Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete.” “Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.” (Philippians 4: 4) With these words from the entrance antiphon for today’s Mass, the Third Sunday of Advent or Gaudete Sunday, we celebrate what is a “break” in the penitential preparation for Christmas.
He’s been gone a week and I miss him already. His Holiness Pope Francis has truly left an imprint in the hearts of all Filipinos.
ON A RAINY day in 1984, one of my co-Jesuit novices told an elderly American Jesuit: “Father Paul, what a gloomy, rainy day.” The ever-cheerful Fr. Paul O’Brien, SJ, looked out and, with a smiling face, said: “Well, it’s a nice day for the ducks.”
The day before deadline, I was driving to Manila when the 1971 revival of the 1965 hit “What the World Needs Now is Love” playing on the radio brought back memories.
This year’s feast of La Naval de Manila is intended to remind the faithful that devotion should lead to social action, said the new rector of the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary in Quezon City.
In celebration of the 450th anniversary of the miraculous finding of the image of Santo Niño de Cebu, its pilgrim image will visit the Archdiocese of Manila and Diocese of San Pablo, Laguna, until Aug. 18.
Last week I gave a seminar to employees of one of the country’s most admired companies. The activity focused...
KAPLAG, the Cebu fiesta that celebrates the finding in 1565 by the Legazpi expedition of the Santo Nino de Jesus image given to the first Filipino Christians by the Magellan expedition of 1621, will open its momentous 450th anniversary celebration on April 18 at 7 a.m. with the “traslacion” (transfer procession) of the image from the Basilica Minore de Santo Nino de Cebu to the Redemptorist Church.
Society of the Divine Word fathers led by Fr. Ernesto Vitor, rector of the provincialate community at the Catholic Trade Center in Tayuman, Manila, led the cornerstone laying for the construction of the Arnold Janssen Kalinga sa Kapuwa.
Radio Veritas (RV) is inviting devotees of Saint Martha to visit her image and first-class relic until July 29 at the Veritas Chapel in Veritas Tower, 162 West Ave. and Edsa, Quezon City (tel. 9257932 to 39, loc. 129).
