Immaculate Conception Parish - GSIS Village

05/10/2026

𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 | 𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐑𝐔𝐍𝐎

Saint Bruno is believed to have been born into the wealthy and influential Hardebüst family in Cologne, modern-day Germany. He was educated at the prestigious Cathedral School of Rheims in France. Returning to Cologne, he was made a canon—and likely ordained a priest—at Saint Cunibert Church. In 1056, the bishop called Canon Bruno back to Rheims where he was given a canonry at the Cathedral, taught at the School of Rheims, and later became rector of the school. He spent the next twenty-plus years in this capacity before becoming chancellor of the Archdiocese of Rheims.

When a corrupt and worldly man took office as Archbishop of Rheims, Canon Bruno led the opposition. When the archbishop became violent, Bruno left Rheims, probably for Rome, until the matter was resolved. Once the pope deposed the archbishop, Bruno resisted an appeal to become archbishop and set out to answer God’s call to a new life.

Traveling south, Bruno and six companions founded a new order under the Bishop of Grenoble. Bruno and his companions built hermitages in the mountain country of Chartreuse, embracing a radical life of prayer, study, and manual labor. Bruno enjoyed about six years of solitude until 1090, when Pope Urban II called him to Rome to assist him in a serious conflict with the Holy Roman Emperor and Antipope Clement III. Bruno quietly served Pope Urban until the Holy Roman Emperor took Rome by force, and Bruno and Pope Urban had to flee.

Around 1091, Bruno desired to return to his hermitage, but Pope Urban asked him to found a hermitage nearby in Italy so he could be called on if needed. He and some companions built a hermitage in the wilderness of Calabria, named Sainte-Marie-de-la-Tour. A decade later, Bruno died in this hermitage.

Bruno did not write a rule for his order, but he left them a way of life that was written down twenty-six years later as statutes to guide their monastic-hermitical vocation. Bruno was quickly considered a saint, but the order never formally petitioned the pope to canonize him. Over the next five hundred years, the Carthusians grew to 198 monasteries with about 5,600 members. In 1514, during the order’s general chapter, a request was made to Pope Leo X to confirm Bruno’s merits and authorize a liturgical feast for the order. The pope approved and granted an equipollent (equivalent) canonization, which required no lengthy process and was done solely on the pope’s authority. In 1623, that Carthusian feast was extended to the entire Church and placed on the Roman Calendar.

It is often said that the Carthusian Order is the only order that has never needed to be reformed. The hermit-monks have remained true to their statutes, living the most radical form of religious life in the Church. They accept no visitors, exist in absolute solitude together, live contemplative lives, embrace penances, intercede for the Church and world, and seek perfect union with God.

𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑:
Saint Bruno, you were drawn into a life of radical solitude and prayer and responded with incredible generosity. In that solitude, you met your divine Savior and entered into intimate communion with Him. Please pray that we will daily enter into prayerful solitude, alone with God, and shed our attachments to the passing things of this world. May we discover what you discovered and live more fully in union with Christ.

Saint Bruno, pray for us.
Jesus, we trust in You. 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍

𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐄:
https://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/

05/10/2026

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time | 04 Oct 2026
Reading 1: Isaiah 5:1-7 | Psalm 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20 | Reading 2: Philippians 4:6-9 | Matthew 21:33-43

Sa ebanghelyo ang sabi ng Panginoon ipinagkatiwala noong may-ari ng ubasan ang kanyang ubasan sa mga kasama niya. Hindi nga sila tinawag na alipin. Tinawag silang “kasama.” Pinagkatiwalaan sila.

And I think this is our story, because everything that we have in our life are but gifts from the Lord, entrusted to us by the Lord…

… and when we try to own everything and control everything just for ourselves even if these are just gifts entrusted to us by the Lord, hindi magiging maganda ang bunga.

Today the Lord is asking us, what are the gifts that we have received? Don’t think that you have something that is not a gift from the Lord. Lahat ng mayroon tayo ay biyaya ng Diyos. Walang ibang pinangggalingan’yan. Yes we do our part, we worked hard for that but it is always graces from the Lord that allows us to achieve what we are able to achieve in life. Galing sa Diyos. At kung galing sa Diyos ang lahat ng ito, ang nais niya ay magamit natin ang mga bagay na ito para sa ikabubuti natin at ikabubuti ng iba. Kaya pagkatapos mong maalala ano ang mga ibinigay sa ‘yo ng Diyos, tanungin mo ‘yong sarili mo,

“Mayroon bang mabuting naibunga ito sa buhay ko?”

When you go home, look at your loved ones, your spouses, your children, your parents. Because they are gifts of God to you. Regalo sila ng Diyos sa inyo. Ipinagkatiwala Niya sa inyo.

Pinahahalagahan ba natin sila?
Iniingatan ba natin sila?
At dinadala ba natin sila sa pawang kabutihan?

04/10/2026

𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 | 𝐒𝐓. 𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐀 𝐊𝐎𝐖𝐀𝐋𝐒𝐊𝐀

Helen Kowalska was the third of ten children born to a poor family in Glogowiec, Poland. With only three years of schooling, she loved to pray, obeyed her parents, and was sensitive to human suffering. From age seven, she sensed God calling her to the religious life. Her parents, though devout, refused their permission, and at eighteen, Helen turned herself “over to the vain things of life.”

One day, Helen experienced “deep torments while at a dance with her sisters.” Starting to dance, she had a vision of a bloodied and beaten Jesus at her side who asked how long she intended to put him off. Sneaking away to the Cathedral of Saint Stanislaus Kostka, she fell prostrate before the Blessed Sacrament and begged God for direction. As she prayed, she heard, “Go at once to Warsaw; you will enter a convent there.” With only the dress on her back, she left for Warsaw.

In Warsaw, Helen knocked on the doors of every convent but all turned her down. Finally, the mother superior at the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy accepted her but noted in her diary that Helen “was no one special.” At age twenty, an “immensely happy” Helen was accepted into the Congregation. Soon frustrated with the convent’s busy schedule and her lack of prayer time, Helen decided to leave. Jesus appeared again to her, telling her that the convent was the place to which he had called her. Helen changed her mind, finished her novitiate, and on April 30, 1926, received the habit, and was given the name Sister Maria Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament.

Sister Faustina spent the next twelve years in the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy’s convents in Poland and Lithuania. She died in Kraków on October 5, 1938, at age thirty-three. As a nun, Sister Faustina worked as a cook, gardener, and doorkeeper. Her ordinary duties were intertwined with incredible mystical experiences, in which Jesus delivered to her His message of The Divine Mercy. Obeying her superiors, beginning in 1934, she wrote down these visions and private revelations in six notebooks, now contained in The Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul.

Faustina’s diary describes how Jesus wants devotion to His Mercy to spread. The first is by meditating upon the Divine Mercy image of Jesus with its blue (Baptism) and red (the Eucharist) rays shining from His Heart and the inscription, “Jesus, I Trust in You.” The second is by instituting the Solemnity of Divine Mercy on the eighth day of Easter. The third is by praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. The fourth is to honor the three o’clock hour, at which Jesus died, pouring forth His Mercy. Jesus also desired apostles of Mercy, who live mercifully and spread devotion to His Mercy.

Within two decades of Sister Faustina’s death, the Divine Mercy messages spread from Poland to other continents, but in 1959, the Vatican banned her diary and its devotions, for “serious theological reservations,” in particular for “excessive focus on Faustina herself.” In 1965, then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyła received Vatican permission to examine Faustina’s life and virtues, submitting his positive findings two years later. In 1978, when Cardinal Wojtyła was elected Pope John Paul II, the Vatican lifted its ban. Faustina was canonized on the eighth day of Easter, 2000, the first universal Church celebration of Divine Mercy Sunday.

𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑:
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament, you listened and responded as God spoke to you. Through you, God revealed His invitation to live in His mercy. Please pray that the Ocean of Mercy pouring forth from Heaven will flood my soul and affect many others through us.

Saint Faustina, pray for us.
Jesus, we trust in You. 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍

𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐄:
https://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/

04/10/2026

𝐒𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 | 𝐒𝐓. 𝐅𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐈

One of the Church’s beloved saints, Francis of Assisi, was likely born in 1181 in Assisi, about 100 miles north of Rome. Born into the merchant class, the lively youth enjoyed parties, singing, and being the center of attention. He showed only disinterest in joining his father as a silk merchant.

Francis dreamed of doing great things, chiefly to become a knight. In 1202—fitted with fine armor, a sword, and a horse—Francis was sent into battle against the town of Perugia. Success would prepare him to become a Crusader in the pope’s army, but the short battle ended with his capture and imprisonment. Francis suffered captivity for a year until his father paid the ransom for his release; when freed, he spent months battling a serious illness. Francis’ imprisonment and illness led him to reevaluate his life. Even so, outfitted for another battle in the Count of Brienne’s army in 1205, Francis had a vision that caused him to turn around, return to Assisi, and seek God’s will for his life.

For a year, Francis prayed and sought God’s will, while his father insisted that he become a knight or work in the family business. During that time, Francis grew in his love for the poor and served the lepers at a nearby hospital. While praying one day in the dilapidated Church of San Damiano, Francis heard a voice from Heaven say to him, “Go, repair my house which, as you see, is falling completely to ruin.” With that, he began to physically repair that church, live in solitude, and pray continually.

In 1206, when Francis was twenty-five, he and his father formally parted ways in the presence of the Bishop of Assisi. Francis renounced his inheritance and began to live a life of poverty, prayer, and service of God. Most of the townspeople ridiculed Francis, believing he was out of his mind. But as time passed, Francis attracted followers. He and his followers spent much time praying, listening to the voice of God, serving the poor and lepers, and repairing abandoned churches.

In 1209, Francis and eleven followers wrote a Rule for their common life, secured papal approval, and returned to Assisi, taking up residence in a small church called the Portiuncula. From there, Brother Francis and his Friars Minor began their life of prayer and missionary preaching. Instead of rebuilding physical churches, they began to rebuild God’s Church, the spiritual Body of Christ.

Over the next ten years, the Order of Friars Minor grew from twelve to five thousand, spread across Europe. Francis preached and was the instrument of countless miracles. In 1223, the pope approved the definitive Rule of the Friars Minor, and Francis entered into the final years of his life. In 1224, while on a forty-day retreat, Francis received the stigmata, the visible wounds of Christ in his hands, feet, and side. In his final two years, he suffered from various illnesses and lost his sight.

On October 4, 1226, Francis died from his many illnesses, surrounded by his brothers in Assisi at the Portiuncula. Two years later, Pope Gregory IX canonized him a saint, and his legacy grew.

𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐑:
Saint Francis, you fell radically in love with God and His people. You embraced poverty, prayer, sacrifice, and suffering for the sake of Christ. Please pray that we will detach from everything in this life that keeps us from God’s love and service, so that we can imitate the life that you lived.

Saint Francis of Assisi, pray for us.
Jesus, we trust in You. 𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐍

𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐄:
https://mycatholic.life/saints/saints-of-the-liturgical-year/

04/10/2026

Ika 27 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon

Punong Tagapagdiwang: Reb. Padre Ron Mariano Roberto, Kura Paroko

04/10/2026

Ika 27 Linggo sa Karaniwang Panahon

Punong Tagapagdiwang: Reb. Padre Ron Mariano Roberto, Kura Paroko

04/10/2026

04/10/2026

𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

Halina at makiisa, pagnilayan ang buhay ni Hesus sa tulong ni Maria.

Inaanyayahan ang buong Vicaria ng Sto. Niño na makibahagi sa ating Vicariate Grand Rosary Rally 2026 na gaganapin sa 𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐨, 𝐎𝐤𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐫𝐞 𝟏𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, 𝟐:𝟎𝟎 𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧, na may temang, “𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚, 𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐠𝐨𝐥 𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐧” na pangungunahan ng 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡.

Ating ialay ang Santo Rosaryo para sa sa isang mundong higit na mapagkalinga sa ating kalikasan.

Dahin ang inyong rosaryo at isama ang inyong pamilya at mga kaibigan para sa isang araw na puno ng panalangin at pananampalataya.

𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐞 𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐧
𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐚: 𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐝𝐨, 𝐎𝐤𝐭𝐮𝐛𝐫𝐞 𝟏𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐬: 𝟐:𝟎𝟎 𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐨𝐧
𝐋𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫: 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡, 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝟖

"Tungo kay Hesus, kasama si Maria."

03/10/2026

ENCUENTRO: Mga Kwento ng Pananampalataya at Buhay-Parokya

Isang awit ng pananampalataya, pagkakaisa, at pagmamahalan!

Kilalanin ang himig na mag-uugnay sa ating mga puso at magbibigay-buhay sa mga kwento ng pananampalataya, paglilingkod, at buhay-parokya.

Abangan ang ENCUENTRO, ang buwanang FB Live Podcast ng Immaculate Conception Parish – GSIS, kung saan sama-sama tayong makikinig, magbabahagi, at maglalakbay sa pananampalataya.

Dahil sa bawat kwento, may aral. Sa bawat tagpo, may biyaya. At sa bawat pagtatagpo, naroon ang Diyos na nagbubuklod sa atin.

03/10/2026

𝐀 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐔𝐋 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐔𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐎

Our first 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨 was an evening of stories, laughter, faith, fellowship, and joyful singing!

Thank you to everyone who joined the first episode of 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨: “Mga Kuwento ng Pananampalataya at Buhay Parokya.” May every encounter remind us that when we gather in faith, even simple conversations can become beautiful moments of grace.

More stories. More songs. More faith. More encounters.