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Chapel of Resurrection
By Peace | August 26, 2011
Beautiful and Unique Blue Butterfly (19 June 2011)
This photograph was taken on 19 June 2011, the day we walked to church on Father’s Day (also Trinity Sunday)…
Today I had a UNUSUAL Dream again. I was awoken from this dream to realize that it was raining heavily outside. It was a dream of St Joseph’s Church (Bukit Timah). I was walking behind the church, the pathway just beside the cemetery. I saw the cemetery. There was a few graves there, but the main thing to note was green grass spreading over the land of this graveyard. Most of the graves were gone, leaving only a few there. The feeling of walking along the site there was so peaceful.
I walked straight. It was realistically the site of current Chapel Of The Resurrection! The last time I was at the church was 2008, and I saw 2 HAIRY spiders at the site of my close kins!
This morning, in the dream, I was walking along this site. As I was walking, there were ‘lots’ allocated along the way, and I was walking along it, looking at the numbers — I saw the numbers until 18. Where is number 19? There was a big space separating among the lots, meaning a break among the numbers. There was an incense burner like that of the Chinese placed somewhere in the centre of the ‘lots’. At this Chinese looking Incense Burner was some Chinese Characters written below it. It was 十九 (number 19)!!! In front of the Incense Burner, a plump and fair woman was ‘dancing’ like performing a ritual, with legs stretching out… (like Chinese Gong Fu)
This is not all about this dream, and there was another segment of dream, about a school. My father and MT was present in the dream. We were standing outside the school. MT was holding on to her exam results…
2 Strange Malay girls appeared in my dream. One of them, the sister, invited me to her house. The other sister was lying on the carpet…
Some information about this cemetery:
A number of former cemeteries in Singapore were cleared of graves with the land redeveloped during the second half of the twentieth century. The cemeteries had closed when they were either full or were relocated. The records and histories of some of these cemeteries can still be found today. Due to the problem of land scarcity in Singapore, use of land for spacious or defunct cemeteries is regarded as a waste of resources. As the need for land for urban development and public housing increased in Singapore was considered more pressing, former cemeteries and burial sites were gradually cleared to make way for redevelopment. By 1985, 21 cemeteries had been cleared, and an approximate 120,000 graves had been exhumed by the Housing Development Board.
St Joseph’s Church Cemetery
St Joseph’s Church was a Roman Catholic chapel built at Bukit Timah for the Chinese congregation, and was named St Joseph at the request of the Reverend John M Beurel. It was opened on Sunday, 6 June 1846, and the first burial at the cemetery is recorded as being on 7 November 1846. Following that, over 400 burials are recoded to have taken place in that cemetery. However, in May 1984, it was recorded that the cemetery was badly overgrown with weeds and vegetation, and that a majority of the tablets were already broken. The church cemetery was reported by The Straits Times of 1 May 1984 to be closed, after existing at Chestnut Drive for more than a century.
Catholic cemeteries fulfill a twofold purpose. They offer a dignified and beautiful location where the mortal remains of the faithful departed await the day of resurrection. They provide an atmosphere of calm and reverence where we, the living, may visit to pray for those who have gone before us and take courage from their memory. Burial (or entombment in a Catholic cemetery is the right of every Catholic who has tried to live up to the teachings of the Gospel. The mind of the Church is that all her children who have been members of God’s family in life, should, in death, await the Lord’s coming in the company of their fellow Catholics. Christian burial is the Church’s way of saying, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”
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