The Saints' Nook

28/02/2025

Pray for Pope Francis 🙏

The Holy Father, this afternoon, after a morning spent alternating between respiratory physiotherapy and prayer in the chapel, experienced an isolated episode of bronchospasm. This caused an episode of vomiting, which led to him inhaling some and a sudden worsening of his respiratory condition.

The Holy Father was promptly subjected to bronchial aspiration (to clear his airways) and was put on non-invasive mechanical ventilation, which improved his oxygen levels.

He has remained alert and aware at all times, cooperating with therapeutic treatments.

The prognosis, therefore, remains guarded.

In the morning, he received the Eucharist.

This statement, provided by the Holy See Press Office on Friday evening, came as the Pope continues to be treated for bilateral pneumonia in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital. He was admitted on Friday, 14 February, following an infection of the respiratory tract.

About 24 to 48 hours will be needed to be able to assess the Pope's clinical condition following the isolated bronchospasm episode.

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-02/pope-francis-health-press-office-statement-bronchospasm.html

01/11/2023

Read and listen on Vatican News to the readings from Scripture and the Gospel for today 01 November 2023 together with a meditation by Pope Francis.

01/11/2023

"I think, my dear sisters and brothers, that the phrase, “communion of saints,” is really another way of saying that heaven is togetherness, heaven is friendship and family, heaven is the people who long to see God’s face, as well as the people who see God’s face in each other. So, we ask our favorite saints today to always remind us of that union, and to make us look forward to that heaven. Amen." Fr. Arnel Aquino, SJ

Happy Feast of All Saints!

28/10/2023

28/10/2023

Join our Advent Recollection with Fr. Johnny Go SJ either onsite or online: December 9, Saturday, from 9 am to 12 pm.

Register at: go.ateneo.edu/WaitingInTheAftermath.

28/10/2023

HALLOW MEANS TO 'HONOR AS HOLY'.

Halloween is the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows' Day (also known as All Saints' or Hallowmas) on 1 November and All Souls' Day on 2 November, thus giving the holiday on 31 October the full name of All Hallows' Eve (meaning the evening before All Hallows' Day).

28/10/2023

In a broken world, lacerated by war and suffering, Pope Francis asks believers to join him in prayer for peace and reconciliation. He implores the ...

28/10/2023

Press Release from the Society of Jesus

Stop the killing in Israel-Palestine!

Last week, when speaking to his weekly audience, Pope Francis urged the world to take “only one side” in the Israeli-Palestinian war – the one “of peace”. He added, “War does not solve any problem, it only sows death and destruction, increases hatred, multiplies revenge. War erases the future”. He called for a day of fasting, penance and prayer for peace on Friday October 27, for everyone, whatever their religion.

The Society of Jesus endorses the Pope’s unconditional call for peace.

The Society of Jesus has been present at the heart of the conflict in Israel-Palestine and throughout the Middle East. Jesuits have been deeply engaged in dialogue with Jews. Fully committed to the uprooting of the teaching of contempt for Jews, anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, the Society of Jesus also recognizes the rights of Jews in Israel and everywhere else in the world. Never again must Jews be murdered, r***d, maimed, tortured, kidnapped and threatened.

Jesuits have also been deeply engaged in dialogue with Muslims who form the majority of Palestinians together with the Christian Palestinians. They are fully committed to the building up of multicultural and multireligious societies in Palestine and throughout the Middle East. They are active in the fight against Islamophobia and racism. Palestinians have the right to live everywhere in their homeland in dignity and peace. Never again must Palestinians be murdered, buried under the rubble of their homes, expelled, starved, collectively punished and exiled.

It is time to say, stop the killing and promotion of ideologies that permit it. Stop instrumentalizing religion for political power projects. Decades of violent conflict have brought nothing but ruin on the entire region and escalation of hatred. The only possible victory is the fruit of a struggle for justice and peace, equality and reconciliation.

Today, in this time of engulfing darkness and death, let us embrace the invitation to take the side of peace.



Reference: https://www.jesuits.global/2023/10/26/stop-the-killing-in-israel-palestine/ #:~:text=Last%20week%2C%20when%20speaking%20to,%2C%20increases%20hatred%2C%20multiplies%20revenge.

23/10/2023

18/10/2023

Thoughts on Today’s Scripture (Lk 10:1-9)
Feast of Saint Luke, evangelist

In sending out the 72 disciples, Jesus gives them precise instructions which express the characteristics of the mission.

These imperatives show that the mission is based on prayer; that it is itinerant: it is not idle; it is itinerant; that it requires separation and poverty; that it brings peace and healing, signs of the closeness of the Kingdom of God; that it is not proselytism but proclamation and witness; and that it also requires frankness and the evangelical freedom to leave while highlighting the responsibility of having rejected the message of salvation, but without condemnation and cursing.

If lived in these terms, the mission of the Church will be characterized by joy. And how does this passage end? The 72 “returned with joy.” It is not an ephemeral joy, which flows from the success of the mission; on the contrary, it is a joy rooted in the promise that — as Jesus says: “your names are written in heaven.”

With this expression he means inner joy, and the indestructible joy that is born out of the awareness of being called by God to follow his Son. That is, the joy of being his disciples.

(Source: “Words of the Holy Father”, vaticannews.va)

Celebrate the Holy Mass with our dear Jesuit fathers daily at 8am. “Keep the Faith” airs live via Radyo Katipunan 87.9 FM (facebook.com/radyokatipunan)

17/10/2023

IT'S OFFICIAL!

The biggest historical movie of the year, GOMBURZA, is now an official entry for the 49th Metro Manila Film Festival.

Mark your calendars and see you in the cinemas on December 25!