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The First Diocesan Synod of San Pablo happened twenty years ago last May 24, 1994.  I am an eight month old priest of the Diocese. I am one of the staff drafted by the Synodal Fathers particularly for documentation purposes. As a young priest a vast information of doctrinal and collated experiences from the survey have an enormous impact on the course of the Synod. From the painstaking effort and long nights without sleep from the delegates and for those involved to level the ground for the seed to be planted and be nourished. Personally, I thanked the Bishop Buenaventura Famadico for bringing this issue that have stayed in slumber over the years. Bishop Famadico sees that this fruit of labor though been delegated to a small number of representatives is an effort as a whole of the Diocese to assess and give practical suggestions and directives to the flow of pastoral thrust that this Diocese of San Pablo must pursue as we interpret it in the present situation hoping to find ...

(This is the introduction I wrote in my new Blog) December 16, the start of the Misa de Gallo, novena dawn mass for the celebration of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, is also designated by the Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines as the National Youth Day (NYD). This year National Youth Day is its silver jubilee, the 25th year of the Episcopal Commission of Youth and the culmination of the celebration of the CBCP's National Year of the Youth in connection with the one hundred ninety five after the birth of St. John Bosco who dedicated his life for the youth especially for the education of catholic youth. His relic visited some parts of the country. The Youth of the diocese was able to view it on San Pablo and on Calamba. The church regards the importance of the youth. Pope John Paul II highlighted the role of the youth and its pastoral care through the establishment of the World Youth Day. The activities of this yearly event has particular effect and fascinates varie...

The Holy Spirit says: Oh, that today you would hear his voice, “Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion in the day of testing in the desert, where your ancestors tested and tried me and saw my works for forty years. Because of this I was provoked with that generation and I said, ‘They have always been of erring heart, and they do not know my ways.’ As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter into my rest.’” Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God. Encourage yourselves daily while it is still “today,” so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin. We have become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end. ShareThis Blogs commenting Fr. Jessie's post