Month: February 2025

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Thursday, 13 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time (Homily and Scripture Reflections)

Liturgical Colour : Green

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, as we all listened to these words from the Sacred Scriptures today, we are all being reminded of the great love, compassion and kindness that God has shown to each and every one of us. We are reminded how fortunate all of us are that God has always known what we needed, and how He has shown His love to us most generously in various occasions, again and again. God never gave up in loving us all and despite our disobedience against Him, our frequent refusal to obey Him and listen to His words, He still patiently reached out to us nonetheless and desires for us to be reconciled and reunited to Him, to be loved again by Him and no longer be lost to Him, just as He has always desired,

In our first reading today, taken from the Book of Genesis, we heard from the continuation of the account of the moment when the Lord created the world and the entire Universe, how He prepared the beautiful and most amazing Gardens of Eden for us mankind to reside in, and today, we are shown how God made the first man, Adam a companion in the form of the first woman, Eve. God made Adam a companion in Eve so that he would not be alone, and would have become complete with the woman, blessed by God, being fruitful and multiple, with children as gifts from God, to share the love and joy of God’s blessings and grace together as one people of God. God also entrusted His creation to mankind, to all of us for us to take good care of them and to be responsible stewards and caretakers of all that He had created.

Then, in our Gospel passage today, we heard of the moment when the Lord Jesus encountered a Syro-Phoenician woman who came up to him to seek His help and heal her sick daughter, possessed and afflicted by evil spirits. The woman came to the Lord seeking for His help, asking Him to show mercy on her daughter, but as we heard in that passage, initially the Lord seemed to be unfazed and uncaring, not bothered by what she had pleaded to Him about, refusing to listen to her pleas and was apparently even very rude to her, in telling her that one ought not to give the pieces of bread from the table for the children for the dogs to eat. But the reality is such that the Lord was using those words to highlight to His disciples and followers the sad truth behind the prejudice and bias that existed at that time amongst the people of God, the Jewish people against their neighbours.

This is because the Jewish people at the time of Jesus, particularly their religious leaders and elites like the Pharisees and the chief priests saw themselves as being better and superior to all those people around them who were considered as pagans and unworthy, sinners and those who were likely going to be condemned to eternal damnation and hell. This prejudice remained strong among the Jews at the time, and hence, a person like the Syro-Phoenician woman faced strong prejudice and bias, firstly because of her origin and background, and then also because she was a woman, and women were commonly ill-treated and not respected at that time. As such, what the Lord mentioned with regards to the Syro-Phoenician woman was meant to highlight the reality of how people like her had been mistreated and facing misfortunes because of this attitude.

Then, the Lord showed that the faith of the Syro-Phoenician woman, who kept on trusting in the Lord and keeping her faith in Him despite the words that she had heard from Him, was greater than the faith of all those people of God and their leaders who were supposedly more worthy, more pious and more obedient to the Law of God. The Lord used this example of the great faith of the Syro-Phoenician woman to highlight that first of all, God’s love and grace are for everyone, and no one can be separated from His love, or denied from His grace and compassionate mercy just because they did not belong to a certain race or group, or because they did not follow or observe the Law in the manner that were prescribed by certain authorities like the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law.

What is more important than blind obedience and empty sacrifices is the heart that is full of faith and love for God, which the Syro-Phoenician woman had, in her determination and commitment to the Lord. The Syro-Phoenician woman’s faith was not deterred even by trials and tribulations, by rejection and ridicule, and she remained firmly dedicated to the Lord regardless of the circumstances. This is the same kind of faith that all of us ought to have as well, a faith that is truly strong, enduring and lasting even in the face of difficulties and challenges, persecutions and hardships that we may have to face in our journey. Countless Christians, holy people of God, martyrs of the Church and others have shown us this same great faith as well, and we can look upon them for inspiration and great examples to be followed.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, as we have heard from oujr first reading taken from the Book of Genesis as well, we are reminded again that God has loved us so greatly and desired for us to enjoy forever the eternal glory and inheritance that He has provided for us, and all of us are equally beloved by God, no matter what our backgrounds or status are. But we must have that faith in Him and His Providence, and we should not allow ourselves to be easily divided by all sorts of prejudices and biases which we may have, and we must not allow ourselves to be tempted by pride, ego and ambitions, which have led many to their downfall, including many among the Pharisees, the teachers of the Law and many among the people of God at the time, for thinking that they were better and superior than others, and thus refused to listen to God’s words delivered to them through Christ, Our Lord and Saviour.

May the Lord, our most loving God and Father continue to provide us all whatever we need, and may He continue to strengthen us all in faith so that we may not be easily swayed by all sorts of the temptations of the world, that we will remember the love of God for each one of us, putting Him ahead of all others things in our lives, obeying Him and His commandments, and not to give in to our human desires or to be intimidated by any kind of obstacles or challenges in our path. May God bless us all in our every works and endeavours, now and always. Amen.

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Thursday, 13 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time (Gospel Reading)

Liturgical Colour : Green

Mark 7 : 24-30

At that time, when Jesus left the place where He rebuked the Pharisees, He went to the border of the Tyrian country. There He entered a house, and did not want anyone to know He was there, but He could not remain hidden. A woman, whose small daughter had an evil spirit, heard of Him, and came and fell at His feet. Now this woman was a pagan, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she begged Him to drive the demon out of her daughter.

Jesus told her, “Let the children be fed first, for it is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to puppies.” But she replied, “Sir, even the puppies under the table eat the crumbs from the children’s bread.” Then Jesus said to her, “You may go your way; because of such a response, the demon has gone out of your daughter.”

And when the woman went home, she found her child lying in bed, and the demon gone.

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Thursday, 13 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time (Psalm)

Liturgical Colour : Green

Psalm 127 : 1-2, 3, 4-5

Blessed are you who fear the Lord and walk in His ways. You will ear the fruit of your toil; you will be blessed and favoured.

Your wife, like a vine, will bear fruits in your home; your children, like olive shoots will stand around your table.

Such are the blessings bestowed upon the man who fears the Lord. May the Lord bless you from Zion. May you see Jerusalem prosperous all the days of your life.

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Thursday, 13 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time (First Reading)

Liturgical Colour : Green

Genesis 2 : 18-25

YHVH God said, “It is not good for Man to be alone; I will give him a helper who will be like him.” Then YHVH God formed from the earth all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air and brought them to Man to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called every living creature, that was its name.

So Man gave names to all the cattle, the birds of the air and to every beast of the field. But he did not find among them a helper like himself. Then YHVH God caused a deep sleep to come over Man and he fell asleep. He took one of his ribs and filled its place with flesh. The rib which YHVH God had taken from Man He formed into a woman and brought her to the man.

The man then said, “Now this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken from man.” That is why man leaves his father and mother and is attached to his wife, and with her becomes one flesh. Both the man and his wife were naked and were not ashamed.

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Wednesday, 12 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time (Homily and Scripture Reflections)

Liturgical Colour : Green

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, today as we all listened to the words of the Scriptures, we are all reminded of the need for all of us to shun and reject all sorts of evil in our lives, to keep ourselves free from the corruption of sin and evil, the darkness of this world as we continue living our lives worthily as Christians. Each and every one of us should always strive to do what is right and just in accordance to things which the Lord has shown and taught us. This is because we ourselves are the ones to be good inspirations and role models for our fellow brethren around us. All of us are reminded that we have been created all good, wonderful and perfect by God, but it was our disobedience and sins, our wicked desires and unholy temptations that had led to our downfall.

And in our Scripture passage today, we are reminded of this truth, of our original immaculate nature which has become tainted by sin that came from within us. In our first reading today, we heard from the Book of Genesis in which the account of the first day of the existence of mankind was told to us, when Adam and Eve were formed by God, to be the ones to take care of everything that He had created, and as they still wandered in the beautiful and most awesome Gardens of Eden, meant to enjoy forever the love and grace of God, in the state of grace and holy existence, made and formed perfect, in the very image and likeness of God. God made all things good and perfect, and this was highlighted in the earlier accounts of the Creation in our past two days of readings from the same Book of Genesis, from the earlier two chapters.

In that passage from the Book of Genesis today, we heard how the Lord created all things in the Gardens of Eden for us mankind to dwell in and to enjoy the wonders of His love for us. He also told them all about how they could eat of everything in the Garden except for that of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Everything were all created good and wonderful, and no corruption or sin yet existed at that time. However, it was our desires, which were not essentially malicious, in what later Satan would manipulate to his own ends, in tempting Adam and Eve to disobey God which led to our corruption by sin. And linking to what we are going to discuss in our Gospel passage today, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil itself is not something evil or wicked, as there can be nothing that God created which is flawed, imperfect or evil. God made all things good and perfect just as He intended.

Even Satan himself, who was known as Lucifer, the Lightbringer, was a wonderful, beautiful and excellent Angel of God, who was created as the most brilliant and mightiest among the Angels. He was created all good and wonderful just as all of us and all of Creation had been created. However, he became obsessed with that beauty and brilliance that he possessed, and became proud, leading to his rebellion against God in his desire to become the ruler over all things. That was how Satan fell from grace and was cast out of Heaven. In the same manner, by the temptations which Satan had given to Adam and Eve, our ancestors gave in to their desires for knowledge and power, that led them into sin, corruption and therefore their downfall.

In our Gospel passage today, we are then reminded from the Gospel according to St. Mark the Evangelist once again about the dangers of the corruption of sin which can easily afflict us if we are not careful in how we live our lives. We are also not defiled and corrupted by whatever we partake and eat, as the Lord Himself declared that every type of food which had been considered as unclean by the Jewish community to be clean and worthy. This is related to what we have heard in our first reading passage earlier on, which related to us how God created everything all good and wonderful for us, and hence, we should not think of any animals or things around us to be the source of our defilement and corruption. This is contrary to what the Jewish people had believed in.

Historically, there were some possible reasons explaining why the Law of God stipulated those rules as handed down to them through Moses, which happened during the time of the Exodus. The prohibition against eating pigs is scientifically and historically linked to the fact that it took more resources to sustain them than what the Israelites could have afforded while they were on the journey of the Exodus through the desert. Hence, this Law and commandment was given to them to help them to manage their lives as they were making their journey through the desert with limited resources, depending on the graces and miracles that God had given them such as the manna, the heavenly bread appearing to them every morning, as well as the water gushing out from the rocks for them to drink and share in the dry desert.

But the Lord showed the people that those commandments and laws which their ancestors had obeyed and followed were no longer relevant at that time, and He revealed to them all the true nature of the Law, and what they all needed to do in order to be truly faithful to God. He also warned them about maintaining only just external piety and purity while neglecting the purity of the soul, keeping oneself free from the corruption of our wicked desires, ambitions, greed and pride, all of which are the ones leading us astray from God and making us to fall into sin, just as our ancestors themselves had experienced. Just as it was not the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that were malicious, but the greed of mankind, therefore the Lord made it clear that what is corrupting us in our own interior disposition and desires.

And this is exemplified no better than those Pharisees and teachers of the Law themselves who often criticised the Lord and His disciples for not observing the Law in the manner that they had observed it. They were so obsessed and focused on the external application of the Law that they had forgotten its true purpose, intention and meaning. Not only that but many among them also allowed their pride and desire for worldly recognition and power to mislead them down the path of disobedience against God, as shown by their persistent refusal to listen to the Lord and their constant critique of the Lord and His disciples’ works, despite having listened to the Wisdom of God being spoken to them and to the miracles and wonders performed before their own eyes.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, let us all therefore remind ourselves to continue living our lives worthily in the Lord, placing Him at the very heart and centre of our existence. Let us all resist the temptations of the evil ones who are constantly trying to bring us to our downfall by disobedience against God. May the Lord be with us always and may He continue to empower and strengthen us all in our journey so that we may grow ever stronger in our commitment towards Him, in each and every moments of our lives, now and always, forevermore. Amen.

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Wednesday, 12 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time (Gospel Reading)

Liturgical Colour : Green

Mark 7 : 14-23

At that time, Jesus then called the people to Him again and said to them, “Listen to Me, all of you, and try to understand. Nothing that enters a person from the outside can make that person unclean. It is what comes from within that makes a person unclean. Let everyone who has ears listen.”

When Jesus got home and was away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him about this saying, and He replied, “So even you are dull? Do you not see that whatever comes from outside cannot make a person unclean, since it enters not the heart but the stomach, and is finally passed out?” Thus Jesus declared that all foods are clean.

And He went on, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him, for evil designs come out of the heart : theft, murder, adultery, jealousy, greed, maliciousness, deceit, indecency, slander, pride and folly. All these evil things come from within and make a person unclean.”

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Wednesday, 12 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time (Psalm)

Liturgical Colour : Green

Psalm 103 : 1-2a, 27-28, 29bc-30

Bless the Lord my soul! Clothed in majesty and splendour; o Lord, my God, how great You are! You are wrapped in light as with a garment.

They all look to You for their food in due time. You give it to them, and they gather it up; You open Your hand, they are filled with good things.

You take away their breath, they expire and return to dust. When You send forth Your Spirit, they are created, and the face of the earth is renewed.

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Wednesday, 12 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time (First Reading)

Liturgical Colour : Green

Genesis 2 : 4b-9, 15-17

On the day that YHVH God made the earth and the heavens, there was not yet on earth any shrub on the fields, nor had any plant yet sprung up, for YHVH God had not made it rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the earth, but a mist went up from the earth and watered the surface of the earth.

Then YHVH God formed Man, dust drawn from the clay, and breathed into his nostrils a breath of life and Man became alive with breath. God planted a garden in Eden in the east and there He placed Man whom He had created. YHVH God caused to grow from the ground every kind of tree that is pleasing to see and good to eat, also the tree of life on the middle of the garden and the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

YHVH God took Man and placed him in the garden of Eden to till it and to take care of it. Then YHVH God gave an order to Man saying, “You may eat of every tree in the garden, but of the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you will not eat, for on the day you eat of it, you will die.”

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Tuesday, 11 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time, Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, World Day of the Sick (Homily and Scripture Reflections)

Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Our Lady of Lourdes)

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, as we heard from the Scripture passages today, all of us are reminded that God is our Lord and Master, and we have to keep in mind that we should not allow all sorts of worldly matters, desires and distractions to lead us away from the true path towards God and His grace. We must always put our faith and trust in God, and resist the many temptations present around us that may try to lead us astray down the wrong path, and we must also resist the pull of our pride, ego, ambition and desire in this life, and instead, strive to be humble and to be willing to listen to the Lord calling upon us and allow Him to patiently lead us down the path of righteousness and grace. We must always remember that God desires our salvation, and He has done everything He could to rescue us all and to bring us ever closer to Him.

In our first reading today, we heard from the Book of Genesis in which the account of the Creation of the world and the whole Universe continued to be told to us as initiated in yesterday’s first reading. Today, we heard the second half of this story of Creation, culminating in how God created us all mankind as the pinnacle of His Creation, creating us in His own image and likeness. It was a reminder for all of us how everything that exists around us, and including our own existence in this world, are all due to the works of the Lord, and without Him, we are nothing and we would not even have existed at all. And God created all of us in His likeness and image as ultimately, He sees us all as His own children, His adopted sons and daughters, and He intended for all of us to be the ones to enjoy everything that He has created, and to forever be in His grace and loving Presence.

However, as we all know it well, we have not been faithful and obedient to God. Instead, we chose to rebel against Him and follow the advice of the devil instead, listening to his lies and allowing his falsehoods to lead us into the wrong path, taking up the forbidden fruits of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and hence, in our desire to become like God, we ended up falling into this world of suffering and death. But God, in His most wonderful and patient love for each one of us did not give up on us. Instead, He continued to reach out to us and provided us with the help necessary for us to find our way back to Him, and He opened His arms, welcoming us back with His mercy and kindness, desiring to be reconciled and reunited with us.

And that was why He sent unto us all His own Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Divine Word of God Incarnate. It was through His Word that God has created this world and Universe, and the same Word of God, the Divine Logos has become incarnate in the flesh, becoming one of the Creation through the assumption of the flesh and our human existence, but without shedding His infinite and timeless existence from the beginning, co-Eternal and consubstantial with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. Through this act of supreme love, God has made Himself tangible and approachable to all of us, to show us all His sincere desire in loving us all and in wanting to guide us and help us to return to the path of virtue and grace, so that more and more may come to be saved and be spared the fate of eternal damnation.

In our Gospel passage today, we heard the confrontation between the Lord Jesus, the same Son of God, with those Pharisees and the teachers of the Law who had been criticising Him and His disciples regarding their ways of observing the Law of God. According to those Pharisees and the teachers of the Law, who safeguarded and kept the Law and commandments of God passed down from the time of Moses, the Law and the precepts of the Law must be kept and observed very strictly, and not only that, but they had even added on many details and rituals that ended up deviating from the true purpose and intention of the Law and those precepts themselves. For example, the one that the Lord mentioned regarding the washing of the vessels and the hands before eating, which those Pharisees and teachers of the Law zealously guarded, requiring everyone to wash their hands following certain strict steps and practices, like washing all the way to the elbow, or otherwise they would be considered unclean.

The Lord was criticising and rebuking them over this obsession on the details and rules of the Law, which ended up distracting those Pharisees and the teachers of the Law from the true purpose and intention of those rules in the first place. They were meant to help the people of God lead a good, hygienic way of life, in the midst of the community of the people in the context of the Exodus, when many of them were living in close quarters, and diseases would easily spread without such good practices. However, those rules were never meant to become burden and obstacles for the people of God, or becoming tools of discrimination and differentiation, which those Pharisees and teachers of the Law often practiced. This is due to the pride and the importance that they attached to the ‘correct’ way of practicing the Law, and considering themselves better and more superior than others who did not follow the Law the same way they did.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, this is in fact an important reminder for us all not to be easily swayed by the temptations of worldly desires, which many of those Pharisees had succumbed to, and many of them refused to listen to the Lord and to reason because they allowed themselves to be deluded by their own pride and ego which caused them to close their minds and hearts to Him. They depended instead on their intellect, their knowledge and their sense of superiority, in thinking that they were better than others simply because they were more holy, more dedicated and more pious than those they deemed to be less than worthy because they did not observe the Law of God as stringently and piously as they had done. It was all these prideful attitudes which in fact led them astray and prevented them from coming closer to God, and we should avoid adopting the same attitude in our own lives.

Today, the Church also celebrates the occasion of the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, the famous apparition of the Blessed Mother of God, Mary, Our Lady of Lourdes at the site in southern France to St. Bernadette Soubirous, shortly after the declaration of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary by the then Pope Pius IX. Mary, the Mother of God appeared to the simple peasant girl, St. Bernadette in the grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes over a few occasions, in which she told to her many things about herself and the message that she wanted her to proclaim to the world, proving her authenticity and identity whenever she was asked of it. St. Bernadette initially faced a lot of hurdles and skepticism from her own parents and from the local bishop and clergy, but she insisted to continue meeting the apparation of Our Lady regardless.

After several rounds of investigations into the apparition and the growing popularity of the apparition and the devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes, after about two years, the Church finally gave its assent to the authenticity and support the apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes as legitimate and authentic, and from that point onwards, pilgrimages to the shrine of Lourdes became very popular among the faithful throughout the world. A great shrine, the Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes now stands at the site where Our Lady once appeared to St. Bernadette almost two centuries ago, with the Grotto at Massabielle, at the heart of the shrine frequented by millions of pilgrims seeking for healing and help for their sickness, and the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes is well-known for its many miraculous healings, where many sick pilgrims had been healed from their ailments after visits to the shrine.

This devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes is yet another reminder for us of the greatness of God’s love for us, that He even also sent His mother to us, to help us all and to guide us all to Him. After all, it is the Lord Himself Who has entrusted His mother to us to be our own loving Mother from His Cross as He was hanging there at the moment of His Passion. Through His mother, the Lord wants us all to realise our shortcomings and flaws, our faults and weaknesses, and by coming towards Him through His mother, the Lord hopes that all of us may be healed by our faith and trust in Him, and also be inspired by the good examples and the faith which Mary herself has shown in her life. Mary, Our Lady of Lourdes is a great role model and example for us all to follow, and we should do our best to follow her examples in our own life and actions.

Brothers and sisters in Christ, therefore today let us all remind ourselves of God’s great and most generous love for us, all the things that He has done for our sake. Let us not take His love for granted and let us continue to thank Him for all that He has lovingly provided for us, and for the help He has shown us through His Blessed Mother, Our Lady of Lourdes, who is also our Mother. May the Lord also have mercy on the sick and those who are suffering from various diseases and ailments, and let us all continue to pray for them all, so that God may continue to journey with them all and show them all His mercy and compassion. Holy Mary, Mother of God, Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for all of us sinners, your sons and daughters, so that we may come to realise the depth of our sinfulness and evils, and that we may come to repent and turn away from those wickedness, and find our way to your beloved Son, Our Lord and Saviour. Amen.

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Tuesday, 11 February 2025 : 5th Week of Ordinary Time, Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, World Day of the Sick (Gospel Reading)

Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Our Lady of Lourdes)

Mark 7 : 1-13

One day the Pharisees gathered around Jesus, and with them were some teachers of the Law who had just come from Jerusalem. They noticed that some of His disciples were eating their meal with unclean hands, that is, without washing them.

Now the Pharisees, and in fact all the Jews never eat without washing their hands, for they follow the tradition received from their ancestors. Nor do they eat anything, when they come from the market, without first washing themselves. And there are many other traditions they observe; for example, the ritual washing of cups, pots and plates.

So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders, but eat with unclean hands?” Jesus answered, “You shallow people! How well Isaiah prophesied of you when he wrote : This people honours Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. The worship they offer Me is worthless, for what they teach are only human rules. You even put aside the commandment of God to hold fast to human tradition.”

And Jesus commented, “You have a fine way of disregarding the commandments of God in order to enforce your own traditions! For example, Moses said : Do your duty to your father and your mother, and : Whoever curses his father or his mother is to be put to death. But according to you, someone could say to his father or mother, ‘I already declared Corban (which means “offered to God”) what you could have expected from me.'”

“In this case you no longer require him to do anything for his father or mother, and so you nullify the word of God through the tradition you have handed on. And you do many other things like that.”

Alternative reading (Mass of Our Lady of Lourdes)

John 2 : 1-11

At that time, three days after Jesus called Nathanael, there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus was also invited to the wedding with His disciples. When all the wine provided for the celebration had been served, and they had run out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”

Jesus replied, “Woman, what concern is that to you and Me? My hour has not yet come.” However His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.” Nearby were six stone water jars, set there for ritual washing as practiced by the Jews; each jar could hold twenty or thirty gallons.

Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them to the brim. Then Jesus said, “Now draw some out and take it to the steward.” So they did. The steward tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing from where it had come; for only the servants who had drawn the water knew. So, he called the bridegroom to tell him, “Everyone serves the best wine first, and when people have drunk enough, he serves that which is ordinary. Instead you have kept the best wine until the end.”

This miraculous sign was the first, and Jesus performed it at Cana in Galilee. In this way He let His glory appear, and His disciples believed in Him.