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"3rd Sabah Catholic Educators' Conference
Theme - Strengthening Educators' Values
Venue:  Bundu Tuhan Retreat Centre
Fees:  RM50.00
Inviting all Catholic Educators in Sabah to participate in conference.  Bro. Anthony Rogers (KL) will be among the speakers.  Closing date for registration - 15/7/2008.  For more information, please contact Diocesan Education Commission at 088-712297 / 088-711297 or Jackie (019-6233012)
 Important Notice - Baptism names for Children
 
This is a request from our Priest with regards to the above
a)  Parents are advised to choose only Saints' names or names from Old Testaments for their children during Baptism
b)  Please refrain from choosing non-Christian names associated with celebrities
c)  Use only one (1) name
d)  You may give your child any name from your ethnic background for registration with the Pendaftaran but for Baptism please refer to the above guidelines
e)  If and when the priest feels that the name chosen by the parents are not appropriate, the priest may baptize the child with another name
N.B.  Our Bookshop has books with over 3000 Christian names for boys and girls
 
 News in Bulletin

 Group or Committee withing to insert news in the Church buletin are kindly requested to fax or send in your news in writing on or before the cut-off date every Wednesday.  Thank you for your kind cooperation.
 
Monthly Adoration will be held on 26th June 2008 (Thursday) at 8.00 pm at St. Mary's Cathedral.
 
Student's Mass will be celebrated on 20th June 2008 (Friday) at 12.30noon at SJC.  All those involved kindly take note.
 
The Church would like to acknowledge the donation of RM100.00 received from Infant's Baptism in Beluran 1/6/2008.
 
Courses Offered at Montford College, Bangalore, India:
 
Ph.D in Psychological Counselling
M.Sc - Psychological Counselling
M.Sc - Psychology
Interested please call Bro. Francis at Montford Youth Training Centre (088-721053 / 088-723842)
 
 FSIC 72nd Foundational Day Thanksgiving Mass
 

Date:  16th June 2008 (Mon)
Time:  7.00pm
Venue: St. Mary's Cathedral
After mass, there will be fellowship and slide presentation by the Sisters at Fr. Mulders' Catechetical Centre.  All parishioners are invited.

 

 

Bible Knowledge in Secondary Schools
Effective 2008, Bible Knowledge is taught as a subject in
Secondary schools. 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.
Encourage your children to sign up
N.B. Volunteers are needed in St. Cecilia Secondary School
to teach Bible Knowledge. Interested please contact Mr.
Johnson at 019-8620386
If you have a viewpoint, comment or a story to share, please send it to us
 
 
Grief
For most of us, death appears as a fixed horizon
and those who pass over it leave an emptiness we
must fill with a season of grieving.
And yet, with our sorrow there is also a knowledge
of light, a certainty that the sense of loss
belongs not to any ending but to the limitation of our vision
Death is an experience for those left behind, not for those
who are moving from one stage of living to another
 
It is Christ who dwells within us who is free to step back and
forth over the horizon of death, containing our grief in His
passion and our knowledge of light in his transcendence,
showing us that death and resurrection are the two sides
of the one coin.
 
So while grief goes on, the tears, the hurting,
I know in the truth of Jesus Christ
That the hollowness I feel at the departure of love ones
is in reality, the hollowness of the empty tomb.

Joy Cowley

 
 

Group or Committee wishing to insert news in the Church bulletin are kindly requested to fax or send in your news in writing on or before the cut-of date every Wednesday.  Thank you for your kind cooperation.
 

Acknowledgement
The church would like to acknowledge the following:
a)  Contribution towards Relief Fund for victims of Myanmar and China from St. Mary's Parish, Sandakan - RM19,917.12
b)  Infants' Baptism (Chinese) at SMC on 25/5/2008 - RM220.00
c)  Anonymous donation for St. Mark's Church - RM500.00
 
Wishing all our Kadazandusun parishioners"Kotobian Tadau Tagazoo Do Kaamatan" From: Fr. Paul Lo

 

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