Bridging Light Updates!

Hooyoo,

Recently I had a dream about ants. Millions of ants crawling around in my dreams. It's so... icky. The next day, I googled "Ants dreams interpretations" and one of the results said that: "To dream of ants means you will let small things accumulate and turn into a big burden. This is a warning so it's not to late to make changes and prevent this from being the case."

My own interpretation would be: To dream of ants means that I'm letting little sins accumulate and turn into a big burden. I don't have any big sins, just little sins here and there... But if these little sins were to add up, it would become a huge bag of burden! Imagine Jesus, carrying the whole world's burdens!

Let's lighten our heart and His load by receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation next week. Let's prepare our hearts once again, to receive him and to walk with him throughout his Passion. If He can die for you, what's so difficult about spending some time to ask for his forgiveness and love? So... have you been dreaming about any ants recently?

1) A Lent Taize prayer - An communal prayer with silence, repetitive songs, a simple passage from the Bible and a short reflection. We invite you to join in this communal prayer on 16 March, Tuesday, 8pm in the basement chapel with Father Gerard.

2) A Lent Movie Reflection - My Magic: featuring a single dad who looks to give up drinking and his bartender job in order to impress his son and find work as a magician. Happening on 27 March, 8pm in the Youth Room. Come on down!

3) Soup Kitchen - The parish is giving out free soup!? Haha, no! It's actually giving out food to the migrant workers who are living around this estate as a form of service and outreach monthly. The first one is this coming Saturday, 20 March. The packing of food starts at 8am and distributing of food is at 10am. If you are young and is interested in this project, do give Diana a call: 91096309.

3) Cell Group. Register your interest (Living in God 2010 from ages 14 - 20), here or Little Rock Scripture Studies - Acts of the Apostles for Young Adults (21 years to 30 years old) here! If you have registered but no one has contacted you yet, please call Moses @ 9827 6674.

4) Short term mission - A priest is coming down from Batam to give a short presentation on mission this Sunday to the youths at 9am in St Mary's Room, lvl 3. If you are interested to know how you can contribute to short term missions, do drop by and drop him a few questions.

5) Intercessories - Once every 2 weeks, a group of young adults and youths will come together to pray for the needs of everyone in the parish. If you have any petitions, please send them back to our email and we will pray for you:) This week, we pray for those who are suffering from not having anyone listening to them.

5) BSC Young Adults Weekend. Happening in Blessed Sacrament Church from Friday, 19 March to 21 March with no stay in required. A participation fee of $35 for food and logistics. Please contact Andrew Neo at andrew.neo@bsc.org.sg.

6) FAST 30HRS has been cancelled by the organising committee. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Peace,

Joachim

Bridging Light Updates!

Hooyoo!

Today for the first time in my life, I finally understand how children can melt and break your heart with some simple words. Although I'm not a parent, I nearly teared when one of my child told me, while crying, "I don't like you because you are going away." For those who do not know, I'm a preschool educator. For some reasons, I'm being posted to another childcare centre in the East and tomorrow will be my last day in my current centre.

I tried explaining my reason to him and he just kept popping up with more questions, all starting with why. How do you try to explain a difficult decision you've made to your favourite child?

Isn't that the same with God? Sometimes our favourite things get taken away and we start throwing tantrums at God. How does God try to explain that this is one of the most difficult decision He has ever made, to you, His favourite child? How can Jesus try to explain to his disciples that He will soon die for their sins?

This being the season of Lent, let us remember God, with His most difficult decision ever made - sending His beloved Son to die for us sinners.

But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. - Romans 5:8

1) ) Cell Group Starts. You can still register your interest (Living in God 2010 from ages 14 - 20), here or Little Rock Scripture Studies - Acts of the Apostles for Young Adults (21 years to 30 years old) here!

2) Intercessories - Once every 2 weeks, a group of young adults and youths will come together to pray for the needs of everyone in the parish. If you have any petitions, please send them back to our email and we will pray for you:) This week, we thank God for His most difficult decision ever made - sending His only Son to die us, sinners.

3) Lent Taize - Join us in contemplative prayer for the parish. Happening on 16 March in SFA's parish basement. Find out more about Taize in the last issue of SFADotComm or here! Especially great for young people...

4) Lent Movie Screening. Coming soon.

5) BSC Young Adults Weekend. Happening in Blessed Sacrament Church from Friday, 19 March to 21 March with no stay in required. A participation fee of $35 for food and logistics. Please contact Andrew Neo at andrew.neo@bsc.org.sg.

6) 30 Hours Fast 2010 is here again! Happening in Church of the Holy Spirit, Upper Thomson Road on 13 March, Saturday and ends on 14 March, Sunday. Minimum age of 17 years old. Inspiring talks, personal reflection and sharing, Taize prayers, Way of the Cross are just some of the exciting activities that they will be doing. For more details and registration, email 30hourfast@gmail.com.

Peace,

Joachim