You Will Reign Without Cease, O Most Sacred Heart Of Jesus

“Tu reinaras sin mengua,” chants the more than a hundred participants of the 2025 HUMILITAS March and Conference last 14-15 June 2025.

The line in Spanish translated to “You will reign without cease,” comes from the song. No Mas Amor Que El Tuyo (translated to “no greater love than yours”). This song, as patriotic as it is spiritual, points us to the fact that the Filipino people is for the reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

As the whole country fixates on the day-to-day politics (which is concerning in itself), the HUMILITAS Conference pointed its participants to an equally concerning national phenomenon–the long-standing rejection of Jesus Christ and the Faith, as seen in our nation’s drift towards an anti-life and anti-family politics and culture.

With this, the HUMILITAS movement presents the Sacred Heart of Jesus as the solution to all our nation’s ills – be it personal or social. For the HUMILITAS, Jesus Christ is the answer. Jesus Christ is the hope of our country. There is no one politician who can claim to be the savior, or the last card, of our country. Only when Jesus Christ reigns in our minds, in our wills, in our hearts, in our bodies, and in the way we conduct ourselves in our politics and in society will our nation heals.

The HUMILITAS March was first done in June 2024 with only a dozen people who wanted to promote the Devotion to the Sacred Heart attending. But because of social media, the photos of the HUMILITAS March reached many people. People started sending a message to the organizers, asking if there will be another HUMILITAS in the following year. More so, it also inspired people from Metro Manila to make their own HUMILITAS March on 7 June 2025 where more than 100 people joined from different organizations.

The 2025 HUMILITAS March and Conference in Davao opened with a four-lecture conference as an attempt to give a catechesis on the Devotion to the Sacred Heart, where it can be found in both Sacred Scripture and Church Documents, an introduction to the HUMILITAS Movement and what it aims to address, and also Fr. Amiel Arado presentation on the Humility of the Sacred Heart and the Prideful Self-Assertion of Sin.

It is followed by a Votive Mass in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus offered by Fr. Amiel Arado. The homily started with Fr. Arado describing a South Korean town Daejeon, which the locals call “the land of the Sacred Heart,” where the devotion to the Sacred Heart is flourishing.

“And that is what HUMILITAS is dreaming [of having]… that here in the Philippines, beginning in Davao, the Sacred Heart of Jesus and its Devotion will be brought back to the streets, in our families, and eventually to our communities,” Fr. Arado said.

The second day of the 2025 HUMILITAS started in the Sacred Heart Parish where the new parish priest Fr. Vic Gilay, parochial vicar Fr. Pete Lamata, and Fr. Cecilio Canico assistant procurator of the Archdiocese heard the confessions of the participants. Afterwhich, Fr. Amiel Arado lead the Holy Hour of Adoration and Reparation.

“I found the assembly and the Holy Hour (with benediction) very moving and impressive. I hope to take it more seriously and to help spread the devotion more widely…” says Ms. Aliza Racelis, who is the first person to have attended both the Davao and Metro Manila Humilitas March.

After the Holy Hour, the HUMILITAS March proper followed. The participants prayed all the mysteries of the Our Lady’s Holy Rosary as they marched from the Sacred Heart Parish, Obrero to San Pedro Cathedral. As a form of courtesy and show of gratitude, the route was drawn such that the participants will pass in front of the archbishop’s residence, for the support and recommendation of Archbishop Romulo Valles for the event, and also the Our Lady of Assumption Parish that first welcomed the HUMILITAS in 2024.

Aside from simply trying to bring the Sacred Heart back in our streets, the HUMILITAS March also has a reparative character. The participants were out there praying and sacrificing in reparation for sins committed against the Sacred Heart. In the words of Joegold Cajes, former president of the Ateneo Religious Organizations: “To walk for the Sacred Heart is to ask, what is humility but the recognition that we are nothing without the mercy flowing from the Sacred Heart of Jesus. To walk for the Sacred Heart is long overdue reparation.”

One the karo-bearer Clint Manzanal said that the reason he volunteered was to offer it as a reparation for his sins and as a thanksgiving for the Sacrament of Reconciliation that absolved him an hour prior to the HUMILITAS March. He said, “I neither felt tiredness nor heaviness during that time because my heart keeps on saying, my sin was forgiven by my Divine Master which much heavier than His image, why would I get tired bearing this Karo?”

But perhaps the most inspiring photo from the HUMILITAS this year would be that of a one-year-old baby girl Claire sitting on her father’s shoulders as they march with the HUMILITAS. One could be reminded of what Jesus said in the Gospel: “Let the children come to me… for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Engr. John Niño Leyson, the father and a member of the Family and Life Apostolate (FLA), said that he brought baby Claire to the HUMILITAS March to help others appreciate the “beauty of life.” One can recall the efforts of the Sacred Heart Parish, Obrero in promoting pro-life cause last February.

Before entering the main door of the San Pedro Cathedral, the participants as pilgrims said the prayers for the Jubilee of Hope. The Mass in honor of the Solemnity of the Blessed Trinity, celebrated by Fr. Amiel Arado, followed.

Overall, the HUMILITAS experience can be summarized in the words of the HUMILITAS participant Mr. Kennard Dominic Sedo, “As somebody who had the role of documenting the march, I had the unique privilege of witnessing the event on a different lens. I got to watch the participants pray earnestly and respond… in singing. I got to see families, children, people from all walks of life join in on the unified goal of championing the Sacred Heart and bringing humility on the forefront. But most interestingly, I got to see how people outside of the march react. A passerby who did the Sign of the Cross, a small family stopping and solemnly watched the flag bearers, and a few others who recorded the march on their phones, probably sharing it to their families and friends.

Besides the gripping event that is the HUMILITAS march, I witnessed a public eye that seemed to have needed the opportunity of experiencing devoted people championing the Sacred Heart of Jesus.” (Raven Jard Castaneda)