Anyone who is at least 10 years of age or approaching their 10th birthday and has celebrated their First Holy Communion is very welcome to join this ministry. For additional information and to rsvp for the training, please contact Moka Quinlan at 6148.8557 or via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Desperately Needed - Acolytes for Saturday 6:00pm masses.  Many of our Saturday evening Acolytes have recently relocated.  Please consider giving of your time at the 6:00pm mass.

This week's Acolytes:

Saturday, September 14th

6:00pm     Volunteers needed

Sunday, September 15th

8:45am     Abigail Evangelista, Ying Ying Tse, Keelin McNicholas, Jason Poon

11:15am   Rachel Chang, Greg Chang, Keith Choa

6:00pm     Owen Tucker, Emma Tucker

Important Dates

Sept 22           No Classes

Oct 3, 10         Parents Meeting – FHC (7:30pm Parish Hall)

Oct 6, 20         Parents Meeting – Confirmation (10am Parish Hall)

Oct 13             Confirmation Right of Enrollment (11:15am Mass)

Oct 27             No Classes

*** Attendance is mandatory at ONE of the above Parents Meetings if your child is in First Holy Communion (FHC) or Confirmation. ***

Late Registration

If you would like to register a child, please do so online and then come to the CCD Office to finalize the registration, space permitting.

Drop Off & Pick Up & Waiting for your Child

Please do not drop off your child earlier than the start of class so that the teachers have time to set up for class.  All children from Pre-K up to and including the First Holy Communion class must be collected after class.  Please come to the door of your child’s classroom to collect him/her promptly at the end of class.  While waiting for your child, please do not wait outside of the classrooms so as not to disturb the children inside.

Teachers Still Needed

We are still looking for substitute teachers.  Please send us an email if you are willing.

If you have any questions, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Blessings from the St. Anne’s Religious Education Team

Beginning on September 3rd, weekday Mass in English will resume at St Anne’s Parish Hall on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9AM and on Saturdays at 11:30AM

This Friday, September 6th, is First Friday.  There will be a mass celebrated in honor of the Sacred Heart in the Parish Hall (upstairs) at 19:30.

Information regarding Fr. Ed's farewell party on September 8^th has been put up at the back of the church. 

All parishioners are invited to come and say thank you and good bye to him.  Please sign up to be a volunteer and bring a dish to share. 

Please note that this is a parish event only.

We have very limited Sunday car parking space at St Stephen’s College this year and if you wish to apply, please contact Fr. John or our parish secretary, Lisa.

Looking for a fun yet important way to serve the St. Anne's community?  Join the Acolyte (Altar Server) Ministry!! 

Anyone who is at least 10 years of age or approaching their 10th birthday and has celebrated their First Holy Communion is very welcome to join this ministry. 

There will be training for new and returning Acolytes on Saturday, September 14th from 2:00pm to 3:30pm in the main church.   

For additional information and to rsvp for the training, please contact Moka Quinlan at 6148.8557 or via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

This week's Acolytes - Sunday, September 1st

• 8:45am: Hannah Tan, Jessica Tan, Ying Ying Tse, Abigail Evangelista
• 11:15am: Rachel Chang, Greg Chang, Zoe Forino
• 6:00pm: Reina Mandadero, Alma Futalan

A training session will be held on Sunday Sept 15th at 1:30pm in the church.  This is open to all new EM candidates and any who wish a refresher. 

The aim of the music ministry is to add beauty to the Mass using music.  We hope to offer music as another form of worship and prayer for all parishioners, as well as for choir members ourselves. 

If you like music, you'd enjoy being a part of this ministry.  There are several groups/times to choose from - Saturday evening 6pm, 8:45 Sunday, 11:15 Sunday, Filipino Choir, Legion of Mary Choir, and Youth Group. Rehearsals generally take place one hour before Mass.

We welcome all vocalists and instrumentalists, and we especially need keyboard accompanists, guitar accompanists, and cantors. 

If you are interested to find out more, stop by at next week's Service Sunday sign-ups, come talk with one of the choir members after Mass, or e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

St. Anne’s Religious Education program is 100% run by parishioners of St. Anne.  All teachers and administrators are parish volunteers or youth assistants (teens ages 14 and above who have been confirmed).  We offer weekly classes starting with Pre-School/Pre-K (ages 3 and 4) up to and including a two-year Confirmation class (age 13, 14 and up).  Our curriculum is based on a program called BLEST ARE WE, which teaches your child about the Christian faith as well as the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

Rarely does an institution’s health depend on a single event for its wellbeing and its effectiveness for the rest of the year.  But St. Anne’s is an exception.

There is an event that we conduct once a year that determines our ability to provide quality pastoral care and outreach ministries: Service Sunday. 

Next weekend, August 31 and September 1^st, we will ask parishioners, young and old, to offer some service for specific activities and ministries that will be carried out during the rest of the year.  Participation from each family in this endeavor is critical to the quality of our common parish life.  Some needs have relatively small time commitments and do not require experience. 

If you can’t be there next weekend, please contact me (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., our parish secretary, to let us know that you are willing to offer service in some way.  Thank you for your prayerful consideration of responding to our needs.

Fr. John

Looking for a fun yet important way to serve the St. Anne's community?  Join the Acolyte (Altar Server) Ministry!! 

Anyone who is at least 10 years of age or approaching their 10th birthday and has celebrated their First Holy Communion is very welcome to join this ministry.  There will be training for new and returning Acolytes on Saturday, September 14th from 2:00pm to 3:30pm in the main church.   

For additional information and to rsvp for the training, please contact Moka Quinlan at 6148.8557 or via email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

St. Anne’s Religious Education program is 100% run by parishioners of St. Anne.  All teachers and administrators are parish volunteers or youth assistants (teens ages 14 and above who have been confirmed).  We offer weekly classes starting with Pre-School/Pre-K (ages 3 and 4) up to and including a two-year Confirmation class (age 13, 14 and up).  Our curriculum is based on a program called BLEST ARE WE, which teaches your child about the Christian faith as well as the doctrine of the Catholic Church.

Welcome back to all!  We hope you had a rejuvenating and enjoyable summer and are as excited as we are to begin a new year of religious education. 

St. Anne’s would like to thank Fr. Gabriel Altamirano, MG, for his service to the Parish over the past two months, and we offer our very best wishes to him as he assumes his new position as Assistant Parish Priest at St. Teresa’s Parish in Kowloon Tong.

Dear music ministry members,

The line-up for August is attached.

Since I am not sure when everyone will return from their summer holidays, I have not done the schedule yet. Can the accompanists and cantors please let me know when you’d like to resume our normal schedule?

The St. Anne’s Feast Day bi-lingual Mass on July 21st went well, with the help of our choirs, the Chinese choir, and Ingrid Tsui, the accompanist.

This year, St. Anne’s Song was translated to Tagalog by Blessie Hugo, and we were able to sing it in three languages – English, Cantonese, and Tagalog.

September 1st will be Service Sunday. Please encourage our fellow parishioners to join us in the music ministry!

Peace,

Peggie

Music-line-up-2013-08.pdf

All drivers please be reminded:

Effective 2 July, 2013 - all vehicles illegally parked at Hoi Fung Path will be towed away.

Dear music ministry members,

The line-up and schedule for July are attached.

The main event for July is St. Anne’s Feast Day on July 21st. The bi-lingual Mass will be at 10:30, and the choir rehearsal will be at 9:00 in the school music room.

Please join if you can!

Safe travels to all who are traveling, and a good summer holiday to all!

Peace,
Peggie

Download:

Choir Schedule July 2013

Music Line-Up July 2013

The following essay was originally contributed by parishioner Hubie Lem to the alumni news group of Regis High School, a Jesuit high school for young men in New York City.   Photo credit:  Chinahands, blog of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers in China

True Story

In this day when so much news we hear about the Catholic Church and the US Government is negative, we all can get pretty cynical and depressed.  But the last couple of days, I learned of a true story that gives me so much renewed faith and hope, that I thought you would like to hear about it too. Especially since the good news ties together a Regis alumnus, a Maryknoll priest, a Jesuit college, the United States Government, and saving AIDS sufferers in Nairobi Kenya, where Regis has a relationship with St Aloysius.

The story starts with my parish of St Anne's Church in Stanley, on Hong Kong Island’s south side. We are very fortunate to have as our pastor Father Ed Phillips.  He's not a Jesuit, but graduated from Boston College (1968) so I guess that makes him okay.  Father Ed is a Maryknoll priest who spent 30 years in Africa before moving to Hong Kong in 2011.

Online pre-registration is now available for 2013-14 religious education classes here on the St. Anne's Website. 

This article provides all the information you need to get started!