In line with the preparation for the 2021 celebration of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity in the Philippines, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) opened the “Year of the Clergy and Consecrated Persons” on the First Sunday of Advent, December 3, 2017. The CBCP’s message for the “Year of the Clergy […]
God became human By: Fr. Froilan Renato A. Briones, SSS As Catholics, we profess our belief in the Incarnation in the Nicene Creed: Jesus Christ “ came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. The Incarnation is a unique and singular event. Its truth informs […]
POLA ON ITS MISSIONARY OPTION to the Peripheries The New Year is like starting over or beginning a new page for most people; but for us, members of the Province of Our Lady of the Assumption, the New Year is another year of adding more pages in our continuing efforts of rekindling our passion for Eucharistic […]
The Province of Our Lady of the Assumption is grateful to God for the gift of vocation to the religious life as Br. Ian Michael C. Abad, SSS, had his first profession of vows to the religious life in the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. Likewise, Br. Eddienel G. Villa, SSS, Br. Tedley T. Villanueva, SSS, […]
H.E. Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle and the new Papal Nuncio to the Philippines, Italian Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, crowning the centuries old statue of the Our Lady of the Pillar, patroness of Sta. Cruz Parish (Manila), during the Canonical Coronation Rite last December 7, 2017. For almost three hundred years, the image of the Blessed Virgin […]
“ After this I looked: there was a great multitude… from all nations, tribes, peoples and languages…” (Rev 7:9) Eymard’s dream was to inflame the four corners of the earth with the Eucharistic spark. The SSS family is in the six continents of the world. On the one hand, it exists in the north-western zone […]
CONGREGATIO SANCTISSIMI SACRAMENTI 13 May 1856 – Congregation of the Bl. Sacrament 31 July 1859 – Congregation of the Servants of the Bl. Sacrament 6 January 1952 – Secular Institute Servitium Christi Rome, 14 November 2017 Dear Eymardian Family I want to remind everyone that on November 17th the Aggregation of the Blessed Sacrament will celebrate […]
Prayer for the 8th POLA Chapter Loving Father, we, the Sacramentinos of the Province of Our Lady of the Assumption, praise and thank You for calling us to be a community of brothers and making us instruments of spreading the good news of Your love especially through our prayer, ministry and communal life. In this graced moment of […]
Celebrating 20 Years at the Eucharistic Banquet The year 2016 had been a milestone year in my life because I celebrated my 25th anniversary as a religious of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament. I am so blessed and grateful for the many years I have been nurtured by the tremendous grace of vocation I […]
The Holy Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life” (Lumen gentium, no. 11; cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 1324). And the essence of Christian life is Christian spirituality, which is one’s way of life reflecting the Gospel However, amidst the secularism, modernism, and globalization pervading in our society, it is […]
