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Ang pamantayan ng Simbahang Katolika sangayon sa turo ng ating panginoong Hesukristo  tungkol sa ikalimang utos na Huwag kang papatay ay makabase sa pangunahaning pamantayan hindi lamang ng Simbahang Katolika Romana kundi sa pangunahing karapatang pantao na nagpapahayag sa pagpapahalaga sa buhay ng tao. Isang biyaya na ipinagkaloob ng Diyos ay ang buhay na ipinagkaloob ng tao na nagpapahalaga sa buhay mula sa sinapupunan ng Ina sa pinakamaaga nitong katatayuan sa panahon ng paglilihi hanggang sa huling sandali ng kanyang hininga sa lahat ng pagkakataon maliban lamang bilang pagtatangol sa buhay, Kaya nga anu mang uri ng pag dungis sa pagpapahalaga sa buhay sa taliwas sa ika limang utos ng Diyos kasama na rito ang abortifacient, aborsyon, homicide, murder, death penalty, extra-judicial killing at mercy killing, Isang banal na tungkulin ng isang kristiyano na ipagtanggol ang buhay at gawin ang lahat upang maiwasan ito sa anu mang pamamaraan sang ayon sa turo ng ating Panginoong Hes...

It is known to everybody that the last time the congress voted for the re-institution of the death penalty in the lower house, the pro death penalty claim a large margin of victory. Only a handful, a fourth of the total number of votes casts have stand the ground. The 54 men and women of the members of the lower house who stick to the dictates of their conscience even on the fear and intimidation and even losing the key positions of the committees and even funding from pork barrel. One of the salient points in the discussion within the Presbyteral council of the Diocese of San Pablo is Have we done enough in the campaign against death penalty? Are we been deceived? or Have we deceived ourselves that what we have done is enough. or it is really an uphill battle because of the surrounding circumstances of which doctrinal formation is one of them. I would like to thank God for the 54 men and women members of congress who voted No to death Penalty, and i ask the Lord to stren...

I could not believe what I saw, so I retrace my steps and read the tarpaulin that reads "Raise 35 Million Pesos in 4 Months."  Well, it is a parish in the rich parish Alabang. However, it has raise some issues on my head. The parish might really be too rich to raise such amount, 35M divided 4, that is 8.75 million every month and 291,666.66 everyday.I just hope and pray that I could have that charism or any of my Parish Pastoral or Parish Financial Council. For the moment the parish is on the 4th month on raising for the flooring of the Parish Church because it needs rehabilitations, the tiles are already broken. Not all of them but many of them are. our expected amount to be raised  costs only an amount of 700 tiles that is priced as 500 per tiles. That is only 350,000.00 pesos that is just a fraction of a day counterpart of the Alabang parish. So far, we just raised a fourth of the amount so far. Well, anything is on God's hands. We are just doing we can. we ca...

One of the disadvantage of a free site is you depend upon sites that offer applications that maybe free but has no guarantee that you will use the service for a long time. most of the free services stop offering their service or the site itself has stopped its internet existence such as one of my voting applications. Though, it might have long been overdue bit the poll asked the readers questions regarding the church and social issues to read the pulses of the faithful. We will look for another site that offers polls for free or upgrade our blog to own a domain and paid hosting. Let us see as the time progress. more of the question really here is the time to spend in developing the site because we really have to update in the fast changing times.

I am a blogger user but it was only when I started the use of paid web hosted that I was directed as a part of the application of one of the web hosted platform. So I have decided if the same application is offered to a free web blog such as this one and if there are limitations different from the paid platform than from the free one. Here is one of the example is the slideshow of the Lenten celebration of the Catholic Church gathered in the internet. I might add some slide from later date. Let us if the code can adapt with the continous addition of slide without updating the code. Before, I was using other platform such as slide dot com but since I would like to limit the use of other platform to make the blog load faster because it would no longer need to fetch data from other platforms. Slide dot come is more user friendly because it can easily make a slide out of different pictures individually. Well, this is still on experiment stage as this is the first time of...

Fr. Ben Beltran, SVD, through his post has taken my attention on the issue of the groundbreaking statement on Christianity by a group of Orthodox Rabbis. The statement acknowledges the positive theological status of Christianity. A call for fraternal partnership of Jewish and Christian leaders.  Here is the full text of the said statement. December 3, 2015 To Do the Will of Our Father in Heaven: Toward a Partnership between Jews and Christians After nearly two millennia of mutual hostility and alienation, we Orthodox Rabbis who lead communities, institutions and seminaries in Israel, the United States and Europe recognize the historic opportunity now before us. We seek to do the will of our Father in Heaven by accepting the hand offered to us by our Christian brothers and sisters. Jews and Christians must work together as partners to address the moral challenges of our era. 1. The Shoah ended 70 years ago. It was the warped climax to centuries of...

GOSPEL REFLECTION: 27th Sunday In Ordinary Time (B) 4th October 2015 by Rev. Fr. Allen Baclor Abadines * READINGS: FIRST READING: Genesis 2:18-24 The LORD God said: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him." So the LORD God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man. So the LORD God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, he took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The LORD God then built up into a woman the rib that he had taken from the man. When he brought her to the man, the man said: "This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called 'woman, '...

Rev. Fr. Ricardo de Luna, the judicial vicar of the Diocese of San Pablo have replenish with copy of this documents to help out those who seek for annulment in the Catholic Church. I have to transcribed it here for the digital form. Please be careful not to substitute annulment with divorce. Annulment is a process from which their is a valid result that the marriage validity is defective since the beginning. In reality there is no marriage really that took place. An annulment is a declaration by a Church tribunal (a Catholic church court) that a marriage thought to be valid according to Church law actually fell short of at least one of the essential elements required for a binding union. A valid Catholic marriage results from five elements: (1) the spouses are free to marry; (2) they freely exchange their consent; (3) in consenting to marry, they have the intention to marry for life, to be faithful to one another and be open to children; (4) they intend the good of each oth...

Sons and Daughters of the Church, Citizens of the Republic Catholic Response To The Iglesia Ni Cristo Rallies What do we Catholics do as our brothers and sisters of the Iglesia ni Cristo throng around the EDSA Shaw area? We, your bishops, offer you these guidelines: 1. PRAY WITHOUT CEASING for a peaceful and just resolution of the present dispute, in a manner both pleasing to God and in conformity with the democratic convictions enunciated in our Constitution. 2. BE CHARITABLE AT ALL TIMES AND IN ALL CIRCUMSTANCES. Jesus, the Lord, willed His disciples to be known by their love. No Catholic should fan the flames of dissension by rumor-mongering and by inflammatory statements. Let all be kind in disposition, respectful in speech and prudent in action. 3. SEEK ENLIGHTENMENT. We appeal to our Catholic lawyers, jurists and law professors to contribute to the on-going discourse in a constructive manner, without condemnation. We seek to be enlightened on what the f...

While looking for some materials for this Sunday's Gospel, I came across on the site of the group of Irish priest known as Association of Catholic Priests who meets every Saturday in Dublin to have a forum, and a voice to reflect, discuss and comment on issues affecting the Irish Church and society today. A group of priest in Ireland with an annual  membership fee of 20 Euro. That is 1053.45 peso in today's currency conversion. The site was active since 2010. It does not say when the froup actually started, It is of special interest on my part that there is a group besides the Ecclesiastical known associations directed by the Church as stipulated in the Canon Law. This is an initiative coming from the priests of Ireland known as ACP. It is proper to share it with you their constitution: 1. Name: The Association of Catholic Priests (Ireland). (ACP) 2. Purpose of the association: To promote the aims and objectives, as laid out below: Providing a voice for Iris...