This week

ohhh... time really past very fast... Happy Lunar New Year to ALL!
it has been very busy days for me since lots of work both in office and church with the youths and their ministries... 'can kill me ahhh!' but i guess i have been chosen by them so i had to set a good way of living to them, that they live here is for God and to return the glory back to God the Almighty... let me share with you what i have wrote for Lent 2007...

In the season of Lent, the Mother Church gives us these 3 spiritual exercises: Fasting, Almsgiving & Prayer, to help us overcome the devil’s temptations.

Fast
Many of us think “fasting” means fasting from food or that we eat our food faster. Actually “fasting” does not mean totally not eating but reducing the amount of time we spend on food, and material or physical pleasures such as LAN gaming, going for parties. It means exercising self-control.

Almsgiving
“The Christian’s programme – the programme of the Good Samaritan, the programme of Jesus- is ‘a heart which sees’. This heart sees where love is needed and acts accordingly.”

Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est

Prayer
“Action is worth nothing without Prayer: Prayer grows in value with sacrifice.”

St Josemarìa Escrivá

Without prayer, it is difficult to exercise Fasting & Almsgiving.

i guess in this world now the youth are scared to answer to the people in the world of how they can love God, and to answer those questions that they dont understand for themselves, eg
- "Who is God?"
- "Who made God?"
- "Why am I here?"
- "Why did God sent his Son to come to save us by dying on the cross?"
- "Why go to church, where God is in your heart?"
these are the things that will may or will or even have an-counter through their everyday life in school, at outing with friends & etc... so after been question real HARD by people from the world, they themselves get confuse of their faith in the Living God and also doubt on the Love of God, and it is a Sin to doubt on the Love of God that shows that we are making ourselves far away from Him. these young people need to see a sign from their own groups of people, in their family and everywhere...

let me end off with a qoute from St Josemarìa Escrivá on "Love of God":

"Do not fear God's Justice. God's justice is no less admirable and no less lovable than his mercy: both are proofs of his Love."

~fonz-jm outta......