[caption id="attachment_12898" align="alignright" width="350"] Bro. Felix[/caption]How would one know that God is calling him to the religious life? The vocation stories that Felix listened to made him think he is not called at all. His lifestyle was clearly opposite to the sharers’. To be without money...
THE VOCATION STORY OF FR. NOEL GASTONES DIOCESAN CATECHISTS AND PASTORAL DIRECTOR, DIOCESE OF TAGUM What’s your ambition in life? The slum book question went. The high school student Noel was stumped for an answer. He decided to copy his best friend’s “I want to be a...
“I was already working when I thought about my vocation. I was then a radio personality in DXDA-AM radio station in Bayugan City,” Sr. Lydia Sumampong, SFIC, started. “My involvement in the two religious organizations in the church such as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement and...
“Bring all the world to the knowledge and love of our Lord; to preach nothing but Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ eucharistic.” Such resolution made by St. Peter Julian Eymard’s in 1845 still lingers today as his spiritual sons continue his work through the Congregation...
[caption id="attachment_12190" align="alignright" width="350"] Missionaries of the Assumption with Abp Capalla[/caption]“We are partners in the development of people.” This assertion of the Indigenous People helps well-intentioned groups in reassessing and redefining their approach to IP communities, such that they have to shift from an empowerment...
“I respond to God’s call by leaving the exigency of my life as a consecrated person. To those who are called to married life, their response to God’s call is by being faithful to their commitment, and good work even to a single blessed Christian.”...
[caption id="attachment_11752" align="alignright" width="350"] Marist Renewal of Commitment. (PHOTO by Rev. Roque)[/caption]One hundred Marists -- priests, seminarians, brothers, sisters and laity gathered in Davao to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Fourvière Pledge last July 23, 2016. It was on the same date way back in...
“Vocation is not an exclusive thing for those who enter in a religious life or become a clergy or a nun. We are all called by God, and our response differs in what we do especially if you wanted to become a religious and that...
Ang among masulti gikan sa among kasing-kasing dala sa among kasinatian uban ni Msgr. Ed Rodriguez sulod sa napulo katuig mao kini: siya maloloy-on ug manggihatagon ilabina sa mga kabus, manggihuna-hunaon, yano ug mapaubsanon, dali maduolan, dili gayud siya mobalibad ilabina kung kini alang sa...
Bro. Matt Bernard Opleña Quiao interviewed by Reynaldo Bariquit (UIC Communication Arts intern) It started with the question “what if?” Bro. Matt Bernard Opleña Quiao, a seminarian scheduled to be ordained on February 11, 2016 at Fatima Parish, answered when I asked him “what made you...