Remembering the apparition of Our Lady in Cabra, Occidental Mindoro; new Imus bishop to be installed
Retired Judge Norma Chionglo-Sia from Lucena City reminds us of the apparition of the Blessed Mother to eight children in Cabra islet 47 years ago, in December 1966. The children were pupils at the Cabra Elementary School in Lubang, Occidental Mindoro.
Editor’s note: As a tribute to Josephine Darang, who passed away Dec. 28, 2014, feast of St. John the...
Let’s play spot the difference. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Saturday engaged the Catholic faithful in a photo hunt to find the differences in the images of teenage Visayan martyr Blessed Pedro Calungsod and the first Filipino saint, San Lorenzo Ruiz.
In his first public Mass as the new head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis signaled a striking liturgical difference with Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI by facing the people, not turning his back, which the retired Pontiff had done in a controversial attempt to bring back the Latin Mass banished by Vatican II.
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.
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.
Our design for the Chapel of San Pedro Calungsod is meant as an homage to Cebu’s dynamic spirit. The building is grounded in the long history of ecclesiastical architecture wherein light and structure work together to inspire. And yet, the design is truly contemporary. It is both futuristic and contextual.
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.
There are three points of reflection I invite you to consider for this Sunday: One, humility as a fruit and a process of self-awareness and self-acceptance; two, humility as a principle of relationships; and three, humility as a way of life.
Pope Francis, celebrating his first Palm Sunday in Vatican City as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, called for personal conversion to check greed and social iniquity “that hit the weakest” and the poor.
