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Pentahbisan melakar sejarah selepas 44 tahun
MEMBAKUT – “Mungkin inilah sebab hujan lebat selepas 44 tahun baru hari ini ada tahbisan paderi dari ini paroki”, ujar paderi paroki St Patrick Membakut, Fr Boniface Kimsin membuatkan para umat gelak ketawa. Paroki St Patrick Membakut telah melahirkan seorang paderi...
Membakut, rai pentahbisan imamat Friar Nelson Sipalan OFM
MEMBAKUT: Akhirnya selepas 44 tahun setelah pentahbisan pertama di St Patrick Membakut pada tahun 1980, seorang pemuda ditahbis sebagai paderi Fransiskan (OFM) pada Ogos 11, 2024. Akhirnya selepas 44 tahun setelah pentahbisan pertama di St Patrick Membakut pada...
Retreat Tahunan OFS – “Mengasihi dan Melayani”
PACE BENE, Papar – Retret tahunan keluarga besar The Secular Franciscan Order (Latin: Ordo Franciscanus Saecularis; OFS) telah diadakan pada 2-4 Ogos bertemakan “Mengasihi dan Melayani” (To Love and To Serve) di Pace Bene, Papar. Friar Cruzender Alex, OFM, selaku...
Finding my true vocation
My name is Friar Gerald Tan OFM, and I am one of a handful of lay friars in the Franciscan order in Singapore. In 2020, the year I made my solemn profession of religious vows, I discerned that the Lord was not calling me to the priestly ministry – in other words, not...
St Anthony’s Bread (July 2024)
Living in unity
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is, when brothers live in unity!” (Ps 133:1) What more can you ask for when Franciscan friars from all over Asia come together and the conversations and care flow so naturally between them? That is what happened when the...
Secular Franciscans in Asia and Oceania gather for fraternity, fellowship and formation
In May, Secular Franciscans from 12 countries gathered in Manila, the Philippines, for the five-day “Formation Course for Asia and Oceania". The 38 Secular Franciscans, 12 Spiritual Assistants and 1 Franciscan Youth hailed from Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia,...
Experiencing the truth of “the joy of the Lord is my strength”
Jonathan Ng, one of two postulants in the Custody of St Anthony (Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei), spent the first three weeks in June on a mission trip to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He shares his experience with us. My mission trip in Kuala Lumpur from 1 to 21 June was...
Lay Friars from across Asia and Oceania gather in Singapore
In May, the Custody of St Anthony (Malaysia-Singapore-Brunei) hosted a regional meeting of Lay Friars within the South Asia, Australia and Oceania Conference (SAAOC). In the Franciscan Order, as in the Church, a baptised person falls under one of two states: Lay...