City Parish, Penang
Our Lady of Sorrows (OLS), Assumption (AC), St. Francis Xavier (SFX), St.John Britto (SJB)
Parish house and Secretariat is at Church of Our Lady of Sorrows. The address is as follows:
33 Jalan Macalister, 10400 Pulau Pinang
T: 04-2261502, 2293431
F: 04-2284519
Email: cityppg@gmail.com
Parish Priest : Rev. Dominic Santhiyagu
Assistant priest: Rev. Michael Thoo
Secretariat Opening Hours
Mon - Fri:
9.30 am - 11.30 am (Christine Choong)
3.00 pm - 5.30 pm (Margaret Sim)
9.00am - 5.00pm (Jacinta Joseph, Roger Primus, Yhumi Galza)
Satiurday:
10.00 am - 5.30 pm (Yhumi)
1.00 pm - 5.30 pm (Yhumi/Margaret Sim)
Sunday:
10.00am - 5.00 pm (Margaret Sim)
1. (Main Church) Our Lady of Sorrows (1888)
33 Jalan Macalister, 10400 Pulau Pinang
T: 04-2261502, 2293431
F: 04-2284519
cityppg@gmail.com
Tue/Wed : 7.30 am
Thu/Fri : 6.00 pm
Sat. Novena: 6.00pm
Sat. Sunset Mass: 6.45 pm (English)
Sunday Masses :
8.30 am (English); 10.00 am (Mandarin)
Filipino Mass : 11.30 am (1st & 3rd Sunday)
Every first Friday: Holy Hour and Benediction at 6.30pm.
2. (Mass Centre) Assumption (1786)
3 Lebuh Farquhar, 10200 Pulau Pinang
T: 04-2610088
Sat. Novena: 6.00pm
Sat. Sunset Mass: 6.30 pm
Sunday Mass : 10.00 am (English)
Every Friday: Eucharistic Adoration at 12 noon to 1.00pm (beginning March only)
3. (Mass Centre) St. Francis Xavier (1957)
52-K, Penang Road, 10000 Pulau Pinang
Sunday Mass : 6.00 pm (English)
4. (Mass Centre) St. John Britto (1969)
139 Sungai Pinang Road, 10150 Pulau Pinang
Sunday Mass : 8.00 am (Tamil)
Parish bulletin(pdf)
Parish bulletin (word)
Living the virtues |
| Posted by Diocese of Penang (pgdiocese) on Nov 09 2005 |
PENANG: A series of formation sessions on Virtue Ethics (Living the Virtues) was organised by the City Parish recently.
The resource person for the sessions was Fr Fabian Dicom.
To introduce the virtues, Fr Fabian gave the participants several Scripture verses such as Mark 12:28 - 31, Matthew 4:23-24, Mark 12:31, Luke 10:27 and a few others. He later defined virtue as a characteristic way of behaviour which makes both actions and persons good and which also enables one to fulfill the purpose of life. “This purpose of life is to love god and love one another as we love ourselves. When anyone possesses and exercises the virtues, that person is brought to wholeness to human nature,” he said.
He further discussed that virtues help to ask: Who am I? It enables us to communicate cross-culturally; Who do I become? Or Who am I called to be? It gives an end, a human being can be moving to a purpose and How do I get there? Virtue is its own reward.
Fr Fabian also shared about different kinds of virtues: theological (faith, hope and charity); cardinal (prudence, justice, temperance and fortitude(courage) as well as contemporary cardinal virtues (justice, fidelity, self care and prudence).
In the second session, Fr Fabian defined justice as treating everyone equally. This is the virtue of fairness where there is no special treatment or preference. “Our relationality generally is always directed by an ordered appreciation for the common good in which we treat all people as equal. We belong to humanity and are expected to respond to all its members in general, equally and impartially,” he explained. However he clarified that as a virtue, justice is not simply concerned with external activity; it is about ordering all our interior dispositions so that the claim of equality originates from within.
Fidelity on the other hand according to Fr Fabian teaches us to treat specially those to whom we are more closely related: spouse, children, parents, friends, relatives, neighbours, community members, etc. While justice is about treating people generally equally; fidelity is about treating particular relations preferentially.
“Fidelity is the virtue that nurtures and sustains the bonds of those special relationships that we enjoy whether by blood, marriage, love or sacrament. Fidelity requires that we treat with special care those who are closer to us. It rests on partiality and particularity. Fidelity expresses — covenant, friendship, loyalty, and commitment,” he said.
Fr Fabian reminded the participants about the unique responsibility of ourselves — self care which can be referred to as self-love, self-esteem or self-respect. Self-esteem is a sub-category of self-care, just as the promotion of one\'s health. In short, we have a unique responsibility to care for ourselves effectively, mentally, physically and spiritually.
He also shared on humility which acknowledges the truth about oneself; it is not about lying or denial but rather about the ability to determine whether what others say about oneself is true or not. Humility is the mean between two vices. Humility is found between pride, where one thinks oneself greater than one really is, and self-pity, where one thinks oneself worse.
He emphasised that self-care is not humility but the virtue that makes humility possible. If humility concerns how we interact with others, self-care pertains to how we live ourselves. If humility perfects the way we stand among others, self-care perfects the way we see ourselves. If humility is about public discourse, self-care is about interior dialogue.
“We need to remind ourselves that self-care is a cardinal virtue, that the moral demand to stop self-hatred is the same as to stop injustice. And the moral invitation to develop self-care is as urgent as the call to be just and faithful, Fr Fabian stressed.
He also touched on self-centeredness. “It is not the result of self-love, but the product of pain, the result of a poor self-image. A self-centered person has an ache of emptiness inside. This poor person attempts to fill the emptiness with bragging, name dropping, posing as an authority on all questions great and small. What may look like an excess of self-care in fact represents an absence of self-care. Selfishness and self-care are at opposite ends of the spectrum. One does not suddenly slip over from true self-care into the trap of self-centeredness. In fact, the greater the self-care, the less danger there is of self-centredness,” he elaborated.
— By Jun Acosta
Last changed: Nov 09 2005 at 9:20 AM
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