Confessions: 30 min before Sunday Masses; on demand every day.
Children’s Catechism on Saturday:
First Communion 14:00-14:45
Post First Communion 14:45-15:30
Older Group (13-18 years) 14:45-15:30
Mass Stipends: One Mass: $25 Novena: $250 Gregorian Masses: $1,000
SAINT PIUS X PRIORY
SINGAPORE
24 DECEMBER 2017
VIGIL OF THE
NATIVITY
SUN 24 Dec
Vigil of the Nativity of Our Lord 1st Class, violet
7.30—Rosary 8.00—Low Mass
9.30—Rosary 10.00— Sung Mass
23.30—Christmas Carols
MON 25 Dec
THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
1st Class, white Holy Day of Obligation
0.00—Midnight Mass 10.00—Low Mass
TUE 26 Dec
Saint Stephen First Martyr 2nd Class, red
11.30—Low Mass
WED 27 Dec
Saint John Apostle, 2nd Class, white
11.30—Low Mass
THU 28 Dec
Holy Innocents Martyrs, 2nd Class, red
11.30—Low Mass 18.20—Rosary & Benediction
19.00—Low Mass
FRI
29 Dec
Within the Octave of Christmas 2nd Class, white
11.30—Low Mass 18.20—Stations of the Cross
19.00— Low Mass
SAT 30 Dec
Within the Octave of Christmas 2nd Class, white
7.15—Low Mass 11.30—Low Mass
SUN 31 Dec
Sunday within the Octave of Christmas 2nd Class, white
7.30—Rosary 8.00—Low Mass
9.30—Rosary 10.00— Sung Mass
SOCIETY OF SAINT PIUS X - DISTRICT OF ASIA 286 Upper Thomson Road, Singapore 574402
+65 6459 0792 ~ fsspx.asia ~ sspxsingapore.org ~ [email protected]
Rev. Fr. K. Stehlin (District Superior), Fr. B. Wailliez (Prior & District Assistant), Fr. F. Laisney (District Bursar)
Donations to SSPX by cheque: make it payable to “Friends of the International Priestly Society of St. Pius X”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Nominations. Fr. Etienne DEMORNEX has been assigned to
Singapore to replace Fr. François LAISNEY as district bursar. He
will however only arrive end of March.
In the meantime and as a temporary replacement, Fr. Michael
FORTIN will spend about two months in Singapore (from end of
January on) in order to enable the apostolate (and the Sunday Mass
circuits) to continue as usual.
Banns of marriage. Mr. Ignatius Yeo and Miss Yee Yun Loke
intend to get married on January 6, 2018. If you know any
impediment to this wedding, contact Fr. Wailliez promptly.
5 to 10 February 2018. An Ignatian Retreat for both men and
women will take place in Penang, Malaysia. Kindly return the
enrolment form as soon as possible.
Children’s Catechism. Catechism classes will resume on 6 January.
Sunday 21 January. AGM of Friends of the International Priestly
Society of St. Pius X after the 10am Mass.
As people gather around crèches in their churches or
homes, they would do well to know that St. Francis of
Assisi created the first Nativity scene in the small
town of Greccio, Italy, on Christmas Eve 1223. All the
details are in a biography called First Life, Book
One. It was written by Thomas of Celano, a friar of his
order, in 1229 at the request of Pope Gregory IX.
“Chiefly did the humility of the Incarnation and the
charity of the Passion so occupy his memory that he
would scarce ponder over anything else,” wrote
Celano.
Francis used his memories from his Holy Land trip to
construct the crèche. He asked a friend to assemble the
materials and explained, “For I would make memorial
of that Child who was born in Bethlehem, and in some
sort behold with bodily eyes his infant hardships, how
he lay in a manger on the hay, with the ox and the ass
standing by.”
The friars and townspeople assembled around the
scene, illuminating the night with candles. As Celano
wrote, “There, Simplicity was honored, Poverty
exalted, Humility commended; and of Greccio, there
was made, as it were, a new Bethlehem.”
Mass was said on the altar that was made over the
manger. Francis, who was a deacon, read the Gospel
and preached the sermon, calling Jesus “the Child of
Bethlehem.”
Then he picked up the image of Jesus asleep in the
manger. The Baby awakened in his arms, according to
eyewitnesses.
“Nor was this vision incongruous; for the Child Jesus
had been given over to forgetfulness in the hearts of
many in whom, by the working of his grace, he was
raised up again through his servant Francis and
imprinted on a diligent memory.”
In addition, more miracles happened. When sick
animals in the region ate some of the hay, they were
cured. “Moreover,” wrote Celano, “women in long and
grievous labor were safely delivered by putting some
of the hay on themselves, and a crowd of persons of
either sex suffering from various ailments gained their
long-wished-for health at that same place.”
As a result, “over the manger, an altar was reared, and
a church dedicated, to the end that … men might
thenceforth, for the healing of soul and body, eat the
flesh of the spotless and undefiled Lamb, our Lord
Jesus Christ.”
THE FIRST NATIVITY SCENE
Father Karl Stehlin and Father Benoît Wailliez
wish all the faithful, friends and benefactors of the Singapore Priory,
a Holy and Happy Christmas Season and a Blessed New Year.