A Year Ending is Yet Another Year Beginning Thank God for bringing us to this end of 2023 filled with happy memories and life’s lessons that inspired us all to begin the year 2024 with enthusiasm. Let us be renewed then with our aspiration to more faithfully incarnate Jesus in us through the witness of […]
Blessings and Jubilees! Almost every year, we celebrate Jubilee of Religious Profession and Priestly Ordination of our Filipino Sacramentinos. This is a profound testament to God’s constant gift of inspiration especially for the younger religious in their practice of self-donation. A jubilee does not mark the traces of aging but only the graces God gives […]
Greeting you all the Peace of our Risen Lord.Alleluia! Alleluia! Faith in the risen Lord is not something we explain by way of retelling the story of the resurrection, but by way of resurrecting also our actions of faith, hope and love which might have died along with our weaknesses and limitations. It can become […]
Christmas Greetings Emmanuel!We are again in this joyous festivity of our Lord’s birth. Praise and thanks we all owe to God who is faithful in loving us through all these years. The birth of Christ is proof beyond all else of God’s desire to dwell among us, to bless us, to guide us and to […]
65 Years of faithful and loving sacramentino mission in the Philippines A Grateful Looking-back at our Humble Beginning The presence of the Religious of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament in the Philippines came through the remarkable initiative of His Eminence Rufino Cardinal Santos, then Archbishop of Manila, whose motivation in inviting the Sacramentinos in […]
The Newly Reconstructed POLA Provincialate House and Chapel In 2019, the Provincialate House of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, Province of Our Lady of the Assumption, which is endearingly called POLA House, turned 62 years old. As a residential structure built in 1957, its strength has not remained the same, and simple repairs are […]
INTERNATIONALITY IN MISSION AND COLLABORATION PURSUING PASSION FOR THE EUCHARISTIC MISSION by Fr. Joseph Matitu, SSS On January 17, 2022, I left the Philippines to do the will of God (expressed through the decision of the POLA Provincial Council) to embark on a mission here in the United States of America, particularly in one of […]
The 4.3-hectare-lot property within which two houses were built in Calaca, Batangas was acquired by the Congregation on June 15, 2016. This was a signal taken by Archbishop Gilbert Garcera, DD, Archbishop of Lipa to include Sacramentino religious in its pastoral ministry, during the Archbishop’s official meeting with the former Provincial Council last October 30, […]
Community pantry: a Eucharistic mark in action “A community pantry is a service that provides food directly to locals suffering from food insecurity. Some rely purely on local donations. Some coordinate with food banks and organizations for steady supplies of food and essential goods. Some also organize other socio-civic activities for patrons.” [opinion.inquirer.net/139447/ on-community-pantries]. The […]
Four Sacramentino-ScholasticsCOMPLETED THEOLOGICAL STUDIES The San Carlos Seminary Graduate School of Theology held its virtual Completion Rites last March 20, 2021. It was preceded by the Baccalaureate Mass presided by the Apostolic Administrator of Manila, Bishop Broderick Pabillo, DD. Three brothers from the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament completed their degree Master of Arts in […]
