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01/10/2026

𝗣𝗥𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗬

As we begin the month of October, traditionally dedicated to the Holy Rosary, we encourage everyone to rediscover the beauty and power of this simple yet profound prayer. Let us make time to pray the Rosary in our homes and within our families, gathering together in prayer and entrusting our lives, intentions, joys, and struggles to the maternal care of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Here in the Cathedral, the Holy Rosary will also be prayed every morning and afternoon before the celebration of the Holy Mass. We invite the faithful to join us in these moments of prayer and reflection as we come together as one parish community.

May the Rosary become a constant prayer in our homes and a source of strength, peace, and unity in our families. Through Mary, may we grow ever closer to her Son, Jesus Christ, and learn to follow Him more faithfully each day.

Let us pray the Rosary, not only in October, but as a daily prayer of our families and our parish community.

30/09/2026

October 1 | St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus

Marie Thérèse Martin was born at Alencon, France on January 2, 1873, the youngest of five daughters. Her father, Louis, was a watchmaker, and her mother, Zelie, who died of breast cancer when Thérèse was four, was a lace maker. She was brought up in a model Christian home. While still a child she felt the attraction of the cloister, and at fifteen obtained permission to enter the Carmel of Lisieux. For the next nine years she lived a very ordinary religious life. There are no miracles, exploits or austerities recorded of her. She attained a very high degree of holiness by carrying out her ordinary daily duties with perfect fidelity, having a childlike confidence in God's providence and merciful love and being ready to be at the service of others at all times. She also had a great love of the Church and a zeal for the conversion of souls. She prayed especially for priests. She died of consumption on September 30, 1897, at the age of 24, and was canonized in 1925. She has never ceased to fulfill her promise: "I will pass my heaven in doing good on earth." Her interior life is known through her autobiography called Story of a Soul. Pope Saint John Paul II declared her a Doctor of the Church in 1997.

30/09/2026

MONTH OF OCTOBER | The Most Holy Rosary

Since the 16th century Catholic piety has assigned entire months to special devotions. Pope Leo XIII personally started the practice of devoting October to the Rosary devotion. In a letter of September 1, 1883, mindful of the Rosary's power to strengthen faith and foster a life of virtue, he outlined the triumphs of the Rosary in past times and admonished the faithful to dedicate the month of October to the Blessed Virgin through the daily recitation of her Rosary in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, in order to obtain through her intercession the grace that God would console and defend His Church in her sufferings.

30/09/2026

𝗧𝗪𝗢 𝗣𝗜𝗟𝗚𝗥𝗜𝗠 𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗘𝗦, 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗝𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗧𝗛

As September ends, let us look back on the two Pilgrim Images that graced our Cathedral this month: the International Pilgrim Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the National Pilgrim Image of St. Pedro Calungsod.

Their visits brought moments of prayer, devotion, and encounter, gathering the faithful in one community of faith. From the loving presence of Mary, who always leads us closer to Jesus, to the courageous witness of St. Pedro Calungsod, whose life continues to inspire the young and the faithful, these visits reminded us that every pilgrimage is an invitation to draw nearer to Christ.

30/09/2026

𝗦𝗧. 𝗝𝗘𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡 𝗩𝗨𝗟𝗚𝗔𝗧𝗘

Did you know that St. Jerome was commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the existing Latin translations of the Bible around 382 AD? At the time, several Latin versions of Scripture were already in circulation, but they contained differences in wording and accuracy.

Recognizing the need for a more reliable text, Pope Damasus entrusted Jerome with the task of revising the Latin Gospels. Jerome eventually undertook a much larger work, translating the Old Testament from the Hebrew and revising the New Testament from the Greek. His translation and revisions came to be known as the Vulgate, which became one of the most influential Latin versions of the Bible and served the Western Church for centuries.

His lifelong dedication to Scripture earned him a lasting place among the Church’s great biblical scholars. St. Jerome’s story reminds us that the Word of God is not meant to remain distant or unread; it is meant to be known, understood, and lived.

30/09/2026

September 30 | St. Jerome

One of the greatest Biblical scholars of Christendom, Saint Jerome was born of Christian parents at Stridon in Dalmatia around the year 345. Educated at the local school, he then studied rhetoric in Rome for eight years, before returning to Aquilea to set up a community of ascetics. When that community broke up after three years Jerome went to the east. He met an old hermit named Malchus, who inspired the saint to live in a bare cell, dressed in sackcloth, studying the Scriptures.

He learned Hebrew from a rabbi. Then he returned to Antioch and was reluctantly ordained priest. With his bishop he visited Constantinople and became friendly with Saints Gregory Nazianzen and Gregory of Nyssa. And then in 382 he went again to Rome, to become the personal secretary of Pope Damasus. Here he met his dearest friends, a wealthy woman called Paula, her daughter Eustochium and another wealthy woman named Marcella.

Here too he began his finest work. Commissioned by the pope, he began to revise the Latin version of the psalms and the New Testament, with immense care and scholarship. Jerome eventually translated the whole of the Bible into the Latin version which is known as the Vulgate. But when Damasus died, his enemies forced the saint to leave Rome.

Accompanied by Paula and Eustochium, Jerome went to Bethlehem. There he lived for thirty-four years till his death in 420, building a monastery over which he presided and a convent headed first by Paula and after her death by Eustochium. The saint set up a hospice for the countless pilgrims to that place. His scholarship, his polemics, his treatises and letters often provoked anger and always stimulated those who read them. 'Plato located the soul of man in the head,' he wrote, 'Christ located it in the heart.'
—Excerpted from A Calendar of Saints by James Bentley

28/09/2026

September 29 | THE FEAST OF ARCHANGELS GABRIEL, MICHAEL, AND RAPHAEL

The liturgy celebrates the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, archangels who are venerated in the tradition of the Church. Michael (Who is like God?) was the archangel who fought against Satan and all his evil angels, defending all the friends of God. He is the protector of all humanity from the snares of the devil. Gabriel (Strength of God) announced to Zachariah the forthcoming birth of John the Baptist, and to Mary, the birth of Jesus. His greeting to the Virgin, "Hail, full of grace," is one of the most familiar and frequent prayers of the Christian people. Raphael (Medicine of God) is the archangel who took care of Tobias on his journey.

27/09/2026

𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟮𝟴 | 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝘁. 𝗟𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘇𝗼 𝗥𝘂𝗶𝘇 𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

St. Lorenzo Ruiz is the first Filipino to be canonized a saint. He and 15 others were martyred at Nagasaki, Japan in 1637. The group included two consecrated women, two other laymen, two brothers, and nine priests.

Lorenzo was born in Manila in the Philippines; his father was Chinese and his mother Filipino. He became associated with the Dominicans and was a member of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary. These Dominicans taught him Spanish, and from his parents he learned Chinese and Tagalog. He became a professional calligrapher and transcribed documents.

He married and had three children. In 1636, he fled the Philippines after being accused of murder. He joined a missionary group headed for Japan, where Catholics were being persecuted. It was soon found out that the members of this group were Catholic, so they were arrested and taken to Nagasaki. They were tortured for several days, first crushed while hanging upside down for three days, then the bodies were burned, with the ashes thrown into the Pacific Ocean on September 30, 1637. Pope John Paul II canonized these martyrs on October 18, 1987.

27/09/2026

𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦 | 𝗗𝗨𝗔𝗪 𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗥𝗢 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲

The Archdiocese of Palo welcomed the Pilgrim Image of St. Pedro Calungsod on September 24–25, 2026, through Duaw Pedro 2026, gathering students, young people, clergy, religious, and faithful in prayer and devotion.

On the morning of September 24, approximately 1,000 students from Catholic schools across the Eastern Ecclesiastical District of the Archdiocese of Palo gathered at the Palo Metropolitan Cathedral for the Welcome Rites and Welcome Mass. The celebration was presided over by Most Rev. John F. Du, D.D., Archbishop of Palo, together with the clergy of the Archdiocese, Rev. Fr. John Baran, Rector of the Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Pedro Calungsod, and members of the pilgrimage team. The gathering became a celebration of faith and youth, reminding the young faithful of St. Pedro's courage, fidelity, and missionary spirit.

That evening, around 450 youth ministers from across the Archdiocese gathered for the Youth Vigil, accompanying the Pilgrim Image through prayer, reflection, and veneration, and entrusting their lives, vocations, and mission to God through the intercession of the young Filipino martyr.

On the morning of September 25, the Archdiocese gathered for the Farewell Mass, celebrated by Rev. Fr. Michael Kirby Lauron, Archdiocesan Youth Director; Rev. Fr. Jaime Jhemboy Varona, Assistant Archdiocesan Youth Director; and Rev. Fr. John Baran, Rector of the Archdiocesan Shrine of St. Pedro Calungsod. The celebration marked the conclusion of the two-day visit and served as a sending forth of the faithful who had encountered St. Pedro Calungsod through the pilgrimage. After the Mass, the faithful were given a final opportunity to venerate the Pilgrim Image before it departed the Archdiocese of Palo and continued its journey to the Diocese of Naval.

Through Duaw Pedro 2026, St. Pedro Calungsod once again brought together the young Church of Palo in prayer and communion, leaving a renewed invitation to live the faith with courage, fidelity, and love.

Photos: Palo Metropolitan Cathedral Social Communications and Media Ministry

27/09/2026

TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
September 27, 2026 | 3:00PM

Presider:
Rev. Fr. Jan Erik Montejo

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