Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary & Sts. Chastan and Imbert

05/06/2026

Nothing compares to spending time with Jesus! It leaves your soul refreshed and your body energised.

We welcome you to adore the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will be held today from 11.30 am to 12.30 pm at NBVM Church.

04/06/2026

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known as Corpus Christi, is a special celebration of our faith in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.

We invite all parishioners to join us as we gather in worship and thanksgiving for this precious gift that Christ has entrusted to His Church.

📅 Sunday, 7 June 2026
🕕 6.00 PM
📍 Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (NBVM)

Multilingual Mass followed by a Eucharistic Procession

As we accompany Our Lord in procession, let us publicly witness our faith and deepen our love for Christ truly present in the Blessed Sacrament.

03/06/2026

Wishing Fr David Lourdes a blessed and joyful birthday.

We thank God for the gift of your priestly ministry, your faithful service, and your presence in our parish community. May the Lord continue to bless you with good health, peace, joy, and abundant grace.

Happy Birthday, Fr David. Be assured of our prayers today.

03/06/2026

We warmly welcome Fr Bernard Hyacinth SJ as our new Assistant Parish Priest.

May his ministry among us be blessed with grace, joy and abundant fruit. Let us keep Fr Bernard in our prayers as he begins this new journey with our parish family.

Welcome, Fr Bernard. We are blessed to have you with us.

31/05/2026

Our NBVM/SCIC youth leaders came together for a two-day Spiritual and Fellowship Camp deepening their faith, strengthening their bonds and renewing their call to serve. Keep it up, youth!

During the last two days, 29–30 May, the NBVM/SCIC youth leaders-Jayden, Brian, Santiago, Aaron, Gregory, and Raymand – participated in a Youth Spiritual and Fellowship Camp held at SCIC. The…

30/05/2026

We often begin Mass with the prayer from today’s Epistle: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you.” We praise the God who has revealed Himself as a Trinity, a communion of persons.

Communion with the Trinity is the goal of our worship—and the purpose of the salvation history that begins in the Bible and continues in the Eucharist and sacraments of the Church.

We see the beginnings of God’s self-revelation in today’s First Reading, as He passes before Moses and cries out His holy name.

Israel had sinned in worshipping the golden calf. But God does not condemn them to perish. Instead He proclaims His mercy and faithfulness to His covenant.

God loved Israel as His firstborn son among the nations. Through Israel—heirs of His covenant with Abraham—God planned to reveal Himself as the Father of all nations.

The memory of God’s covenant testing of Abraham—and Abraham’s faithful obedience—lies behind today’s Gospel.

In commanding Abraham to offer his only beloved son, God was preparing us for the fullest possible revelation of His love for the world.

As Abraham was willing to offer Isaac, God did not spare His own Son but handed Him over for us all.

In this, He revealed what was only disclosed partially to Moses—that His kindness continues for a thousand generations, that He forgives our sin and takes us back as His very own people.

Jesus humbled Himself to die in obedience to God’s will. And for this, the Spirit of God raised Him from the dead, and gave Him a name above every name.

This is the name we glorify in today’s Responsorial: the name of our Lord, the God who is Love.

https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/how-god-loves-scott-hahn-reflects-on-trinity-sunday

28/05/2026

As we close the Marian month of May, we invite you to come together in prayer as we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation.

24/05/2026

Revisiting this article from a few years ago on the deeper meaning of Pentecost — the day the Church was born and the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles.

Happy birthday to our one holy catholic and apostolic Church! Come, Holy Spirit!🔥🕊️

Have you ever contemplated about what the Feast of Pentecost is really about? If you’re like me, it hasn’t been until this time of being away from the church that you’re really looking …

23/05/2026

The giving of the Spirit to the new people of God crowns the mighty acts of the Father in salvation history.

The Jewish feast of Pentecost called all devout Jews to Jerusalem to celebrate their birth as God’s chosen people in the covenant Law given to Moses at Sinai.

In today’s First Reading, the mysteries prefigured in that feast are fulfilled in the pouring out of the Spirit on Mary and the Apostles.

The Spirit seals the new law and new covenant brought by Jesus, written not on stone tablets but on the hearts of believers, as the prophets promised.

The Spirit is revealed as the life-giving breath of the Father, the Wisdom by which He made all things, as we sing in today’s Psalm. In the beginning, the Spirit came as a “mighty wind” sweeping over the face of the earth. And in the new creation of Pentecost, the Spirit again comes as “a strong, driving wind” to renew the face of the earth.

As God fashioned the first man out of dust and filled him with His Spirit, in today’s Gospel we see the New Adam become a life-giving Spirit, breathing new life into the Apostles.

Like a river of living water, for all ages He will pour out His Spirit on His body, the Church, as we hear in today’s Epistle.

We receive that Spirit in the sacraments, being made a “new creation” in Baptism. Drinking of the one Spirit in the Eucharist, we are the first fruits of a new humanity—fashioned from out of every nation under heaven, with no distinctions of wealth or language or race, a people born of the Spirit.

https://stpaulcenter.com/posts/a-mighty-wind-scott-hahn-reflects-on-pentecost-sunday