Theology of the Body @ Montreal 2011.01.22 - 23 by Christopher West

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2010.01.22

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Session 1 - What is the Theology of the Body? - Christopher West:
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Session 2 - The Gift of Creation and Redemption - Christopher West:
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Session 2.1 - Question: What should we do when we have lust and neither repressed nor indulge is an option?
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Session 3 - The Marriage Made in Heaven - Christopher West:
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Session 4 - The Marriage of Heaven and Earth - Christopher West:
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2010.01.23

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Introduction: Man and Woman, He created them - Sister Susannah Kelly & Father L'abbé Francesco Giordano

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Town Hall
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FREEDOM TO LOVE: MAN AND WOMAN HE CREATED THEM

I went to a talk by Mr. Christopher West (http://www.christopherwest.com/) last night at McGill University. Here are some intro and and recording:
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2 words "Freedom" and "Love" are very important for us to live. We spent our whole life to fight for freedom and love. They are closely related. The definition about love and freedom in our culture is very different than people who follow Jesus.

The Truman Show (http://www.defendlife.org/newsletters/Dec2005/west.shtml)

We are hungry, but sex cannot fill us up!

God created us male and female and made us fertile. Don't treat a person as a piece of meat!

Are we really having fun? Getting drunk and getting laid? Why we have to numb ourselves?

Be courageous enough to be alone with yourself without any noise and listen to what your heart is telling you. Even if your heart is telling you that you are not happy.

Be courageous to feel what you really feel!

Sexual revolution of the 20th century which is understandable as a reaction to the punish-less and fear of the sexuality which is typical of the previous era.The Sexual revolution went to another extreme. It promised us there will be "better" relationship with men and women. There will be more happiness, more freedom, more joy! Are men and women really more happier?
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Theology of the Body by Pope John Paul is a BANQUET!

If we not in control of our own desires (Sexual desires), We will inevitablely seek to others to seek to gratify our desires.

Our culture convinced us that sex, sex and more sex is what we want!

Authentic sexual liberation is not the freedom to indulge one’s compulsions. Rather, it is freedom from the compulsion to indulge. Only to the degree that a person is free from the tyranny of lustful impulses is he capable of being a true gift to others.

Man is not an animal ruled by instinct. He is a rational animal who, to live in accord with his own dignity, must act freely.

Your body does not make sense by itself... we can look at creation. There must be a plan.

The talk is very inspired, at least made me think for the whole night.
Enjoy the talk!!!!

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Part 1 - Introduction - Sr. Marine: [Download]

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Part 2 - Talk - Christopher West: [Download]

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Part 3 - Respondent 1 - Prof Daniel Cere: [Download]

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Part 4 - Respondent 2 - Sister Susannah Kelly: [Download]

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Part 5 - Conclusion - Christopher West: [Download]

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香港最低工資: 荒謬!!!

香港最低工資:

時薪廿八元 x 40小時(一個星期) x 4個星期 (一個月) 即大約 $4480 一個月.

菲傭一個月 = $3320 (包食、包住、包燕梳、包來回機票)
即係 (食 + 住 + 燕梳 + 菲律賓來回機票) = $1160

非常荒謬!!!!! EXTREMELY RIDICULOUS!!!!!

建議香港人移民菲律賓再申請來港當菲傭... 哈哈... 但請不要上旅遊巴
難怪菲律賓總統阿基諾三世(Benigno Aquino III)這樣笑港人!!!!!

Interview clips updated!

Happy New Year!!!!

2 0 1 1 .. YEH!!!!!

I have updated a page called FM 102.3 Happy Wednesday. (Click here to enter.) I will try to put all the interview clips there for you to review.

Enjoy!

ECCCLC 2009 Theme Song - My Hands-On World

My Hands-On World
擁抱祢的世界

曲 Composer: Annabelle Chow, Billy Chan, Michael Wu
詞 Lyrics: ECCCLC Committee 2009

Lord God, You have blessed us with faith in You.
To live our lives, with You by our side.
Yet Lord, in this world, I do lose my way.
With sadness and despair, where is Your love?

“My child, I am here. I am with you, always near.
Love all the world, keep everything dear.”
Acts of faith in You, my plans to do Your good.
I promise to live, hands-on in this hands-off world.

誰知 哪裡才找到愛影蹤?
主說 可能 仍藏在你心
回想 我從來只管我事
不知 身邊 人流著眼淚

祢建的 這個家 我定要 擁抱它
誓要 把愛 溶入這世間

無悔的 當起 世上的 守護者
用愛 是最美 來成就我主的冀盼

明白 每日每事也用愛心去待人這理
心想你 可與我 共挽手才精采
I am loved and blessed and strengthened, chosen to live out Your will.
Reach out to each other, reach out to our world…

My Lord, I am here. You are with me, always near.
I’ll love all the world, keep everything dear.

Acts of faith in You, my plans to do Your good.
I promise to live, hands-on in this hands-off world.

To reach out to all and to make this my hands-on world.

Review my year 2010

This year is not a good year for me.

At the end of 2009, I thought I will have less things to complete in the following year (2010) since I have finished organizing ECCCLC 2009, requested to stop teaching Sunday School and had less responsibility in the Montreal Chinese Catholic Youth Club. In fact, it does not happen. Problems did not go away because of less responsibility. There are 10x more problems than before. These problems are seriously hurting everyone. It broke lots of relationship between friends and relatives. I don't like this.

However, this year, my relationship with God has improved a lot. My prayer quality has been improved. Thanks for Fr. Francis Ching's teaching about prayer. He told me to pray "SPECIFICALLY". Do not put your prayer into an abstract way. I thank God specifically. I request what I need specifically too. I can feel my relationship between God and me get closer every time I finished a prayer. I think when you know a new friend, you also want to know him better. We can know a friend by communication. We can also know a friend by reading his/her blog. Bible is God's blog actually. Whenever my relationship with God get closer, I felt a strong hit from the Evil. Problems come up again and I sin again and again and again.... I can feel my weakness. BUT, God is great! God keeps telling me to fight the Evil with Jesus.

2010 will be passed in 10 days! I hope the Evil can stop attacking me. I will keep praying and hope you all can keep praying for me too.

One little memorable situation:

2 days ago, FLL had a TV episode about Br. Andre and they have interviewed me for around 1 min. I did not even watch it since I was on my way back from Toronto to Montreal. Monday morning (yesterday), I passed through the food court at Eaton Center. There was a person (that I don't know) stopped me and asked me if I am a Chinese and if I can speak Canto. She said she saw me on TV yesterday. Wow... it was only a less than one minute interview and I thought that not many people will watch「生命恩泉」in Montreal... but, that's really wrong!!!!!! Please support 「生命恩泉」.

The following 3 links are the episode about Br. Andre:

小人物‧新聖人 A Humble New Saint:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pmDzUePQUM
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CrdxIoqRoA
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RKfUJ7ItK8

Merry Christmas and Have a happy new year.

我「閒話」了七十集啦！

首先，我想多謝《生命恩泉》給了我們「閒話主流」團隊「愛的恩泉」這麼一個完美的平台。這個平台使我們能夠運用天主給我們的「塔冷通」作天主的事。傳福音是每一位基督徒受洗時對天主許下的其中一個承諾，這個大家都是知道的，但是大家可能覺得自己還沒有資格去傳福音，你是否覺得耶穌只會召叫合資格的人嗎？讓我們看看天主找了誰去作祂的工具和他們被召叫時的情況吧！

伯多祿缺乏自我控制能力、

保祿、伯多祿、梅瑟等聖人都脾氣暴躁、

所羅門王富有、有豐富智慧，但生活非常不檢點、

掃祿(歸化後名保祿)、梅瑟、達味王都犯個殺人罪

還有…

雅各伯是一個騙子 (創 25:26-34) 、

納敖米是一名寡婦 (盧 1) 、

辣哈布是一名妓女 (蘇 2:1) 、

梅瑟不是一個有口才的人 (出 4:10)、

耶肋米亞時常悲傷 (哀 3:16-24) 、

達味王有外遇 (撒下 2:11) 、

雅各伯、若望都自以為虔誠 (路 9:52-55) 、

諾厄喝醉酒 (創 9:21) 、

多默太多疑(瑪 20:25) 、

約納違背上主的召叫 (納 1:1-5) 、

弟茂德太年輕 (弟前 4:11-16) 、

亞巴郎則太老 (創 12:4, 17: 1-2, 18:1-15) 、

拉匝祿還已經死了！(若 11)

天主所挑選的人實在特別!在制作這七十集的「閒話主流」裡，常常遇到困難，有多次使我萌起放棄的意念。有次我祈禱問耶穌:為甚麼召叫一個沒有資格的人去做這件那麼重要的事(在電台福傳)?於是第二天，奇蹟就發生了!我去了一個靈修講座，導師介紹了很多聖人及耶穌的門徒，他們都是有著自己的問題與缺點，但是天主仍然召叫了他們。原來天主召叫了我和召叫他們的理由也是一樣—我們都是不完美的，但是如果我們都有共同的使命，集合我們各人的塔冷通，那我們就是完美了。

做一集十二分鐘的「閒話主流」需要的人力並不少，一方面需要不同人提供靈修上的資料、另一方面又要有「閒話主流」的娛樂特色，目的是要吸引非教友及年輕教友注意，同時又要傳達天主的訊息。要平衡這兩個大原則，我們的團隊就需要有各式各樣的義工，而這些義工都要有共同的使命。感謝主給我認識了一班這樣「奇怪」的朋友！他們願意每星期犧牲時間來開會、錄音、剪接及作無限次的修改！我們當中每個人都擁有不同的專業，如果我們一起組織一間公司，應該以經「發咗」！但我們知道天主賜給我們的「塔冷通」是要去作天主的事。

「閒話主流」團隊是身處滿地可，我們不但不能在收音機旁收聽最新的節目，就連在多倫多或溫哥華聽眾的鼓勵及意見也很難收到。所以，如果大家對「閒話主流」有甚麼意見或新題材，請多多提出；又或者來滿地可遊覽時，可以順道到滿地可中華天主堂探望我們，給我們寶貴的意見！

最後我再想多謝所有曾經給我們鼓勵及意見的人，沒有你們的支持，我相信「閒話主流」不能突破七十集。

天主保佑!

Billy Chan 陳樹江
「愛的恩泉」電台節目