Iglesia ni Cristo sa Thailand: Mga Kwento ng Kabayanihan

Narito na naman ang isang kwento ng mga bayani ng ating pananampalatayang Kristiano sa Thailand. Kwentong sumasalamin sa katotohanan ng ating pagka-Katoliko. Mga ordinaryong mananampalataya, handang ihandog ang buhay sa KATOTOHANAN sa Iglesia ni Cristo-- ang nag-iisa, at tanging Iglesia Katolika!

THE STORY OF CATHOLIC MARTYRDOM OF THAILAND

Source: Gereja Katolik

At that time, Wednesday 25 December 1940. A small village without sound silent Songkhon gripped. That day be Christmas day only there is no celebration of the mass in the Church. There are no sacraments whatsoever, and no Christmas drama birth of Jesus as the previous years. It happens because the local police has frequently come up to a community of sisters to ask them to stop everything that smells of teaching Christianity. No other religion in the land of Thailand in addition to Buddhism. But the sisters routinely teach children learn religion ignore and even more eager to testify. Then the day of the historic events that took place.

On the night of the 25th's Sister Agnes and sister Lucia Khambang Philaa have decided to sacrifice myself for the sake of ready-to-death of faith will be Jesus Christ no matter if the authorities want to kill them. That's why they wrote a letter to the police named their intentions to Lue States persisted in the faith though must die berkalang land. The letter they bacakan before the audience assembled. All who hear his passion and agreeing to feel reinvigorated will join the sacrifice.

Katie Holmes: Nagbalik-loob sa Iglesia ni Cristo

Photo Source:DailyMail.co.uk

Matapos ang masakit ng diborsio ng dalawang sikat na aktor at aktress ng Hollywood na sina Tom Cruise at Katie Holmes, nagpasyang magbalik-loob sa Iglesia ni Cristo ang huli.

Si Katie Holmes ay isang Katoliko bago pa man sila ikasal ni Tom Cruise na may mataas na katungkulan sa isang samahang "Scientology"- isang bagong relihiyon na umusbong sa Estados Unidos noong 1952 na tatag ni L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986).

Ang aktress ay nagpatala ng kanyang pangalan sa St. Francis Xavier Parish sa New York.

Katie Holmes has finally turned her back on the controversial religion of Scientology by registering with a Catholic church in New York, it has been claimed.

According to a new report, the actress has formally confirmed her return to Catholicism by signing up to the Church of St. Francis Xavier.

And Katie's decision to register as a parishioner at the church has been met with excitement by the congregation.

One member of the church choir told the Huffington Post: 'Everyone is thrilled to have Katie join us.

'She has not yet attended a service, but when she does she will be welcomed with open arms.'

On its website, the Church of St. Francis Xavier, which dates back to 1847, 'strives to be a prophetic, welcoming community, inclusive witness to the presence of Christ Jesus in our midst', according to its mission statement.


Read more: DailyMail

Dating adik ngayo'y isang pari na!

Padre Taras Kraychuk

Narito ang isa na namang napakagandang kwento ng isang dating adik ngunit ngayo'y nagsisilbi na bilang ganap na pari ng Iglesia ni Cristo, Ukranian Rite:

From drug dealer to Ukrainian Catholic monk

By Roman Gonzalez
Western Catholic Reporter
LAC STE. ANNE, ALBERTA (CCN)

After years of a life of hedonism and drug addiction, he returned to the faith and for about a dozen years now he has been serving as a hieromonk (pastor-monk) in the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Father Taras (Terry) Kraychuk, who currently lives the monastic life in the Derwent, Alberta area, gave a partial testimony of his life at the Catholic Family Life Conference at Lac Ste. Anne July 1.

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Father Kraychuk was the child of a devout Ukrainian Catholic family that prayed together and attended Mass together. “I grew up in the faith but I drifted away from those roots,” he told about 2,000 people attending the June 29-July 2 conference. “When I was about 15 or 16 I was into the drug scene.”

Mga Martir ng Iglesia sa China, Inaalala ngayong araw!

Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, Chinese martyrs

Si Santo Augustine Zhao Rong ay isang Intsik.  Siya ay isang diocesan priest na pinatay ng gobyerno kasama ng may 119 niyang mga kasamahan noong 1815.  Ilan sa mga martir ay isang 18 años na binata, si Chi Zhuzi. Habang tinatapyas ng patalim ang kanyang kanang braso habang siya'y binabalatan ng buhay ay nagwika: "Bawat bahagi ng aking laman, bawat patak ng aking dugo ay mangungusap sa inyo na ako'y Kristiano."  

San Augustin Zhao Rong at mga kasama, ipanalangin niyo kami.

Source: Catholic Culture

Augustine Zhao Rong and companions
Christianity arrived in China by way of Syria in the 600s. Depending on China's relations with the outside world, Christianity over the centuries was free to grow or was forced to operate secretly.

The 120 martyrs in this group died between 1648 and 1930. Most of them (eighty-seven) were born in China and were children, parents, catechists or laborers, ranging from nine years of age to seventy-two. This group includes four Chinese diocesan priests.

The thirty-three foreign-born martyrs were mostly priests or women religious, especially from the Order of Preachers, the Paris Foreign Mission Society, the Friars Minor, Jesuits, Salesians and Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.

Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese soldier who accompanied Bishop John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse (Paris Foreign Mission Society) to his martyrdom in Beijing. Augustine was baptized and not long after was ordained as a diocesan priest. He was martyred in 1815.

Beatified in groups at various times, these 120 martyrs were canonized in Rome on October 1, 2000.

Excerpted from Saint of the Day, Leonard Foley, O.F.M.

Katedral ng Iglesia ni Cristo sa Kiev

Iglesia ni Cristo ng St. Polikarpus, Grogol, Jakarta, Indonesia