We are now into the 2nd Sunday of Advent. Advent is a chance to focus our thoughts on the gift God has given us in his son Jesus who stepped down from heaven and took the form of a man so that we might believe. The second candle which is purple or violet symbolizes faith is being lighted up. It is [...]
The season of Advent begins on Sunday November 29th and lasts for the four week leading up to Christmas. The word Advent derives from the Latin word meaning coming. The Lord is coming. Advent is a season of preparation for his arrival. Its a joyous season and prayer, penance and fasting are appropriate during this season. Advent 2020 finds us [...]
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 [...]
At Church of St Michael's (CSM) parish fest day September celebrations, we express how "I Have Heard' as a parish community in various bold new frontiers. Watch Brian Bartholomew Tan teach us how to make bubble tea and how it relates to our faith! "The circuit-breaker brought challenges that were unprecedented. It felt as if we were in exile. So [...]
Justus Ong struggled and ended up in the Accident and Emergency (A&E) unit. Find out how through this, he encountered our Lord. Celebrating God and our parish feast day of "I Have Heard" through bold new frontiers, here is the first showcase of CSM’s "Faith Stories"series! https://youtu.be/6MMfhqVmbYw
Celebrating God and our parish feast day through bold new frontiers through embracing creativity, here is the first showcase of CSM’s Digital Art series by our very own parishioners! Melliana, creator of digital art of Saint Michael: “As someone who is not really artistically inclined, it was challenging for me to design something decent. But God's grace has been with [...]
In writing about the nation, and drawing upon concepts coined by Anthropologists such as Victor Turner, Sociologists such as Benedict Anderson have written about how the idea of a nation is a social construct and is by and large, "an imagined community" - "imagined" because "the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet [...]
"Disappointments are markers on the road of life, saying: Perfect happiness is not here. Though your passions may have been satisfied, you were never truly satisfied, because while your passions can find satisfaction in this world, you cannot. Start with your own insufficiency and begin a search for perfection. Begin with your own emptiness and seek Him who can fill [...]
Walk into any bookstore and you will find a section on Self-Improvement. Or just google search Self-Improvement and there are many websites offering advice. One of the first books I read was Dale Carnegie’s ‘How to make friends and influence people’. The tips were innocuous. I still recall to this day the tip on the importance of not only remembering [...]
The word, "accountability" can be traced etymologically as being in a "state of testimony or being answerable", while the Oxford Dictionary, states the definition of accountability as, "the fact of being responsible for your decisions or actions and being expected to explain them when you are asked." However, in the context of a Christian community, the concept of accountability takes [...]