Around 200 Peranakan Catholics gathered at the Church of the Holy Family in Singapore on January 28 for the annual Peranakan Chinese New Year Eve Mass, a celebration rich in spirituality and culture.
“The focus of both celebrations is different. CNY is about Thanksgiving and family reunions, while Lent calls us to the discipline of fasting, abstinence, sacrifice, prayer, and almsgiving,” Archbishop Simon Poh said.
Chinese Catholic priest John Mi Shen, a pastoral communications expert, discusses with LiCAS.news’ Joe Torres the significance and meaning of the celebration of the Chinese New Year for Christians in the midst of the pandemic.
