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Glory to Jesus Christ!
The Byzantine Catholic community of Singapore is happy to announce that Father Serge Keleher will be celebrating the Holy and Divine Liturgy with us on Friday 21 Sept 2007 (Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos) and Sunday 23 Sept 2007. That he should travel so far is almost more than we could ask, it seems like the answer to many prayers. The first time a Byzantine Catholic liturgy was celebrated in Singapore was in 2000, and these will be the second and third known celebrations of the Byzantine Catholic liturgy.
These are very exciting times for us, all who can come are most welcome - contact me for details. Please pray for the growth of our small but devoted community and the success of this event. During Fr Serge's visit, two adults will be received into the Church - most exciting! We will have visitors coming in for this event from Malaysia, Indonesia, and various places in the region, even from Korea.
Unfortunately, the incidental expenses have grown beyond our early expectations, and the community has established a fund to help defray the costs of this event and possible future efforts in Singapore to spread the Good News and praise Almighty God. This is your chance to make a difference, help Byzantine Catholic Christianity grow in Singapore!
We strongly believe that Byzantine Christianity appeals to the Asian psyche, and may be the means by which the final conversion of the rest of Asia to the Gospel may be achieved. Eastern Christianity should have a large presence in the East!
Please consider sending a donation of any size - we can accept Paypal! I will be setting up a discrete Paypal account for the community but in the meantime, donations may be sent to Paypal at edward.yong@gmail.com - if you wish, you may attach names of the living and the departed you wish to be commemorated at the Liturgy. Anything you can do will generate many prayers of appreciation.
Photos and videos of the event will be forthcoming!
in Domino,
Edward Yong
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Hey Edward! Wow great news, this is wonderful that God is sending you guys Fr. Serge!
I always thought Byzantine Christianity was be great for Asians, let us pray that one day there will be an Asian Byzantine Catholic Church (I think it has a pretty good ring to it)!
edit: btw you guys should set up a little Byzantine Catholic Asian Mission website, I think that would make the paypal stuff easier, plus it can be in both English and the local languages.
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Well, hopefully in the near future, suggesting that we want to do this more in the short term, we should arrange to get a priest from Australia to come for Divine Liturgy. Instead of waiting 7 years (lol), perhaps, we can come down to 2... There are a number of Eastern Catholic priests in Australia... Arranging for them to come would do them a favour - while on "God's call" at the same time, they can also give their families a holiday treat.
Practicality - God's given gift... *grins*
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If you should want to have a priest come to visit and serve, you can hardly get a better one than Fr. Serge!
I look forward to seeing the photos and reports...
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Any priest serving an Asian Byzantine Catholic community had better know his ABCs!
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WOW! This is awesome! I hope God blesses your efforts.
I have a friend in Malaysia.
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Zan - one step at a time! I'm thinking of using only English at the moment - my only Asian language is Chinese!
Tim - Photos and videos will be easier when donations come in! =)
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Very cool!
Fr. Serge,
To incorporate elements of the Old Rite into the Liturgy do you have to get some special permission, or can you just "sort of do it" without it causing a big fuss?
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WOW! This is awesome! I hope God blesses your efforts.
I have a friend in Malaysia. Whoa, who's your friend? I'd like to get to know him. Thankfully now, I'm not the only one in Malaysia looking East.
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Zan - one step at a time! I'm thinking of using only English at the moment - my only Asian language is Chinese!
Tim - Photos and videos will be easier when donations come in! =) Yea, English is the more viable language here at the moment. If someone's going to start a Melkite mission here, its gotta be behind closed doors though. Anything which resembles Islam or uses Arabic is a no-no for the Government and religious authorities. Shallow and stupid, but thats the way it is here. We're not allowed to use certain words like "Allah", "iman" etc... The more refined Muslims, however (and some fanatical ones I know) get the drift that these words are mere words in Arabic but not the authorities - these words are considered reserved words, like how "extends", "do", "while" are in languages like C++ and Java.
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Collin, if a mission were to be started, wouldn't its liturgies be in English (joint primary or secondary official language of several Asian countries) or in the local language--if there were sufficient faithful attending, who spoke and read that language?
Unless there is a sufficiently large number of Arabic-speaking people who would attend liturgies at the mission, I don't understand why liturgies would be in Arabic. Similarly for Church Slavonic.
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Language in newish situations is often contingent on several pastoral considerations. In Dublin we were serving mostly in Greek until the Ukrainians appeared. And I know of quite a few place where a linguistic mix is needed to create what a bishop of my acquaintance once called "a parity of pain"! Not a very Christian idea, but I get the point.
I'm no canon lawyer - nor have I ever met a canon lawyer who takes liturgical law seriously.
As for the use of Old-Rite elements, what have you in mind? And why would you consider that a problem in the first place?
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Collin, if a mission were to be started, wouldn't its liturgies be in English (joint primary or secondary official language of several Asian countries) or in the local language--if there were sufficient faithful attending, who spoke and read that language?
Unless there is a sufficiently large number of Arabic-speaking people who would attend liturgies at the mission, I don't understand why liturgies would be in Arabic. Similarly for Church Slavonic. I suppose it all depends. If there is no one from a Byzantine background to neccesitate usage of the language, then it has to be wholly in English with the Byzantine languages introduced gradually according to jurisdiction. I once suggested to priests to celebrate the Traditional Mass in English, with gradual introduction and instruction to Latin. The Jesuits said they'd look into it but the rest, just don't want to.
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This phrase puzzles me: What are these "Byzantine languages", and what criteria might one use to determine the admissability of a given language to the list? Within reason, we may use any language we please (which is not to say that, for example, a priest serving Divine Liturgy in a village in Syria should do so in Icelandic or Tibetan - if he tried it the parishioners would not be slow to voice their complaint about such foolishness). Fr. Serge
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I was in a rush for a gig, so I typed quick so it may have been a bit vague. "Byzantine languages" is a phrase that I suggest we can use to describe the language of origin in all Byzantine-Rite churches (i.e. Greek, Church-Slavonic, Arabic, Russian, Ukranian etc).
I am curious if the diversity of languages in the Byzantine Rite can help in evangelism though. Your thoughts?
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