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Through the efforts of the elders of the Church to encourage the faithful to participate in the building of the Kingdom of God and as an adherence to the call of Christ as part of His Mystical body proclaiming the Good News of salvation. It is of God's generosity of giving His Church newly trained individual as Catechist coming from different parishes of the Diocese of San Pablo. To be counted, 86 new catechist were commissioned today by the Bishop Buenaventura Famadico in the Cathedral of San Pablo. Eleven from the Ecclesiastical District 1, thirty six from Ecclesiastical District 2, 23 from the Ecclesiastical District 3 and sixteen from Ecclesiastical District 4.  Missio Canonica 2014 by Slidely Photo Gallery The Diocesan Catechetical Commission of San Pablo is directed by Rev. Fr. Buenaventura C. Ubarco with Rev. Fr. Jessie G. Somosierra, Jr., Rev. Fr. John Derrick I. Manalo, Rev. Fr. Raul C. Matienzo and Rev. Fr. Jose Francis Calo as district directors of I,II,III, and I...

The Catholic Social Action of the San Pablo Diocese of which I belong sent me materials just yesterday evening at exactly 6:28 PM. Sorry to say that mu internet connection for the period of three months is static. Good to say that this noon I was able to open my email and blessed enough to have an internet connection. To facilitate the flow of information let me share to you the additional input that the Commission had given me.   Tayo Na Para Sa FOI - Sign Sheet To add knowledge on this bill, here is a brief history, content and present status as of May of 2012.   FOI- History, Content, Status - May 2014 Here is the Letter of Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippine's National Secretariat for Social Action - Justice and Peace headed by Edwin Gariguez as the Executive Secretary and Bishop Rolando J. Tria Tirona, OCD. DD as the chairman of the Episcopal Commission on Social Action.   FOI Campaign Letter for SAC Director by Rev. Fr. Jessi...

The Right for Information. This is the battle cry of those who pushes changes in the government. An idea wishes to be seen as  a reality since it was first proposed in the Philippine Congress twenty seven years ago. The right of Information was enshrined in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. However, a law must be enacted so that its proper passage to the daily life will be directed towards a more transparent and clean governance. The CBCP - NASSA, that is the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines' National Secretariat for Social Action-Justice and Peace is joining the campaign for the passage of the Bill this 16th Philippine Congress. Please be advised that all parishes are requested to pass signature campaign materials for the said purpose. Rev. Fr. Rene Iriga, the Diocesan Director of Social Action of  San Pablo reiterated this important campaign which should be submitted this July 7. Rather they will picked it up in each parishes to be collated and b...

Fellow members of the Diocesan Catechetical Commission of San Pablo has instructed me to give a talk for the ongoing formation of the speakers bureau of the commission this coming July as an introduction for the Year of the Laity: Choose to be brave, called to be saints and sent forth as heroes. We must remember that the year of the Laity is one of the preparation of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines 9 Year Program for the celebration of the Fifth Centennial  commemoration of the First Mass and baptism in the Philippine islands attended by those who first received the faith in Limasawa island in today's southern Leyte.  As a gratitude of joy, we celebrate the coming of Christianity in our archipelago last March 16, 1521 and on Easter of the same year March, 31, we remember the baptism of Rajah Humabon and his wife Harah Amihan to be called in Christian name as Carlos and Juana respectively. As well as on this occasion we set our eyes to the oldest re...

Catholic devotees gather for the holy mass Picture: FRANCIS R. MALASIG For years, the only known way of celebrating the feast of Saint John the Baptist aside from Novena and celebration of the Holy Eucharist is the dousing of water symbolizing the baptizing act of the saints to the faithful. I believe every catholic in the Philippines is aware of this. However, first time to see the "taong putik" which literally means mud people in Bibiclat in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija in the northern part of Luzon. The event, which has been observed in the Biblicat village since 1945, sees hundreds of devotees participating to seek blessings and bountiful harvests. The mud people are covered with mud and dress in dried banana leaves representing Saint John the Baptist. Picture: JAY DIRECTO Saint John the Baptist is the elder cousin of our Lord Jesus Christ, the son of Elizabeth and Zachary whom Jesus mother Mary visited before he was born. John was the name Elizabeth and Zachary...

Have you heard of the Mirabili Dictu International Catholic Film Festival? It is my first time to encounter such film festival, some sectors dubbed it as Catholic Oscar. Mirabili Dictu means something wonderful to tell or wonderful to relate  in Latin. This International Film Festival is independent, conceived and created by Liana Marabini, a writer, producer, publisher and film maker. The festival was founded in 2010 under the high patronage of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and aims to show the Church from a new perspective: glamourous and traditional at the same time. It  is also privileged place of encounter for actors, directors and film makers, gathered by the concern they may have for the history and the values of the Church. Since it was the first time that i have heard of it, i have also taken the  entries who won from the previous years: 2010 - Desobeir          - The Butterfly Circus    ...

The First Diocesan Synod of San Pablo happened twenty years ago last May 24, 1994.  I am an eight month old priest of the Diocese. I am one of the staff drafted by the Synodal Fathers particularly for documentation purposes. As a young priest a vast information of doctrinal and collated experiences from the survey have an enormous impact on the course of the Synod. From the painstaking effort and long nights without sleep from the delegates and for those involved to level the ground for the seed to be planted and be nourished. Personally, I thanked the Bishop Buenaventura Famadico for bringing this issue that have stayed in slumber over the years. Bishop Famadico sees that this fruit of labor though been delegated to a small number of representatives is an effort as a whole of the Diocese to assess and give practical suggestions and directives to the flow of pastoral thrust that this Diocese of San Pablo must pursue as we interpret it in the present situation hoping to find ...

This is the question, I asked for several times for almost three weeks while speaking with their representative or technical assistance or simply the assigned call center agent of which have no knowledge at all of the problem being encountered. Well, I am not really sure if this is an isolated event or people using the broadband cannot spot the difference of slow connection or no connection at all, because you might think that you are still online and appear that the screen is slowly loading but in reality has no connection at all. Practically, I am already tired of calling the repair hotline because the  call center agent will only let you repeat the  basic procedure of checking if you are physically connected or not. They will tell you the rehearse line that they are assessing the issue. Well, I have not against all that but hey you can see from the history log that this caller is not just calling for the first time. It was been a series of call that span for severa...

From my past video files saved in You Tube through live streaming  in Ustream I have noticed that the video seems like in fast forward mode. I thought it was just a glitch but when I uploaded a video file I have taken through the same camera I find out that the difference was the phase of the video, The save file from the streaming, the Ustream allows video to be saved for some time and can be uploaded to You Tube. The defect is not in You Tube because the video file saved in Ustream is the original one and also defective. If Uploading to You Tube is the problem the original file will be not. But the case is that the Ustream file is already defective. It was on the month of May when I started writing this but since until now, I cannot really understand, why I am encountering such problem. It could be bandwidth with the free account that make the saved file sounds like a chipmunk. For the moment that I am studying to migrate with other live streaming applications I come up with...

O Jesus, our most loving Redeemer, who having come to enlighten the world with Your teaching and example, willed to pass the greater part of Your life humbly and in subjection to Mary and Joseph in the poor home of Nazareth, thus sanctifying the Family that was to be an example for all Christian Families, graciously take to Yourself our family as it dedicates and consecrates itself to You this day. Defend us, guard us, and establish among us Your holy fear, true peace, and harmony in Christian love; in order that by conforming ourselves to the divine pattern of Your family all of us without exception may be able to attain to eternal happiness.  Mary dear Mother of Jesus and our Mother, by your kindly intercession make this our humble offering acceptable in the sight of Jesus, and obtain for us His graces and blessings.  O saint Joseph, most holy Guardian of Jesus and Mary, help us by your prayers in all our spiritual and temporal necessities; that so we may be...

Post by Jessie Somosierra . O Hesus na aming Panginoon at Mananakop, masdan Mo ang aking pamilya na naninikluhod sa Iyong banal na harapan at sa bayan ng Diyos. Itinatalaga namin sa Iyo ang aming sarili, maging sa kahirapan at kasaganaan, kalungkutan at kagalakan. Hinihiling namin na ang aming tahanan ay maging dambana ng kapayapaan, pagmamahalan at pananampalataya. O Diyos, ibinibigay Mong huwaran sa amin ang Banal na Pamilya ng Nasaret. Loobin momg masunod ng aming pamilya ang pagmamahalan at banal na pamumuhay upang matamo namin ang ligaya at gantimpalang walang hanggan sa langit. O Maria, mapagmahal na ina ni Hesus, ikaw ay inangkin naming ina rin. Kung paanong inalagaan mo si Hesus hanggang sa Siya ay lumaki sa dunong at biyaya, gayon dn naman, hinihiling ng aming pamilya na kami ay idalangin sa lahat ng sandali ng aming buhay. O Jose, butihing ama, tagapangalaga nina Hesus at Maria, tulungan mo po kaming manalangin sa lahat ng aming mga kahilingan at...