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Advent Promise Craft

As we are nearing the season of Advent,  The Level 2 of catechism class was tasked to do Advent candles made of colored papers and toilet rolls with the virtues of Advent. Hope, Love, Joy and Peace The candles are part of the Advent wreath, and symbolize the passage through the 4 weeks of Advent. Each candle represents one of [...]

By |2020-12-05T06:39:36+08:00November 20th, 2020|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Advent Promise Craft

Tackling Procrastination with the Lord

In our 2nd Instalment of exams stress, the CSM Youth group touch on the topic of Procrastination. Procrastination as per the dictionary "The action of delaying or postponing something." Something we are all guilty of and sometimes we really cant help it.  We delay doing certain tasks due to a myriad of reasons as below   The above tips can help [...]

By |2020-11-06T06:40:26+08:00November 6th, 2020|Faith Formation|Comments Off on Tackling Procrastination with the Lord

The Community in a Diapause Season

A diapause is an indefinite period of time of suspended development in insects, invertebrate, or mammalian embryos, during seasons of unfavourable environmental conditions. The term "diapause" was coined by a German entomologist in 1893 to describe such a period of temporary limbo during the embryonic development of insects. He observed that insects had two cycles of rotation in their egg [...]

By |2020-11-14T12:40:02+08:00November 6th, 2020|Faith Formation|Comments Off on The Community in a Diapause Season

Exam Season with the Lord in Mind

The exam fever is around the corner and its a challenging and stressful time for all ages of students no matter how old you are. The pressure is immense and and the to do list are never ending. Some of us even gets so anxious that they have butterflies in the stomach as one places value on the exam grades. [...]

By |2020-10-31T02:39:48+08:00October 31st, 2020|Faith Formation|Comments Off on Exam Season with the Lord in Mind

St. John Paul II and Lessons for Community Building

The year 2020 marks the centenary (100th anniversary) of the birth of St. John Paul II. He was born Karol Józef Wojtyła on May 18, 1920, in Wadowice, Poland, and as a youth growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland, studied for the priesthood in secret, and was ordained a priest in 1946. He was no stranger to suffering and persecution. After [...]

By |2020-10-23T03:39:28+08:00October 23rd, 2020|Faith Formation|Comments Off on St. John Paul II and Lessons for Community Building

Liturgical Reflection for 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time -Year A (25 Oct 2020)

In today’s Gospel one of the Pharisees, “an expert of the law” ventured to test Jesus as to which was the most important law. The Jews were governed by the Mosaic Law which comprised the Ten Commandments and more than 600 auxiliary and additional rules for living. It was more in the Pharisees' interest to defeat Jesus rather than to [...]

By |2020-10-23T03:38:50+08:00October 23rd, 2020|Faith Formation, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time -Year A (25 Oct 2020)

A Psalm for Our Community inspired by Psalms 80: 1-4-19

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leaded Joseph likes a flock. My God, lead Maria to make her mind , keep the job and changes, to a new department. Help her Lord as she had harder her heart. Many year she had not been to church, thou that dwells between  the cherubim, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin [...]

By |2020-10-23T03:38:25+08:00October 23rd, 2020|Faith Formation, Stories & Testmonies|Comments Off on A Psalm for Our Community inspired by Psalms 80: 1-4-19

Inspiration from Psalm 46, God is with us.

God is both refuge and strength for us, a help always ready in trouble; So we shall not fear though deadlines are too many, KPIs are impossible to meet, God’s love for us is a surety when we are obedient, thankful and have a contrite heart, Bad bosses come and go, a job lost opens the door to a better [...]

By |2020-10-23T03:37:03+08:00October 23rd, 2020|Faith Formation, Stories & Testmonies|Comments Off on Inspiration from Psalm 46, God is with us.

A Community of Support

I remember that a few years back, when I was still an undergraduate, I received the news that a teacher who had taught me at Junior College had passed on. I had briefly bumped into her at the university's library just a couple of months shortly prior and in our brief conversation, I understood that she was in the midst [...]

By |2020-10-16T03:46:16+08:00October 16th, 2020|Faith Formation|Comments Off on A Community of Support

Liturgical Reflection for 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) 18 October 2020

We learn from the first reading that the Persian king, Cyrus was called by name and anointed by the Lord to subdue nations before him with a mission to free the Jewish exiles from captivity in Babylon.  Similarly, by virtue of our baptism, we are called by name and anointed as priest, prophet and king and thus commissioned with a [...]

By |2020-10-16T03:44:09+08:00October 16th, 2020|Faith Formation, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) 18 October 2020