That’s what you only think so on these tough times. When we are almost crushed by our sufferings, or people have done horrible things to us, experiencing injustice, and we couldn’t lean on anyone else, we call on God to cry out for help and pray. But the problem is …
When I was a child, I always had to memorize the Threefold Missions of Jesus Christ – Priestly, Prophetic, Kingly. I pleasantly find out, in the Evening Prayer for this Easter Tuesday, that early on in Psalm 110 is one of the most important psalms, as early on, it had …
The famous Psalm 42 is in the Morning Prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours for this day: I thirst for God. Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God. My soul is thirsting for God, the God of my …
They say nobody’s perfect. But that’s false. For being Roman Catholics, like the Psalm below, we get the chance to be one. Psalm 26 Give judgment for me, O Lord: for I walk the path of perfection. I trust in the Lord; I have not wavered. Examine me, Lord, and …
I think Psalm 18 is the sweetest… I love you, Lord Psalm 18 I love you, Lord, my strength, my rock, my fortress, my savior. My God is the rock where I take refuge; my shield, my mighty help, my stronghold. The Lord is worthy of all praise; when …
This is the sad truth about Truth, like as expressed in the Liturgy of the Hours today: Office of Readings Psalm 12 Help, O Lord, for good men have vanished: truth has gone from the sons of men. Falsehood they speak one to another, with lying lips, with a false …
There’s a similarity between Psalm 7 of Midday Prayer and Psalm 86 of Night Prayer, speaking of God as ‘slow to anger’. God is the shield that protects me, who saves the upright of heart. God is a just judge slow to anger; but he threatens the wicked every day, …
Now, or tonight, is the ‘Chinese New Year’ and Chinatowns in different parts of the world, or those people trying to be ‘Chinese’ so they can partake a share from their ‘luck’, are very much alive, not sleeping, dying to follow what the Feng Shui says, and having a feast …
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