Welcome to Sandakan!
We would like to welcome Sr. Appolonia Gumba, the new
Sister-In-Charge of St. Mary's Convent. She hails from
Tamparuli and her last posting was at Stella Maris, Tanjung
Aru (Pre-Novitiate). Please extend to her our assistance
and pray that she may have a fruitful ministry here. (For
your information, Sr. Appolonia had served as the Principal
of St. Mary's Tadika, Sandakan from 1992 to 1994)
Parish Level SYD - 2
Kindly be informed that the Youth Cross and
Icon of Mother Mary will be on display in front of
St. Mary's Cathedral at 9.00am
on 11/5/2008 (Sunday).
Parishioners attending Sunday BM Mass are requested
NOT to park their vehicles in front of the
Cathedral. Thank you for your cooperation & understanding.
The Church would like to acknowledge donation of RM820.00
received for the Baptism of Infants (Eng) on 27/4/2008.
Divine Mercy Prayer Session is held every Thursday evening
at 8.00pm at St. Mary's Chapel. All parishioners are
encouraged to attend.
May Program:
2 - 10 May - Novena to the Holy Spirit in prepation of
SYD-2 / St. Mary's Chapel
11 May - Pentecost Sunday
11 May - Parish Level SYD-2 / St. Mary's Cathedral
16 May - Students' Mass / SJC
25 May - Infants' Baptism (Chinese) / St. Mary's
Cathedral
29 May - Monthly Adoration / St. Mary's Chapel
May - Rosary Month
Parishioners are all encouraged to recite the rosary during
May, the month of Rosary among your family members, your
committee or group or even your neighbour staying in the
same housing estate.
Novena to the Holy Spirit in conjunction with the
Preparation of SYD-2 (Parish Level) begins at 8.00pm every
night at St. Mary's Chapel from 2nd to 10th May. All
parishioners are encouraged to attend and give support to
our Youth.
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Bible
Knowledge in Secondary Schools |
| Effective 2008,
Bible Knowledge is taught as a subject in |
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Parents please take an active role to |
| encourage your
children to take up this subject. Much has |
| been discussed
about this issue and now the opportunity |
| is right at our
door-step so
Please
do not miss it.
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Encourage your children to
sign up |
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N.B.
Volunteers are needed in St. Cecilia Secondary
School |
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to
teach Bible Knowledge. Interested please contact Mr.
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Johnson at 019-8620386 |
If you
have a viewpoint, comment or a story to
share, please send it to us
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Grief |
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For
most of us, death appears as a fixed horizon |
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and
those who pass over it leave an emptiness we
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must
fill with a season of grieving. |
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And
yet, with our sorrow there is also a
knowledge |
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of
light, a certainty that the sense of loss |
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belongs
not to any ending but to the limitation of
our vision |
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Death is an experience
for those left behind, not for those |
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are moving from one stage of living to
another |
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Christ who dwells within us who is free to
step back and |
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over the horizon of death, containing our
grief in His |
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passion and our knowledge of light in his
transcendence, |
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showing us that death and resurrection are
the two sides |
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one coin. |
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while grief goes on, the tears, the hurting, |
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in the truth of Jesus Christ |
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the hollowness I feel at the departure of
love ones |
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hollowness of the empty tomb. |
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Joy Cowley |
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