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Top aid us in our celebration for the Lord's Supper, Tenebrae and Easter Vigil, here is a copy of the rites.   Mass of the Lord's Supper   The Solemn Celebration of Tenebrae   Easter Vigil Mass Rite   Veneration of the Cross by Rev. Fr. Jessie  Somosierra, Jr.   Easter Vigil Mass Rite   Encuentro

On the Proper Celebration of the Paschal Triduum (P.No. DCL-006-11)   Christ the paschal victim is the center and end point of the celebration of the paschal Triduum. These three days that is preceded by the season of lent and holy week is the summit of the liturgical year. Knowing its importance we are therefore issuing these reminders and suggestions that will contribute for a meaningful celebration of the greatest feast in the liturgical year. Lent is the period of time when the church prepares for the journey towards the joy of Easter. In the past Ash Wednesday was preceded by practices that are incompatible to the demands of the Gospel. Mardigras and the celebration of carnivale festivals were held with so much excess immorality. Lenten practices and the celebration of Holy week are not only annual events, they are moments of spiritual transformation and rejuvenation for all the faithful. In order that our celebrations to be truly meaningful, much effort must...

The Arzobizpado de Manila on Saturday released the following, His Eminence Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle’s Easter message. “A blessed Easter to all of you! “Jesus is raised from the dead. In His resurrection, we now know where human history finds its culmination—in sharing the very life of God. The resurrection is not a return to human earthly life, a life still subject to evil and destruction. The life that the Risen Christ now possesses is God’s very life. That is why He will not die again. Sin has no more power over Him. In Jesus the Risen One, we are assured that God was, is, and will be victorious over sinfulness, viciousness, wickedness, corruption and violence. The Resurrection exposes and shatters the illusion of evildoers. Evil will never prevail over good! “Let us rejoice! But let our rejoicing bring about conversion. As Jesus has died to sin and risen to life in God, we should also die to sin and live for God. Easter joy leads us to an examination of our individua...

(My Homily yesterday, Second Sunday of Easter) Today is the 8th day of Easter, the last day of the octave of Easter. Last Saturday on our Easter Vigil celebration the Gospel from St. Luke have let us to reflect on the experience of three Mary's upon the tomb of Jesus. They went there to clean the body of Jesus who was been taken from the cross on the afternoon of the Good Friday. There was no time then to clean the body of Jesus and to prepare him for proper burial because it was already the start of the Sabbath  of the Jews. Instead the the three Mary's early in the morning of Sunday, which is the end of the Sabbath that can allow them to do their task as prescribed with the sabbath law, went to the tomb to prepare the body of Jesus. Presuming to find the Body of Jesus. However, what they saw was an empty tomb with two men in dazzling white proclaiming that Jesus is risen from the dead and is not around. Asking them why they are looking for the living in the presence of the ...