I remembered I read somewhere online before that there's this temple in Singapore that does prayers for couples who are hoping to have baby once a year (sometime during the first 15th days of the lunar new year). I have been trying to look for the name of the temple but cannot seems to find the article anywhere. I remembered it mentioned that blue and pink ribbons will be distributed to the couples... blue means boy and pink means girl. Any ladies here know about this temple?
Hello,
I found this in the internet, not sure if are you referring to this one?
Kai’s parents, Mr and Mrs Lim had come a long way in their journey to conceive their child.
Married for twelve years now, the newlyweds had agreed it was more pressing to see the world than changing diapers. Jet-set they did,
up till Year 2008 when a baby was accidentally conceived. Two miscarriages later, the sudden longing for a baby ballooned into desperate
measures of traveling to far flung places to seek spiritual help. Every country they visited, they knelt at the temple before God and prayed
for a miracle to happen.
In Singapore, Western and Chinese doctors saw no reason why the couple could not conceived. Maybe it was age, maybe stress, maybe
she had
han (cold) ovaries they speculated.Months became years.
Until.A relative suddenly recalled she went to a tiny temple somewhere along Race Course Road here in Singapore to pray
for a baby after years of trying. Word has it that this nondescript temple is famed for helping couples conceive.
But it only happens
once a year at the temple’s
Flower Cutting Ritual on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year – last day
of Chinese New Year according to the Chinese calendar.
So they went.
At 6.30pm, they brought their anguish and hopes to the temple, knelt before Goddess of Mercy and prayed.
7.45pm, couples wearing nervous smiles started gathering at the front of the temple and waited.
When the clock strike 8pm, an old man carrying a pair of scissors started climbing a ladder. All the couples inched closer.
Then the flower cutting ritual began. Snip, snip went his scissors as petals of flowers in red and white fell.
Everyone stretched their hands to the sky and started grabbing the falling petals excitedly.
Mr and Mrs Lim managed to grab a red colour petal each which must be brought home and
secured tightly on the side of their marital bed. They also had to buy a tortoise-shaped bun from the
temple altar and consumed for breakfast the next day.
The miraculous Temple
Three months later, in the midst of what must be the most stressful period of their life, Mrs Lim, 41, miraculously conceived.
My mum who accompanied them, later revealed she had skeptically asked an auntie working at the temple
if the flower cutting ritual can
really help couples conceived?
Auntie had replied, “Yes, 99.9%”.
And the different colours of the flower petals? Red symbolizes boys and white petals, girls.
Kai, the miracle baby is indeed a boy.
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The annual Flower Cutting Ritual this year is on next Monday, 6 February at 8pm sharp.
Arrive early to pray first. For ladies, you need to be “clean” (not menstruating) to enter the temple.
Couples must go together. During the ceremony, you must only pick flowers falling from the “sky” and
not the ones that landed on the ground. Couples must
first check with your doctor that there is nothing medically
challenging in your reproductive system. Miracles aside, you need to do your part in the bedroom too.
Temple’s address:
