Encounter Ash Wednesday Eucharistic Celebration Wednesday, 22 Feb 2023 6.30am & 8pm Please note there will no 6pm Eucharist Celebration. Way of the Cross Journey with the Lord through the Way of the Cross. Every Friday, 24 Feb - 31 Mar 2023 7.00 - 7.30pm CSM Chillax After Saturday 5.30pm EC Starting 11 [...]
As Catholics, we belong to a large, united family with over 1.3 billion followers worldwide. We take pride in our faith, which is guided not only by the Bible but also by the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC). This book covers important aspects of worship, following Jesus, and prayer. It shows the depth and richness of our beliefs. But [...]
Encounter Chinese New Year EC Timings CNY EVE - 21 Jan no sunset mass CNY DAY 1 - 22 Jan usual Sunday EC timings CNY DAY 2 - 23 Jan Public Holiday EC @ 7.30am Formation Intro to Sacrament Dates: Mondays 9, 16, 30 Jan 2023 Time: 8pm - 10pm Venue: [...]
Five weeks of lent have passed by, bringing us closer to the end of lent and towards Easter when we will rejoice over our growth and renewed relationship with Jesus. It is also a time when we start to reflect on how far we have come in this journey and evaluate how much of the goals that we set for [...]
By Rebecca Tan
Liturgical Reflection for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity The solemnity of the Holy Trinity which we celebrate today is a mystery of love and the central mystery of our Christian faith. “It is the mystery of God in himself. It is therefore the source of all the other mysteries of faith, the light that enlightens them (Catechism [...]
A recent outrage swept over the globe as the news of a Minnesota policeman murdering George Floyd, an African American whose neck was pinned under his knee came into light via social media platforms. The victim was seen pleading for air as the police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for over 9 minutes. Of controversy was how [...]
Timothy P. O’Malley in his review of Stephen Bullivant’s Mass Exodus, which examines the phenomenon of the mass exodus of Catholics out of the Catholic Church in the United States of America and the United Kingdoms, states that “Disaffiliation is rarely a single moment in the life of a Catholic. Instead, it is a process in which one no [...]
When the soldiers came to arrest Jesus at the Garden of Gethsemane, we read that the disciples were so filled with fear that “they all left him and fled” (Mark 14:50). This was not an ordinary fear that the disciples experienced, but the fear which was intense to the point of even a young man tearing himself out of the [...]
There are several aspects of today’s gospel that we can ponder upon. We reflect on one of them. The two disciples were in deep discussion about what took place in the past days with little or no depth of knowledge of the truth. They were both trying to make sense of their disappointment without a reference point. They only had [...]
