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12/10/2025

𝙎𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮

Edward the Confessor was the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy. He was born at Islip, England, and sent to Normandy with his mother in the year 1013 when the Danes under Sweyn and his son Canute invaded England. Canute remained in England and the year after Ethelred's death in 1016, married Emma, who had returned to England, and became King of England.

Edward remained in Normandy, was brought up a Norman, and in 1042, on the death of his half-brother, Hardicanute, son of Canute and Emma, and largely through the support of the powerful Earl Godwin, he was acclaimed king of England. In 1044, he married Godwin's daughter Edith. His reign was a peaceful one characterized by his good rule and remission of odious taxes, but also by the struggle, partly caused by his natural inclination to favor the Normans, between Godwin and his Saxon supporters and the Norman barons, including Robert of Jumieges, whom Edward had brought with him when he returned to England and whom he named Archbishop of Canterbury in 1051.

In the same year, Edward banished Godwin, who took refuge in Flanders but returned the following year with a fleet ready to lead a rebellion. Armed revolt was avoided when the two men met and settled their differences; among them was the Archbishop of Canterbury, which was resolved when Edward replaced Robert with Stigand, and Robert returned to Normandy. Edward's difficulties continued after Godwin's death in 1053 with Godwin's two sons: Harold who had his eye on the throne since Edward was childless, and Tostig, Earl of Northumbria. Tostig was driven from Northumbria by a revolt in 1065 and banished to Europe by Edward, who named Harold his successor. After this Edward became more interested in religious affairs and built St. Peter's Abbey at Westminster, the site of the present Abbey, where he is buried. His piety gained him the surname "the Confessor". He died in London on January 5, and he was canonized in 1161 by Pope Alexander III. His feast day is October 13.

Source: catholic.org

12/10/2025

12/10/2025

SNP BONTOC YARNN!

We’re delighted to share the completion of the repair and improvement works at the SNP Bontoc Convent Office and Facilities!

This project aims to provide a more comfortable and functional space for parish operations and community services — supporting the mission of faith, service, and unity in our parish. 🙏

Big thanks to everyone who extended support and cooperation throughout the project! Together, we continue to build not just structures, but a stronger faith community.

12/10/2025

Pag-ampo Batok sa Kurapsyon

Ginoo nga among Amahan sa langit,
Ikaw ang tinubdan sa kamatuoran ug katarungan.
Nagadool kami kanimo karon, naghangyo nga imong tabangan ang among nasod nga Pilipinas
nga nag-antos tungod sa laganap nga kurapsyon ug kawalay hustisya.

Pasayloa kami, Ginoo, kon kami usahay manghilum sa atubangan sa sayop,
ug kon kami mapakyas sa pagpanalipod sa kamatuoran ug pagkamatinud-anon.

Ihatag sa among mga lider sa gobyerno, simbahan, ug komunidad
ang kahadlok sa Dios, kaisog sa pagbarug sa hustisya,
ug kasingkasing nga matinud-anon sa pagserbisyo sa katawhan.

Tabangi usab kami, mga ordinaryong katawhan,
nga magpuyo nga limpyo, magtrabaho nga tinarong,
ug dili magpasugot nga mahimong kabahin sa binuang ug pagpanikas.

Ipanalangin, Ginoo, ang among nasod nga Pilipinas,
nga unta mamahimong yuta sa mga tawo nga matarung,
puno sa gugma, paglaom, ug pagkahiusa.

Ang imong gahum ug kalooy, maoy among kalig-on ug kadasig.
Amo kining gipasalamatan pinaagi ni Cristo nga among Ginoo.

Amen.

12/10/2025

FIRST FEAST DAY OF SAINT CARLO ACUTIS
October 12

“The Eucharist is my highway to Heaven.”

Saint Carlo Acutis was a young Italian boy who lived a life filled with extraordinary faith in ordinary circumstances. Born in London and raised in Milan, he showed a deep love for God from an early age. He attended daily Mass, prayed the Rosary faithfully, and often spent time in front of the Blessed Sacrament, saying that “when we face the sun we get a tan, but when we stand before Jesus in the Eucharist, we become saints.”

Carlo was also passionate about computers and technology, using his talent not for fame, but for faith. He created a website that documented Eucharistic miracles from all over the world, helping others to grow in devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. His simple yet profound faith became a model of how modern technology can be used for holiness and evangelization.

Despite being diagnosed with leukemia at only fifteen, Carlo offered his suffering for the Pope and for the Church. He accepted his illness with peace and joy, saying, “I’m happy to die, because I’ve lived my life without wasting even a minute on things that don’t please God.”

He was beatified in 2020 and canonized in 2025, becoming the first millennial saint. Today, Saint Carlo Acutis is the patron of the internet, youth, and computer programmers a shining example that holiness is possible for everyone, even in the digital age.

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OFFICIAL PRAYER TO SAINT CARLO ACUTIS

Carlo, smile of heaven for this wounded and peaceless world, we praise God for your simple, joyful and holy life. You accepted with trust to be stripped of your youth to dedicate yourself in heaven, with Jesus and Mary, to a mission of boundless love. Resting with your mortal body where Francis of Assisi stripped himself of every earthly good, you cry out with him to the world that Jesus is all our joy.

Young man, full of dreams, attracted by nature, by sports, by the internet, but even more enraptured by the miracle of Jesus truly present in the Sacred Host, help us to believe that He is there alive and true, the mystical "highway" that leads to heaven, and teach us to contemplate Him with Mary, in the mysteries of the Holy Rosary.

Explain to us, Carlo, that, beyond every fashion, only Jesus, by uniting ourselves to Him, makes us "originals and not photocopies," truly free. Grant us know how to meet Him in every creature, but especially in the poor, so that humanity may be more just and fraternal, rich in beauty and hope, to the glory of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

11/10/2025

𝙎𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮

Saint Carlo Acutis’ Story

Born in London and raised in Milan, Saint Carlo’s wealthy parents were not particularly religious. Upon receiving his first communion at age seven, Carlo became a frequent communicant, making a point of praying before the tabernacle before or after every Mass. In addition to Francis of Assisi, Carlo took several of the younger saints as his models, including Bernadette Soubirous, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, and Dominic Savio.

At school Carlo Acutis tried to comfort friends whose parents were undergoing divorce, as well as stepping in to defend disabled students from bullies. After school hours he volunteered his time with the city’s homeless and destitute. Considered a computer geek by some, Carlo spent four years creating a website dedicated to cataloguing every reported Eucharistic miracle around the world. He also enjoyed films, comics, soccer, and playing popular video games.

Diagnosed with leukemia, Carlo offered his sufferings to God for the intentions of the sitting pope—Benedict XVI—and the entire Church. His longtime desire to visit as many sites of Eucharistic miracles as possible was cut short by his illness. Carlo died in 2006 and was beatified in 2020.

As he had wished, Carlo was buried in Assisi at St. Mary Major’s “Chapel of the Stripping,” where Francis had returned his clothes to his father and began a more radical following of the Gospel.

Among the thousands present for Carlo’s beatification at Assisi’s Basilica of St. Francis were many of his childhood friends. Presiding at the beatification service, Cardinal Agostino Vallini praised Carlo as an example of how young people can use technology to spread the Gospel “to reach as many people as possible and help them know the beauty of friendship with the Lord.”

His liturgical feast is celebrated on October 12.

Source: franciscan.org

10/10/2025

𝙎𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮

Saint John XXIII’s Story

Although few people had as great an impact on the 20th century as Pope John XXIII, he avoided the limelight as much as possible. Indeed, one writer has noted that his “ordinariness” seems one of his most remarkable qualities.

The firstborn son of a farming family in Sotto il Monte, near Bergamo in northern Italy, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was always proud of his down-to-earth roots. In Bergamo’s diocesan seminary, he joined the Secular Franciscan Order.

After his ordination in 1904, Fr. Roncalli returned to Rome for canon law studies. He soon worked as his bishop’s secretary, Church history teacher in the seminary, and as publisher of the diocesan paper.

His service as a stretcher-bearer for the Italian army during World War I gave him a firsthand knowledge of war. In 1921, Fr. Roncalli was made national director in Italy of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He also found time to teach patristics at a seminary in the Eternal City.

In 1925, he became a papal diplomat, serving first in Bulgaria, then in Turkey, and finally in France. During World War II, he became well acquainted with Orthodox Church leaders. With the help of Germany’s ambassador to Turkey, Archbishop Roncalli helped save an estimated 24,000 Jewish people.

Named a cardinal and appointed patriarch of Venice in 1953, he was finally a residential bishop. A month short of entering his 78th year, Cardinal Roncalli was elected pope, taking the name John after his father and the two patrons of Rome’s cathedral, St. John Lateran. Pope John took his work very seriously but not himself. His wit soon became proverbial, and he began meeting with political and religious leaders from around the world. In 1962, he was deeply involved in efforts to resolve the Cuban missile crisis.

His most famous encyclicals were Mother and Teacher (1961) and Peace on Earth (1963). Pope John XXIII enlarged the membership in the College of Cardinals and made it more international. At his address at the opening of the Second Vatican Council, he criticized the “prophets of doom” who “in these modern times see nothing but prevarication and ruin.”

Pope John XXIII set a tone for the Council when he said, “The Church has always opposed… errors. Nowadays, however, the Spouse of Christ prefers to make use of the medicine of mercy rather than that of severity.”

On his deathbed, Pope John said: “It is not that the gospel has changed; it is that we have begun to understand it better. Those who have lived as long as I have…were enabled to compare different cultures and traditions, and know that the moment has come to discern the signs of the times, to seize the opportunity and to look far ahead.”

“Good Pope John” died on June 3, 1963. St. John Paul II beatified him in 2000, and Pope Francis canonized him in 2014.

Source: franciscan.org

10/10/2025

Ginoo, among gamhanang Amahan,
Salamat nga imo kaming giluwas gikan sa linog karung buntaga.
Bisan sa kalit nga kahadlok ug kagubot,
imo kaming gipanalipdan ug gihatagan ug kalinaw.

Amo usab gihandom sa pag-ampo,
ang mga naapektuhan sa linog—
ang nawadan ug panimalay, mga nasamdan, ug mga nangaluya.
Hatagi sila ug kusog, paglaum, ug kadasig.

Tabangi kami, O Ginoo, nga magtinabangay isip usa ka komunidad,
nga magpadayon sa pag-ampo, pagpangandam, ug pag-alagad sa usag usa.
Ihatag kanamo ang kalinaw sa among kasingkasing,
ug tabangi kaming magpuyo sa kasiguruhan nga ikaw anaa kanunay.

Amen. 🙏

09/10/2025

OCTOBER 11—MEMORIAL OF ST. JOHN XXIII
OCTOBER 12—MEMORIAL OF ST. CARLO ACUTIS
OCTOBER 13—MIRACLE OF THE SUN

In October, the Church honors several significant figures and events, including the memorial of St. John XXIII on October 11, renowned for convening the Second Vatican Council and fostering renewal within the Church; followed by the memorial of St. Carlo Acutis on October 12, a young Italian Eucharistic devotee known for his tech-savvy approach to faith and recent canonization; and on October 13, the feast commemorating the Miracle of the Sun at Fatima in 1917, a profound event witnessed by thousands, which is celebrated as a testament to divine intervention and the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima.

09/10/2025

LET'S OFFER OUR FRIDAY TO THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

On this Friday, I dedicate my thoughts, prayers, and actions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, seeking His mercy, love, and guidance in all I do. May His compassionate heart inspire me to live with humility, kindness, and unwavering faith, drawing closer to His divine love and sharing it with others.

09/10/2025

𝙎𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮

Saint Francis Borgia’s Story

Today’s saint grew up in an important family in 16th-century Spain, serving in the imperial court and quickly advancing in his career. But a series of events—including the death of his beloved wife—made Francis Borgia rethink his priorities. He gave up public life, gave away his possessions, and joined the new and little-known Society of Jesus.

Religious life proved to be the right choice. Francis felt drawn to spend time in seclusion and prayer, but his administrative talents also made him a natural for other tasks. He helped in the establishment of what is now the Gregorian University in Rome. Not long after his ordination, he served as political and spiritual adviser to the emperor. In Spain, he founded a dozen colleges.

At 55, Francis was elected head of the Jesuits. He focused on the growth of the Society of Jesus, the spiritual preparation of its new members, and spreading the faith in many parts of Europe. He was responsible for the founding of Jesuit missions in Florida, Mexico, and Peru.

Francis Borgia is often regarded as the second founder of the Jesuits. He died in 1572 and was canonized 100 years later.

Source: franciscan.org

09/10/2025

𝙎𝙐𝙉𝘿𝘼𝙔 𝙃𝙊𝙇𝙔 𝙈𝘼𝙎𝙎 𝙎𝘾𝙃𝙀𝘿𝙐𝙇𝙀𝙎 | October 12, 2025

📌PARISH CHURCH
5:30 AM & 7:30 AM
5:00 PM & 7:00 PM

📌CHAPELS
5:30 AM at BEC Hilaan
7:30 AM at BEC Hibagwan
9:00 AM at BEC Taa and Esperanza
4:00 PM at BEC Taytagan

Note: Mass Schedules at the chapels varies.