I was in pain and they asked me to paint. To help re-direct my attention away from the severe pain I was experiencing, they put a paint brush in my hand, propped up a canvas on a small easel, and gave me a box of paints. The pain was from the latest round of radiation treatment for cancer and the [...]
Eucharistic Celebration every Sunday at 11am, Making the Psalms Your Prayer Book, Share Your Story, Talk About Mental Wellness, Prayer Binds the Community Together, Share Your Story, Staying Connected with One Another, Seniors Club, - Check out what is happening this week at CSM and more, around the Archdiocese!
"Covid-19 has revealed the flaws of the Catholic Church in Singapore when all physical gathering or activity was put on hold. We must not go back to before Covid-19 times but to ask the Lord to help us to keep moving, towards constant renewal for our Catholic Church to reach out to more people, especially the youths and young adults [...]
On first impressions, the Gospel for this week seems oddly antagonistic and confrontational - it seems to suggest how we should stand up, perhaps challenge someone from the church, who has wronged us. It even lists methodologically how we should go about it along with a follow-up should the exchanges prove unsuccessful; attempt the one-on-one first, followed by bringing along [...]
There comes a time and a season when the community is called to gather as one and to prayerfully discern and to decide together the next steps or the new paths to forge. This discernment has to do with the operational every-day things such as leadership roles, the running of the community, the works and the direction those works will [...]
In today’s Gospel, the reflection is centered on Matthew 16:24. “Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” Jesus is preaching about the conditions of discipleship - to become his follower or disciple. A terse and precise command to emulate the perfect model but never an [...]
Jean Baudrillard (1929 – 2007) was a French Sociologist and Cultural Theorist who critiqued the workings of Modern Society. For him, modern societies are organised around the production and consumption of commodities, while postmodern societies are organised around simulation and the play of images and signs, denoting a situation in which codes, models, and signs are the organising forms of [...]
Our reluctance to trust new experiences and discoveries with our Lord, but the joy that follows when we do. New Creation The breakthrough in the use of technology came at the start of Singapore’s Circuit Breaker (CB) on 7 Apr 20 when we were all forced to find new ways. It was not possible to tell at that time how [...]
Eucharistic Celebration every Sunday at 11am, Making the Psalms Your Prayer Book, Share Your Story, Talk About Mental Wellness, Prayer Binds the Community Together, Share Your Story, Staying Connected with One Another, Seniors Club, - Check out what is happening this week at CSM and more, around the Archdiocese!
In the year 2016, by the serendipity of God and God's quirky humour, I finally took the step to attend a series of retreats, First the Conversion Experience Retreat, followed by the Prayer Experience Retreat.. The first day presented itself with the usual ice-breakers, the singing of action songs, and getting to know one another. Yet as the days proceeded, [...]
