SMC Burmese New year Celebration : 15 April 2007, Sunday

We are pleased to invite you to our Burmese New Year Puja and blessing service this Sunday, 15 April at 9.30 am. Sanghika dana and Food Fiesta will be held at 11 am. A variety of delicious food (Glass Noodle Soup, Fried Yellow Glutinous Rice, Myanmar Laksa, Dumpling, Suji Cake, Chendol, Rice Noodle Salad, Glutinous Rice Balls, Indian fried noodle, tea, drinks, etc) will be available for everyone. You are most welcome to join us on this joyous occasion, tickle your taste buds at the Food Fiesta and start the New Year with meritorious deeds and great rejoicing. Please refer to the attached for the program. Wishing you and your loved ones peace, happiness, good health and prosperity in the Burmese New Year! Thank you.

Please click here for Chinese/English Invitation Poster. Pls click here for the Burmese version poster.

DHAMMA REFLECTION in the month of April 2007
Happy Days

Whatever beings, O monks, behave righteously by body, speech and mind during the morning/noon/evening, a happy morning/noon/evening will be theirs.

Truly auspicious and a festive time, A happy morning and a joyful rising, A precious moment and a blissful hour Will come for those who offer alms To the ones who lead the holy life.

On such a day, right actions in words and deeds, Right thoughts and noble aspirations, Bring gain to those who practise them; Happy are those who reap such gain, For they have grown in the Buddha’s Teaching,

May you and all your relatives Be happy and enjoy good health!

(III, 150)
Adapted from ‘Numerical Discourses of the Buddha -
An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya’,
Translated and edited by Nyanaponika Thera & Bhikkhu Bodhi, pg 78.

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!