouble we get into by our own hand or through the ways others treat us, God will be with us and provide for us.
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It’s an old saying the “we make our own luck” and that is what Jesus seems to be saying today about our engagement with God and our following of Jesus. This Gospel text emphasizes that it is up to us to choose where and how we engage with Jesus. It comes from what we most prize and where we want to place our own selves to fall into God’s way.
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Christian prayer is the active cultivation of the presence of God in which we give thanks for all God does for us, ask for what we need and seek the transformation God’s grace can bring.
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This section of Matthew’s Gospel is especially concerned about authenticity - saying what you. Mean, doing what you say. The death of any religion, indeed anything proposing reform an ideals in life, hinges on the proponent being coherent in presenting view which the proponent him or herself is a living example of how it is done. Such end-to-end coherence is the only antidote to hypocrisy which Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel is especially tentiveto killing.
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Following the declaration of the Beatitudes, Matthew has Jesus express just what the “higher road" that following Jesus entails. It really means doing what is diametrically opposite to the cultivation of self-interest would suggest - loving not simply those who love and appreciate us but who may actively work to do us harm - love those who persecute us. That can only be done with the grace God gives us to love more fully, even foolishly.
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Today’s gospel reading comes from Matthew’s Gospel and follows closely after the Beatitudes. In it Matthew has Jesus spelling out what that the “higher road” that followers of Jesus take when they join Jesus on their way to the Father. And the point and purpose of Jesus’ invitation is to love without qualification and to be generous in sharing even your last resource with those who need it.
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'Your mustard seed is what the Reign of God is about. Your little faith, your little effort is enough. Give your little bit and stand by amazed as you see what God will do with it. Your mustard seed will flourish.'
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This early in Jesus’ life the Evangelist wants us to know that Jesus is on a mission from his Father, that his eyes are on that mission, that the journey to Jerusalem that is so much part of Luke’s Gospel is foreshadowed in these incidents and that all he is and does are completely focused on the mission that absorbs him. That’s why he is “about his Father’s business”.
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The uphill battle for survival continues for religious and ethnic minorities in Asian nations, while appeals for freedom and rights persist as the coronavirus pandemic rages in the region.
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Only recorded in Luke’s Gospel, this account of how Jesus becomes a problem to his parents by going off on his own among Temple authorities has a very specific point to make - about Jesus and for us: Jesus is on mission and even his parents need to get out if his way so he can fulfill it. It’s no less the case with uses we seek to know and do the willow God.
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This passage from John’s Gospel is as stark and direct as you can find in John’s Gospel which its readers can complain about for its abreactions. What it is emphasizing is that Jesus really died a painful and final death. Why is it going that? To make the wonder and the mystery of the Resurrection all the more astonishing.
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We could be mistaken and think Jesus is setting up a competitive process to get his followers to compete with their Jewish brothers and sisters to fulfill the Law and become “better” believers by achieving more by their own righteous actions. That’s not what Jesus is saying at all. What he is saying is that through the action of Jesus in our lives we can move beyond appearing to be virtuous and actually excellent in goodness because we are empowered to follow the “higher road” of self-sacrifice proposed by Jesus to his followers through his action in and through ur lives by his grace.
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Jesus comes to fulfill the promises God made to the People of God, not to wipe out all that pointed to this fulfillment. To appreciate what his message of reception really means to us requires that we seethe continuities between what was promised under the First Covenant and what is now offered by Jesus.
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Today’s Gospel has two purposes: to recall the events of the Last Supper and the institution of the Eucharist and secondly to recall for us just what the meaning of the last Supper is - the essential celebration of our liberation in Jesus to match the liberation of the Jewish people from captivity in Egypt.
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The Gospel reading today - the Beatitudes - is the most emblematic statement of just what Jesus’ message is and where God is to be found - on the margins, in a paradoxical presence where we would least expect to find God’s triumph. But that is precisely what our faith declares - God is to be found in weakness and vulnerability, not triumph and success not because God wants us to fall out precisely because it is God’s success and triumph rather than our own that matters and God works best in our weakness.
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On this feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, we once again say "Amen" to being Christ for the world, confident that his real presence with us will help us act as we truly are, his ongoing real presence for the world.
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Today we repeat in the Gospel of Mark what we call the “Institution Narrative”, when Jesus institutes what we call the Eucharist. In memory of him, we bless the bread and the cup to recall the life giving death of the Lord which is transformed by the power of the Resurrection and now recalled and celebrated in the Eucharist. It is difficult to exaggerate what this celebration means to believers for grace and blessing we can receive from it.
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The killing of a former priest has sparked an outcry over the culture of extrajudicial executions in the Philippines. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to cast a long shadow over Asian nations while people strive for democracy and rights in repressive regimes.
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Today’s gos[el story is nothing if not paradoxical because it proposes that those with nothing but still generously offer their “nothing” to God and for the well being of others armor admirable and esteemed by God than those who’re resourced and share from their abundance. Why? Because what Jesus esteems most high is that this widow surrendered “all she had to live on”.
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Today’s Gospel is another chapter in asserting and explaining the heritage of Jesus and just what his gift to us as our savior means - Son of God yes. But also descendant of David as predicted. That affirms his oneness with us humans for our redemption and reconciliation with God.
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When we see and hear how simple God’s invitation and challenge is, we can wonder why we have distracted ourselves as we have with so much additional commentary and so many directives that take us away from simply seeing and hearing how straightforward the message of Jesus is But the simple acceptance of the simple message is not a one-off thing at all but needs to sought and prayed for as a gift from God every day.
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Jesus has enemies and they try to distract people following and listening to him with small quibbles that are too smart by half These pedantic distractions miss the central point Jesus is making - that the life God offers in this world and when we pass from it cannot be contained and controlled and as Jesus’ followers, we are invited to surrender the delusion of contraband of tying God’s world down to the rules and regulations that we humans invent and allow the largeness of God to flood our minds and heart where we give ourselves into God’s hands.
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The reality of what’s going on in this encounter with Jesus is that his audience is trying to trap and mislead Jesus. He will have nothing of it and just sticks to his script. Hey wants people to be genuine and authentic and not dance around distracted from what is central and most important and that is God’s reign and our seeking that above all else.
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The three big feasts we have celebrated in recent weeks are all ways of mapping out what Christian discipleship means and how we can thrive as followers of Jesus. There is no better model pointing the way for us to grow as disciples than we can find in Jesus’ mother Mary, the focus of today’s feast.
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Trinity Sunday reminds us that God can "get into our pocket" and become knowable and lovable not because of what I do, but because God chooses to be known and loved, chooses to be in my pocket.
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The Feast of the Holy Trinity is the second of three Feasts - Pentecost last week and the Body and blood of Christ next week - that are a brief and compact introduction to three essentials for living the Christian faith in God (the Trinity) with Jesus (next week’s feast of Corpus Christi) inspired and driven by the Holy Spirit (Pentecost).
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Deadly conflicts and loss of lives continue in military-ruled Myanmar with Christians and churches being targeted in attacks. In other Asian nations, people keep striving for recovery, freedom and rights amid natural and man-made calamities.
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Jesus is being cross examined by his enemies not to find out the truth about him but to trip him up and make him unable to act. What is his circuit breaker? He refuses to play their game. The only thing he does is to engage with people searching for the truth. And when he finds people who won’t join him in that quest, the only thing left to Jesus is to disengage.
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There is a lot of passion flowing in and around the text in today’s Gospel. But all that action really points in one direction - to the significance of faith and the power of faith to move, change, transform people and circumstances.
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Many miracles in the Synoptic Gospels involve the restoration of people’s sight because seeing with new eyes is part of what Jesus wants to do for us as believers. Seeing differently and more deeply into reality is what happens when we come to believe and find God in places we never expected to. We end up having faith in ways, about people and circumstances that we never imagined could carry such a rich treasure.
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Mark’s Gospel is wonderful for its clarity and simplicity. It shows Jesus coming straight to the point and shows his apostles to as blunt, self-interested and completely unaware of the way they dig holes for themselves as any naively ambitious group can be. But that is the Gospel’s strength: it shows Jesus followers to be people like us - unintelligent and self-interested - and Jesus to be exactly what he remains for us: understanding, patient and accepting as he forgives our self-interest and overlooks how silly and stupid we can be.
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The ebb and flow of good fortune and blessing are constants in all faith journeys and we see that again recorded in today’s Gospel. There is no simple way to account for it, predict its course or anticipate its twists. What we need is simple faith to know we are in God’s hands and to look for the strength and joy that can bring.
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Today’s Gospel according to Matthew contains the significant last words of Jesus that have become central to the prayer life of so many over the centuries and also the basis of so many musical compositions. But the concentration we may have on them should never distract us from what else is going on. This passage is one where Matthew constitutes the Church seen in the way John Takes Jesus mother into his home and they live their Christian life in the shadow of the Cross.
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The Church exists not to be a club of the saved, but to be the herald of the Gospel. Our first concern must always be with those who are outside, for the men and women who have not yet come to know Christ.
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Pentecost Sunday is the birthday of the Church. It is the day when we celebrate the movement of the Holy Spirit to gather and confirm the impact of God in gathering believers into the community that becomes the Church. It is also the day when we mark the age of the Spirit which begins the phase of the Church’s life after the first decades of the Church when those who knew Jesus and developed the first Christian communities (the Apostolic era) began to spread the Gospel and build communities that were the expression of God’s new life and desire for the new generations of Christians.
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Pope Francis has appointed a fellow Jesuit as the new bishop of politically volatile Hong Kong in an attempt to unite the city’s divided Catholic community. In other parts of Asia, people struggle for peace and tolerance amid an onslaught of violence and repression.
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We are coming to end of John’s Gospel and the Evangelist wants to present his credentials as a trustworthy re0porter of the activities and sayings of Jesus. But really the only one who can vindicate the evangelist’s testimonies the Spirit and that happens every day in the lives and hearts of those who receive his testimony as the Word of God.
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Today’s declarations by Peter match the three denials of Jesus after the Last Supper and when Jesus was handed over to Pilate. But the most powerful part of what Jesus has to say to Peter comes when Jesus describes what lies ahead for Peter - being taken to places he would rather not go - and that is the dark side of the journey of faith and the only comfort focus is that Jesus does with us.
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Today’s text from John’s Gospel is most unusual because it is a reflection on something that must have been a real issue in the early Church - The legacy of Jesus’ work of preaching and building the Kingdom: what is to become of it when Jesus is no longer with the disciples in the way he has been until his death. These are real questions for the pre-Pentecost Church and the answer is and always will be the same: it is God’s work to create, build and maintain the Church.
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It is impossible to find our way to God unless we are protected and guided in that journey. That is what today’s Gospel is asking us to do - “consecrate” here means to find protection and guidance.
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“Glory" and “glorification" are recurrent in this part of John’s Gospel. What does it mean? Glorification is how the Fourth Gospel describes how the surrender of self-sacrificing love produces fruit in abundance and points to the abundant generosity of God. That is why the moment of Jesus’ surrender on the Cross is the moment when he glorifies God most completely.
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We are each pf us a work of God, fashioned and renewed and made fruitful by God’s grace. That is the point of what we celebration the Ascension (Jesus renewed union with the Father) and Pentecost when God becomes active and apparent in our lives and world in new and vigorous ways.
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There are people suffering the effects of illness, poverty and injustice. There are people who are ignorant of God's love for them. Evangelization, the fulfilment of our Christian vocation, means finding practical ways to answer those needs.
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We are approaching the end of the Easter Season and approaching through the Ascension the central feast of the foundation of the Church - Pentecost. This means we are invited to discover and embrace completely new ways of meeting and engaging with God. We are always in God’s hands. But how we engage with God will vary and grow as we learn more about God, ourselves and the world we have been offered as the place to discover the Lord in.
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Hong Kongers escape China’s persecution
Communist China’s repressive policies and actions are gradually expanding beyond its borders and mainland China, triggering fear and an exodus of Hong Kong citizens. In other parts of Asia, pro-democracy campaigners, rights activists and minorities continue uphill battles for freedom and rights.
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We are coming to the end of the “Apostolic" period in the life of the early Church and Jesus immediate presence to believers and the intimacy of that engagement gives way to a new level and depth of engagement. It’s just as powerful but different and as believers, the Early Church has to move to a new way of living - intimately connected to God through the Spirit and effective in what the Spirit is doing in believers and the Church.
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Today’s Gospel presents one of the most enduring statements of how we can be with God - “abiding” with and in God. Remaining in and deepening our engagement with God is the simplest statement of what reality of discipleship really is - being accompanied by God through all that life gives and presents us with. But the really wonderful thing about God being with us in all these moments is that God will also resource us by making an active and rich contribution to our conscious enrichment. He will not leave us alone but make sure that we are empowered to serve and granted the peace he promises.
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On Ascension Thursday, we have arrived - in terms of the timings of Scripture readings in the post-Easter period - at the end of the Apostolic Era. Jesus was present to his Apostles and disciples through this period. But that doesn’t mean we have reached the end four engagement with Jesus or God the Father and God the Holy Spirit. So today’s Gospel is especially relevant to us because it spells out that we remain still to receive all that the Spirit wants to give us and grow in us.
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In today’s Gospel, the evangelist in the Fourth Gospel actually introduces us to some whose presence and power in the life of believers and the Church only becomes clearer in the Councils of the Church in the centuries following the time when the New Testament was written and edited: The Holy Spirit.
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Today’s reading from the Acts of the Apostles displayed approach to how faith operates in someone’s life or someone’s coming to faith occurs through a dramatic and extreme experience. Here we have the world broken open in an earthquake. Other stories of people coming to faith in the New Testament can present shorter stories and more gradual introductions to discipleship and the following of Jesus. But whether the invitation to faith is dramatic or gentle and gradual, it is still God who’s the initiative and God who provides the opportunity.
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Faith has consequences for the way we live and how people react to and treat us. And many of the consequences are not appealing or attractive. But the Evangelist in John’s Gospel wants us to be under no illusions about the cost of discipleship or about the closeness of God to us when we are tested.
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Today's continuation of our Easter celebration is a joyous proclamation of the great love God shows in calling us to be united with Christ. It is a day to look at our faults and failings and put them in perspective.
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Today’s reading match and balance each other in very complementary ways. But the point at which they cohere is in the way they all point to God being the one who initiates the life of the Spirit in us and grows the life of faith in us.
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Despite the Covid-19 pandemic worsening in India this week, Catholics expressed joy after the Vatican cleared the way for an 18th century martyr to be declared a saint. Religious minorities including Christians continue to face repression in various Asian nations.
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Today’s Gospel repeats the Golden Rule of Christianity - love one another. Of course the truly remarkable thing is that Jesus did and does love us, even those among us who care littler nothing for him and his love of us all in our arresting diversity. Our challenge is to emulate him in that indiscriminate all embracing love.
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Today’s text from the Fourth Gospel is one of the simplest and tightest summaries of just what the Evangelist wants us to understand to be Jesus’ message to us as his followers: love one another as I have loved you - unselfishly, indiscriminately, consistently and everlastingly. This leads us to the most intimate level of relationship with Jesus and his Father. That in turn provides us with the source of our fruitfulness as Jesus’ companions and advocates.
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Today’s gospel does two essential things: it specifies what our aim and purpose as disciples of Jesus is (to remain in and be animated by God’s love); to share the joy God gifts us with so that our joy may be complete. We need to ask for that every day!
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The evangelist in the Fourth Gospel continues with the agricultural metaphor to explain how we grow in our relationship with God ands in any aspect of our relationship with God, deepening the relationship again occurs at God’s initiative. By God’s grace, our relationship is deepened and so we come to produce the effects - the “fruit” - in the service and joy we come to share with others.
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Peace and the experience of it is the most reliable indicator of God’s presence in our lives and of God’s blessing of the way we have chosen. Peace in our souls is the confirmation of God’s presence and blessing and is also the quiet energy that allows do the good we are called to do.
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Once again, the evangelist in the Fourth Gospel is spelling out how essential it is for us believers to recognize the intimacy of our relationship with the God who sustains and empowers us, and to recognize just hw much we are nothing without that empowering nourishment that comes becomes of our powerful faith relationship.
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In the Acts of the Apostles, Saul shows what love calls for. He continues to proclaim the fact that he has met the Lord though no one trusts him and some even want to kill him. That is the basic vocation to which all followers of Jesus are called.
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John’s Gospel is the most consistent and persistent record of just how intimate our engagement in faith with god really is. Our faith is entirely about nourishing that relationship with God so our lives become transformed. That is the most lasting and beneficial thing about our faith journey - it is a journey in companionship with God and for our benefit.
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The deadly second wave of Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc in India amid an acute shortage of medical facilities. In other parts of Asia, people carry on their struggles against man-made and natural disasters including conflicts.
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We know very little or nothing from the New Testament about Joseph, Mary’s spouse and whose feast we celebrate today. What we do know is he is Mary’s constant and faithful companion, a man of faith and that his silent contribution to the mission of Jesus is much like our own - he points to Jesus and his purpose and mission, contributes to it by his fidelity and asks nothing more than God’s companionship. We can do much worse than just imitate him.
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Today’s text from John’s Gospel sone of the most powerful texts very often used t funerals. And why is it so powerful? Because it clearly provides and answer to a central question in all our lives: what iso become of us? And the answer can only be found hen we say and truly believe what will become of us is in the all loving hands of God.
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Today’s gospel text takes us back to the Last Supper and Jesus instructions to his followers and to us his followers two millennia later and the conviction that should guide all Jesus’ followers: that we are not called to our mission and in it to replace Jesus. No, not at all. We. Remain followers and servants. Growing in God’s grace which we are called upon to share with those drawn search for God.
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At this point in John’s Gospel, the evangelists at pains to found his identity in the mission and words given him by his Father. His mission and his works are intimately tied up with what he has been given by his Father And that has an echo in the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles where the early community is driven to spread the word and build the community and everything is driven by the power of God’s goodness and grace.
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This gospel has a very distinctive echo in our times. We live in an era of exaggerated emphasis on an externalized identity - as people in society, as citizens in countries, as males and females and son. Today’s gospel emphasises that our identities followers of Jesus is much more mysterious and subtle and something we have to search carefully and patiently to discover.
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We are taken immediately and quickly from considering Jesus as the bread to nourish us on our journey of faith - closer to us than we are to ourselves - as we have done in Chapter 6of John’s Gospel to now considering Jesus in one of John’s best known images of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, protecting, including, healing and helping us to live more abundantly the life he created for us to enjoy.
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Jesus announces himself not merely as a shepherd, but as the Good Shepherd. He is the one shepherd we can trust because he is the one shepherd who is not a sheep himself.
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Today’s Gospel from John specifies the pattern of Jesus’ life but also the pattern of the lives who follow him and imitate his pattern of service - giving up our lives that others may know and know abundantly the love of God poured into our hearts for the life of the world.
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This week, Asian nations have experienced violence and repression with calls for justice getting louder. The Covid-19 pandemic has continued to wreak havoc, but there are also inspiring stories of love and compassion.
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Here today, at the end of Chapter 6 in John’s Gospel, the central question for us is posed: when all is said and done, what does our engagement with God and the mystery of Jesus amount to? Some of Jesus followers found it too confusing and walked away. Jesus asked Peter would he walk away too? Peter’s replays the reply of all Christians looking for life and love: yes, it is a challenge to keep following Jesus but if we give up, where willow go?
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Intimate union with God through Jesus becomes available to us through the Eucharist. That’s the shock and the simplicity of how much God offers us and makes available to us. It comes to us in with, is given by God’s gift and is brought to us by God’s generosity.
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The period after Easter Sunday, the so called Eastertide, is the time when we focus on the way in which God wants us to share through Jesus even more intimately in God’s own life through our sharing in his body and blood given to us for the life of the world.
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God’s gives us life so we can then enjoy God’s love. The two go together. God’s intention is certain and direct. But it is up to us to receive and accept that love into our lives so it can confirm and direct our lives as ones guided by love. For that direction to deepen and grow in our lives, we need God’s presence to be nourished in our lives. And that nourishment lasts eternally.
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This chapter in John’s Gospel is our walk into the nourishment that the Eucharist is for our faith journey. It picks up the Providential care God shows us; it emphasis the nourishment God wants to offer us on our faith journey; and it provides the key that opens the door to eternalize that god wants us to enjoy.
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In this post-Easter time, Jesus and his disciples are depicted as wandering around to a great many places. That forcefully reminds us just how ubiquitous the Risen Lord is. But even more, it suggests to us that our post-Easter experience should be one of constant searching for the presence of the Risen Nor. Now that Risen Lord is with u, our lives should not be distracted with escapist diversions but concentrated by our daily and constant search for God’s renewing presence.
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Let's face it — the Resurrection is unbelievable. Even seeing the risen Lord is not going to convince us otherwise. It's easier to believe in ghosts or to doubt one's own sanity.
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Today in the Gospel for Mass we see Luke putting the pieces of his message about the resurrection of Jesus together and highlighting the key features he wants his community appreciate and accept about Jesus - that the one who was crucified as predicted is identical to the one who was raised.
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This week, minorities including Christians have struggled for basic freedoms in repressive regimes in Asia as nations continue to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Today’s Gospel reading is one of the most loved of all readings in the New Testament because it grabs just how many of us meet Jesus - when we are caught in personal turmoil and looking for him to still our hearts and focus our direction.
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John’s Gospel has both the story of the institution of the Eucharist but he has a deeper and richer narrative to support it and the first part of the Gospel reading for today’s Mass. But the resonances in this account of the feeding of the crowds are powerful and extensive reaching back to the creation stories in the Book of Genesis, the feeding of the Israelites in the desert and much more. But it all turns on God’s gracious, nourishing and saving initiative.
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Our faith life starts and grows in simple ways from an invitation God offers us and to which we respond generously and openly. And that is how it grows too. The reach and demand of the claim and call God makes on us through our lives may extend us in ways we don’t like and call on us for things we may not want to let go of. But it remains the same God all and the God who ask us offer ourselves is the same one who resources us to meet the challenged respond to the invitation.
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Today’s Gospel text at Mass is the most cryptic and succinct summary of just what God is doing in Jesus and doing for us in Jesus - saving us. But God’s love focus is sodden and complete That despite God’s generosity and abundance, we still have to respond if we are to benefit. We are free to accept or not what goodness God offers.
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The Gospel of John has an abundance of graphic images that abundantly declare what the message of Jesus is and how he works in us. Today, John utilizes an image from the Old Testament that has the Serpent held up and attracting people to it for the cleansing and purification of all who receive God and declare their faith in the Son of God.
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Easter time, especially Holy Saturday, is the preferred (of course, not exclusive) date to baptise and welcome new members of the Church. And we see why in today’s Gospel reading. Being “born from above” is one way of recognizing that joining the Christian journey is something only God can initiate and it is only with Jesus’ companionship and God’s nourishment that it can be fostered and prosper.
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Living a Christian life takes courage. However, we need not search for it. We have it. Each Sunday when we join the community of disciples we take the greatest risk, that of meeting the Lord.
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What is most moving and compelling about today’s Gospel from John is that it testifies to the pervasive existence of doubt about Jesus’ Resurrection across the community that gathered around John, the Beloved Disciple. But what it demonstrates is that doubt is not the enemy of faith - certainty is that. Doubt is what fuels and fires growth in faith because it pushes us further into understanding the mystery of faith.
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Catholics in Asia joined Christians around the world to celebrate Holy Week and Easter Sunday. The joyful celebration, however, was observed amid the shadows of the Covid-19 pandemic, extremist threats, natural disasters and human rights violations.
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We can really confuse ourselves if we think doubt is the enemy of faith. It’s not as is shown throughout the New Testament. Doubt can lead us deeper into faith. The enemy of faith is certainty and it’s the absence of certainty that drives the disciples away from Jesus in this post-Resurrection period. Certainty is the enemy of faith because it stifles our readiness to be open to the new and varied ways in which God moves in our lives and world about us They are the regions where God can be God and not a projection of our will and determination.
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The post-Resurrection appearances of Jesus are many and varied and they can’t be tied down to any simple formula that is endlessly repeated in its context and details. No. Jesus appears in these stories and in our lives in the ways God wants to, not as we expect or, much less, demand. What is the way we are invited to respond to these different invitations? We are asked to take the contemplative approach, listening to how and where God is moving and inviting us to surrender to God’s movement in our lives.
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Luke is wonderful in the way in which he graphically illustrates the story he is telling. That is especially so in the way he illustrates that most mysterious phase and stage of Jesus’ life - the experience of the Risen Christ.
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This account in Luke’s Gospel of the disciples’ meeting with Jesus on the road to Emmaus is iconic for believers because it captures some of the key features of our engagement with Jesus - Jesus initiates the encounter, Jesus is the one who connects the dots in the faith narrative with our lives so we can connect our lives with his own story, and frequently it all comes together for us as it does for Luke in a eucharistic context of table fellowship and then almost as soon as our insight and engagement with Jesus crystalizes, it dissolves for us to commence the search again.
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Today’s gospel story is so representative of just how we all respond to the presence of Jesus in our lives. Mary Magdalene is more preoccupied by her own loss and sense of disappointment and so completely misses that Jesus is right there with her and offering himself the midst of her experience. The only way out of that hole is to put her issues to one side and allow God to be God and then Jesus can make all the difference.
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Something as completely unexpected and indeed unimaginable as the resurrection of Jesus provoked the predictable ways to defuse the story. There were those of course who had everything to lose if word got round about the resurrection - politically, culturally, religiously. The story had to be killed and “plausible deniability” had been the way forward for those threatened by and afraid of this story getting around. But, as two thousand years is testimony to, the story has never been suppressed.
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On Easter we celebrate on behalf of all the world God's love that embraces all the world. We celebrate for that boy, for all the dead and for ourselves, the living who are promised a share in the life of Christ who rose.
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Easter Sunday is the pivot of our Christian lives. In it, we celebrate the transformation any reckless and destructive elements in our past lives, the blessedness in which we live now and the basis for our confidence in God’s blessing four futures. In the Resurrection of Jesus, we mark 0ur entry into the life of God in a way that fully changes us and, despite our fears and misgivings, assures us of our entry into a new way of being - our life in God through the transforming power of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
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The first Mass to celebrate the Easter Rising is on the evening of Easter Saturday and recalls the details of those who’re the first witnesses of the Resurrection - the women in Jesus’ following - something unfortunately forgotten by many in the Church when it comes to acknowledging the central and essential role of women in Christian proclamation form the first moment of declaring the Gospel.
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Good Friday is a special gift to us. This is the day when we can move more intimately into God’s presence and find in our own experience just what relief god gives us when our resources are spent and we feel God forsaken as Jesus did at Calvary. The only place for us to go in such a state apart from angry resentment is to surrender into God’s hands. That’s the gift and grace to pray for on Good Friday.
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Today is also a day of commitment to be a sign of God's love. God felt it worthwhile for Jesus to die in order that I might know love. My life is worth giving in the day-to-day as well as, if necessary, in death so that others may know that love.
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Today - Holy Thursday - is mostly celebrated for its being the founding moment for our most familiar sacrament- the Eucharist. But what it is just as noteworthy for - and the readings take this topic as the centerpiece in the Gospel for this event - is the way Jesus focuses on service as the hallmark of Christian living and witness. Jesus' washing of the feet of his disciples tells them and us today what Jesus most wants of his disciples and of his followers today.
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Our sharing Eucharist is a service -- a service to the world. We can wash its feet, and we can bring it with us as we share union with Christ. It's all one and the same.
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In today’s Gospel we hear the account in John’s Gospel of the nuts and bolts of the bitter betrayal and actual abandonment of Jesus by Judas but also by his apostles. It is no less empty and tragic for how familiar it is to us many hundreds and two thousand years later. Our prayer today iso wait in that darkness and allow God to restore our faith and confidence that God’s love and power will triumph despite how desperate and dark the times and circumstances seem.
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We are moving further into the depths of Holy Week and Jesus’ destiny as the savior of the world who gives his life that we all may share more in the life of God. Here we see the culmination of all that John’s Gospel has done to describe the contrast between life and death, light and dark that Jesus’ person and message embody.
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We are in Holy Week which is both where we’ve been going all through Lent but also brings us to the sharp end of our time accompanying Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem. It is his impending end that hovers over all the stories we hear in the Gospels this week. Coming to terms with that reality in Jesus’ life and its force and meaning for our own is the point and purpose of our prayer this week.
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Today’s Gospel is, of course, the Passion narrative and it’s too long and much too complex and/or too rich to reduce to something you can make a helpful comment about in the few minutes available in this podcast. So I have taken the prayer from St. Paul’s letter to the Philippians today which is today's second reading. It is the most succinct statement of the personal spiritual journey Jesus went on and which ego on as his disciples.
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We mark this Holy Week with solemn joy. Death is real. But this week we know that love is even more real.
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Catholics in many Asian countries have renewed their devotion to Saint Joseph for the Vatican-designated Year of St. Joseph. Human rights violations and abuses against minorities, as well as a resurgence of Covid-19, also made headlines across the region.
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How can we escape being two timing frauds in our beliefs? How can we avoid being duplicitous and escapist in our engagement with God? These are the questions that today’s gospel presents us with and we can begin to find our way to answers to those questions by looking at how Jesus deals with people trapped in the same compromises in his day. But what binds us today to Jesus then is to act the way Jesus did and open ourselves to be changed by God’s grace to become the transparent convert, steeped God’s love, that God made us to be. Then we will escape the all too familiar compromises and the entrapment they bring.
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Clearly Jesus has puzzled the crowds. They don’t know what to make of him. That is as it should be because Jesus is facing the people with challenges and the one thing we can be sure about - for ourselves or anyone - is that people don’t like to be challenged, But following Jesus means accepting that every day is a challenge - to find go, love, peace and joy - and a challenge to abandon the surrogates and substitutes for the authentic gifts God gives.
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Today’s Feast - the Annunciation of the conception of Jesus and all that means for every man woman and child on our planet - almost always falls in Lent. Celebration of a conception, even one so mysterious and extraordinary, in the midst of a period focus on prayer and self-sacrifice comes as a jolt. But it should at any time in the year. This is high mystery jolting us out of any complacent predictability we may be trapped in when it comes to reading and responding to how God moves among us.
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Once again and this time very powerfully, Jesus explains in simple terms that to become involved with Jesus takes us to the heart of God. But people either don’t understand that or don’t like it. But like it or not, this is the only way to the heart of God and to reach there and stay there we need to give ourselves into God’s hands and find ourselves embraced and taken hold of by God.
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This style of Gospel writing can be very abstract and remote from our experience unless we realize and accept that Jesus is talking here about the mystery of his union with his Father. When we do see it that way, we can see it as an invitation to share in the life of God, even in the suffering of God. Now that is a mystical challenge!
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It’s difficult to exaggerate how perfectly balanced this story of Jesus and the adulterous woman really is: a widely recognized man known for her sinfulness; a wildly judgmental crown of morally disgraceful people out to punish everyone - Jesus, his followers and anyone preferring sympathy to condemnation of the sinful woman; the furiously judgmental crowd whose anger comes to nothing; and the resolution that comes with Jesus’ act of forgiveness that doesn’t so much gloss over the sin as identify something more important - the forgiveness the empowers conversion.
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The raising of Lazarus is very important for us to understand in Lent. It points to something central - that Jesus is the massive force for life in the face of death; and that in John’s Gospel, this is the turning point in the John's narrative when Jesus’ assailants decide that he is such a threat to their power and control that he must be got rid of. It presents us with the central question of our faith: do we accept that Jesus is in our lives the forceful power of life and light to overcome death and darkness.
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John "lets the beans out of the bag" by telling us that Jesus is actually talking about the way he will die, lifted up from the earth on a cross. Do I really want to be drawn to him there?
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The Philippines has marked the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Catholicism in the country this week. Religious and ethnic minorities have continued their struggle for survival amid rights violations and violence in various Asian countries. These and more in this week's news summary podcast.
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Today’s Gospel asks us to get off the merry go round of our lives, to listen to what is really going on in our lives and especially where God might be in the whole swirling experience and what God might be asking of us there. It’s a very Lenten challenge: listen to what God is asking of us and put to one side our own self-absorbed preoccupations and listen tom where God is calling us to grow.
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Today is the feast of St. Joseph husband of Mary. We know next to nothing about him beyond what a loyal and steadfast person he was and what an extraordinary model of discipleship he offers us - the still, silent pointer to our Savior, Jesus. As such, he’s a powerful model for us all as missionaries who point to Jesus by what we say and do.
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Humankind is resilient. We have survived worse, much worse, than this pandemic. History tells us that we will somehow get through this crisis. We may be changed. We may be scarred. We may have hurts to our hearts and spirits that we will carry to our graves. But we will carry on. We will, like that Japanese woman, laugh in and even at our loss. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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This a deeply mysterious section of the Fourth Gospel which seeks to explain why we should trust Jesus and how his destiny and fortunes are intimately connected to God and connect us to God. This is a mystery to rest in and allow God to lead us in.
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The purpose of our prayer and dedication to discovering and doing the will of God is for us to be united with God in the action and work He is doing in us and through us every day all about us. That is what today’s Gospel is getting at: are we really ready to allow God to drive the creative lives and work we do. That doesn’t mean we abandon our intelligence or capacity to plan an execute activities. Rather it means we put our capacities at God’s disposal and move at God’s prompting more than at our own reasoning and willful determination.
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It’s truly remarkable that people in Jesus’ time could distract themselves foreseeing and believing just how good and gracious God is in the deeds Jesus does. But they do as today’s narrative from the Fourth Gospel shows. And, unfortunately, it’s all too common for us human beings who can’t seethe wood for the trees. We miss the point all the time and e miss the point abut what god is offering us all theme! It’s a Gospel for Lent when we need to ask God to open our eyes every day and all day to see our lives and our world with the eyes of faith.
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The first 12 chapters of the Gospel of John are called the Book of Signs. The Signs are the signs of God’s outpouring of generous doses his mercy and gracious love. Today’s Gospel is the second of the Signs after the changing of the water into wine as a sign of the outpouring of God’s abundance on us signified in the abundance of wine.
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There are lots of plays on sight and blindness in today’s Gospel, on how we come to real sight that gives us insight and faith and about how God works in us to bring us to faith and to see our lives and our world with God’s eyes.
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Lent is the season when we prepare to renew our baptismal commitment in solidarity with those being baptized at Easter. It is a time of preparation to re-dedicate ourselves to proclaiming to the world the good news that God indeed loves us now, here, as we really are.
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Hypocrisy and self-righteousness are two of the biggest enemies of faith. Why? Mostly because they put an insurmountable obstacle between us and God - ourselves! The constant impediment to our engagement with God and allowing God to lead us deeper into the mystery of God’s love of us is the focus on ourselves, our needs, the priority of our issues. That self-focus leads to self-absorption and away from God and towards just what Jesus laments in the behavior of the Pharisee.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Our faith is both very simple but also very demanding. In a brilliant way, Jesus summarizes our faith - love of god and of our neighbor - but then also indicates the reach of our love of our neighbor. That reach is to well outside our comfort zone - to all whom God has loved into life even if we have lost the capacity to love them ourselves.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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There are no half measures in the way God deals with us. We mightn’t see it as straightforwardly as we can and should. But that can’t distract us from the lasting truth of God’s uncompromising yes to loving and saving us through what comes our way in life even if we can’t see it clearly all the time. That’s a message that is perfectly clear in h0ow God wants us to be with him.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Jesus is clearly not an “either/or” person. He’s not saying he wants people to get on board with his message and discard anything and everything from Israel’s past that contributes to the coming of Jesus and our understanding of his significance. Jesus a “both/and” person and he wants his followers to appreciate his own and then by extension their own connection to the salvation history that takes Jesus as the fulfillment and completion of God’s promise to save and heal Israel.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s Gospel reading at Mass is so central to what Lent is for and actually what the whole dynamic of Christianity is in outlives- forgiveness which begins with God’s forgiving us and then through the enrichment that God’s forgiveness provides for us, we then forgive those who wrong us. The cycle of God’s love in our lives is nothing less than this cycle of forgiveness.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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One of the constant challenges we face in our journey of faith is accepting that we don’t have all the answers to our problems and that the way God works something we have to patiently ask God for the faith to see and accept. What God wants to do with us in our lives is really in God’s hands. As disciples Jesus, our way forward is to wait and listen, seek the voice of God in our lives so that we may build and develop what God wants us to become.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Mid-way to our celebration of the Cross and Easter, we reflect on how we are like the animals, tables and vendors in the temple, interfering with others' finding the Lord. As individuals and as a community, we must repent. But, we are called to more than guilt feelings.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Being God’s presence in the world is then invitation God makes to us all at our baptism. Today as we move closer towards the celebration of the life giving death and resurrection of Jesus at Easter, we are reminded of just what journey we are on - to the death and resurrection of Jesus and anticipating our own.
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This week, people across the globe witnessed the horrors of a deadly crackdown on anti-coup protesters in military-ruled Myanmar. Asian nations have experienced the curtailing of civil liberties amid the long shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic. These and more.
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One of the most arresting answers to the question “Who are you?” that I have ever heard was then response to this question given by Pope Francis just after he was elected Pope and was interviewed. As quick as a flash, Papa Bergoglio said: “I am a sinner.” And by that he meant that the most powerful and distinguishing feature he thought needed to be exposed about himself was his relationship with God and his failures in that relationship. Would that we were all so focused.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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God only writes straight with crooked lines. No gesture, action or intervention of God is ever simple and straightforward. God is the one who appreciates and works by paradox. If we want to live through love in the presence of the God and Father of our Lord Jesus, we need to be ready to be always surprised by the unexpected ways in which God works for our good.
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Our living and our loving have consequences and that conviction is given graphic importance in Luke’s Gospel where the Evangelist’s capacity to provide rich narratives show how real the outcomes of our decisions in faith and love are.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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This set of instructions for the disciples and their families comes late I Matthews Gospel and it’s a puzzle why, after all their time with Jesus, they still don’t get what he’s really saying and actually inviting to be and become. But then they are like us - pretty slow on the uptake especially when it might mean change for them, a loss of their own significance and an impediment to their self-aggrandizement.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s Gospel is a characteristic invitation of Jesus to change our ways and embrace the grace of conversion that God wants us to have. Bu how do we do it? One thing is to have the still times with God to hear what he is saying thus in our hearts and through His Word. The other way is to honestly listen to the correction of our behavior that comes to us from the loving if also searching criticisms of friends and those who’ve us. Are we open to their correction?
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Happiness and enjoying all the good things God wants us to enjoy are really in our hands. Sometimes we can read the Gospel, listen to it and think it’s all just too hard and completely beyond us- perfection is for the birds. If we think that we’ve not heard the Gospel. It is for us, we can with God’s help make it happen - gently and slowly if we can just be patient. Be merciful, loving, sensitive and attentive which are hard enough to be. But the reward of even trying to be them ensures we are rewarded mercy, love, sensitivity and attentiveness from God and others.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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This gospel of the Transfiguration is the one the Church always places for our consideration on the second Sunday of Lent. Why? So that we are comforted at the prospect of what God wants us to enjoy, so that we find God’s own vitality and grace filled presence renews and refreshes us and so that our hope is renewed.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today's Gospel is a Lenten reminder that the gift of being a beloved child of God that I received in Baptism leads to my own transfiguration. I walk the way of the Cross in this world, but it is a way that leads to incomparable glory.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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This week, Asian nations have experienced a trampling of basic human rights and religious freedom amid an outcry from rights campaigners, civil society and church groups. Much more in the report.
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Today’s gospel takes us to the heart of the most significant challenge for all Christians - loving our enemies. It’s OK to commend that as a wanted state. It’s quite another to move beyond the bruises inflicted by our enemies and to actually love them. That is one of the things our Lenten time challenges us to do. And we can do it ourselves. We need God’s grace to accomplish it and that’s something we need to ask for in prayer. How to do that is explained in this podcast.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Conversion to following the path Jesus asks us to follow is far from a momentary or instant matter. Jesus is asking us to change our lives and that takes us all our lives. Let’s pray always and every day for the grace to let go and allow the Spirit to shape and direct us on the way to a more loving life of deeper commitment to service.
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Our faith is an open ended matter from God’s point of view. God will keep giving, sustaining, nurturing, forgiving and renewing us all our days. Our challenge is simple: are we ready to do that for those who come by us? And are we ready to be as tender and nurturing of them in all their variety as God so us?
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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The gospel and the first reading too about that most intimidating of subjects - change. And the readings ask us whether we reread to change and to let God into our lives to have us grow and change? The answer is we are probably NOT ready for change. But God’s liberating grace can make us ready for it.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Praying is something that is very natural and normal once you know the first steps. When you know those first steps and take them, you and I can give ourselves into the hands of the Spirit and God leads us where God wants us to go. Abandonment into the hands of God is the richest, deepest and most consoling place to be.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today is the Feast of the Chair of Peter and so today’s Gospel is especially important because it specifies just where and how this feast gets its bearings - Peter and his successors as bishops of Rome have no other significance beyond the way in which they testify to Jesus and lead the community of the faithful to deeper union with him and among themselves. The enduring scandal of disunity in the Church is especially apparent on days like today and we need to all work and pray that the disunity comes to an end.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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The Gospel text for today is apparently simple. But behind it sits the whole course of our journey in faith - close engagement with Jesus, the sharing of our lives with him and his life with us, the conflict and challenges following a crucified savior who dies in obedience to his Father’s will. Mark’s gospel is uncompromising: it’s the narrow gate and the straight path that Jesus asks us to follow.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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The Lord calls us to a change of life, a change we exercise in some small way in Lent as a means of recommitting ourselves at Easter to the big reform we accepted in our baptismal commitment.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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This week, Asian Catholics joined the faithful across the globe on Ash Wednesday to mark the Holy Season of Lent ahead of Easter. Asian nations have continued their struggle for democratic and civil rights in repressive regimes including military dictatorship. These and more in today's Episode.
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It’s difficult to give this Gospel story its full force because here is our Lord, the source and center of all that is good saying that his life is to be discovered among the broken, the fractured and the unfashionable. It is the most forceful statement of just how paradoxical his message is - the complete reversal of the oversimplifications that the “virtuous offer in understanding where truth and authenticity is to be found.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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The purpose of Lent is to allow us time and space to discover God in our lives and to through the power of the Spirit to allow God to be God, free of our rigid expectations. And if we feel that is a big challenge, we should just wait in God’s presence until we allow God to be God and assert that power and force in our lives that is our liberation.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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We all get faced with making choices all through our lives, sometimes every day of our lives. And every choice we make comes at a cost. Here at the beginning of Lent we are faced with that reality about our faith and Jesus specifies the cost: surrendering our lives to the control of the Spirit as we take up our cross in following Jesus.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Lent gives us a chance to taste the emptiness of their lives so that we will be better motivated to share the good news with them that they, like we, are invited to leave our ashes behind and take part in a glorious dance of joy and an unlimited future in God's love.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Today is Ash Wednesday when we take the sign of the cross marked on our foreheads if we can to remind us just how simple and basic our being marked by God is. The ashes come from the burnt remains of the palms from last year’s Palm Sunday procession. They are a reminder of our mortality not because of any fear the terror of death but because when we recall death, we are driven to recognize that a deeper life comes with God’s gift of the resurrection - ours and that of Jesus.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s Gospel offers Jesus to comment again on the feeding of the 5,000 and to appreciate how obtuse his followers are. This story, like the feeding of the 5000 drives the Christian imagination back to recognition of the providential care God has for his people and for us in all our needs and forward into an appreciation of the providential provision Jesus will make us ninth Eucharist from the night of the Last Supper.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Once more, we register just how frustrated Jesus becomes with the lack of faith and real obtuseness of his followers. They just don’t understand who he is or what his message is. It must be discouraging for Jesus to have as his closest followers people who might declare their belief in humans behave as if they have no such faith. They are a bit like us!
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We followers of Jesus are called to be supernatural. In other words, we must be people noteworthy for our willingness to go beyond the natural in us. That means developing the ability to look upon others as the sons and daughters of God, our brothers and sisters.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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Today’s gospel reading is a short one from very early in the Gospel of Mark but in many ways it summarizes one of the central themes of Mark’s gospel- the contest between the spirit of light and life and the spirit that brings darkness, confusion and death. Jesus wants to bring light and life but he needs us to want to receive. Let’s ask for it.
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This week, Asian nations have experienced violations of political and democratic rights, while religious and ethnic minorities have struggled against abuses and oppression. These and much more in today’s podcast.
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Of all the stories Jesus tells to focus our attention on his providential and abundant care of us, none is more powerful than the stories of his feeding the multitudes. They are a sign and expression of what God is doing focus all at every turn of they - caring, providing, renewing, forgiving and reconciling- all that we need to receive for the living of a life that is fully engaged with God.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s readings at Mass are direct treatments of different types of burdensome evil - physical evils that the disabled endure and which Jesus heals and the more sophisticated treatment that the writers of Genesis give to the challenging question of how God’s good intentions in creating a blessed world don’t end up with everyone enjoying happiness and satisfaction Both of these treatments need quiet, careful contemplation and neither offers simple answers to what are complex mysteries. What is so encouraging is that we are not left on our own to contemplate these at times painful puzzles. God is with us and the Spirit can guide us through then struggle if week for the light toes our way hometown deepen our union with God.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s Gospel from Mark is another account familiar to us now of how we are cured and healed of the destructive effects of spirits and impulses and disordered movements at work in us that we need the healing power of Jesus to overcome. There’s echo of the same message in the first reading from the Book of Genesis which is a mature if also simple reflection on the origins of evil in our world. Evil comes through the misuse of the good gifts God creates and offers us for our happiness which then feed our disordered aspirations and ambitions. The resolution is the same for both: giving ourselves over the healing and transforming power of God’s love that takes hold of us and transforms us.
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Today’s gospel asks a question we should out to ourselves every day and several times through every day: who and what is in control how we behave and treat and interact with others Orm respond to our changing circumstances? If God is in command, we need not fear what will become of us because what and who is at work shaping us at our deepest point transforms us to be always creative and fruitful rather than counterproductive, destructive and futile.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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As Christians we were hurt by the vehemence of their reaction to the mention of Christianity, even if that mention was a tasteless or even stupid one. But as a Christian, we also knew that the hatred the other kids were showing was not unearned. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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We humans are an odd species. We develop practices and habits for good reasons. We follow them so much we can’t imagine ourselves not following them. Then circumstances change and the relevance and force of these practices just evaporate. We are then invited to go deeper and decide what is important and what it is we should do. It’s called becoming morally and spiritually mature. That’s what’s happening in today’s Gospel at Mass. Are wedging to do something because we are told to or because we understand and want to? It’s really about freedom.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s gospel presents us with a central challenge to us in our faith journey: are we ready to wait to discover what God is inviting us to be and become. It may or may not (and usually does not) have much to do with what we want. God’s transforming presence always comes as a surprise and is always ends us up in a place so much better than we can create for ourselves.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Like Jesus, we must be ready and willing to leave our prayer for those who seek us out. Like Peter's mother-in-law, our encounter with God must get us back to normal stuff.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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We can hear a lot today about the need for “work/life balance”, and we should. We can get so distracted from what is deepest, truest and most nourishing in our lives by all the other claims on us or by our own compulsiveness. What should we do? Follow Jesus’ advice, stop it, move away and ask God to take hold of us so we can find our true selves and enjoy them as we relate to God when God shows us our true selves.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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The military coup in Myanmar shocked the world and made headlines in Asian and global media this week. Other Asian nations have reported persecution of religious minorities and ongoing threats from the Covid-19 pandemic. These and much more in today’s podcast.
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One of the constant features of Mark’s Gospel is how superficial the crowds are and how superficial even Jesus’ followers are. They are just interested in the dazzle of cures and ways they can advance their own interests. Jesus wants and invites his followers to be converted, to change their lives and to service.
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Today’s gospel takes us to the heart of how we become entrapped by our own self-interest and how that entrapment suffocates us morally and spiritually. It also takes us to where we can be set free by God’s liberation of us into freedom.
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This is one of the most graphic and powerful portrayals in the New Testament of just how God works and how and why Jesus is good news for us. Jesus comes into the heart of our lives and our world in all their decrepit neediness symbolized but the demoniac living among the tombs- and drives out the demons. But it only happens if we let go control and allow God to be God and what he wants to liberate us.
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In the journey faith, the one absolutely certain feature we should be ready for in abundance is paradox - what we don’t expect or predict occurs and what we want to unfold doesn’t happen as we expect. Our faith is in a God who acts to save us always but not in the way or at the speed we want.
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Today is the Feast of the Presentation of our Lord when the Gift of Jesus is gratefully received from God and acknowledged by Jesus’ parents. It is a rich feast in which the cycle of gift and grateful response to God are played out and Luke uses the event to explain and declare just what this gift of Jesus will entail - for Israel and us all.
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We are on a journey with God as our companion. Progress in the journey can be so slow that we can’t really measure or observe whether there’s been any development at all. But often we are asking the wrong question. The issue is not what progress we are making but what God is newly doing minus, focus and with us. For the answer to that question, we need trust.
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The first step in repentance is to admit our guilt, as when we go to confession. We admit our faults and failures out loud, making them painfully and embarrassingly real to ourselves. Then, we are presented with the sin-overpowering love of God when we most recognize our need of it.
About the Speaker: Father William J Grimm is a Maryknoll Missioner of 40 year’s experience in Asia-mostly Japan, Hong Kong and Cambodia.
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This is such a familiar story that sets the scene very early in Mark’s gospel for one of the central features of the narrative of this gospel: then contest between the good and life enhancing spirit that comes from God and then the death dealing spirit of darkness that is for us to see and make choices over. We are with or we are against the good and life enhancing spirit or we are trapped by the death dealing spirit whose ultimate end comes at Calvary.
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This week, Asian nations have witnessed violence including the murder of a Catholic priest and attacks on Christians by extremists as the space shrinks for religious freedom. These and much more in today’s podcast.
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Today’s Gospel is so familiar to us because we find ourselves trapped and fearful in turbulence a great deal of the time in our lives and wonder how we will ever be saved from it. We understand this story because we are very familiar with our own timidity. But the message of Jesus here is not to display pathetic dependence that diminishes our mature humanity but to summon up ourselves as mature adults in a relationship (with God) and for support.
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Today we get some insight into the way Jesus communicates, how and why he tells us the story of God’s engagement with us through the stories, the narrative Jesus spends all his time creating and explaining to his followers - his intimate circle and his casual and occasional encounters. It’s about a narrative of God’s engagement with us and how that narratives moves to becoming our own narrative.
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The Catholic Church in Japan has a unique practice, providing wedding ceremonies for non-Christians. As new civil and social forms of shared life appear in various places, that practice may be a hint of how the Church can respond to new realities, showing care while maintaining its traditional sacramental system. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts on this.
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Today is the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the commanding genius of medieval Catholicism. He is a living instance of the effective engagement between faith and reason. But reason always follows the experience of faith which is the experience of engagement with God. We can’t create it or manipulate it. The initiative is always God’s. But if we risk the venture of faith’s journey we will find God abundantly blessing and enriching our desire and offer.
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Faith is a mysterious gift of God. It comes to us and we need to nourish it. But we can take it for granted and when we do, it withers and it can die. That this parable in here so early the first of the Gospels ever composed underlines to us that there is nothing new in how fickle and superficial we are. But whether fickle or fully developed in our faith, the challenge is the same: humbly ask God to grow what little faith we have.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Loyalties and religious allegiances are always vexed issues and evidently Jesus’ life that was also the case. Family bonds and their place in the hierarchy of commitment are the focus in today’s gospel and what is very clear about Jesus is that he sees the primary responsibility of his followers is to seek and do the will of God ahead of anything else.
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Today is the feast day of the conversation of St. Paul and there can be no other celebration of the conversion of anyone more important to the Christianity than St. Paul’s conversion. Both his articulation of the foundational significance of Jesus’ death and resurrection and his inclusion of those beyond the boundaries of Israel and the Jewish community among those for whom the Gospel is meant were the foundational elements of Christianity.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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The clearest presence of the reign is Jesus, God's reign made flesh. "The time of fulfillment has come" is another way of saying, "Here I am!"
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An important if very short extract from Mark’s gospel today: John the baptist has been arrested by Herod and that triggers Jesus into beginning his ministry. To start it, he attracts his first followers to join him on the journey that will lead him and them to Jerusalem. The trouble for him and them is only beginning as they try to understand what they’ve been called to embrace in their following of Jesus.
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The inauguration of US President Joe Biden made headlines in Asian and global media this week. Christians in Asia have joined prayers and gatherings to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Covid-19 threats and vaccines as well as shrinking space of freedom and rights also made news in Asia.
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Today’s Gospel story, where Jesus is told by his family that he’s “mad” underlines what trouble he is even for people well disposed to him. He is disturbing and the only way to live with that disturbance and make something positive of it is firstly to accept that he disturbs us when he expects us to change when we come to follow him and to ask God for the grace to listen to Jesus’ invitation and to find his we can respond creatively and constructively to that disturbance.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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This a very familiar Gospel because it relativizes the force of rules and regulations and makes them all subject to the over-riding rule of love and to what makes common sense when seeking and doing the will of God. In other words, in this text we see and hear Jesus asking us to be adults in following him, using our own experience and judgement when seeking the will of God rather than a slavish service of law.
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Let’s look at the reading from the Letter to the Hebrews today and see the way it informs us on just how Jesus influences and mediates the person and the believer we become. Unconsciously we do this ourselves all the time. Just think about how parents shape their children. Being in Jesus company does just that too.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s Gospel from John’s Gospel is the first of what John calls the Signs in the Book of Signs. These are the five signs that God’s kingdom alive and at work among us. This one uses wine and its abundant flowing as a sign of the abundant flowing of God’s grace in and through Jesus.
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Today’s readings offer a very important lesson for us as we seek to get closer to God: start from where we really are -needy, deficient human beings. Sinners. That where God can meet us - where we really are - and from there he can take us to where we need to be: closer to Him.
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As individuals, as members of families, workplaces and other institutions, we always try to fit whatever appears to be fresh and different to patterns that applied elsewhere and before. It doesn’t work and embracing the Gospel of Jesus means being ready to go to new places including some we don’t want to go to!
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When the disciples went with Jesus, they entered into a path of healing, forgiveness, and liberation for others. Such lives will lead us to what it is, whom it is, we are seeking.
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The earliest part of John’s Gospel returns several times to the question of the relationship between Jesus and John the Baptist and the followers of Jesus and the followers of John. The Evangelist uses the encounters to highlight distinctive features about the invitation to follow Jesus but also about how the search for authentic faith unfolds.
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This week, Asian nations have struggled against repressive laws and the muzzling of political and civil rights, while the threat, fallouts and vaccines of Covid-19 continued to make headlines.
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The best is the enemy of the good. Jesus believed that and that’s why he spent time with tax collectors and sinners - the not-perfect children of God who needed the circuit breaker of His intervention in their lives to get them focused on the way God’s love can transform them.
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Is Jesus a wonder worker who can do what we want to bring comfort and consolation to us when we want? Or does God have a mind and will of his own and our journey is to see and find the will of God and to do what God asks?
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Jesus goes about his healing way only to have the leper he cures make him into a celebrity. To meet the challenge of these circumstances, Jesus goes into virtual hiding only to be sought out by the crowds. He had to hide. We can spend time with him on the run.
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Thinking about American Church prompted by last week’s attack on Capitol Hill where the bishops and their clerical underlings have failed to guide America’s Catholics to be a discerning, peaceful, loving community shaped by the Gospel. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts.
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The daily chores of Jesus life were teaching, healing, renewing and forgiving. That’s how he announced in deed and not just in word what his message was and how the people of his time and now of ours could connect with what he’s offering.
About the Speaker: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Jesus begins his ministry in Mark’s Gospel once John the Baptist is arrested by Herod. And the first story in the narrative of his ministry is a characteristic one: driving out destructive spirits.
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Mark is unique among the Gospels in highlighting the arrest of John the Baptist as the trigger for Jesus to commence his ministry. Now is the time for him to get on with his vocation, to seek and do the will of god by declaring and introducing the Reign of God for the salvation of all.
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The Baptism of the Lord celebrates the beginning of Jesus’ explicit commitment to a path of finding God among us so that we might follow him who is true God and truly a human being. This is a feast set in Christmas times we can discover marabout the depth and reach of Christmas for its relevance to our vocations.
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God has said to each of us at our baptism, "You are my beloved child. On you my favor rests." What am I going to do about it?
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The world has ushered in the new year 2021, but the threat of Covid-19 looms large as billions desperately seek vaccines. Asian nations have experienced more violations of democratic and civil rights this week.
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Today’s gospel is the clearest statement we could hope to find in the Gospels about what our vocation as Christians is - to point Jesus as God’s last word, to point to Jesus as the fullness of God’s promise and to live out the way offing that as John the Baptist specifies in this text: Jesus must increase, and we must decrease so that all people come to know Jesus.
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Healing - of ourselves or our share in healing others - is a mysterious that asks of us to engage with people including those who have betrayed and hurt us and whom we have betrayed and hurt. Engagement is the first step. Then follows allowing god into the ways we’ve damaged others or been damaged by them. That’s when we know the way God can renew, forgive, reconcile and save us from our hating selves.
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Our journey in life and in faith is a journey discovering our identity as followers of Jesus loved by the Father. In that we are following the example of Jesus who did exactly the same thing.
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The story about Jesus walking on the turbulent waters as he comes to the rescue of his disciples is one of the best known and most comforting stories in the Gospels because it shows how intimate our relationship with Jesus is and what rich benefit it brings us. It pivots on our trust in Jesus and that’s something we are invited to do every day.
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The feeding of the 5000 people is a remarkable account of the continuing creativity of the Providence of God which, especially after the Feast of the Epiphany underlines how universal the reach of God’s care is.
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In the time after Epiphany, we are in a strange time the New Testament: Yes, so kething decisive for Israel has happened (the fulfillment of God’s promises to His people) but the impact and reach of what has happened is well beyond the boundaries of Israel to all humanity.
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The Epiphany which we celebrate today is the Feast that points to the universal significance of all that God has done focus inJesus’ birth, death and resurrection.It is the “showing forth”of Jesus the savior the whole human race nd not just the savior of the Jewish people to whom God made this promise.
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We are called to be Stars of Bethlehem, leading men and women to Christ. The chief vocation of the Church is to proclaim the Good News to all nations. How do I share in that great vocation?
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Much of our prayer and much of our Christian journey is spent in anticipation and also in the hope for the fulfillment of the promises Godhas made to us. Christmas time is one where we can relish the experience of the fulfillment of God promises, thank God for His faithfulness and ask God for the grace to live from the graces he’s lavished on us through the fulfillment of these promises.
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A new year begins and the Church does it returning to a Gospel that goes back to our origins in God, connects us to the way we live in God through welcoming the God who is with us (our Christmas celebration and then takes us forward to what he is offering next as our journey unfolds.
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Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your death. By word and deed, assure the world of my love."
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Strangely enough, the year ends with a Gospel that for john’s Gospel describes Christian origins - “In the beginning was the Word - And then goes on to show how God is presenting many ways till the decisive intervention when God comes among us as God’s Son in Jesus. Before Vatican 2, these texts - the Prologue to John’s Gospel- was the last thing read by the priest before he left the altar and the congregation dispersed. In this context -the end of a year - it shows the binning of everything in God.
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Today’s Gospel brings to a close Luke introduction to the life of Jesus in his family - he returns to Nazareth to take up a normal life as the son of his parents, in the midst of his family and relatives, growing in whatever ways opportunities suggest. It is in this context that he comes to understand the religion of Israel and the revelation fits God.
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This Gospel today closes the story of how Jesus and his family fled from Israel for their safety and returned when their persecutor Herod died. It also is the setting for seeing something central about Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel - that he is the liberator of his people as Moses was for Israel in his leading their escape from Israel and taking them to the Promised Land.
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Matthew’s infancy narrative sets some of the key pieces of his whole account of Jesus, his message and his ministry in place. Jesus is the new Moses, the new Law maker, the new leader of his people out of slavery and captivity. The massacre of the innocents highlights aspects of this portrayal of Jesus as liberator and leader.
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The feast of the Holy family can be sentimentalized and fin so, the whole point of the feast is missed. Family life is always messy because human beings are messy. Finding God in the mess is what Jesus Mary and Joseph did every day.
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If there were no answer to our search and longing, then, indeed, our lives would be futile. What use is there for a hunger that cannot be filled? What sense can there be to an existence defined in part by something that is meaningless?
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The earliest church discovered what today we call “the cost of discipleship” which was death when we saw what happened to St. Stephen, the first martyr for the faith.
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In contrast to the way Christmas is marked in some places around the world, the original Christmas occurred in an obscure place among insignificant people . Christmas is always paradoxical and each year we are asked to discover its riches in a time and place that is less than promising. That’s a good preparation for doing the same thing every day in our lives.
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Today we remember and celebrate the fact that we can know God's glory and power not as some sort of information, but as a person. So, on Christmas Day we move from the story to the program, from what happened long ago to our vocation today.
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Today - Christmas Eve - the Gospel chosen for today’s Mass celebrates what Christmas Day vindicates - that here is the fulfillment of God’s promise to Israel and the world: that he will take us to Himself and protect and preserve us eternally.
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I've always been fascinated and attracted of John the Baptist, who is the central subject of today's Gospel, for the simple reason because he's such a different character who doesn't fit in and I think that's the best place for a Christian to be. Someone who doesn't fit in. Because then that Christian can see the world from the outside and look at how strange and unresponsive and unproductive it really is.
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The rich and rewarding thing about following the Gospels through the week before Christmas is the way in which we follow the evangelist in company with Mary who is the bearer of good news of the birth of Jesus. It is by her act of obedience of saying yes to God's invitation that we are able to welcome the saviour of the world.
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The alternative first reading today is from the book of the Song of Songs and it's the closest thing we'll find in the Old Testament to a piece of erotic poetry. All of which is done for real reason not because people constructing the Song of Songs want to exaggerate or eroticize the engagement with God because the engagement with God is not erotic.
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What I like about the readings that come at this time of the year - Christmas time - is that they are full of familiar references which is very helpful for prayer. Particularly the reading that come from the Gospel of Luke who is someone who's very graphic and describes events and personalities with a great deal of color.
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God doesn't choose the way we would. God chooses worldly weakness to proclaim divine power. That's the reason Mary was chosen and the reason we have been chosen.
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Church leaders and activists in Asia have called for upholding human rights and dignity amid an onslaught of rights abuses while nations continue to grapple with fallouts from Covid-19.
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Today in the Gospel from Luke we have another vivid demonstration of the Evangelist’s capacity to write a rich narrative full of suggestive details. We get taken into the story and we get enriched by what we hear and read.
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Any stories in the Gospel we can't really understand if we don't move inside them and become part of them. They are not just a description of a set of factual events that we get the detail from the gospel about. It is not a series of facts in historical narrative that bear inspection and can’t be corroborated. They are the telling of a story of faith in people's lives as they unfold, and the events recorded in them.
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What Matthew does is begin with a genealogy to show Jesus heritage because he's not only son of God but he is also a human being and as a human being he has precedence, ancestors and relatives.
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In today's Gospel we have another chapter in the discussion in the early church about the role of John the Baptist, the place of his followers and the relationship with Jesus. We have some of John the Baptist followers coming to Jesus and saying are you the one that we have been wait for or we have to wait for another.
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It's the Paradox of human achievement that we can go and do extraordinary things and then they hang around our necks and eventually choke us. That's what Jesus is getting us at the Gospel today.
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Today's Gospel puts us in a place that's quite familiar if we think about it. It is one of those situations that occur when we're trying to avoid accepting something that might have unpleasant, unwelcomed, uninvited consequences. Jesus is coming and the Pharisees and not really happy with him they think he is a threat and want him out of their lives because he's only going to create trouble.
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Jesus is an outsider. Jesus is someone who comes and he's a threat to the establishment in Israel at the time. Jesus is someone sent on a mission of universal significance, but no one seems to recognize that that's what he's there for. If you look at those pointers from the old testament taking particular first reading, we have today is about the people of Israel in the exile by looking to be vindicated renewed refreshed invigorated it by the lord, but they are speaking from exile.
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The place we really live our faith is not in a church. It is in the desert of our workplaces, our schools, our streets, our homes. There is no other place for the world to hear our call to prepare the way of the Lord, to join us on the way of and to the Lord.
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International Human Rights Day was observed across the globe this week. Rights watchdogs and media outlets have reported an escalation in violations of people’s basic freedoms and rights around the world and in Asian nations.
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Quite appropriately for this time of year as we head towards Christmas the readings at Mass drawn on some of the great stories that point the significance of the mystery of the Incarnation. God coming to dwell among us and in particular for the Gospels. We draw on Luke's Gospel because it has the most graphic rich and suggestive stories around the birth of Jesus and today, we have the annunciation, the only record of this extraordinary event in the gospels it's there in Luke's account because it points to the very thing that Luke trying to say all the time that this is God's initiative.
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Both reading today focus on the unlikely and difficult subject of missed opportunities. Missed opportunities are things that all of us can identify with things that we've done poorly and nothing fruitful has come from it or things we haven't done neither because we didn't know we had to do them or we didn't say the way we could do them but they slipped out of our hands on away from our grasp and we've missed the opportunity.
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This year, Christmas is either about God with us or it is nothing. If Covid Christmas teaches us that, next year we may resume the trappings of the season, but with a new unclouded knowledge of what the feast really is. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts.
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We've been going through a very strange time throughout the world watching the Americans argue with each other about who won the presidential election in November. Now I think when it comes to the New Testament and particularly would you look at today's Gospel there's an argument about who is the preeminent character in the community. Is it John the Baptist? Is it Jesus? Is it who? And that argument was going on for some decades after the death of Jesus and that's reflected in today's Gospel from the Gospel of Matthew who is preeminent.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Remarkable, but actually also quite mysterious feature of our engagement with God through scripture is that almost on a random basis wherever we are and however we are we can flip the scripture open and find in it wherever it randomly lands something that can actually address the particular issue, particular state of mind, state of hearts, state of soul the way in at that time. And that very thing has happened to me in the consideration of the Gospel for today come to me all you who labor and are overburdened, and you will find rest for your soul.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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In Advent we make a bit more effort to welcome the Lord into our lives and into our hearts, so that we can indeed know him as Son of God, as Good News.
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Catholics in Asia have experienced celebrations, commemorations and abuses this week, while church leaders made pledges to protect the rights of vulnerable groups including farmers, women and children.
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Faith, hope and love are virtues directed toward past, future and present. In Advent, we remind ourselves to be ever ready to meet and love the Lord who has come, who will come, who comes.
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Across Asia, rights violations and abuses against women and minorities dominated the news this week. It comes against the backdrop of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hitting Asia and other regions of the globe.
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Even while the world is facing a new spike in cases and deaths, there have been encouragement news of development of vaccine and prevents the Corona Virus. Besides being a source of hope for us all, for people in the church, this development presents the possibility of resuming some sort of normal parish life. But it would be a mistake to pick up where we left off. There would be more pandemics and unlike this time we must be prepared for them. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts.
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We must be such followers of the crucified Jesus, giving our strength and even our lives for the sake of others that they will respond to us as the bystander at the crucifixion did who tried to give Jesus something to drink.
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Across Asia, natural calamities made headlines this week as many nations continued to struggle against the Covid-19 pandemic. The region also earned a black mark for state restrictions on religious freedom.
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It is to us as servants and for the sake of being servants that God gives us talents. Let us not bury them, but put them forth for the whole world.
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The US presidential election filled Asian media last week, drowning out news about Myanmar's general election. Despite elections, Asian nations continue to report shrinking space for democracy and religious freedom.
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Signs of God’s kingdom are all around us. If we remember that, we will see them and thus build up our supply of oil so that at any time, in any way that God comes to us, we will be ready.
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Catholics across the world observed two major feasts this week —All Saints Day and the All Souls Day. The feasts that remember the dead were also occasions to discuss forced disappearances, a dreadful rights violation that several Asian nations continue to witness.
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Remembering all saints becomes a reminder that God can be, and in fact is at work in the time, place and life which I live.
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Asia this week witnessed a series of attacks on religious and democratic freedoms amid the grand news of Pope Francis naming two Asians among 13 new cardinals. Religious minorities across Asia continue to face attacks and harassment from authoritarian regimes and fanatics.
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The law of Christ is simple. Love. Love God by loving your neighbor. And your neighbor is anyone close enough to be loved, anyone in the world.
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China and the Vatican this week agreed to extend an agreement on the appointment of bishops in the communist country. The Vatican said the extension aims to help the Church in China, at a time when violations of religious and democratic rights continue unabated across Asia.
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The world’s political news is full of people fixated on the short term. They pander to the fears and frustrations of others in order to gain and keep power, wealth and prestige without considering what they may be doing to other people, to themselves, to the environment or to the moral standards and morale of the world. Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares some thoughts about taking a long, the very long, view.
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Australian Catholic teacher Garry Mulroy, who has been freed from a Cambodian jail on appeal, has vowed to fight his conviction for indecently assaulting six children. Mulroy claims he was the victim of a racket that extorted up to US$100,000 from him. The World Justice Project ranks Cambodia’s justice system “the worst” in the region, listing it as second from bottom on an index of 113 countries. The prosecution never said how Mulroy assaulted the boys. His release was shrouded in secrecy amid fears of reprisals. In an interview with UCA News’ Cambodia columnist Luke Hunt, Mulroy tells that the six boys under his care were going to school and learning to play guitar among other activities designed to provide them with life skills. “Those boys were like family to me. They were the sons I never had. They were the biggest losers of this whole affair,” he says. Listen to the full story.
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We Christians have been shown Christ, the image of God, so that we can proclaim that image to all the world. In order to do so, we must clear away whatever mars that image in us.
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The arrest of an 84-year-old Jesuit priest accused of terrorist links continues to generate protests from Christians and rights groups across India. But the arrest was just one in a series of suppressive actions authoritarian governments in Asia impose on people standing up for democratic rights and religious freedom.
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In the Eucharist, in the worship and service of the community of good and bad folks that Jesus invites to the banquet of God's Kingdom, I am offered a foretaste of heaven. How could I do other than rejoice?
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China continues to attract headlines in Catholic media as church leaders debate the Vatican’s plans to renew its pact with the communist country this month. The past week also saw Pope Francis signing an encyclical that stressed human brotherhood. It comes at a time when Christians across Asia continue to face various forms of suppression.
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There is one other thing we must do. We must hear and heed the messengers God sends to us workers in the vineyard. For we, too, need to be converted throughout our lives.
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The news of the Vatican's proposal to renew its controversial deal with China filled the Catholic media in the past week. As the Vatican attempted to normalize the Church's life in communist China, Christians continued to face restrictions on practicing their faith elsewhere in Asia.
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The test of Christian faith is not merely whether or not we are in church on Sunday. Going to church is the renewing of our "yes" to the call of God. But, do we follow through on the promise?
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Developments in Asia this week show how governments are directly or indirectly moving against religious minorities including Christians. Religious freedom is threatened by attacks, murders and draconian laws in several parts of the region.
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Just as the parables of Jesus show the love of God in stories about lost coins, vineyards and generous landowners, the followers of Jesus must make the events of everyday life point to God's loving presence among us.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has tightened its grip on India, where daily some 90,000 people are now infected. The contagion is weakening in most Asian nations, but its socio-economic impact on the poor has increased.
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Violence is unjustified, but it remains one of the tragedies of our sin-marred, sin-deformed world that it too often takes violence to end or control worse violence. Resort to violence cannot, of course, be for the sake of pride, selfishness, or any other aim than an honest pursuit of justice, as Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan says, for without justice there can be no peace.
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The way out of the paradox is to realize that forgiving and being forgiven is not a parade of activities that happen in order – God forgives, then I forgive, then God forgives. God’s forgiving me and my forgiving others go on together.
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The feast of Mother Teresa, who toiled for the poor, passed off quietly this week as Asia’s poor continued to suffer from floods, the coronavirus pandemic and oppressive regimes. Christian communities across Asia also confronted stories of discrimination, oppression and corruption.
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The Lord's command to confront sin in ourselves and others is never easy to fulfill. It is even harder, perhaps, to be the object of that confrontation, whether as individuals or as societies. So, what are we to do?
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Developments across Asia in the past week were shocking for groups fighting for religious freedom and democracy. Authoritarian governments continued their arm-twisting tactics to remain in power as the Covid-19 pandemic continued to claim thousands of lives.
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With 132 million people aged between 15-33, Pakistan is the fifth largest young country in the world. The Muslim-majority nation also has the second-largest youth population in South Asia after India. However, young people from religious minorities, such as Christians and Hindus, face social discrimination. They have fewer opportunities for education, jobs, and to develop their talents. Organizations like Youth Development Foundation or YDF attempt to bridge this gap through collaborative programs. Shahid Rehmat, YDF, Executive Director in conversation with Kamran Chaudhary.
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The temptation to avoid the cross is not one that Jesus alone faced. We, too, face it. That is the reason Jesus tells us that we must be willing to take up the cross.
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The struggle for democracy and freedom of religion and speech continued across Asia as the world observed International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief on August 22. The desire for democracy endures in several Asian nations amid fanatic violence and a pandemic that refuses to die out.
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The corona virus pandemic has forced limits upon Christians’ ability to gather in churches to pray and celebrate liturgy. In some places, churches are closed. In others, the number of those who can join liturgies is limited to a fraction of what used to be normal. In this episode, Father William Grimm, who lives in Japan, shares experience of Christians in Japan during centuries of persecution that may have something to teach us today.
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The important thing about Peter and the important thing about me is that Christ has chosen us to be Church. He has set us up in all our weakness and declared that the gates of death will not prevail against us.
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Three Asian nations observed independence days this week, marking their freedom from colonial rule in the middle of the last century. It is more than seven decades since India, Indonesia and Pakistan gained political independence but their people continue to complain about lack of freedom of speech and religion.
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The Incarnation means that Jesus really was a man of his time, his place and his people. He spoke their language, he dressed as they dressed, he had the same prejudices they had.
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Several parts of Asia witnessed heavy rain and floods this week as the region continued to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the natural disasters did not deter governments from violating people’s freedom of religion and speech.
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It is not even a year since Pope Francis visited Japan to answer critics of his declaration that even the possession of nuclear weapons is immoral. But did the World War II truly end? From Japan, Father William Grimm, in this episode of Observations, look at the possibility of being able to say prayers of thanksgiving for a peaceful world without the threat of atomic weapons.
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The Lord is willing to support us in doing the impossible. What we need is enough faith to enable us to step out of the security of the boat we call everyday "sensible" life.
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The 75th anniversary of the first atomic bombing was remembered by the world this week amid spiraling Covid-19 cases in most Asian countries. Authoritarian political moves and people’s struggles for religious freedom also made headlines across India.
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The Gospel, the Good News, is about God’s immeasurable love, not about divine vindictiveness. That love can forgive the worst of all sins, the murder of God: “Father, forgive them.”
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What would happen if we were to take seriously God's willingness to do the impossible through disciples? Am I willing to take the risk today to find out?
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Apart from Turkey converting Hagia Sophia back to a mosque, a major confrontation between the executive and Church in Philippines also made news headlines. Amid all these, Covid-19 pandemic continued its mayhem.
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My totally unscientific projection is that in the months after the pandemic subsides enough to allow gathering once again, on average, communities will be much smaller who will seek each other out and find their own ways to be communities of believers. That will be the price for resuming instead of renewing. Sad to say, resumption rather than renewal seems to be the hope of too many whose role should be to foster movement to a new future: Fr. William J Grimm
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How can I become like some learned scribe who can speak with confident knowledge of the Reign of God?
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Floods, displacement, persecution and rights violations continue to make waves across Asia this week, while the Covid-19 pandemic is reaching deep into the Catholic Church's hierarchy.
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Bombay Archdiocese is among India’s oldest Catholic pockets on western coast. Some 500,000 of its Catholics in 126 parishes form a vibrant church community in India’s commercial capital Mumbai, formerly called Bombay. The city of 18 million people continues to be a Covid-19 hotspot since February and recorded some 85,000 positive cases and close to 5,000 deaths by mid-July. The local Church, with its infrastructure and personnel, assists the city administration in fighting the pandemic. In today’s observations, Cardinal Oswald Gracias, the archbishop of Bombay Archdiocese, gives a glimpse of the work done since the pandemic hit the city.
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In our prayer, God makes the seemingly impossible happen. The seed of good flourishes, the world is leavened. All we need do is pray. But how?
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Floods and the Covid-19 pandemic have continued to wreak havoc across several Asian nations this week, while Church communities upped their fight against sexual violence and exploitation.
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July 16 is the 75th anniversary of an event that blights the lives of every one of us on this planet. On that morning in 1945 scientists in the desert of New Mexico in the United States detonated the first atomic bomb. Those bombs were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9. Today nuclear problem is not limited to weapons. Sources of danger have become part of our everyday lives. Father William Grimm explores how, apart from the effects of radioactive fallout, the whole world suffered.
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No matter where some of the seed may land and the odds against it, the growth of the Reign of God is unstoppable. That's the seed, but what of the sower?
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While China’s communist regime strengthens its stranglehold on Hong Kong with its controversial security law, it is banning children from entering churches in mainland China. Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, clergy in Asia are becoming more vulnerable. An Indian nun who died of Covid-19 has become the first Catholic nun to be cremated in the country, and arguably the first in the Catholic Church’s history.
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The world around me may be in turmoil, but I will be in peace and calm, not because I am apart from the world, but because I am sharing God's deep love for that world.
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Once again China continued to dominate politics and social discussions across Asia this week, particularly with the passage of its draconian security law aimed at checking the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. In India, protests over the deaths of two men in police custody in Tamil Nadu are spiralling, while three priests have committed suicide in cases seemingly related to depression.
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Christians should be at the forefront of opposition to anything that makes superficial differences of appearance, language, nationality, religion, gender identity, age, physical or mental condition, education or anything else a justification for abusing, oppressing and even killing people. To do otherwise is to deny the truth of Genesis, the truth of creation, as Father William Grimm explains in this episode of Observations.
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Part of the call of Christ is a call to repentance. It is not something I can reserve to Lent oran occasional confession. Because nearly my whole life is a nay-saying to God, my whole life must be repentance.
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Depressing stories of deaths and oppression continued across Asia this week along with the raging Covid-19 pandemic that claims hundreds of lives each day. Technologically ill-equipped students are taking their own lives over not being able to attend online classes, while two priests in India committed suicide after suffering from depression. China’s stranglehold on church officials and Hong Kong continues to tighten.
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Today we live restricted in our movement, similar to the situation of being hunkered down in an air raid shelter during an attack. We live with uncertainty, unable to know when a virus may bombard our bodies. Our situation is similar, though on a much less horrifying level, to that of the people who lived and died during the Second World War, says Father William Grimm in this week's episode.
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Prophets invariably get a hard time and it could be a measure of the authenticity of a prophet if they take a hammering for what they have to say or suggest what should be done. And this is because they tell us the truth.
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In a world full of terrors, we have been commissioned to share the Good News that we need not fear. God’s love protects us. God’s love embraces us eternally, overcoming fear, overcoming death.
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China continues to dominate the news this week as tension rises on the India-China border and a fresh bout of Covid-19 infections is reported from Chinese capital Beijing. China is forging ahead with its plans to end democracy in Hong Kong. Pakistani Christians have some good news with the discovery of an ancient Christian cross.
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Today's Gospel which is a story that is unique to Luke, we have a picture of Jesus presented as a boy of twelve and the point that is being made by the story is that it's set in Jerusalem to which in Luke's gospel the Journey of Jesus to Jerusalem is the central matter.
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Sacred Heart, the feast of which is today, is an approach to Jesus that has been much more popular in previous entries than it is now. But it is of perennial significance because he emphasises one very central thing: That God loves us.
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Gospel reading today is the supreme prayer of all Christians. The Our Father. Every line of it is worthy of extended contemplation and extended thought.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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In today's Gospel we have the three great things the mark the way that Christians should behave. Prayer, alms giving and all the things that go into showing how we should respond generously to what God offers.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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As we all know in our lives our understanding of life, the world, ourselves and one another grows with experience. Todays’ reading impresses us this is also true for people who develop their understanding of who they are, what the mission and task in life is what their culture is what they strengths are what their weaknesses are.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today’s first reading lead us to wonder why on earth bad things happen to good people and the second reading Jesus puts in that usually exaggerated way the Jesus adopts which is common in the rabbinic tradition of teaching to exaggerate.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today we come to the feast that is about celebrating how we are nourished in the Journey of Faith through the body and blood of Christ or Corpus Christi in the old language.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Fortunately, Christ is not so choosy. He is willing to be present in the bread and wine that his people share. He is willing to be present in that people and in what they do as individuals and a community to show the love of God to the world.
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More than three months after the Covid-19 ordeal began, South Asia’s 1.7 billion people, one fifth of the world’s population, are fearfully awaiting a grave human tragedy. Current trends in most South Asian nations indicate that the easing of the restrictions and heath emergency rules are most likely to fuel the spread of the pandemic. This and more news from Asia in this episode of Weekly News summary.
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Journey of faith in our lives is simple yet challenging. Its simplicity is demonstrated and advocated by Jesus in the reading today from the Gospel of Mathew.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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In the first reading today Elijah is portrayed as caught in a moment in the first reading at mass today which is not unfamiliar to us all.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Many Christians get it wrong when they hear stories such as the one in today's readings. First reading is about the growth at the church and the way in which unfolds from the Acts of the Apostles. The story is not really about it and if we read between the lines we see it's very clearly they're in the intention of the author to say this is the work of the spirit.
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The older we get the more we realize that we are a work in progress. We pass milestones in our lives we achieve and even fail at things and we move on or we get bogged down. Today's reading looks at the way in which Israel evolved in its understanding of it facing God and its identity as a people.
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In the first reading today, we hear a beautiful story about a simple engagement with God's providence story about someone on a journey. In the Gospel reading the two images of faith as they have their impact on our lives as Christians are salt and light.
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Beatitudes in Mark's gospel today is the most succinct forceful and comprehensive statement of just what Jesus message is.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Trinity Sunday is one of three that occur in a roll. Last week it was Pentecost, this week is Trinity and next week we celebrate the body and blood of Christ. If ever you wanted to find the needed sharpest summary of what being a Christian is, it would be these three feasts. We live in the spirit who takes us up into the life of God and as we do that we are nourished along the way through the Eucharist.
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Christians called to show God's love to the world should show a love that is so full as to overflow us, bringing unity to a world of many persons.
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In this week’s news summary, China backed city administration banned a memorial program for the first time in 30 years, saying the gathering could spread coronavirus. Church in India is asking clarification on the Eucharist as the Hindu equivalent of Prasad is not part of the exempted items from pandemic related notifications. A controversial Christian pastor in Myanmar will continue to be in Jail while a pro-democracy activist is abducted in Cambodia. And much more
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It is only from God that we find the light and life and joy and hope that make us able to bear the burdens of disappointments, failures and rejoice in them because they are the building blocks.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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In the Gospel today Paul is writing to his friend and disciple and object of affection Timothy encouraging him to be patient and to encourage the communities that he is evangelizing to be patient and wait on the Lord.
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The city on a hill cannot be hidden. Will America prove John Winthrop's vision wrong? The original idea of America and its present state stand completely opposing each other. Thousands are on the streets protesting a suffocating system and shouting, "I can't breathe." Reverend Valson Thampu, Commentator and former Principal of St. Stephens College, Delhi, in this episode, emphasizes that the Church in the United States needs to address this.
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Today's message from Saint Paul in his letter to Timothy is to encourage people to persevere in their engagement with God. This thought might not appear to be the case since God is still at work. Maybe due to the constraints of human weakness, blindness or lack of freedom.
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There is a contrast in the tone of the two readings today. One from Paul to Timothy is a disciple and follower and the other Jesus again engaging with adversaries who are too smart by heart and they are trying to trick him and trip him up and show that he is confused and not worth listening to.
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Today’s Gospel is a very good example of a pathway to pray. We have to think and pray about what is the appropriate and life-giving way to respond to anyone that we encounter.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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Today's feast of Mary as mother of the church is a relatively recent feast in the history of the church but whether it's recent to a long-standing doesn't really alter the fact that she is celebrated quite rightly as the model and paradigm of being a true disciple of Jesus.
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Luke is the most graphic in his gospel of all the writers in the new testament full of memorable scenes and stories. Who can ever forget the story of The Prodigal son which is really the story of the prophet and father.
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We sometimes forget that the reason the Church exists is not to be a club of the saved, but to be the herald of the Gospel. Our first concern must always be with those who are outside, for the men and women who have not yet come to know Christ
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China’s move to clamp down on the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong dominated events in Asia. This week’s Podcast includes a subdued celebration of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, clashes in Mindanao, migrant workers’ struggles, cyclone recovery in India and Bangladesh, and the India-China stand-off.
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Both readings today are tied up with what one can term as judicial procedures. Paul is trapped under guard in Rome, identified and charged in Jerusalem. But Because he is a Roman citizen he doesn't have to submit to provincial judgment. He, therefore, asks to go to Rome where he can be judged by Caesar.
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Today's Gospel is a rich and intimate expression of just what the following of Jesus is all about. After resurrection, Jesus meets and have breakfast with the apostles. He then asks Peter if he loves Him. Listen here.
About the Author: Father Michael Kelly is a Jesuit priest and English language publisher of the respected Jesuit periodical, La Civilta Cattolica.
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