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We are the Pilgrim Church, that's what the Second Vatican Council Document Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium tell us. The Church enjoins us, her members to journey into a more meaningful encounter with the Divine. We are called to deepen our life of discipleship with our Lord Jesus Christ. This constitutes a movement towards a closer realization of our Christian faith in our everyday life.. There are many ways of fulfilling this need. Pilgrimages or visiting holy places is one way. May the Holy places we visited and will visit enliven us in our relationship and our faith with our God and neighbor. May it bring us new perspectives and broaden our understanding of our faith in a new dimension. May our experiences help us to be an effective witnesses of God's love for others  May our pilgrimages, pleasant or unpleasant it may be will help us to understand that our entire life is a pilgrimage. A continuing journey that open us to say yes to the invitatio...

Kapistahan ng Luklukan ni San Pedro.   Namiesta ako kaya lang wala masyadong nakuhang larawan dahil puno na pala ang storage ng cell phone ko. Nakipagdiwang ako ng Banal na Misa kasama ang mga kaparian sa pangunguda ng Kagalang galang na Arsobispo Gaudencio Rosales, DD. kaninang 8:00 am. Itong video na ginawa ng mga mananampalataya ng San Pedro ang nakuha ko na nais na ibahagi ko sa inyo.

Source : Crossroads This famous passage from the F irst Apology of St. Justin Martyr (Cap. 66-67: PG 6, 427-431) is used in the Roman Catholic Office of Readings for the third Sunday of Easter with the accompanying biblical reading of Revelation 6:1-17). Reflecting the way the Eucharist was celebrated in Rome about 150 AD, only about 55 years after the last New Testament books, it makes clear several important things: 1 .) the Eucharist was interpreted in a very realistic way in the early church 2) it was the principal, weekly worship celebration of the Christian Church 3) it took place on Sunday, not on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath the meaning of the Eucharist and manner of its celebration was handed down by the apostles ____ No one may share the Eucharist with us unless he believes that what we teach is true, unless he is washed in the regenerating waters of baptism for the remission of his sins, and unless he lives in accordance with the principles given us by Christ...

Parish Catechesis Fifty Answers about the Catholic Church You are welcome to copy these answers to use in parish catechesis, such as parish newsletters 1. How do we know that Jesus of Nazareth was God come to save us? There is no more important teaching of the Christian faith that Jesus  of Nazareth was the Son of God. In our Creed, which goes back to the 5th century, fifteen hundred years ago, we say every Sunday at Mass that Jesus was “God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten not made, of one being with the Father”. We are all children of God in the sense that God made us, and even more that he loved us and made us his children by adoption in our baptism. But Catholics, along with all orthodox Christians, believe that Jesus was the natural not the adopted Son of God, sharing fully in the being of his Father. How do we know this? At the end of the day, by faith. Saint Paul said “No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit”. The ...