Month: December 2021

CIRCULAR 21-54

01 December 2021

Your Eminences, Excellencies and Reverend Administrators:

RE: December 8 National Consecration to the Immaculate Conception of Mary and St. Joseph

December 8, 2021 is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and also the closing of the Year of Saint Joseph.

In an earlier circular issued last 8 November 2021, we already mentioned that on the said day, His Excellency Most Rev. Pablo Virgilio S. David, Bishop of Kalookan and who by that time will be the CBCP President, will lead the praying of the Holy Rosary and the Act of Consecration of Families to St. Joseph at the Cathedral of San Roque in the Diocese of Kalookan at 11:00a.m. He will be joined by some representatives of families in his diocese. This event will be livestreamed by CBCP News, Dominus Est, Radio Veritas, TV Maria Philippines and cross-posted in various Catholic Social Media platforms all over the country.

Since it is a Holy Day of Obligation and an important Feast of Our Lady, all the archbishops and bishops of the country are kindly reminded and requested to participate in this event together with the clergy, religious, lay men and women, and all families at their homes. It is also suggested by the Episcopal Commission on Liturgy that after the Post-Communion Prayer of the Mass, the Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Conception be prayed first followed by the Act of Consecration of Families to St. Joseph.

Please find attached links to the following prayers:

1. ACT-OF-CONSECRATION-AND-ENTRUSTMENT-TO-THE-IMMACULATE-CONCEPTION in English and Filipino
2. ACT OF CONSECRATION OF FAMILIES TO ST. JOSEPH in English and also translated in various dialects.

Let us, as one nation, earnestly pray for the continued protection of our Blessed Mother Mary and seek the assistance of our dear father St. Joseph, as we continue to face together the effects of the global pandemic.

With every best wish, I remain Sincerely in the Lord,