The Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of Remedies is celebrating its golden jubilee. Theme of the celebration is “Fifty years of weaving the mystic and prophetic dimensions of Dominican life.”
The celebration kicked off on Oct. 2, 2014 with a Mass officiated by Pampangan Auxiliary Bishop Pablo Virgilio David at the Mother of Good Counsel Seminary, San Fernando, Pampanga.
Every month from November 2014 till September 2015, the sisters celebrated Thanksgiving Mass in their different mission areas, namely: San José Parish in Floridablanca, University of the Assumption and St. Vincent Ferrer in Calulut, both in San Fernando City; Dominican School of Apalit, Holy Rosary Academy in Lubao, Dominican School of Angeles City, Holy Rosary College Foundation in Tala, San José Parish in San José City, Nueva Ecija.
The grand celebration was last Oct. 2 at the Virgen de los Remedios chapel, Arzobispado de Pampanga, with Archbishop Florentino Lavarias as the main celebrant.
The celebration of the Jubilee is an opportunity for the sisters to intensify their solidarity with the forgotten, the poor, the victims of calamities, violence and oppression. This was concretized in their jubilee projects such as: the expansion of their mission with the Aetas in Villa Maria Porac Pampanga through feeding and scholarship programs.
The congregation expanded their mission of evangelization through the formation of the Lay Leaders of the Basic Ecclesial communities (BEC) in the remote communities in the diocese of San José, San José City, Nueva Ecija.
They continue to provide pastoral care and guidance to the abused women and children at the Indu ning Mayap a Usuk (Mother of Good Counsel) Center for Women and Children in Mabiga, Mabalacat, Pampanga.
The sisters extended their ministry to the survivors of Supertyphoon “Yolanda” in Olot, Leyte. They facilitated the donations for building materials, transported seedlings of fruit-bearing trees, vegetable seeds, medicines, food stuff and other relief goods, medical services donated by the loving and generous people of Pampanga. They helped in the rehabilitation of the land through backyard gardening.
In their schools they implemented the Care of Creation program.
Last Oct. 2, the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of Remedies vowed to continue to heed the invitation of Pope Francis to the religious to go to the peripheries, they will strengthen their mission with the people at the peripheries and embrace them with love and compassion.
