Weekly Friday Gathering

Semester 2 : 2014/2015

Perjumpaan Mingguan CUS (CUS Weekly Friday Gathering)

Shalom! Marilah kita mengucap syukur kepada Tuhan sebab telah memberkati perjumpaan mingguan kita. Setiap hari Jumaat, CUS akan mengadakan perjumpaan mingguan untuk semua ahli CUS dan terbuka kepada semua. Perjumpaan ini bertujuan untuk menguatkan lagi iman sebagai seorang katolik dan merapatkan silaturahim di samping membnincangkan isu-isu terkini. Setiap minggu mempunyai tema yang berlainan. Exco Cus yang bertanggungjawab untuk mengetuai perjumpaan ini berdasarkan tema yang telah ditetapkan. Pelbagai aktiviti telah dijalankan sepanjang perjumpaan tersebut termasuklah ice-breaking, permainan ringan, perkongsian, testimoni (kalau ada) ,prayer and worship dan perbincangan dalam kumpulan. Kadang-kadang perjumpaan ini diakhiri dengan doa rosari untuk memberkati lagi perjumpaan yang akan datang.
Berikut merupakan tema-tema yang telah dijalankan :

• Prayer and Good Work
• The Passion of the Lord 
• Why self love is important?
• The way of the Cross
• Rosary
• What is Fear?
• Lectio Divina(Sharing Session)
• Global Issues
• The purpose of life
• Gratitude is an Art
• Odd against All

CUS Family

Discussion in Group

Prayer and Worship

CUS Family

Game Session/Ice breaking 

CUS advisor ,Dr. Jac

Matthew 18:20 - "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, there am i in the midst of them. "

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Semester 1 2014/2015

COMBINE FRESHMEN 2014

Shalom! Thank God for the blessing our Combine Freshmen 2014 event. CUS had organized this event together with others CF such as LWCF, CLC and PKA. This Combine Freshmen is held at DK SK4 from 8.30 p.m to 10.30 p.m. The aim for this event is to introduce the freshie to the Christian Fellowship that available in USM and let them to choose which CF they want to go.

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them."-Matthew 18:20 

At that night, CUS was in charged for prayer and worship section. CUS committee members lead the prayer and worship. There were 4 songs that we sang that night .

• I Love You Jesus
• Yesus Pokok dan kita ialah cabangnya
• Hosanna
• JanjiMu seperti Fajar

Thank God for letting the Holy Spirit to work on us that night so we can sing just to praise our Lord. Everything goes well that night. Our CUS 2014/2015 president ,Sandra Atika F.Lo had represent CUS to share everything about CUS . 

Below is the promotional video of CUS! Enjoy it. 

Welfie after the CF introduction with CLC members. Different in CF can't stop us from praise our Lord Jesus Christ! 

CUS welfie with seniors and juniors ! Welcoming all the juniors to CUS big family ! 

Remember one thing here, all we do is not for ourself or for others but for Him,our Lord Savior Jesus Christ! Amen for that! 

God bless :) ! Let us continue to praise our Lord Jesus Christ together as He died for us,human on the cross just to saved from the fire of the hell! 

Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love--Isaac--and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you." -Genesis 22:2

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have an eternal life. -John 3:16

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Opening the door to Faith

Shalom! CUS USM had organized the CUS Camp at 5th - 7th of April 2013. The CUS Camp is held at the House of St. Andrew at the Church of the Assumption, Penang. With the aim to increase our inner faith in Christ, each day we have specific theme in trying to open our door to faith.

5th April 2013: "I Believe"

6th April 2013: "Walk With ME Today"

7th April 2013: "Got Faith? Be A Light."

Alas, perhaps it was written by God Himself, the van that was supposed to be our medium of transportation to St. Andrew's House was not available. Thus, we went there by public bus, perhaps following in our Holy Father Pope Francis who uses public transport, depicting humility. With His blessing, we are able to safely arrive at St. Andrew's House. After preparing ourselves and doing a Praise and Worship (PnW) session, we begin with a movie screening. Father Dominic came to provide the DVD as well as some snacks for us. For that, we deeply appreciate and thankful for his assistance. The movie that we watched was...

"The Way"

It was a really moving and inspiring movie that shows how people go for the traditional pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago or the Way of St. James. Truly meaningful for us who desires to seek our inner faith.

The next day, its all about walking. All participants are divided into four groups; RMB, Aa~, Lenlian, and Low. We had group discussion on "What makes one distant him / herself from the church?", had a talk session by Bro. Kevin Eruthayanathan on Faith, outdoor activity or Explorace CUS and a Cultural Night show. Then, we had 5 friends visiting from UMP, led by Costello.

On Sunday, we served the morning mass at the Church of the Assumption in choir. Then, we had a sharing and reflection on the camp. It is very good to know that all participants do not regret on joining and each have learned something from the camp. Hopefully all those lesson they had learned could uplift their inner faith.

CUS USM would like to deeply thank Father Dominic and Brother Kevin for all the helps and supports they have given us. We are truly blessed by all the assistance.

The Wall of Serenity. All the works of the group discussion is pasted here (for awhile) Photo by Tiffinny.

Giving a token of appreciation to Bro. Kevin. Left: Tiffinny, Flora (Project Director) and Bro. Kevin. Photo by Deejay.

Us with Bro. Kevin. Photo by Tiffinny. 

CUS USM with friends from UMP. Photo by Paul.

God bless!

"Let all that you do be done in LOVE" - 1 Corinthians 16:14

"I could do all things through CHRIST who strengthens me." - Phillipians 4:13

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Semester 1 2012/2013

Sorry for the hiatus of the blog. As the current writer of the blog, I apologise for not being able to take the time to post about the updates of CUSUSM. Here I would like to summarise about the activities done by the CUSUSM in the first semester of 2012/2013 academic session.

Penang Diocesan Youth Day 2

16th till 19th of November 2012. Unfortunately we are only able to stay until the 18th because most of us have class on the 19th. It is a wonderful experience to be able to join this spiritual journey. WE HAD FUN! :)

CUSUSM members joining PDYD2. Photo by Theodora

PDYD2's Bahasa Malaysia's group. Photo by Flora

CUS Family Day

15th of December 2012. Project director is Natra Joseph S. The theme – “Celebrating Family Love”. Held at Youth Parks, Penang. One day out to relieve ourselves from our hectic university lives and get together. Had fun playing games, singing and dancing.

Celebrating Family Love. Photo by Natra

One of the song we create action songs with; Better Than Life by Hillsong.

Christmas Carol

22nd of December 2012. Project director is Silverstar Anyie. Held at the Little Sister of the Poor – Home of the Aged, and Penang Adventist Hospital.

Caroling at the Little Sister of the Poor. Photo by Natra.

CUS hot stuffs ;) Photo by Natra

At the Penang Adventist Hospital. Photo by Flora.

Christmas Stay at FM House

23rd till 25th of December 2012. Project director is Deejay Daxter. The theme – “Feels Like Home”. Held at FM House, with Christmas sharings and bible discussions were made. Oh, and also homemade cooking done together.

Celebrating Christmas at FM House. Photo by Natra.

Cheers in changing gifts. Photo by Natra.

Happy faces celebrating Christmas Mass at OLS Church on the 24th December evening. Photo by Natra.

I think that’s about it for this semester! Looking forward to the next CUS events during the second semester. The highlighted events for next semester would be CUS Camp, Breakfast Sales and CUS Nite (Dinner). But who knows, there would probably be more surprise events coming… ;)

“Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8

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PCC Meeting at Alor Setar, Kedah

Shalom! It's been a long time since the last update! I apologise for the being busy and unable to write the updates in here sooner.

Penang Coordinating Council (PCC) Meeting

Place: Sham Homestay, Alor Star, Kedah

Date: 14th September - 16th September 2012

CUSUSM Representative: Kevin Juliano, Tiffinny Shally, Deejay Daxter

INTRODUCTION TO PCC

"The Penang Coordinating Council (PCC) is a coordinating body which links and coordinates all the Catholic Undergraduates Society (CUS) in the campuses of the Diocese of Penang, for students events in the direction of the vision and mision of the PCC. It is also a platform for intellectuals to share ideas, discuss and train leaders in light to be Christ-like leaders." -http://www.penangdiocese.org/pages/cmo/penang-coordinating-council-pcc.php

The CUS or CF (Christian Fellowships) that are in the the PCC web are all from the Northen side of the Peninsular Malaysia, which includes IPTA, IPTS, IPG as well as Polytechnic in Penang, Perak, Kelantan, Kedah and Perlis.  

It had been a great experience to be interacting with our brothers and sisters in Christ from other institutes and share our spiritual knowledge as well as building up friendship with one-another. Coming from different institutes from different states and surroundings, we learnt a lot about all the strengths as well as the struggles each CUS or CF have been in their respective campuses. 

THE AGENDA

Let us move on with the update of PCC. There will be a big event of PCC coming up, which is as stated below:

Event: The Penang Coordinating Council Gathering (PCCG)

Date: 11th - 14th of April 2013

Venue: to be confirmed later

Vision: "Students rooted in Scriptures, Sacrament and Social Teaching."

Mission:

1.  To develop current tertiary students to be future leaders in search of truth and justice.

2.  To rediscover rich and abundant opportunities for personal and spiritual growth.

Theme: Footprints

And the following will be the secretariats team for PCCG:

Director: Corina (UUM)

Vice Director: Albert Ko (UNIMAP)

Secretary: Lornetha Lloyd Daim (UiTM Kampus Bukit Mertajam, Penang)

Treasurer: Terry (UPSI Tanjung Malim Perak)

Tech & Logistics: Blase Bernard (USM SA)

Food & Lodging: Tiffinny Shally Tasing (USM Minden)

Publicity: Samson Antonius (USM KK)

Music: Samson Lian (IPDA, Jitra)

PCCG is one of the event that would make us retrace back our steps on our faith in Christianity, particularly in Catholicism. This event is open to all students comprising the whole CUS or CF under PCC. Hence, this event will be one of the opportunity for us not only to make friends with our saudara seiman from other campuses, but also a medium for us to restrengthen back our faith. This would be a huge job for the committee of the project, so I encourage us all to pray for all the secretariats mentioned above so that all their works may always be blessed with the Holy Spirit. More updates will be stated from time to time.

OTHERS

We had fun! Of course, we did learn a lot of things from the meeting. More spiritual events are needed for us  to build up our faith and strength. Moreover, we made lots of new great friends, learn about their experiences in their respective CUS or CF, and get to relieve our stress from our other commitments. Till the next meeting, I shall update! Peace out! :)

SMILES FOR THE CAMERA :)

In the homestay, smiling through the meeting. :))) Photo by: Kevin Juliano

Happy people sitting closely pack together in the van. Photo by Kevin Juliano

In the Church of St. Michael, Alor Star. Photo by: an auntie using Tiffinny Shally's phone

Grotto in front of the Church of St. Michael, Alor Star. Photo by: our dear friend Megan Renee

The Church of St. Michael, Alor Star. Photo by: our dear friend Eugene Wong

Tightening our friendship bonds by playing fun games together. Photo by Megan Renee

Waving goodbye to beloved friends of PCC. Till us meet again next time, mates! yeaahhaaaa! Photo by: Eugene Wong

"Likewise you younger people, submit yourselves to your elders. Yes, all of you be submissive to one another, and be clothed with humility, for
'God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble.'
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world." - 1 Peter 5:5-9 New King James Version

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