Kristus Aman parish celebrates first ever feastday

KUALA LUMPUR: Kristus Aman, (KA) (the Peace of Christ) celebrated its first-ever Feastday, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God on January 1, 2018 with the theme Mary, Queen of Peace. A Triduum of Masses Dec 29- 31, 2017 served as preparation, culminating with Mass and a Marian procession on the Feastday itself, January 1.

Kristus Aman was also blessed to have a ‘triple first’ to commemorate the auspicious occasion. Fr Michael Chua is the first parish priest of KA to moot the idea of choosing our feastday to be commemorated on January 1, to coincide with World Day of Peace since our chapel is “Peace of Christ.” Fr Esmond Chua, OFM (son of the parish and its first ordained priest) was the main celebrant of KA’s first ever Feastday.

Special and grateful thanks to Fr Michael for his guidance throughout preparations for our inaugural feastday. By the same token, grateful thanks and recognition are to be accorded to Fr Esmond for his excellent delivery of a series of ‘invaluable, soul-searching’ homilies dedicated to Our Lady.

The feastday began early for members of the Organising Committee who worked tirelessly to ensure that everything would be in order. The Committee advertised and promoted the feastday’s activities weeks prior to the event by constantly updating the KA website. Transcripts of Fr Esmond’s homilies were immediately uploaded onto the KA website for parishioners who missed out on any of the homilies. (www.kristusamam.org)

For the procession, two outriders preceded the altar servers to lead the procession. Next came the pretty flower girls, followed by the concelebrants, Fr Michael Chua and Fr Esmond Chua, walking before the Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, followed closely by the extraordinary ministers of Communion and banner bearers representing the Parish feastday, as well as the BEC and KA Youth Ministry patron saints.

Forming the bulk of the procession were the rest of the congregation, over 600 strong, including fellow parishioners from Jesus Caritas and several other parishes within the Klang Valley. The half-kilometre route along Lorong Rahim Kajai 14 attracted passers-by, some of whom looked curious while others just witnessed the event with smiles.

After the procession and blessing, the parishioners were treated to pizzas and packet rice for dinner. The parishioners were also treated to Christmas carolling by the Children and Youth Ministries who cajoled Fr Esmond into joining in the fun.

Article reproduced from Herald Malaysia online