CARACAS, Venezuela — At a small home with a leaking tin roof near Venezuela’s capital, Johandrys Colls proudly shows off two metal crowns with plastic gemstones and nine satin sashes
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The holy remains of Blessed Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, who was beatified in Madrid, Spain, yesterday, will be transferred from Our Lady of Peace Chapel in Buono Bozzi in Rome to the Basilica of St. Eugene on Sept. 29 for public veneration. I myself swear to the efficacy of Blessed Del Portillo’s intercession, especially in financial needs.
It is the time of the year again when pilgrims go up the hill of San Jose in Tarlac to attend the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross on Sept. 14.
The remains of Nueva Caceres Archbishop Emeritus Leonardo Legaspi, OP, lay in state at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) for several days before they were interred at Santo Domingo Church on Aug. 15. They were also brought to the Peñafrancia basilica in Naga City on Aug. 11-12 for Naguenos and Bicolanos to pay their last respects to Legaspi, who served them for nearly three decades.
At the start of his classic work, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” C. S. Lewis writes this dedication to his goddaughter, Lucy: “My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales… But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
Monsignor Leonardo Z. Legaspi, OP, the archbishop emeritus of Nueva Caceres (Naga City) and the highest-ranking Filipino Dominican ecclesiastic, died last Aug. 8—feast of St. Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers, or the Dominicans. He will be buried on Aug. 15, feast of the Assumption.
ON MONDAYS I’m usually incommunicado to give me time to catch up on the more creative side of my work—reading, writing and designing programs. By mid-afternoon I head out for my Mass in Makati.
On St. Peter’s Square last April 27 after the canonization of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, Father Vicente Robles, parish priest of Sto. Cristo and St. Andrew Kaegon Church in Bocaue, Bulacan, gave Pope Francis a letter asking for his apostolic blessing on the late Bro. Richie Fernando, a Jesuit scholastic, who died in Cambodia on Oct. 17, 1996 trying to save the lives of disabled children from the grenade thrown by a troubled student.
On the cover of the Nov. 10, 1958 issue of Time magazine was Pope John XXIII, elected pope on Oct. 28, 1958 and installed on Nov. 4 of the same year. I have always had an affinity to Pope John for his courage in convening the Second Vatican Council in 1962, a move that ushered in an unprecedented renewal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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