Welcome to our weekly podcast, ‘Preaching and You Were Sleeping’ - a brief reflection on the Gospel reading, to prompt you towards deeper prayer and action for the week. This is brought to you by Fr Clarence Devadass, a priest of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Spreading Your Nets for the Lord
Jesus is inviting us to cast our nets in a way that spreads the values of the kingdom that Jesus came to establish. The net that we put out must offer true, abundant, and eternal life – the life of the kingdom of God. The nets that we put out may only reach a few people but if we can strive unceasingly to inspire them and others with the values of the kingdom, then we haul in an abundant catch, neither for ourselves nor for our Church, but for the Lord.
18 Dec 2021
4th Sunday of Advent: Being Vessels of God's Word
Mary was called “full of grace” because she became the “vessel” to bring Christ into the world. We too must open ourselves to be the vessel to bring God to the world, to one another – becoming a vessel of God’s grace by allowing the Holy Spirit to work through us, with us and in us. However, in order to be God’s vessel, we need to empty ourselves sin, pride, apathy, unforgiveness, and allow God’s grace to heal our weaknesses so that we too can be “full of grace”. Filled with God’s grace, just as John was the voice in the wilderness pointing people to Jesus, Advent calls us to become a light unto others and lead others through the “darkness” to the light of Christ.
11 Dec 2021
3rd Sunday of Advent: What Must We Do?
On this 3rd Sunday of Advent, on Gaudete Sunday, we are reminded that this is a time of joy, not only because we are anticipating the celebration of the birth of Christ but because God is already in our midst (Emmanuel – God with us). More than anything, the presence of the Lord in our midst calls us to rejoice and “shout for joy”. However, the joy that we are being reminded of is not one of merriment but one of expectancy and anticipation of the second coming of the Lord.
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