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04/10/2026

Usapang Straight from the Heart: Gospel Reflection on Matthew 21:33-43

Watch and Listen to Bro. Vic as he shares his reflection on the gospel in relation to his vocation story.

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04/10/2026

Day 7: Our Lady of Good Remedy: Our Companion in Prayer

In the image of Our Lady of Good Remedy, we see the Blessed Virgin standing on a luminous cloud with hovering angels.

The portrayal commemorates the first pious Marian narrative of the Trinitarian Order: the apparition of the Virgin Mary to the co-Founder of the Trinitarians, Saint Felix of Valois. It was said that in Cerfroid, France, on the Eve of the Virgin Mary’s Nativity (September 8), Saint Felix, moved by his love of the Hours and devotion to the Holy Virgin, rose up and proceeded to the chapel for Matins. But the brothers fell asleep, overcome by the exhaustion of serving long hours at the hospital of the poor.

But Felix’s desire to honor Mary did not remain unrewarded: for lo and behold, the Glorious Mother, in her full Trinitarian habit, appeared with her throng of angels, enveloped in resplendent rays of light, piercing through billowing clouds.

The miraculous event gave birth to the Trinitarian tradition of placing an image of the Virgin in the choir, in the location where the Minister of the house sits; symbolic of the Virgin Mary’s accompanying presence to the brothers in their community prayers.

There are times when it is difficult to pray.

Discouragement and frustration on the fruitlessness of our supplications overwhelm us. Impatience tempts us to give up. But our Lady of Good Remedy comes, not only to pray for us but pray with us. Teaching us, as a mother to her child, that a remedy is at hand, for those who persevere in prayer (Luke 11:9).

03/10/2026

03/10/2026

Day 6: Our Lady of Good Remedy, the Perfect Adorer of the Trinity

It was reported by Saint Bernadette that when the Virgin of Lourdes prayed the Rosary with her during the apparition of February 11, 1858, Our Lady prayed only during the “Glory Be” while remain silent in the other Rosary prayers.

Such observation is theologically sound: having been assumed to Heaven, the Virgin Mary’s glorified state is already the same with the angels who “who glorify God without ceasing” (St. Thomas Aquinas, STh I, 114, 3, ad 3).

It is therefore, a sensible pious thought, that Mary prays with us, as we pray the praises of the Trinity in the Angelic Trisagion which hangs on the left arm of the image of Our Lady of Good Remedy.

The Angelic Trisagion is the unceasing song of praise of the Heavenly beings (Rev. 4:8), hence, the term ‘angelic’.

By praying the Angelic Trisagion, we imitate the angels and Mary, the Queen of Angels, in singing this hymn of worship to the Three Divine Persons.

Praying the Trisagion, therefore, is an anticipation of Heaven; whenever, it is prayed, the choirs of angels descend with their Queen to pray with us and wherever it is prayed, the place becomes a piece of heaven on earth.

It is also good to note that even the pious carrying and keeping of the blessed beads of the Trisagion inside one’s pocket gains one a special blessing from the Church.

The traditional blessing of the Trisagion says:
“Let these Trisagions be endowed with the power of the Holy Spirit, that whoever carries one on his person or reverently keeps it in his home, or devoutly recites it may be protected by you from every danger to body and soul. …in the hour of death, let him (her) deserve to be presented by your holy angels at the throne of your divine majesty; through Christ our Lord. Amen”

03/10/2026

Little Sisters of the Poor Visits the Festejada Image of Our Lady of Good Remedy w/ Fr Allan

03/10/2026

5 Things You Should KNow About The Trinitarians

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02/10/2026

Day 5: Our Lady of Good Remedy as Cooperator in Christ’s Work of Redemption

Two curious figures could be seen in front of our Lady: a Trinitarian Friar with a box and a chain in hand and a half naked man, bound in chains, and holding a red fruit. Both raise their hands to Heaven.

Mary lowers down her right arm with a pouch of coins while the Child Jesus reaches out to the bound man with the white Trinitarian scapular.

The Captive Adam
The chained, half-naked Adam with a fruit in hand, symbolized our wounded human nature with the lingering effects of original sin. The Catechism defines original sin as "captivity under the power of him who thenceforth had the power of death, that is, the devil” (CCC 407).

And CCC 405 reminds us that: “Baptism..erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature, weakened and inclined to evil, persist in man and summon him to spiritual battle.” (CCC 405).

This wounded and weakened nature cries out for redemption through Christ who is the ‘New Adam’ (1 Cor. 15:45). He is the Remedy of Sin given to the world through Mary, the New Eve (CCC 411).

Hence, we see the Child Jesus in the image of the Virgin of Good Remedy, putting on the white Trinitarian scapular on the Captive Adam, symbolic of the liberating love of the Savior, won through His holy cross.

The Trinitarian Friar
The Trinitarian, being ransomers, usually set aside the third part (tertia pars) of all their total funds exclusively for the purpose of ransoming captives. This fund is locked away to a uniquely-designed collection safe or box called the Truncus Redemptionis (Box of Redemption).

This cash box, however, does not always contain sufficient funds. Pious traditions narrates that in the year 1202, in Valencia , Spain, the Holy Founder, Saint John de Matha, burdened by the lack of funds, implored the Virgin Mary for an urgent remedy.

It was then that Our Lady appeared to him and gave him a pouch full of coins, enough to ransom many captives. The divine intervention was again repeated 8 years later in Tunis, Africa. Such divine interventions in financial matters is not far from possible.

In Matthew 17:27, the Lord Jesus used a fish as an instrument in order to deliver to Peter a four-drachma coin, the exact amount needed to pay the tax for the Temple; it is therefore not difficult to believe, that the Lord Jesus would send her own Mother to Saint John de Matha, to hand financial aid in ransoming Living Temples of the Holy Spirit.

01/10/2026

Day 4: Our Lady of Good Remedy: A Mother in All Our Needs

Both the teachings of the Church and Holy Tradition teach us that the Blessed Virgin Mary, being our heavenly Mother, intercedes for our spiritual needs. But oftentimes, our recourse to her is only confined within the realm of the spiritual, thinking that our mundane concerns are never the business of Heaven.

Uninformed onlookers are often so outraged upon seeing the Trinitarians’ portrayal of the Blessed Virgin that they ask in dismay how a heavenly figure could be holding a bag of money.

Trinitarian’s Reply: Why Not?
The Gospel account on the Wedding in Cana sheds light on this question. Mary, upon seeing that the w**e of the feast has ran out, approached Jesus to ‘do something’. And as it appears, the Lord tells her: “What does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”( John 2:4 ).

Despite his apparent refusal, we know exactly what followed: the Lord performed his first public miracle, intervening at an unexpected time and for a remarkably mundane concern.

While biblical theologians can discuss at length the symbols and meanings behind this event, we pay special attention to Mary’s faith that won Jesus’ favor. Mary’s faith operated not on a vacuum of abstract theologies but on personal experience. She understands the human culture of shame and honor. Mary, though immaculate, is not cut off from our humanity.

Mary approached Jesus, not only as a mother, but a human person laden with human concerns. Jesus was moved because he saw our humanity in her: our miserable humanity that is crying out to God to intervene even on earthly concerns.

The miracle of Cana was brought about by Jesus’ mercy, not only to her Mother, but to our humanity that ardently desires the total reign of God in all aspects of human existence.

Hence, we see in the image of Our Lady of Good Remedy both of the hands extending: the right, with a bag of money for buying the freedom of captives and in her left hand, the Divine Ransom for Man’s redemption.

The Virgin of Good Remedy’s iconography teaches us in symbols that Divine Grace permeates all aspects of human life. God provides in all our needs, whether it be on concerns of the body and on the welfare of our souls.

Entrusting all our needs to Heaven is tantamount to declaring that the Lord is the Provider in all our needs (Phil. 4:19).

Let us approach Jesus with confidence, through Our Lady of Good Remedy, trusting that just as He performed a miracle in Cana on a ‘not-so-spiritual’ request, he may as well ‘do something’ on our ‘daily bread’ concerns, no matter how ordinary and ‘earthly’ they may seem.

30/09/2026

Day 3: Many Titles, One Mother

The Dogmatic Constitution On The Church, the Lumen Gentium, teaches us that the spiritual motherhood of Mary to us all ‘began… at the Annunciation.

Taken up to heaven, she did not lay aside this salvific duty, but by her constant intercession continued to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation (LG,62).

This constancy is especially manifested throughout the history of the Church, when the Mother of God, impelled by her maternal duty, appeared to chosen persons in different parts of the world, to bring remedy to wars and societal upheavals, to bring healing to the suffering the and call us back to the Gospel.

Despite the differences in titles, Our Lady’s plea and remedy to the world’s moral and social maladies is no less than a humble return to the Triune God through the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Unbeknownst to devotees, the image of Our Lady of Good Remedy is a reliquary image. Implanted in a cavity in the breast of the statue are small artifacts from different Church-approved and Church-supported apparition sites throughout the world.

Visiting the image of Our Lady of Good Remedy with faith and humility gives us an opportunity to visit in spirit the various Marian sites and places related to the Virgin Mary and meditate on the Gospel messages the Blessed Mother echoed in these places.

The following are found implanted on the image:

1. Dust from the vicinity of the Holy House of Loreto, believed to be the very house where the Annunciation occurred and where Christ’s redemption began through His incarnation in Mary’s womb.

2. Stone from the wall of the Barbedette barn, over which Our Lady of Hope appeared in Pontmain, France in 1871.

3. Fragment of the plaster wall from the room of the apparition where Our Lady of Mercy appeared in Pellevoisin, France in 1876.

4. Splinter of wood from the Azinheira oak tree where our Lady of Fatima appeared in Portugal in 1917.

5. Splinter of wood from the Hawthorn tree, under which our Lady of the Golden Heart appeared in Beauraing, Belgium in 1932.

6. Stone taken in the vicinity of the Holy Well, where Our Lady of the Poor appeared in Banneux, Belgium in 1933.

7. Soil from the Cave of Trefontane, Rome where the Virgin of Revelation appeared in 1947.

8. Stone from the Apparition Hill, where Our Lady, Queen of Peace appeared in Medjugorje in 1981.

29/09/2026

Day 2: Our Lady of Good Remedy: What’s in Her Name?

The Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives is a religious Order originally founded to buy back the freedom of Christians held captive by the Moors during the Crusades.

Hence, it is not an accident that the Virgin Mary’s title ‘of the Remedy’ ( in Latin: remediare, to remedy ), so dear to the Trinitarians, sounds almost similar with ‘redimere’, the Latin word which means ‘to redeem or buy back’; a word which animates the spirituality and mission of this Order.

To appreciate the profound meaning of this Marian title, one needs to understand the meaning of the word ‘redemption’ in the Catholic Faith. “Redemption by Christ”, according to the Catechism 622, “consists in this: that Jesus came "to give his life as a ransom for many" (Mt 20:28 ), so that they might be "ransomed from the futile ways inherited from their fathers" (I Pt 1:18).

Redemption, therefore, refers to providing remedy and freedom from the effects of Adam’s sin, by paying the price of disobedience to the Divine Justice, with the Lord Jesus as the Divine Currency as payment to this tremendous debt.

The image of our Mother of Good Remedy conveys this teaching very clearly: Mary holds the bag of ransom, side by side with her Son, Jesus, as a symbolic reminder to us that redemption was purchased through Christ’s self-offering . Truly, Mary is the Mother of the Good Remedy, our Lord Jesus Christ, who sets us free from the chains of our bo***ge and restores our broken relationship to God and with one another.

Due to this attributes, Our Lady of Good Remedy’s intercession is often invoked in the following necessities:
1. For healing broken relationships and restoration of peace especially among family members
2. For those seeking freedom from physical, emotional and spiritual bo***ge such as debilitating bodily diseases, addictive patterns, vices, habitual sins or demonic oppression
3. For wisdom in decision making concerning legal and business matters
4. For job opportunities, business ventures and assistance in unexpected expenses
5. For difficult situations and problems that seem to have no cure or remedy