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Prayer life

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

There are three ways of prayer according to Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Vocal prayer 口祷
Meditation 默想（运用思维、想像、情感、渴望）
Contemplation 心祷

What is the difference between meditation and contemplation? The following part is a summary from here.

Contemplative prayer is more passive or sublime experience of God. Meditative prayer is more from our work of seeking God (though with the aid from God). Contemplative prayer can be distinguished as the pure work from God.

Prayer Clock 1.0.0

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Finally I release the Prayer Clock with version 1.0.0. For the internal engine, there is not much change. For the deployment, I tried to make several changes.

Firstly, I am using autotools (autoconf and automake) for the project, so that it is easier for me to maintain the project. Because this project targets for cross platform. Yes, I learnt quite a lot of things about autotools, really nice to use.

Secondly, I continue maintaining the Debian package. Actually, I target on Arch Linux, but I found that Debian and Arch Linux is binary compatible (for my project, I am not sure for others). So, I use Arch Linux to package it in Debian using dpkg. And I also make the PKGBUILD for Arch Linux package build. I choose Debian (not RPM), because previously I used Ubuntu. Besides that, I also follow the freedesktop.org specification for the icon and desktop entry. As a result, after installation, we can run the application from the menu item (just like Windows start menu). Because of this deployment, I change the file hierarchy based on Linux/Unix, which I am not familiar about this before.

The theories (and concepts) I know about science

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

During my secondary school, I studied the science subjects: physics, chemistry, and biology.

The main theory I know about the physics is: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed. Then I asked, where does energy come from? Is it existed in the beginning?

Then, about the chemistry, which studies about the matter. From this subject, I know an atom consists of proton, neutron, and electron. We can determine the element based on the number of protons. Then I asked, what determines the number of protons? There should be some attractive force, but where does this attractive force come from?

Are you in the bible? (Part 2)

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Previously I asked, “Are you in the bible?” Right, most holy men and women suffered a lot as written in the bible. Since I mentioned those names, let me finish what were happened to those holy men and women.

Patriarch Joseph finally became an important man in Egypt, trusted by Pharaoh. During the great famine, he saved his own family and kinsmen.

David who wholeheartedly worked for Saul, but Saul wanted to murder him, at the later days, David became the king of Israel. Though he was persecuted by own son. But later years he died peacefully and his kingdom was succeeded by King Solomon.

Are you in the bible?

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Whoever read the bible will find that there are a lot of sorrowfulness within the bible stories. Yes, bible is for those who are poor, oppressed, sicks, and sinners. Because the world is full of injustice, through the Gospel (I mean good news), we found our faith and hope. The worldly people judge with outlook, pursue authorities and richness. That is why, the poor become poorer, the oppressed become more oppressed, the sicks are abandoned.

When we lose faith

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

As a Christian, I always think about the meaning of life. The meaning of life means the reason of living and the purpose to live. Even some Christians, they will relate everything with a meaning. That means, whatever incident is happened, there is a reason behind, the incident is happened with a purpose. If a person broke a vase, there is also a meaning, may be the vase must be broken. If a person woke up late, may be this is the reason that he could avoid from an accident.

Catholic particular judgement in programming (for fun only)

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000

[sourcecode language=“c”] int particularJudgement(State* state) { if(state->grace > state->sin) { if(state->punishment) { return PURGATORY; } else { return HEAVEN; } } return HELL; } [/sourcecode]

Beyond the time and space

Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

We are living in a world with 3-dimensional space: width, height, and length. A point is zero dimension; a line is one dimension with length property; a rectangle is two dimensions with width and height properties; a cube is 3D with width, height, and length properties.

So, how is the fourth dimension? Normally, we will use time for fourth dimension. Why? Now, if there is a point, with coordinate (x,y). Since it is a point, there is no length, width, or height, thus it is zero dimension. If the point is moving according to axis-y gradually with constant speed, and we record the point with time (t), then we plot the point into a graph, it will become a line as the right side of the image above. Therefore, zero dimension becomes one dimension.

Prayer Clock 0.1.4 released

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Prayer Clock 0.1.4 is released, together with JPrayer Clock. Not many changes.

The important change is to solve the relative path problem. This is because if create a launcher on the desktop on Ubuntu, one cannot launch the application. This is because the application will load the XML files in the current working directory, where the current working directory might not be the directory of the Prayer Clock.

Click here to download.

Jacob's story

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Once there was a man, Jacob. He fell in love with a girl, Rachel. And this Rachel had an elder sister, Leah, and her father, Laban. Jacob wanted to take Rachel as wife. So, Laban asked Jacob to serve him for seven years in order to take her as wife. Then, seven years passed, and Jacob took a wife. Yet, the wife was Leah, because Laban cheated Jacob. Then, Jacob still wanted to take Rachel as wife. So, Laban required Jacob to serve him seven more years.

Move my projects to SourceForge project hosting

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

I just move my Prayer Clock project to SourceForge.net project hosting. Have a look here.

Prayer Clock and JPrayer Clock 0.1.2 released

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Prayer Clock and JPrayer Clock 0.1.2 are released. Anyone who likes, you can download. And the source code is also available. Feel free to edit.

Wedding at Cana

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Today’s Gospel reading is very nice. And it is so meaningful. I like it very much.

When they were ran out of wine, Mother Mary said to Jesus, “They have no wine”.

This is how we should pray. We always pray to God that, we want this, we want that, we want a car, we want a house, we want money, we want a happy life, etc. We always ask for God what we want, because we think that we know what we need. But God knows better than us. God knows what we need. “They have no wine”, and Jesus knew what he should do.

爱与被爱

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

当你感觉被爱（被动式）的时候，正是你爱（主动式）的时候。

A prayer of St Teresa of Jesus (Chinese)

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Just read the Chinese version Catechism of the Catholic Church, this is the prayer of St Teresa of Jesus:

何事扰你意？何物乱你心？
万般皆易逝，唯主不移真。
心有天主者，坚忍百事成。
夫复何所求，有主心意称。
(圣女大德兰)

About the case: "Muslim Men Spying in Catholic Churches "

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000

My friend sent me a URL. Then I read it. And I feel sad for what has happened.
There are several blogs related about this case

http://ksstanley.blogspot.com/2009/07/police-report-lodged.html
http://andrew4jc.blogspot.com/2009/07/sacrilege-profanation-of-eucharist-in.html
http://mucked-in-a-jam.blogspot.com/2009/07/al-islam-muslim-reporters-spying-in.html
http://mahaguru58.blogspot.com/2009/07/al-islam-undercover-operation-at.html

About this case, the followings are my personal opinions:

What is happened, is already happened. What we need to do, is to prevent this type of sacrilege happened again. Use the peaceful way. Do not perform flaming through Internet.

Besides that, is sacrilege happened every where? I am not sure. But we know, if we commit mortal sin, we should not receive Holy Communion. Do we commit mortal sins? We also need to look into ourselves.

Free will and decision making

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000

The TV series, “Lost”, is very interesting (for me). In the season 5, the main characters were time travelling to the past. And the story said, whatever they did, they will not change the history. Right, it is same to my personal concept about time travelling. Because I personally do not believe the existence of parallel universe.

But, in the episode “The Variable”, the story changes my concept. A main character said to another, we are variables, we have free wills, we have reasoning, we can make decision. That is why, in the episode, they want to change the history. If time travelling to the past really happened in our world, can we change the history?

Offer your sufferings

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

We cannot prevent sufferings in our life. When we suffered, we feel sorrows in our heart, even anger and despair.

We don’t know the reasons why we are suffering. Then, what should we do?

Just offer our sufferings to God. For the sake of our own sins, and also for the others. And be grateful to God for giving us the chance to experience sufferings. Even the Son of God also suffered for us. And ask God to save us from the sufferings.

Soul

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Long time ago, when I was reading the bible (Chinese version, Studium Biblicum), there was a commentary in Genesis 1:26-28, which explains about the human.

人相似天主是按灵魂说的相似天主有理智、意志和记忆。[Studium Biblicum commentary Gen 1:26-28]

Translated to English (by me): “Man is similar to God, is according to the soul which is similar to God, who has rational thinking, mind, and memory.”

Therefore, recently I searched from the internet about the “rational thinking, mind, and memory”. Then I found that, actually these three attributes are “memory, understanding, and will”. They are the faculties of a soul, according to St Augustine of Hippo.

All Souls Day

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Today is special, because All Souls Day falls on Sunday. Just go to church on Sunday as usual, you will celebrate the All Souls Day.

Besides that, according to Richert (2008), we can gain a special plenary indulgence for the souls in Purgatory today. That is nice.