MAY 19, 1571 was the day when a Spanish soldier discovered native Filipinos venerating an image of the Virgin Mary atop a pandan bush in the area where Ermita Church now stands. Today, devotees are filling up Ermita Church for the nine-day Novena Masses at 6 p.m. until May 18. On May 19, fiesta...
LIPA ARCHBISHOP Ramon Arguelles said that Blessed John Paul II is “a great intercessor of Filipinos.” Arguelles said that when he was rector of the Collegio Filippino before he became a bishop in 1994, Pope John Paul would always show how he cared about the Filipino priests studying in Rome. And...
THE BEATIFICATION today of Pope John Paul II in Rome fits the Easter celebration. According to Msgr. Slawomir Oder, postulator of the Pope’s cause for beatification, John Paul II was “a man who lived in the presence of God, who let himself be guided by the Holy Spirit, who was in constant...
HAPPY EASTER! Last April 12 was the 319th anniversary of the enthronement of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad de Porta Vaga. The original date was April 12, 1692 when she was enthroned in her ermita (chapel) in Cavite Puerto. It is now called the Diocesan Shrine of the Immaculate Conception with Fr....
TODAY, WE carry our palm fronds to church and raise them when the priest comes to bless them. We raise them to commemorate the Jews’ welcome of Christ when he entered Jerusalem on a donkey. Alas, the scenario would change on Good Friday when the very same people who welcomed him would crucify Him.
TODAY, WE carry our palm fronds to church and raise them when the priest comes to bless them. We raise them to commemorate the Jews’ welcome of Christ when he entered Jerusalem on a donkey. Alas, the scenario would change on Good Friday when the very same people who welcomed him would crucify Him.
ROLAND JOFFE, the director of “The Killing Fields” and “The Mission,” is an agnostic. But he’s the director of “There be Dragons,” a movie about St. Josémaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei which is now showing in Spain and will be released in the United States on May 7. The film is based mainly on...
ON APRIL 23, 2010, Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams, papal nuncio to the Philippines, opened the Jubilee Door of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Tuguegarao, Cagayan, to mark the centennial of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao. Several vicarial jubilee doors were also opened, signifying that to visit the churches...
