January 2007 Tridentine Masses

SingaporeMacross SG

Dear Friends

The venue has been changed to St Patrick's Secondary School Chapel. Timings remain unchanged.

The map can be found here.

http://www.streetdirectory.com/asia_travel/travel/travel.php?star=1&buildingid=26501&masterid=1&x=37387&y=32215.0000&level=6

Buses that go there are 13, 16, 31, 36, 43, 48, 55, 76, 135, 196, 197, 853 (Sundays only).

From Woodlands or Jalan Toa Payoh, one can take 966 to Parkway parade and change to the buses above.

Mass (Extraordinary Form)

1 Jan 2008, Tuesday
Mass in Octave of Christmas
10.30 am

6 Jan 2008, Sunday
Epiphany
11.30 am

16 Jan 2008, Wednesday
Requiem Mass
7.30 pm

Thank you and hope to see you there!

maryteresa SG

Thank u so much for the info. Very Happy

ObiterDicta SG

Thanks for the information indeed. Smile

Icemoon SG

hey .. you said you not gonna post it here one .. 'cos too sensitive. Rolling Eyes

SingaporeMacross SG

I have the green light from the organizers to publicize.

catinthehat SG

You can get to St Pat's by East Coast Road.

490 East Coast Road.

Buses are 10, 12, 14, 40, 155.

catinthehat SG

Please come if you can! Show your church hierachy that this is the kind of Mass you wanna attend!

Icemoon SG

The 'chapel' can accomodate so many people or not first? Mr. Green

ObiterDicta SG

I had planned to attend but now that it has shifted to the East, which is very inconvenient for me, I won't be attending.

I hope that there will be such Masses in other parts of Singapore in future.

ObiterDicta SG

Is the diocese giving the FSSP folks trouble?

SingaporeMacross SG

PM-ed you.

sand king SG

Yes. haha, last time school mass alot ppl attend! =)

Icemoon SG

quite surprising. the chapel quite big to me.

sand king SG

Yea, i wonder if they put back the stain glass already, the replaced it because of construction.

Icemoon SG

I have to say the Mass this time is pretty well organized. The organizers took the trouble to ensure the congregation could follow the Mass.

1. They have this big signboard in front that tells you the Opening hymn is on which page, the Veni is on which page, the Closing is on which page.

2. The Mass Propers was printed. Only lament is it was not distributed with every Missal Ordinary booklet. In the end had to went out and take.

3. The Missal Ordinary booket has Latin on the left and English on the right. So nobody is hearing or singing mumbo jumbo. The booklet is a dummies' guide to Latin 101. Haha.

4. The booklet also makes it clear when you are supposed to stand, sit or kneel.

5. The flow was very smooth and I was able to follow the ritual with the help of the booklet. Predictably some confusion when the priest was going through his parts silently. But then he went through them so fast that I suspect whether he went through them at all. Laughing

6. I thought the schola position was weird. How come they stood between the priest/altar and the congregation? I remember at Holy Cross (few years ago), they were behind the congregation.

Was tired on the bus this morning. But felt very awake throughout the whole Mass. Think the Tridentine has therapeutic effect one .. or was it the incense?? Cool

Icemoon SG

front one they put back the stain glass of St John Baptist? liao.

the side ones .. still have those "hatch style grills".

Icemoon SG

How come chapel on second floor one?

This is my first time inside any church or chapel that is not on ground floor. Laughing

sand king SG

Unique haha!

not sure if they put it back, the last time when i was still in sch it was those normal stain glass still.

i cant wait to visit st pats again!

catinthehat SG

Great to hear everything went well for you! Now you can download the propers in advance to read and pray. For the next mass, you can get it here

Epiphany Propers

Oh there are no hard-and-fast rules as to where the schola should stand. Usually they stand where you can get the best sound. At Holy Cross, the roof was highest at that point where the schola sang from. Most of the time, the best sound is in the middle of the cross for cross-shaped churches. Singing at the front of the church is the practice in the FSSP parish in Sydney too.

catinthehat SG

Please, please, please ... if you are free, take the trouble to come.

You can hope that there will be such Masses, but try ur best to come. to pray, and by your presence, to show that you want to have more of such masses in future!

If not those in the church hierachy can continue to say "ahhh, see, there is no demand for the TLMs..."