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Soul Rest: A Day with the Lord 🏞️ Come away... and rest awhile.Pause. Breathe. Recharge. Find renewal and stillness in t...
25/06/2026

Soul Rest: A Day with the Lord 🏞️
Come away... and rest awhile.
Pause. Breathe. Recharge.
Find renewal and stillness in this Day of Recollection (DoR), open to all who are same-sex attracted or those identifying as LGBTQ.

🗓️ Sat 18 July 2026
🕘 9.00am-5.00pm
📍 Montfort Centre, Blk D, 624 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, S 678212, access via Assumption Pathway School at Cashew Road
💌 Contribution fee of $90 per pax (includes breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and use of conference room facilities); subsidy available.

Join us! Do register by 4 July via tinyurl.com/CourageDoR2026

Dear brothers and sisters, the enCourage ministry invites you to our yearly retreat for parents and friends of loved one...
24/06/2026

Dear brothers and sisters, the enCourage ministry invites you to our yearly retreat for parents and friends of loved ones who are same-sex attracted or who identify as LGBTQ. This will be the fourth time for enCourage to organise similarly-dedicated retreat and past participants had received graces in prayerful time with the Lord reflecting on His call to welcome, accept and support their loved ones.

Details of the retreat are as shown in the poster. Kindly register by 30 June 2026.
Please share this with family and friends who you know will benefit from this retreat.

Thank you and God bless.
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enCourage is the Catholic Church’s ministry to support parents, spouses and friends of same-sex attracted or LGBTQ Catholics. It provides pastoral-spiritual accompaniment and support

Soul Rest: A Day with the Lord 🏞️Come away... and rest awhile Pause. Breathe. Recharge. Find renewal and stillness in th...
14/06/2026

Soul Rest: A Day with the Lord 🏞️
Come away... and rest awhile

Pause. Breathe. Recharge. Find renewal and stillness in this Day of Recollection (DoR), open to all who are same-sex attracted or those identifying as LGBTQ.

🗓️ Sat 18 July 2026
🕘 9.00am-5.00pm
📍 Montfort Centre, Blk D, 624 Upper Bukit Timah Rd, S 678212, access via Assumption Pathway School at Cashew Road
💌 Contribution fee of $90 per pax (includes breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, and use of conference room facilities); subsidy available.

Join us! Do register by 4 July via tinyurl.com/CourageDoR2026

Dear brothers and sisters, the enCourage ministry invites you to our yearly retreat for parents and friends of loved one...
11/06/2026

Dear brothers and sisters, the enCourage ministry invites you to our yearly retreat for parents and friends of loved ones who are same-sex attracted or who identify as LGBTQ. This will be the fourth time for enCourage to organise similarly-dedicated retreat and past participants had received graces in prayerful time with the Lord reflecting on His call to welcome, accept and support their loved ones.

Details of the retreat are as shown in the poster. Kindly register by 30 June 2026.

Please share this with family and friends who you know will benefit from this retreat.

Thank you and God bless.

As we celebrate the Lunar New Year, a time of gathering with our loved ones, we also welcome the start of Lent this Ash ...
18/02/2026

As we celebrate the Lunar New Year, a time of gathering with our loved ones, we also welcome the start of Lent this Ash Wednesday. In this similar vein of reunion, we would like to invite everyone to journey with us with this year’s theme, “Homebound: Finding Our Place in the Heart of Christ”.

The prophet Joel calls us with this invitation: “Now, now – it is the Lord who speaks – come back to me with all your heart, fasting, weeping, mourning. Let your hearts be broken, not your garments torn, turn to the Lord your God again, for he is all tenderness and compassion, slow to anger, rich in graciousness, and ready to relent.”

The invitation here is clear: God wants us to return home, to turn to Him again. He desires our sincere inner repentance and genuine contrition from sin. He desires these over the outward superficial displays of grief or religious rituals. Jesus echoes this sentiment in the Gospel reading. So let us use the reflections over Lent to Holy week to approach God with contrite, yet hopeful hearts, trusting in His mercy that forgives and redeems us for Himself.

Let us do this by journeying home to God together with Christ this Lent – with Him, from the desert to Calvary, and to His Resurrection. Shall we?

(Photo credits: Yashodhan Mohite on Unsplash)

The Grace of the Walk - The sight of 2 persons on the road (from 4th Sunday of Advent) can trigger memories in us. To so...
26/12/2025

The Grace of the Walk - The sight of 2 persons on the road (from 4th Sunday of Advent) can trigger memories in us. To some, it is an image of reconciliation, from a period of mutual estrangement. To others, it mirrors a road travelled with a loved one whom we remember. It may also reflect the solitude we share with Jesus, in a space once marked by years of self-delusion, self-loathing and self-alienation. This image reflects the deepest intimacy we all long for – to be seen, be accompanied fully, without being overtaken or left alone on the road. Recall a beautiful walk you might have had with someone special in your life – the kind of walk you wished will never end…a shared space where words were no longer needed. The walk became nourishing in its own way, full of care and presence, an honest space that builds a life-giving and lasting bond.

May I now invite you to pray together, “Lord, I fill my life with many distractions. I am not always at home in my silence. If silence is the language you speak, I am not always ready to listen well. This Christmas, please give me the grace to make a bigger space for you in my cluttered heart. Grace me with opportunities to identify specific roads in my life where you are keen to walk a little closer with me, especially in secret unlit pathways which I struggle to accept or name. Let me not forget the brighter spaces too, past roads where I am grateful for and have often found joy reliving them.

Jesus, my heart contains many roads and I have sometimes given up on one road in exchange for another. I give you permission to walk every road with me, trusting in Your mercy, always stronger and higher than my clumsy sense of pride to manage every route on my own.

Insecure as I may sometimes be, Lord, please intrude as gently as you can. Come, be on the road with me so that I can know you more deeply as Lord and personal friend, one who gives meaning to communities I belong to or be brought to new places of truth and emotional freedom which were once usurped by obsessions or lies which limit the kind of long term contentment and anchor you wish to impart into my life.”

(a personal reflection by fellow pilgrim from Courage)

We Make Room in LoveThank you for meeting me. This is something I often think about when I ponder on my interactions wit...
22/12/2025

We Make Room in Love

Thank you for meeting me. This is something I often think about when I ponder on my interactions with friends from Courage/enCourage. I thank them for being on this journey of life with me – for doing life with me.

The two figures, walking intimately on a winding path, embody a profound spaciousness in their shared existence. They don’t appear driven by a rigid direction or a singular goal, but rather by the very act of walking together as the round winds. This openness to the unknown path ahead creates a vast internal and relational space – a readiness to receive and live God’s love in the process. The light now surrounds and illuminates all things.

This Advent, I pray that God’s love makes its dwelling in me. I pray for the grace to move from cautious self-preservation into this spaciousness He has created, so that I may extend welcome to others through a shared presence. I pray for a spaciousness that isn’t just empty space, but a fertile ground for possibilities – mirroring the expansive love Christ calls you and me to embody in our communities, relationships, Church, and the world. Lord, grant me grateful joy that opens Yourself to embrace me and many more.

(a sharing by Moses, a Courage member)
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In this final week of Advent, we contemplate the profound truth that the Word became flesh (John 1:1–14). God chose embodiment, affirming that our bodies, identities, and stories matter. God’s light shines in darkness, not away from it. Our wounds, fears, and histories are not obstacles, but places of revelation. No darkness can ever overcome Christ dwelling in us.

From Christ’s fullness, we have all received grace. Love multiplies; it is not scarce or divisive. We are now the dwelling place of God. God made room in us so that we, in turn, can make room for others.

Making room in love is not optional; it is our mission. Let us be light for the world as we carry Christ’s light into places of loneliness and exclusion.

For our reflection:

Where do I sense Christ dwelling in me?
Who is God inviting me to make room for?
How is my community called to be a place of welcome?
What would it look like to be “light” for someone this Christmas?

There is a sort of classic imagery when I think of our blessed Lord, Jesus in the manger. A sort of trough, a hut, and M...
19/12/2025

There is a sort of classic imagery when I think of our blessed Lord, Jesus in the manger. A sort of trough, a hut, and Mary holding her child. I imagine these familiar elements, but in a different setting. This is the brightest photo – out of the whole series of 4 images – not designed to be a grand spectacle, but to exemplify absolute acceptance in this humble space. The smallness of the manger has now been expanded into a wider space.

We often speak of Jesus being made man and coming as the infant that is God’s visible sign of love for us. Mary exemplifies this too in the tender care for her son. She is completely focused on being there for her son. She will then continue to be with him in places of miracles, rejection and simplicity too.

God makes room for me right there in these moments. I belong not because I’ve earned it, but because God’s love chooses the place of simplicity as the perfect place for welcome. Lord, grant me grateful joy that You opened to embrace me and many more.

(a sharing by Moses, a Courage member)

Jesus was born into a world that had “no room” for him (Luke 2:1–20). From his first breath, the Savior knew what exclusion felt like, beginning his life on the margins. God chose the manger, a simple feeding trough, over palaces, making it a symbol of radical welcome: open, simple, and accessible to all.

The manger reveals a God who is both approachable and vulnerable. We don’t need perfection to come close; we simply need to be open and ready to receive. God draws near in fragility. Mary, witnessing this profound mystery, treasured and pondered these things, choosing contemplation rather than control, even as God’s ways surprised her.

Belonging - this is what the manger also expresses. It becomes the first church: a place where all gather, where all find room, and where God’s love is accessible to every person. This week, let us contemplate the profound room God makes for us.

For Reflection

Where have I experienced “no room” in my own life?
How might God be drawing close to me in vulnerability?
What does the manger say about God’s welcome?
In what places do I most feel like a shepherd—and how is God meeting me there?

Advent Recollection is an invitation to all attending to prepare for Jesus’ coming at Christmas. Filled with God’s grace...
15/12/2025

Advent Recollection is an invitation to all attending to prepare for Jesus’ coming at Christmas. Filled with God’s graces from last Thursday evening, Courage and enCourage communities give thanks to God and the parish of Church of the Sacred Heart, Singapore for the opportunity to serve in “The Promise of Light - Journeying with Emmanuel” together with Father Adrian Danker. The fellowship that followed was also blessed with warmth and generosity.

Let us continue to pray, through the intercession of our blessed Mother Mary and her Immaculate Heart, for the love, mercy and guidance of the Holy Trinity to be upon Sacred Heart parish, our loved ones, the world and our Church to prepare well for Christmas.

“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to Your Word.”(Luke 1:38)This was Mary’s profound...
14/12/2025

“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to Your Word.”
(Luke 1:38)

This was Mary’s profound response at the Annunciation when the Angel Gabriel foretold that she would become the mother of Jesus. She said “yes” even when she didn’t fully understand the immense impact of what was to come.

We often prefer to be in control of our lives, amassing as much knowledge as possible so that we can obtain our desired outcomes. Feelings of doubt and uncertainty will clutter our hearts whenever we are faced with challenges or situations that are not in our favour. And so, we often ask God, “Why me?”

At our recent Advent retreat, I found the answer through a “Prayer with Art” activity where we were asked to design mosaic sun-catchers with beads and broken glass. I learned that it is only when we create space that light can shine through to magnify the inherent beauty of the beads and the broken glass of our lives.

Mary’s answer to our doubts and uncertainties is her courageous willingness to let go and allow God to take control. This surrender is beautifully captured in her prayer of praise to God, the Magnificat, “My soul glorifies the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my saviour… The Almighty works marvels for me, holy is His name!”

As we celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception this week, may we strive to emulate Mary’s trust in God by making room in our hearts during this holy season. When we do, His light can shine through the spaces to illuminate the darkness around and within us.

- 2nd week of Advent reflection by Dominic T, a Courage member.

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