Our Lady of Perpetual Succour

(Or OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP.)

I missed my morning mass, I don't know why?

Papa not feeling well since sunday, he had fever on monday morning, he has flu and cough, so I took him to nuh, thanks God, blood test was normal. He feels better after taking medicine, but the fever up and down, so I have to be careful, cannot take chances.
This morning he had cold sweat, I don't know why? May be due to his cough and flu, his lung get congested, he cannot breath properly, that worry me...
After talking with him, I left to do my work..to do my delivery, attend lunch time mass, the Holy Spirit lead me to Novena Church, and today the church celebrate the feast our Our Lady of Perpetual Succour!
During the homily, Father sharing the power of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour intercession...I ask Her to intercede for my family, to heal my papa, in His will..

Thank you Mother Mary!

Lord, have mercy on us.

Give us Peace Love Joy in our family.

Amen!

Plank & Speck

For the last few days gospel reading, it was all about Jesus teaching us how we should behave in our daily life... eg...like judging others...




Jesus never said we shouldn't help others clean up their lives.
We are not to judge anyone.
Our vision gets planked when we judge their MOTIVES.


The plank that blinds us is the idea that we can actually see into their hearts. Sure we have clues, but it's only circumstantial evidence. We're the bigger sinner when we take the clues and jump to conclusions that are incorrect. And since we're not God, we're always incorrect to some extent.


What are the specks that we'd like to take out of other people? It's like having an eyelash loose in your eye. You can't see it, but you know it's there. It's darn irritating. And if you fail at wash it out, you ask a friend to look and see if your eye's okay. People's specky sins are darn irritating to them, too, and they do appreciate our help -- if it's compassionate.




Take a slice of bread and slather it with peanut butter. Then drop it, peanut butter side down, into a pile of dead leaves. What gets stuck to it? That's what sin looks like. Now clean out the debris. That's what repentance feels like. It's messy. First we pull out the twigs (planks), because they're so big. But there are a lot of little specks to remove. It takes a long time, a lot of effort, patience, and persistence to completely clean it all up. And it requires good vision!

We always put our sin at our back, we ourselves cannot see it, only the person behind us can see.
One reason why God put us into community is so we can help each other see and remove the specks. However, to be helpful instead of sinful, we must never assume that we understand another person's motives. The people we see sinning might very well be just as frustrated with their specks as we are! They will appreciate our assistance, but only when (1) they have gotten so frustrated that they WANT our help, and (2) we approach them without a plank in our eyes bonking them across their heads.



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Anonymous quote

"The things that will destroy us are:

politics without principle;

pleasure without conscience;

wealth without work;

knowledge without character;

business without morality;

science without humanity,

and worship without sacrifice."

Proverbs 16: 1-3

1 People make plans in their hearts.

But the Lord controls what they say.

2 Everything a man does might seem right to him.

But the Lord knows what that man is thinking.

3 Commit to the Lord everything you do.

Then your plans will succeed.

My Papa 10

Papa turn 81 on 20/5/2007 Sunday, 4th day of fourth lunar month. We celebrated his birthday at Prima revolving restaurant.

From the picture, you can see we have a big family, 4 generations.

Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua

Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.
We are full of words but empty of actions and therefore are cursed by the Lord,
since he himself cursed the fig tree when he found no fruit but only leaves.

- Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231)

A Story: CHOICE OF LIFE

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”

He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?” Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.” “Yeah, right, it's not that easy,” I protested.“Yes it is,” Jerry said.

“Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life.”

I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gun point by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I sawJerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?” I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind
as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”

“Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked. Jerry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared.”

In their eyes, I read, ‘He's a dead man.’ “I knew I needed to take action.” “What did you do?” I asked. “Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’

Over their laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.” Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors,but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that everyday we have the choice to live fully.

There are some people who wake-up and say 'Good Morning Lord' and other people who wake up and say 'Oh Lord its morning.' Which one are you?