Seoul Archdiocese: Cardinal Andrea Soo-jung Ordains 20 Men to the Priesthood

Cardinal Andrea Yeom Soo-jung ordained 20 men to the priesthood for Seoul archdiocese on February 5, 2021. The ordination ceremony was held at Myeongdong Cathedral. The Catholic Church in South Korea has been growing steadily and currently 11% of the population are Catholics. Image Credits: Seoul archdiocese #Catholic #ShalomWorld #Seoul #Faith #Hope #SouthKorea #Priesthood (Source: Shalom TV)

Benin City Priestly Ordination

2019 Priestly Ordination:

''Work in harmony and lay down your lives for the flocks of Christ''---- President CBCN tasks Priests as he invests three deacons into the order of the catholic priesthood in Benin city

Sila ang mga tinawag na lingkokd ng Iglesia ni Cristo! Mga manggagawang hindi bayaran!

Pope Francis visiting the sick. (Photo Source: Chicago Catholic)

St. Pope John Paul II visiting the sick (Photo Credit: Getty Image)

Pope Benedict XVI blesses sick children. (Photo Credit: Catholic Herald)

Kaibahan ng Tinawag na Lingkod at ng mga Bayarang Ministro

GANITO ANG TUNAY NA TINAWAG NA PARI TUNAY NA IGLESIA NI CRISTO

Iba ang mga bayarang manggagawa sa tunay na lingkod ng Diyos. Ang pagpapari ay isang TAWAG o BOKASYON. Hindi ito nararamdaman ng tinawag sa paglilingkod. At kapag siya ay tinawag at tumugon, siya ay nangangakong magiging pari ni Cristo at lingkod ng Iglesia nang walang kapalit.

Photo Source: African Catholics

No matter the weather elements: A Nigerian Catholic Priest on his way to celebrate the Holy Mass.
In whatever conditions or situation, they are always ready to do their Master's work. Remember to pray for your Priests always.

Pamamaalam ni Archbishop Soc Villegas kay Fr. Richmond Nilo

(Sipi mula sa blog ni Jover Laurio aka PAB)

 

Larawan mula sa Concept News Central

Mahal kong Father Richmond,

Paalam. Salamat. Maligayang bati!

Simula ng barilin ka nila hanggang ngayon ay hindi na tumigil ang ulan. Kulimlim ang langit tulad ng puso naming kulimlim din. Natigatig kaming lahat na Karlista mong kapatid sa text message “Bro binaril si Richmond”.

Sinong Richmond? Hindi puwedeng ikaw! Hindi ikaw yon! Pero si Bishop Elmer ang tumiyak sa akin na ikaw nga. Umiyak ako nang lihim habang hawak ang breviary para sa evening prayer. Hindi ko maituloy ang dasal dahil hindi ako makabasa dahil sa luha. Bakit? Ano ba ng kasalanan at kailangang patayin?

Wala kaming magagawa. Naawa kami habang nakatingin sa picture mong duguan sa Facebook. Katay ang tawag sa ginawa sa iyo hindi pagpatay. Hindi para sa tao. Hindi para sa pari. Hindi para kahit kanino. Sana makaharap ko ang bumaril sa iyo. Hindi ko sila sasaktan. Gusto ko lamang tanungin sila “Bakit?” Baka makatulong silang maunawaan namin ang pagkatay nila sa iyo. Baka sakali. Naghahanap ako ng paliwanag.

Hindi higanti ang hinihingi ng Karlista kundi katarungan. Hindi na kami umaasa ng katarungan galing sa may kapangyarihan. Baka nga gawan ka pa nila ng kuwento at tsismis. Pero tiyak ko Richmond, hindi natutulog ang Diyos. Alam niya ang lahat. Mula sa Diyos may tunay na katotohanan, totoong katarungan at walang hanggang gantimpala sa mga alagad na tulad mo.

Salamat sa paninindigan. Salamat sa katapatan. Salamat sa pagiging Karlistang matapang!

Nakakainggit ka Father Richmond. Biniyayaan ka ng Panginoon na diligin ang altar ng kapilya sa Mayamot ng iyong dugo! Ang laking biyaya! Inihalo ni Jesus ang kanyang Dugo sa iyong sariwang dugo. Ang galing di ba, Richmond! Dugo mo tinanggap ni Jesus at inihalo sa kanyang Dugo! Hindi lahat ng pari may ganyang kagandang kamatayan.

Noon pa mang seminarista ka, alam ko na “iba ka”. May malaking plano ang Diyos sa iyo.

Ito pala yon. Hindi ko sukat akalain.

Ang huling hininga mo ay sa loob ng simbahan! Ang huling hininga mo ay isang dipa lang galing sa altar. Ang huling hininga mo ay pagkatapos butasin ang tarpaulin ng Papuri sa Diyos.

Ang huling hininga mo may halo pa ng hininga ni Jesus na tinanggap mo galing sa kabilang barangay chapel. May kamatayan pa bang gaganda pa kaysa sa ibinigay sa iyo? Congratulations Father Richmond! Natapos ang maikli mong buhay kung paano ka nabuhay…laging tapat sa Diyos, laging laan para sa taumbayan, masayang nagbibiro hanggang sa huli…

Father Richmond, paalam mabunying Karlista! Salamat, masipag na Karlistang lingkod. Maligayang pagbalik sa bahay ng Ama.

Ipagdasal mo kami. Huwag mo kaming kalilimutan.

Ikumusta mo ako kay Cardinal Sin. Mahal ko kayong dalawa.

Mahigpit at mainit na yakap,

Father Soc

Aleteia: How a radical atheist became a Catholic priest

Mula sa: Aleteia  Sinulat ni Philip Kosloski | Aug 14, 2017

He hated the Church until one event changed his life forever ... and his story would later impress Maximilian Kolbe.

Born into a wealthy Jewish family in France in 1814, Alphonse Ratisbonne was set to become part of his uncle’s large banking firm. At first Ratisbonne was a nominal Jew, but when his older brother converted to the Catholic faith and became a priest, a hidden rage woke within him.

Ratisbonne wrote, “When my brother became a Catholic, and a priest, I persecuted him with a more unrelenting fury than any other member of my family. We were completely sundered; I hated him with a virulent hatred, though he had fully pardoned me.”

Furthermore this hatred for his brother was broadened to include all Catholics, and Ratisbonne explained how it “made me believe all I heard of the fanaticism of the Catholics, and I held them accordingly in great horror.”

This also affected his personal beliefs and he came to no longer believe in God. Ratisbonne was too busy following worldly pursuits to worry about his Jewish faith and his deep hatred for Catholicism only pushed him further away from any type of religion.

He eventually began to feel the void in his heart, but at first sought to cure it through marriage. Ratisbonne was betrothed to his niece, but because of her young age the wedding was postponed. During this time of waiting Ratisbonne decided to travel without any singular purpose.

His trip started out by traveling to Naples, where he stayed for about a month. After that Ratisbonne wanted to go to Malta, but took the wrong boat and arrived in Rome. He stayed there, making the best of it, and ran into an old friend.

One day when visiting his friend Ratisbonne encountered a Catholic convert, Theodore de Bussieres, who knew Ratisbonne’s priest-brother. While this made Ratisbonne hate the man, he enjoyed conversing with him because of his knowledge.

Later Ratisbonne visited de Bussieres again. They had a heated discussion about Catholicism and de Bussieres made a wager with Ratisbonne.

Have you the courage to submit yourself to a very simple and innocent test? Only to wear a little something I will give you; look, it is a medal of the Blessed Virgin. It seems very ridiculous, does it not? But, I assure you, I attach great value and efficacy to this little medal. [Also] you must say every night and morning the Memorare, a very short and very efficacious prayer which St. Bernard addressed to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

While at first Ratisbonne protested at wearing the medal (which was the Miraculous Medal), he decided to put it around his neck and say the prayer each day. He figured that it couldn’t do any harm and would prove to all the ridiculous nature of Catholicism.

Ratisbonne lived up to his side of the bargain, finding it easy to recite the Memorare. Then one day he was traveling in the city with de Bussieres and they stopped at the church Saint Andrea delle Fratte. When Ratisbonne entered the church it appeared to be engulfed in a marvelous light. He looked to an altar from where the light was coming and saw the Virgin Mary, appearing as she did on the Miraculous Medal.

He left the church in tears, clutching his Miraculous Medal. Several days later he was received into the Catholic Church. After returning to Paris his betrothed was shocked and rejected him and his new religion. Ratisbonne then entered the Jesuits and was ordained a priest.

This amazing story of conversion would later influence Saint Maximilian Kolbe to found the Militia Immaculatae and convinced him of the power of the Miraculous Medal. He firmly believed in Mary’s role in bringing the world to Christ.

Salamat po sa mga Ministrong Pari ng tunay na Iglesia - ang Iglesia Katolika

Ang Pagiging Ministro sa Iglesia ni Cristo ay Hindi Lamang Dahil sa May Tinatamasang Kasaganaan sa Sanlibutan

Nakatutuwang basahin ang artikulong ito tungkol sa isang alagad ng Santa Iglesia na naging PARI sa kabila ng kanyang kaalaman sa siyensa. (Mula sa Washington Post).

Why a Yale neuroscientist decided to change careers — and is now becoming a priest

Jaime Maldonado-Aviles, a former neuroscientist at Yale, decided to become a priest at Catholic University’s Theological College in Washington. (Linda Davidson/The Washington Post)

Even as he sought the truth day in and day out, peering into mice brains in the lab to figure out the mysteries of addiction and depression, Jaime Maldonado-Aviles was filled with uncertainty.

Was this what he should be doing with his life? As he excelled in school, earned a post-doctoral position at Yale, and won prestigious fellowships, Maldonado-Aviles wondered: Is this what God wants from me?

Eventually, the calling he felt from God became too powerful to ignore. The promising neuroscientist left the Ivy League research laboratory — and entered seminary at Catholic University of America in Northeast D.C. to become a priest.

“This constant intuition — I almost want to say nagging — that maybe I was called to serve in a different way… it was always frequent,” he said. “At different times the question would come back: If I see myself 90 years old, close to death, would I say to myself, ‘I should have entered seminary’?”

He entered. And now, within the church, he hopes to help Catholics understand scientists, and scientists understand Catholics.

[A scientist’s new theory: Religion was key to humans’ social evolution]

Scientists are a secular lot, on the whole. While 95 percent of Americans say they believe in God or some other higher power, just 51 percent of scientists do, according to a 2009 Pew study. But many of them quietly believe. And a small but significant number are turning from research to the priesthood, bringing a science-based perspective to the Catholic church that many church leaders say is greatly needed.

When Maldonado-Aviles arrived at Theological College, the Catholic University seminary, many of his classmates were young men just out of college. But he also found among his peers a seminarian with a PhD in chemistry, another who studied nanoscience, another who first went to medical school.

The number of seminarians in Washington who studied the sciences, at least as undergraduates, is high enough that Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the head of the archdiocese, has noticed it. “Here they are, saying, ‘There’s more,'” he said about those seminarians who seek God after finding science first.

[Cardinal Wuerl voices Catholic support for immigrants, but urges caution about sanctuary churches]

Ken Watts works as a recruiter for Pope St. John XXIII Seminary, a unique school in Massachusetts open specifically to men over 30 — sometimes many decades over 30 — who decide they want to become priests. By far the most common first career for these men is education, he said, followed by healthcare, military service, social work and other religious work — all fields that logically might lead to the priesthood. But he’s guided scientists to seminary quite a few times.

“They seem to fit in pretty well, is all I can say. There doesn’t seem to be a terrible struggle for them to bring their scientific backgrounds through the front door here. Nobody asks them to abandon it,” Watts said. “When the moral issues are those that revolve around medical, scientific areas, it’s certainly helpful to have people who really understand that world to help refine and clarify the church’s thinking on this.”

Suzanne Tanzi, a spokeswoman for Theological College who noted the several scientists who have enrolled there, said scientist-priests are particularly helpful given one of the primary focuses of the current pope, who in fact was once a chemist himself: the environment. Francis’s first major writing as pope was a highly technical treatise on the environment, and the church has been an increasingly vocal advocate worldwide for policies to reduce climate change.

[10 key excerpts from Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment]

As Watts put it: “They’re very, very valuable.”

Maldonado-Aviles’s thoughts about the priesthood started early, as a youth growing up in Puerto Rico. He participated in mission trips as a high schooler, and started wondering what it would be like to grow up to be a missionary.

Instead, he studied biology at the University of Puerto Rico, where he earned a fellowship for honors students through the National Institutes of Health. After he earned his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh, he went into a post-graduate program at Yale, where he spent six years. He became particularly interested in researching the molecular basis of eating disorders.

Almost three years ago, he got a job offer that seemed perfect: a tenure-track position doing research at the pharmacy school at the University of Puerto Rico. The job would bring him home to be closer to his family, which he had been wanting. It would mean longterm stability, a good salary and the chance to do interesting, meaningful research.

And after much debate, Maldonado-Aviles turned down the offer.

“I have to seriously explore these questions,” he decided. And his process of priestly formation began.

That requires two years of philosophy, which some candidates complete while they are undergraduates, followed by four years of theology. For Maldonado-Aviles, who never studied either subject, that means six years of schooling. Now, at age 37, he’s in his third year.

[Seriously, I am giving up President Trump for Lent. Here’s how.]

If he continues on pace, he’ll be over 40 when he becomes a priest. That makes him older than more than 80 percent of newly-ordained priests in recent years, according to statistics from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, but far from the oldest. So-called “second vocation” priests have always been a presence in seminaries. American seminaries in 2016 ordained six men in their 50s and three in their 60s.

Moving back into a dorm, Maldonado-Aviles has given up some things: He doesn’t earn a salary, instead living with his fellow seminarians where the church takes care of his needs. He can’t visit his family in Puerto Rico as often.

And he used to date, and assumed he would someday marry. Now, he anticipates a life of celibacy if he becomes a priest.

“I wouldn’t say that I’m making more sacrifices” than someone in a marriage, which requires sacrifices of its own, he said. “If I believe God is calling me to be a priest, I also believe he will give me charisms — gifts — that will help me.”

Maldonado-Aviles is careful to say that he does not know yet that he will certainly become a priest. The time he spends in seminary is all part of his process of discernment: Reading the clues that God has left for him that point to the path he’s meant to take. He saw some of those signs long before he entered seminary — times he heard a particular Biblical passage in Mass and felt it was calling personally to him to radically devote his life to Jesus, for instance.

He seeks these clues with a diligence and precision that hearkens back to his first career.

[On Ash Wednesday, ashes to go — with a little extra sparkle for LGBT Christians]

He said he used to feel like the only one in the lab who believed in God — until he started seeing Yale professors filling the same pews he sat in at Mass. His work studying neurons led him to marvel all the more at God’s handiwork: “The complexity and yet the order in which things work in our body and in our brain, it makes you think there’s more than just randomness.”

But reconciling his faith and his work wasn’t always so easy. He remembers going to a talk about the development of the human neocortex, and realizing that the research being presented had been conducted on aborted human embryos in Europe.

He was shaken to think that his scientific career might bring him in contact with abortion, which the church teaches is a grave sin. “What is it that I’m doing? Would I ever compromise my faith based on the pressure for success?” he wondered.

Now, he says he has a deep interest in bioethics. Inspired by a handful of priest-scientists around him at Catholic University and some of the greats of Catholic history — priest Georges Lemaitre who first came up with the Big Bang theory, monk Gregor Mendel who originated the study of genetics — he envisions a potential future bridging the two realms. He wants to advise scientists on the ethics of their work.

Ang Kagandahan ng Iglesia Katolika na siyang Tunay at Nag-iisang Iglesia ni Cristo!

Larawan mula sa Beauty of Catholicism

Kauna-Unahang Lokal na Pari ng Iglesia ni Cristo sa Mongolia: Rev. Father Joseph Enkh Baatar

Ni Antonio Anup Gonsalves

Fr. Joseph Enkh Baatar habang nagmi-Misa sa kauna-unahang pagkakataon bilang bagong pari mula sa Mongolia (Agosto. 28, 2016. Larawan mula sa Mbumba Prosper, CICM)

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Aug 30, 2016 / 04:47 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Sunday Mongolia witnessed the ordination of its first indigenous priest, Fr. Joseph Enkh Baatar, a 29-year-old man who represents the first fruits of 24 years of missionary work in the east Asian country.

Bishop Wenceslao Padilla, the prefect of Ulaanbaatar, ordained Joseph Enkh Baatar a priest at an Aug. 28 Mass at St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in the Mongolian capital.

“Fr. Joseph’s ordination is a blessing of God and a moment of immense joy and inspiration for our young Mongolian Church,” Chamingerel Ruffina, a member of the organizing committee for communications at the National Catechetical Center of Mongolia, told CNA Aug. 30.

The first modern mission to Mongolia was established in 1922 and was entrusted to the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. But under a communist government influenced by the Soviet Union, religious expression was soon thereafter suppressed.

Bishop Padilla, a member of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, was one of the first three missionaries allowed into Mongolia in 1992, after the fall of communism. He became superior of the mission in Mongolia, and was instrumental in helping to discern Fr. Baatar's vocation.

The bishop praised God for the historic moment of the apostolic prefecture's first native vocation, and prayed that many more such vocations would arise to help the local Church.

The Mass was concelebrated by Archbishop Osvaldo Padilla, apostolic nuncio to Mongolia and Korea; Bishop Lazarus You Heung-sik of Daejon, in South Korea; and more than 100 priests from South Korea and Hong Kong.

More than 1,500 persons attended the Mass, including dignitaries of foreign embassies, local Orthodox churches, and Buddhist monks. The Mass was followed by joyous festival.

Ruffina commented that “This meaningful liturgical celebration of the sacrament of priestly ordination conducted in their own indigenous language gave an opportunity to the faithful to actually witness in proximity, to celebrate, and to understand the various steps in preparation for the priesthood and the ordination rite.”

The faithful of Mongolia had prepared for the event by reciting a novena to St. Paul to strengthen their missionary spirit during the Year of Mercy.

Fr. Baatar was born June 24, 1987. He lost his father at a young age, and his sister introduced him to the Catholic faith. His dream of joining the priesthood was initially postponed, due to his family's strong desire that he complete his university studies.

After graduating with a degree in biotechnology and with the support of his family, he then applied to become a seminarian for the Prefecture Apostolic of Ulaanbaatar.

Fr. Baatar entered the Daejeon seminary in South Korea, and was ordained a deacon in December 2014.

Concluding the Mass, the newly ordained priest profoundly thanked his family and his mentors at the seminary, especially Bishop You. He also praised the important role played by Bishop Padilla through his support of his vocation.

Fr. Baatar urged the faithful to pray for his priestly ministry so that he could faithfully fulfill his ordination motto, chosen from the gospel of Luke: "Deny yourself, take up your cross daily, and follow me."

“I thank the Lord who has called me to serve Him through the priesthood. I am also grateful to all the people who have helped me respond to this calling,” Fr. Baatar expressed.

Bishop You reminded the new priest that “the best way of announcing the good news is a life of witnessing.”

Commenting on the vast missionary work that lies ahead in Mongolia, the South Korean bishop said, “Fr. Joseph, being a Mongolian citizen, has to live as a missionary in his own country.”

Ruffina also recounted that the parishioners of Saint Mary’s parish gave Fr. Baatar a Bible which was handwritten by the parishioners themselves.

A young family ministry volunteer, Clara Gantesetseg, told CNA that “the ordination gift of Fr. Joseph Enkh is sign of hope to our people in Mongolia, and a special a gift during this Year of Mercy.”

Clara noted that “Fr. Joseph’s indigenous roots, his cultural and life experiences of his own and the people, will help to transcend the teachings of the Church to the local culture for better understanding, and also will foster interreligious dialogue.”

Among the guests at the Mass was the Abbot Dambajav of Dashi Choi Lin Buddhist Monastery. He praised the efforts of the Catholic Church and encouraged Fr. Baatar to take up the responsibility of helping the Mongolian people. He also gave the new priest a blue khadag, a ceremonial scarf, as a mark of friendship.

Ruffina pointed out that the Buddhist monk's participation and his kind words of encouragement will further forge bonds of friendship and interreligious dialogue between the communities for peaceful co-existence.

A little over half Mongolia's population is Buddhist, and following the decades of communist rule, 39 percent of Mongolia's population is non-religious. Islam, shamanism, and Christianity have mere footholds among the people.

The Prefecture Apostolic of Ulaanbaatar serves all of the estimated 1,200 Catholics in the country, which has a population of 3 million. In 2014, the local Church had three diocesan priests, who were aided by 14 religious.

PARI hinubog ng mahabang panahon! Ministro/Pastor hinubog ng mahigit isang taon!

IKAR daw ang Pangalan ng Iglesia sabi ng mga INC™

Iba't ibang kasuotan ng mga paring Katoliko mula sa Silangan at Kanluran (Larawan mula sa The Catholic Sun)

Hindi lang minsan ngunit maraming beses ko nang narinig sa mga kaaway ng tunay na Iglesia ang pagtawag sa kanya ng 'IKAR' o Iglesia Katolika Apostolika Romana (Apostolic Roman Catholic Church) raw.  Iyan daw po ang pangalan ng Iglesiang kinaaaniban ng mga tunay na sumasampalataya. 

Hindi ba't malaking KAMANGMANGAN ito? Sino bang Ministro ang nagturo sa kanila na ito ang pangalan ng Santa Iglesia?

Upang alisin sa kanila ang malaking kamang-mangan, narito ang isang artikulo mula sa CatholicSay: 

The Catholic religion/Church comprises all ecclesial communities, all group of churches in communion with the Pope. If a group or community does not adhere to the Pope, it is not part of the Catholic Church.

There are a number of individual or sui iuris (self-governing) churches, sometimes called “rites”. One of these is the Roman rite. It includes most catholics in the West. So when you say “Roman Catholic” it properly refers to a member of the Roman rite which is the largest of all other rites.

Maronites, Ukrainian, Chaldean, Syro-Malankara Catholics can be properly refered to as “Catholics” but not “Roman Catholics”. They are “Maronite Catholics”, “Chaldean Catholics” etc. They are all as catholic as everyone else since they are in full communion with the Pope.

All the rites are equal, their ecclesial customs and traditions may be different, ways of doing theology etc, but the doctrines are all the same.

Kaya't sa susunod na tawagin kayong IKAR ng mga kalaban ng Iglesia, sabihin niyo sa kanila na tama sila sapagkat tayo ay napapaloob sa ROMAN RITE o LATIN RITE. Ngunit MALI pa rin sila sapagkat HINDI lahat ng mga Katoliko ay napapaloob sa Latin Rite or Roman Rite.

Lokal na Iglesia ni Cristo sa Mongolia, Magkakaroon na ng Kauna-unahang Pari

Ito ang totoong LOKAL na tinatawag. Sapagkat isang LOKAL na PARI ang mamamahala na sa tunay na Iglesia ni Cristo sa Mongolia. Tunay nga na ang Iglesia ni Cristo ay lumalago at buhay na buhay sa mga lugar na hindi pa nakakarinig ng Mabuting Balita.

For Mongolian Catholics, a first native priest is a source of joy and pride

The country’s Catholic community is the world's youngest. On 28 August, it will celebrate the ordination of Deacon Joseph Enkhee-Baatar. “One of us has it made! And if he did it, others will follow his example. We are sure that there will be many after him." An indigenous Catholic minister will be able to “connect our faith with what our” traditions.

Ulaanbaatar (AsiaNews) – On 28 August of this year, Mongolia’s tiny Catholic community will welcome its first native priest, Joseph Enkhee-Baatar, at a service in Ulaanbaatar’s Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral led by Mgr Wenceslao Padilla, apostolic prefect of Mongolia.

In December 2014, the future priest was ordained deacon by Mgr Lazzaro You Heung-sik, bishop of Daejeon. Fr Giorgio Marengo, a Consolata missionary present in the country since 2003, sent AsiaNews the following piece in which he describes the reaction of his community of faithful to the news.

The small Catholic community in Arvaiheer (21 people) joyfully welcomed the news that on 28 August Enkhee-Joseph will be ordained as the first native priest of ‘Outer’ Mongolia. In Chinese-controlled Inner Mongolia, there have been priests in the past century, but none in independent Mongolia. Enkhee will be the first.

Sitting around the table, sipping some suutei-tsai (a salty tea with milk) after Sunday Mass, parishioners expressed their views about the news. Obviously, they are happy about it.

For some, "Enkhee has shown that he is very patient and disciplined if he has managed to train for so long and in a foreign country." In fact, Enkhee spent many years at seminary in Daejeon, South Korea, the guest of the local diocese.

The faithful know that becoming a priest is a demanding process, especially in terms of self-discipline. Some actually can hardly believe it. Still "One of us has it made! And if he did it, others will follow his example. We are sure that there will be many after him."

In reality, no one knows him personally. When they were baptised, he was already in Korea to study. Of course, they their love and prayer went along with him to the faraway place.

"For us it is very important that the new priest be Mongolian because he will speak our language like one of our children or one of our siblings. More importantly, he will be able to link the faith to our traditions."

Fr. John Bartunek: Dating Ateista (Hindi Naniniwalang may Dios), Naging Pari ng Iglesia

Muslim mother supports her Catholic priest son

From Asia News |
Mathias Hariyadi 10/13/2015

The Muslim family of Robertus B. Asiyanto joyfully participated in his ordination in Maumere. His mother laid her hands on the altar: "I'm really happy with my son’s choice". The island of Flores is one of the few predominantly Catholic areas of Indonesia.

Jakarta (AsiaNews) - A Muslim woman blessed her son, a Catholic deacon, at the altar of the church where shortly after he was ordained priest. The incident happened three days ago in the chapel of the Major Seminary of Maumere on the island of Flores. Eleven deacons, belonging to the Divine Word Missionary order (SVD), were ordained in the presence of Msgr. Vincensius Poto Kota Pr, Archbishop of Ende.

Sites Asiyah, wearing Islamic dress (including the hijab), was accompanied by her son Robertus B. Asiyanto, nicknamed "Yanto", and laid her hands on his head, under the gaze of his adoptive father who was watching from the front with the rest of the family. "I'm really happy to see my son ordained a Catholic priest," said the woman at the end of the celebration.

The island of Flores, Eastern Nusa Taggara province, has the highest concentration of Catholics in the country, who form the majority of the population of the island. This is why it is rare for a Muslim family to willingly accept the conversion of a son to Catholicism, given that it is a rare event. Central Java is Muslim majority, but many men and women religious come from Muslim families, and it is not seen as exceptional.

In southern Sumatra the different paths of twin sisters has become famous: one is a devout Muslim, and has participated in the last pilgrimage (hajj) to Mecca; the other became Catholic and entered the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (Pbhk) of Merauke, on the island of Papua. Both are happy and have good family relationships.

BAKIT TINATAWAG NA PADRE O 'FATHER' ANG ATING MGA PARI?

Veritas846.ph
May 21 at 1:45pm ·

Tinatawag natin ang mga pari na ama o “father” dahil tinuturing natin silang mga espiritwal na ama. Ito ay naging kaugalian ng mga apostoles, tinatawag nila ang kanilang mga kawan bilang mga anak. Ang kaugalian na ito ay naipamana sa atin hanggang sa ngayon.

Makikita natin ang mga ito hango sa mga sulat ni Pedro at Pablo:

(1 Corinto 4:15) “Kay Cristo Jesus ipinanganak ko kayo sa pamamagitan ng evangelio”

(Filemon 1:10) “Ipinamamanhik ko sa iyo ang aking anak, na aking ipinanganak sa aking mga tanikala, si Onesimo.”

(1 Tesalonica 2:11) “Gaya ng inyong nalalaman kung ano ang inugali namin sa bawa't isa sa inyo, na gaya ng isang ama sa kaniyang sariling mga anak, na kayo'y inaaralan, at pinalalakas ang loob ninyo, at nagpapatotoo”

(Galacia 4:19) “Maliliit kong mga anak, na muli kong ipinagdaramdam sa panganganak hanggang si Cristo ay mabadha sa inyo.!”

(1 Pedro 5:13) “Binabati kayo ng nasa Babilonia, na kasamang hinirang; at ni Marcos na aking anak..”

Ibinahagi ni Br. Reginald Zamora, O.P.

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