First day, October 20, 2015 Eight-fifteen in the morning, the opening liturgy signaled the beginning of the Amplified Provincial Council 2015 at the Maheau’s Hall, Provincial House. Fr. Martin Ochola, SSS enthroned the Holy Bible followed by the Reading of the Scriptures, from the Prophet Amos by Fr. Froilan Briones, SSS. Preceding the symbolic unveiling […]
MUCH AWAITED PROVINCIAL WEBSITE: www.blessedsacramentphil.org is now the official website of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, Province of Our Lady of the Assumption – Philippines-Hawaii-Uganda. During the Council’s meeting on June 3-5, 2015, the commis-sioning of an official website design for the Province was approved. Fr. Joel Lasutaz recommended his friend Mr. Jomar Yanez, […]
The Sacramentino Hawaii Community administers two parishes: Mary, Star of the Sea Parish in Honolulu and St. Joseph Parish in Hilo. Mary, Star of the Sea Parish in the Diocese of Honolulu was administered by the Marist Fathers for 58 years, but they decided to give it up due to a lack of personnel. Bishop […]
In the 1960s until 1977, the American Province of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament had a Community administering a parish in Masaka, Uganda. But due to the brutal regime of its former president Idi Amin, they were compelled to leave and the Masaka House closed down. Almost twenty years later, the Sacramentinos re-established their […]
During the 2013 Amplified Provincial Council (APC) meeting, the immersion in Mapandan, Pangasinan, was approved for evaluation of possibly taking care of the chapel in Brgy. Torres, Mapandan, Pangasinan. The Sacramentinos who were sent there were eager to share the SSS Eucharistic Mission; in return, they were given a warm welcome by the Archdiocese of […]
POLA’s 2011 Provincial Chapter mandated the new Council then to accept the invitation of the Most Rev. Ronnie Bancud, SSS, D.D., to establish an SSS foundation in the Diocese of Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. Thus, the normal procedure of immersion by Sacramentinos was undertaken, and thereafter, an area in Brgy. Adorable, San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija, was […]
From being regarded as a “satellite community” of the Provincialate Community, the Lasallian Center was canonically erected as a local community on May 13, 2011 with the permission from Rome. The first local community superior was Fr. Froilan Briones. Fr Dante Funelas is the current local superior . There is a religious assigned to each […]
This was the first pastoral community founded not in a city by the Sacramentinos (although few years after, Tabaco has been declared a city). TheMost Rev. Jose C. Sorra, D.D., Bishop of Legazpi, formally welcomed the Sacramentinos at the Holy Family Shrine, which has Quasi-Parish status, on February 4, 1999. Under the Sacramentinos, the quasi-parish […]
The Most Rev. Pedro Dean, D.D, who was then Archbishop of Palo, invited the Sacramentinos to administer the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament located at Barangay Tigbao, Tacloban City, and the invitation was accepted. On August 1, 1997, the Shrine was officially turned over to the Sacramentinos, who dedicated themselves to promoting love for […]
The headquarters of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, Province of Our Lady of the Assumption – Philippines-Uganda-Hawaii, is located at Eymard Drive (formerly Sunnyside Drive), New Manila, Quezon City. The Community acquired its juridical personality as an independent community after the second POLA Chapter in 1996. The members of the Community are the provincial […]
