We identified ourselves with the sufferings and pain in our midst. Sickness and hunger are real. Corruption remains endemic. And the response is to instill fear among our people. We seem to be a nation at war with its own people.
Rev. Fr. Fernando Cruz Lopez, O.Carm., president of Mount Carmel College of Escalante, Inc. in Escalante, Negros Occidental, has this message to teachers on the occasion of the National Teachers’ Day/World Teachers’ Day and the culmination of the 2020 National Teachers’ Month. This year’s theme, as per Department of Education Memorandum No. 63 series of …
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Previous Next “This church is the seed, the Word of God, and we could not permit it to produce only 100 more seeds, we should not be content with that, but we should continue to sow these 100 seeds, to plant it, to nurture it, so that the faith of the people would increase,” this …
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The Order of Carmelites in the Philippines, through the Institute of Spirituality in Asia and the Carmelite Center for Social and Pastoral Communications, recently launched the Fr. Bernard Roosendaal, O.Carm. Memorial Multimedia Recording Studio. “This pandemic has upped the trend of using the internet to communicate, to build communities, and to gather and share information …
The Escalante Community of the Order of Carmelites in the Philippines celebrated the life of the 20 martyrs of the Escalante Massacre with a mass at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish presided over by Fr. Harry Bloem, O.Carm. together with other priests. The 20 who died in the massacre are William Alegre, Michael …
The Third Order Carmelites in the Philippines recently promoted its members after having shown a certain level of commitment and maturity in embracing the Carmelite spirit. Last September 5, the communities of the Lord of Divine Mercy of Sikatuna Village, Our Lady of Miraculous Medal of Project 4, the Lord of Divine Mercy of Sikatuna …
San Isidro Labrador Parish in Bagong Silangan, Quezon City recently piloted a community-based urban farming facility aimed at alleviating the worsening incidence of hunger among residents of urban poor communities in the area. Fr. Gilbert Billena, O.Carm., parish priest of SILP, said that initially the facility, a tunnel portable greenhouse, is built in Sulyap ng …
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On June 30, 2020, Fr. Christian Buenafe, O.Carm., presented an oral intervention during the Interactive Dialogue on the report of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the widespread violations human rights and persistent impunity in the Philippines during the 44th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva”The OHCHR has …
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OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF THE ORDER OF CARMELITES ON THE ANTI-TERRORISM BILL Tend the flock of God in your midst, [overseeing] not by constraint but willingly, as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly. Do not lord it over those assigned to you, but be examples to the flock. And when …
By Ritche T. Salgado, O.Carm. Photo of protester from Philstar.com/Deejae Dumlao. Photo of flag grabbed from the internet. As the world suffers the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and as world leaders seek for a solution to help curb the rise in the transmission of SARS-coronavirus 2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in the …
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