Tickets go on sale November 8th!  They will be available after Mass on Saturdays and Sundays and at the Parish Office during regular office hours.  Tickets are:

• $100 each for adults
• $50 each for domestic workers, children under 12, and seniors between 65 and 75.

Children under 3 and seniors over 75 are admitted free. Prices will increase by 50% after December 1^st, so buy your tickets early!  For details, please pick up a flyer at the back of the Church.

More volunteers needed! Please contact Ken Ward at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Donations for Lucky Draws and White Elephant Gifts can be dropped off at the Parish Office with Jacqueline and Desmond during regular office hours on Saturdays (9:30-12:00, 1:00-5:30) and Sundays (8:30-2:00, 3:00-4:30)

Live Performance for the BBQ - Calling all musicians, dancers, thespians, magicians, and other entertainers of all ages...we need your talents for this year's parish BBQ on December 7! If you are interested in performing at the BBQ, please contact Maureen Canham at 6447 7265 or email at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

A Boy Scout with BSA Hong Kong Troop 1 and a parishioner here at St. Anne's is currently working on a service project to attain his Eagle Scout rank.

He has chosen St. Anne's to be the beneficiary of the project, which will consist of upgrading our courtyard. With the help of other Boy Scouts, his confirmation classmates, family, friends and other parishioners, he will be cleaning up and painting the courtyard. As the project needs to be self-funded, he needs to raise funds for supplies.

On November 23rd, we will be conducting a bake sale after Mass. Your help will be very much appreciated. You can help by baking goods so we can sell them. All monies will go towards the purchase of paint and supplies for the project.

Of course, you can also help by buying some baked goods or making donations. Thank you in advance.

During the month of November, the Church remembers in thought and prayer all who have gone before us in life and in faith.  There is a lavender box in the rear of the Church in which to deposit names of those deceased you wish to be prayed for.  Names only, please.  We request that you do not place any monetary offerings in the box.

“I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to you and the faithful of St. Anne’s Church for the generosity of heart and commitment to support our little deaf brothers and sisters in Christ, to let them continue to receive Catholic Education in a sign bilingual and co-enrolment model which we believe, based on research, will benefit them most.  On 11 & 12 October 2014, we gathered $18,116 worth of donation from the compassionate faithful of St. Anne’s Church through Second Collections.”  -- Gladys Tang , Director of Centre for Sign Linguistics and Deaf Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

A second collection is to be taken up at all public Masses on Sunday, 26 October.   The total amount collected will be reserved for the Pontifical Work for the Propagation of the Faith and sent directly to the Holy See as a contribution of our Local Church to the missionary activities of the Universal Church.

In honour of Pope PAUL VI, who was beatified on 19 October 2014 (Sunday), a concelebrated Mass will be held on 26 October (Sunday), at 6:00pm, at the Cathedral, Caine Road, with Cardinal John TONG presiding.  

The clergy and the faithful are welcome to participate.

The Parish Bazaar, scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, December 7th, is fast approaching. 

One of our annual booths features "white elephant" items: assorted items for sale for use in home, recreation and school, both used and new. 

If you wish to make donations of items for this booth you can bring the articles to the Parish Office anytime during business hours both weekdays and weekends. 

Thank you!

For those parishioners with valid parking permits, the attached document provides instructions about parking at St. Stephen's College on Tung Tau Wan Road:

Download here: Parking Instructions

Beginning this coming week, the 9:00AM weekday Masses on Tuesdays and Thursdays will resume in the Parish Hall.  

Further, Eucharistic Adoration will resume after the Thursday weekday Masses.

Tickets for the annual Caritas Fundraising Drive are on sale after weekend masses at the back of the Church throughout the month of October.

Tickets are also available in the Parish Office on weekdays. 

With the permission of the Diocese and at the invitation of the St. Anne's Parish, a second collection will be taken up for Sign Bilingual Education in support of enhanced education for deaf children and young adults in Hong Kong.

Please be generous to this worthwhile grassroots cause, which promotes the use of sign language in the education of deaf children.

Pamphlets of the program are available for collection outside the Church.

In accordance with the practice of our diocese, 28 September, the fourth Sunday of September (26th Sunday of the Year), is observed as Education Day. 

A second collection for the promotion of Catholic education is to be taken up at all public Masses on this occasion.  

The annual BBQ will be held Sunday, December 7^th, from 12:00-4:00PM.  Ticket information will be coming soon. 

At this time, we are looking for volunteers to help with the annual BBQ.  Specific roles include grillers, servers, St. Anne's ambassadors to solicit gifts & donations, and assistance with set up & tear down. 

If interested, please contact the church office at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 2813 0206 and BBQ coordinator Ken Ward will contact you soon.

Applications closed.  Successful applicants who have received email from the Parish Office, please kindly come to collect their car park labels on or before 30 September 2014. 

Labels unclaimed after 30 September 2014 will automatically go to those on waiting list.

The Asia Society Manager, Ms. Sally Yeung, came over last Sunday Sept 14 and conducted the Matteo Ricci Workshop. 

A group of CCD children watched a presentation on the work of Asia Society, the recent exhibition of Caravaggio’s painting Supper at Emmaus, and cultural and scientific influences Matteo Ricci bought to the East. 

They learnt about the long journey that Matteo Ricci made from Italy to China and made adventure pop up postcards. They also made a kaleidoscope, which Matteo Ricci first brought to China as well as the prism it contains.  Both parents and children had a great time!

There will be a meeting for all of those who are interested in helping to plan this year's St. Anne's BBQ in December.

The meeting will be held September 17^th in the Parish Council Meeting Room Upstairs.

If interested, please sign up on the sheet on the bulletin board or contact Ken Ward.

The Asia Society Hong Kong Centre will be organizing a special workshop at St. Anne’s for children aged 6-12.  The workshop will focus on the mission to China of Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci.

Sunday, September 14th, 2:00PM to 4:30PM, in the CCD classroom.

Exploration, trade, and Jesuit missions brought Italians to Asia as early as the late 1200s.  Italian Jesuit priest Matteo Ricci was one of the most notable pioneers in European-Chinese cultural dialogue.  In the year that Caravaggio painted the second Supper at Emmaus (exhibited recently in Hong Kong), 1605-1606, Ricci was also leaving marks of Christ’s teaching in a book of woodcuts for Chinese officials for which he was asked to provide visual illustrations.

Through age-appropriate arts and crafts activities, this interactive workshop will provide students with fun opportunities to revisit Ricci's journey to the East, recreate inventions he brought about, and understand how Ricci paved the way for the two nations to inspire and influence each other for hundreds of years to come.

For inquiries and sign up, please email Irene Jackson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Volunteers needed please to help with the children's craft! 

Pope Francis is appealing to all dioceses worldwide to offer special prayers for Christian communities which are being persecuted in different countries. In particular, he has mentioned those Christian communities in northern Iraq which are defenseless. The Holy Father is also calling on the international community to protect and give all necessary assistance to those who are affected by violence or have been homeless.

In response to the appeal of the Holy Father, our Diocese has donated some emergency relief funds through Caritas-Hong Kong in aid of those concerned. Furthermore, Cardinal John Tong will preside at a special prayer meeting on Wednesday, 20 August, at 8:00PM, at the Cathedral, Caine Road.

Father John has been asked to participate in the General Chapter of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers in New York. He will leave the parish on August 25th and will return on October 1st.  

Fr. Ed Phillips, Pastor Emeritus, will conduct all liturgical affairs during Fr. John's absence.

All business requiring the attention of a priest or the pastor should be directed to the Parish Office, from whence it will be redirected to a priest or church authority already on standby. 

St. Anne's has again been graciously given a very limited number of parking labels by St. Stephen's for Sunday morning parking during liturgies from September 2014 through June 2015. 

Interested parishioners should fill in an application in the Parish Office, with the understanding that not everyone may be accommodated.