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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.


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