Prayer and Life Workshops Asia

21/04/2026

Testimonial from a PLW attendee
Armando Lorenzo

20/04/2026

Acepto con confianza la voluntad de Dios

16/04/2026

Happening on April 18, 2026 at 5am Manila time!
From Emotive love to Oblative Love
Taken from the book Come with me by Fr. Ignacio Larrañaga.

Once again, we at the TOVPIL Foundation would like to invite you to the premiere of a Talk we have prepared to delve deeper into the topic of fraternal relationships, using the advice of Fr. Ignacio, on Friday, April 17th at 5:00 PM (Chilean time), You can watch it at the link below. It is based on texts from the book "Come With Me" by our beloved founder, and is titled "From Emotive Love to Oblative Love."
With warm greetings, may the Lord bless you abundantly.

https://youtu.be/nMI2clZosh8

TOVPIL Foundation Team

05/04/2026

The right hand of Yahweh is powerful,
the right hand of Yahweh is exalted.
I will not die, I will live to tell
the doings of Yahweh.
Psalm 118(117),16-17

We are at a stage where a liberation gesture is taking place. Above the stage plans majestically, the binomial "power-love" of the Lord God who, like an invincible condor, protects his son.
The Lord, as a disciplined and wise Father, had with his son a right pedagogy: time and time again he abandoned him in the shadows of confusion, felt a thousand times with tears around his neck, anguish had paralyzed his lungs... was death.
And when it seemed that death was his only destiny, he called on the Name of the Lord, and the Lord acted. The storm subsided and freedom lifted its head; the Lord stormed into the stage of history, performed incredible feats, pulled wonders out of nowhere, and left nations seed.
It's a miracle, it's all been the Lord's doing.
Congratulations!
Music echoes, be our existence a party our days a dance and joy be our breathing.
! Hallelujah and Hurray, for our victorious Savior!

Extracted from the L. Psalms for Life
P. Ignacio Larrañaga

05/04/2026

The Taste of the Eternal

Dear Guides and brothers and sisters in faith, with immense jubilation, let us all acclaim: Truly the Lord has risen! Alleluia!

The light of Holy Saturday has reached us once again, penetrating the very depths of who we are and how we live. Nothing remains the same after this night; everything is new. Amidst the faint glow of candles and the scent of incense, something incomprehensible, something beyond the grasp of our senses envelops us, overwhelms us, and makes itself present: it is the taste of the eternal.

The Love of Christ has reached, in these days, unimaginable heights, heights that are inaccessible to human understanding. Within us, in perfect communion, beats the living heart of the One who gave Himself for all of us and now rises victorious, revealing the grandeur of what is yet to come. Christ, the Redeemer of the world, covers with His Life all that is barren -the dead flesh, the emptiness of the soul, the withered trunk- breathing into them a new, immortal Spirit: an indestructible power that can come only from on High. He alone can satisfy the yearning of the soul that, unknowingly, cries out for the eternal.

We were created for a life of fullness, and it is revealed to us the certainty that death can never vanquish us again. The gift of His Mercy reaches all things. Glory be to God, because all the promises have been fulfilled and will be fulfilled.

Let us kneel to adore and to contemplate in silence the Paschal Mystery. Let us welcome the Risen Jesus, who comes forth to meet us, to fill our lives with meaning, and to lead us along the path that leads to eternity.

Come, Lord Jesus! Maranatha!

02/04/2026

They were having supper, and Jesus got up from the table, took off his outer garment, and tied a towel around his waist. He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

When he had finished washing them, he put on his outer garment again, returned to the table, and said to them, “I have set you an example, and you should do as I have done for you.”

John 13:4-5, 12, 15

The disciples had witnessed many moving gestures throughout their apostolic journey, but none as spectacular as this one.
Faced with such an unusual attitude, the disciples were deeply moved, self-conscious, almost ashamed, and profoundly sensitive, passively accepting the harsh lesson that this gesture conveyed.

The Master had taken advantage of this opportunity to impart to the disciples lessons of great Gospel significance.

Blessed are those who transform royalty into service, and who make their servants into lords, through the magic of service.
To such selflessness, such service; to such depth, such height; to such humility, such love.

Excerpted from The Poor Man of Nazareth
Fr. Ignacio Larrañaga

01/04/2026

At that time, on the day of the feast when unleavened bread was eaten, the disciples came to Jesus and said, Where do you want us to prepare the Passover meal?.
Jesus answered, “Go into the city to this man’s house and tell him, ‘The Teacher commands you to say, ‘My hour is near, and I want to celebrate the Passover with my disciples in your house.”
The disciples did as Jesus instructed them and prepared the Passover.
Mateo 26, 17 -19

Easter was Israel's most important holiday, commemorating, among other things, the liberation of Egypt's chains from slavery.
It was the most solemn night of the year.
The center of the feast was the Passover Dinner, and the center of the dinner was the lamb, which was eaten with bitter herbs in memory of the bitter suffering Israel suffered in the years of captivity.
All these regulations would be strictly fulfilled by Jesus.
On this Easter scenario, the poor man would have to perform on this "night of nights" the most fantastic unfolding of mysteries.
Any attempt to describe the heart of Jesus would be useless..
In the vast desert that opens to the sight of your soul you could distinguish, under a joyful and truly Easter blue, stones bled by pain and love.
Jesus believed in the beauty of pain when it is imbued with love, he believed in ultimate compassion because it took on the burden of grieving humanity.
The moon queen of the night, had peeked out to witness the mysteries of the "night per excellence".
The meeting was almost secret, it was not a meeting characterized by solemnity, it was not an idyllic atmosphere, but an atmosphere charged with tension, crossed by beams of light that would illuminate the night with red flashes like the announcement of Judas' betrayal with the challenging question: will it be me, Is it possible, Master?.
After hearing Judas’ last words, the Poor Man of Nazareth plunged into the silence of his abyss and got lost in the vast horizons of the Father.
Born in the cradle of pain, foreigner in his own homeland, Prophet persecuted by his people, it is not his right now but to be thrown out of life, in the Holocaust of the "Great Liberation", made Absolute Poor in Absolute Love.

Extracted from the L. The Poor Man of Nazareth
P. Ignacio Larrañaga

27/03/2026

26/03/2026

Seek the Lord, and his strength, seek his face without ceasing.
Remember the wonders he performed, his wonders, the sentences he uttered.
Psalm 105(104),4-5

Dusting off the old archives, I remember and make present amazing moments: it was so much my gallantry and fullness, that many looked at me as a "miracle".
But in this there was no merit from me: all this happened because I was contaminated with the strength of the Lord, I seemed unbreakable because the Lord was my Rock.
It's been mine, a brilliant existence in the eyes of all. Your glory shone through my steps and my days; throughout my years I left flashes of light on the nights and your footprints on my days.
It was all your doing.
To the memory of the past years, full of miracles and wonders, now that the gray hairs crown me, do not forsake me, my God give me a breath of life and another, until I finish my task, to describe the power of your arm, to future generations; to tell the unbelievable your indescribable feats, your memorable victories, those feats that left the greats of the earth speechless.
And people will have to acknowledge, marvel and confess to the face of the earth that You are the hero of such feats!.

Extracted from the L. Psalms for Life
P. Ignacio Larrañaga

25/03/2026

El ángel le dijo: "No temas, María, porque has encontrado gracia ante Dios. Concebirás en tu vientre y darás a luz un hijo, y le pondrás por nombre Jesús".
María dijo al ángel "¿Cómo será eso, pues no conozco varón?".
El ángel le contestó: "El Espíritu Santo vendrá sobre tí y el poder del Altísimo te cubrirá con su sombra".
Lc. 1, 30- 32.34 -35

Entre los saludos del ángel y esta fantástica proposición, María quedó "turbada” es decir confusa, como la persona que no se siente digna de todo eso. Y, la extrañeza de María debió ser mucho mayor todavía con la segunda notificación: que dicha maternidad mesiánica se consumaría sin participación humana, de una manera prodigiosa.
Se trascendería todo el proceso biológico y brotaría una creación original y directa de las manos del Omnipotente para quien, todo es posible.
Una nube de dudas y preguntas se habría cernido sobre la joven …
¿Será posible?
Jamás acontenció cosa semejante.
María en este momento debió haber experimentado, una sensación de soledad, bajo el enorme peso de la carga impuesta por Dios sobre ella: ser madre del Mesías.
Delante de ella se levantaba, alta como una muralla, la responsabilidad histórica, y delante de la muralla estaba ella, solitaria, indefensa ...
¿Cómo pudo ella, soportar todo esto con entereza, sin caer abatida, sin luego levantarse arrogante, por haber sido elegida entre los todos los demás seres humanos?.
Uno queda abismado y estupefacto por la infinita humildad y por la enorme madurez y naturalidad con las que María asume el Misterio en medio de una inmensa soledad.
La historia toda no será suficiente para agradecer y admirar tanta grandeza.

Extractado del L. El Silencio de María
P. Ignacio Larrañaga

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24/03/2026

Last day of our Journey w St Francis
Topic: Lenten Journey with St Francis of Assisi
Time: Weekly from Feb 24, 2026 04:30 PM Manila, 07:30 PM Australia

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