Bible Passage: Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Reflection. We will recall in the first chapter of The Acts of the Apostles (ACTS), that our Lord Jesus Christ prior to His ascension, presented Himself to the apostles/disciples to teach them further and to show proof that He is alive. On one occasion, He instructed them to stay in Jerusalem and wait for...

Bible Passage: Colossians 3:14. “And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” Reflection. In the beginning of Chapter 3 of Paul’s Letter to the Colossians, he made it very clear that since Christ’s death and resurrection on the cross, Christians are given a new life and a new self. And so we are exhorted to discard our dirty, filthy, sinful old clothes that represent our former self and leave them behind with our lives before we met Christ. As...

Bible Passage: Corinthians 12:12-13 “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to form one body - whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free - and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.” Reflection. Our human body has many different parts but we still have one body. In the same way, the Church, with Christ as Head and all of us as members, form one body. Each of us has different gifts...