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Faith and Life: Drinking more Deeply from the Living Waters of our Faith

Drinking more deeply from the living waters of our faith Young one, words of wisdom, you must listen! To refuse, you cannot. Retreats are woven into the RCIA process to give our catechumens opportunities to encounter God, delve more deeply into our faith and bond with one another. The second retreat of our journey, the Faith and Life Retreat, was [...]

By |2023-07-03T11:47:11+08:00July 3rd, 2023|Building Koinonia, Building Koinonia, Featured story|Comments Off on Faith and Life: Drinking more Deeply from the Living Waters of our Faith

The idols in the suitcase

In Genesis 31: 34-35, “Meanwhile Rachel had taken the household images, put them inside the camel’s saddlebag, and seated herself upon them. When Laban had rummaged through her whole tent without finding them, she said to her father, “Do not let my lord be angry that I cannot rise in your presence; I am having my period.” So, despite his [...]

By |2023-07-03T11:39:35+08:00July 3rd, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on The idols in the suitcase

Liturgical Reflection for 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

This Sunday’s readings are a reminder of the paradox of the cross that in order to live one must die. Dying to oneself is something that is avoided because it is uncomfortable. Familiarity is comforting and choosing situations which make one feel comfortable is natural. Even in church, worshippers often find themselves sitting at the same spot during Eucharistic celebrations, [...]

By |2023-06-29T11:14:22+08:00June 29th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Holy Spirit, Blow Where You Will

40 years. The number sounds familiar? Well, that was also me ignoring the Holy Spirit. In my 20s and 30s, the only times I made the sign of the cross – Father, Son & Holy Spirit, was when I entered the church. It was not until I attended Life in the Spirit Seminar in my 40s, that my eyes were [...]

By |2023-06-27T19:46:57+08:00June 28th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Holy Spirit, Blow Where You Will

Liturgical Reflection for 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

The First Reading and the Responsorial Psalms contain tones of restlessness and complain.   The prophet Jeremiah in the First Reading was experiencing such tumult as he fought futilely against the onslaught of despair, sorrow, and terror. As a prophet of God, he was afraid for his life, so much so that he scolded God for beguiling him with a [...]

By |2023-06-23T14:09:03+08:00June 23rd, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

And Jesus Wept

My family keeps a pet hamster, well technically it belongs to my sister, but we take turns taking care of it when she goes away on holiday. Recently, this pet hamster passed on. It was 2 and a half years old – considered very old in hamster age, and when it died, it had been struggling with hamster cancer in [...]

By |2023-06-23T22:44:02+08:00June 23rd, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on And Jesus Wept

Liturgical Reflection for 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Singapore’s population is aging, and households are having fewer children too. We are facing an unprecedented decline in vocations to the priestly and religious vocations. Following the results from a Catholic News 2008 survey, which then recorded the average age of priests in Singapore as 55 years old, the statistical results from the recent Catholic Conversation (Catholic.sg, 2021) show that [...]

By |2023-06-16T09:58:25+08:00June 16th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story, Liturgical Reflection|Comments Off on Liturgical Reflection for 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time

On Pets and whether they go to Heaven

In my younger days, I tried keeping pets with some disastrous and hilarious results. My Betta fighting fish lost the brilliant blue colour it had to turn a dull brown, and my goldfish spent their time trying to jump out of the receptacle they were held in. I did keep terrapins for a longer duration, but eventually released them into [...]

By |2023-06-16T09:03:29+08:00June 16th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on On Pets and whether they go to Heaven

A Bold New Step in Faith!

Encouraging our RCIA catechumens and candidates as they take a bold new step in faith! The current RCIA process, known as Cephas, began on the 1st of September last year. After a few months of inquiring and exploring about our faith, the inquirers were invited to the next phase of the process - the Catechumenate period. The Catechumenate period begins [...]

By |2023-06-09T14:54:18+08:00June 9th, 2023|Building Koinonia, Building Koinonia, Featured story|Comments Off on A Bold New Step in Faith!

Corpus Christi – A Time to See Again

The Solemnity of Corpus Christi is celebrated in the Latin Church on the Thursday after Holy Trinity Sunday. It is transferred to the subsequent Sunday in some dioceses. Celebrating the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, this feast (all solemnities are feasts) honours Jesus as our Eucharistic Lord and proclaims the truth that Jesus is truly, really, substantially, and [...]

By |2023-06-11T12:45:44+08:00June 9th, 2023|Faith Formation, Featured story|Comments Off on Corpus Christi – A Time to See Again