The History of Catholic Diocese in Hong Kong

•Group leader: Momoko Lam (13)

•Secretary: Bonnie Lung(22)

•Treasurer: Hazel Lau(16)

•Members: Joyce Lam(15)

• Carmen Chan(1)

Definition of our topic

History is the things that happened in the past. Things that happen this minute will be history next minute. Something that happen yesterday or a very long time ago is also history.

Catholic is a religion which believes in Jesus, Holy Spirit and God. The Catholics believe they are trinity and it was Mary who gave birth to Jesus.

 

Diocese means the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop.

Reasons for choosing this topic

• After the explaining the definition of our topic, of course, we all wanted to tell you why we will choose this topic. Study history is not only let us know what things happened in the past, but also learned to avoid mistakes, understand the cultures and the most important point is to understand the world better.

• In this project, we are going to introduce the origin of Hong Kong Catholic Diocese, the build up of the Catholicism and Caritas and their significance to H.K., the history of churches and catholic hospitals, Bishop Wu Cheng-Chung and Rev. Joseph Zen Ze Kuin.

The History of the Dioceses in H.K

• After the Opium War, Roman Vatican built the diocese in H.K.

• 20th century distribute the job to Chinese religious’ members + spread out Catholic in the big cities.

Number of Catholic

230000 Now

1260 1945

700 1944

925 1943

300 1939

Number of Catholic Year

The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church

Pope Cardinal Vatican Regional organization Assistant organization Congregation Catholic Groups

In 1889 &1992Hong Kong post used The Hong Kong Catholic cathedral of the Immaculate Conception pu

blished two sets of stamps.

Timeline of the church1842

chapel was built in the Wellington Street. 1859

completely destroyed 1860

rebuilt the church1881

The environment not suitable for the religious purposes, the main chapel built on the Cannes road

1886A businessman bought the Hong Kong Catholic Cathedral of the Im

macalate ConceptionDecember 1888

the festival for the first sacrifice.Cardinal at that time: Msgr. Raimondi

Timeline of the church

1859 completely destroyed

1860 rebuilt the church

1881The environment not suitable for the religious purposes, the mai

n chapel built on the Cannes road1886

A businessman bought the Hong Kong Catholic Cathedral of the Immacalate Conception

December 1888 the festival for the first sacrifice.Cardinal at that time: Msgr. Raimo

ndi

First day Cover

Stamps

St. Marie Hermine de Jeus Grivot

St. Maria della Pace Giuliani St. Marie Chiara Nanetti St. Marie Amandine JeurisSt. Marie Adolphine Dierks St. Marie de St. Just Moreau St. Marie de Ste. Nathaile

There were 120 of the martyrs became the

saints, 7 of them were from the Franciscan

Our Lady of the Rosary Church

1953

The father in French found that Western Central was a good place for the missionaries The father held the first mass there on The Our Lady of the Rosary’s Observation Day , so we called the place Our Lady of the Rosary Church.

1954 The father built a tutorial lessons

in the church, this was called St. Paul Primary School.

1957 Set up of St. Vincent Charitable

Organization 1971 St. Vincent Charitable

Organization offered food to people

Queen Mary Hospital established in 1937provide the highest quality of patient-cantered serviceThe concerted efforts of satisfying patients' needs and inviting public participation.

-It was founded in 1961

-It became public hospitals under the governance of the Hospital Authority in 1991.

-Being a Catholic hospital, it will make sure that the patient recovered for physical and also for psychological

1.Medicine2.Surgery3.Geriatrics4.Hospice5.Family Medicine6.Ear, Nose and 7.Throat8.Ophthalmology9.Orthopedics 10.Dentistry11.Chest

service

Introduction of Basic Law No.23

It is about:~Control any break up of country, rebellion~ Prevent someone stealing the confidential document of the country~Stop the political organization or any groups make any relationsAim:~Control any actions that is harmful for the country

Peace Prayer meeting(24/12/2002)

Topic: “Not silent in the Silent light”

Date:The last day of the Basic Law No. 23 Questioning day

Organization:The Catholic Society of the university

Details:

~Nearly a hundred participants join this meeting~The Cardinal Zen Joseph attracted a lot of Media to come.

Prayer parade(15/12/2002)Topic: “Hoping the heaven come, let’s build up peaceful and justice”

Time: 2:00 – 3:00

Place: Victoria Park

Details:~More than 2000 people join it

~The Cardinal Zen Joseph asked the Catholics to join another parade of human rights to show that Catholic and justice are united

The Cardinal Joseph Zen is not satisfied with the basic law no. 23

~love

~Not democratic enough

~The government Serious affect the personal right of citizens

~The Basic Law no. 23 turns the Society to differentiate

Caritas IntroductionCaritas = LoveEstablished in 1953Target:Promoted the massage of “God is Love”Significant: Grounded on truth, guided by justice, motivated by love, realized in freedom.

Community and Hospitality Service

Target:Provide facilities and services

Meet the needs of individuals, organizations and local communities

Service:Janitorial Service

Cleaning Service

Nature of service:Catering Service

Accommodation

Caritas Medical Centre (acute general hospital

Set up in 1964 For about 680000 people in H.K.(means 12.7% people)Services :Rehabilitative care ambulatory

Community medical service

Range of acute

(Emergency cases for 24 hors free)

Other – Catering ServiceTarget:All the Hong Kong people

Services:~Provide cheap restaurants for public

~Provide places for meeting or meal

Nature of Service:~Provide restaurant, canteen and outside catering services

~Offered food and service at a reasonable price

Educational Service

Target:

All people who want to be educated

Service:

To provide literacy, work skills, academic and personal

development education to the people.

Nature of ServiceFull-time/Part-time career trainingSummer study programme Extension programmeMultimedia education programmeEducation department subvention programmeYouth pre-employment training programme,Springboard programmeHigher education programmes

Recreational Service - Workshop

TargetPersons aged 15 or above

With mild to moderate grade mental handicap

ServiceSheltered work placement

Social and recreational activities

Community education programmes

ExampleCaritas Lok Hang Workshop

Caritas Lok Kin Workshop

Momoko In this project, I have very deep feeling through this project. Firstly, know

that being a good leader is not easy as what you think. Only the distribution of work is very difficult already. I should distribute our jobs evenly but also refer to their advantages like Joyce and Bonnie good at translation, Carmen good at data analyses and Hazel good at typing words.

 

On the other hand, I’ve also understand Caritas more than before and a lot of information on the Diocese. This is one of the benefits that I have earned. Also, the collection of information was working in good process, as all of the readers can see we have newspaper, questionnaire and interview. This relies on our cooperative very much really.

 

Lastly, I think I must say I feel very pound of being a leader of this group, I have cooperative members and I think our project is not the best in the class, but it is the best in the secondary school and give a special thank to all of my group members

Joyce

• Doing the cross-subject project, we need the use of time, finding the resources from different ways etc. Luckily, all of us can spend many time on this project. And I think cooperation between the members is most important. Our group has 5 members. All of us learning to be more cooperative with each others. So, we can do the work faster. And also, during we do the project, it can increase our relations.

Carmen:• In this cross subject project, I have learned many things. I have learned the history of the

diocese in Hong Kong, I have also learned how to do a good project. I know a good project needs the cooperation between us. Through the cooperation, we may share the work with the group members, then we may decrease the pressure of our own. Also, through this project, I have learned how to organize and analyze the information.

• In fact, in this project, I can know more about my classmates. I feel that our leader, Momoko Lam, is very responsible. She is very hard-working. She knows that how to be a leader. I think she is a very friendly and easy-going person. The other members, Bonnie, Joyce and Hazel, are also very hard-working. They are very talkative; they give their opinions and ideas to the project. They are also very kind and friendly person. I feel very happy because I can work with them.

 

 

• Although I am a catholic, I don’t know many about the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese. I just go to the mass every Sunday, and I don’t know much about it. Through this project, I find more and more information that I haven’t heard before and know before. This can help to build up my spiritual level also. I think being a Catholic, I should know more about my religious.

Bonnie:• After doing this project, I knew more about the history of Catholic Diocese. Compared

with other projects, it’s the biggest one that I had done. The most difference between this cross curriculum project and the other projects is that we need to find more information, and we need to cooperate more than the other projects.

• Cooperation is not an easy job for five people in a group because we often get different ideas. However, we try to accept each other and combine all the ideas. Because of the atypical pneumonia, we cannot do the interview with priests and sisters. It’s a pity. If I have chance, I want to know more about their feelings to the catholic diocese.

• Furthermore,. Before doing it, I didn’t notice much of the news of the catholic, but it is quite meaningful indeed. When we are doing our project, we also faced a lot of problems, we thanks for our teacher advisor, Ms T. Yeung and thanks God for giving us a good leader, Momoko. She is very responsible and she spent most of time on this project among five of us. In conclusion, I learn how to cooperate with others and many things about the catholic Diocese.

Hazel:

• After doing this project, I learned one thing that cooperation is very important. If we don’t cooperate, we can’t finish this project. Although we didn’t have much time to discuss, we try our best to stay at school to discuss, take our time to finish the project.

• I don’t know whether this project is good or bad. But in my heart, I think is perfect, because in this project I can find cooperation, communication and trust in it. Especially trust, if we don’t trust each other that this project cannot be done. Even if we don’t have this three things-cooperation, communication and trust, just learn from experience, practice makes perfect.

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