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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...

Well, to be frank about this issue, I will not personally reply on this issue but I would like to cite here the response which one of our lay evangelizers have well presented on his blog. We have to lay down some background here. The issue comes from the response of the netizens on the tweets that one of the Filipino Artist have tweeted on the Internet that have landed on the headline issue of the CBCP News. On this article, entitled "Netizens react to Broadway star’s ‘cafeteria Christianity ’" written by Raymond A. Sebastian of CBCP News last august 12, 2015. After this article was published, Lea's reply appeared on rappler saying she was misinterpreted. On this part Dr. Quirino Sugon, Jr., the author of the blog Monk's Hobbit have given some detailed though on this matter on defense of traditional marriage. If you have time please read here , the article of Dr. Sugon's   Homosexual ideology as a religion: a response to Lea Salonga .

As United States of America chief justice John Roberts wrote in his dissent that this supreme court decision in favor of marriage equality could be used by polygamists. He was right as yesterday morning in the state of Montana, it was tested by two polygamist by asking marriage license. As I have mentioned earlier, still hoping to find the manuscript of the ruling and if ever there are parameters that comes with it. Surely, there are parameters, it is a natural path of a limited being. What are the parameters of the ruling? Please advise me on this matter.

In reaction to the new ruling of the United States Supreme Court on marriage equality or same sex marriage. The US Supreme Court was asked whether banning same-sex marriages was in accord with the Constitution. It has recently ruled that such a ban is unconstitutional. That is the gist as well as the significance of the ruling of the US Supreme Court. Its reference is the US Constitution. Fortunately for human persons, there is so much more to us and to our dignity than what the law prescribes. While human positive law is the distillation of human experience of orderly and organized life, it does not exhaust human wisdom, nor does it have room for the wisdom of which God makes us participants. The Church continues to maintain what it has always taught. Marriage is a permanent union of man and woman, in the complementarity of the sexes and the mutual fulfillment that the union of a man and a woman bring into the loftiness of the matrimonial bond. If there is an undeni...

Last Friday's decision of the Supreme Court of the united States of America have shock the world for the acceptance of the same sex marriage. Joy for those are in line with the acceptance of its legality and disappointment for those who oppose it. We are in the Philippines, we are not in America, we should not be bothered about it, voices that we may hear from others about it. Or should we be wary because it will greatly affect us because we usually follow the american trend in some aspect of our life, and maybe in general aspect of our life. life is constantly evolving and we are to be ready to face realities about it including those of whom we are not liking  and even to the wildest imaginations have not visited us at all. Our faith in Jesus have taught us on this as he confront the sinners and the Pharisees. There are a lot of posts and reaction concerning this matter, however, we have to understand why the supreme court justices have opted to  passed the law...

You would like to see if your solemnizing priest/minister/rabbi/imam/judge has a marriage licence? You forgot your marriage license number. You can check it up on the internet on this address  http://census.gov.ph/.  Above is mine since the national statistic office decided to computerized the solemnizing officer information system and open it to public.

As an additional tool for priest, catechist, teachers and deacons. this material was adapted from United States Conference of  Catholic Bishops. It gives instruction on how to use this booklet. The foundation of the booklet rest on Marriage as Made for Life. The whole booklet is divided into three basic principles 1) Children are a Gift 2) Fathers and Mothers Matter and 3) Sexual Difference Matters. This Resource Booklet  is an addition to the Viewers Guide which goes along with the video Made For Life, the second video in the Marriage: Unique for Reason Series. The first video, Made for Each Other which explores why sexual difference matters and essential to marriage. It is a twelve minute video. You can view the video here :. http://www.marriageuniqueforareason.org/sexual-difference-video/ The second video, Made for Life: Marriage welcomes the “supreme gift” of the child.The video is hust ten minutes long, You can watch the video here :  http://www...

Filipino Rite for Catholic Wedding Rite   pag-iisang dibdib by Peter Miles

To help myself in finding an English Nuptial Rite. I have taken steps in uploading then in this site.   Wedding Rite

Some marriageable but unmarried friends will sometimes ask me to look for a partner for them. Well, it has been a long time to be serious about their request. maybe because I thought that they are just joking. On the other hand upon reflecting much of this subject matter, it is also imperative to give some occasions for such a request. The documents of the Catholic church clearly gives us a go signal concerning this matter. It is clear in the document familiaris consortio that it is the duty of the church to prepare the faithful for marriage life even up to the early stage of life so that they may be responsible individual and a God fearing citizen and faithful. The Church is full of ideals concerning this matter. upon reflection, it is clear to me that there is a necessity to offer such venue for young faithful to have an enough information and be able to choose the right person for his/her partner in life. Yes, there are a lot of dating sites, even of catholic dating sites. Howev...