Guan Gong Anniversary on 24th Day of Lunar 6 Month (關聖帝君聖誕慶典)

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On Saturday (26 July 2008) early Morning, I was being engaged to perform a Birthday Respect Ritual for Guan Sheng Di Jun (關聖帝君) at one of the Taoists’ Home located at Yishun.

On that very morning, I arrived quite early at the premises to assist in the setting up of the Altars and Offerings (even though we did set up everything at the night before).

At about 10.30am, the Ritual started. First by doing simple report and then followed by making Invitation to the Various Deities.

Just at the moment of the Invitation finished, a gust of Strong & Positive Energy hit me. This is quite a good sign to show that the Deities that being invited were there after the Petition being burnt.

After the Invitation was done, we proceed into the premises where the Main Altar was situated and started the normal Scripture Chanting. During the 1st round of Scripture Chanting, nothing much was being Shown or Appear, but during the Invitation of the Deities for the Filling of Coffer Ritual (補庫補運科儀 the Taoist requested for this Ritual to be done on this Auspicious Day and so I accepted the request) many different signs appeared, such as different forms of Deities started to chit-chat or making certain noises to make Hello signal to us (me and my student).

Even though such signals were seen and heard, the whole Ritual was not being disturbed and I can said that, the whole thing went smoothly till the end of the whole event.

At about 1.30pm, after the approval being granted by Guan Gong, sending off of the Deities was taken place and soon, everything were being moved to the burning area near to Yishun Polyclinic to do the send off.

After the sending off, the whole Ritual was considered Official Ended and of cos, some of the people who attended the Ritual were being blessed with little Good Luck on the Night.

Last of All, our highest Respect to Guan Gong.