FE MANALO FROM PARIS: Dear Friends, Thank you for your concern. The sisters and I are safe. We had our first day of our annual ‘Journées d’Amitié ‘ which is an annual fundraising bazaar for the mission. The first day went very well. But late at night, the terrorist attacks in 6 different places […]
POLA AMPLIFIED PROVINCIAL COUNCIL IN PICTURES: AMPLIFIED PROVINCIAL COUNCIL (APC) PROCEEDINGS (October 20-22, 2015): Opening Ritual: Silence then prayer, enthronement of the Word of God, unveiling of the picture of the suffering Christ and singing of vocation songs. Preliminaries: Roll call, approval of moderators, etc. Introduction: Mention of letter of convocation for the 2015 […]
Amplified Provincial Council, October 22, 2015 The third day of the APC meeting started at 8:15 in the morning with an opening song/prayer So Loved by God led by Fr. Victor Diolata, SSS, the presider for the day. The copies of the Minutes of the Meeting of the previous day were readily distributed by the Secretariat […]
APC Day 2 – October 21, 2015 The second day of the APC meeting started at 8:15 in the morning with the opening song/prayer (You Are Mine) led by Fr. Reynaldo Capili, SSS the presider for the day. Shortly after the opening prayer, Fr. Rey notified the body about the absence of Fr. Hermie in […]
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, […]
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 […]
