In Our Community – 28 March 2021

Holy Week Schedule

Palm Sunday, 28 Mar – 8am, 9.30am, 11am (with zoom), 5.30pm

Maundy Thursday, 1 April – 6pm, 8pm (with Zoom)

Good Friday, 2 April – 8am, 12noon, 3pm (with Zoom), 5:30pm

Easter Vigil, 3 April – 7pm (with Zoom)

Mass @ Dawn, 4 April – 6am

Easter Sunday, 4 April –  8am, 9:30am, 11am (with Zoom), 5:30pm

Children’s Liturgy

For Children 2 to 6 years old

Sunday, 4 April

Every 1st Sunday at 11am EC via Zoom

For more information, please email: csm.admin@catholic.org.sg

To register for CSM 11am Zoom EC, click
https://tinyurl.com/EucharisticCelebrationviaZoom

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

Catholic200SG Community Call

Catholic200SG is well in progress. It will be organising a 1.5 hour zoom session to explain and take questions from the community on how each person can ignite and shine with faith through the various activities.

If you wish to find out more about the myriad of Catholic200SG events and activities so that you can decide what’s best to participate in or be more involved in them, please attend the following zoom call:

Date   :  Saturday, 10 April 2021

Time   :  10.00 am to 11.30 pm

Zoom  :  Meeting ID: 982 5400 0162

 Passcode: 200

Register at this webpage to identify yourself:

GIFT Contributions.

Call for contributions for the GIFT (Giving in Faith & Thankfulness) programme to build a more vibrant, evangelising and missionary Church. Please give generously to support the organisations and projects of the archdiocese by making a monthly giving pledge. GIRO forms, cheques or cash can be sealed into GIFT envelopes and dropped into the collection boxes where the confessional at the Blue Zone is. Or, give via PayNow (UEN: 201231391K). More info at catholicfoundation.sg

Make Your Marriage a Priority!
April 16, 17 & 18

Marriage is a project to be worked on together and a process of growth. Pope Francis (Amoris Laetitia, no. 218, 221). Good marriages can always be made better. To deepen your couple relationship, sign up for a Marriage Encounter Weekend on April 16, 17, and 18, 2021.  This In-person and non stay-in weekend will be at Agape Village, 7A Lor 8 Toa Payoh.

Please contact David & Clara @ 96705390 or email at mewkend@gmail.com

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PRAYCATION – Montfortian Experience 2021

Renew your faith this year as we celebrate Catholic 200SG by spending a praycation with us at Montfort Centre.

We have now included the blended approach for those who just can’t seem to find time to spend a whole weekend retreat with us at Montfort Centre especially in this pandemic.

Fret not, we hear you and we are here with you.

Contact Lydia at 67695711 for more information!

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
18 April – 1pm

Join Zoom Gathering
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2912529125
Zoom password:  1804
(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 May: 16 May
Month of June: 20 June

(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