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 Return to Me with All Your Heart “Return to me with all your heart… return to the Lord” (Jl 2:12, 13). The prophet Joel makes this plea to the people in the Lord’s name. No one should feel excluded: “Assemble the aged, gather the children, even infants at the breast, the bridegroom… and the bride” (v. 16). All the faithful people are summoned to come and worship their God, “for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love” (v. 13). We too want to take up this appeal; we want to return to the merciful heart of the Father. In this season of grace that begins today, we once again turn our eyes to his mercy. Lent is a path: it leads to the triumph of mercy over all that would crush us or reduce us to something unworthy of our dignity as God’s children. Lent is the road leading from slavery to freedom, from suffering to joy, from death to life. The mark of the ashes with which we set out reminds us of our origin: we were taken from the earth, ...

For  more that 28 week from now, the 51st International Congress will start here in Cebu, Philippines. It will be the second International Eucharistic Congress to be held here in this country. The first was last 1933 as the 33rd international Eucharistic Congress held in Manila and first to be held in Asia. The secretariat publishes three pamphlets to help the faith prepare and understand the greater gift of the Holy Eucharist. Here is first of the three,  the facilitators guide for Children.   51st International Eucharistic Congress Facilitators' Guide for Childre

Every month of May, we have a daily gathering for children as we inculcate our deep faith in our God through our Lord Jesus Christ with the power of the Holy Spirit through prayers and catechism with Mary, Our Lady of Flowers as our companion. In our efforts to involve all the ages in our parish we encourage the participation of our children and youth. We have two seminarians who in this year have help us to guide our little faithful towards a more informed and active participants in our parish. We thank seminarians Christian and Jelmar for giving their time to the children every afternoon during the said month. Our two seminarians from the parish have been helpful ever since, Paolo and Louie.  We thank all our sponsors for helping us in keeping the children attentive and filled with hope as they listened to the seminarians and children coordinators about the life of our Lord Jesus Christ and of holy men and women who followed Him and became our models of faith. ...