In Our Community – 31 January 2021

Bring your own candles
Presentation of the Lord
Tuesday, 2 February 2021

There will be blessing of candles at the 6.30am and 6pm Eucharistic Celebrations.
Please bring your own candle for the blessing.

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/

Stations of the Cross
Starting 19 February 2021

Stations of the Cross will commence at 7pm after the
6pm Eucharistic Celebration on Fridays during Lent.

Please note that you will need to book for the EC and
Stations of the Cross respectively at myCatholic.sg

Mass Booking Etiquette

As sisters and brothers in Christ of our beloved parish, let us act in kindness and consideration towards one another other when making bookings for Eucharistic celebrations.

1 system: Register only with mycatholic.sg

Mass booking is only required on myCatholic.Sg. There is no need to register with the parish office again.

This made the use of our own system difficult: Parishioners who book on myCatholic.Sg as well as on our parish system

1 Booking: choose only 1 time slot

Choose a mass that you will be able to attend and do show up for it upon registering. With limited seating, do consider our other sisters and brothers who wish to go but may not have the chance to because of bookings made but with no show.

This made the use of our own system difficult: Parishioners that cannot attend mass at an earlier mass (eg. 4pm on Sat) sign up repeatedly on the parish system because it’s available.

Mass Bookings

• 4x in a month- weekend ECs
• 1x Daily- Weekday ECs

In a month, one may register up to 4 times for Weekend Eucharists. One may also register up to 1x time daily, for Weekday Eucharists.

This made the use of our own system difficult: Parishioners that cannot attend mass at an earlier mass (eg. 4pm on Sat) sign up repeatedly on the parish system because it’s available.

Confirmation

The mass booking confirmation is triggered immediately by MyCatholic.sg system by the Archdiocese of Singapore, and not at our parish of the Church of St Michael.

This made the use of our own system difficult: Parishioners who bagger the staff about the release of the emails for booking

Parishioners Only

Eucharistic Celebrations on zoom are only for CSM parishioners who have registered for it. To avoid any misunderstanding, your kind cooperation is requested to not share Zoom details and links with others who have not registered.

This made the use of our own system difficult: Parishioners who pass on the link to Catholics from other Churches

All of the above leads made the use of our own system difficult and staff working overtime in order to get a proper listing for the Eucharist.

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Lunar New Year Dispensation

Please note that the Conference of Bishops have granted that the dispensation on
Fridays will be lifted for the 12, 19, 26th of February 2021.
Catholics are however required to fast and abstain on Ash Wednesday.

Evangelization

‘Evangelization is a priority mission of the 20^thCentury Church.

It is the essential mission of the church for all times’ – Pope Paul VI

Let us ponder, how do you make evangelization a priority in the coming year?

CBN Career Counselling

Dear Friends of CBN,

Our Career Counselling Service  is now available on Zoom Meeting.

In these current times, this can be a valuable service for you, as you can have discussions with a trained Counsellor on Career exploration, Career planning, Career transitions, Workplace challenges, Job Search strategies etc.

God Bless.

Click Here to Register.

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)

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 February – 1pm

Join Zoom Gathering
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2912529125
Zoom password for February: CSM2102
(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 March: 21 March
Month of April: 18 April
Month of May: 16 May

(above dates are subject to change, please check the CSM website 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