30hour FAST A Sense of Humanity

The 30hour FAST will be held once more at Church of the Holy Spirit, 13 March

The past 3 FASTS have been catered to teens and this year we decided to open it to young adults. Of course, adults are welcomed too! Minimum age is 17 years old.

In previous FAST, the program had games, aspects of social justice, Praise and Worship. Things were alot more fast paced and noisy too!

For this year's FAST we will slow down to breathe and reflect, to be silent, to pray. That explains the minimum age of 17 years. If there are teens who still like to come back for the FAST again and are not 17 yet, and you are able to take a good ol' retreat, you're most welcomed to FAST with us.

The FAST leads us back to what Lent is all about. We want to remind one another that Lent is not just about fasting, prayer and almsgiving. But there's a reason behind why we do what we do. Lent is about our baptism. It is about conversion and renewing our lives. The prophet Joel announces a solemn journey that will help us turn back to God.

Maybe we're ok. We're good Catholics. We've not forsaken God. But often the demands of life seem larger than the meaning of life itself. Perhaps we can say that our humanity does take a toil on our spiriuality. So let us be led as Jesus was led, be nourished as Jesus was nourished.

We invite you, who would like to experience a deeper sense of your humanity, you who are 10 or 100 years old, who would like to share your human journey with others, to come, to FAST.

A place to call home

In a whilst time, we'll have a place to call home. It's a small house in a beautiful place (I call "my colorado"). The kids are always asking when they're going to shift. May faces their many questions. And she's working fast to get the paper work done. The home will be bought this March when we go down. We'll pay for the title of the house 1st. Payment for the land rights will follow later on. Renovations will start once the former owners shift out in the 1st week of April.

When we're there this March, we'll have to settle on the materials, the tilings, the staircase, partitions, shelvings, toilet bowl, cooking stove... lotsss... and of course the actual renovation costings and floor plan, since we will be making it a proper double-storey house with sky garden :) Lord, please bless the house, all who live in it now, all who will be living in it, all who will be visiting it and all who will be working on it! :)

I see a

double-storey painted house

where lives unfold

and children grow

Christ, the head of this household.

The ground floor is a place of welcome,

where meals are prepared

and the day's events are shared.

Prayers are said,

people are blessed

and the hungry are fed.

The second floor is a place of study,

a little library,

for one to learn and read

about the world around and beyond.

It's also a place of rest

where tired feet go and bodies a'slumber

till a new day awakens

The third floor, is really a rooftop,

a cherished sky garden

where the morning sun is greeted

by ginger and onions,

eggplants abundant.

Here the evening sky is marvelled

the stars light up the darkness

and the moon shows off her illuminated glow.

Here we'll wait all night

for another meteorite shower.

the front porch

part of the living room

other half of the living room

the stairs and the makeshift ceiling

the makeshift 2nd floor

outside the kitchen

the kitchen


the CR (toilet)