Mother Mary

 

Our Lady of Sorrows at St Anthony Church

Today 8 June 2025, I went to church.  It was Pentecost day.  There were incense and the priest wore red vestment.  The vestment was so nice.  There was a white dove on the vestment of Father Eugene.  After mass was over, I walked towards the above image where I saw everytime I went to mass.  Walking over there, I realised that the image was Our Lady of Sorrows.  This is a new addition to the renovated new church.  

Devotion to Our Lady’s Sorrows has existed since the early centuries of the Church. It came into particular focus in the 13th century when Our Lady appeared to the Seven Founders of the Servite Order, giving them a black garment as their habit and asking them to meditate on her Sorrows. In the 14th century, Our Lady revealed to St. Bridget of Sweden seven special graces that she would grant to those devoted to her Sorrows. She spoke at length to St. Bridget about the Passion of her Son and her own Sorrows, and made these promises to those who would say seven Hail Marys daily while meditating on her tears and sufferings: 

1.  I will grant peace to their families. 

2.  They will be enlightened about the divine mysteries. 

3.  I will console them in their pains and I will accompany them in their work. 

4.  I will give them as much as they as for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of my Divine Son or the sanctification of their souls. 

5.  I will protect them against the infernal enemy and I will protect them at every instant of their lives. 

6.  I will visibly help them at the moment of their death; they will see the face of their Mother. 

7.  I have obtained the grace from my Divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy. 

 Our Lady also told Marie Claire, one of the three Kibeho visionaries, that with the recitation of her Seven Sorrows Rosary: 

- The hardest hearts will change. 

- They shall be freed from obsessions and addictions. 

- They will find the strength to repent and convert their hearts. 

- They will obtain an understanding of the weaknesses that lead them to sin. 

- Praying it from the heart, they will obtain whatever they ask.

Closer look at Our Lady of Sorrows

Lobster Meal

 

Lobster Stew Bee Hoon from Pin Wei Seafood Village

This plate of lobster bee hoon cost $177.60.  We went to Limbang Shopping mall to have our Mother's day celebration last month.  This is a newly opened restaurant, so we wanted to try it out.  We also order soon hock fish and it was so expensive.  It cost $99.  

Soon Hock Fish, $99

Though it is expensive, it is very nice.  The fish is so fresh.  So I still think it is worth it.  See more pictures of the meal, what we ordered and our pictures on this link here.  

Receipt for the meal at Pin Wei Seafood Village

Lucky can use CDC voucher and I forked out a final cash of $180.14.  For this amount of money spent, I got back $20 vouchers from them.  

Epson Printer L4366

 

New Epson Printer L4366 

Bought a new Epson printer L4366.  I had been using Epson printer since 2015.  I had changed printers for 3 times.  This is the third time I buy Epson printer.  This is also the most expensive printer I had bought.  This Epson printer L4366 cost $444.60.  I bought it at Lazada, after deducting a $20 coupon, I paid $424.60.  

Epson printer saves ink and can print many papers.   This is the best Epson printer so far.  It can print both sides without me having to take out the paper and feed it in again.  The older model of Epson need me to take out the paper and then put it back again if I wanted to print both sides.  Sometimes I forget the correct alignment to put in the feeder tray.  With this new printer L4366, I do not need to worry about taking out the paper and putting it back to print the other sides of the paper.  Just choose from the handphone app what you want to print, double sided, colour, and so on, and the document is all ready to be printed out.  When its done printing, you collect your documents and you just need to bind the copy.  You don't need to sort the papers too.  

The best printer so far really.  It can print documents and photos directly from my handphone.  I don't need to on my computer.  All you need is connect the printer to a power source, connect to wifi and install Epson Smart Panel app on your handphone.  Then you can print your documents and photos already.  I love it so much.  Click this link to see the short video of my printer printing my document.  

YouTube Peacebelle

 

Screenshot of my Youtube Peacebelle channel

I am very happy that Isaac had helped me to retrieve my Peacebelle account in Youtube.  For ten over years I had no access to it.  One night I told Isaac about it and he helped me.  Thank You so much Isaac.  I love nature, plants and decide to put the greens header with water on top as shown.  It signified that there is life as the plants are green and there are water flowing.  My Peacebelle icon is a woman watering the flowering plants, with smile on the face.  It shows my love for plants with my daily watering for them. 

I am sharing the good news of Jesus.  It is like me growing plants in the garden.  Some seeds grow well and some seeds don't get to grow.  This is like what Jesus said about The Parable of the sower:  A farmer went out to sow his seed.  As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.  Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow.  But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. Whoever has ears, let them hear.  ~Matthew 13: 3-9

My intention is to 'make disciples of all nations'...  In my family, though we are Catholic, not all the children went for Catechism.  Some dropped out of Catechism after Holy Communion and never get went through the sacrament of confirmation.  Some don't go church and turn away from the church... Over here, I share my experience and hope that in time to come even my own children would turn to Jesus and they will have the passion to go to the church one day...

At Peacebelle, I had uploaded videos of mass hymns and prayers (components of the mass) which I had found inspiring and uplifting.  Thus I am sharing the show people a glimpse of our Catholic faith.  But I am still learning and I am not a perfect Catholic either.  But I got a book by chance as shown below: 

Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis

  

I hope that after reading this book, The Imitation of Christ,  I can be a better person, a good disciple of Jesus... sharing Jesus

The above video is taken last night when I went to mass for the Ascension of the Lord, Holy Thursday Mass --Ascension Day is the 40th day after Easter and was the final day when Jesus was seen by his disciples.  The day is also known as the Feast of Ascension or Holy Thursday --the ascent of Jesus Christ into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection...  and on this day I got news of my mother has Chronic Kidney Disease Stage 3a...