Christmas Dream 2011!

There is nothing valuable and precious than having the internal happiness in your life. No money can buy that for you and no one can achieve that for you and for my belief its a gift from God and everyday I believe and expect that one day I will also be able to live my life happily ever after with the grace of God. On this Christmas day that is one of the wishes have in my mind that I ask from the baby Jesus. When I look back and think of my life it is full of mysteries and miracles and also obstacles. Sometimes I felt the pain but later it was for the long lasting good. Therefore it is important for me to keep my faith on my friend Jesus.

Now I'm dreaming. A dream that I may live one day in future. I always have this dream and I write about it every year so that it is my most precious dream I want to live one day.

I will be decorating the Christmas tree just after the Thanksgiving day. I will be making the tree, putting on lights and ornaments. I won't be alone. There will be kids and the lady I love forever. She is watching us decorating the tree by a side and giving us ideas to make it look more nicer. I know, a woman's hand makes everything look nicer than a man's. It is the "magical touch". Hmm... :) kids of course make any family a better place filled with joy and happiness. They are running around the tree and everywhere making noise. A Christmas carol can be heard from the background.


On the Christmas eve, we will be busy with many schedules. Re-arranging some decorations, making cakes, enjoying the lights and decorations. She will be making delicious food and of course I will be helping. Kids are watching cartoons and enjoying the season's greetings and the feeling of Christmas. The smell of Christmas. Lights from the crib will light the entire room and our hearts too. I can see the baby Jesus smiling there and that smile multiplies our happiness in thousands folds and our unity and good will.

When the Christmas eve is dawned, I see how we live our lives. I am sleeping close to my lovely lady and I can't express the joy we have. I hold her tight and she likes it. We talk about how we are going to spend the Christmas eve and Christmas day and holidays. That includes whether we play outside with snow or not :) . If she falls asleep before me, I will watch her sleep and think how good the life is..... . I will make plans on what to do and share with them on the following morning..... :) I will do everything to make our family live happier than anybody and also ensure that we also experience the most important of all things first and that is the love of God. I will bring the Christmas joy and happiness to our and teach our kids the good values and who the Jesus is. We will pray every possible night together at least 5 minutes. I know every happiness begins from Him. From Jesus. So we should make him our best friend.

Snow will fall and we all will have a white Christmas. Snow flakes will bring us joy and happiness. A dream that I want to come true in future. A life that I can adore and convey the love of God to others and be an example. To make the kingdom of God among us and feel him with us. I am sure I will live this dream one day soon. I am pretty sure. I believe in the new born king and our baby Jesus and it will be the heaven on earth......

Is Sri Lanka really a third (class) world country (not even second class)!?!

In the past few days there was a real scandal about one of the Mother Teresa's homes in Sri Lanka. There were many interpretations for the incident on how it happened and who forced the police to take action first. It may be the political influence in the highest or somebody else and I am not sure about this but I am sure on one thing. That is all this incident is a haux. As we may remember and seen in movies that Mother Teresa when she was alive faced more intense incidents than this when she began her service. It was much worse because she started to serve non-Catholics where those people thought she was going to convert them into Catholicism in return for her service for the poor. But that was not her intention.

Anyways, this incident of arrest of nuns for false accusation of baby trafficking had happened for no reason according to my knowledge and belief. I personally believe that those nuns would do no such thing on this earth. I am 100% about that. We should not be disturbed by this false accusations because these things are to be happened (when you do good for the God as written in the Holy Gospel). We should be surprised if these things do not happen. When I think of these services done by Catholic priests and nuns, I can not even think of doing anything like these. Dedicating your whole life for others would be a nightmare for me. May be it is not my call to serve the God. So at least we should appreciate what they do rather than accusing them with false evidence.

I accidentally read some internet news sources and blogs about this incident and how people comment on this. Most of them are negative ones and insulting Catholicism and false accusation of forcing Sri Lankan court system for its decision on this. But I do not think any forcing had happened and what happened is the truth came out and the justice had been served. All these negative comments reflect the hatred that Buddhist people have on Catholics. It forced me to think that we as Catholics have never accused any Buddhist for any wrong doing and we patiently awaited the justice all the times. One thing we believe as the whole Catholic Church is that we have no right to judge anyone. And we never fail to give credit where it should go. But all/most Buddhists on this incident blamed us for no reason and for some reason they are expressing how much they hate us. May be they hate us because we serve the needy without considering in what religion they belong to. We as Catholics (may be most of the time priests and nuns) try to help others as much as we could as Jesus Christ advised so which in return is doing for him.

And I also want to address the issue of the Buddhists saying that we Catholics are those who changed our religion for the money and well being when Portuguese invaded our country in 1500s. But do not forget this, some may have done so and other might have had a true conversion with the almighty God's grace. And the most important of all is that when Dutch and English invaded us next, there was no good time for Catholics. You must know that Dutch and English hate Catholics and they murdered Catholics if they kept to their religion. So I must say Catholics are the bravest and most humble people among all religions in Sri Lanka over Buddhists as well. I do not like to say this but have to because all you Buddhists have the wrong impression about us. If you want more details on this and how Catholics kept their faith when they were being persecuted you should read and know our "HISTORY" first. So please be aware of that and do your home work. But I do not think many Buddhists sacrificed their life for their religion as we did. Sacrificing our lives for our belief happens nowadays as well. You may be aware of that what is happening on Nigeria. Many Catholics are being persecuted and burned alive by Muslims. But we believe in our God to our death. That is something we experienced and not for any personal well being like money (you should distinguish Catholics from other Christians who give money to the poor to change their religion carefully). I urge all Sri Lankans that know your history and background and do not insult other religions. Know before you comment. If you do not know then please do not express your foolishness. Please do not make Sri Lanka a third class country where other people can't live. We should respect all religions and all kinds of people. God Bless You.

Christmas dreams during transit...!

Oh yeah, Its Christmas time. Time to write about my dreams of Christmas usual. Last year I had a white Christmas and a dream came true. I never though I would be able to have a white Christmas (not as a tourist). Now this time, it can be a brown Christmas since there will be no snow in Sri Lanka. But most of the time that is the type of Christmas I used (may be not the one dreamed though).

Here I am in Washigton DC (IAD) transit and thinking of writing something on the blog to pass some time and also I had very little sleep lat night. Anyways I will start on some fascinating thoughts to just get started ( I will write on my complete dream later as usual for this Christmas).

I know and many convey the message that earthly things do not matter for the days of advent but for me those things are also need (may be not as important as spiritual values) to enjoy the life given by God. From my childhood I liked watching Hollywood movies during Christmas time with that theme. I liked to see Christmas decorations, business and excitement shown in those developed countries during Christmas time. Shopping, decorating trees and homes, singing in the malls, carols, etc. The environment and feeling during that season are the ones that I liked the most and now also.

I do not know what is that feeling we get during Christmas time. It may be the influence of marketing strategies together with the snow flakes of the season that makes a whole new world of dreams even in Asian countries where we see no snow at all. Actually if I think abit more, it wasn't the environment/climate where Jesus was born. But now when we hear about Christmas, we think of snow, decorations, shopping, food, etc. It is good that people enjoy life but we should not forget that the most important of all during the advent time is that we spend some time with God and find time to get closer to him and feel his love. That is the important of all.
And for me with that I want to feel my dreams coming true during Christmas time as well. To be continued.....
(need to catch the flight :) )

confusions in mass during these days

The Missal we use in Unites States has been changed recently and is currently being used during the masses. The reason for this change is to represent accurate/close to/the same meaning of latin words. Many people has many opinions on this whether it is a good idea to change a long used sentences. Anyways now we have to get used to that in masses.

Last Sunday during the mass, there were many confusions in replies. Even though we look at the booklet provided with the new translation, still unintentionally responded with previous replies. Such as when we had to say "and with your spirit" to "and also with you" but there were both responses heard. Some said the previous reply while other said the new one and everybody had a smile on their faces.

Sometimes I feel new translation is good and sometimes not that good. One criticism of the new translation is that we pray to God as if he is the King and we are like slaves or servants. Hence some argue that then the relationship we have with God will not be that friendly when we have a high class of responses. And honestly, I do not have much knowledge to comment more than this on this. Anyways, what is important is that having a good relationship with God.