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With the continued easing down of the pandemic, Archbishop John Wong, beginning Aug 9, gave permission to the Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish to start an initiative to serve her parishioners over 70 years and young parents with children below 12 years who have since mid-March been deprived of the Eucharist.

In reaching out to the least fortunate, especially during the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) period, the Chapel of the Holy Infant Jesus in Sungai Pelek in collaboration with a group of Catholics from Kuala Lumpur, organised a Food Aid Programme on August 1.

“Stay safe and be holy”: is the exhortation that Archbishop Julian Leow Beng Kim, at the head of the Archdiocese of Kuala Lumpur, addressed to the faithful while Malaysia is gradually easing the lockdown of gatherings and religious assemblies, imposed because of Covid-19.

As wonderful as Zoom, Facebook Live, Google Meet and texting are, they cannot facilitate the kind of interactions necessary to provide good catechesis to our children.

Our first “closed door” Mass on June 28, after about three months of no physical Masses due to the MCO, was a spiritually moving experience.

Malaysia's first Roman Catholic basilica - the Minor Basilica of St Anne in Bukit Mertajam, here - goes digital today.