Sacramentino scholastics used to be attached to the Davao Community since they were studying at St. Francis Xavier Regional Major Seminary of Mindanao (ReMaSe) in Davao City. In 1982, the Blessed Sacrament Scholasticate Community was formed and occupied a new facility (now called Eymard Formation Center) in New Manila, Quezon City. Then the Community moved […]
This Community administers Nuestra Señora Virgen del Rosario (NSVDR) Parish at Barangay Consolacion and Sacred Heart Parish (a.k.a. Archdiocesan Shrine of the Holy Eucharist or Sanctuario Eucaristico) at R.E.R. Drive, Kauswagan. The former is where the Community was founded on December 9, 1995 while the latter’s presbytery is the official residence of the present Community. […]
With the success of their mission at Sta. Cruz Parish and desirous of spreading their Eucharistic mission farther into the country, the Sacramentinos decided to accept the invitation of the late Archbishop of Davao Clovis Thibault, PME, to take over the administration of now 56-year old Assumption Parish on July 2, 1972. Fr. Joseph Roy […]
This community was originally housed at Sta. Cruz Parish. When the Congregation was able to acquire seven hectares of hilly land in San Jose del Monte, a three-story building was built on it. On September 29, 1961, the formation team made up of Fathers Daniel Roach and Leo Bourque and Bro. Rudy Pinto moved to […]
The late Archbishop of Manila Rufino Cardinal Santos invited the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (Societas Sanctissimi Sacramenti: SSS) to establish a foundation in Manila. The first community of Blessed Sacrament Fathers and Brothers (as Sacramentinos were then called) was established in the Parish of Sta. Cruz, Manila, on August 15, 1957. The first SSS parish […]
A SEAT IN PONTIFICAL AND EPISCOPAL IEC BOARDS: The Secretary General to the Pontifical Committee on International Eucharistic Congresses is Fr. Vittore Boccardi, a Sacramentino. It seems that the Committee always reserves a seat for an SSS since the holding of such events has been inspired by our Founder St. Peter Julian Eymard. Looking back, […]
EYMARD: IN THE YEAR OF THE POOR AND THE YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE: We can weave in our celebration today of the 147th death anniversary of Fr. Eymard and his Feast Day tomorrow two very important celebrations in the Church: the Year of the Poor (as part of the year-by-year celebration towards the 500 Years […]
JULY 20, 2015 – 181st PRIESTLY ORDINATION OF EYMARD After his father’s death in 1831, he succeeded with the help of his former superior in gaining admission to the major seminary of the Grenoble diocese. On 20 July 1834, he was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Grenoble. He was assigned assistant pastor at […]
CORPUS CHRISTI AND SACRED HEART: The Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) and the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus are feasts the celebrations of which were requested by Christ himself through two nuns: in the case of Corpus Christi, it was through Saint Juliana de Cornillon (also […]
FR. WILLY VALLAR: After twelve (12) years and nine (9) months of service to the Ugandan people especially in the dioceses of Masaka and Jinja as community superior, formator and parochial vicar, Fr. Willy is coming back to the Philippines this July 1st in order to assume another important responsibility. People who have known Fr. […]
