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Fukushima and miracle of the five loaves and two fish.

Image via WikipediaOver the week-end, attended the Novena at St Francis Xavier and heard an interesting sharing.

The brother who preach the homily interestingly linked the recent Japan tragedy with the miracle of the five loaves and two fish. In that story, Jesus's disciples suggested sending the people away (because they do not have enough to feed the thousands) while Jesus told them to feed them themselves. With five loaves and two fishes, Jesus fed the everybody with baskets of balance.

So how does miracle of the five loaves and two fish and the Japan tragedy relates to us? As a child of God, living our lives with love is a must. We cannot turn a blind eye to others who are in need of our help. The Japanese are now in need of our help, friendship and act of love.

Though we are all facing our own challenges and limited resources, but whatever we have, we should contribute and play our part. So, it is up to us now to put forth our "five loaves and two fish" and together, we can create a miracle and help the affected Japanese pull through this dark hour.

Japan Gambatte !

A sad story of a "murder" done unknowingly

Image via WikipediaI read with great sadness of a murder committed unknowingly by a mother.

A mother by the name of Wendy Tan has written to the Straits Time Forum to lament "Why working mum stopped at two, not 4". You can read the whole story here.

While Wendy is complaining on how tough life is for her and her husband to juggling career and family, she reveal a disturbing fact. That she "made a very hard decision to terminate the pregnancy" when she was third time pregnant. The reason : "We just did not have the energy to cope with a third because the first two had taken up all the energy we had."

While I can understand and appreciate her difficulties and struggle (which most of us faces today anyway), I can hardly understand the reason to terminate the pregnancy.

Perhaps, Wendy and her husband do not share the same value as me and many others who have commented. No matter how I try to see it, it is still murder.

It was an extreme cruel case of parents killig the unborn babies out of financial considerations. Is life (2 lives at that) really that worthless? Can we kill our unborn child without remorse due to financial considerations?

May God bless the unfortunate twins.

SGCatholics - Free Iphone apps

Image via WikipediaIf you are looking for information on local Mass times and nearby churches on the go, there is a Iphone apps that will do just that.

SGCatholics is the product of vizTree who saw a need for a “simple and useful app for Catholics living or visiting Singapore”. 

With SGCatholics, users would be able to see the churches nearest to them. They can then select the churches to view the Mass times. These would reflect the latest information on the archdiocese’s website.

 The app also provides directions to the selected church through the use of Google Maps, which comes installed on the iPhone.

Mr Jeremiah Ng of VizTree says that SGCatholics is a way to thank God for the knowledge He had bestowed on the vizTree team as well as for the projects the company has received.

 And as a service to the community, the developers are keeping SGCatholics, now available on iTunes, free.



The developers say they welcome feedback on how to improve the app’s features and functions.


No more excuses for missing Mass again.

Benedict XVI's book on Jesus of Nazareth

VATICAN CITY, 10 MAR 2011 (VIS) - In the Holy See Press Office this afternoon, the presentation will take place of the second volume of Benedict XVI's book on Jesus of Nazareth: "From the Entrance into Jerusalem to the Resurrection". The press conference will be presented by Cardinal Marc Ouellet P.S.S. prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, and Claudio Magris, a writer and German scholar.

The book has been published in seven languages - German, Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Polish - and has nine chapters and an epilogue. The chapter headings and subheadings were published in the VIS bulletin of 2 March.

In an interview published by the "Osservatore Romano" Fr. Giuseppe Costa, director of the Vatican Publishing House which holds the copyright on the Pope's works, explains that there will initially be seven editions of the book with a print run of 1,200,000 copies, and that contracts have been signed with twenty-two publishing houses throughout the world. The work is also available in an e-book edition.

Fr. Costa dwells briefly on the history of the publication, recalling how nearly a year and a half ago Msgr. Georg Gaenswein, private secretary to Benedict XVI, consigned him the text, the last part of which was written in pencil "in the Pope's unmistakeable tiny handwriting".

On the subject of the translations, Fr. Costa explains how "the Italian, in particular, was not easy, because over the decades Joseph Ratzinger's books have been translated by various individuals and the challenge was to achieve a certain homogeneity of language. Furthermore, it was important to avoid the risk of the translations in the various languages failing to conserve, or even betraying, the author's ideas".

"Not all the publishing houses of the first volume have also printed the second", Fr. Costa notes. "The choice was made on the basis of various criteria including editorial and organisational structure, but also reliability. We chose publishers capable of promoting not just the book but also its contents".

In his preface the Pope announces a third book, which he intends to dedicate to the Gospel accounts of Jesus' infancy. This could not enter directly into the current volume, says Fr. Costa, which focuses on the figure of Jesus, His words and His actions. But, as the Pope writes in his preface, "I wish to remain faithful to my promise and present a small work on this subject, if I am granted the strength to do so".

As reported in The Catholic News (http://www.catholicnews.sg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5744:publication-of-second-volume-of-popes-book-on-jesus&catid=196:vis-vatican-information-service&Itemid=127)

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