Dear Family!

Thanksgiving celebration is around the corner. In reading history, it caught my attention that President George Washington was a deeply religious man ‘under God’. He writes, “Both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.”

Dear Family!

This Sunday is the second to the last Sunday of the church year. The following Sunday we will celebrate the Feast of Christ the King. The readings logically speak about the ‘last things’ (Eschatology). The parable of the fig tree sprouting its leaves points us to late spring and early summer which reminds us of good times for the people. For us Catholic Christians, the end of the world is not God losing control of the earth, rather God bringing things to a triumphant end.

Dear Family!

The elections are completed! We congratulate and wish the new administration all the very best and we pray for all our leaders. As public service demands self-giving from leaders, the readings focus on the art of self-giving. The first reading and the gospel both teach us that is not what you give but why you give. If the motive behind our self-giving is expecting some sort of a reward, we need to look into the life of Jesus more closely.

Dear Family!

The readings this Sunday focus on loving God & neighbor and how they cannot be separated. The Catechism teaches us that “Jesus summed up man's duties towards God in this saying: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This immediately echoes the solemn call: “Hear (Shema), O Israel: the LORD our God is one LORD.” God has loved us first.