It's Sunday! Woke up nice and early at 7:30am to attend Church with Grandparents. Had an interesting experience for a Sunday service having little exposure to Catholic church services in the past. Closing my eyes for prayer is some second nature to me- it really helps me rid of the distracting sights that surround me and really focus on my conversation with God; however, I found it hard to adapt to reading prayers off a projector screen- it didn't feel as if I'm engaging in anything spiritual though it felt like saying poetry.
The sermon was on Jesus Christ's first miracle, turning water into wine, the pastor focused on a few thing, the first being the importance of listening to Christ's instruction for us. Instructions can be rather absurd, for instance in this passage, Jesus basically told the men to put water into ordinary jars (that would have held water for Jews to clean their hands) and then draw stuff out of it- the stuff which would be wine. I guess when we get these seemingly illogical instructions from God, it really does test our faith in Him. Various other examples such as God's plan for Joshua to bring down Jericho require this "test of faith". Do we really trust God to the point that I would do these seemingly weird things?
The pastor then goes on to illustrating Mary's awareness for the needs of others and how we too should be aware of the needs of others and to act accordingly. The mass then progresses into a more... controversial concept of Mary's ability to tell Jesus Christ what to do and that we should pray to Mary to intercede for us. I have to say that such is not true and un-biblical. I think these articles elicit a good discussion of this matter. Having no real training in ministry, I don't think it would be right for me to start rambling on...:
http://www.gotquestions.org/Hail-Mary.html
http://www.gotquestions.org/prayer-saints-Mary.html
Aside from church, I had another wonderful yumcha with my other grandma (father's side) and Aunt. Though the food was not as appetizing (I think the restaurant chef has changed as the last time I was there, the food was a lot better), we had a fruitful conversation and catch up.
And that was pretty much my day. Went home to do some more photoshopping (photo blog this way --> orangewallphotography.blogspot.com) and eating... and indulging in Youtube videos... yea :D
Ciao, Chu
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