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Church of St Joseph
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Church of St Joseph
Contact: Edmund Chong Parish Priest
Address: 620 Upper Bukit Timah Road,
Singapore 678116
Tel: (65) 6769-1666 (65) 6766-0891
Fax: (65) 6766-0891
e-mail:
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Website:
http://www.stjoseph-bt.org.sg Categories: Churches, Places of Worship, Religious
Services, Religious Institutions Company Profile: Catholic church at 620 Upper Bukit
Timah Road. Indeed, such fighting language by Historian
Robert Spencer is especially appropriate when we recall the
great sacrifices made by the early missionaries who brought
the faith to Singapore.
In 1846,
Fr Anatole Mauduit, of the MEP who had arrived in
Singapore two years earlier built a chapel dedicated
to St. Joseph’s. By the 1850s, the Church has grown
in numbers sufficient to irritate the secret society
chiefs who launched a series of attacks on the
Christians in the interior, spilling the soil of
Singapore with the blood of its first martyrs. Worst
still, tigers roamed freely in the interior possibly
devouring a coolie a day in the 1850s. When the
authorities did not let the body of a poor coolie
carried of by a tiger be buried, wanting to use the
human corpse as bait to lure the tiger back so that
it could be shot. Fr Augustine Perie protested,
retrieved the coolie’s body and prepared it for a
decent burial, demonstrating that a poor person
should never be treated without dignity, in life and
also in death.
Indeed, such fighting language by Historian Robert
Spencer is especially appropriate when we recall the
great sacrifices made by the early missionaries who
brought the faith to Singapore. In the 19th century,
Singapore was already a thriving port city. While
the British ensured that there was money to be made,
and jobs aplenty, their jurisdiction of the country
extended mainly to the city area. The British
authorities cared little for what happens in the the
interior of the island as long as the gambier and
the pepper found there made their way to the town
itself.
Life in the jungle was fraught with danger with the
activities of robber bands and secret society gangs
filling up the gap in jurisdiction left by the
British. Yet filling up this vacuum is also the
Catholic Church. Heroic priests brought the faith to
the Chinese coolies in the interior. They told them
of a God who loved them and had become man, and who
reigns not by power m terror and fear so typical of
the secret societies and robbers they encounter but
through love. They showed their love by living
simply with the people, listening to their
difficulties, burying their dead, building schools
for their children and acting as intermediaries with
the British authorities.
Yet through all these, our forefathers persisted and
clung to their faith. It’s been already 160 years
since the founding of St. Joseph Church. As we look
to the future, let us always remember where we have
come from, never to take our faith for granted and
let what has been hard won be drowned in a flood of
materialism, indifferentism and ingratitude. St
Joseph, guardian of the Holy Church of God, pray for
us!
The Council’s purpose is to promote active
participation and co-responsibility of all the
faithful in parish life. It aims at the
collaboration of the faithful with the Parish Priest
to ponder and investigate pastoral concerns and to
formulate practical conclusions concerning them.
The Council possesses a consultative vote, governed
by norms determined by Constitution approved by the
Archbishop of Singapore.
The Parish Pastoral Council consists of a three-tier
structure of Parish Assembly, Parish Pastoral
Council and its Executive Committee.
Executive Committee
It is the working body of the Council. It follows
up, implements the recommendations of the Council,
and fosters perennial pastoral activities at the
parish level. The Ex-Co meets monthly. The term of
office of parishioners serving the Ex-Co is two
years, and shall not serve more than two consecutive
terms.
Parish Priest
Fr Edmund Chong
Tel:67659561
Fax: 67627136
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