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.
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
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 1st, 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
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
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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
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!
The Religious Education Team would like to thank all of the teachers, student assistants, parents and students for making this a successful year of Religious Education at St. Annes. We are pleased to announce that more than 300 children completed the program this year with 70 students receiving Holy Communion for the first time and 18 students being Confirmed. We are happy that so many parents willingly support the yearlong program, making the necessary sacrifices to ensure that their children are educated in our faith.
MAY CROWNING
Many of the children from the First Holy Communion classes returned last Sunday to the 11:15am Mass to crown Mary and to offer flowers to her, our Blessed Mother. Special thanks to Marc Forino for organizing this annual event. Thank you also to the parents for your support in encouraging your children to participate in this tradition.
St. Paul speaks about how the gifts of each person build the Body of Christ. I think this is very clear at St. Anne’s by the various talents that we have.
Peggy Fitch and her musical group bring so much joy to us when we pray. Our Lectors and Eucharistic Ministers who help facilitate the Mass each Sunday. My minor leaguers and major leaguers who assist me at Mass as Acolytes and who will be our Lectors and EMs in the future. All those who nourish our young children in the CCD program. The various public and private prayer groups on Thursday and Friday that pray for all of us. Our communication person who does the Sunday bulletins as well as the parish web site. Our great teenagers who ask the deeper questions about themselves, relationships, church and faith and how to live in the modern world. The many acts gently done by the Philippine community. Finally, the gifts of joy, laughter, love and wonderment by your children call all of us as adults to be better so that they will grow healthily and faithfully.
Thank you for sharing all those gifts with me.
-- Fr. Ed
Please join us in thanking the following for their participation as Acolytes in Mass this weekend:
Many thanks to all the singers who came to provide music for the First Holy Communion ceremonies last Saturday - Stella Woo, Bruce Ueland, Fernanda Da Rosa, Arceli Carrera, Nerry Delamide, Grace Chan, Maureen Canham, Margie DeCocinis, and Zoe Forino.
As this is almost the end of the school year, we would like to thank all of the people who volunteered their service and talents in the music ministry this year. In particular, thanks to the following musicians:
And, last but certainly not least, to all the regular members of the music ministry who come to sing every week. You are the backbone of the music ministry – thank you all so much.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be offered for the last time before the summer holiday this Thursday morning 10:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. The devotion will be temporarily suspended for the summer months but will resume again in September. Anyone interested in helping with the devotion or for more information, please contact Sally Helfer at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
St. Anne's Church
1 Tung Tau Wan Road
Stanley, Hong Kong
Office Hours:
Sunday 8:30-1:30
Tue-Fri 9:00-12:00, 1:00-6:30
Closed on Statutory Holidays
Tel: +852 2813 0206
Fax: +852 2813 6908
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