This year, at the meeting of the Ordinary Consistory of Cardinals, Pope Francis approved the canonisation of 15 people, including the millennial Blessed Carlo Acutis. On 20 October 2024, 14 of these were canonised as saints. They were: The Martyrs of Damascus, a group of 11 men who were executed in 1860 for refusing to renounce their Christian faith and [...]
Encounter Advent Intercessory Prayer Invitation As we enter this holy season of Advent, we invite you to join us in a special time of intercessory prayer. This is a season to reflect on the hope, peace, joy, and love that Christ brings into our lives, and through intercessory prayer, we can bring the needs of others before [...]
Encounter Holy Hour – 4 October 2024 at Bethel 7pm October is the Month of the Rosary Let us gather as a community to ask our loving Mother for her intercession. Fridays in the month of October: 11, 18, 25 Oct 6.45pm Our Lady's Grotto Do note :There is NO rosary [...]
Encounter 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: There will be NO 6.30am and 6pm Eucharistic Celebrations during the [...]
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: [...]
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: [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
