Please read fantastic article "Why it is more blessed to give than to receive" by Father Ronald Rolheiser, located at extreme bottom of blog
Today is the feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows and one year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Today is also the day that Fr Henri leaves for France after having spent almost 50 years in Asia, of which 32 years in Indonesia.
With a sorrowful and grateful heart, we wish him goodbye. He is a true missionary. Getting to know Fr Henri and his works was like getting to know Jesus We thank God for Fr Henri. He has touched many of us, just by being a disciple of Jesus We entrust Fr Henri's health to our Lord Jesus We ask that if it is His will, Fr Henri will be able to come back here to visit us We ask that if it is His will, we can visit Fr Henri in his retirement home in south west of France, about 500km from Paris
Thank you Fr Henri. We and many others will miss you. In His time, we will meet again.
With love and prayers,
Your OLPS Mission Outreach Family
P.S. Please recite the rosary today for our Mother to intercede for us.
Dear all,
I was there yesterday at the Kid's Carnival and I can tell you that the FiNs that I met there were all having a ball of a time. The children (some were teens) were all lugging with them the prizes that they won - bow & arrow sets, hula hoops, toy, mini game sets and lots of bags of munchies. But more importantly, they were all there having fun as a family together.
The 3 tickets per child / accompanying adult made it a luxury for them to enjoy themselves there. This is something they don't usually have the priviledge of having. I would like to echo what Yvonne said to you guys in ther email message .... thank you for initiating this, spending time selling tickets and thinking of Bethany & SSVP.
God Bless you all & Thank you once again!
Stan
On behalf of the kids at Bethany we want to say a great big Thank You to all parishioners who have contributed so generously thus allowing us to participate and enjoy ourselves at the Kids Carnival.
A great big thank you also to those who initiated this idea.
May God shower His blessings on you all abundantly.
Much much love
Yvonne Yeo
On behalf of all SSVP Members and or FiNs (Friends-in-Need), THANK YOU for all your time spent and the energy that you all expanded over the past weekends to push the sale of these tickets for us.
We have not informed our FiNs yet of this Carnival that they will be invited to but I can assure all of you that the children and their parents will have a great time and will be grateful to you guys for this opportunity to enjoy, makan and spend time as a family at OLPS this coming National Day.
ALL tickets will be given to our FiNs & their children. Should I have any excess - these will go to FiNs who are old & parishioners or Catholics or just our older FiNs - in that order.
Again, we are all grateful for this event and we Praise the Lord also for the generosity of our parishioners in making this happen.
God Bless
Stanley Lim President,
SSVP Conference of OLPS
Wonderful, Edmund. Send my regards and thanks to all the zealous "missionaries". May God bless you all and your families.
Fr Greg
