St. Peter's Chapel, Kuala Sepetang launched its first Lenten Campaign
The Mandarin speaking youths of the Chapel of St Peter launched their first Lenten Campaign
and aslo formed the the Love Squad for the first time.
The youth leader, Joseph gave a brief explaination on the Lenten Campaign via a
powerpoint presentation during the announcement of the mass. The rest of the
Love Squad members distributed the flyers, bookmarks and envelopes to the
parishioners as they were leaving the chapel.
The five Love Squad members of this chapel were asissted by two of St. Louis'
love squad members.
Sacred Heart, Kampar
SMC Lends A Hand
St. Michael’s Church (SMC) had its official launch of the 2008 Penang Diocesan Lenten
Campaign on Sunday 10 February. Parish Priest Fr. Michael Cheah was invited to be the
first person to affix his handprint and signature on the banner. Parishioners were then invited
to do the same under the guidance of the Love Squad members.
In addition to the launch event, the Love Squad also created a Powerpoint presentation about
the Lenten Campaign which was screened at all the weekend masses. Members were in
attendance to distribute the campaign envelopes, flyers and bookmarks to parishioners after
each mass.
To encourage a faith-filled Lent at SMC, the Love Squad has organised an action-packed
5 week programme for adults and children (all activities will stop during Holy Week).
One of the planned activities is a project for Sunday School children called
“The Love Offering” where the children are encouraged to foster a spirit of love and sacrifice
for the less fortunate. On Palm Sunday, the children will present their love offerings during
the morning English and Chinese masses.
Also during this season, the PHDC will be collaborating with the BEC Group to visit various
charity homes in
on 24 February, depicting the stories of St. Francis of
By Stephanie Yeap
St Louis, Taiping Love Squad pledges 'Responsibility' this Lent
The Taiping Catholic Church launched her Lenten Campaign on 15th Feb.
The 20 member Love Squad comprising of youths from the three language
Youth Groups brought forth the Lenten message "Lend a Hand" through a
LCD slideshow. Besides the 3 objectives of Awareness, Out Reach and Almsgiving,
the Love Squad invites all parishioners; individuals and organizations to focus on
the virtue of Responsibility through out this Lenten season where we are called to
respond with compassion (Lk10:34) to seek, speak and act responsibly to oneself,
neighbours, society and nature. To put this virtue into action, 3 activities were planned.
Family Recycling Project, Health Care Awareness and Blood Donation Drive in
collaboration with the CNG and SDVP respectively. In bringing about this awareness
to the little children, the catechism teachers will give a 5 minute talk on the virtue of
Responsibility at the start of their lessons and at the same time the children will be
encouraged to make sacrifices by putting aside a bit of their pocket money into a coin
box in their classrooms. The money collected will then be placed in the Lenten Envelope
to be given at the end of the Season. The Love Squad will be moving out to all the outstation
chapels to distribute the flyers and bookmarks during their Masses so that everyone of
the Taiping Catholic Church will be aware of their Lenten commitment.
After Fr Stanley Antoni unfurled the Lenten Banner, 14 Love Squad members marched into
the church amidst an upbeat musci, each carrying a placard to form the word RESPONSIBILITY
to the applause of the congregation.
By Valerie Angus
Lenten Campaign Formation in the Penang Diocese January 5th & 6th 2008
The annual Lenten Campaign formation for all Love Squad members were held recently
in the five districts of the Penang Diocese.The formation were held at Pusat Keuskupan
Katolik for the Island & North District parishes, Church of Christ the King for Kedah
parishes, Church of St Anthony, Nibong Tebal for North District parishes,
Church of St Michael, Ipoh for North & Central Perak district parishes and Church of St Mary,
Tapah for the South Perak district parishes. All the formation were conducted by staff of POHD.
The formation was held for the Love Squad members comprising the youth & PHDC
members of the parish. The programme for the formation included some icebreaker
games to foster a good relationship among all the Love Squad from the different
parishes, spirituality input on the Lenten Campaign, and the main session of
brainstorming the plans of the Lenten Campaign by the Love Squad members.
The sprituality input on the Lenten Campaign 2008 in Ipoh & Tapah were presented by
Vimala Maria from the Penang Diocesan Youth Network (PDYN) and Rev. Francis
Andrew from the Church of the NBVM, Butterworth respectively.
