Love Letters to Lukewarm Souls

How Catholic Worship (aka Mass) Is Different From Non-Catholic's "Worship" (aka Service)     One time in a party, I introduced a family new to our town to an old friend of mine. As we were all having nice conversation of pretty much anything the family needs to expect as newbies, my old friend (a fallen-away Catholic and now an active member of a certain evangelical ecclesiastic community) brought up in the conversation that they have a new pastor in their church that is smart and charismatic, and invited the new family to come and attend their worship service sometime. Now, as a Catholic, I always admire our Non-Catholic brethren's enthusiasm of inviting other people to their church. They always seem to make evangelizing so easy and natural than a Catholic would do the inviting. We can always learn from them, we grant them that. However, I also wonder how come is it this way? How come for some reason inviting someone to a Catholic Mass does not seem to have the sa...

This was an exhortation I gave last June 14th, 2019 on a Christian community in one of the prayer meeting session I led. It was edited and revised for the purpose of this blog. © Copyright 2019 Photo by  Letters to Lukewarmers Before we begin, I wish to show you one of the items (above photo) you see in our kitchen wall at home. It's a coloring work last October my 6-years old daughter did in her 1st grade faith formation class. The teacher gave them an activity, to write the name of a person who helps them grow close to Jesus. And "DaD" was the 1st person she wrote down. When she brought it home for me to see, I was so delighted and proud of her and was touched by the implication that daddy and mommy talk and show her Jesus. I sincerely hope and pray that she will continue to instill in her heart and mind her love for Jesus and that she will carry on her faith and relationship with the Lord deeper as she grows up. Now why am I sharing this? (Besides my daughter mak...

This was an exhortation I gave last March 1st, 2020 in a Christian community where I led a prayer meeting session, some portion were edited and revised for the purpose of this blog.  The very 1st Christian community I had been with was back in High school. It was in a group called Opus Dei (perhaps some of you might have heard of it or familiar with it. It was even mocked and fictionalized in the popular book and movie by Dan Brown years ago called the DaVinci Code). Photo courtesy of Juniverse © 2020 Opus Dei was founded by St. Josemaria Escriva and it is a Latin phrase which means "Work of God". The basic precept of Opus Dei is for laypeople like you & me to foster and aspire for holiness in our everyday ordinary circumstances and profession. Wherever you are or whatever you do, whether you are in school, at work, at home, washing dishes, doing the laundry, even doing number 2 (jokingly speaking, but you get the point: Everything you do), all of our activ...