A JOURNEY of SERVICE

Its been fifteen months since I embraced this journey of service, and as I look back, my heart is filled with gratitude. It has been a journey woven with much faith and love, collaboration, challenges, and moments of grace and blessings. Leading is never a solitary endeavor. Every step of the way, I have been…

JUBILEE AUDIENCE

ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER, POPE FRANCIS: To hope is to begin again (John the Baptist) Sharing with you ALL the first Jubilee Audience of our Holy Father, POPE FRANCIS on Saturdays. Summary: Dear brothers and sisters: During this Jubilee Year, many of you have come to Rome as “pilgrims of hope”, confident in the…

OPENING OF THE JUBILEE YEAR 2025

POPE FRANCIS says: The Jubilee has now opened so that all people may receive hope, the hope of the Gospel, the hope of love and hope of forgiveness. As we contemplate the manger, as we gaze upon it and see God’s tender love in the face of the Child Jesus, let us ask ourselves: “Are…

HAPPY NEW YEAR

As we step into the NEW YEAR, let us be filled with gratitude for the blessings of the past and hope for the journey ahead. May this Jubilee Year of Hope inspire us all to walk more deeply in faith and joy, carrying the light of Christ to all. Let us embrace the year ahead…

Typhoon Carina: THE AFTERMATH

Thank you, LORD for all the generous people who have been helping. After ten days, the remains of the Typhoon Carina still haunt us. The basement of our convent in Quezon City was completely devastated by the relentless floodwaters brought by the typhoon. Once a place of storage and tranquility, now it is a scene…

EVENING PRAYER

Merciful Lord,let the evening prayer of your Churchcome before you.May we do your work faithfully;free us from sinand make us secure in your love.We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,God, for ever and ever.— Amen. (Liturgy of the Hours)

HOPE as an Anchor.

All of us, brothers and sisters, are in great need of hope, which is not optimism; no, it is something else. We need hope. Hope is depicted as an anchor, there at the shore, and in clinging to its rope, we move toward hope. We need hope, we need to lift our gaze to horizons…

HOPE is born of Love…

Hope is born of love and based on the love springing from the pierced heart of Jesus upon the cross: “For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, having been reconciled, will we be saved by his life” (Rom 5:19). That life becomes…

JUBILEE YEAR 2025

Pope Francis solemnly proclaims the Jubilee Year 2025 with the theme: SPES NON CONFUNDIT. “Hope does not disappoint” (Rom 5:5). ‘Everyone knows what it is to hope. In the heart of each person, hope dwells as the desire and expectation of good things to come, despite our not knowing what the future may bring. Even…