A blessed and happy New Year! Today we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany or the Feast of the Three Kings in olden days. We celebrate the manifestation of the Son, God made flesh, to the world.
On July 1, 1993, on the eve of my laminectomy for an L4-L5 herniated disc, I smoked my last cigarette, seated on the ledge of the window in my hospital room. Since then, I have had no compelling desire to pick up the vice again after close to 22 years of enjoying it, a pack a day. I went cold turkey.
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.
One of the prescriptions for the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy is a pilgrimage to designated churches. We can trace the roots of the tradition to Biblical times.
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.
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.
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.
Some 1,200 members of the Dominican family from the Asia-Pacific—friars, sisters, nuns, third-order, clerical fraternities and lay people—converged this week at the University of Santo Tomas for the Asia-Pacific Dominican Family Retreat.
MANILA Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle will lead the formal opening of the Arnold Janssen Kalinga Center at the Catholic Trade Center in Tayuman, Manila, on July 16 at 9 a.m. To join Tagle in the blessing of the facility are priests and brothers of the Society of the Divine Word (SVD), led by Fr. Ernesto Vitor, rector of the community at the Catholic Trade Center.
IT IS less than 100 days to the 51st International Eucharistic Congress, which will be held in Cebu City Jan. 24-31 next year.
