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Liham Pastoral ng Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Ukol sa Parusang Kamatayan “Pero tingnan ninyo kung paano ipinakikita ng Diyos ang kanyang pagmamahal sa atin: namatay si Kristo para sa atin noong makasalanan pa tayo.” (Roma 5:8) Ngayong Ikatlong Linggo ng Kuwaresma, ang Ebanghelyo ayon kay San Juan ay nangungusap sa atin kung paanong ang isang Samaritana - na natagpuan kay Hesus, ang tubig na nagbibigay-buhay na matagal na niyang hinahangad- ay iniwan ang kanyang banga sa balon (Juan 4:28).Gaya ng Samaritana, ang mga Israelita na may katigasan ng puso sa Unang Pagbasa,na halos mamatay na sa matinding pagkauhaw sa disyerto,ay dinala patungo sa isang bato (Exodo 17:6). Marahil ay maaari nating isipin na ang batong ito ay si Hesus mismo na pinahirapan at pinagpakasakit sa Krus ngunit sa Kanya’y dumaloy ang tubig na nagbibigay buhay. Dahil kay Hesus, naging ganap sa Bayan ng Diyos ang pagtawid sa tigang na disyerto ng galit, kasalanan at kamataya...

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...

Ang mga sumusunod na pangungusap ang LIHAM PASTORAL ng Lub. Kgg. Mons. Buenaventura M. Famadico, D.D., Lingkod-Obispo ng San Pablo, para sa Araw ng Pasko (2016): Minamahal kong mga kapwa anak ng Diyos, Ipinagdiriwang natin ngayon ang pagsilang ng Diyos na naging tao. Ang Diyos ay naging tao upang tayong mga tao ay makibahagi sa kaluwalhatian, pag-ibig, kagalakan, kapayapaan at buhay na walang hanggan ng Diyos. Yan ang dahilan kung bakit tayo’y nagsasaya. Pero hindi lahat ay masaya. May mga kababayan tayo ngayon na malungkot dahil nawala ang mahal sa buhay. Siya ay pinatay dahil sangkot sa droga. Hindi lamang sila, ayon sa survey ngayong Disyembre, walo sa kada sampung Pilipino ang natatakot na baka siya o kakilala niya ay mamatay sa extra judicial killing. Maging ang  loob ng bahay ay hindi na ligtas. Papasukin ito ng taong nagnanais pumatay.  Hindi ka na rin makatitiyak na ikaw ay ipagtatanggol ng may kapangyarihan sapagkat sila mismo ay kasama rin sa m...

Early this morning, the archbishop of Lingayen Dagupan and present Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines published a guidelines on the COMPASSIONATE USE of cannabis or commonly known as Marijuana. I would like to share this to you by reposting the statement of the CBCP . Veritas Kapanalig published it a day ahead as can be seen in this site . Here it is: SOME of our Catholic faithful have come to us their bishops to seek moral guidance on the so called “compassionate use of cannabis or marijuana”. In the spirit of pastoral concern, we respond gladly to the expressed need for moral guidance. Our Competence What lies within the competence of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines to make statements on, and what lies beyond must be made clear. When a question of right and wrong, an issue of the ethical as against the unethical is raised, the Church, as prophetic, must exercise its teaching office and must offer the faithful guidance and instruction. ...

The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting as one of the arm of the COMELEC to ensure an honest and clean election and help the voters and the faithful to participate actively on the coming 2016 election is asking everyone to register so that you can vote. If you are already registered but has not been able to give your biometrics please go to the COMELEC office in your municipality to give your biometrics. Here is the list of the names who does not have biometrics in the city of San Pedro alone here in the province of Laguna which is numbered to 13,327 as of today. That is a lot of vote to be counted. If you would like to check if your name is on the list of those who have no biometrics kindly click here.  Search the province and the municipality or city. I would like to put the list of the San Pedro municipality here but the site would not allow me maybe because of the bulk of the list

Part of the 9 year program that the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines laid before the faithful in celebrating the Fifth Centennial of First Christian Baptism and Mass. Evangelization is much believed to have come much later afterwards. To help to meditate and to reflect and also for our talks concerning this matter I would like also to share the following materials These first five slides could be used as the participants comes during registration to acquaint themselves to one another and share the Word of god to one another. The Following slides are the main talk for the Year of the Poor. If you can find new statistics on this area please comment me so that i can also update the facts which is nearer to the present situation. I have also uploaded this on FACEBOOK , SCRIBD , and S...