Encounter Writers' Workshop By Comms Ministry 18 Feb 2022, Friday 7.30pm to 10pm Location: TBC 19 Feb 2022, Saturday 7.30am to 1.30pm Meet at Gardens by the Bay For this first session, we will be exploring how to make our own prayer journals and learn how to carry out Lectio Divina and Prayer Journaling. Register: tinyurl.com/CSMWriterWorkshop [...]
Encounter Burning Bush Starting 6 Feb This is a programme where participants will be invited to delve deeper into their faith and how they can grow as a disciple of the Lord. Email: csm.secretariat@catholic.org.sg Chinese New Year Eucharistic Celebrations 1 & 2 February Tuesday, 1 Feb 7.45am Chinese EC (100 pax) 10am English EC (200 [...]
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According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the word "Church" (Latin ecclesia, from the Greek ek-ka-lein, to "call out of") means a convocation or an assembly. It designates the assemblies of the people, usually for a religious purpose. Ekklesia is used frequently in the Greek Old Testament for the assembly of the Chosen People before God, above all for their assembly on [...]
“Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber. But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.” -John 10: 1-2 On the 4th Sunday of Easter, we celebrate Good Shepherd Sunday. Most of us have heard about the parable of [...]
“Through Him the whole structure is held together and grows into a temple sacred in the Lord; in Him you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” Ephesians 2: 21-22 For a long time, the Church and its members have existed in silo – each person going about doing their own thing. While [...]
According to Canon Law, “The Christian faithful, even in their own manner of acting, are always obliged to maintain communion with the Church.” (Canon Law 209: 1) Christianity is founded on Community with Christ being the Head, and the Faithful, the different parts of the body. However, from the 20th century, there has been an increasing opinion and turn that [...]
The Christian faith is not just a personal experience, it is founded on the community. However, with the rapid infection rate of COVID-19, many Churches, as a preventive measure have suspended the Eucharist and limited their visiting hours. While these measures are prudent and help to contain the spread of the virus, it also isolates people from the community at [...]
If our views and pleasures came before the community, what would our community look like? How could this happen? Imagine if our view of what we think is good, bad, right, or wrong, is determined by ourselves, we would not have a reference point but would be trending popular beliefs or opinions. Suppose we put our pleasures first before others [...]
