Volume 5, Issue 3, June - July 2013, Pasig City, M.M., dioceseofpasig.org PASIG CLERGY WITH BISHOP MYLO. The incardinated priests of the Diocese of Pasig held an updating ang bonding time with Pasig Bishop Mylo Hubert Vergara last May 20 - 24, 2013 at the St. Paul Retreat Center, Alfonso, Cavite. PHOTO BY FR. HOKAN SAMSON PASIG GEARS FOR 10TH DIOCESAN ANNIVERSARY BY FR. RAMIL MARCOS planned for the program of the PASIG CITY - We are about to visitation while the Abang Ling- celebrate 10 years of existence kod ni Maria and Hermanidad 1st Pasig CMMA as a diocese. To commemorate dela Semana Santa took care of this event, we have a program for the security of replica image. winners bared the celebration intended to make Part two is about the celebration our people aware of the value of of the canonical establishment of BY FR. LITO JOPSON belonging to the local church of the diocese on August 21, 2013, PASIG CITY – Pasig Bishop Pasig where we are called to grow Wednesday. Mylo Hubert Vergara personally in our love for and following of The program for the day in- handed the trophies to what was the Lord Jesus Christ. cludes a concelebrated Holy Eu- to be known in the history of the There are two parts to the cel- charist to be led by Pasig Bishop Diocese of Pasig as the first re- ebration. Mylo Hubert Vergara and the cipients of Pasig Catholic Mass The first part is dubbed “Dalaw clergy of Pasig. Media Awards during the Mediaf- Patrona sa Parokya”. The official Manila Archbishop Luis An- est 2013 held at the Pasig Catho- replica of the Patroness of the dio- Classic shot of the Immaculate Conception Cathedral. FILE PHOTO lic College Aula Minor last May cese, the Immaculate Conception Ipagpatuloy sa p. 6 17, 2013. will visit a chosen parish in each “Universitas” of the University of the cities or town comprising Pasig joins Pope Francis in Worldwide Adoration of Asia and the Pacific bagged the Best Newsletter / Magazine award our diocese. tion Cathedral in Pasig City. while “An Unlikely Lesson on To date it has visited the Holy The Diocese of Pasig is one Rights and Liberties” written by Rosary Parish in Lower Bicutan, with Pope Francis in celebrating Frances Christine Sayson of St. Taguig, San Roque Parish, Pa- the Year of Faith, in which the Paul College Pasig was adjudged teros, and Sta. Lucia Parish in primary challenge is to renew the “Best News, Opinion, or Feature Manggahan, Pasig City from July faith. Article”. 5 to July 22. Recalling the teachings of the The Best Video Documentary The vicars forane have mobi- Second Vatican Council, Bishop or Narrative (Long Film) was lized their entire vicariates to wel- Vergara explained Lumen Gen- awarded to “Ikaw Na!”, produced come or visit the replica during its tium describing the Eucharist as by Roque Rey Navarro and Nick stay in the selected parish closest “the source and summit of Chris- PHOTO BY FR. JUVI CORONEL Tayag of Pasig Catholic College to the vicariate. with us, with loving presence.” tian life”. while Sta. Clara de Montefalco’s Liturgy Coordinator Fr. Daniel BY FR. LITO JOPSON These are the concluding words “How can we renew our com- “Kuwaresma: Pagpapalain ng Estacio took care of the welcome PASIG CITY - “This is the teach- of Pasig Bishop Mylo Hubert mitment in the Risen Lord?” Pananaliag, Pag-asa at Pag-ibig” and farewell paraliturgies, the as- ing of Christ: presence, memo- Vergara as he led the people of the challenged Bishop Mylo as he bagged the Best News Photo signment of the Parishes and the rial, and sacrifice. Immerse in the diocese in a synchronized World- reflected on the three realities as- Award. dates of visitation. silence; look at the Blessed Sac- wide Eucharistic Adoration with sociated with the Eucharist. Special Citations were given to The parish priests and the PPC rament; contemplate the face of Pope Francis held last June 2, Presence officers of the three parishes Christ. He is there in communion 2013 at the Immaculate Concep- Continued on p. 8 Continued on p. 8 June 2012 - July 2013 Church News Pope Francis’ Lumen Fidei SUMMARY OF THE ZENIT. also from Jesus’ point of view, be- ORG’S REPORT cause like an architect, he knows Religious news syndicate Zenit better than we do. Jesus is the one released the official summary who makes God known to us.” of Pope Francis’ first encyclical In Chapter 2 dubbed “unless you “Lumen Fidei”, published last believe you will not understand”, July 5, 2013 and signed on June the pope shows the close link be- 29 of the same year. tween faith and truth, the reliable Lumen Fidei (LF) or “the light truth of God and his faithful pres- of faith” is the first encyclical ence throughout history. signed by Pope Francis. Divided “Faith without truth does not into four chapters, plus an intro- save,” writes the Pope; “It re- duction and a conclusion, “the mains a beautiful story, the pro- Pontiff explains that the Letter jection of our deep yearning for supplements Benedict XVI’s En- happiness.” cyclicals on charity and hope, and “The truth today leads to a mas- takes up the “fine work” carried sive amnesia in our contemporary out by the Pope Emeritus, who world.” had already “almost completed” “Love and truth are inseparable, the Encyclical on faith. The Holy true love withstands the test of Father has now added “further time and becomes the source of contributions” to this existing knowledge,” stressed the pope. “first draft”.” The Holy Father also linked faith with reason and dialogue. “The introduction (nos. 1-7) of LUMEN FIDEI. Lumen Fidei is Pope Francis’ first encyclical in celebration of the Year of Faith. PHOTO COURTESY OF LF illustrates the motivations at “Faith renders the believer hum- www.paulines.ph the basis of the document: firstly, ble and leads to coexistence with it reiterates the characteristics of and respect for others.” ty is guaranteed by the apostolic light typical of faith: able to il- Faith leads to dialogue in all succession,” the summary states. Pope Francis adds luminate all man’s existence, to fields: in that of science as it re- In the fourth chapter (50 – 60) assist him in distinguishing good awakens the critical sense and titled “God prepares a city for from evil, especially in this mod- broadens the horizons of reason, them” (Heb 11: 16), the Holy “St. Joseph” in Mass ern age in which belief is opposed interreligious context, and of non Father explains the link between COMBINED REPORTS FROM VATICAN RADIO AND PASIG OFFICE to searching and faith is regarded believers. LF speaks about theol- faith and the common good; OF COMMUNICATIONS as an illusion, a leap into the void ogy and confirms that is impossi- “faith, which is born of the love humility that the Christian faith that impedes man’s freedom. Sec- ble without faith, since God is not of God, strengthens the bonds raises to a great destiny, and dem- ondly, LF – precisely in this Year a simple object but rather the sub- of humanity and places itself at onstrates the ordinary and simple of Faith, 50 years following the ject who makes himself known. the service of justice, rights and virtues necessary for men to be Second Vatican Council, a “Coun- Theology is participation in the peace, that is why it does not dis- good and genuine followers of cil on faith” – seeks to reinvigo- knowledge God have of himself. tance itself from the world and is Christ. Through these virtues, rate the perception of the breadth Chapter 3 is titled “I delivered not unrelated to the real commit- this Just man, caring most lov- of the horizons faith opens so that to you what I also received”. It ments of contemporary man.” ingly for the Mother of God and it might be confessed in unity and speaks of the importance of evan- The encyclical considers those happily dedicating himself to the integrity.” gelization: “He who has opened areas illuminated by faith: fam- upbringing of Jesus Christ, was Chapter One (8 – 22) is titled himself to God’s love cannot ily based on marriage, the stable placed as guardian over God the “We have believed in love” (1 keep this gift for himself,” says union between man and woman; Father’s most precious treasures. John 4:16). Starting from Abra- the Holy Father. the youth, citing World Youth Therefore he has been the subject ham, this chapter tackles the Passed from generation to gen- Days; in all social relations; and PHOTO COURTESY OF http://st- of assiduous devotion on the part process of “listening”, a call that eration, through the uninterrupted nature: faith helps us to respect josephschurchmatamoras.org/ of the People of God throughout changes us from an isolated to a chain of witnesses to the faith, it and “find models of develop- the centuries, as the support of new life and promise of the future there is a “link between faith and ment which are based not simply June 19,2013 - In the first decree that mystical body, which is the linked by hope. memory as God’s love keeps all on utility and profit, but consider of a liturgical nature of this pon- Church. This faith also connotes paterni- times united, making us Christ’s creation as a gift.” tificate, Pope Francis has decided The faithful in the Catholic ty, because God is father who pro- contemporaries,” describes the In the Conclusion (58 – 60) titled that name of St.