SANDAKAN - Forty-seven catechumens enrolled their names in the Book of the Elect on 25 Feb 2018 at St Mary Cathedral here. In the BM speaking class, there were 18 candidates for full Initiation, four Confirmands, eight for Baptism and…
SANDAKAN - St Mary's Cathedral here celebrated the feast of the Assumption with a Marian procession on 15 Aug 2017. It began with the tri-lingual recitation of the Holy Rosary and the blessing of the statue of Mother Mary by…
SANDAKAN -Fifty catechists attended a half-day faith formation on 19 Aug 2017 at the St Mary's Cathedral Parish conference room here. The participants - Sunday School teachers and RCIA facilitators - came from St Peter Sungai Manila, St Mark and…
SANDAKAN - St Mary's Cathedral Parish here accepted 65 inquirers into the Order of Catechumens on 20 Aug 2017. The inquirers will now be known as catechumens. They have journeyed together for 11 weeks during the pre-catechumenate period of the…
SANDAKAN - St Mary's Cathedral parish here held its inaugural pastoral assembly at its parish centre on 8 July 2017. The soon-to-be-launched Diocesan Vision and Mission in October prompted the steering committee - parish pastoral council, finance committee, property and…
SANDAKAN - The Catechetical Sunday for 2017, being brought forward from September to January by the Catechetical Commission of Malaysia, has eased problems for Sunday School teachers in the parish. Sunday School usually begins classes in January each year. The…
SANDAKAN -The Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) of St Mary Cathedral here organised a two-day planning workshop to identify key pastoral areas and to prioritise pastoral activities towards achieving vision and mission’ on 23-24 Jan 2017 at the parish hall. One…
SANDAKAN – An exorcism seminar at St Mary's Cathedral here drew about 350 participants recently. The 350 participants came from the four parishes in Sandakan Diocese: Telupid, Lahad Datu, Tawau and Sandakan. The seminar on exorcism, organised by the Catholic…
SANDAKAN - Sandakan cathedral parish celebrated its feast day with missionary fervour. The weekend of 13-14 Aug 2016 saw the entire parish of St Mary’s Cathedral here coming together as one to celebrate its 133rd anniversary on the Feast of…
SANDAKAN - A third deacon was ordained for Sandakan Diocese recently. Seminarian Christopher Ireneus of Kg Kiabau Telupid, 35, was ordained to the diaconate by Bishop Julius Dusin Gitom on 18 July 2016 at St Mary's Cathedral here. Among the…