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the few car stickers distributed by the Church with the caption "Have You Been To The Novena?". The increase in the number of devotees required the church building to be expanded and the porticoes at the sides of the main Church building were added as a result. Currently, there are 10 half-hourly sessions held each
Saturday with each session drawing on average 3,000 devotees, with it not being uncommon to find a sizeable number of non-Catholics among the many devotees. The first such devotion in Mandarin Chinese was led by two
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History of Early Identities in Singapore: From ... 2012 - Page 68 "Insular Southeast Asia, of which Singapore may be said to be its nexus, did not allow it to be close-minded. ... In the Roman Catholic Church, Chinese syncretism appears in the form of novena
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Saturday. The total cost for building the New Church, the Pastoral Centre, the
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Fernandez Catechesis in the Archdiocese of Singapore: A Multiple Case Study ... - 2007 - Page 118 "The Church of St. Alphonsus is a Church of devotion dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help and is administered by the Redemptories Congregation. It is popularly known as the Novena Church and
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Blessing and Opening of Novena Church was Celebrated by Archbishop William Goh on 25 October 2017.
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126:http://www.novenachurch.com
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697:www.catholicnews.sg
390:Redevelopment plans
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