GKK Bakdulong STO. NIÑO

24/01/2022

HAPPY PATRONAL FIESTA GKK BACDULONG
VIVA STO. NIÑO

11/01/2022

'May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines.'
—Pope Francis, Feast of the Santo Niño (Papal Visit, 2015)

On the day of the Feast of the Santo Niño in 2015, Pope Francis ended his apostolic visit to the Phiippines with a message to cherish one’s identity as God’s children and protect the family.

He called the Philippines the “foremost Catholic country” in Asia whose citizens have a vocation to be “missionaries of faith” in the region.

Celebrating his concluding Mass at the Quirino Grandstand before euphoric Filipinos, the Pope wove his homily around the symbolic message of the Holy Child.

“In these days, throughout my visit, I have listened to you sing the song: `We are all God’s children.’ That is what the Sto. Niño tells us. He reminds us of our deepest identity. All of us are God’s children, members of God’s family,” he said.

Francis warned of the devil’s distractions, “promise of ephemeral pleasures” and superficial pastimes, such as ‘tinkering with gadgets,’ that make people forget.

“For children, as the Lord tells us, have their own wisdom, which is not the wisdom of the world. That is why the message of the Sto. Niño is so important. He speaks powerfully to all of us. He reminds us of our deepest identity, of what we are called to be as God’s family,” he said.

“The Sto. Niño also reminds us that this identity must be protected. The Christ Child is the protector of this great country,” he continued in the Mass attended by President Aquino and Vice President Jejomar Binay, and millions in the crowd.

He ended his homily saying, “May the Santo Niño continue to bless the Philippines and may he sustain the Christians of this great nation in their vocation to be witnesses and missionaries of the joy of the Gospel in Asia and in the whole world.”





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30/12/2021

A NEW YEAR REMINDER TO OUR FELLOW CATHOLICS

“Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.” (CCC 2111)

Superstitions usually strike genuine fear into the hearts of several people, but could not distress a Catholic who is faithful to the teachings of the Church. This faithful Catholic is someone who, despite his/her limitations, has found someone and something that far surpass any superstitious belief: our Lord and the truth of His Gospel.

Mga bok at ter, may we all have the courage to fully entrust our life in the coming year only to the Supreme Being, to God, and not to superstitions.
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Sources:

(1) Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) | Superstition

(2) PngTree

11/12/2021

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

The third candle symbolizes joy and is called the "Shepherd’s Candle." In liturgy, the color rose signifies joy. This candle is colored pink to represent joyfulness and rejoicing.

27/11/2021

24/11/2021

Huwag mong gawing excuse ang weakness mo sa maling bagay na nagiging reason kung bakit ka na fa-fall sa SIN.

23/11/2021

"𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙮𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙝."—𝙏𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣

Our brothers and sisters in the faith are subjected to persecution on a daily basis. Sadly, Christians are still suffering persecution and religious discrimination even up to this day. Consequently, their blood serve as the seed of the Church that grows to feed the existing humanity with a positive example set by the martyrs. On the other hand, the victims also 'gain' through losing their lives in bearing witness to Jesus – they gain eternal life.

Today, as we continue to highlight the victims of persecution and discrimination, may we remember them as the bearers of faith! Let us also appreciate the men and women who have sacrificed their lives for the Church. May we be inspired by their courage, that instead of renouncing their faith or be unfaithful to God’s law, they chose to follow Jesus' example for the benefit of many.






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21/11/2021

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