SJTP Ministry of the Altar Server

31/07/2022

07/04/2022

Together with the priests of the Vicariate of Tacloban, Saint Jude Thaddeus Parish will have its Kumpisalang Bayan 2022 on April 07 at 6:30 PM. Come, Confess, and Repent as we communion with our Lord's Passion, Death and Resurrection.

19/02/2022

14/02/2022

CHURCH FACTS | The Sacrament of Confirmation

The Sacrament of Confirmation perfects Baptismal grace and through the gifts of the Holy Spirit helps us grow to Christian maturity: Holy Baptism is the first sacrament of initiation, and Confirmation is the second. By Confirmation the baptized are more perfectly bound to the Lord Jesus and His Church, and they are enriched with a special strength of the Holy Spirit to be witnesses of Christ and of the truth of His Gospel. It roots us more deeply in the divine filiation which makes us cry, “Abba! Father” It unites us more firmly to Christ. It increases the gifts of the Holy Spirit in us. It strengthens our bond with the Church

Source: Introduction to the Seven Sacraments | St. Anthony (Revere) (stanthonysrevere.org)

14/02/2022

CHURCH FACTS | The Sacrament of Reconciliation

The Sacrament of Penance, also known as the Rite of Reconciliation or Confession, is the “liturgical celebration of God’s forgiveness of the sins of the penitent, who is thus reconciled with God and with the Church. The acts of the penitent – contrition, the confession of sins, and satisfaction or reparation-together with the prayer of absolution by the priest, constitute the essential elements of the Sacrament of Penance” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 980, 1422, 1440, 1448). Through the three sacraments of initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist) we receive the new life of Christ, but we carry this life in earthen vessels and remain subject to suffering, illness, and death. Moreover, this new life as a child of God can be weakened and even lost by sin. For this reason, the Lord Jesus – the divine physician of our bodies and souls – has given us two sacraments of healing: Penance and the Anointing of the Sick.

Source: Introduction to the Seven Sacraments | St. Anthony (Revere) (stanthonysrevere.org)

14/02/2022

CHURCH FACTS | The Sacrament of Holy Orders

The Sacrament of Apostolic Ministry by which the mission entrusted by Christ to his Apostles continues to be exercised in the Church through the laying on of hands. This sacrament has three distinct degrees or ‘orders’: deacon, priest, and bishop. All three confer a permanent, sacramental character” (Catechism of the Catholic Church,536). “The whole Church is a priestly people. Through Baptism all the faithful share in the priesthood of Christ. This participation is called the ‘common priesthood of the faithful.’ Based on this common priesthood and ordered to its service, there exists another participation in the mission of Christ: the ministry conferred by the sacrament of Holy Orders, where the task is to serve in the name and in the person of Christ the Head in the midst of the community” (Catechism, 1591).

Source: Introduction to the Seven Sacraments | St. Anthony (Revere) (stanthonysrevere.org)

14/02/2022

CHURCH FACTS | The Sacrament of Matrimony

Marriage is a “covenant or partnership of life between a man and woman, which is ordered to the well-being of the spouses and to the procreation and upbringing of children. When validly contracted between two baptized people, marriage is a sacrament” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1601). Sacred Scripture begins with the creation of man and woman as spouses in the image and likeness of God and concludes with a glorious vision of the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. In other words, the whole of creation and redemption is a marriage between God and His people, and for this reason St. Paul teaches that the union of husband and wife is an image or icon of the union between Christ and His Church (Eph 5:25-32)

Source: Introduction to the Seven Sacraments | St. Anthony (Revere) (stanthonysrevere.org)

14/02/2022

CHURCH FACTS | The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick

This sacred anointing of the sick was instituted by Christ our Lord as a true and proper sacrament of the New Testament. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is given to all those (after the age of 7) who are seriously ill by anointing them with oil blessed by the Bishop, and it is not reserved only for those who are at the point of death. This sacred anointing can be repeated for each serious illness or for a relapse of the same illness. By the grace of this sacrament the sick person receives the strength and the gift of a closer union to Christ’s Passion: in a certain way the sick person is consecrated to bear fruit by configuration to the Savior’s redemptive Passion. Suffering, a consequence of original sin, acquires a new meaning; it becomes a participation in the saving work of Jesus.

Source: Introduction to the Seven Sacraments | St. Anthony (Revere) (stanthonysrevere.org)