My good friend Andrew back home from Unam Sanctam has tagged me for this lenten meme thingy, so here goes:
1. What is your favorite Sorrowful Mystery?
The Crucifixion and the words he cried out "Eloi, Eloi lama sabachthani"
2. What is your favorite Station of the Cross?
Jesus meets his mother. Everytime I come to that, I can just visualise him saying "Woman, behold, your son" and "Behold, your mother". It really makes a very dramatic scene.
3. Do you fast during Lent?
Yes, I did on Ash Wednesday and am trying to on Fridays, will definitely on Good Friday. It's quite a tough balance to keep gastric away.
4. What is your Lenten Resolution(s)?
Nothing special this year, instead of giving up something, I'm trying to live with my daily cross. Will blog about that soon, so look out or it.
5. Do you use Holy Water during Lent?
Yes I do, everytime I go to church. Up, down, left and right, in that sequence, going in and out.
6. How many times do you go to Mass during Lent?
I try to go as many times as possible. We have daily mass at college at 1.05pm, but sometimes thats not a very good time. I usually also go to the Pro-Cathedral on Friday evenings for mass, as they have vespers, adoration, and benediction as well, plus its sung by the Palestrina choir! Stations of the cross on Fridays do not exist here I think. Am trying to find out.
Anyway, I end this post with a prayer which we recited last weekend at Mass. It was composed by John Henry Newman who founded the church I attend, the University Church. God bless.
God has created me to do him some definitive service;
He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission- I may never know it in this life but I shall be told it in the next.
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.
He has not created me for naught. I shall do good. I shall do His work.
I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place while not intending it- if I do but keep his Commandments.
Therefore I will trust Him.
Whatever, wherever I am I can never be thrown away.
If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him;
in perplexity, perplexity may serve Him;
if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.
He does nothing in vain.
He knows what He is about.
He may take away my friends.
He may throw me among strangers.
He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me-
still he knows what He is about.
Tuesday, February 27
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Thanks for completing the meme. What's with the new picture. Is it you? =)
I like the new blog look. Cool.
Palestrina Choir eh? How come they're all kids? Nice.
Sometimes, you need to see and hear what the Catholic Church is all about, what is used to be. Then you can understand how much we have lost and how the Church in Malaysia has been deprived, by its own actions, of the richness of the Church and the fullness of the Catholic Faith.
When you begin to see what I've seen and know what I know, you can understand that I've actually been very patient with IC and the hijinks that go on there.
But I can tell you one thing. Once you've tasted the real thing, the substitute just doesn't fly. Once you've tried true Catholicism, the imitation that tries to pass itself off as the real thing just doesn't make the cut.
Pax tecum.
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