UPCOMING FAITH FORMATION AND EVENTS

We had a lot of formation programmes, activities and events in our parish over the last couple of months. I would like to thank the organising committees, ministries and also the participants for attending. It shows your seriousness and eagerness to grow spiritually. I feel great when you take every effort to organise and attend all these events. Our parish is always moving ahead and for the coming months we have lined up a few other enriching formation programmes and exciting projects and events.

Our Parish Retreat for the year 2017 will be held on 22 – 24 September in our Church. The parish retreat working committee has already made the necessary arrangements on registration and other logistics. We shall bring the heart of the Divine Retreat Centre right to our door steps. Two great distinguished speakers from Divine Retreat Centre (DRC), Potta, India, Rev Fr Jacob Arimpur, VC., (Assistant Director of the Centre) will be presenting in English whereas Rev Fr Arun Louis, VC., will be presenting for the Tamil section. We are anticipating at least 700 to 800 participants for both languages. This retreat is solely for our parishioners but if the registration is poor in response by end of August then we shall open up to other neighbouring parishes. My dear parishioners please do not wait till the last minute.

Our Parish Pastoral Assembly (PPA) will be scheduled on 27 October (Saturday) from 2.00pm to 5.00pm. The Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur led by Rev Monsignor Mitchel Anthony will be coordinating this assembly for this year at our Formation Hall. He will be explaining about the eight “clusters” and the 5-year direction (2018-2022) of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur. The eight clusters are the areas of concern: BEC, Unity, Integral Human Development, Family Life, Formation, Inter-Religious Dialogue, Youth and Social Communication. As we know our parish will be accomplishing our three-year journey (2015-2017) and we shall be moving ahead with the KL Archdiocese Pastoral Structures for the next 5 years towards 2022 on Integrated Evangelization.

The Holy Father, Pope Francis has declared November 19^th, 2017 (33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time) as the First World Day of the Poor with the theme:  “Let us love, not with words but with deeds.” We are going to form an organizing committee for the above event with five main ministries in our parish – Parish Integral Human Development Ministry (PIHDM), BECCOT, Catechetical Ministry, Youth Ministry and Fund Raising Committee.  We will be expecting at least 1500 - 2000 people to join us in this event. There will be some stage shows entertainment, games, raffle draw, carnival and jumble sale (items like clothes and electrical goods from RM1-2 for the poor people to purchase). During the months of September and October we will be selling raffle draw tickets for the refurbishing of our community hall.

On December 3^rd, the Eagle’s Wing will be celebrating the 10^th anniversary of their Ministry in Sentul, and International Day for the Differently-Abled (IDD). This ministry consists of all the differently abled people from Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur. Archbishop Julian Leow will be celebrating the IDD Mass in our parish together with our community. Immediately after Mass there will be some activities such as games, entertainment, sales of handicrafts and t-shirts.

In the month of December we shall continue with our annual programme and campaign on distributing school uniforms for the 300 school children who come from the low income families and provision of groceries for our regular adoptees. This year we may organise it in a low-key manner compared to last year’s Christmas Get Together.

All the above formations and events will help us to strategise our parish goal by strengthening our faith community with the greater focus on the Eucharist. We encourage the faithful to give life to one another and to follow in the way of Christ and His Church. May you and your families continue to enjoy God’s abundant blessings in our parish.