What !?!?

Yes, for the second time, the one who did the slides at Church of the Holy Trinity, spelt latin words wrongly. Yes yes, i know you people will tell me that spelling isn’t important. What is important is the Worship in Mass.

Latin is the official language of the Catholic Church. The Church’s language to speak in one voice. First time was that the (’slides’ committee) spelt Christe, Christie. Just yesterday it spelt Eleison, Elieson. What am i suppose to do? Go up and correct them ? Teaching the Laity wrong stuff, is a very bad thing !

The Roman Catholic Church have the responsibility to pass on the correct teachings to the laity.

Let us pray for Archbishop Emeritus Gregory Yong. Sancte Gregori, Ora pro eo!

Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Requiescat in pace. Amen.

Comparing…

Today, we will compare Catholicism with Islam. Not the typical comparing, but comparing on how Catholicism and Islam allow inventions/modernism change them.

The Catholic Charismatic Movement started not long ago. With the movement, comes Praise and Worship. Praise and Worship is a different way of praying to God.

The thing that Islam should be proud of, is that they DO NOT allow inventions/modernism to change them.

Try asking muslims to alter their Music and jumping up and down saying “God, I love You”. Yes definitely they will say yes if you are referring to personal worship. But doing that as a “Regular Practice” ?, I am quite certain that they will oppose to it.

Catholicism shouldn’t make “Praise and Worship” something “regular” in the Roman Catholic Church. Yes, once again, i wish to state that there is Nothing Wrong With PnW.

the Rosary

Why the Rosary ?

Praise and Worship ?

Praise and Worship in the Catholic Church. Acceptable or not? Pope John Paul II, introduced Charismatic Renewal Movement quite some time back. Yes, Praise and Worship is definitely acceptable as long it doesn’t interfere with the Mass, the highest form of worship to God. However, Praise and Worship must not become something identifiable to the Catholic Church. (I’m not sure if i phrased it correctly)

Hmm, let us put it this way. When we say, “Praise and Worship”, do you think of Catholicism or Protestantism first ? This question is rhetorical. =). But when we say “the Mass”, do we think of Catholicism or Protestantism ? We must never let “Praise and Worship”, be something close or higher to “the Mass”.

Is Praise and Worship wrong ? No. But in Praise and Worship sessions, people do have to tendency to “Speak in tongues”. Is Speaking in tongues wrong? No. If it is authentic gift of tongues, then it is alright. Indeed! It is inspired by the “Spirit”. We MUST be very careful which spirit we are talking about or dealing with. Personally, i will NOT encourage Praise and Worship because of the kind of music. These music shift our focus from God to personal enjoyment. It doesn’t happen all the time, but most of the time.

Similarly, if you, because of speaking in tongues, do not utter intelligible speech, how will anyone know what is being said? For you will be talking to the air. (1 Corinthians 14:9).

Speaking in tongues is not mere blabbering of unknown words. This, we must be careful. Diabolic influences are everywhere. The smoke of evil have spreaded intensely.

I once ask a Charismatic Protestant from an Independent Church, something like, “why do you think tradition is not important”, his responses is something like, “In this world, we need to keep up with the pace of time”. The very reason we need Tradition is because of HERESIES arising from everywhere. Tradition is to PROTECT the TRUTH. I seriously do not understand why do some people attends INDEPENDENT CHURCH, when the church (with the small C) is built on the FOUNDER’S beliefs. That is absurd. 

One more thing is, Praise and Worship’s music, SHOULD NOT be brought into Mass. It interferes with personal prayers. We need SILENCE.

Dear Protestants, Martin Luther honors Mother Mary as much as we Catholics do. But why are there not seeing the importance of Mary in their Faith ?

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The Two Seas

The homily yesterday was about giving and receiving.

In the holy land, there are two seas. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee. Both are fed by River Jordan. Buy why is it that the Dead Sea is a concentrated salt water lake which no living organisms can survive but the Sea of Galilee is of Fresh water, a home to many organisms?

The reason is because the Sea of Galilee not only recieves from River Jordan but also gives out the water. There is an inlet and an outlet. For the dead sea, It only receives, but never gives.

So is it better to receive, or to receive and also give ?

Interesting!

How To Order So That The Auntie-Auntie Can Understand What The Hell You Want:

WHAT YOU WANT	HOW YOU PRONOUNCE IT
McDonald’s	Meh Donner
Big Mac Meal	Mee Mare Mew
Happy Meal	Hair Pee Mew
French Fries	Flench Fly
Filet O’Fish	Feese Burger
Mushroom Burger	Mus-sloom Burger
Chicken McNuggets	Meh Narget
Big Breakfast	Bee Blare Fers
Hot Cakes	Whore Cakes
Orange Juice	Or Leng Joo
Apple Pie	Apper Pai
Upsize	Up Sai
contributed by: Edwin & Howard© http://www.TalkingCock.com 2000. All rights reserved.

Serving the Community at HCA Hospice Care

It all started with this Character Development module where we had to do a compulsory community service of seven hours. So i sourced for a few organisations like Assisi Hospice, HCA Hospice Care. Yes, i searched for hospice intentionally. I, too, think that there are more people who are willing to work with children rather than working with the aged or rather the community that have terminal illnesses. HCA Hospice responded first, with Jacqueline on the phone i think. Assisi Hospice took quite some time for them to respond to me. Mr Max, the volunteer coordinator, then emailed me asking us if we can help them plan an outing for the patients, which i thought was quite interesting. The only problem i had then, was Location. West Coast Park sound like a good place, thus, the committee recce-ed WCP. Though not a very good location, but that was the only place i could think of.

HCA then emailed me a very good location, the AIRPORT! Yes, the patients wanted to visit Terminal 3, as they haven’t got the chance to do so. The Airport is a Wonderful Idea ! So on the 15th May 2008, we recce-ed the Airport !

 

And so, i came out with the proposal. Tried to insert the pictures into the proposal, but realised i couldn’t send a file that huge ! So i sent the proposal without the pictures. LOL.

After several liasing with HCA Hospice Care’s Day Care Coordinator, Ms Eileen, the committee made a visit to the Hospice. A Hospice is a health-care facility for the terminally ill that emphasizes pain control and emotional support for the patient and family. When we visited the patients there, we realised how NORMAL they looked. Though not an official Community Service, the committee sang for them! I went up to sing the Twinkle Twinkle Little Stars. =)). At that point of time, i was afraid that my class will not sing/cooperate with me during the activities part at the Viewing Gallery.

12 June 2008. The day whereby we conduct our CIP. We were assigned one patient to one student. Initially YaQi was paired up with Mdm Asmah. I changed with her, hoping that will solve the communication problem. YaQi’s english isn’t poor btw, i think she got the same grade as me. Mdm Asmah, during the outing, shared with me that she is a Filipino Muslim who marries a Local Muslim. Some of her relatives were at Phillippines while some are at Britain. She has got nose cancer and brain tumour i think. But i think she is a really strong person. She told me how weak she was in the past with very very poor appetite. But now at lease she can walk! At the viewing gallery, we sang quite a number of songs. I would say that this outing is successful. Though the activities part wasn’t planned very well. =)

I really wish i could go back and help the people at the hospice. If i wait till the next holidays, i’m afraid the ones we met have passed on. Mrs Tan told me the need to get the hospice’s chop on every person’s CIP form two days ago. So yesterday, i made another trip to the hospice. The patients were singing karaoke. I got the forms signed and went back home. =)

An Outing at ECP.

It was tuesday the third of June. I woke up around 9am. Tried doing the ITAB homework, and realised it was disgusting. The phone rang and i pick the handset,”Hello, is this Ranson ? Ya, I’m calling from Junyuan Secondary School, your testimonial is already ready for collection, when are u free? ” Ok..so before i set off to go East Coast Park for CSS gathering, i walked towards school, and collected this black file thing. 8 PAGES ! LOL.

Ok. So I made my way towards the Tampines Mall’s McDonalds and wait for AiJia. Waited close to 45 minutes i believe. While waiting for her, i went to get this BBQ Black Peppered Chicken for the Potluck. After which, we made our way down to Bedok MRT Station while we waited for Kevin. We made our way to ECP. We played Frisbee. =). We found a good shelter. Chat here chat there, talk here talk there. Time passes so fast. It was 9pm! We played UNO. Didn’t win. LOL. Valery was like learning how to ride a bike. Quite a fast learner though. Think she will be able to learn in no time. We waited till her parents arrive, before we start cycling.

Initially there were Kevin, Mark, Andrew, Alvin, Sherly, Graeme, Benedict and Myself. We rode till one end, and rode back. Rode to Bedok Jetty, and rode back. I fell for the FIRST time. This is how it happened. I was riding (probably riding too fast), i slipped off the pedal and fell. My left leg have got two patch of would. Using my palm to support myself, both my palm bled. Because of Inertia, i scratched my face too. Now my cheekbone hurts like !@#@!. We continued cycling. Not much of a problem. We decided to ride our bicycles to somewhere near the Airport, where we can see the Aircraft takeoff. Quite a long road though. We waited for like 15 mins before we see a plane above our heads. At the place where we view the plane, we saw a frog! Wow, we had a hard time looking for it because their camouflaging skill rocks. We rode back, till this shelter. The breeze was like SHIOK AH!. After a while of chatting, we saw this pack of dogs running, not one, not two, but MANY. We decided to make our way to the Jetty again. While riding, there was this path full of sand. This was where i fell for the SECOND time. It didn’t create any additional injury, but worsened my current injury. Anyway my bike number is F-74. LOL. We went to the Jetty for a good chat. It was like only 3 - 4am . We decided to go back to the Pavilion. LOL. After about 6am i believe, we rode back to the rental shop to lock up our bicycles. We took no. 16 to bedok interchange, where i changed to no. 69. I was like walking perfectly normal. Thank Goodness.

When i reach home, ard 8 plus, i slept. I woke up with my CD teacher calling me twice on my handphone. It was “Unknown”. By then i realised how painful both my wrist were. I think they fractured 0.0. You can literally hear the “crack ! ” . LOL. I’m now feeling as if i’m possessed. Feverish !  

Ok. ~

 

The Camp

Lets begin with Friday.

For lessons, i only brought my Accounting textbook (which i thought was important), econs worksheet and A4 size papers. The whole bag is filled with camp stuff. I brought soap, shampoo and toothpaste for WeiRu, myself and Huahan. They didn’t thank me 0.0 LOL. Just Joking. After our last lesson which was Fundamentals of Marketing, we went to assemble at this place near the Rock-Climbing wall.

Marked our attendance and realised we three are posted to different groups. Wasted time, waiting for people. Hua han was doing something he knew he shouldn’t be doing. Found out that we have to call our seniors by nicknames and not their real names. Didn’t really know why. The food at the camp wasn’t bad at all.

The first few activities are ice-breaking activities like introduction, etc. It took quite a while. Following that was the part where we had to construct our “cue”. In the end, it was lost. Once again, we wasted time. After dinner time which we ate Bee Hoon, we had nightwalk. Wasn’t really planned properly though. We were told that they could only send two by two for the nightwalk. I started getting suspicious. haha. Before leaving for the nightwalk, they told us Ghost Stories. Didn’t know whether to believe. =). One of the campmates, scolded the GL for not planning properly. During the nightwalk, we had people scaring us =.=. Thank goodness it wasn’t scary at all. LOL. Red bridge was of my interest! Didn’t see anything there 0.0. Yes we were afraid. At night, our GLs told us that the Air-conditioner wasn’t working. We were told to sleep at the multi-purpose hall if we want. After bathing, Hua han and Weiru was like playing their PSP. I didn’t bothered. lol. It was ard 6 am where we started sleeping. I seriously don’t know how time passed.

On the second day, we had WATER GAMES! The pool is like freaking dirty. Singapore Poly do ALL KINDS of things in the pool. You name it, they did it. LOL. Didn’t smell chlorine. Halfway through, we had to go into shelter due to the weather. Once again, we wasted time. Played Simon Says. I got forfeited ! Grr. What am i thinking !? LOL. Following that we were suppose to play some games over at the stadium. Weather doesn’t allow us, thus we were given free-and-easy time. Once again, wasted time. After dinner, we had disco night, followed by a SECOND nightwalk. This was not planned, but we requested it. Ice is a good leader i thought. Slept slightly earlier than the previous night.

Morning came. We were of cause happy. Breakfast again was Bread/nutella/peanut/kaya. The first game for that day was supposed to be this pool game, but with soccer balls and the “cue”. GLs realised it wasnt fun to play this under the glaring hot sun, thus, they changed to Poison ball. I was out after sometime, followed by H and W. After that, we played this game which got me injured. LOL. I should have known earlier that getting caught earlier is a better choice. hahahah. We won the game, group 1 are losers =.=.

After the camp have officially ended, H and myself, took the EW line followed by the NE line. I dropped at Hougang, He dropped at Sengkang. Went to makan and sleep at my Grandmother House. My sister told me that i slept with my eyes open. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT. LOL.

The camp wasn’t bad at all. Come on, this is their first time organising it. So many people complained. I really pity the organising committee.

EXAMINATION IS APPROACHING …

BEWARE !

 

School life isn’t easy

Yes ! Once again, i’m here to tell everyone that school life really sucks.

Yes! It is one week to holiday

Yes! It’s three days to FOM presentation. ( I don’t think anyone is looking forward to it)

Yes! There is camp this friday. (Have to prepare 0.0)

Yes! EXAMINATIONS ARE APPROACHING!

I think its gonna be worst than O LvLs. Not sure if i’m gonna make it.

All ye saints, angels and archangels, 为我祈祷。