The St. Anne's Filipino Community will host the traditional Living Rosary this May. We are inviting all parishioners to join us on May 31, 2015. We will assemble in the church at 1:30 PM and the procession will start at 2:00 PM, followed by the Rosary, Flower Offering, and Crowning of our Blessed Mother Mary. We would be grateful if you can join us on this day wherein we will be making prayer petitions for Peace and Unity for the whole world.

Also, if there are children who want dress up as angels and want to join in this activity, please let me know in advance so that we can provide the appropriate attire for them. For more information, please contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call me at 91079805.

HELP WANTED!  

We are recruiting singers for two upcoming ceremonies: Confirmation on May 16th and First Holy Communion on May 23rd.  

Most of our regular music ministry members are not free to come on Saturdays, so we need singers from the parish community.  

Let’s come together to sing at these joyous occasions for the youth of our parish.  

For more details, or to volunteer, please contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Dear Music Ministry members,

The line-up and schedule for May are as follows:

Complete Music line-up for May
Music line-up for Confirmation
Music Line-up for First Holy Communion
Schedule for May

There is a lot going on in May, with the Confirmation Ceremony at 4pm on May 16th, and two First Holy Communion Ceremonies at 11:30am and 3:00pm on May 23rd.  Singers, please let me know if you can sing for these ceremonies so that I can plan how many we have.  

Also, on May 31st at 6pm there is a marriage celebration mass and renewal of wedding vows for Catholic married couples.  We have been asked to provide music, so if you can sing or accompany for this mass, please let me know.  

The April 19th 8:45 mass was broadcast on RTHK.  Thanks to the 8:45 choir for singing, especially to Jocelyn for the responsorial psalm and to Amar for the trumpet accompaniment.  The archive is here if you'd like to listen.  The next broadcast mass will be on May 31st, and the Filipino choir will sing.

Peace,

Peggie

 

Thanks to all the choirs for singing at the Easter week services. 

Thanks especially to the accompanists Ingrid Tsui from the Chinese choir, Hubie Lem, Agnes Lee, and Hunmin Kim, and to the cantors Pat Kozyra, Oliver Wong, Jocelyn La-ab, and Jam General. 

The music ministry wishes everyone a Happy Easter!

Dear Music Ministry members,

We are looking for an additional keyboard accompanist to join our ministry to play at the Saturday evening 6pm or the Sunday morning 8:45 Mass. 

If you play the piano and can help accompany once a month (or more), please contact me, Peggie Fitch, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The St. Anne's Filipino Community will host a two-part workshop on financial literacy for foreign overseas workers. 

These training workshops will be conducted by the staff of CARD MRI (Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions). This is a non-profit organization that promotes savings, entrepreneurship and financial education among Filipino migrant workers. 

The workshop will take place over two sessions on March 1st and March 29th from 1:30PM to 5:30PM in the Parish Hall at St. Anne’s.  Participants who attend the full two-day seminar will receive a certificate upon completion of the training.

For additional information, please contact Lorenda Rafanan at 9107 9805 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Dear Music Ministry members,

Happy Chinese New Year!  I wish you peace, prosperity, and good health in this year of the sheep.

The line-up and schedule for March are as follows:

March Music Line-up
March Schedule

The schedule for cantors will be:

• 8:45 mass – Lea on March 1, and Jocelyn on March 15.
• 11:15 mass – Lea on March 1, Stella on March 15, and Jam on March 22.

Please let me know if this schedule is ok for you; if not, we can make adjustments.

Our music ministry needs more accompanists. It would be a great help to have another keyboard player to volunteer once a month (or more). Also,the Filipino choirs could use another guitarist as backup for Paul andMay. If you know of anyone who can help, please encourage them to join us!

Peace, Peggie

Attached is the Lectors' Schedule for March 2015.

Please note that his schedule starts on February 28, Saturday!

Rehearsal for the anticipated Ash Wednesday service (on Tuesday, February 17^th) will start at 7pm, and all choir members are welcome to join.

Hubie Lem will be the accompanist.  If you can't make the rehearsal at 7pm, please come when you can. The mass starts at 8pm.

Dear Music Ministry members,

The line-up and schedule for February are attached. Many thanks to Stella Woo for the music selections.

Music Line-Up for February
Choir Schedule for February

After hearing Lea sing the responsorial psalm at the broadcast mass in December, some people have requested that we should start singing the responsorial psalm at the 8:45 mass. I have added this to the schedule starting on February 8th. My thinking is that we should rotate among three cantors for the 8:45 mass: Lea Faigmani, Jocelyn La-ab, and Oliver Wong, with Lea starting off on February 8th, and Oliver on February 15th. Cantors, please let me know if this schedule is good for you.

For the 11:15 mass, the cantor schedule will be Stella Woo on February 1st, Lea on February 8th, and Jam General on February 15th.

I have also received a request that we should announce the hymn numbers for the entrance and recessional hymns before we sing. (We hadn't been doing this consistently at the 8:45 mass).  This is to let everyone know what hymn number it is and to encourage everyone in the church to sing with us.

This year, Ash Wednesday falls on the eve of Chinese New Year. The evening mass for Ash Wednesday will be held, instead, on Tuesday February 17th at 8pm. If we can get a choir together, then we will provide music, so please let me know if you plan to come for this service.

Also, please be reminded that there is no Gloria sung during Lent, and that we will switch to the Lenten Gospel acclamation.

Peace,
Peggie

Dear Music Ministry members,

Many thanks to everyone who sang and accompanied for the Christmas masses!  Merry Christmas to you all, and may God bless you throughout the new year.

The line-up and schedule for January are in the links below:

Music Line Up January 2015
Choir Schedule January 2015

Peace,
Peggie

We welcome all parishioners (and visitors) to join the choir for Christmas— especially for the Christmas Family Mass when many of our regular choir members cannot join. If you’d like to join, then please let me know at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Even if you don’t join the choir, please join us in singing. Let us fill the church with joyful music!

Rehearsal Schedule for Christmas:

• General rehearsal – Sunday December 21^st in the church after the 11:15 Mass — for all those planning to sing at the Christmas midnight Mass.
• Christmas Family Mass — December 24^th — rehearsal at 3:45pm in the church, carols start at 4:45pm, Mass starts at 5pm.
• Christmas Midnight Mass — December 24^th – warmup at 11:15pm in the church, carols start at 11:30pm, Mass starts at midnight.
• Christmas Day 8:45am — no rehearsal — warmup at 8:30am in the church.
• Christmas Day 11:15am — no rehearsal — warmup at 11:00am in the church.

The music ministry wishes God’s blessings for you and your family at Christmas and in the new year!

Christmas is next month!  St. Anne's has a tradition of celebrating a Family Mass on Christmas Eve at 5pm, and we need to gather together a choir for this service.  We would love to have the youth musicians of the parish do this.  We are looking for singers as well as instrumental accompanists.  If you will be here in Hong Kong this Christmas and would like to join the choir for the Christmas Family Mass, then please contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The music ministry is in dire need of another keyboard accompanist to play at either the Saturday 6pm mass or the Sunday 8:45 mass, once or twice a month.  If you can play the piano and would like to help or to find out more details, PLEASE contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  

Dear Music Ministry members,

Thanks to Stella Woo for the music selections for December:

December Music Line-up
December Schedule

Singers, can you let me know which Christmas Mass you will be attending? We especially need singers for the Christmas Family Mass at 5pm December 24th, so if you can join that mass, please let me know.

Reminder that there is no Gloria during Advent, and that during the Christmas season, we will use the Celtic Alleluia instead of the Alleluia from the Mass of Christ the Savior.

I wish you all a good preparation for Christmas, and safe travels if you are going away!

Peace,
Peggie

There is interest in forming a group of men to learn Gregorian Chant and other traditional Catholic forms of prayer through sacred music (e.g.chanting parts of the Liturgy of the Hours). Anyone interested may contact Hubert (Hubie) Lem at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Christmas is next month!  St. Anne's has a tradition of celebrating a Family Mass on Christmas Eve at 5pm, and we need to gather together a choir for this service.  We would love to have the youth musicians of the parish do this.  We are looking for singers as well as instrumental accompanists.  If you will be here in Hong Kong this Christmas and would like to join the choir for the Christmas Family Mass, then please contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..   

There is interest in forming a group of men to learn Gregorian Chant and other traditional Catholic forms of prayer through sacred music (e.g. chanting parts of the Liturgy of the Hours).

Anyone interested may contact Hubert (Hubie) Lem at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Dear Music Ministry members,

We had a broadcast mass on October 19th. Thanks to the 8:45 choir for the music, which came out very well! If you'd like to listen to the archive, it is on the internet at the RTHK Radio 4 archive.   

The Confirmation class reconciliation ceremony will be held on Saturday November 15th at 3pm, and I will be the accompanist. I’m looking for someone to lead in singing the three hymns for the ceremony. If you are free that afternoon, and would like to help, then please let me know.

Here are the line-up and schedule for November:

November music line-up
November schedule

Peace,
Peggie

The St. Anne's Filipino Community will host our traditional Living Rosary on October 26th at exactly at 2:00PM.

The Living Rosary's petition is for Peace and Unity of the whole world. We are inviting everybody to please join us in our pious dedication to our Blessed Mother Mary.

If your children would like to join in this activity and be dressed as angels, please contact us in advance so that we can provide appropriate attire for them.

For queries, please contact Lorenda Rafanan at 91079805 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Dear Music Ministry members,

Thanks and welcome to our new music ministry members this year.  And thanks to all who continue to serve in this ministry year after year.  I am pleased to let you know that our music ministry now has 47 members, including 4 for Saturday 6pm mass, 17 for Sunday 8:45 mass, and 26 for Sunday 11:15 mass. Our members are from the Filipino, Chinese, and Expat communities, and include young and old, men and women, guitar, keyboard, trumpet, and violin, as well as singers (of course!).

Click the links below for the October line-up and schedule:

October line-up
October Schedule

Peace,
Peggie