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Pope Francis Message for World Mission Day 2018

‘Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all’

ZENIT | October 21, 2018 14:25
Jim Fair

Pope Francis on May 19, 2018, released his message for World Mission Sunday 2018, held October 21, 2018. The theme: “Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all”.

“What leads me to speak to everyone through this conversation with you is the certainty that the Christian faith remains ever young when it is open to the mission that Christ entrusts to us,” the Pope said in directing his message to young people. “The Synod to be held in Rome this coming October, the month of the missions, offers us an opportunity to understand more fully, in the light of faith, what the Lord Jesus wants to say to you young people, and, through you, to all Christian communities.”

In his message, the Holy Father stressed that each person has a mission in life and the Church proclaims Christ’s message and shares with young people “the way and truth which give meaning to our life on this earth.”
“This transmission of the faith, the heart of the Church’s mission, comes about by the infectiousness of love, where joy and enthusiasm become the expression of a newfound meaning and fulfillment in life,” the Pope continued. “The Pontifical Mission Societies were born of young hearts as a means of supporting the preaching of the Gospel to every nation and thus contributing to the human and cultural growth of all those who thirst for knowledge of the truth.”

Pope Francis on May 28, 2018, asked for prayers for missionaries, stressing their important work around the world.

His remarks came in a video message sent for the opening of the General Assembly of the Pontifical Mission Societies, taking place in the Fraterna Domus of Sacrofano, Rome, through June 2, 2018.

“Why are the Pontifical Mission Societies important?” Pope Francis asked. His answer: “They are important first and foremost because we must pray for missionaries, for the evangelizing action of the Church. Prayer is the first ‘missionary work’- the first – that every Christian can and must do, and it is also the most effective, even though this cannot be measured. Indeed, the principal agent of evangelization is the Holy Spirit, and we are called upon to collaborate with Him.

World Mission Sunday raises funds for more than 1,000 mission projects around the world. It was established by Pope Pius XI in 1926 as a day of prayer for missions.

Together with young people, let us bring the Gospel to all

Message of the Holy Father

Dear young people, I would like to reflect with you on the mission that we have received from Christ. In speaking to you, I also address all Christians who live out in the Church the adventure of their life as children of God. What leads me to speak to everyone through this conversation with you is the certainty that the Christian faith remains ever young when it is open to the mission that Christ entrusts to us. “Mission revitalizes faith” (Redemptoris Missio, 2), in the words of Saint John Paul II, a Pope who showed such great love and concern for young people.

The Synod to be held in Rome this coming October, the month of the missions, offers us an opportunity to understand more fully, in the light of faith, what the Lord Jesus wants to say to you young people, and, through you, to all Christian communities.

Life is a mission

Every man and woman is a mission; that is the reason for our life on this earth. To be attracted and to be sent are two movements that our hearts, especially when we are young, feel as interior forces of love; they hold out promise for our future and they give direction to our lives. More than anyone else, young people feel the power of life breaking in upon us and attracting us. To live out joyfully our responsibility for the world is a great challenge. I am well aware of lights and shadows of youth; when I think back to my youth and my family, I remember the strength of my hope for a better future. The fact that we are not in this world by our own choice makes us sense that there is an initiative that precedes us and makes us exist. Each one of us is called to reflect on this fact: “I am a mission on this Earth; that is the reason why I am here in this world” (Evangelii Gaudium, 273).

We proclaim Jesus Christ

The Church, by proclaiming what she freely received (cf. Mt 10:8; Acts 3:6), can share with you young people the way and truth which give meaning to our life on this earth. Jesus Christ, Who died and rose for us, appeals to our freedom and challenges us to seek, discover and proclaim this message of truth and fulfillment. Dear young people, do not be afraid of Christ and His Church! For there we find the treasure that fills life with joy. I can tell you this from my own experience: thanks to faith, I found the sure foundation of my dreams and the strength to realize them. I have seen great suffering and poverty mar the faces of so many of our brothers and sisters. And yet, for those who stand by Jesus, evil is an incentive to ever greater love. Many men and women and many young people have generously sacrificed themselves, even at times to martyrdom, out of love for the Gospel and service to their brothers and sisters. From the cross of Jesus, we learn the divine logic of self-sacrifice (cf. 1 Cor 1:17-25) as a proclamation of the Gospel for the life of the world (cf. Jn 3:16). To be set afire by the love of Christ is to be consumed by that fire, to grow in understanding by its light and to be warmed by its love (cf. 2 Cor 5:14). At the school of the saints, who open us to the vast horizons of God, I invite you never to stop wondering: “What would Christ do if He were in my place?”

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Bishop deplores killing of Negros sugar workers

Farmers protest the killing of nine sugar workers outside the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Bacolod City, October 22, 2018.  PHOTO FROM NFSW FACEBOOK PAGE

By CBCP News
October 22, 2018
Manila, Philippines

A Catholic bishop has condemned the murder of nine sugar farmers in Negros Occidental province and joined in the call for justice for the victims.

Bishop Gerardo Alminaza of San Carlos said the killings only unmask the long standing violence that farmers under hacienda system have been subjected to.

“The tragic incident reveals the ugly face of the prevailing agrarian problem in Negros that remains unresolved,” he said.

The victims were reportedly eating dinner inside the tents when they were shot by still unidentified gunmen at a hacienda in Sagay City’s Bulanon village on Saturday.

The attack claimed nine lives, including four women and two minors.

The National Federation of Sugar Workers, where the victims belong, said the attack occurred on the first night of the land cultivation area or “bungkalan” in the hacienda.

Under bungkalan, farm workers would occupy and collectively cultivate lands covered by the government’s agrarian reform program to help farmers survive the “dead season” in the sugar industry.

The group said that of the 424,130 hectares of sugar lands in Negros Island, 33.99% with 50 hectares or more are owned by only 1,860 big landlords, 30% with 10 to 50 hectares are owned by just 6,820 big and small landlords.

While the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) was only at 40%, the NFSW estimates that majority of 53,320 farmers and agricultural workers only own 36% of the sugar lands.

And due to lack of support services, the progressive group estimates that 70% of sugar lands that have been distributed by the government had been leased.

The NFSW also noted how sugar workers in haciendas, on the average, get P80-P120 daily despite the minimum wage pegged at P245 per day.
“It is morally right and just for the sugar workers and peasants in Negros Occidental to undertake their Land Cultivation Areas,” said Alminaza.

The Man Who Said, “You Shall not Kill”

Fr. Shay Cullen
17 October 2018

He was born the son of poor farm workers and he grew up hungry and deprived and he was like the millions of poor who don’t know the root causes of their rural poverty. The poor struggle to overcome those sufferings and hardships as they bury the pain within them and strive to forget and survive and find a better world for themselves and their children.

The corrupt leaders of family dynasties are the oppressors of the poor. They have always lived in sumptuous luxury and ignore the deprivations of the poor. The poor are the wretched of the earth. Oscar Romero was one of them. His parents saw the only chance for him to have an education and escape poverty was to send him to the seminary to be a priest in El Salvador. This is what Oscar Romero said about himself:

“I was born into a poor family. I’ve suffered hunger. I know what it’s like to work from the time you’re a little kid … When I went to the seminary and started my studies, and they sent me to finish studying here in Rome, I spent years and years absorbed in my books, and I started to forget where I came from. I started creating another world. When I went back to El Salvador, they made me the bishop’s secretary in San Miguel. I was a parish priest there for 23 years, but I was still buried in paperwork. . .”

As secretary to the bishop, he never met poor people or saw the reality of life in the cities or countryside. He had suppressed the childhood memories of pain and hunger. He became an archconservative. He was considered a safe traditional priest who would disturb no one and he was recommended by the Papal Nuncio to be made a bishop. When he was assigned as bishop to the rural diocese of Santiago De Maria, he was exposed to the world of poverty and military and police oppression of the poor.

“. . .Then they sent me to Santiago de María, and I ran into extreme poverty again. Those children that were dying just because of the water they were drinking, those campesinos killing themselves in the harvests,” he said.
There was a massacre of peasant farmers in the village of Tres Calles that truly shocked him. He protested the killings to the president in a letter, who at the time was Col. Arturo Molina, who headed a military dictatorship. He lives on as a mass killer in historical disgrace and shame.

Bishop Romero wrote to the president: “. . . the way in which a “security force” had wrongfully acted, as if it had the right to mistreat and kill. … [I went there] to console the families that had been attacked … by a squad of National Guardsmen. On the way to their homes, I stopped to pray by the body of a still-unburied victim who had been shot in the head. His wife and mother were beside him, weeping. When I arrived at the houses that had been invaded by the armed forces, it broke my heart to hear the bitter laments of the widows and orphans who, sobbing inconsolably, told me about the attack.”

It was then that his conscience and awareness of social truth began to slowly awaken. He came back to the capital and was still considered a very conservative bishop and was chosen to be elevated as archbishop of El Salvador. Most of the progressive, socially committed clergy and Catholics were shocked and disgusted. They were unaware that Archbishop Romero was growing in knowledge of social teaching of the gospel. He was evolving as he said and he was beginning to apply it practically. He reconciled with the socially progressive Jesuit priests who he had previously criticized and asked them to start a diocesan radio program on human rights. He was realizing the extent of the human rights violations by the military that were oppressing the poor.

When his best friend Fr. Rutilio Grande was brutally murdered by the military, it propelled him to speak out all the more forcefully against the killing of the poor and the defenseless. His conversion was complete. He had changed from a conservative to an activist archbishop. He spoke to protect the priests and religious and church lay workers who were falsely branded and marked as communists and subversives plotting to overthrow the government. Several priests and sisters were murdered, which was a warning and threat to all the people and a ploy to justify the militarization of the country and maintain the rule of the elites and landlords.

Archbishop Oscar Romero was now the voice of the voiceless and he preached justice, spoke out against murder and killing, taught the sacredness of life and the rights of the people. He stood against the aggression, violence, and murder that were all around El Salvador. He received death threats but ignored them. In one powerful homily that was broadcast, he told the police and soldiers they should not obey unjust orders to kill.

“Before an order to kill that a man may give, God’s law must prevail: Thou shalt not kill! No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. . .It is time to obey your consciences rather than the orders of sin. In the name of God, therefore, and in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: Stop the repression!”

Two days later when he was celebrating Holy Mass, an assassin shot him dead as he held up the sacred cup. He died for his faith and last week Pope Francis declared him a martyr and a saint.
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Fighting off hunger, thousands launch collective farming

For Filipino farmers, President Rodrigo Duterte brings death. (Photo by R.V. Olea)

“Not one area of any successful bungkalan did not go through harassment from soldiers, goons, policemen.”

Ronalyn V. Olea, Bulatlat.com
October 20, 2018

MANILA — Eden Gualberto practically raised her three children through farming. She earns P1,000 a week from selling banana, cassava and vegetables.

Gualberto, 42, and most of the farmers in sitio Compra, San Mateo, Norzagaray, Bulacan do not own the land they have tilled for decades. This September, Gualberto and her fellow farmers weeded out tall grass from a portion of a 75-hectare land and planted palay, vegetables, root crops and banana.

A few days later, security guards and personnel of the Royalty Moluccan Realty Holdings destroyed the makeshift hut of their organization and pulled out some of their crops. Just this Wednesday, Oct. 17, the guards fell a hundred banana trees.

Rice paddies destroyed by security guards of a real estate company last Sept. 6 in sitio Compra, Barangay, San Mateo, Norzagaray, Bulacan. (Photo courtesy of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas)

Still, Gualberto and the other members of the Samahan ng Magsasaka sa Sitio Compra (SMC) are resolved to maintain their collective farm. Most of the farmers in their small village have settled there for decades, the first ones arriving in the 1960s.

“We only wanted to put food on our table,” Gualberto told Bulatlat in an interview.

Means of survival

 

In other parts of the country, thousands of farmers under the banner of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) have done bungkalan — occupying lands to plant food crops.

In Negros region, more than 5,000 agricultural workers have cultivated 3,000 hectares of land since 2009. According to John Milton Lozande, secretary general of Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA), the collective farms have staved off hunger of at least 5,000 farm workers especially during tiempo muerto (dead season) in sugar plantations.

Tiempo muerto, which happens from May to September, is the worst for sugar plantation workers. “Pakyawan” rate or the wholesale payment for 10 to 15 workers is as low as P200 to P300 per day. Each worker takes home P20 to P30 after a day’s work.

But even during peak season, agricultural workers still get “slave” wages. Although the Regional Wages and Productivity Board pegged the minimum wage to P295 in agricultural sector and P323 in non-agricultural sector, Lozande said agricultural workers receive P1,500 to P2,000 for 15 days of work. That’s P100 to P133 wage per day, an amount not enough to feed a family of six.

With the rising prices of food and other basic commodities, Lozande said the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) will expand their bungkalan campaign to cover more than 5,000 hectares of land in five different towns. Most of the areas targeted were covered by the government’s land reform but were either not distributed to the farm workers or had been reconcentrated in the hands of the landlords.

Just like in Negros, farmers from KMP chapters in other regions have also resorted to bungkalan.

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Intensive Day of Prayer

Pueblo Amante De Maria Mariological Marian Society of the Philippines (PAMMMSPhil) invites you to an Intensive Day of Prayer

Venue: Bahay Pari Chapel, San Carlos Seminary Compound,
Guadalupe Viejo, Makati City
Date: October 27, 2018, Saturday
Time: 1:00 p.m.

Activities/Prayers:
*Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
*Chaplet of Adoration and Reparation
*Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Mary
*4 Mysteries of the Holy Rosary
*Chaplet of the Divine Mercy
*Benediction

*4 p.m. Holy Mass with Consecration to the Immaculate Heart
Bishop Teodoro C. Bacani Jr, D.D. – Main Celebrant 
*With 20 special prayer intentions for each decade of the Holy Rosary
*Confession from 1 p.m. until before the Mass

*RSVP to reserve slot (PM or text 09274848467)
*Free Registration

Come and pray with us!

9 farmers massacred in Sagay City

DEADLY ATTACK. This makeshift shelter was peppered with bullets by some 40 armed men, killing 9 farmers in Sagay City, Negros Occidental, on October 20, 2018. Photo courtesy of Bombo Radyo Bacolod

(Raymund B. Villanueva)
October 21, 2018

Nine farmers, including two minors and four women, were massacred in Sagay City, Negros Occidental last night, Saturday.

In a flash report posted this morning, Aksyon Radyo Bacolod said nine were killed in a strafing incident at Hacienda Nene, Purok Fire Tree, Barangay Bulanon, Sagay City.

The victims were National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) members who were staying in a hut at the place of the incident.
Four others survived the attack, NFSW said.

Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) in an urgent alert said the victims were engaged in a Land Cultivation Area (bungkalan) activity.

Sagay chief of police, Chief Inspector Robert Mansueto said the killings happened around 9:30 p.m.

He added that some of the victims were from different villages while the rest were from Bulanon but not from the hamlet where the plantation is located.

NFSW immediately accused “goons,” a euphemism for private security personnel, and members of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army, an armed band that had broken away from the communist New People’s Army for the incident in Hacienda Nene, Barangay Bulanon, Sagay City, close to 90 kilometers from here.

Sagay Mayor Alfredo Maranon III, son of Negros Occidental Governor Alfredo Maranon Jr., expressed “shock” and condemned the killings “in the strongest possible terms” as he ordered police to “do everything possible to bring justice to the nine families that lost loved ones” and promised to extend all possible assistance to the victims’ kin.

NFSW officer Danilo Tabora confirmed that some 75 members of the union had occupied the land Saturday morning, a day after the harvest on the sugarcane plantation, as part of a “bungkalan” campaign to till lands covered by the government’s agrarian reform program.

Mayor Maranon confirmed that the land was under a “notice of coverage” from the Department of Agrarian Reform but explained that this meant this was still an early stage in the process of distributing the land to beneficiaries.

Sagay police named the victims as:
• Eglicerio Villegas, 36 – Bulanon
• Angelipe Arsenal – Bulanon
• Alias Pater – Barangay Plaridel
• Dodong Laurencio – Plaridel
• Morena Mendoza (female) – Bulanon
• Neknek Dumaguit, female
• Bingbing Bantigue – Plaridel
• Joemarie Ughayon Jr., 17 – Barangay Rafaela Barrera
• Marchtel Sumicad, 17 – Bulanon

According to sources, Hacienda Nene is owned by a certain Atty. Barbara Tolentino and is leased by Bacolod City-based Conpinco Trading.

Reporting from the funeral parlor where the victims had been taken, radio station dyHB said most of them bore headshots and at least three of the bodies were burned.

“We hold the military and the [Rodrigo] Duterte government responsible for said incident,” KMP and UMA said in its alert.

Other sources from the KMP said that they have been other killings at Hacienda Nene prior to the incident.

In December 21, 2017, NFSW-Sagay City chairperson Flora A. Jemola died from 13 stab wounds inflicted by suspected Civilian Auxiliary Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) forces under the 12th IB of the Philippine Army.

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Justice to the Negros 9 massacre!

The Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) and the National Federation of Sugar Workers (NFSW) today vehemently condemns the massacre of 9 NFSW members, including 4 women and two minors in Hda. Nene, Purok Pine Tree, Barangay Bulanon, Sagay City at 9pm last night.

According to John Milton “Butch” Lozande, secretary general of both UMA and NFSW, we hold the Duterte administration including the Armed Forces of the Philippines responsible for this reprehensible act of violence towards our farmers.

On April 20, 2018 Brigadier General Eliezer Losañes, 303rd commanding officer of the Philippine Army reported that the land cultivation areas (LCA’s) being maintained by agricultural sugar workers and farmers in Negros Island are in fact New People’s Army (NPA) rebels communal farms.

The NFSW, on the other hand has time and again stated, that the goal of setting up land cultivation areas is to ward off the inevitable hunger brought by the Tiempo Muerto (dead season in the sugar industry) on properties covered by agrarian reform but which remain undistributed and idle, planting these with vegetables, banana, corn and root crops to feed their families.

The 9 together with 4 others were resting in a farm hut when they were reportedly strafed by 40 armed men. They, together with others had just begun their LCA in the 75 hectare hacienda that morning. The names of the victims are still being ascertained and a Fact Finding Mission is still ongoing in the area.

Initial data culled from the area reveal that a certain Barbara Luna owns the hacienda and maintains a number of goons there.

Earlier, two leaders of NFSW were also killed in Sagay City.

Flora A. Jemola, chairperson of NFSW-Sagay City was killed on December 21, 2017 in an LCA area in Hda. Susan Brgy. Poblacion 1 Sagay City. She died from 13 stab wounds inflicted on her by suspected elements of SCAA/CAFGU members under the 12th IB of the Philippine Army.

This was followed by the killing of Ronald Manlanat, a member of a local chapter of NFSW in Hacienda Joefred, Barangay General Luna, Sagay City, on February 21, 2018 again by suspected elements of SCAA/CAFGU members under the 12th IB of the Philippine Army. The killers shot a whole magazine of M16 in his head.

Manlanat has been receiving threats for participating in the land cultivation campaign in Barangay Luna where the hacienda workers and farmers called for the implementation of the agrarian reform.

The killing of the 9 puts to 45 the number of peasants killed in Negro Island under the Duterte regime.

The feudal and semi-feudal situation in Negros is dire.

Of the 424,130 hectares of sugar lands in Negros Island, 33.99% of these are lands with 50 hectares or more owned by only 1,860 big landlords (hacienderos), 30% with 10 to 50 hectares are owned by just 6,820 big and small landlords, and the majority of 53,320 farmers and agricultural workers only own 36% of the sugar lands.

In addition to these, the NFSW estimates that 70% of sugar lands that have been distributed by the government had been leased (aryendo) due mainly to lack of support services and non-land support facilities that forced Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries to lease their land. While CARP implementation was only at 40%.

Sugar workers in haciendas (plantations), on the average, receive a measly P500 to P750 weekly wages all year round. Minimum wage is pegged at only P245 per day for the farm workers but in many haciendas, P80-P120 a day is still prevalent.

It is morally right and just for the sugar workers and peasants in Negros Occidental to undertake their Land Cultivation Areas especially with a regime that has no land reform program to offer. Instead it red baits those who assert their rights to the land.

Justice to the Negros 9 massacre!
Justice to all Peasants Killed in Negros!

Christmas season already underway in Catholic Philippines

September start due to businessmen who want to exploit Filipino culture, bishop says

Vendors have started selling traditional Christmas lanterns in Manila as early as September. (Photo by Bernice Beltran)

Mark Saludes, Manila Philippines
October 19, 2018

It was only the first week of October but Jenny Garcia, a 28-year old marketing executive, was already busy putting up her Christmas lights.
Jenny was worried she was already a month late in observing the Christmas season.

“My family in the province starts putting up decorations on Sept. 1,” she said.

In her window, she placed Christmas lights below a star-shaped lantern. Inside, Jenny decorated a Christmas tree with a traditional Nativity scene under it.

“It really feels like Christmas already. I remember my childhood every time I decorate for the season. It is fun and exciting,” Jenny told ucanews.com.

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National Youth Day 2018 Formation Program

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines
EPISCOPAL COMMISSION ON YOUTH

Message

Dear young people,

“Do not be afraid… for you have found favor with God!” [cf. Lk 1:30]

It is very fitting that the theme of this National Youth Day 2018, taken from the words of the archangel Gabriel to the young Mary, conveys the spirit that the Church desires to impart to you, young people, in every NYD that you celebrate. You are favored and loved by God! You are a precious gift to the Church! Thus, you have nothing to worry or be afraid of.

The Episcopal Commission on Youth of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines offers you this NYD2018 Formation Program. Prepared in collaboration with the diocesan youth ministries in the Bicol Region, it hopes to be a helpful resource towards a truly spirit-filled celebration of the NYD2018 in the dioceses, parishes, BEC’s, organizations and other settings, especially since this NYD opens our 2019 Year of the Youth!

Let our celebration of the NYD2018, accompanied and led by our youth ministers— clergy, religious and lay—ignite all the more our excitement for greater things to come for the youth of our Church, as we also welcome the 2019 Year of the Youth, our next pastoral theme in the ongoing nine-year novena towards 2021.

It is my prayer that through your dedication and commitment in your respective youth ministries, the NYD2018 Formation Program will be able to bless more young people, affirming them that they are BELOVED, GIFTED and EMPOWERED; thus, enabling them to courageously respond to God’s call to MISSION (cf. Theme of the Year of the Youth 2019: Filipino Youth in Mission: Beloved. Gifted. Empowered).

May the NYD2018 theme deepen your devotion to Mary: she, whom our Lord gave to us as our mother [cf. Jn 19:27] and whom our dear Pope Francis continues to offer to us as our model in listening to and following God’s call. Allow her to be your motherly companion and guide in your journey of faith. Let the great trust that the Lord has given to Mary be your assurance that He also places His trust in you as you accept and embrace His wonderful plan in your life.

From the experience of recognizing the many great things that the Mighty One has done for us last NYD2017, may the NYD2018 celebration be a moment of affirmation and encouragement for you, preparing you to offer your joyful and humble FIAT to Him.
Your ka-lakbay in Christ,

+ LEOPOLDO C. JAUCIAN, SVD, DD
Bishop of Bangued
Chairman of the CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Youth
2018 October 12 Memorial of Our Lady of the Pillar

Dear fellow youth ministers,
Greetings in our Lord, who has found favor in us!
With the joy of this Good News, we are able to share with you the National Youth Day (NYD) 2018 Formation Program!
This is prepared especially for the NYD2018, our local celebration of the NYD within the 2019 Year of the Youth, this December 16 in our respective settings (in dioceses and parishes, as well as in youth organizations, campuses, etc.).
The CBCP-Episcopal Commission on Youth acknowledges our partnership with the Bicol Regional Youth Coordinating Council which bore fruit through this program!
With Mary of Nazareth, our Mother and Guide, may we gather our young people in earnest celebration not only of the NYD2018, but of the wider occasion of the 2019 Year of the Youth. May the NYD2018 celebrations across the archipelago be an affirming milestone in our ongoing journey in youth ministry, enabling our Filipino youth in mission: beloved, gifted, empowered.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Rev. Fr. CONEGUNDO B. GARGANTA
Executive Secretary