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From Pais Advisory:

Message from Pais/Fr. Gani Petilos(09173061831) and Pais/Fr. Ivan Petilos(09228306025):

Please include in your prayers the eternal repose of our mother, +Incognita Petilos, who peacefully joined her creator last Jan. 31, 2010 at the age of 73. (her remains lie in state now at St. Peter's Memorial Chapel, Quezon Ave., QC).

Her remains will be brought from Manila to Ormoc on Feb. 3 where she will lie in state in our residence in Cogon, Ormoc City.

Internment will be on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 at Ormoc Memorial Gardens, preceded by a mass aat 2pm at our Mother of the Redeemeer Parish in Cogon, Ormoc City.

MANILA, Jan. 18, 2010—There will be no mass the whole next week in majority of the country’s Catholic Churches—because there are no priests to celebrate it.

A ranking church leader said thousands of priests are going to Manila to attend the 2nd National Congress of the Clergy from Jan. 25 to 29 and many dioceses can’t supply stand-in.

MANILA, January 21, 2010—“The Second National Congress of the Clergy (NCC2) is a real retreat experience. It is basically a retreat, a call to interior renewal, a call to holiness.”

This is how Msgr. Jose Bernardo, Jr., Executive Secretary of National Organizing Committee of NCC2, discussed on the framework of the forthcoming national clergy congress in a recent press conference.

Rome’s Advice to Copenhagen

"If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation," said Pope Benedict XVI in his Message for World Day of Peace on Day One of 2010. His predecessors, of course, had always shown concern for the environment long before such concerns became fashionable or laden with economic interest.
From their standpoint nature is neither an adversary to be conquered or destroyed nor an evil from which one must be freed. Rather, it is the garden from which God fashioned the human being,  and which God gave as gift to man and woman to keep and till (cf. Gen 2: 15); it is the place and plan for which man and woman, who were made “in his own image” (Gen 1, 27) are to feel truly responsible. 

In their view the Creator willed the human being to evolve more and more into a co-creator, not an exterminator, though this latter role is what we’ve seen humans often choose to play.

Feliz Año Nuevo a todos. Que Dios nos bendiga a todos este nuevo año!

THIS may be the last time the country observes Rizal Day on December 30. The National Historical Institute supports bills moving the date from the anniversary of Rizal’s execution to that of his birth, June 19. It is more convenient because it allows students to be dragooned into forced commemorations, and allows a celebratory continuum, beginning with the Flag Days that start on May 28, flows into Independence Day on June 12, and culminates with the proposed new Rizal Day on June 19.