To ring in the new year together, and to give thanks to our Lord together as a parish community, 100 seats were opened for the parishioners to sign-up for a night of Praise and Worship, and all were very quickly filled up. Many more wanted to participate in this Thanksgiving event and expressed disappointment in not being present due to [...]
The first reading of this Sunday assures us of God’s determination to continually love us and reminds us that He will not abandon us. The words of the passage tell us how God’s love transforms us, changes us from ‘Forsaken’ to ‘My Delight’ and our land from ‘Abandoned’ to ‘The Wedded’. Marriage is used here as a metaphor to describe [...]
This week as we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord, let us reflect on our own baptism when God stood with us and lifted us from the muddy waters of sin. God then incorporated us into the body of Christ empowering us to lead the life of Christ. We have read in the scriptures about the Baptism of our Lord [...]
My wife, Helen and I started out as a married couple as "moving Catholics"- we moved from Church to Church - wherever it was most convenient for us we went. We were Pew Catholics who went to church on Sundays and did not really know much of our faith. As a young couple, we were trying very hard to have [...]
As we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Saviour, let us remember the underprivileged in our community. On Christmas Day 2, 26 December, Parishioner volunteers brought the joy and love of Jesus to many families in our neighbourhood as parishioners reached out to many of our neighbours in Blk 33 Boon Keng Road and gifted them with warmth, greetings, [...]
"This year’s Christmas is even weirder than last year’s," Father Terence began this year's homily at the Christmas midnight Eucharistic Celebration which began at 11pm, "you can see the lyrics flashed on the wall but it says Please Do Not Sing." He added, "And last year in 2020, we were all celebrating the Christmas Eucharistic Celebration from each of our [...]
The lyrics of a popular Christmas Carol expound upon a series of rhetorical questions, questioning Mary about whether she knew that Jesus would save us, whether she knew that her child once walked with angels… and the short answer to this sequence of “did you know” questions, is Yes! Mary did know. This is succinctly stated in Scripture when the [...]
There is much that we can should contemplate about this feast. The Jews, the Chosen People of God did not realise the fulfilment of God our Father’s promise because they had it in their minds that great works of their heroes of the past. They remembered the great works of these heroes but had forgotten that these great feats of [...]
"Walk with Christ" This was parishioner Sharlyn Quah's team's name who took part in conquering and walking 500km to raise funds for low-income families in need of assistance and support. Sharlyn, the Chair of Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SSVP) came together with others from the ministry and the parish and decided to form a team to walk with [...]
When Catechist, Ms Jaqueline Ho asked the 7 year olds, the L1 students in her Catechism class what Advent is about, she got a sense that they did not know what it meant.... the little ones said they heard what Advent is, but do not know what it is about.... That is when when quick-thinking and fun-loving Catechist Jaqueline thought, [...]