Penance...

The week for the penitential services has begun and I had the 'honor' to hear the confessions of the first penitents from OLPS. We finished everything within one hour and that doesn't mean we just quickly dispensed them away with the absolution. Despite this form of confession/reconciliation, care was still taken to hear the penitents and gently guided them to amendments in their lives before the absolution was unconditionally bestowed.

If the sin(s) concerned are very grave, they may be addressed later in private with the confessor outside of this service. The same is expected at all our penitential services for the East District. We have, for today, two more services at OLPS, i.e. at 7pm and 9pm. It's going to be a long night! :-P

Ahead in my schedule is the coming Palm Sunday and Holy Week. It is going to be a very busy week ahead not to mention tiring too! I don't mind the work and activity involved but my pet peeve during this week are the phone calls from people inquiring about the services and mass times :-P And this is despite all the announcements given in our church bulletins the past weeks and in the Catholic News... *shake head*

Anyway, with regards the matter of the remote, I consider this case close. Just too silly and time-wasting talking about it...

Bless Me Father...

As we move closer into the last few weeks of Lent, the days tend to get more tedious and tempers appear more on the quick and easy. The flavours of each day seems rather bland and a sort of heavy cloud of atmosphere seems to cling around me as I move from day to the next... :-P Maybe it is the amount of reconciliation which the East District priests are undergoing, this week with the schools and next week with the parishes: bless me Father for I have sin...

This morning itself we had one recon session with the boys at St Stephen's Primary School near OLPS Church. They were sincere, as much as I can gather, with their confession and when they finished, I can feel their *sigh of relief* as they scampered off back to their classes. :-)

As for someone who has yet to return the remote to our Sea Avenue church premises, I really wonder if confession would make any different to this person:

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fc, hf cats said...
so it was you who place the jars of potted plants to prevent me from opening the gates with my spare remote....

now I must park elsewhere...
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Our own people some more! Utterly incredible! *shake head* :-P

*bleeeeaaagh*

I am trapped in this up-down cycle of my attempts to contain the flu and cough from getting out of hand. So far, with some help from leftover cough mixture from the last round, a pack of newly bought Decolgen and lots of lozenges, I managed to keep the worst at bay. But it is the pesky cough that is making my life miserable. It doesn't seem to go away as quickly as I would have it to. This constant effort to keep the cough away is very tiring and it is made worst by its irritating stubbornness of staying put. *bleeeaaaggh*

This has also put a curb, somewhat, to my star gazing activities of late and the lack of entries in my other blog. Speaking of blogs, I am noticing some problems with them updating accordingly even after publishing. I don't get my newly inserted entry being shown after I have published them on Blogger. *sigh*

Meanwhile, I am also investigating this strange occurance of our 3 Sea Avenue house auto-gate opening now and then when, supposedly, only our Office has the remote. Apparently, someone has another spare remote of ours and may be using this indiscriminately to open the auto-gate and use the porch area there over the night when the church closes for the day after 10 p.m. Strangely, the gate wasn't close the next day when whoever used it could do so. That was how we know about this discrepancy. We tried shutting off the power to the gate from our fuse box but the person knew how to switch it back on. Our fuse box has no facility to cater for any lacking facility as it only has a plastic cover that closes over the fuse box.

It's like, what the heck!... This is invasion/incursion of private property! Who gave this person the right to waltz in like that as he/she pleases?! That this has happened many times shows whoever is doing this is arrogant, dishonest, utterly thick-skinned and a downright thief! We have now resorted to lining some heavy dragon pots that are with plants/shrubs along the auto-gate (which swings inward) as a deterrent to see what happens next. If these get moved away then we know it is time for some real drastic measures!

Is there no more decency in the world today?!!.... *shake head*