Boy, did they answer my prayers!

part of NaBloPoMo 2008

Since moving to Singapore I sometimes face difficulty of finding a church to go to. Well back in Jakarta my siblings and I (plus my cousin) will all go to this one church nearby our place at one time. So never once I missed church.

However it’s hard to be that discipline in Singapore. After so many projects and whatnots I tend to oversleep on weekends. That includes Sundays. So it’s like a very familiar scenario for me to wake up on a Sunday afternoon and ohshitting coz I missed the church.

However, the wonderful thing is that there are many Catholic churches in Singapore (I’m a Catholic and thus can go to any Catholic church to attend the mass) spread around the island. The next wonderful thing is that since it’s spread around, you’re bound to find a (Catholic) church near your place and that it’s easy to travel there.

The next wonderful thing is the website Veritas that is the official website of the Archdiocese of Singapore and lists the Catholic churches in Singapore, complete with the address, phone number, the names of the priests, the website of the church, and the directions! This is not an advertisement. I really respect their effort to list all of the churches.

So what I usually did is to browse around Veritas for the churches that has a mass on later time (since I missed the earlier one, you see..). However, it usually took damn long coz I needed to open the churches’ pages one by one to check the schedule.

One of ping.sg member, pausmiling, mentioned some time ago about the revamped website. However I still complained that it still takes me a long while just to find the mass timings.

Boy did they answer my prayers or what! Or maybe I overlooked the feature when I first surfed the revamped website. They actually DO have this nifty section called Mass Schedules.

Categorized into sections based on the day and the time of the mass!

Yayness!

I typed this after finding a church to go to for afternoon mass (yes I missed the earlier masses…). Found it here! Will be going to Cathedral of Good Shepherd’s 6 PM mass.

A big kudos to the team that revamped the website!

I wish you all a great Sunday and a great week tomorrow!