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Liturgical Reflection for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

There is an oft told medieval tale that speaks of how St. Augustine as he was writing his treatise about the Holy Trinity, was walking along the beach when he encountered a little boy trying to fill a hole that was found in the sand. The boy kept running back and forth from the ocean, and each time he did, [...]

By |2023-05-31T00:08:52+08:00May 31st, 2023|Building Koinonia, Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

The Holy Trinity – One God, Three Persons

The dogma of the Holy Trinity is a central teaching tenet and pillar to the Catholic Faith – embedded in this teaching is the truth and mystery, is that God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit, are three distinct persons, but one God. God the Father is God, Jesus the Son is God, the Holy Spirit is [...]

By |2023-05-29T17:22:38+08:00May 29th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on The Holy Trinity – One God, Three Persons

Liturgical Reflection for Pentecost

While many of us are familiar with the liturgical readings for the celebration of Pentecost Day – The First Reading: Acts 2: 1-11 when the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles and they began speaking in foreign languages, the Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:3-7,12-13 where St. Paul tells us that while we are many parts, we are one body, and [...]

By |2023-05-24T13:59:06+08:00May 24th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for Pentecost

Work as the hidden action of the Holy Spirit

There is a tendency to compartmentalise the lives that we lead in Church and the life that we live outside of it. For us who do, we lead a kind of a double and disconnected life – on one hand, one that is interiorly aligned and connected to God – I attend the Eucharistic celebration every Sunday, I frequent the [...]

By |2023-05-29T17:23:24+08:00May 24th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Work as the hidden action of the Holy Spirit

Check out the Latest Happenings In Our Community – 21 May 2023

Encounter Holy Spirit Retreat Fri - Sun, 23 - 25 June   Register: tinyurl.com/CSMHSRJune2023 Change in Sunday EC Timing 11.15am EC will begin at 11.30am Effective 4 June 2023  Rosary Time: 6.30pm Friday, 5, 12, 19, 26  May 2023 May being the month of Mary, join us for Rosary prayers every Friday at [...]

By |2023-05-20T20:17:56+08:00May 17th, 2023|In Our Community|Comments Off on Check out the Latest Happenings In Our Community – 21 May 2023

Liturgical Reflection for 7th Sunday of Easter

Suffering is something that everyone wants to avoid. No one intentionally wants to suffer for nothing. Why do you avoid suffering? Where there is deep love, there is less suffering and yet there is tremendous suffering as well. When a parent loves the child deeply, there is nothing the parent would not do for the child. If the child has [...]

By |2023-05-17T08:46:21+08:00May 17th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 7th Sunday of Easter

Christus Rex est

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” (John 14: 15). A “commandment” refers to an order from an authority, and comes from the Old French word, commander – “to enjoin”, “to order”, and “to entrust” (Online Etymology Dictionary, n.d.). This entrustment has to come from someone who wields the supreme authority, who has, in military terms, a complete [...]

By |2023-05-17T08:35:38+08:00May 11th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Christus Rex est

Pentecost Rally 2023 – Church of St. Michael

John 15: 26-27 says, “When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father, he will testify to me. And you also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.” And Luke 24: 48-49 states, “You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the [...]

By |2023-05-04T17:45:19+08:00May 4th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story, Parish Events, Upcoming...|Comments Off on Pentecost Rally 2023 – Church of St. Michael

A House for God

In Matthew 8: 19-20, a scribe comes up to Jesus and declares that he would go wherever Jesus would go, and Jesus gives a somewhat cryptic reply: “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.” Perhaps, the scribe was expecting that in following Jesus, this journey would [...]

By |2023-05-06T01:08:02+08:00May 3rd, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on A House for God

A Voice for Vocations

On the 11th of April 1964, Pope Paul VI broadcasted a radio message. It was to be the start of the first World Day for Vocations. Pope Paul VI then went on to explain how the readings of the day, present Jesus, the Good Shepherd who has a heart to shepherd his people. The presence of healthy vocations to the [...]

By |2023-04-26T18:20:55+08:00April 26th, 2023|Building Koinonia, Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on A Voice for Vocations