God made the COUNTRY, and man made the TOWN. (William Cowper)
Why Mobile Phone is necessary? (quoted)
4 Things you never knew your Cell phone could do:
For all the folks with cell phones. (This should be printed and kept in
your car, purse, and wallet. Good information to have with you.)
There are a few things that can be done in times of grave emergencies.
Your mobile phone can actually be a life saver or an emergency tool for
survival. Check out the things that you can do with it:
FIRST
Emergency
The Emergency Number worldwide for Mobile is 112. If you find Yourself
out of the coverage area of your mobile network and there is an
Emergency, dial 112 and the mobile will search any existing network to
Establish the emergency number for you, and interestingly, this number
112 can be dialed even if the keypad is locked. Try it out.
SECOND
Have you locked your keys in the car?
Does your car have remote keyless entry? This may come in handy someday.
Good reason to own a cell phone: If you lock your keys in the car and
the spare keys are at home, call someone at home on their cell phone
from your cell phone. Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car
door and have the person at your home press the unlock button, holding
it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will unlock. Saves
someone from having to drive your keys to you. Distance is no object.
You could be hundreds of miles away, and if you can reach someone who
has the other ‘remote’ for your car, you can unlock the doors (or the
trunk).
Editor’s Note: It works fine! We tried it out and it unlocked our car
over a cell phone!’
THIRD
Hidden Battery Power
Imagine your cell battery is very low. To activate, press the keys
*3370#.Your cell phone will restart with this reserve and the instrument
will show a 50% increase in battery. This reserve will get charged when
you charge your cell phone next time.
FOURTH
How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?
To check your Mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following Digits
on your phone: *#06#. A 15-digit code will appear on the screen. This
number is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere
safe.
If your phone gets stolen, you can phone your service provider and give
them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even
if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.
You probably won’t get your phone back, but at least you know that
whoever stole it can’t use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there
would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.
Reflections on the Word of God Today (Mt 22:34-40)
Yesterday I was talking to a nun belonging to the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny, over the Skype. After sometimes I said to her gracefully though, “Sorry sister, I have to go and see our Lord in the chapel. You know, he’ll be upset if I will not turn up there because his day will not be complete if he’ll not see me there.” I thought she’d take it as a joke, but she took it seriously. She said to me, “I have been following you on Facebook and everything you write something there about Jesus, you seem just to be talking about someone very close to you or your friend. You just like talking about your good “mate.”
My brothers, I was struck by that comment of Sister Nun. Because it is the point that the Pharisees missed as we heard from the gospel today, to be a friend of Jesus, to love him as he is, but no, they were threatened by his presence. They were so caught up with their 613 Jewish precepts, 365 of them are prohibitions as many as the days of a year, and 248 of them are commandments as many as the components of our human body, according to one Bible scholar. Jesus made a synthesis out of 600 or so precepts, “Love God with all your heart, with all your soul and mind. And Love your neighbour as you love yourself.” That’s the point of all those do’s and don’ts for the Pharisees. It’s sort of saying, LOVE the persons and use the things. But you were doing the opposite; you LOVE the things and Use the persons.
And what can we make out of this? Love God and others as well as ourselves. This is the vision of God and our mission too: TO LOVE.
But to love God, it’s always good to be his friends. Father Pat once said, “Friendship is not about looking at each other’s eyes all the time, but looking at the same direction together.”
So if we are friends of God, then he’ll let us look through his vision, which is depicted in the very life of Jesus.
Likewise, to love our neighbours, we also need to at least establish a bond of friendship with them. Sometimes, it seems impossible to be a friend to everyone. But See Ezekiel in the first Readings today, they’re having sort of a short walk with God on the valley, and both of them saw the same thing: dry, lifeless bones all over the place. But God said, mortal can these bones live?” Do your share, prophesy to them, and I will do my part as well. I will give them life. And we know the rest of the story. God RE-membered all those DIS-membered bones there.
Love is a risk. It always leads to the cross, but don’t worry, Jesus show us that beyond the Good Friday is Easter Sunday. But we might ask: Only God can love an unconditional love? Our love is always conditioned by time and space? WHY worry? St Bernard reminds us today as we see in the Office of the Readings: “Even though the creature loves less than the creator, for that is his nature, nevertheless if he loves with all his being, he lacks nothing.”
I presume we all love God here. But how are we as friends of God? Are we always a good friend for Him, or we are just using him as our benefactor friend whom we can go to anytime we need anything?
Junjun FAITHBOOK 