Catholic Medical Guild of Singapore

14/10/2024

On 13 October 2024, we gathered for our Annual General Meeting, to take stock of the year that has just passed, and to plan for our upcoming year ahead. We are grateful for the many blessings CMG has received in the last year, for the various people who have stepped up to offer their time, expertise, and experience in building a community that gathers Catholic physicians together to bring faith and truth into our service of God and our patients. As we engaged in brainstorming of plans for the upcoming year, we are also thankful for the reminder in our CMG pledge, to always first grow in our personal love of Jesus, and then to love Him through our brothers and sisters. *Join us as we pray for our upcoming council!*

19/07/2024

On 18th July, we gathered for our monthly spiritual series for junior doctors, this time focusing on how we are called to Love Thy Patients. We were grateful to have Sr Fiona Yeo RGS and Dr Jennifer Guan share with us personal anecdotes of their experiences loving those under their care.

We were invited to reflect that as we assume roles of being shepherds, we are also the 1 lost sheep that Jesus leaves the 99 to find. The sharing on the importance of boundaries and knowing how to love oneself helped us to recognise what it means to “love your neighbour as yourself”. Fr Reginald Marie OCD educated the group on the importance of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick and of the Apostolic Pardon, allowing us to reflect on our care of a dying patient with new perspectives.

Sharing tips on how we can choose to love with God’s love amidst difficult circumstances, we continue to ask for prayers as the junior doctors and students desire to love those placed under their care in the imitation of Christ’s own love.

29/07/2023

Published today in the Straits Times. Certainly not a conversation to shy away from. Helpful to know not just what our faith teaches but also the experience of other jurisdictions.

William Robert Nielsen, a surgeon who wrote last year in the Canadian Journal of Bioethics that quite a few of his patients have "benefitted" from MAiD, predicted, "MAiD will lose the status as a last-ditch intervention for uncontrollable pain in imminently dying patients. Sick people will begin to see themselves as easily erasable and as excess human specimens. The conviction that it is a wonderful and divine thing to exist will be hollowed out by notions of a life that strives for societal convenience."
www.faithtoday.ca/Magazines/2022-Jul-Aug/How-MAiD-is-transforming-Canadian-end-of-life-care
https://www.faithtoday.ca/Magazines/2022-May-Jun/Navigating-Medical-Assistance-in-Dying
www.cmq.org.uk/CMQ/2022/Aug/towards_a_more_human_society.html

12/09/2021

"If any man will follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life, shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel, shall save it." - Mark 8:34-35

An excerpt from today's gospel, of the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

20/08/2021

Calling all CMG members! Join us later today for a faith sharing session at 8pm over Zoom! The theme today will be on St Teresa of Calcutta.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84783341902?pwd=eVdQSEZaSndyQlVVOXdBYkNBbWdvZz09

Meeting ID: 847 8334 1902
Passcode: 186433

09/06/2021

Your vocation is not primarily about what you do;
your vocation is a relationship between who God is and who you are.
God is calling you, not to do something or other, but to be someone.

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation...." - Mother Teresa quotes from BrainyQuote.com

28/05/2021

Looking from the caregivers' perspective.

“Will you ever forget me?”Imagine having your memory come and go every day. This is what persons living with dementia experience daily. Hear more about perso...

22/04/2021

Natural Law: Foundations and Applications.
Organised by The Anscombe Bioethics Centre and the Aquinas Institute in Oxford.
Every Monday beginning on April 26th for 6 weeks.
6pm - 7.30pm SG time.
Register online here: https://bit.ly/3v6cM2U

We are joining with the Aquinas Institute in Oxford to co-host a series of seminars in Trinity Term on ‘Natural Law: Foundations and Applications.’
Join us each Monday from 11-12:30pm BST on Zoom, beginning on April 26th.
This 6-week series is open to all interested, regardless of location or affiliation.
Register online here: https://bit.ly/3v6cM2U
Or email: aquinas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk

03/02/2021

Dear fellow members of CMG, posting here the document prepared on 08 Jan 2021 on our position on COVID19 vaccination in Singapore.

23/11/2020

How can we make a difference to our environment? Waste not.

How much money is thrown away through the food waste generated by S'pore households every year? . Read more at straitstimes.com.

21/11/2020

https://www.usccb.org/resources/fratelli-tutti-infographics
Tutti frutti or Fratelli Tutti? Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship with these cool infographics from the Vatican! Read the papal encyclical in bite-sized pieces!
https://youtu.be/rJHXgnp27BI

Video presentation of the encyclical Fratelli tutti by Pope Francis