A very special celebration for our Blessed Mother's birthday is on September 8th, Friday beginning from 6:15PM. All parishioners are invited to join us. To honor her on this day, we will begin with flower offering and coronation recitation of the Holy Rosary and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Dinner & fellowship to follow in the Social Hall sponsored by all the ministries in our Parish. Please sign-up for the headcount.
Happy Anniversary to the Blessed Sacrament Fathers and Brothers! The late Archbishop of Manila Rufina Cardinal Santos invited the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament (Societas Sanctissimi Sacramenti SSS) to establish a foundation in Manila, Philippines. The first community of the Blessed Sacrament Fathers and Brothers (as Sacramentinos were then called) was established in the Parish of Sta. Cruz, Manila, on August 15, 1957.
The Transfiguration, then and now, is a shining mountaintop experience amid scenes of violence and suffering. On this day, August 6th, 1945, humans unleashed a power so deadly that we’ve spent decades trying to prevent its use in warfare again. Here’s how President Harry S. Truman described the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in a press release sent out 16 hours after the attack: “It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed...” Jesus, too, harnessed the power of the universe, but His energy was used to bring light and life. Let’s remember to pray for our enemies today, and call on God’s power to help us transfigure hatred into love. “Jesus was transfigured before them, and His face shone like the sun.”