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21/01/2024

01/21/2023, Sunday.
Photos taken during this blessing of the children and Solemn Procesion in Sta. Barbara Parish, Sta. Barbara, Iloilo led by Msgr. Sinforoso Padilla, Parish Priest.

Photo credits to Mr. Elemer Grate

28/11/2023

14/10/2023

This day, OCTOBER 15, we celebrate the Feast of ST. TERESA OF AVILA.

Saint Teresa of Avila, the great reformer of the Carmelite Order and renowned mystic of the Church, was born and worked in Spain in the sixteenth century. In fact her life spanned the greater part of that century, a period of time when her country was in the ascendancy among the nations of the world. During this era, Spain was not only the dominant country of Europe, but the was a leader in the Americaa, Africa and India. It should be remembered that Spain, geographically speaking, is nearer the Americas, than is England or France, and it actually adjoins Africa. This position, naturally, gave Spain a great advantage during the great period of colonization.

In the year 1580, two years before the death of Teresa of Avila, Spain and Portugal were united into one kingdom. It was the Golden Age of Spanish culture and wealth. How much of this wealth had been obtained from the conquest of South America has already been indicated in the previous chapter. It was also a time of great religious fervor in Spain, and that country, virtually one out of every five men and women were in some religious order or had taken sacred orders. It was also the country which gave the world Ignatius of Loyola, the great saint who tried to bring unity again to Christendom from the chaos of the Protestant revolt.

Teresa Sanchez, was born at Avila in old Castile in 1515. Her father, Alphonse Sanchez, married twice, having three children by his first wife and nine children by his second wife, seven sons and two daughters. Teresa was the eldest of these two daughters by the second marriage. Teresa’s mother was a rather romantic type of wom an and the young Teresa had a very strong affection for her. She died when Teresa was twelve years of age, and this caused the young girl much grief and unhappiness.

Teresa was very close to her brother Rodriguez, and they used to read and pray together frequently. They became enamored of the Crusades to the Holy Land, a project which fired the imagination of all Christendom in those days. On one occasion, in their desperate schemes to convert the non-believers, they set out together for the Moorish settlements, resolved if necessary to die for the Faith. Fortunately for themselves and for the Faith, however, they were found outside the town by an uncle and brought home. Teresa studied for a while with the Augustinian nuns of Avila, and finally, against her father’s wishes, she entered the Carmelite Order at Avila where she made her profession in her twentieth year.

30/07/2023

Happy Sacerdotal Anniversary!
REV. FR. REEVE SOGO-AN
Parochial Vicar
Immaculate Conception Parish
Calinog, Iloilo

24/04/2023

Create wonders. Every moment of your life is a free gift from God. Miracles do happen.

Lured by the attractions of the worldly pleasure, serenity transpires when you contend yourself to a quiet and simpler life. In there, God can easily speak in the innermost tranquility of your heart. Engulfed in the stinginess of your selfishness, a miracle occurs when generosity becomes your priority. In there, you allow God to use you as an instrument of his love among others. Imprisoned by your own narcissistic attitude, conversion happens when you become altruistic to feel and accept the importance of others. In there, you set yourself free from being egocentric. This kind of wonder is God's gift and freely given. You don't have to look for it, it stays with you. Manifest it as you grow in his love to dictate every beat of your heart.

Cherish in awe the wonders in you. (al)

16/04/2023