Holy Week Celebrations 14 - 21 April 2019

This year's Holy Week Celebrations culminated on Holy Saturday, 20th April with the Baptism of  6 adults and 8 children followed by Confirmation for 16 adults.. 4 girls also received their first Holy Communion.
Holy Week began on Friday 12th April 2019 with the youth animating the Palm Sunday Mass. It was also World Youth Day.
Holy Thursday was celebrated with washing of the feet of 12 men from the BEC's and catechumens. It was followed by solemn adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until midnight.
Good Friday saw a good turnout of parishioners for the Way of the Cross at 4.00 pm. It was held on the Church field under a scorching sun. Good Friday service began with the  Liturgy of the Word, followed by the traditional Public prayer of the Faithful, Veneration of the cross and Holy Communion.
On Good Friday night, at 8.00 pm, parishioners and guests from other Christian Churches witnessed a wonderful display of the acting ability of the youthful cast for the Passion Play, entitled "Watch The Lamb" - a reenactment of the last hours of our Lord's crucifixion. The youths and altar servers of the parish led by Nicholas Martin and Billy Teoh managed to bring tears to the eyes of the audience in presenting the sufferings of Christ. It was recorded on video by a team of professionals and the video will be available soon.

Holy Saturday saw the church in darkness, lighted only by the Paschal Candle, as Fr. Francis Andrew led the procession towards the darkened church. The Exultet was beautifully sung by Dr. Mexmillan, one of the church musicians, followed by the beautiful readings on Salvation History from Genesis till the New testament. The water was blessed and we witness the baptisms of adults and children followed by Confirmation. The Holy Eucharist followed and it was indeed a blessed Easter for all of us. A late supper awaited all who attended the ceremonies of the Easter Vigil.
The following day was Easter Sunday, with a early Morning Mass at 7.00 am, as Fr. Francis and Gerard Yeo, our PPC Chairman, with 3 others had to travel to Gua Musang to celebrated mass with the migrant workers.  They rushed back in time to celebrated the evening Easter Sunday Mass at 7.00 pm.

 PALM SUNDAY PROCESSION AND CELEBRATION

HOLY THURSDAY, WASHING OF THE APOSTLES' FEET

 GOOD FRIDAY 

 HOLY SATURDAY , EASTER VIGIL 

 

Fr. Francis bliessing the Holy Water

Joan Ngui being baptised

Praying over the Confirmation candidates

Mr. Joseph Ooi and Rachel Poh waiting for their turn

The Choir who gave a wonderful performance throughout the Holy Week Celebrations

The Confirmants with their parents and  Sponsors

Joan Ngui  and Diana Teoh, RCIA Class of 2018

The happy Confirmants with Mary Martin

MCCBCHST Visiting the Menteri Besar

As part of the delegation from MCCBCHST ( Malaysian Consultative Council for Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism) (Kelantan Branch), Fr. Francis Andrew, Joseph Wang and Sr. Mary Ann Fletcher, fmm paid  a goodwill visit to the Menteri Besar of Kelantan, YAB, Dato' Hj Ahmad bin Yakob at his office today. The Delegation was led by Dr. J,P< Kamalanathan, chairman of MCCBCHST (Kel) It was a pleasant visit, with the Menteri Besar being garlanded by Dr. Kamalanathan. He took note of each community's specific request and asked his officer to look into various issues.

Presenting the Menteri besar with a photo book of our activities

Garlanding the MB

Presenting a letter of condolence to MB in solidarity to the victims of the Christchurch bombing

Group foto of MCCBCHST Delegates and the Menteri Besar and two assistancts

Visit the office of deputy MB

Fr. Michael Teng ofm, celebrates mass

This weekend, Fr. Michael Teng, ofm, came to celebrated mass for us. He has been installed as 'Custos' of the Franciscan Community in Malaysia, and the parish celebrated with him on this occasion. At the end of mass, a cake was brought forward for Fr. Michael to cut, in appreciation of his service to the community. He also prayed for students who were sitting for exams and we also bid farewell to 4 young matrikulation students who were finishing their studies in Kelantan. Tokens of appreciation were given to them.

Fr. Michael Teng, ofm  thanking parishioners and cutting his cake (below)

Matriculation students and other university students sitting for their exams being prayed over by Fr. Michae

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A representative of the Matriculation students giving his speech.

Lenten Campaign 2019

After Friday mass today, 2 presenters from Penang Diocese Pastoral Institute came to share on the Lenten Campaign this year, with the emphasis on the theme"Evangelisation". She shared her experience on the youth evangelization and how to live our lives fully  in the spirit of Christ. Many young people were touched by her sharing.

KB Combined Churches Workshop 20197

16 members of the parish, students as well older members participated in  training workshops organized by the Kota Bharu Combined Churches committee, spearheaded by the Christian Businessmen group at Pantai Cahaya Bulan (PCB) Resort from 3.00 pm till 11.00pm.

Participants attended 4 different workshops on Leadership, Leading a praise and worship service, and blowing the shofar workshop. It was interesting to note that groups from different churches were able to combine together for praise and worship, which began from 8.00 pm - 10,00 pm.

Indeed we are indebted to the management of the resort who allowed us to us the rooms and halls for this sessions.

The trainer

A selfie of our participants from Our Lady of Fatima at the Praise and Worship workshop

Participants from various churches coming together for parise and worhsip

Various groups trying out their introduction to lead the worhip