Sunday is the grand fiesta of Nuestra Señora de Guia, patroness of Ermita, thus commemorating the finding of the image on May 19, 1571, by a Spanish soldier when Adelantado Miguel de Legazpi landed in Manila.
THE PHILIPPINES will present its traditional Philippine-made belen (or crèches in French) in an exhibit at the John Paul II Center fronting the Basilica of Saint Therese in Lisieux from Dec. 7, 2013 to Feb. 1, 2014.
The miraculous image of Sto. Niño de Pandacan (believed to be 400 years old) will be brought to Tacloban, Leyte, by 100 pilgrims, including the Buling Buling dance group.
Amelia “Meng” Canlas, who has produced and directed the popular TV program “Seven Last Words” on Channel 13 for the past 26 years, has married Toronto-based Emmanuel “Noli” Vasquez on April 17 at Our Mount Carmel Parish on Broadway Street in New Manila, Quezon City. No less than Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle performed the beautiful nuptial rites.
The confraternity of Mary, Mediatrix of All Grace based in St. James the Greater Parish in Ayala Alabang will lead religious groups in a pilgrimage to Lipa, Batangas, on May 1. They will consecrate themselves to Mary.
The Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in Baybay, Leyte, have reason to be happy these days. Their founder, Venerable Mother Theresia Bonzel, will be beatified on Nov. 10 in Paderborn, Germany.
Friends who have visited the churches in Batanes said it has been a fine spiritual and cultural experience. Mimi Casanova Noble of Taal Tours and Travel brought a group in March to Batan and Sabtang Islands, where they visited five churches and two chapels.
IT WAS an early Easter gift being there in the Relic Room of the National Shrine of the Sacred Heart last March 22.
Msgr. Romy Rañada, parish priest of Our Lady of the Annunciation in Mindanao Ave., Quezon City, is showing a different kind of Stations of the Cross—they focus on the “Hands of Jesus.”
In his recollection for the parishioners of Our Lady of the Assumption at the St. Martha Chapel in Harrison Plaza, Fr. Gennie Diwa, chair of the Liturgy Commission of the Archdiocese of Manila, said: “We are traveling for 40 days during this season of Cuaresma, so we can give up sin and at the end of the journey, we can embrace God through the renewal of our Baptismal promises on Easter Sunday.”
Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, who’s now in Rome for the conclave to choose a new pope, leads the list of homilists of Make Mine Productions’ television presentation, “The Seven Last Words in the Year of Faith, Year 26,” on March 29, Good Friday, 12 nn to 3 p.m., on IBC Channel 13.
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