I haven’t posted in LOG Blog for quite some time now so I decided I shall post today. Hope everyone is doing well. This post is a little bit of how I feel; it also has a sharing and an invitation.

Well, this week was my study week which means I had time so I went for mass almost every day. Going for mass everyday was good and every day I sat with Nigel and it kind of was both of us throughout the week and it’s not that I don’t want to sit with Nigel but I just wished that there were more people to sit with. However, with these feelings I had, I gave my community which is you guys excuses such as they are busy or 6 people have gone for WYD and so on. I felt inspired today when I saw Cornerstone at mass today, they filled up one whole pew with about at least 8 people and then 2 others had to sit behind in another pew. Looking at Cornerstone made me a little envious of them because they get to go and celebrate Jesus together as a community and I think just looking at them coming for mass and sitting together like that made me think about a time I have sat like that with LOG and just had the feeling of coming for mass with my community and just the unity. Unfortunately that is when it dawned upon me that I have never sat with LOG for daily mass filling up a whole pew before (for me at least or I just can’t remember). Then reality struck me that it cannot be all the 29 loggers are busy today or the 6 loggers who are at WYD are the only people who come for daily mass and this is when I realized I was making excuses for my community all this while. Hence, here I am typing this post at LOG Blog. I don’t exactly know why everyone doesn’t go for mass or even when we go most of the time we don’t sit with one anotherL.

Anyway, some of us are well aware that the routine of going for daily mass has faded away and this is a sad truth but there is still so much hope and I want to contribute to that hope by sharing with you my sharing of why I go for mass and even daily mass, and by doing this I hope I can revive the passion of going for mass again. I shared this sharing at the confirmation camp this year so if it sounds familiar it is because some of you may have heard it. Honestly, God is a really funny man, this week me and Nigel were studying in LOG room and then suddenly Nigel started to play the guitar and he played this song which I haven’t heard probably since after confirmation camp so it was quite cool and we ended up singing it. Thereafter, the rest of the week I have been listening to that song and the song truly explains my perspective of mass in words. The song is Our God is here. You can click the link, listen to it and continue reading the post if you want.

Our God Is Here | spiritandsong.com

Lyrics of Our God is Here
1. Here in this time, here in this place,
here we are standing face to face.
Here in our hearts, here in our lives,
our God is here.
Here for the broken, here for the strong,
here in this temple we belong.
Here in our hearts, here in our lives,
our God is here.
And we cry:

Refrain
“Holy! Holy! Holy are you!”
We cry: “Holy! Holy! Holy and true!”
Amen, we do believe our God is here.
Our God is here.

2. Here in the Word, God is revealed,
here where the wounded can be healed.
Here in our hearts, here in our lives,
our God is here.
Here we become what we receive,
here in this Eucharistic feast.
We are his body, living as one;
our God is here.
And we cry:

Okay, so yes this song explains what mass is to me. I know everyone knows it in the head that Jesus truly is at mass but how many of us actually do believe it. The day people start to transfer the knowledge about the Eucharist truly being Jesus from their heads to their hearts is when they will run to church every day for mass because they realize it is such a privilege, yet again in Singapore we actually have mass every day and so mass sometimes becomes a routine, and we take it for granted. At mass Jesus is there for me when I am strong or weak, when I am filled or empty, when I am sad or happy and so much more, at mass JESUS is there for me. And there is a line which says “Here in this temple we belong” and we belong to this temple as a community of believers and also “We are his body, living as one” is another phrase which truly brings in the element of community into mass. There is so much more I can share about what mass it to me, but I honestly don’t want to bore you all so if you still want hear more come and ask me =). The song speaks volumes to me and I hope it does to you too.

So I have shared with you a bit about what mass is to me, and now I invite you to come and to encounter Jesus in a real, a passionate way at mass, and I really invite everyone who is free to just come for daily mass with LOG and truly experience Jesus as a community.

In God’s love,

Greg