PPCRV-Varsitarian barangay election round-up : Dayaan nananatiling laganap

Sa ikalawang pagkakataon, hindi nakapagpadala ng volunteers ang Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) ng simbahan ng Santissimo Rosario sa nakaraang halalang pambarangay noong ika-29 ng Oktubre.

Matatandaan na hindi rin nakapagpadala ang sangay ng PPCRV sa UST noong nakaraang Mayo sa pambansang halalan dahil sa kakulangan ng tauhan at pinansyal na supports.

Ayon kay Ricardo Galang, PPCRV Coordinator ng ikaapat na distrito ng Maynila, malaki ang nasasakripisyo kung kulang sa tauhan ang PPCRV katulad na lamang ng nangyari sa nakaraang botohan.

UST is part and parcel of La Naval saga: The Queen and her Thomasian subjects

No other Marian image in the Philippines compares with the historical and spiritual richness of La Naval de Manila, whose divine interventions have been well-acknowledged from time immemorial.

Our Lady of La Naval continues to influence lives of Marian devotees as it did in the almost desperate but triumphant battles of Filipino-Spanish forces against the Dutch armada in the 1600s. After four centuries of devastating wars, natural calamities, and rampant sacrilegious Church robberies, La Naval has gained and received immense devotion from Filipinos, being the country’s patroness.

The Shroud of Turin comes to the Philippines: Christ's alleged burial clothes on exhibit

A replica of the Shroud of Turin

Is this the face of Christ?

This question has intrigued the millions of poeple who have seen the Shroud of Turin, the venerated “burial clothes of Jesus Christ” believed to have captured Christ’s image after the Crucifixion.

According to Maricar Estrabo, project officer of “The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin: The Philippine Exhibition” and a member of the Crusaders of the Holy Face, the Shroud of Turin, despite doubts about its authenticity, is one of the most precious treasures of Christianity.

 

1907 crowning reenacted in solemn splendor

The canonical coronation is a special privilege bestowed only on a very special Marian image.

This is what Cubao Bishop Honesto Ongtioco pointed out in his homily before the solemn re-enactment of the canonical coronation of La Naval de Manila, which was canonically crowned on orders of Pius X in 1907 in the first ever canonical coronation of any Marian image in the Philippines and Asia.

Thomasian martyrs beatified

Six Thomasian martyrs were declared “Blessed” in the biggest beatification in history presided by Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, at St. Peter’s Square in Rome last October 28.

The 498 beatified martyrs, who died in the hands of an anticlerical movement in Spain in the early 1930s, were composed of two bishops, 24 diocesan priests, 462 religious, one deacon, one sub-deacon (a position which does not exist today), one seminarian, and seven lay people.

When Thomasians spruce up the Queen

The thunder of La Naval is expected to ring loudest next month when the Philippine Church and the Dominican Order mark the centennial of the coronation of the Nuestra Señora del Rosario, La Naval de Manila.

Now enshrined at the Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City, Nuestra Señora del Rosario de La Naval was the first Marian image in the Philippines to be canonically crowned in 1907. It is said that Pope Pius X had immediately acceded to the Dominicans’ request for the canonical coronation by writing his permission long-hand in 1906.

100th year of La Naval's canonical coronation marked

Highlighting the 100th anniversary of the canonical coronation of La Naval de Manila, the Dominican Province of the Philippines will reenact the Marian image’s solemn canonical coronation on Oct. 4 at the Sto. Domingo Parish in Quezon City, the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary.

The reenactment will be made during a High Mass to be celebrated by Msgr. Wojciech Zaluski, charge de affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature (the new Nuncio, Archbishop Edward Joseph Adams, has yet to assume his post and present his diplomatic papers to Malacanang and the Philippine bishops), and 15 bishops coming from all over the country.