A Parish that lives up to its name!
Church of Divine Mercy
When mum and dad were staying with my sister in Bedok, Eric from Holy Family church would give Holy communion to mum and dad. When they moved to Tampines and Eric started teaching again, he entrusted the care of giving Holy Communion to the ministers from Divine Mercy. Initially because mum and dad belonged to another parish mum reached out to them first. The initial answer from that parish was no! Approval needed to be gotten first and that there was a process in place. Disappointed with the curt response she approached Eric for help.
Thomas and Gayle from Divine Mercy gladly embraced the task of bringing Holy Communion to dad throughout. They were patient, loving and very helpful. Fr Venus a very loving and humble priest came to Bless their home and would visit from time to time giving dad anointing of the sick. Sometime in Feb, I posted about how the Parish produced a wonderful and meticulously thought out Parish booklet, with everything one needed to know about the Parish from directions, contacts, ministries, process and procedures from baptism, to cathechesis, funerals and so on.
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When dad was critical we tried to reach Father Venus, however as he was away on a pilgrimage, Thomas and Gayle managed to get the Parish priest, Fr Damian to give dad the anointing of the sick. Mum asked him if we could have the funeral mass at divine mercy if anything happened to dad? Without hesitation, Father Damian said sure! Dad got better and lasted more than a month.
When dad passed we were worried as all the priests were on retreat starting on the day, dad passed. However they managed to reach Father Damian and he insisted he would celebrate dad’s funeral mass. We heard later that Fr Venus wanted to do it as well. The funeral minister Peter contacted us to guide us through the whole process.
Mass (Thursday) was held in the chapel with a full choir and organist. Altar servers, communion ministers even, the legion of Mary was represented. Fr Damian gave an impactful and wonderful homily. After mass we were told that mass for dad was offered by the choir or was it the legion of Mary? Anyhow it was for Sunday 6th July 1130am. Later on I received a text from Peter with the contact number of someone from the NCC (neighbourhood community) for them to reach out to mum.
The whole family attended Sunday mass at Divine Mercy, Frances and I were the offertory couple! What an extra blessing. I later learnt from mum that the priest who celebrated mass today Father Peter was the one who baptised dad when he was serving at Risen Christ church in 2000.
Love also that they have blessings for married couples celebrating their anniversary every month!
Like many churches the folks are made up of imperfect people but I honor the folks of church divine mercy who extended the divine mercy of Christ to us. May our Lord continue to Bless and keep them in His loving care. Amen
Love Julian
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