Sandakan: After two long years of lockdown with Covid-19, the church recently held the Rite of Acceptance for candidates enquiring to join the Catholic Church.
The journey of the candidates began in mid-August 2022 and will be baptized early next year during Easter 2023.
The Bahasa Malaysia speaking with 18 adult candidates, the Chinese community with 10, and the English speaking with 8 candidates respectively.
The Cathedral Parish in introducing that the Rites would be held on the First week of Advent but due to circumstances, it was held in the following week.
The Chinese community held the Rites with assistant Parish Priest Fr. Raymond Lee presiding on the 2nd Sunday of Advent in the early morning Sunday Mass where the 8 candidates received the Rites and were admitted into the Catholic Church in the presence of their respective sponsors.
In the following week that is the 3rd Sunday of Advent, all the Bahasa Malaysia enquirers and the English-speaking had their rites in the presence of their sponsors with Parish Priest Fr. David presiding and witnessed by the parishioners attending Sunday Mass.