Monday, September 26, 2011
so yesterday, i attended only my second english mass here. previous sundays were spent oversleeping and being nice by waiting for friends who overslept :/ hur. went to sogang university for 7.30pm mass. i just wanted to go for a night mass cos i knew i'll be up all sat night and there's no way i'll make it at 9am. just turns out the university was founded by jesuits :D was a much much homier, warmer, smaller place than myeong-dong, and you can actually hear the homily. hur. (myeong-dong was way too echoey) and it was amazing cos they sang all the mass parts we learnt at st. ig's for the wyd commissioning mass. plus, they use breaking bread! they was even random leaflets of 'come, now is the time to worship' :D so when, the bulletin mentioned they need people for choir/lector, guess whattt... hahah. yea, see how next week goes. anyways, the korean priest yday was a stand-in, and although some of his sentences werent perfect, i could totally understand what he was trying to get at. yday's gospel was of the two sons, one said 'no, i wont' but did what his father told him to, the other said 'yes, okay' but didnt do it. so the homily was about the father's will/ discernment/ vocation. and this is smtg i've been thinking about since i arrived here. about what is the next step in life.
he said, we must first question what is our motivation. and he listed 3 'dimensions': 1) duty, 2) compassion (i think tt's what he said, his pronunciation was weird), and 3) love. and he went on to elaborate each dimension. the best is of course to achieve the 3rd dimension of love.
and this is my own interpretation and input: sometimes, we do all the right things, but never question why we do it. if we are motivated by duty or compassion, we can say 'yes, okay', we can even do all the right things, but as christians, we are all called to live ultimately and absolutely in love. if we have love, even if we say 'no, i wont', the love will compel us to act according to the father's will. hence, it is very impt to question motives. i hope this helped for pple who're discerning. or not, just smtg to think about :))
so yesterday, i attended only my second english mass here. previous sundays were spent oversleeping and being nice by waiting for friends who overslept :/ hur. went to sogang university for 7.30pm mass. i just wanted to go for a night mass cos i knew i'll be up all sat night and there's no way i'll make it at 9am. just turns out the university was founded by jesuits :D was a much much homier, warmer, smaller place than myeong-dong, and you can actually hear the homily. hur. (myeong-dong was way too echoey) and it was amazing cos they sang all the mass parts we learnt at st. ig's for the wyd commissioning mass. plus, they use breaking bread! they was even random leaflets of 'come, now is the time to worship' :D so when, the bulletin mentioned they need people for choir/lector, guess whattt... hahah. yea, see how next week goes. anyways, the korean priest yday was a stand-in, and although some of his sentences werent perfect, i could totally understand what he was trying to get at. yday's gospel was of the two sons, one said 'no, i wont' but did what his father told him to, the other said 'yes, okay' but didnt do it. so the homily was about the father's will/ discernment/ vocation. and this is smtg i've been thinking about since i arrived here. about what is the next step in life.
he said, we must first question what is our motivation. and he listed 3 'dimensions': 1) duty, 2) compassion (i think tt's what he said, his pronunciation was weird), and 3) love. and he went on to elaborate each dimension. the best is of course to achieve the 3rd dimension of love.
and this is my own interpretation and input: sometimes, we do all the right things, but never question why we do it. if we are motivated by duty or compassion, we can say 'yes, okay', we can even do all the right things, but as christians, we are all called to live ultimately and absolutely in love. if we have love, even if we say 'no, i wont', the love will compel us to act according to the father's will. hence, it is very impt to question motives. i hope this helped for pple who're discerning. or not, just smtg to think about :))