Catholic Charismatic History

COME HOLY SPIRIT

Come, Holy Spirit, fall on me now

I need Your anointing, come in Your power

I love You, Holy Spirit, You're captivating my soul

And everyday, I grow to love You more

I'm reaching for Your heart

You hold my life in Your hand

Drawing me closer to You

I feel Your power renew

Nothing compares to this place

where I can see You face to face

I worship You in Spirit and in Truth

Veni Creator Spiritus

This is a very old hymn sung to invoke the Holy Spirit. Together with this hymn are Veni Sancte Spiritus and Come Holy Spirit.

From Autistism to Inspiration - "My Name is Khan"

This is a movie calling to mind that all religions in fact teach us to love and to care, and not to be judgmental nor presuming others without knowing them. It is a good movie, and worth checking it out. Watch not with religious point of view, but with love point of view. 9/11 had left a deep impact on the Americans, and all around the world. Terrorist attacks became a worldwide concern after the attack on World Trade Centre. Everyone was affected, and is still paying the price of its aftermath effects. This is another viewpoint of the whole event.

Enjoy the movie. And may the love of Christ be with you all. Amen.

House Season 4

I haven't written much these days. I didn't think that it matters really to write up things which any other person can write, or things that people don't read. People may not read and comment to me that it's boring, but most people read, and probably gossip and think behind me. It wasn't that much of good experience about people anyway.

I'm pretty much sensitive at the moment due to the Who Am I? Seminar I'm sitting in this weekend. Another electrical jolt on "Who am I?" really. Another arena to explore and inviting God to heal. But this is not what I want to write about.

I just finished watching House M.D. season 4. It is the shortest season, only 16 episodes, but one of the most touching finale. I didn't get to watch the 3rd season's finale so I didn't know how emotionally triggering it was after Foreman left, Cameron resigned and Chase was fired by House. In season four's finale, Amber (Wilson's on-screen girlfriend) died of bus crash because she went out to fetch drunken House home. And House went way out to save Amber's life, went into a seizure after discovering that certain flu meds which Amber took right before the crash caused her definite death as her kidneys were destroyed at the accident. Her body was unable to naturally filter out the chemical in the flu meds.

What really touches me is how frail life is, and what we would do in order to preserve it when we suddenly find ourselves in the position where life is slipping away fast. We're no longer in control of our lives, that's when we would badly want to be in control of any other thing which we could. Young people nowadays, you and I, like routine so much because we are afraid of losing control of the few things which we think we have full knowledge of. Some people would avoid at all cost of not knowing certain facts, certain directions, even God's invitations to know ourselves deeper, just because we're afraid of going through the pain of knowing and losing control of the "wonderful life" we thought we have.

If we really think God is great, and why do we think we are not great? The formula given is "if God is great, then a great God can only create great beings. If we're created by God, and we acknowledge that God is great, then we must be great too." So if anyone who says we're not great, we're not good, then he must be telling us lies. The Scriptures taught us that the devil is the father of lies, so this must be the work the devil that we think we're not as great, or we're just some plain, boring beings.

Young people these days have this issue of not being great, and just being ok is enough, because it is safe. Great things are for others and not for ourselves. Time for us to move toward reclaiming the very fact that we can be great because the God who created us is great, and we are created to be His mirror image.

That's it. House M.D. is just a messed up imaginary images of everybody who is afraid of acknowledging and befriending themselves. That's why everybody likes House M.D. and this medical drama is one of the highest rating series in the States.

'I'm Alive' - Jonathan Tse (Official Music Video) New Single 2010

I'm Using Google Chrome

This is interesting. I downloaded Google Chrome version 4.1.249, another alternative internet browser, and like what Google UK website said about this browser: "Google Chrome runs websites and applications with lightning speed".

The three "FASTs" they used to promote the browser are: Fast START-UP, Fast LOADING, and Fast SEARCH. Well, I tested the theory with my laptop of 8 years: 256 MB of RAM, running on Intel Pentium IV mobile processor with 16MB of graphic card... And I'm happy with the start-up and search. As for loading, there is always another limiting factor, the speed of my internet and also the amount of other applications I'm running.

They also mentioned on Google UK that "it's free and is installed in seconds". Umm... I agree on the "it's free" part, but with my computer, it took MINUTES instead. I know, the age of my laptop is another limiting factor.

Yet, there is a downside which I have yet to find the solution... When I add a photo to my blog, I could not adjust the size like how I can using Mozilla or IE. This is something which I don't really like, as I do blog quite often, when I find I have things to share about.

However, all other things compensate this tiny flaw, which I hope will improve as time goes by. Maybe they have improved it, but I just don't know it yet.

You can read more about Google Chrome on Wikipedia here.