Announcements 29th – 30th Dec 2012, The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph

1.     Administration (Rosters and Special Events)

a.     Special events roster for Jan has been published.

b.     Group 1 servers will be serving the Novena service on next Sat, 4^th Jan.

c.     All long term excuses lasting for more than 21 days, with the exception of that of full time national servicemen will EXPIRE on Mon, 31^st Dec.

                                               i.     If servers are applying for long term excuse lasting for more than 21 days, please fill in a new letter of excuse with CLEAR DETAILS.  It should be signed by one’s parents if one is under the age of 21.  The excuse will be subject to approval by the Spiritual Director.

d.     Servers are reminded that if they persistently do not turn up for duty without submitting excuse letters, or are displaying a lack of commitment will eventually be called up for an interview with the Executive Committee.

e.     Servers are reminded to be in the sacristy 30 minutes before all masses and Leaders 35 minutes before mass.

f.      As part of their spiritual formation and community building, servers secondary 1 and above are to have regular attendance for Friday night bible sharing from 830pm to 10pm.

g.     The following primary 6 servers will move on to secondary 1 in 2013 and have been posted to the following mass groups.  Any server who wishes to change to another mass group is to submit a written request signed by their parents.  Attendance ICs are to note these changes and edit the attendance sheets for 2013.

                                               i.     Group 1 (Sat 530pm)

1.     Joshua de Souza

                                             ii.     Group 3 (Sun 9am)

1.     Kristopher Go

2.     Zachary Chan

3.     Ivan Lee

4.     Martin Hernandez

5.     Jonah Teo

                                            iii.     Group 5 (Sun 530pm)

1.     Timothy Low

2.     Canteen and Chinese New Year Cookie Sales

a.     Sales will be held for 4 weekends starting Sat, 12th Jan.

                                               i.     Rosters have been published.

                                             ii.     Servers are required to report on time for duty.

                                            iii.     If servers are unable to turn up for duty, they are to swap timeslots with another server.

                                            iv.     Wear the servers’ t-shirt.

b.     Canteen will be held on Sun, 20^th Jan.  Servers are requested to consider what they would be contributing as an Executive Committee member will be contacting them soon.

3.     Sacristans

a.     Sacristans are once again reminded that they are not to leave keys unattended at any time and to secure the safe when locking up the church.  Persistent carelessness with these security matters will result in disciplinary action.

b.     Sacristans are reminded to commence setting up of the church no less than one hour before special masses (charismatic, wedding, funeral) and no less than 45 minutes before all other masses.

c.     Sun, 5^th Jan is the Solemnity of the Epiphany of our Lord.  The liturgical colour is white.  Please burn incense for all masses.

4.     New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Mass (Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God)

a.     Rosters have been published.  Please check.

5.     Retirement and migration

a.     The following servers have made the decision to retire as of 1^st Jan 2013.  Please keep them in your prayers.  The Society would like to thank them for their years of service to the Lord and wishes them all the best in their future endeavours.  Retiring servers, please contact the Vestments IC Luke Yeo or Emanuel Lee to return your vestments (cassocks, capes and sashes) by Sun, 6^th Jan.  Vestment ICs to ensure.

                                               i.     Benedict Jacob (Normal retirement)

                                             ii.     Jacob de Jesus (Migration)

                                            iii.     John de Jesus (Migration)

                                            iv.     Joshua de Jesus (Migration)

                                              v.     Julian Lee (Normal retirement)

                                            vi.     Nicholas Rankine (Normal retirement)

                                           vii.     Shawn Wong (Seminary studies)

                                         viii.     Sherman Lim (Normal retirement)

6.     Cassock exchange

a.     The cassock exchange list is out.  All servers are to check that the current and new sizes of the cassocks are correct.  Please inform Luke Yeo or Emanuel Lee if they are not before Sat, 4^th Jan.

b.     Cassock exchange will take place over the next weekend, 4^th to 5^th Jan.  All servers on the list are to make arrangements to exchange their cassocks with the other server on the list on their own.  Cassocks should be washed and ironed before exchange.

c.     Please contact Luke Yeo or Emanuel Lee if there are any problems.  Servers on the list which are still using a poorly fitted cassock because they have neglected to change it by 31^st Jan will not be allowed to serve masses till they have made the exchange.