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As we prepare for the 51st International Eucharistic Congress to be held in Cebu, Philippines this coming January in the year of the Lord 2016. the Diocese of San Pablo is scheduled to received the Symbol of the said Congress this July 14 and will stay in the Diocese until the morning of July 17. Let us pray for the success of the congress and prepare ourselves to go deeper to our faith in following the Lord Jesus Christ who for the love of us constantly offers himself humbly in the form of the bread and/or wine in the Blessed Sacrament. Those who will fetch the symbol will wait in the front of the fort of Santo Domingo in Santa Rosa Laguna along the boundary of the dioceses of Imus and San Pablo at 9:30 to 10 o'clock in the morning of July 14. Then the convoy will travel to Calamba via SLEX and will be welcome by the clergy and lay of theEcclesiastical District 2 at RSM Calamba in real highway in front of Yokohama. Then the convoy will proceed to the St. John ...

(This is a repost from http://www.usccb.org entitled Six Ways To Evangelize During Lent. however I dropped out the sixth because it is not applicable to Philippine setting.) During Lent, when your friends or co-workers express curiosity about Catholic customs and symbolism, use those moments as opportunities to evangelize! Following are six common questions Catholics hear during Lent and some evangelizing answers. Ash Wednesday: What’s with that dirt on your head? Who hasn’t gotten that question on Ash Wednesday before? Do you feel silly when people ask you about your ashes? And is it hard to answer their questions? Having ashes on your forehead isn’t just some weird Catholic thing: it’s a tradition that finds its roots in the Old Testament. “I turned to the Lord God, to seek help, in prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes” (Daniel 9:3). When the ashes are placed on our foreheads in the sign of the Cross, it is a reminder of several things. First, it is a call t...