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:
33 Jalan Macalister, 10400 Pulau Pinang
T: 04-2261502
F: 04-2284519
Email: cityp2@tm.net.my
Parish Priest : Rev. Michael Thoo
Assistant priest: Rev. Dominic Santhiyagu
Secretariat Opening Hours
Mon - Fri:
9.30 am - 11.30 am (Christine Choong)
3.00 pm - 5.30 pm (Margaret Sim)
Satiurday:
10.00 am - 6.00 pm (Lucia Lai)
1.00 pm - 6.00 pm (Margaret Sim)
Sunday:
10.00am - 6.00 pm (Margaret Sim)
1. (Main Church) Our Lady of Sorrows (1888)
33 Jalan Macalister, 10400 Pulau Pinang
T: 04-2261502
F: 04-2284519
cityp2@tm.net.my
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 : 11.15 am (1st & 3rd Sunday)
Bahasa Mass - 11.30 am (2nd Sunday)
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)
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)
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Reaching out to others |
| Posted by Diocese of Penang (pgdiocese) on Jul 23 2007 |
17 June 2007 issue of The Herald
PENANG: The Parish Human Development Committee (PHDC) of City Parish organised an awareness talk entitled Come... See and you will find on May 6.
The intention of the talk was to awaken in people the desire to reach out to all with the love of Jesus. Eighty people attended the talk presented by Anil Netto
Anil started by shocking the people with a picture of abused and murdered R. Ganesh, a migrant worker from India. Just as Jesus was whipped, tortured and left to die on the cross, Ganesh was also beaten and left to die.
Anil made other comparisons between Jesus’ suffering and the suffering of human beings presently. He wanted to drive home the message that suffering and injustice still occur and as Christians we ought to do something about it.
After all, Jesus had a ‘mission statement’ for us to follow through, taken from Isaiah 61, 1 — “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring the Good News to the Poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives... to set at liberty those who are oppressed.” It is our duty then to see that we carry out this ‘mission statement’ of Jesus.
Two other bible verses were highlighted to prove that God is the helper of the oppressed (Judith 9, 11) and he listens to the cry of his people (Proverbs 21, 13). The Magnificat also shows Mary talking about God “putting down the mighty, exalting the humble, filling the hungry with good things and sending the rich away.”
Anil then highlighted the 11 principles of Catholic Social Teaching, which are:
1. Dignity of the human being
2. Community and the common good
3. Option for the poor
4. Rights and responsibilities
5. Option for the poor and vulnerable
6. Participation
7. Dignity of work and rights of workers
8. Stewardship of Creation
9. Solidarity
10. Role of government and subsidiarity
11. Promotion of peace and justice
He explained in detail each of the 11 principles — how they relate to our lives and what we should do. On rights and responsibilities, he linked it to human dignity as he stressed that human dignity could only be achieved if human rights are protected and responsibilities met. Every person has the fundamental right to life and to live with dignity, particularly the poor and the oppressed. Thus for us, who are lucky enough to live a comfortable life and in dignity, we should reach out to those who are less fortunate than us with the love of Jesus.
In conclusion, Anil asked which Trinity rules our lives — is it the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, where the fruit is reaching out to the poor and oppressed or the trinity of corporations, materialism/money and entertainment, where the fruit is a selfish self-centred lifestyle.
Anil then showed images of the 15 Stations of the Cross based on ‘What is liberation theology’ by Adolfo Perez Esquivel of Argentina, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1980).
The commentary to the stations was by Alastair Mcintosh of Scotland. Mcintosh had this to say of the Stations: “For those who have faith, the act of turning to the oppressed, of serving the poor, of search for freedom from exploitative structures, is also an act of love for the suffering Christ. By the same token, the resurrection will be experienced whenever life is defended.”
Indeed, this eye-opening, interesting talk of Anil Netto had stirred the hearts of the participants that they need to do something to reach out to the oppressed and the poor because of their love for the suffering Christ.
– By Lucia Lai
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