As we prepare ourselves after 40 days of conversion and awaiting Jesus resurrection, we also prepare our Easter Candles for Holy Saturday to bring it along with us. A few of us came together to decorate our Easter Candles and to get ready together. Have you decorated your Easter Candle? If not, you still have time! Otherwise, we will be [...]
After 40 days of conversion and penance, we enter into Holy Week… Do we approach others with peace and gentleness, sensitivity to their needs? Who is Jesus to YOU? Do you believe that he has come to redeem you from sin?
In the evening, the Maundy Thursday service is held at churches island wide. After the service, the Blessed Sacrament is taken to the Altar of Repose in a procession. The Altar of Repose also holds consecrated communion hosts prepared for distribution on Good Friday. The altar is then stripped. Because the altar symbolises Christ, stripping symbolises the abandonment of Jesus [...]
Pilgrimage: St Paul’s Journey – Greece- 14 Apr, Sun Time: 8pm (Venue: St. Michael’s Room) Fr Terence will be leading a pilgrimage from 8 to 16 May 2020 This pilgrimage is open only to CSM Parishioners. Activities during Triduum Mindful of Blessings - 18 Apr, Thu Time: 6.45pm Recalling the Lord’s Love – an invitation to prepare for Maundy [...]
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On the journey to grow closer to God, we need communities to bring us to Jesus, especially during our times of struggle or spiritual lethargy. These communities can be informal or formal communities like our family or structured church sharing groups respectively. There lies the importance of building kingdom friendships rather than just friendships of utility or pleasure. Friendships [...]
What are the sins of others that you are quick to judge but slow to realize in yourself? How have you condemned others for very things you do, failing to realize that we are all sinners, brothers and sisters on the same journey? When we have a great log in our eyes, how can we see clearly enough to [...]
Parish Cleaning Day – 6 April, Sat We are inviting you to step forward to come clean our Father’s house in preparation for Easter. Let us have breakfast at 7am together and we flow into songs to warm up before we clean. Please do register with the parish office You Gotto Move it, Move it!- 7 Apr, Sun Time: [...]
Are you a Godly Parent, or Are You a No-good Parent? Now, who am I to talk about parenting? I am neither married, nor do I have any children of my own. However, what I do have is an accumulation of 12 years of experience working with children and teenagers from the age of toddlers to youth. Here are [...]