Why do we genuflect at the pews in church? What is the Orans posture? Are Catholics cannibals? What can be substituted for wine at the Mass? Receiving communion on the tongue or in the hand? Why does the priest take so long to dress up for Mass? These were
Continue readingPENANG: Ponggal is a four-day long harvest festival traditionally celebrated in Tamil Nadu, a Southern state located in India. The festival has now gone viral all around the world and it is no longer only celebrated by Indians, but seen as a global festival that everyone other than Indian people
Continue readingThey came as a couple. Some with children and grandchildren leading them. Others carrying babies and toddlers pulling them into the pews. There was a couple celebrating their 46th Wedding Anniversary, some recently married and yet others single. There were couples of mixed marriages and migrants. They carried with them
Continue readingPENANG: 162 CDM parishioners attended the annual parish assembly in the Church discussing past events and future plans for the continued development of the Church. The parish can proudly declare a successful attempt in 2016 with some outstanding milestones that were achieved, and that too as one family together. Being
Continue readingNuns, the blind, from those in wheelchairs to those carried by their parents, too young yet to walk – hundreds streamed through the Holy Door of Mercy on its final day. With an aura of celebration, Bishop Sebastian Francis accompanied by Deacon Lazarus Jonathan and parish priest Father Martin Arlando
Continue readingOn the 6th November, His Grace Archbishop John Ha con-celebrated the 9 am Sunday Mass with the parish priest of the Church of Divine Mercy (CDM), Fr Martin Arlando who is also the Chaplain of the Penang Diocesan Prison Ministry . It was a significant occasion as this was the
Continue readingChurch of Divine Mercy Penang (CDM) celebrated the feast of St John Paul II at the evening mass on the 22nd October. It was a memorial event as CDM is the first Church in Malaysia to obtain a first class relic of the recent saint. It was also significant that
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