Tuan tuan dan puan puan - Siaran tradisi mengenai asal-usul Hari Peng-kotak-kan tidak akan disiarkan pada tahun ini atas sebab masalah-masalah yang tidak dapat dielakkan. Harap tuan tuan dan puan puan dapat merujuk kepada isu yang disiarkan pada tahun 2007 sepertimana yang boleh didapatkan di sini: Read more... )

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venommmm venommmmm ... lolll

I am not the kind of girl
Who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion
But you are not the kind of boy
Who should be marrying the wrong girl

I sneak in and see your friends, and her snotty little family
All dressed in pastel
And she is yelling at a bridesmaid, somewhere back inside a room
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With the celebration of Mass earlier in the evening and the chanting of final vespers for Advent - we had the last of the special magnificat antiphones - and rightly we call upon "O Emmanuel" "God is with us".

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VII - December 23O EMMANUEL, rex et legifer noster, expectatio gentium et salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos, Dominus Deus noster ( Read more... )

Once in a while - actually once a week - I try to visit the church of St Francis Xavier in PJ - http://www.sfx.com.my/Read more... )

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IV - December 20

O CLAVIS David et sceptrum domus Israel, qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: veni et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris et umbra mortis.

O Key of David (Isaiah 22:23), scepter of the house of Israel (Genesis 49:10), who opens and no one may shut; who shuts and no one may open: come, free ( Read more... )

With deference to a tradition much more ancient than Christmas and I dare say, more widely practiced around the world - and in affirmation of the hallowed traditions of my ethnicity - I always celebrate Christmas only AFTER I have marked and meditated on The Chinese Mid Winter Festival.


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In my last post I spoke about the 7 "O" Antiphons which accompany Vespers for this final count down to Christmas. The above is the latin plainsong chant to the first - O Sapientia (O Wisdom ( Read more... )

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Today, 07.12.2010 - we celebrate the feast of the great 4th Century bishop of Milan - St Ambrose. A extremely wise and learned man.

ReadingA letter of St AmbroseYou win the people over with the grace of your words
He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others. So Scripture says: If the clouds are full ( Read more... )

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