Catholic Education Sunday celebrates and strengthens the collaboration between Parish, Home, and School. Join us in unity and hope on 23 or 24 August 2025 at designated Masses across our 32 parishes.
Students and staff of our Catholic schools, together with parent volunteers, will serve as lectors, cantors, hospitality ministers, and choir members at the Masses listed below:
For the first time since CES was inaugurated in 2017, students from 33 Catholic schools served at all 32 churches in Singapore during CES weekend. CES raises awareness of the importance of collaboration between the parish, home and school. The symbiotic relationship between them is essential when it comes to raising our children to realise their dignity as God’s children, to have a Catholic worldview in relation to society, and ultimately be saints in everyday life.
2025 being the Jubilee Year of Hope, our Catholic school staff, alumni, parent volunteers and secondary and JC students donned their green Hope T-shirts proudly during the CES Masses. “Share the reason for the hope you have (1Peter3:15)” was a message that rang loudly during CES 2025. Indeed, there is reason for hope as 97.4% of the 3500 parishioners we surveyed during the CES weekend believed that Catholic schools are still necessary in Singapore.
Pope Francis is known to have said that education is a process of hope. In his autobiography “Hope’, he quoted sociologist Zygmunt Bauman: “If you are thinking about the next year, plant corn; if you are thinking of the next ten years, plant a tree; but if you are thinking about the next hundred years, educate.”
CHIJ St. Theresa’s Convent at Blessed Sacrament Church
De La Salle School at Church of St. Joseph’s (Bukit Timah)
St. Gabriel’s Primary School at Church of St. Francis Xavier
“Catholic education is more than just a means to making a living – it teaches us how to live life with dignity and meaning, it forms character and helps us to live with dignity.” Msgr Stephen Yim (Homily at the 5 pm Mass on 23 Aug 2025, at Church of Christ the King)
“Catholic education is beautiful because Catholic school educators can instil values in their students that go beyond academic achievement. As parents, we wanted our children to attend a school that helps them connect faith and life, understand the world and where faith underpins everything. We believe that being in a mission school is the better way for our children to live their faith” said Ms Paula Teo, mother of four, whose three older children are in Catholic mission schools.
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St. Anthony’s Canossian Secondary School at Church of St. Joseph’s (Victoria Street)
CHIJ St. Nicholas’ Girls’ School at Church of Christ the King
Assumption English School at Church of St. Mary of the Angels
Maris Stella High School at Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Catholic school or school close by? 🏫 Pursue one’s talent or practise the faith? 🏃♂️ Take a fussing child out of church or stay on and endure the judgment of others? 👶 What’s a Catholic parent to do? 🤷♀️
As a follow-up to our celebration of Catholic Education Sunday, listen to four young parents as they talk about the ups and downs of bringing their children up in the faith in this candid kopi session! 💬
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