In this month of
May, we shall dedicate our prayers and intercessions with the rosary in honour of
Our Blessed Virgin Mary and with the novena to our Patron, St Joseph. I
strongly encourage all our parishioners to recite the Rosary and the Litany of
St Joseph daily as individuals, families or among your BEC members. If
everything goes well we shall conclude the devotions of Month May with the
Eucharistic celebration on the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin
Mary to Elizabeth, her cousin on 31 May (Wednesday) at 11.00 am.
We have wrapped
up a successful and meaningful nine-day Novena and feast of St Joseph, the
Worker with the thanksgiving Mass on 1 May 2017. The whole celebrations went
very well without much hiccups. We, the parishioners together with the feast
day committee members have worked hard to coordinate the celebrations well and
to be more hospitable towards the devotees and guests who came to our Church. Every one of
you has been an integral part of this effort and I am truly grateful to you for
making our mission possible this year.
During the novena
days, we had a somewhat inconvenient weather. Despite that I notice many of you
regularly came and paid your homage to St Joseph without fail. On the day of
procession (Sunday, 30 April) with the Blessed Sacrament on the float we had a
very heavy rain. The rain stopped the moment we started the Mass and that made our
procession possible outside of the Church for an hour with a distance of 1.5
kms. We are grateful to our Police Officers and RELA for assisting us to bring
us back in Church safely. It was a prayerful and solemn procession.
We had very good
preachers through out the Novenas and feast day celebrations. Their eloquence
and encouraging homilies and the celebrations of the Eucharist have enlightened
and inspired us very much spiritually. Today we can share their stories
of how God has made a home within us and within our community and to seek the
presence of God in one another.
During the
Novenas I had great meetings with the invited guest priests and devotees to St
Joseph from various parishes. Some of my fellow priests came without any invitation
and I was touched with their presence throughout the novenas and feast day
celebrations, which made the celebrations all the merrier. This year I realised
there was a slight increase in the numbers of devotees especially on the day of
procession and on the actual feast day, 1st May. Gradually, I hope
our devotees may take on the novena tradition to St Joseph every day in their
lives and hope they may develop their trust, faith and hope in God.
Thanks to for
your continued support and prayers during these past weeks to make the St
Joseph’s feast day celebrations a special one for all of us. Do continue
evangelising the marvelous of works of the Risen Lord, the good news of the
Gospel and the virtues of Mary and Joseph’s life to all people especially in
this Month of May – Month of Mary and Month of St Joseph.
May the journey of walking together with Mother Mary and our
Patron, St. Joseph bring us peaceful blessings to individuals, our
families and community. Praying and hoping that every one of you may have
a blessed and spiritually fruitful.
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