i need INTERNET!

very sorri guys i currently no internet connection at house due to payment stuff AGAIN! shit to him man... cant blog much today but i feel dam sad ahhh... ciao ciao
PEACE OUTTA!

~fjm......

Saga of ~fjm

school is coming to an end very soon and now is all the projects, assignments, presentation & talks by other people... haii this is killing but i still have to run to the finish point and get the cert! and soon will be army... sob sob i got nothing to say now... maybe is not meant to be haii...
Peace!

~fjm outta....

stars?

what a missed... lasted friday nite Fr aloy take his own sweet time to take a look at the stars and he got it in picture and in COLOUR also! cool ahhh! let me show you and i only got 2 pictures...

One of Orion's belt - M42 'in colour'

Pleadies - 7 sisters - M45 'in colour'

dam cool ahhh... with all the star in the galaxy that God have created for us to gaze on... truly i say 'i like counting stars' ahaha! i think thats it for today i'll continue it when i can... ciao ciao!

~fjm outta......

Boring Day

so happy that i no need to go to school and i got a AL aka 'approve leave' from school, and i woke up dam late man suppose to wake up at 9am to do something but rather i woke up at 11am, and i had to rush to SGH for my appointment with the doctor... 15mins later the doctor told me that i had to go again for some sleep study by 6 weeks i can complete it WTH whats all this man... it just make my life so blur... some more just one sleep study thing cost me 700 bucks man and is not that cheap lor... where the hell the money goanna come... Mindef better pay everything and i'm not coming a single cent for that stupid thing...

after the appointment with the doctor at SGH i head home... i pity myself every time i reach home always no one at home and i'm the 'home alone' boy but in singapore version... i had nothing to do so i just watch my Cartoon Movie 'The Incredibles' and after way in the show i slept -_-' what the! maybe i'm just too tired for anything and i needed a rest from everything eg school, money, family life, assignments, project, getting to higher nitec course, NS, career & many more ahhh... if life would had been so easy i'm so happy man, but there is a reason very i'm in this kind of state.. haii...

after my nap i woke and took a bath and headed to church for evening mass to keep in contact with God and to keep my relationship with him strong and not let the devil cheat me again... and i really enjoy what Fr John Bosco's sermon and it really touch me... "the master didnt praises him for his work but rather praises him for his gifts to see the furture, we have to use our gifts to look at the furture eternal salvation" and bla bla bla...

after evening mass waited for Jonathan cause he was suppose to meet me for evening mass but came late... -_-' waited for a taxi in a Central Business Disrict Area and is dam hard to get one taxi at that hour lor... 5pm++... so i waited for him we walk toward TM aka Tampines Mall and had dinner there... he dam good this is what he said "by looking at the food ahh, i already full liao no need to buy and eat, just by looking can liao" -_-' i didnt care him but i still eat cause today i called it as a 'Day of Fasting' so at that point of time i was dam hungry

after dinner i head to potong pasir to see see my friend whether there anot... so depressing she was not there again wasted my time AGAIN ahhh! as usual i sat there and do my thing... this time i read my book and write and draw some stupid things like 'Parish Youths VS Community Youths' -_-' dam stupid rite? i stayed there till 11pm and i gave up liao... walked to the bus stop my head looking down... haii i guess i miss my chance and i'm still lov'ing it myself... ahaha! that's all i guess... ciao ciao...

~fjm outta......

Judge not, that you be not judged

“Judge not, that you be not judged.”(Mt 7:1). Believe it or not, in order to begin to understand this passage from the Sermon on the Mount, we must make several judgments. Only then will our Savior’s prohibition be made sensible.

First of all, we can learn from our own experience that making judgments is both natural and necessary for us. To judge is the way our intellect puts things together or divides them. For example, we can say: “The sky is clear.” That’s a judgment putting together “the sky” and “clear”. Again, walking down the street, heading for your favorite restaurant, you discover: “It’s not open.” That judgment divides the restaurant (“it”) and “open”.

It seems that we generally make 3 types of judgments:
1) about the truth of things
2) about the truth of words
3) and about the truth of morals

The truth of things
When we judge the truth about things we might say something like: “This is bread.” If our Lord were to forbid making this type of judgment, we couldn’t even make breakfast. We would be prohibited to distinguish bacon and bagels, salt from sugar, or food from poison. Practically speaking, everything would be a disaster.

The truth of words
Most humor depends on a wordplay. The ability to appreciate this type of joke depends on a judgment of words.
For example:
Q: How can you tell a dogwood tree from a maple tree?
A: The bark. If you laughed, you understood the play on words (dogwood and bark). But, if our Lord was speaking against this type of judgment, then you had better get to confession! Obviously, all communication depends on making this type of judgment. Otherwise, we couldn’t tell the difference between what is true and what is false—we couldn’t even use the Gospel to guide our lives, and all human discourse would be meaningless.

The truth of morals
An example of this type of judgment might be: “Abortion is evil.” Without the possibility of making this judgment, we would be unable to distinguish good from evil, justice from injustice, happiness from misery. There would be no difference between consecrated virginity and profligacy—ultimately, there would be no value in distinguishing Heaven from hell. This would be the end of everything. In the public forum, it is both natural and Illustration by Maronite Monks necessary to judge about actions committed against the just order of society. This provides us with a way to preserve the common good, condemn wicked deeds, punish those proven guilty of them and to free the innocent. What our Lord prohibits is any unjust
judgment that we make individually in our heart. This is opposed to justice and charity, even opposed to God Himself, whose authority we usurp.

St. Augustine explains: “Concerning those things which are known to God but unknown to us, if we judge our neighbor, we do so with great danger. About this type of judgment our Lord says: ‘Judge not ....’ But about those things which are open and public evils, we are able and ought to judge and refute, but with charity and love, hating not the man but the sin, detesting the vice and the sickness, not the one who is ill.”

If the public sins and evils were not judged and castigated, our silence about them would foster their growth and promote them in others. In some cases, if you cannot excuse the action, you might excuse the intention. But even if the intention can’t be excused, then we must redouble our efforts in prayer and penance. After all, we are our brother’s keeper. Sometimes it might be possible gently to rebuke a brother. Remember, to correct the erring is a spiritual work of mercy. But never exclude someone from the charity of your prayer. To do so is not to pray, it is a sin.

The image of God
What then is the reason for this difference in judgments, some we can make, others not? Only one reason: the image of God impressed on the soul. The image of God in our soul distinguishes us from all other creatures on earth, for no other creature is given the capacity to remember, know and love God. This trinity of powers (memory, understanding and will) in unity of substance makes us an image of God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. For this reason, we are capable of making judgments about things, about words and about morals, so as to fulfill the basic command of God: “Depart from evil, and do good.” (Ps 34:14).

For the same reason, i.e., the image of God in our soul, we are prohibited from judging our neighbor. Why? Because, if my neighbor is made in the image of God, then he is not made in the image of me. I am not in a position to call him to account. I am not competent to assess how well or ill he corresponds to that image. That is hidden from me.

Therefore, if we begin to wonder, to suspect, to pass judgment on another, that is the time
for curiosity to stop up its mouth and exclaim, instead,
with St. Paul:
“O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord,or
who has been his counselor?’ ‘Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?’ For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for ever. Amen.”
(Rom 11:33-36).

Stars

Hi again...

i was at katong at about 10.40pm but started look out for stars at 11.20pm i guess...
Fr Aloy has this scoop that is so BIG and real it can move with all the infor we wan and we see many stars man...
The huater with his dog and the 7 ladies ahaha!
Now i show you 2 picture of the stars... Enjoy!

Can you see?

Cant see much i guess... Cause of the moon show its light and the moon i cant take the photo cause it was too bright la... much when the moon is like half or going to New moon den i can take photos again...
Ok i have to run now... Ciao Ciao...

~fjm outta......

Small Star......

this friday i'm gonna see some stars man... i hope that the weather will be good that nite...
i dunno who will be there but is just like a young priest and myself that nite and its call a "Marathon" ahaha! cool huh?

i'll try mt best to take some photos for you all guys to see see... ahaha!
ciao ciao....

~fjm outta......

Neocatechumate Clarifies Meeting With Orthodox

"We Agreed With Patriarchate to Continue In-depth Dialogue"

MOSCOW, OCT. 30, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is a press release from the Neocatechumenal Way clarifiying the details of a meeting between Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, and the initiators of the Neocatechumenate.

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On Oct. 19 took place a meeting between Kirill, metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, president of the Department of Foreign Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, and the initiators of the Neocatechumenal Way, Kiko Arg�ello and Carmen Hern�ndez, accompanied by Father Mario Pezzi.

Kiko Arg�ello explained to the Metropolitan the origins and development of the Neocatechumenal Way following the Second Vatican Council's rediscovery of Christian initiation and the Catechumenate for adults.

Kiko also said that there is no intention of proselytism towards the Orthodox faithful, but rather to offer this itinerary of faith formation as a service inside of the Russian Orthodox Church. Metropolitan Kirill "pointed to the need of a greater in-depth look to the respective spiritual traditions, so as to see whether the ideas of modern religious movements correspond to the theological tradition of the Orthodox Church."

Metropolitan Kirill asked Reverend Igor Vyzhanov, secretary of interreligious relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, to continue this dialogue with the purpose of deepening the understanding.

Should this first stage develop in a positive manner, the second stage would be to examine the possibilities for proceeding with the necessary adaptations within the frame of the ecumenical dialogue so desired by both John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

"The meeting with Metropolitan Kirill was very cordial and positive," explained Kiko Arg�ello. "We agreed to begin a series of contacts which, hoping in the Providence of God, may be of benefit to the great task of the New Evangelization also within the Orthodox Church."

Kiko added: "We regret that some misunderstandings may have arisen following media reports regarding the meeting; we are in full agreement with the communiqu� of the Patriarchate of Moscow which states that we have not arrived at a final agreement. We had a very positive meeting and we agreed with the patriarchate to continue this in-depth dialogue."

Walter Cardinal Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, was informed beforehand by the initiators of the Way of this meeting.