Prayer To Heal Our Land

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 16,329 total views Pastoral Message in the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan for the 2019 Mid Term Elections Brothers and sisters in Christ in Lingayen Dagupan: All elections are important. Each vote is the power of the people to choose their leaders. It is the backbone of democracy. The candidates are job applicants for vacant positions. They

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 16,242 total views Fatherly Message to the Youth and Children of the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan My dear children of God in the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan: Through social media, you have been sadly exposed to the cursing, threats and shaming by the President of our country. Choose to love him nevertheless, but stay in the

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 16,222 total views Gospel Meditation for Sunday June 10, 2018 based on Mark 3:20 Jesus was thought to be insane by his relatives. They wanted to bring Him home by force. Jesus was thought to be possessed by the Scribes because His powers looked superhuman. Jesus had been called many names and accused of many crimes

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 16,222 total views Today is the feast of Mary Help of Christians. Mary the Helper is as old as the title Mary the Mother. This devotion was the armament of the Popes in the past against the attacks of kings and emperors on the Church. The devotion to Mary Help of Christians has been the recourse

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 16,344 total views Lent and Easter My brothers and sisters in the Lord! I am grateful for this opportunity to share with you myLenten and Easter message, my thoughts and reflections these days. I have to tell you that I have been very much inspired by the Lenten Message of our Holy Father for us this

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 25,974 total views By: Archbishop Socrates Villegas Holy Week is about what Christ has done for humanity. Let the memory of God’s mercy sink in without any compulsion to do something. Just relish His mercy and bask in the radiance of His love. During Holy Week, tell God “Thank you.” Holy Week is not what men

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 16,214 total views Pastoral Moral Guidelines for Our Catholic Faithful in the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan Dear brothers and sisters in Christ: For some time now, the President and his followers have campaigned aggressively for the revision of the Constitution to establish a federal government. As your pastor, I discern the responsibility to enlighten in the

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 16,213 total views Our Catholic Bishops in the Philippines appealed for a season of mourning and prayers for the dead from September 23 until November 1 this year, by daily rosary, church bell ringing and candle lighting at eight o’clock each night for the victims of the spreading culture of killings. The whole message of this

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 16,229 total views Our brothers and sisters in Christ: Kian, Carl, Reynaldo…they were young boys, enjoying life, loving sons of parents who doted on them. Now an entire nation knows them by name because their lives have been snuffed out so cruelly, their dreams and aspirations forever consigned to the sad realm of “what could have

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 16,196 total views Panawagan sa Bayan ng Diyos sa Archdiocese ng Lingayen Dagupan Ang gulo ng bayan! Parami nang parami ang mga ulila sa magulang, sa asawa at sa anak. Pakiusap na “Huwag po!” naririnig sa mga eskinita at tambakan. Patayan sa magdamag. Panaghoy at hikbi sa madaling araw galing sa mga ulila. Ang multo ng

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 16,239 total views Brothers and sisters in Christ: A key dimension of Jesus’ mission was to preach the truth, and in His high priestly prayer, He prayed that His disciples might be consecrated in the truth. We, the Filipino nation, are part of the community of disciples for whom He prayed. At his trial, the question

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 16,205 total views God saw all that he had made…and it was all very good! The Christian must nurture earth and care for creation, for so is the Creator paid homage and done reverence. Creation bears the Divine imprint, and they who deface it transgress against God’s sovereignty. For too long now, we have dealt with

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 16,210 total views “God proved his love for us that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Rom 5:8) On this third Sunday of Lent, the Gospel of John tells us how the Samaritan woman—having found in Jesus the “living water” she had longed for—left her jar of water by the well (John 4:28).

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 16,167 total views My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, is it God’s will that blood be on our streets? Is it God’s will that dead bodies of our brothers and sisters be found in our sidewalks? Is it God’s will that mothers kill the infants in their wombs ? It is not God’s will. Our

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 15,142 total views Pastoral statement on deaths and killings. For I find no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies – oracle of the Lord God (Ezekiel 18:32) Beloved People of God We, your bishops, are deeply concerned due to many deaths and killings in the campaign against prohibited drugs. This traffic in illegal drugs