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Check out the Latest Happenings In Our Community – 15 Sep 2024

Encounter Praise & Worship Saturday, 21 Sept 2024 8pm Bethel Feast Day Triduum 25-27 Sep, 8pm Bethel Join us at Bethel, as we spend the 3 days leading up to St Michael's Feast Day in faith and prayer. Eucharistic Celebrations for the Triduum would be at 8pm, at Bethel. Do note: [...]

By |2024-09-15T04:42:51+08:00September 14th, 2024|In Our Community|Comments Off on Check out the Latest Happenings In Our Community – 15 Sep 2024

Check out the Latest Happenings In Our Community – 8 September 2024

Encounter Praise & Worship Saturday, 21 Sept 2024 8pm Bethel Feast Day Triduum 25-27 Sep, 8pm Bethel Join us at Bethel, as we spend the 3 days leading up to St Michael's Feast Day in faith and prayer. Eucharistic Celebrations for the Triduum would be at 8pm, at Bethel. Do note: [...]

By |2024-09-14T12:55:40+08:00September 7th, 2024|In Our Community|Comments Off on Check out the Latest Happenings In Our Community – 8 September 2024

Check out the Latest Happenings In Our Community – 1 September 2024

Encounter Holy Hour Friday, 6 Sep 2024 7pm Bethel Praise & Worship Saturday, 21 Sept 2024 8pm Bethel Feast Day Triduum 25-27 Sep, 8pm Bethel Join us at Bethel, as we spend the 3 days leading up to St Michael's Feast Day in faith and prayer. [...]

By |2024-09-03T13:25:21+08:00August 30th, 2024|In Our Community|Comments Off on Check out the Latest Happenings In Our Community – 1 September 2024

We Fly to Your Patronage O Holy Mother of God

We have just celebrated the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and as we continue with our journey in Ordinary Time, we discover also the invitation to journey together with Our Blessed Mother. The Sub Tuum Praesidium is the oldest documented prayer to Our Lady. It was first discovered on papyrus scrolls. While the actual dating is [...]

By |2024-09-06T10:21:14+08:00August 17th, 2024|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on We Fly to Your Patronage O Holy Mother of God

Liturgical reflection for 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The second reading clearly invites us to be cautious of the ways of the world. It is easy to drug oneself with the wine of the world that says ‘We live today and for tomorrow we die.’ The only way out of these distractions is to be rooted in the Word of God. We are remind to be focused and [...]

By |2024-08-17T16:18:28+08:00August 17th, 2024|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical reflection for 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time

A Hunger for Truth

It was a chaotic cook in the kitchen today. A new homecook had joined us and he ran about the kitchen like a headless chicken. He left the knives dangling by the edges of the table, indiscriminately used the knives and cutting boards for raw and cooked food, left a hurricane of a mess at his bench, did not pay [...]

By |2024-07-30T23:53:27+08:00July 27th, 2024|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on A Hunger for Truth

The Ministry of Table-Fellowship

I recently decided to pursue a hobby in the culinary arts with greater seriousness, and began to practise in my leisure hours certain classic culinary techniques so as to level up and prepare for the time when I would eventually join some cooking competition somewhere, somehow, and have my face printed on the tins of biscuits or travel cakes sold [...]

By |2024-07-20T20:22:43+08:00July 20th, 2024|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on The Ministry of Table-Fellowship

Tough Choices: Standing Firm in Faith

We've all faced the heartbreaking dilemma of having to choose between our loved ones and our faith. It's a scenario that plays out in our minds, like the classic "who" question - if your spouse and your child were both drowning, who would you choose to rescue? The natural human response is to try to save them both, to find [...]

By |2024-07-20T17:31:30+08:00July 20th, 2024|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Tough Choices: Standing Firm in Faith

Liturgical reflection for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

In this Gospel of Mark, Jesus called to his disciples to rest, for they are like the scattered sheep without a shepherd. We have experienced the barrenness of a busy life, like the Apostles. Jesus invites us to slow down and rest before we breakdown. Ps 23:1 - “The Lord is my shepherd, there’s nothing I shall want “. We [...]

By |2024-07-20T17:02:58+08:00July 20th, 2024|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical reflection for 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Catholic Schools in Crisis

In Singapore, parents wanting to enrol their children in a primary school have to undergo a multi-phased selection process in the following stages: Singapore citizens living within 1km of the school Singapore citizens living between 1km to 2km from the school Singapore citizens living outside 2km of the school Permanent residents living within 1 km of the school Permanent residents [...]

By |2024-07-14T10:34:23+08:00July 13th, 2024|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Catholic Schools in Crisis