In Our Community – 28 February 2021

Sacrament of Reconciliation
on Sundays
Blue and Green Zones
9am (before 9.30am Eucharist)
10.30am (before 11am Eucharist)

Reconciliation will be available at the following times on Sundays:

Areas (Worship Hall):
Blue Zone (Near Our Lady’s statue)
Green Zone (Near the Audio Visual station)

Time:
9am (half an hour before the 9.30am Eucharist)
10.30am (half an hour before the 11am Eucharist)

Art in Holy Week
ENCOUNTERS
16 & 23 March

In the last days and last hours of Christ’s earthly life, climaxing with his Passion, He encounters a variety of people with various degrees of interactions with Him. Using art to look at these encounters, these moments can become for us, a chance to reflect on our own interactions with Christ and His Way.

Dates: Tuesdays, 16 & 23 March 2021
Time: 7.45pm to 9.45pm
Location: Church of St Michael Foyer
Talk and Reflection by: Patricia Tan

Register today!
https://tinyurl.com/Art-in-Holy-Week

Infant Baptism Preparation Team

We are looking for parishioners who will be helping us to prepare couples to have their babies baptised. The team will execute a programme that has been written for this purpose.

Baptisms take place only four times in a year in our parish.

Email your interest to: csm.secretariat@catholic.org.sg

CSM Online Library

Check out our new CSM Online Library where there is something for everyone from children to teens to books on faith

https://stmichael.catholic.sg/csm-library/

Download
2021 Lenten Reflection e-Booklet

The Office for the New Evangelisation has produced a reflection e-booklet to journey with you throughout Lent. They are available in English, Chinese and Tamil. The reflection theme for Lent is “The Word, Source of Life”.

Please download the e-booklet at: bit.ly/Lenten2021

Short weekly videos that complement the e-booklet will also be uploaded on Thursday 8pm, starting 31 Jan at tinyurl.com/oneyoutubechannel

Lent at Assisi

The Catholic Church is celebrating 200 years of the Catholic Faith in Singapore. As a Catholic organization, Assisi Hospice is organising  a “Lent at Assisi” campaign during the Lent season. We would like to invite parishioners to live out the meaning of Lent at Assisi and join us to carry on our Mission of serving those in need by journeying with our patients and their loved ones.

Visit the website below for more information:
https://www.assisihospice.org.sg/lentatassisi/

CBN Lenten Retreat 2021 via Zoom

Theme: Igniting Faith @ Work

Come and spend a Day of Recollection with Fr Christopher Soh at CBN Lenten Retreat 2021.

Learn more about reliance on God’s Grace and Discernment in your daily life.

Date: 20 March 2021

Time: 8.30am to 2.30pm

Enquiry: admin@cbn.sg

Register: http://bit.ly/CBNLENTRETREAT21 or Scan QR code found in the poster.

Date: 11 Jan – 3 May 2021 [16 Sessions Monday Evenings]
No classes on (February 15)
TIME: EVENINGS (8:00 – 10:00 PM)
By:  Msgr. Ambrose Vaz
REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/35Zju0Y

Date: 12 Jan – 20 April 2021 [14 Sessions Tuesday Evenings]
No session on (Feb 9)
TIME: EVENINGS (8:00 – 10:00 PM)
By:  Msgr. Eugene Vaz
REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/370RQjq

Date: 13 Jan – 5 May 2021 [16 Sessions Wednesday Evenings]
No classes on (February 10)
TIME: EVENINGS (8:00 – 10:00 PM)
By:  Msgr. Ambrose Vaz
REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/33b9IqN

Date: 14 Jan 14 – 27 May 2021 [16 Sessions Tuesday Evenings]
No classes on (Mar 18 School Break ,Apr 1 & 8 Lent & Easter Week, May 13)
TIME: EVENINGS (7:30 – 9:30 PM)

Date: 19 Jan – 18 May 2021 [16 Sessions Tuesday Mornings]
No classes on (Mar 16 School Break ,Apr 6 Easter Octave)
TIME: MORNINGS (9:30 – 11:30 AM)

By (both): Fr. Ferdinand Purnomo OCD
REGISTRATION: https://tinyurl.com/y57mg6kc

Books of SAMUEL

Date: 15 Jan – 14 May 2021 [16 Sessions Friday Mornings]
No classes on (February 12 & April 2)
TIME: MORNINGS (9:30 – 11:30 AM)
By:  Msgr. Ambrose Vaz
REGISTRATION: https://bit.ly/2HuJ44u

LOVE OFFERING Options (for all the above):

1. PayNow:  using UEN T08CC4023DBA1 This is the name that will appear ARCHDIOCESAN BIBLICAL APOSTOLATE
2. Bank Transfer to: UOB A/C No.: 451-300-686-6 (Please add SM in your PAYNOW and BANK Transfer detail)
3. Cheque: to Payee Name- Archdiocesan Biblical Apostolate
4. Post: 2 Highland Road, #03- 17 Singapore 549102

CSM Sunday 11am Zoom
Eucharistic Celebrations

Register: https://tinyurl.com/EucharisticCelebrationviaZoom

There are now 4 EC booking sessions per month for weekends;
each parishioner is limited to 4 weekend ECs per month.
Daily ECs are limited to 1 EC per day.
Please note that you must register to attend ECs at CSM via www.mycatholic.sg

For further information, please visit https://www.catholic.sg/resumption-of-mass21/

Note: If you had previously registered for Sunday 11am Zoom Eucharist celebrations, you need not register again for future ECs- the system will generate the new ID & password 12 hours before the Eucharist Celebration on Sunday. Registration at the link is only required once.

Eucharist Intentions Offerings
For those who wish to submit Eucharist intentions, do state:
1) Name
2) Date
3) Time of EC (11am Sunday/ Weekday Morning or evening)
4) Intention of Eucharist
5) Cheque number

kindly email the above 14 days before the stated EC to csm.secretariat@catholic.org.sg, followed by mailing a cheque (made payable to Church of St Michael to Church of St Michael, 17 St Michael’s Rd, Singapore 327976)

Visits to Columbarium

Register via email: csm.secretariat@catholic.org.sg

The Catechism says, “All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification” (1030–1031).

Scripture tells us that our intercession helps them: Sacrifices were offered for the dead even though they may have sinned.”… so that the dead may be pardoned for their sin (2 Maccabees 12:46). In praying for the dead, there is a solidarity among members of God’s people, between the living and the dead.

Please register via email to the Parish Admin Office if you wish to visit the columbarium during the following times:

Saturdays: 1.30pm – 3.00pm

Sundays: 1.45pm – 4.00pm (updated opening hours as of 8 October 2020)

Columbarium is closed on weekdays and public holidays.

Register: csm.secretariat@catholic.org.sg

Prayer Binds Community Together

Daily- 8am, 12.30pm, 6pm

We invite you to join us. We will be praying the prayers of the Church, namely, Lauds, Midday and Vespers. This is one way we can stay connected with each other. The prayers are invariably 15 to 20 minutes long.

Columbarium Monthly Prayers

Every 3rd Sunday of the month,CSM Bethany Prayer Group gathers with the community on Zoom to Pray for the Dead.

Next Zoom session
21 March – 1pm

Join Zoom Gathering
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2912529125
Zoom password for February: CSM2103
(Note that there will be a new Zoom password for each monthly session)

Thereafter, the Zoom sessions will be on the following Sundays:

Month of April: 18 April
Month of May: 16 May

(above dates are subject to change, please check monthly for updates)

Prayer for the Dead

God our Father,
Your power brings us to birth,
Your providence guides our lives,
and by Your command we return to dust.

Lord, those who die still live in Your presence,
their lives change but do not end.
I pray in hope for my family,
relatives and friends,
and for all the dead known to You alone.

In company with Christ,
Who died and now lives,
may they rejoice in Your kingdom,
where all our tears are wiped away.
Unite us together again in one family,
to sing Your praise forever and ever.

Amen.

Source: catholic.org