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Entering the Mystery of Easter

With the Sacred Triduum culminating the celebration of Holy Week, the Church shifts gears to solemnly celebrate the greatest mystery of our redemption - the memorial of our Lord - who was crucified, was buried and who rose victoriously over sin and death. Traditionally a paschal fast is kept on the Friday of the Lord's Passion and prolonged through the [...]

By |2021-04-01T14:14:10+08:00April 1st, 2021|Faith Formation|Comments Off on Entering the Mystery of Easter

Celebrating 60 years of The Church of St. Michael: The New Church Building (1994)

On July 7, 1991, the parishioners of the Church of St. Michael attended the Eucharistic Celebration in the old church building for the last time. In the last week of July 1991, it was demolished to make way for the new building. The current building of the Church of St. Michael officially opened on 2 May 1994, after renovation works [...]

By |2021-04-01T14:15:54+08:00April 1st, 2021|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Celebrating 60 years of The Church of St. Michael: The New Church Building (1994)

What about God, Our Father’s Love?

In Numbers 21: 4-9, we read of how the Hebrews lost patience with their journey and with God, and began to bitterly complain against God and to blame Him for taking them out of their security in Egypt. So God, as a response to their grievous sin, permitted venomous serpents to strike the people, causing many to die. The people [...]

By |2021-03-28T01:20:43+08:00March 25th, 2021|Faith Formation|Comments Off on What about God, Our Father’s Love?

Pottery Preparation: A Christian Parallel

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way.  A voice of one crying out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.’” - Mark 1: 2-3 There are more than 150 mentions of the the word, "Prepare" , kun in Hebrew, [...]

By |2021-03-18T07:43:11+08:00March 18th, 2021|Faith Formation|Comments Off on Pottery Preparation: A Christian Parallel

Reclaiming the Beauty and Mystery of God through Art

"God saw all that He had made, and it was very good." - Genesis 1:31 We live in a world of flux, a world of pathos and bathos, bathed in the fragmentation of a post-modern sociological consciousness, where humanity has been taught to question the existence of God, and of which humanity has been exiled and inevitably spiraled into a [...]

By |2021-03-10T06:27:03+08:00March 10th, 2021|Faith Formation|Comments Off on Reclaiming the Beauty and Mystery of God through Art

Lent: A Season for a Sea Change

The term, "Sea Change" can be traced etymologically to its first use in 1610, when William Shakespeare wrote and produced the play, The Tempest: “Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade/ But doth suffer a sea-change/ Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs [...]

By |2021-10-31T02:39:50+08:00March 4th, 2021|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Lent: A Season for a Sea Change

Why Lent and Why We Celebrate It

What do we know about Lent, and why do we celebrate it in the first place? HISTORY Since the earliest times of the Church, there is evidence of some kind of Lenten preparation for Easter, but Lent only became more regularized after the legalization of Christianity in A.D. 313. The Council of Nicea (325), in its disciplinary canons, noted that [...]

By |2021-03-04T05:34:03+08:00March 3rd, 2021|Faith Formation|Comments Off on Why Lent and Why We Celebrate It

Lent a season of growth and renewal

Coming to the end of the 2nd week of Lent and a unusual time where we are limited to gathering of 8 in one household . Although we may not be able to get together with our family and friends to commemorate Lent this year, we can still take steps to ensure that we will have a fulfilling Lenten Season.  [...]

By |2021-02-27T06:12:15+08:00February 27th, 2021|Faith Formation|Comments Off on Lent a season of growth and renewal

Rebuilding the Church (1991-1993)

A Time To Break Down A Time To Build Up WHY REBUILD THE CHURCH? The old church was built on swampy ground in 1961 and rested on a pile foundation of bakau wood. Over the years, as a result of soil settlement, the poor quality foundation caused the church to sink gradually. Severe cracks started to appear on the floor [...]

By |2021-02-05T10:31:30+08:00February 6th, 2021|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Rebuilding the Church (1991-1993)

Memories of the Old Church

Purchased in 1961 by the late Archbishop Olcemendy, the site of the Church of St. Michael then comprised an old two-storey bungalow with an outhouse and a number of rooms independent of the main house. The bungalow served as a place of worship on the ground floor with the priests' quarters located on the first floor. Sunday and weekday masses [...]

By |2021-01-23T16:08:28+08:00January 28th, 2021|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Memories of the Old Church