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Jesus,
Our Father is working until now,
and you are working,
so we are also working.
Teach us how we could work with the best quality possible.
Teach us how we should wait on you so that you would be well pleased.
And work with us.
Thank you, Jesus.
Amen
PTH
DEC. 20, 2016 New York Times
White-clad devotees at Dhammakaya Wat, Thailand’s largest temple, in February. The number of adherents has grown into the hundreds of thousands both in Thailand and abroad. Credit Nicolas Asfouri/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
PATHUM THANI, Thailand — It is a temple for a changing Thailand: clean, unadorned, high-tech and unashamed of praying for wealth.
“Sit here and get rich,” read small medallions embedded in the floor under each white plastic chair in a vast, open-sided meditation center. In his sermons, the temple’s charismatic 72-year-old leader, Phra Dhammachayo, often exhorts his adherents, “Be rich, be rich, be rich!”
Giêsu ơi,
Chúng em đang làm điều không thể.
Nhưng điều không thể với con người thì có thể với Giêsu.
Và nếu Giêsu thấy điều chúng em làm đẹp lòng Giêsu, xin ban phước cho điều đó,
biến nó thành điều có thể. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 33 – Prayer 33
YANGON: The 10-member Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Monday (Dec 19) offered Myanmar humanitarian assistance, stressing that aid be distributed to those affected in northern Rakhine state.
Speaking after a closed-door meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers, ASEAN Secretary-General Le Luong Minh said that “we need to help Myanmar overcome this challenge”.
Indonesia Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi walk after they attended ASEAN Foreign Minister Meeting on Rohingya issue in Sedona hotel at Yangon, Myanmar December 19 , 2016. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
Giêsu ơi,
Giêsu biết mọi sự trong vũ trụ.
Xin cho chúng em biết
vấn đề nào quan trọng nhất đối với đất nước chúng em?
Và làm sao giải quyết những vấn đề đó? Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 32 – Prayer 32
ALJAREEZA – Beijing unhappy with the US “hyping up” the situation after the underwater drone was seized from South China Sea.
The USNS Bowditch, a T-AGS 60 class oceanographic survey ship, sails in open water in this undated photo [US Navy via AP]
China’s Defence Ministry said it had been in talks with the United States about returning an underwater drone taken by a Chinese naval vessel in the South China Sea, but the US was not helping by “hyping up” the issue.
Giêsu ơi,
Giêsu là Đấng Cứu thế,
Giêsu đến và giải thoát chúng em khỏi ách nô lệ tinh thần.
Xin ban phước cho đất nước chúng em.
Xin giúp đất nước chúng em trở thành quốc gia vĩ đại nhất thế giới.
Và xin giúp chúng em sống như những người dân của quốc gia vĩ đại nhất thế giới.
Em cám ơn Giêsu.
Amen.
PTH
26-8-2025 Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 31 – Prayer 31
Larry Colburn and My Lai villager. (Photo Credit: Chitose Suzuki/AP)
I met Larry Colburn in 1998 when he and Hugh Thompson returned to Viet Nam for the first time since the war. They met with victims of the My Lai Massacre, including survivors whose lives they helped to save during those awful hours of March 16, 1968.
Giêsu ơi,
Sinh nhật của Giêsu sắp đến rồi,
Giêsu muốn em tặng quà gì?
BEIJING — The Chinese government appeared to confirm on Thursday that it had begun placing antiaircraft guns and other defenses on the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, despite earlier promises that it would not militarize the islands.
Giêsu ơi,
Cảm ơn Giêsu vì đã gọi chúng em là bạn,
bạn của Giêsu.*
Giêsu là Đức Chúa Trời của chúng em,
Chúa Kitô,
Chúa tể của toàn thể tạo vật.
Và Giêsu là bạn của chúng em. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 29 – Prayer 29
CSIS AMTI – Published: December 13, 2016
China appears to have built significant point-defense capabilities, in the form of large anti-aircraft guns and probable close-in weapons systems (CIWS), at each of its outposts in the Spratly Islands. AMTI began tracking the construction of identical, hexagon-shaped structures at Fiery Cross, Mischief, and Subi Reefs in June and July. It now seems that these structures are an evolution of point-defense fortifications already constructed at China’s smaller facilities on Gaven, Hughes, Johnson, and Cuarteron Reefs.
Gaven Reef
DEC. 7, 2016
YOU HEAR A MURDER SCENE before you see it: The desperate cries of a new widow. The piercing sirens of approaching police cars. The thud, thud, thud of the rain drumming on the pavement of a Manila alleyway — and on the back of Romeo Torres Fontanilla.
Jesus,
Thank you for teaching us.
You know us.
You know that
for us loving God is difficult. Continue reading Prayer 28
Đọt Chuối Non 