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Embracing change for spiritual renewal
Dear friends, “Change is the only constant in life,” said Heraclitus, and indeed the new year marked a change for many friars in our Custody. For example, there is a new parish team at St Mary of the Angels, and Friar Joseph Lee, the first in our Custody to reach 70...
St Anthony’s Bread (January 2026)
Risen Christ parish bids farewell to Friar Esmond
Parishioners of the Church of the Risen Christ marked New Year’s Eve with a prayerful celebration that included Eucharistic Adoration, a Thanksgiving Mass, and a farewell for their parish priest, Friar Esmond Chua, OFM, who has served the parish since 2023. Friar...
Go and Repair My Church
The request Christ made from the crucifix to St Francis 800 years ago came up repeatedly at the 6th Asia-Oceania OFS-YouFra Congress in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. The simple phrase – Go and repair my Church – resonated with the Secular Franciscans (OFS) brothers and...
My Petition to St. Anthony
When Heaven Bent Low
On the holy night of Christmas in 1223, the quiet valley of Greccio became another Bethlehem. Francis of Assisi, with burning love for the Lord made flesh, desired to "make memory of that Child born in Bethlehem", to see with his own eyes the humility of God lying in...
Greccio Friary – A Formation Community
From left to rightBack row: Friar Francisco Basnayake, Friar Gerard Victor, Friar Kenny AnthonysamyFront row: Friar Jorgerson Japar, Friar Marvin Voo, Friar Vernon Chua Named after Greccio in Italy's Rieti Valley, Greccio Friary is a formation community that lives the...
Grounded in God, Growing in Mission
Dear friends, I write this while on a pilgrimage of Franciscan Italy. We are a group of 39, but we have a common desire of our hearts – to grow in intimacy with the Lord and be courageous in seeking God's will for us. Although I have visited many of these shrines and...
Franciscans, Continue the Journey
If the Custody Assembly in July was the breath before the plunge, then our Custody Chapter, held from 1 to 5 September 2025 in Singapore, was the deep dive – a moment when prayer turned into purpose, reflection into resolution, and fraternity into forward movement....