Peace to one and all! Happy New Year to everyone. For us Christians, there is no better way to start the year than to offer praise and thanksgiving to God. And the reason why we do this is obvious: we thank God every New Year, because only God can create time and space.
from the SMP-PDO Office (The following texts contain in the Homily of Fr. Marc Bryan R. Adona, SSS (PDO Director) last September 16, 2019, during sthe HOly Mass offered for the Sanctification of Human Work – as the official of the project to reconstruct, preserve and enhance the existing Provincial House of the Congregation of […]
Blessed Sacrament Brother1885-1940 by Daniele Bolognini The Venerable Giovanni Nadiani was born on 20 February 1885 at St Maria Nuova, near Bertinoro (Forli). He had an older sister and brother. When he was three years old his mother died and his father, an anticlerical republican who ran a grocer’s shop-restaurant, married his wife’s sister. After only […]
Blessed Sacrament Father TO LIVE IN THE LIGHT OF THE EUCHARISTThe Venerable FR. LODOVICO LONGARI, was born in 1889 at Mondine (Cremona), the eleventh child of his Christian parents. He entered the Seminary of Crema at the age of twelve (1900). In 1912 he was ordained to the priesthood and was appointed secretary to his […]
On the eve of the second Vespers of the Second Sunday within the Octave of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, a chorus of voices echoing with joy and thanksgiving as the Sacramentinos gathered in prayer to mark the start of the Annual Provincial Retreat. A week-long gathering for pastoral update, spiritual exercises, rotating bond adoration, prayer, […]
At Evening Prayer II of the Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday, the Sacramentinos gathered in prayer to mark the beginning of the Annual Provincial Retreat at the Carmelite Spirituality Center, Tagaytay City (April 28 – May 4, 2019). This was a week-long gathering for pastoral update, spiritual exercises, rotating bond of adoration, prayer, […]
Great Love and Great Suffering The forebodings of human experiences offer such dynamic apertures which serve as the opening and closing spaces between the person and oneself, between the person and the neighbors, and between the person and the Creator. In this sense of coherent connectivity, only the power of love and power of suffering […]
THE EUCHARIST: The Passion of Fr. Eymard’s Life “Have a Eucharistic passion. Love like a man who loves someone who passionately. Whoever sees our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, whoever sees him and is delighted, will turn his mind to our Lord. His thoughts will follow, he will know him, contemplate him, he will see […]
“ MARY, Mother of God ” Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution, Lumen Gentium, recognizing the role of the Virgin Mary in the mystery of salvation as Mother of God. “Wishing in His supreme goodness and wisdom to effect the redemption of the world, “when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, born of a […]
OLAP Celebrates Diamond Jubilee Year (1959-2019) Brief History In August 15, 1959 the Our Lady of the Assumption Parish was launched, Fr. Jean Bernard Bazinet, PME became the first Parish Priest and later succeeded by Fr. Conrad Lafortune, PME. The parish was turned over to the Diocese of Davao in 1968 with Fr. Edgar Rodriguez, […]
