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The Church of St. Mary of the Angels is a Roman Catholic church in Singapore completed in 2004. It is located in the Bukit Batok Planning Area , within the West Region of Singapore. The church is home to both a parish community and Franciscan monastery. [ 2 ]
Each year, a different theme is given for the feast day which helps the congregation focus on different aspects of their faith. 2011 - One Church + One Family (Golden Jubilee Celebration) 2012 - Neighbourhood Christian Communities; 2013 - In Rock We Stand, On Faith We Come; 2014 - Christ, Our Light; 2015 - A People of Communion in Mission
In Singapore, English Masses first began in 1965 and Mandarin ones in 1970. Teochew Masses were first offered in the Nativity Church in 1971 on Pentecost Sunday. [5] Till this date, the Nativity Church remains the only Catholic church in Singapore that offers Mass in Teochew. [5]
The first mass was celebrated in the function hall on 6 April 1969. In June 1969, religious bodies in Singapore were invited by the Singapore Government to tender for a piece of land of 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2). A month later, the government announced that a Roman Catholic church would be built at the junction of Toa Payoh Central and ...
[9] [10] [11] He also held a mass, which attended by 50,000, at the country's National Stadium. [12] [13] On 13 September 2024 the pope met elderly and sick residents, as well as staff, of St. Theresa's Home and hold an interreligious meeting with young people at Singapore's Catholic Junior College before departing from the country and ...
A Play School was added on within the Parish Social Centre and kindergarten classes began to run in 1978. Extending its reach to the community within the area, Church members began making regular visits to the Cheshire Home in 1979, and bringing members of the Cheshire Home for mass on Sundays.
The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes was blessed and officially opened in 1888. This is the first Tamil Catholic church in Singapore. The building site was obtained in 1885 and the cornerstone laid on 1 August 1886 by Bishop Gasnier, D.D. and Sir Frederick A. Weld, G. C M. G in an official ceremony that was witnessed by a number of religious and laity.
As the growing Catholic community had outgrown the small chapel, the chapel building was demolished in 1931, and while waiting for a new church building to be built, the community conducted their Sunday Mass in Arcadia Cinema. [3] The full-sized Church of the Holy Family was eventually completed on 19 June 1932.