First Holy Communion 2010

Our parish catechism children celebrated their First Holy Communion on Sat 23 October 2010 for the English-speaking catechism children. Mass was at 5:45 pm. The Tamil-speaking and Mandarin-speaking catechism children celebrated their First Holy Communion respectively on Sun 24 October 2010 at 7:15 am (Tamil-speaking) and 10:30 am (Mandarin-speaking). There were 38 English-speaking, 37 Tamil-speaking and 15 Mandarin-speaking children involved.

Fr. Andrew Kooi was celebrant for the Sat sunset Mass with Frs. Julian Leow and George Packiasamy concelebrating. For Sun, Fr. George Packiasamy was the celebrant for the Tamil Mass and Fr. Andrew Kooi was celebrant for the Mandarin Mass with Fr. Julian Leow celebrating.

Despite the rain and limited space due to the use of the hall, a sizable number of faithful attended the Masses with the First Holy Communion children.

Joy Camp 2010 (Std 3) on 10 Oct 2010

The Joy Camp started of at 7:30 am with the gathering of children of all languages (English: 38, Tamil: 37 and Mandarin: 14 - 89 in total) at the Wisma Visitaion Hall. Y2Y began the camp with Praise and Worship as ice breakers. This fired up the children. Then the children were broken into respective groups.
A video presentation "Five Loaves and 2 Fish" enabled the children to learn to share, not to be greedy, and to have faith in Jesus as He is the Bread of Life. Topics such as Understanding the Eucharist, the Last Supper, Bread and Wine and what to do during consecration were covered - these being presented by the Catechism teachers (Spencer's team). The children were also introduced to items used at Mass such as the chalice, paten and host.
A puppet show brought the message of the importance of going to Mass and being a proud soldier of God. At the end of the camp, the children wrote a letter to Jesus and offered it up to Him in a silver basket.