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wao lau... i thought i can get 3.2 or 3.3 GPA points lor... but i only have 3.1 with is i didnt want it to happen to me... how to get to another course with these points that i have?
- i think i'm GONE and LOST
-Lord, i need your help! really! PLEASE!

*sigh*

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God Made Himself Small So That We Could Understand Him

Papal Homily at Midnight Mass
VATICAN CITY, DEC. 25, 2006 - Here is a Vatican translation of the homily by Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI gave at the Christmas Midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We have just heard in the Gospel the message given by the angels to the shepherds during that Holy Night, a message which the Church now proclaims to us: "To you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger" (Lk 2:11-12). Nothing miraculous, nothing extraordinary, nothing magnificent is given to the shepherds as a sign. All they will see is a child wrapped in swaddling clothes, one who, like all children, needs a mother's care; a child born in a stable, who therefore lies not in a cradle but in a manger. God's sign is the baby in need of help and in poverty. Only in their hearts will the shepherds be able to see that this baby fulfils the promise of the prophet Isaiah, which we heard in the first reading: "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder" (Is 9:5). Exactly the same sign has been given to us. We too are invited by the angel of God, through the message of the Gospel, to set out in our hearts to see the child lying in the manger.

God's sign is simplicity. God's sign is the baby. God's sign is that he makes himself small for us. This is how he reigns. He does not come with power and outward splendour. He comes as a baby -- defenceless and in need of our help. He does not want to overwhelm us with his strength. He takes away our fear of his greatness. He asks for our love: so he makes himself a child. He wants nothing other from us than our love, through which we spontaneously learn to enter into his feelings, his thoughts and his will -- we learn to live with him and to practise with him that humility of renunciation that belongs to the very essence of love. God made himself small so that we could understand him, welcome him, and love him. The Fathers of the Church, in their Greek translation of the Old Testament, found a passage from the prophet Isaiah that Paul also quotes in order to show how God's new ways had already been foretold in the Old Testament. There we read: "God made his Word short, he abbreviated it" (Is 10:23; Rom 9:28). The Fathers interpreted this in two ways. The Son himself is the Word, the Logos; the eternal Word became small -- small enough to fit into a manger. He became a child, so that the Word could be grasped by us. In this way God teaches us to love the little ones. In this way he teaches us to love the weak. In this way he teaches us respect for children. The child of Bethlehem directs our gaze towards all children who suffer and are abused in the world, the born and the unborn. Towards children who are placed as soldiers in a violent world; towards children who have to beg; towards children who suffer deprivation and hunger; towards children who are unloved. In all of these it is the Child of Bethlehem who is crying out to us; it is the God who has become small who appeals to us. Let us pray this night that the brightness of God's love may enfold all these children. Let us ask God to help us do our part so that the dignity of children may be respected. May they all experience the light of love, which mankind needs so much more than the material necessities of life.

And so we come to the second meaning that the Fathers saw in the phrase: "God made his Word short". The Word which God speaks to us in Sacred Scripture had become long in the course of the centuries. It became long and complex, not just for the simple and unlettered, but even more so for those versed in Sacred Scripture, for the experts who evidently became entangled in details and in particular problems, almost to the extent of losing an overall perspective. Jesus "abbreviated" the Word -- he showed us once more its deeper simplicity and unity. Everything taught by the Law and the Prophets is summed up -- he says -- in the command: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. You shall love your neighbour as yourself" (Mt 22:37-40). This is everything -- the whole faith is contained in this one act of love which embraces God and humanity. Yet now further questions arise: how are we to love God with all our mind, when our intellect can barely reach him? How are we to love him with all our heart and soul, when our heart can only catch a glimpse of him from afar, when there are so many contradictions in the world that would hide his face from us? This is where the two ways in which God has "abbreviated" his Word come together. He is no longer distant. He is no longer unknown. He is no longer beyond the reach of our heart. He has become a child for us, and in so doing he has dispelled all doubt. He has become our neighbour, restoring in this way the image of man, whom we often find so hard to love. For us, God has become a gift. He has given himself. He has entered time for us. He who is the Eternal One, above time, he has assumed our time and raised it to himself on high. Christmas has become the Feast of gifts in imitation of God who has given himself to us. Let us allow our heart, our soul and our mind to be touched by this fact! Among the many gifts that we buy and receive, let us not forget the true gift: to give each other something of ourselves, to give each other something of our time, to open our time to God. In this way anxiety disappears, joy is born, and the feast is created. During the festive meals of these days let us remember the Lord's words: "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite those who will invite you in return, but invite those whom no one invites and who are not able to invite you" (cf. Lk 14:12-14). This also means: when you give gifts for Christmas, do not give only to those who will give to you in return, but give to those who receive from no one and who cannot give you anything back. This is what God has done: he invites us to his wedding feast, something which we cannot reciprocate, but can only receive with joy. Let us imitate him! Let us love God and, starting from him, let us also love man, so that, starting from man, we can then rediscover God in a new way!

And so, finally, we find yet a third meaning in the saying that the Word became "brief" and "small". The shepherds were told that they would find the child in a manger for animals, who were the rightful occupants of the stable. Reading Isaiah (1:3), the Fathers concluded that beside the manger of Bethlehem there stood an ox and an ass. At the same time they interpreted the text as symbolizing the Jews and the pagans -- and thus all humanity -- who each in their own way have need of a Saviour: the God who became a child. Man, in order to live, needs bread, the fruit of the earth and of his labour. But he does not live by bread alone. He needs nourishment for his soul: he needs meaning that can fill his life. Thus, for the Fathers, the manger of the animals became the symbol of the altar, on which lies the Bread which is Christ himself: the true food for our hearts. Once again we see how he became small: in the humble appearance of the host, in a small piece of bread, he gives us himself.

All this is conveyed by the sign that was given to the shepherds and is given also to us: the child born for us, the child in whom God became small for us. Let us ask the Lord to grant us the grace of looking upon the crib this night with the simplicity of the shepherds, so as to receive the joy with which they returned home (cf. Lk 2:20). Let us ask him to give us the humility and the faith with which Saint Joseph looked upon the child that Mary had conceived by the Holy Spirit. Let us ask the Lord to let us look upon him with that same love with which Mary saw him. And let us pray that in this way the light that the shepherds saw will shine upon us too, and that what the angels sang that night will be accomplished throughout the world: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men with whom he is pleased." Amen!

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Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

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Christmas Carolling 2006 @ Ju Eng Home

i would like to show you what i did today but is in a video form... ENJOY!



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Tridentine Mass

i feel spiritual good cause this time i didnt missed the Tridentine Mass celebrated by Rev. Fr. Duncan Wong FSSP from the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter... the community is in around the world and Fr. Duncan is a Singaporean but he joined the community at Australia...

i thought Fr Duncan is a old man but i was shock to see him like he's a young and just ordain priest but he's a Vocation Director some more... The Tridentine Mass was good for me cause this is one of the tradition of church that is not practicing in this moden world but one thing i didnt like it was the whole of the mass the people of god was silent and they only say 'and with your spirit' & 'Amen' both are in latin...

i hope many parishes will take up this tradition and not just leave it as nothing... latin is still the offical language of the Catholic Church... we as people of god should learn at lest abit of latin to be united with the Whole Church Everywhere... till den! Peace!

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Up-Dates

a few Up-Dates for those from Holy Trinity Church Youth Ministry...

• Youth Confirmation Mass on 28 Jan 07 6pm "Everything will be done by the Youths" eg. Lector, Choir, Band, Warden and etc
  
• AGM Meeting on 27 Jan 07 at Rm 12 start 10am Sharp
• Car Wash Fund Drive 3rd & 4th March 07 All Masses
  
• 1st project by Youth Ministry "Passion Play" on Good Friday Evening 6pm

so many things is going on and many more to come for next yr 2007 and the Youth Council is going to be Re-Form again so i dun think i may stay the same position but i hope i dun be a lazy person... eg dun go for meetings and other event stuff... ahaha!

- just now when i was on my way home, i was just pondering about the youths, why am i doing all this things and why do i have to do it...
- izzit because of the 'Name' as a Youth Coordinator or President of the Youth Council, sometime when i wanna do God's work there will be people behind me throwing daggar at my back, and confirm someone will ask or tell me to stop and dun get involve in all this, that really makes me think have i done something wrong or what...
- 'God! whats your will for me now?' now i have to wait and see how is things are going to be done...
- choir have not started anything yet
- band have to push till next yr Jan 07 den can start everything
- got to prepare for the up-coming Youth Confirmation Mass
i'm not going to think so much liao... till den Peace!

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Pump it, pump it, pump it Fonz!

today i wen to the Gym (-_-') 1st time...
- started at 10.45am with the cycle for 15 mins, i followed what my best friend told me to do...
- after the cycle i did some stuff for my stomach so i can lose some weight man! and to tone down...
- next followed by carrying some weights... started with 3kg (-_-') and slowly hit to 5kg... thats the most i can carry for the moment... ahaha! we finished about 1pm...
- headed for lunch near by and we order chicken rice and the food was ALOT! real alot some more is 3 bucks! you wanna know is at Bedok one of the blks near the Gym area...
- i wen to my best friend's house and we just REST cause after work out dam tiring...
- at evening we headed to church for Penitential Service just only for our community... ahaha!

i think that's all i wanna say... till den PEACE!

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Would you think of it?

woa lau... the holidays have started and i'm still JOBLESS 'God help me please' is so dam pathetic that this week is so stressful for me man...

- I lost my voice on saturday nite after eucharist... that tells there was no microphone on that nite and sadly it was my community to do the word & songs so i need to sing most of the songs... haii
- had to wake up early to head to church for the registration of Youth Music Ministry in my parish... i was shock that lots of youth turn up to register themselves to join the ministry...
- after the 12.30pm mass shaun, matt, arnaold, russ & myself wen to down-town to play pool and thats where my voice got worst man...
- evening i met my friend to go kai-kai at queensway shopping centre cause he wanted to get his sandals and some other stuff also...
- today was out the whole day with my God-father... as usual go to Sentosa one of the beach for lunch 'chicken rice AGAIN!' follow by finding a place to sit under the coconut tree for some block from the sun... godpa read his Newpaper and i do nothing waiting to fall asleep... after waking up we swim across to the other island and talk talk again... today we see many small small fish and a crab also and we disturb the crab like hell man... after swimming back to the Main island... rest again for awhile and waiting to wash-up den leave the place and head for dinner... we went to Vivo City since is just beside Sentosa and we kai-kai over there and talk about so many things at Vivo City... we had dinner at the Food Republic and the atmosphere was like in the 60s or 70s before World War 2... after dinner we headed to GV to catch some nice movie but so many people q-ing at the booth so wen to Great World City to watch 'The Nativity Story' this is the 1st time i didnt hear Godpa said 'start with Zero end with Zero' ahaha! it was a good wan for those who know the bible well...

i think i write too much liao... and i'm sleepy now, my eyes are closing... till den Peace!


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Traditional Catholic Monks of Papa Stronsay, Scotland

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Silent Library

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Japanese Laughing Show

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dream dream dream...

today 7 dec 06 12.58pm

-soccer match at CSC but due to the wheather it was cancelled
-dream of get award for studying to hard
-thinking to much of going for higher-nitec course
-nothing to do
-stay at home
-watch tv
-play maple
-use my computer
-haii

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Inappropriate Priest - Cellphone ring during Wedding

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Inappropriate Priest - Thou Shalt not Steal

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Why am I a Catholic?

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I'm Back!

finally i'm back from all the sadness that i cant use my computer due to the internet problems... haii now i'm happy happy! didt all my stuff and some more today is my sister's birthday and i didnt really wan to remember her birthday.. ahaha! today i got nothing much to blog so... see ya

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