A COMMUNITY UNITED IN FAITH

On Tuesday, 12 August 2025, our PPC and PCC met to review our Parish activities and performance for the first half of 2025. As the discussion progressed, we realised that only a few events and formation sessions had been organised for our own parishioners. However, most weekends have seen many pilgrims from the West Coast and the southern part of Peninsular Malaysia, visiting our Parish - which has been designated as a Jubilee Parish for this special pilgrimage year.

This Jubilee Year of Hope has truly been a wonderful time, filled with welcoming pilgrims and sharing Christ’s love and hope. Many pilgrims have expressed heartfelt thanks for the warmth and care they experienced during their visits.

We recognise that caring for our parish-family’s faith and needs is vital to our mission. As we look ahead to the coming months, we are eager to continue the spirit of good-work in building the Parish community through various events, activities and formations that will benefit both parishioners and pilgrims.

This month, Pope Leo XIV urges us to pray for societies to avoid conflicts due to ethnic, political, religious or ideological differences. His words are pertinent as Malaysia celebrates its 68th Merdeka Day, reminding us to respond to differences with kindness, respect and fraternity. Even locally, misunderstandings can occur among neighbours or across cultures. Peace begins with us – through forgiveness, listening and kindness. Small acts - such as offering greetings, showing patience and lending a helping hand - foster connections that unite rather than divide.

Together with building peace, we are also called to care for creation. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si’ - Pope Francis’ encyclical on the care of our common home - reminding us that protecting our common home is both a moral and spiritual responsibility. As a parish, we have already taken small steps by placing recycling bins within our premises and reducing waste. However, the real challenge is an ecological conversion – a change of heart that shapes the way we live. We now pledge to carry these efforts forward by avoiding single-use plastic, conserving water and electricity, and teaching our children to love and respect nature. Even small changes at home can make a difference in our wider community.

Our Parish Pastoral Mission - guided by the Holy Spirit - calls us to cherish our faith, strengthen families and youth, build the Church from the grassroots, live synodality daily, root all service in prayer, respond to God’s call, celebrate the sacraments, be a welcoming Church, and live in ongoing repentance.

As we journey through the rest of the year, may we commit ourselves to peace, care for creation, and the mission that God has entrusted to us. Guided by the Holy Spirit, may we hear God’s Word - understand it, and live it out - so that our parish may shine as a community united in faith, active in love, and joyful in hope.