Dear Friends,

Archimandrite Father Serge Keleher of Dublin will be in Singapore from 20th to 25th September. As he will be in town for the Feast of the Nativity of the Mother of God (on the traditional Julian church calendar) and for the weekend, he will be celebrating a full cycle of services according to the Byzantine rite.

The schedule is as follows:

Thursday 20th September-Eve of the Feast:
Vigil at 7.00 p.m.

Friday 21st September-The Nativity of the Mother of God:
Hours and Divine Liturgy (Mass) at 7.00 p.m.

Saturday 22nd September:
Vigil at 6.00 p.m.

Sunday 23rd September:
Hours and Divine Liturgy (Mass) at 10 a.m.

Liturgy on Sunday naturally fulfils the Sunday obligation for those who are bound by it. This IS a Catholic Mass - Fr Serge is a Russian-rite Catholic Priest and these services are taking place with the blessing of His Grace, Bishop Peter Stasiuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Eparchy
of Ss. Peter and Paul of Melbourne.

Vigil on the 20th and 22nd will be in a mix of languages, but Hours & Divine Liturgy on the 21st and 23rd will be mostly in English, with small amounts of Church-Slavonic, Greek, Romanian and possibly even Arabic.

For those who wish to know, services will have only such abbreviations are common in Russian parish practice. Music at Liturgy will mostly be that of the Russian Synodal School of the 19th Century, so with the exception of the use of English, the services will follow Russian Nikonian usage (with some elements of the Old Rite). Music at Vigil will be largely monophonic chant of various traditions - Znamenny, Court Chant, Galician, Serbian and Byzantine.

All Catholics who have observed the appropriate Communion Fast and are in a state of grace are welcome to receive Communion at both Liturgies. Orthodox Christians are of course more than welcome. Fr. Serge will be available to hear confessions before the services in English, Irish, Russian, Ukrainian and French. He will also be available to answer questions about the Christian East and Eastern Catholicism.

For those who are non-Christian or non-Catholic but interested in just witnessing the service(s), you are more than welcome to attend.

All services will be held at the Armenian Church of St Gregory the Illuminator, 60 Hill Street, Singapore.

For more information, please contact: Edward Yong (edward.yong@gmail.com, mobile +65 94244261) or Collin Michael Nunis (collin_nunis@yahoo.com, +60122745356). Please pass this information on to whomever you think might be interested.

For Malaysians who are interested to know more about Byzantine Catholicism, I would be more than pleased to meet with you.


Collin Michael Nunis

This post has been edited by collin_nunis: Sep 14 2007, 01:24 PM