By James F. Colaianni The Christmas story reminds us once again it was not man’s idea that the Son of God should be born in a stable. And so the first thing we learn from Jesus’ birth is that the Lord will not always be found where we expect to …
in a week’s time, christians would be celebrating the birth of jesus. ‘the birth of jesus’, my dear, is to you ‘christmas’. jesus is the reason for the christmas season, in case you had forgotten in the midst of your partying and exchange gifts among your loved ones. jesus was …
remember the infamous case of moorthy, ex mt everest climber, where when he died, the JAIS (state religious department) wanted to claim his body as the insisted he was a muslim? now we have another case of an indian man, rayappan anthony, who died recently and JAIS wanted to claim …
this is in reference to my post ‘we will respond with prayers‘. most churches in the diocese today will be using this prayer service format as prepared by one of the priest who is a liturgist. the introduction to the prayer goes like this: Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, …
1st dec. 2006 had been declared by our bishop as a day of prayer, fast and penance in response to the mob gathering at the church of our lady of lourdes, silibin, ipoh. yes, we respond with prayers and not demonstration. though the leaders of the demonstrators had refused to …
the following is a translation of the post ‘smses brings chaos‘ CnP from the herald of 12 nov. issue. this is also from the herald. the bahasa, mandarin and tamil translation appeared in the 19 nov. issue. ======= IPOH: Khabar angin yang tersebar melalui khidmat pesanan ringkas (SMS) telah mengancam …
this appears in the herald, the catholic weekly of 12 nov. 2006. —– Part of the crowd which gathered at the vicinity of the church as a result of the various SMSes. Photos courtesy of Tamil Nesan IPOH: Rumours that were circulated through SMSes nearly jeopardised the peace, harmony and …
so yesterday was the mid-autumn festival (or otherwise known as mooncake festival or lantern festival) – the 15th day in the 8th month of the lunar calender. how did you celebrate it? i went for a dinner organised by our church’s chinese apostolate group (the dinner event has a long …
although the gawai and kaamataan (harvest festival of the ethnic groups in sabah and sarawak) were sometime ago (somewhere end of may), our church just recenlty celebrated the feast. due to the st anne’s feast, quite a number of sabahaan/sarawkians were in penang, thus they were invited by the bahasa …
sir, i am a worker in menara petronas, KLCC. today (20 may) i received a copy of the HERALD the catholic weekly dated 21 may which is circulated free, but on the weekly the price of RM1.00 is stated. the weekly has the KDN no. – PP 8460/12/2005, ISSN: 1394-3294. …