Encounter City District Reconciliation Service As we prepare our hearts to welcome Jesus this Christmas, let use reconcile our relationship with God our Loving Father. The Reconciliation Service for the Church of St. Michael will start at 7.30pm at St Thomas and St. Michael Room on 16 Dec 2024. We will close with a Communal Prayer of [...]
Encounter All Saints Day Day of Obligation 31 Oct 24, Thurs (Public Holiday): Vigil EC at 6pm. Note: 7.30am EC (Weekday readings) 1 Nov 24, Fri: EC at 6.30am & 8pm. Note: No 6pm EC. Join us for Holy Hour at 7pm. Holy Hour 1 Nov 24 7pm @ Bethel All Souls Day [...]
Encounter 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 session on 4 Oct. please join us at Holy Hour 7pm at Bethel [...]
Encounter 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 session on 4 Oct. please join us at Holy Hour 7pm at Bethel [...]
Encounter 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 session on 4 Oct. please join us at Holy Hour 7pm [...]
A conscious decision to be a disciple of Jesus Christ requires one to be fully committed to being part of His plan. This includes making necessary sacrifices in difficult times and obeying His calling. At these times, one is presented with choices as to whether to be faithful to His ways. Jesus stressed that it is challenging to accept His [...]
Today’s readings focus on the importance of encountering God’s compassion and provision and connecting to Jesus, our eternal bread of life. In the first reading, the prophet Elijah was at a moment of the deepest despair. He has fled into the wilderness, feeling overwhelmed and ready to give up. He prayed for death, expressing his sense of failure and exhaustion. [...]
The Gospel reading of John 6:24-35 recounts the crowd followed Jesus to Capernaum seeking more signs of miracles. There, Jesus challenged them to seek the "bread of life," the spiritual sustenance He offers for eternal life, and not physical bread. Very often, we tend to focus on physical and material needs and neglect our spiritual well-being to seek deeper fulfillment [...]
In the Gospel, Jesus asked His disciples “Why are you so frightened? How is it that you have no faith?” Many a time, when we meet with trials and tribulations, we often query if our Father is “asleep” or if He does not care about us. The fact that we have this doubt is perhaps due to our faith in [...]
“What is truth?” (John 18:38) is a question that Pontius Pilate asked Jesus during His trial. It is a part of scripture that I am sure many of us are familiar with and perhaps it was Jesus’ prior statement that puzzled him and made him ask that question. Some of us too may have been like Pilate. In what sense [...]
