The Parish Daham Pasala – Regular Program on Sundays

The weekly Sunday Masses will be organized by an appointed Class from Grade 6 to 11. They must organize the Sunday liturgy of the Mass and conduct the Morning Prayer and Thought for the Day during the Assembly. This appointed class is expected to take leadership in cleaning the Daham Psala Hall after the lessons with the support of the Daham Pasala Prefects. The student participation in these extra-curricular activities will be recorded and rewarded as part of the overall catechetical training. The class teacher must motivate, initiate, and monitor the students in his/her class during these activities. All teachers take an oath of dedication in the beginning of the year to dedicate their time for the benefit of the students thus they are expected to give Sunday morning to carry out this noble task of training the parish children in faith and morals. The responsibility of the Daham Pasala teachers will not be limited only to the classroom hour of teaching but certainly extends beyond understandably.

• 6:30 am – Recitation of the Holy Rosary
• 7:00 am – Holy Mass (Sinhala)
• 8:30 am – Breakfast
• 8:45 am – Assembly and Morning Prayer
• 9:00 am – Daham Pasala Lessons
• 10:30 am – Holy Mass (English)
• 10:45 am – Cleaning the Hall/Classrooms by the appointed Class
• 11:30 am – 12:00 noon – Cleaning the Church by the Prefects
• 12:00 noon – Angelus and departure

The Parish is badly in need of training the students in the participation of maintaining Church cleanliness because of the senior parishioners’ regressive reluctant behavior to participate in the Church cleaning. It is with great difficulty that the Church is cleaned almost always by the same group of people. For this reason, it is deemed important that the new generation is trained in this respectable and noble task, unlike their present day elders the children today when they become the elders of tomorrow will not abandon their Church into deterioration. Three groups are formed to carry out the Church maintenance in the form of Ministries, they are:

1. Volunteering devotees from the individual Novena zones
2. Daham Pasal Students (Ministries) and the Teachers (Moderators)
3. Daham Pasal Prefects Body

Click the following links for [PDF] Documents:

• Teacher-Student Guide for Organizing Mass and Ministries [PDF] Document

• Teacher-Student Guide for a Practical Catechesis

• Prefects Guide for Organizing Mass and assisting Ministries

• Novena Leaders’ Guide for Organizing Sunday Mass [PDF] Document