Quiapo Church elevated as ‘Archdiocesan Shrine of the Black Nazarene’
The St. John the Baptist Parish or Quiapo Church has been elevated to the status of an archdiocesan shrine.
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Making a good homily
Rightly or wrongly, people often gauge the value of the Holy Mass by the quality of the homily they hear during that celebration.
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Prophetic engagement: the Church’s calisthenics
Napoleon Bonaparte:“(Venomous tirade)…I shall crush the (Roman) Catholic Church…” Ercole Cardinal Consalvi (Pius VII’s Secretary of State): “If in 1,800 years we the clergy have failed to destroy the Church, do you really think that you’ll be able to do it?” Philippine President:(Extremely venomous tirade) “In 30 years the (Roman Catholic) Church will be passé especially when all the abuses of the clergy are exposed.” Some Catholic Bishops:“That is your wish. Hitler, for his part, also believing that the Church would eventually fall away, tried to hasten the process by campaigning against the existence and operation of seminaries, for instance, and sending to concentration camps and the gas chambers a number of clergymen and religious his regime saw as enemies. Yet, while both Bonaparte and Hitler are now in the dustbin of history, the current local leader continues to espouse their cause against a Living Reality that has survived Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Henry VIII, Ferdinand Marcos, Stalin, Lenin & Marx, Mao Tse Tong, and many other more powerful hostile leaders.
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From exaltation to rejection
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, Year A (Matt 26:14-27:66) Alay Kapwa Sunday, April 9, 2017
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The Fugitive — Abandoned by Men and God
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, Year A (Matt 26:14-27:66) Alay Kapwa Sunday, April 9, 2017
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Bishop urges illegal OFWs in Saudi to come home
A Catholic bishop has called undocumented Filipinos in Saudi Arabia to avail of the 90-day amnesty period offered to all illegal workers.
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Pope Francis will visit a prison on Holy Thursday
This Holy Thursday, Pope Francis will wash the feet of prison inmates and say Mass at their penitentiary.
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Bishops urge gov’t to resolve housing woes
Informal settlers who occupied government housing units in Bulacan province
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‘Tagalized’ ‘Ignacio’ film features Dingdong Dantes’ voice
In a bid to reach more of the masses, the Filipino version of the film “Ignacio
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Family Joys and Challenges
Pope Francis devotes the entire fifth chapter of The Joy of Love to a reflection on love’s “fruitfulness” in the family; this certainly involves much more than questions of fertility. Fruitfulness includes welcoming new life, manifesting love as father and mother, appreciating the extended family, fostering relationships between youth and the elderly, and maturing in social love and respectful relationships. Genuine fruitfulness will also involve addressing challenges, problems, and uncertainties. “With great affection I urge all future mothers: keep happy and let nothing rob you of the interior joy of motherhood. Your child deserves your happiness. Don’t let fears, worries, other people’s comments or problems lessen your joy at being God’s means of bringing a new life to the world…. Try to experience this serene excitement amid all your many concerns, and ask the Lord to preserve your joy, so that you can pass it on to your child” (171). The pope’s sensitivity to various difficult situations is evident; for example, he emphatically states: “It is important that the divorced who have entered a new union should be made to feel part of the Church. ‘They are not excommunicated’ and they should not be treated as such, since they remain part of the ecclesial community.” In fact, the Church’s care for these persons “is a particular expression of its charity” (243). Truly, this is insightful pastoral wisdom!
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Bishop opposes impeaching Duterte, Robredo
A waste of time. This was how Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez of the Marbel diocese in Mindanao described the separate impeachment raps
