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Pag-aalaala sa mga Banal: Mga Bayani ng Pananampalatayang Kristiano

Ang tradisyon ng pag-aalaala sa mga banal na kaanib ng tunay na Iglesia ay hindi na bago sa mga kaanib sa tunay na Iglesia.

Sa tunay na Iglesiang tatag ni Cristo, inaalaala ang isang lider hindi dahil sa pagiging pastor o ministro o papa nito.  Ang batayan upang alalahanin ang isang lider ay ang kanilang KABANALAN. Sapagkat sa bawat sinugo ng Diyos siya ay DAPAT na MAMUHAY nang may KABANALAN.

Halimbawa, inaalaala natin ang BUONG BUHAY ng Panginoong Jesus, mula nang Siya ay IPINAGLIHI ng Mahal na Birheng Maria hanggang sa Siya ay Pahirapan, Ipako sa Krus, Namatay, Inilibing at sa Kanyang PAGKABUHAY na mag-uli at sa Kanyang pagparito sa wakas ng panahon.

Sunod na inaalaala natin ay ang buhay ng Kanyang Mahal na Inang si Maria, at ang kalinis-linisang esposo ng Mahal na Birhen, na si San Jose; inaalaala rin natin ang mga alagad ni Cristo at nang mga unang Kristiano nagbuwis ng buhay upang SUMAKSI sa katotohanan ng ating PANANAMPALATAYA ~ SILANG LAHAT AY NAMUHAY NG MAY KABANALAN hanggang sa kamatayan!

At sa PAGSAKSI ng mga BANAL, dumami ang mga kaanib na ginawang HALIMBAWA ang kabanalan ng mga Santo at Santa, tulad ni Santa Teresa ng Calcuta at ni San Juan Pablo II

Tinupad nila ang habilin ng Banal na Biblia sa Hebreo 13:7:

"Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith!" [Alalahanin ninyo ang nangagkaroon ng pagpupuno sa inyo na siyang nangagsalita sa inyo ng salita ng Dios; at sa pagdidilidili ng wakas ng kanilang pamumuhay, ay inyong tularan ang kanilang pananampalataya.]

[Narito ang TALAMBUHAY ng mga BANAL na inaalala natin sa Santa Iglesia.]

Sa samahan ni Ginoong Felix Manalo ~ ang Iglesia Ni Cristo® 1914,  inaalaala nila ang kanilang kasaysayang sa pamamagitan ng kanilang "sugo" ~ si Ginoong Felix Manalo.  Ito ay nagsimula sa taong 1914. Sunod na humalili kay Ginoong Felix Manalo ay ang kanyang anak na si Eraño G. Manalo. Sunod nito ay ang anak ni Eraño na si Eduardo V. Manalo at kung sakali, ay si Angelo Eraño V. Manalo ang susunod na kahalili. Sila'y namuhay...

Photosource: Iglesia Ni Cristo FB Page

Kaya't kung MAY DAPAT na ALALAHANIN ang mga TUNAY na KRISTIANO, ito ay ang alalahanin ang BUHAY ng PANGINOONG JESUS at nang Kanyang mga taga-sunod na NAMUHAY ng MAY KABANALAN kahit sa kamatayan tulad ng nasusulat sa HEBREO 13:7. Sila ay ang mga BAYANI ng ATING PANANAMPALATAYA kung ituring na dapat ay PAMARISAN.  Sapagkat kung hindi sa kanilang kabayanihan at kabanalan, malamang, walang sumaksi at walang nagpapatotoo tungkol sa ating pananampalatayang Katolisismo!

Malamang, walang kinikilalang CRISTO ang Pilipinas sa kasalukuyan! Maging ang INC™ ni Ginoong Felix Manalo ay mahihirapang ipahayag ang kanyang sariling iglesia. Sapagkat bago pa man nangaral si Felix Manalo, buhay na buhay na ang TUNAY na IGLESIA.

Pilit man nilang angkinin ang pagiging tunay, ngunit sila'y mananatili pa ring PEKE tulad ng paghatol sa kanila ng kanilang opisyal na magasing Pasugo:

“Ang tunay na INK ay iisa lamang. Ito ang Iglesiyang itinayo ni Cristo. Kung mayroon mang nagsisibangon ngayong mga Iglesia at sasabihing sila man ay Iglesia ni Cristo rin, ang mga ito ay hindi tunay na Iglesia ni Cristo kundi huwad lamang." -PASUGO Mayo 1968, p. 7

Vatican Radio: State funeral for Catholic nun, Pakistan's Mother Teresa

Pakistani soldiers carrying the coffin of Catholic nun Sr. Ruth Pfau during her state funeral, in Karachi, Pakistan, 19 August 2017. - EPA

(Vatican Radio) Pakistan on Saturday laid to rest its famous angel of mercy, German-born Catholic nun Ruth Pfau, credited with eradicating leprosy or Hansen’s disease from Pakistan. The Daughter of the Heart of Mary Sister was accorded full state honours, including a 19-gun salute, for her priceless service. State-run television broadcast live footage of her flag-draped coffin being solemnly carried by Pakistani soldiers in the southern city of Karachi.

Mourners paid their last respects on Aug. 19 as her body was carried to the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre that she founded before being taken on to St. Patrick's Cathedral for her final rites. The body was then taken to Karachi's Christian cemetery Gora Qabaristan, where she was laid to rest.

The burial ceremony was attended by many state dignitaries including President Mamnoon Hussain, the chief minister and governor of Sindh province as well as several top officials of Pakistan’s armed forces. Vice Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, who laid floral wreaths on her grave.

Widely known as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, Sr. Pfau died on Aug. 10 at age 87, after being admitted to Karachi’s Aga Khan Hospital a few days earlier suffering from old age complications.

Mission to serve

Born on Sept. 9, 1929 in Leipzig, Sr. Ruth Pfau studied medicine in the1950s at the universities of Mainz and Marburg in then West Germany. After her graduation she joined the religious order of the Daughters of the Heart of Mary, which sent her on mission to India. On her way she stopped in Karachi on March 8, 1960, because of some visa problems. It was here that she became involved with working with people affected by leprosy or Hansen’s Disease.

In 1961 she went to Vellore, South India to acquire training in the management of Leprosy. She then returned to Karachi to organize and expand the Leprosy Control Programme. Her Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre in Karachi, Pakistan's first hospital dedicated to treating the disease, today has 157 branches across the country.

Recognition

Sr. Pfau has won numerous honours and prizes in Pakistan and abroad for her humanitarian services. Germany awarded her the Order of Merit in 1969. In 1979, the Pakistani government appointed her Federal Advisor on Leprosy to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Pakistani government honoured her with the Hilal-e-Imtiaz in 1979 and the Hilal-e-Pakistan in 1989. She was granted Pakistani citizenship in 1988. In 2002 she won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, regarded as Asia’s Nobel prize.

Remembering the Martyrs of Compiegne, Kaya ba ng inyong Ministro at Pastor ang mamatay para kay Cristo at sa Santa Iglesia?

MAYO 13, 2017 Ang Ika-100 Anibersaryo ng Pagpapakita ng Mahal na Birhen sa Fatima at ang Pagtatalaga kay Francisco at Jacinta Marto bilang mga Santo at Santa

CNA: Isang Samurai sa Japan, Malapit nang Maging Santo ng Iglesia

Samurai. Credit: Britannica, Wikipedia Public Domain.

Tokyo, Japan, Feb 8, 2017  (CNA/EWTN News).- A 17th century Catholic Samurai and martyr was beatified during a Mass in ‎Osaka, Japan on Tuesday.

Cardinal Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Vatican’s ‎Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided over the Beatification Mass of Justo Takayama Ukon, who was declared a martyr by Pope Francis in January last year.

Takayama Ukon was born in 1552 in Japan during the time when Jesuit missionaries were being introduced within the country. By the time Takayama was 12, his father had converted to Catholicism and had his son baptized as “Justo” by the Jesuit Fr. Gaspare di Lella.

Takayama's position in Japanese society as daimyo (a feudal lord) allowed him many benefits, such as owning grand estates and raising vast armies. As a Catholic, Takayama used his power to support and protect the short-lived missionary expansion within Japan, influencing the conversion of thousands of Japanese.

When a time of persecution set in within the country under the reign of Japan's chancellor Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1587, many newly-converted Catholics abandoned their beliefs.

By the 1620s, most missionaries were either driven out of the country or into underground ministry. These missionary priests would have been of the same era as those featured in the recent movie “Silence” by director Martin Scorsese. Although the film is based on a fictional novel by the Japanese author Shusaku Endo, many of the events and people depicted in “Silence” are real.

Instead of denying their faith, Takayama and his father left their prestigious position in society and chose a life of poverty and exile. Although many of his friends tried to persuade Takayama to deny Catholicism, he remained strong in his beliefs.

Takayama “did not want to fight against other Christians, and this led him to live a poor life, because when a samurai does not obey his 'chief,' he loses everything he has,” Fr. Anton Witwer, a general postulator of the Society of Jesus, told CNA in 2014.

Ten years passed, and the chancellor became more fierce in his persecution against Christians. He eventually crucified 26 Catholics, and by 1614, Christianity in Japan was completely banned.

The new boycott on Christianity forced Takayama to leave Japan in exile with 300 other Catholics. They fled to the Philippines, but not long after his arrival, Takayama died on February 3, 1615.

In 2013, the Japanese bishops' conference submitted the lengthy 400-page application for the beatification of Takayama to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. On Jan. 22, 2016, Takayama's advancement in the cause for canonization was further promulgated when Pope Francis approved his decree of martyrdom.

“Since Takayama died in exile because of the weaknesses caused by the maltreatments he suffered in his homeland, the process for beatification is that of a martyr,” Fr. Witwer explained.

Takayama's life exemplifies the Christian example of "a great fidelity to the Christian vocation, persevering despite all difficulties," Fr. Witwer continued.

"As a Christian, as a leader, as a cultural person, as a pioneer of adaptation, Ukon is a ‎role model and ‎there ‎are many things we can learn from him,” ‎Father Renzo De Luca, and Argentinian Jesuit and the director of the 26 Martyrs Museum ‎in Nagasaki‎, told Vatican Radio.

“In this era of political distrust, I think he ‎will be helpful ‎for ‎people other than Christians.”

Ang Kaisa-isang Madre na Nahatulan ng Kamatayan ng mga Nazi

Defiant Sister Maria Restituta hung crucifixes on the walls of her hospital, and wouldn't take them down

LARRY PETERSON APRIL 12, 2016

Source: Aleteia

Sister Maria Restituta began Lent of 1942 under arrest. She was taken on Ash Wednesday. Her crime: “hanging crucifixes.” She was sentenced to death. The following year, on Tuesday of Holy Week, she was executed.

May 1, 1894, was a happy day for Anton and Marie Kafka. Marie had just given birth to her sixth child and mom and daughter were both doing fine. The proud parents named their new baby girl Helena. Devout Catholics, Anton and Marie had Helena baptized into the faith only 13 days after her birth.

The ceremony took place in the Church of the Assumption, in the town of Husovice, located in Austria. Before Helena reached her second birthday, the family had settled in the city of Vienna.

Helena was a good student and worked hard. She received her First Holy Communion in St. Brigitta Church during May of 1905 and was confirmed in the same church a year later. After eight years of school she spent another year in housekeeping school and, by the age of 15, was working as a servant, a cook, and being trained as a nurse.

At age 19, she became an assistant nurse at Lainz City Hospital. This was Helena’s first contact with the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity and she was immediately moved to become a sister herself, and on October 23, 1915, became Sister Maria Restituta. She made her final vows a year later and began working as a nurse.

By the end of World War I, Sister Restituta was the lead surgical nurse at Modling Hospital in Vienna. She had never heard of Adolf Hitler and could never have imagined that one day, because of this man, her beloved nation would be annexed into the German Republic.

On March 12, 1938, the Austrian Nazi Party pulled off a successful coup d’etat taking control of the government. The unforeseen and unimagined had come to pass, and Hitler now controlled the once proud Austrian nation.

Sister Restituta was very outspoken in her opposition to the Nazi regime. When a new wing to the hospital was built she hung a crucifix in each of the new rooms. The Nazis demanded that they be removed. Sister Restituta was told she would be dismissed if she did not comply.

She refused. The crucifixes remained on the walls.

One of the doctors on staff, a fanatical Nazi, would have none of it. He denounced her to the Party and on Ash Wednesday, 1942, she was arrested by the Gestapo as she came out of the operating room. The charges against her included, “hanging crucifixes, and writing a poem that mocked Hitler.”

The Nazis promptly sentenced her to death by the guillotine for “favouring the enemy and conspiracy to commit high treason.” They offered her freedom if she would abandon the Franciscans she loved so much. She adamantly refused. Although many nuns lost their lives in the extermination camps, Sister Restituta would be the only Catholic nun ever charged, tried, and sentenced to death by a Nazi court.

An appeal for clemency went as far as the desk of Hitler’s personal secretary and Nazi Party Chancellor, Martin Bormann. His response was that her execution “would provide effective intimidation for others who might want to resist the Nazis.” Sister Maria Restituta spent her final days in prison caring for the sick. Because of her love for the crucifix — or rather, the One who was died upon it — she was beheaded on March 30, 1943.

The day she died happened to be Tuesday of Holy Week. She was 48 years old.

Pope John Paul II visited Vienna in 1998 and there beatified Helena Kafka, the girl whose destiny was service. She was declared Blessed Maria Restituta. She had learned how to serve others extremely well. But the One she served best of all was her Savior. She gave Him her life.

Blessed Marie Restituta, please pray for us.

Larry Peterson is a Christian author, writer and blogger who has written hundreds of columns on various topics. His books include the novel The Priest and the Peaches and the children’s book Slippery Willie’s Stupid, Ugly Shoes. His latest book, The Demons of Abadon, will become available during the spring of 2016. He has three kids and six grandchildren, and they all live within three miles of each other in Florida.

Mother Teresa ng Kolkata, Magiging Santa na sa Linggo (Setyembre 4, 2016)

"...kalokohan mo ang katoliko ay hindi sumusunod sa aral sa biblia." - Kaanib ng INC™

Another brainless comment from a member of the INC™ of Felix Manalo, taken from "Katie Holmes: Nagbalik-loob sa Iglesia ni Cristo"

Sakura (kung sino ka man),

Isang MALAKING KALOKOHAN ang naniniwala sa SABI-SABI. Ayon sa kasabihan, WALANG SARILING BAIT.

Ito bang sinabing mong "hindi sumusunod sa aral ng biblia Zzzzzzzzzz......" ay galing sa sarili mong pagkaunawa? O isang BAYARANG MINISTRO ang nagsabi nito sa iyo?

Huwag mong kalilimutan na itong BAYARANG MINISTRONG ito ang NAGSASABI sa inyong mga kaanib ng INC™ ni Manalo na "HUWAG MAGBASA NG BIBLIA" dahil SILA LAMANG (daw) ang "binigyan" ng Dios ng pang-unawa.

Kaya't kung isang BAYARANG MINISTRO lamang ang nagsabi nito, baka naman pwede, maging patas ka naman, buklatin mo ang Biblia mong galing sa mga Katoliko at Protestante (na sabi ng SUGO niyo ay mga kampon ni Satanas) at baka sakaling MABUKSAN pa ang iyong isipan.

"IDOL WORSHIP"

Hindi porke't libre ang katang*han ay inaraw-araw mo na!

Kailan ba naging IDOL si Maria, si Jose, si Juan, si Bartolome, si Mateo, si Santiago, si Lukas, si Agustin, si Domingo, si Francisco, si Lorenzo Ruiz, si Pedro Calungsod?

Kailan ba naging "dios" sina Maria, Jose, Juan, Bartolome, Mateo, Santiago, Lukas, Agustin, Domingo, Francisco, Lorenzo Ruiz, Pedro Calungsod?

At HINDI pala sila idol at di rin naman sila dios, BAKIT SILA DAPAT SAMBAHIN?

Ah... yung pagluhod nila at paghalik sa mga IMAHE? Yung pag-aalay nila ng bulaklak at pagtitirik ng kandila?

Yun ba ang ibig mong sabihin sa 'IDOL WORSHIP"?

Ibig mo bang sibihin ay HINDI sila dapat luhuran, alayan ng bulaklak, sindihan ng kandila, dasalan etc sapagkat SILA'Y MGA BATO LAMANG?

Di ba 'yon ang ibig sabihin ng "IDOL WORSHIP"? Yung lumuluhod, nag-aalay, nagtitirik, nagdarasal at nag-aalay ng bulaklak sa ISANG BATO o ISANG MUOG di ba?

Nakikita mo ba ang larawan sa itaas?

Ito ang KA'ABA ng Mekka sa Saudi Arabia. Ito ang tawag nilang "BLACK STONE"!

Sa DAKONG ITO ng DAIGDIG, ang LAHAT ng mga MUSLIM ay nakatuon, nagpapatirapa, nag-aalay, nagdarasal-- sa ISANG ITIM NA BATO?

Pagano ba sila?

MATAPANG ba ang inyong mga BAYARANG MINISTRO na SABIHIN sa buong mundo na ang mga MUSLIM ay mga PAGANO? Matapang ba si EDUARDO V. MANALO (EVM) na ipangaral sa 2 billion Muslim sa buong mundo na ANG MGA SUMASAMBA SA BATO ay mga PAGANO?

Ewan ko lang kung kaya ng TAPANG niyo na sila'y BATIKUSIN niyong mga PAGANO? Baka bukas-makalawa ay may gugulong na ulo sa loob ng INC™ ni Manalo!

Takot kayong mamatay ano? Sigurado kong diyan pupulutin ang inyng mga ulo kung IPANGARAL niyo sa TV o magasin na ang mga MUSLIM ay mga PAGANO at nagdarasal at sumasamba sa isang "BLACK STONE."

Ito rin ang ginagawa ng mga HINDU sa India!

Pinapaliguan!

Binibihisan!

At inaalayan!

MGA BATO pero NILULUHURAN, INAALAYAN, DINADASALAN, SINASAMBA!

Mga PAGANO ba sila sa INYONG PAMANTAYAN?

MUOG, IMAHE, BATO LANG BA SILA?

Ang larawan sa itaas ay ang MUOG o BANTAYOG ni GAT JOSE RIZAL sa Luneta Park sa Maynila.

Ayon sa Wikipedia, ang muog ni Gat. Jose Rizal ay yari sa BRONZE at GRANITE, mga chemical na walang kinalaman kay Jose Rizal.

Nakikita niyo sa itaas, bagamat yari sa mga material na BRONZE at GRANITE po 'yan pero MAINGAT na BINABANTAYAN at INIINGATAN ito ng mga Philippine Marine Corps at Marine Security and Escort Group.

Sinasaluduhan (PAGPUPUNYAGI) ang BATO ni Presidente Noynoy Aquino.

Binibisita ay INAALAYAN ng BULAKLAK ang muog ng iba't ibang pinuno ng mga bansa!

Ngayon Iglesia Ni Cristo®, ano ba ang binibigyan nila ng PUGAY? Bato o ang imahe?

Di lang iisa, MAY REPLIKA pa ang muog ni Rizal sa Madrid, Spain!

Pagano rin ba sila?

Ang BATO este MUOG o BANTAYOG ni FELIX MANALO sa INC Central

Ang URI ba ng PAGGAWA sa MUOG ang INAALAYAN ng mga INC™ ni Manalo?

O ang IMAHE (representation ng muog) ang INAALAYAN?

Kung NAG-AALAY sila ng BULAKLAK sa isang BATO, hindi ba't PAGANO rin sila ayon sa PAMANTAYAN at SUKATAN ng mga INC™ ni Manalo?

Kung hindi naman, BAKIT napaka-KITID nilang INTINDIHIN kung ano na lamang ang PAGSINTA natin sa mga BAYANI ng KAKRISTIANUHAN?!!

Ang PAGSINTA ay PWEDE kay RIZAL, PWEDE kay FELIX MANALO, bakit naman HINDI PWEDE kay SANTA MARIA ina ni CRISTO HESUS (at iba pang mga banal)?

Mga IPOKRITO ang tawag namin doon!

CATHOLIC DOCTRINE CONTRADICTS THE BIBLE?

How sure are you when your INC™ Church of Manalo just celebrated their 100th Year Anniversary, built an ARENA (for their god INC) and NAMED a place to CIUDAD DE VICTORIA (City of Victors o LUNGSOD ng MANALO?!)

When the Bible was written and compiled by the Catholic Church in c.380 A.D. your INC™ Church of Manalo wasn't even there.  The Apostles never called themselves "Iglesia Ni Cristo Ako" phrase?!

None of the Apostles or early Christians EVER identified themselves as "INC Ako"!

DO NOT FORGET Mr./Ms. INC™ member, that BEFORE the BIBLE came to be, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH came FIRST!

And because of the CATHOLIC CHURCH that the WHOLE OF CHRISTIANITY have BIBLE!

So how could the OWNER of the BIBLE contradicts ITSELF? That's ABSURD!

I'd rather believe the MORE OBVIOUS... FELIX MANALO CONTRADICTED THE BIBLE!

When FELIX MANALO denied JESUS-- his being GOD who BECAME FLESH (Man - kasi di naman pwedeng "magkatawang-tao" ang isang TAO NA!), HE (Felix) IS the FULFILLMENT of the COMING DECEIVER and ANTI-CHRIST"

Kaya mo bang mamatay alang-alang sa iyong pananampalataya kay Cristo at ng kanyang tunay na Iglesia?

Galing sa Facebook page na 'I Love My Catholic Faith'

Ang kagandahan sa pagiging Katoliko ay ang mga bayani natin sa pananampalataya na mas pinili ang kamatayan kaysa ang ipagkanulo ang ating Panginoon at ang kanyang Iglesiang tunay-- ang Iglesia Katolika.

Mga banal sa langit, IPANALANGIN NIYO KAMI! Amen.

Maraming nagmamahal sa Santo Papa Juan Paolo II at Santo Juan XXIII!

Larawan mula sa Vatican Radio - English Section

MABUHAY ang TUNAY na IGLESIA NI CRISTO! DALAWANG PAPA SANTO NA!

SANTO PAPA JUAN XXIII 

at 

SANTO PAPA JUAN PABLO II

IPANALANGIN NIYO KAMI!

Paring Katoliko Pinaslang sa Publiko ng mga Rebelde sa Syria

Isa na namang karumal-dumal na pagpatay sa isang paring Katoliko sa bansang Syria kung saan ang mga rebeldeng lumalaban kay Pangulong si Bashar Al-Assad.

Ayon sa report na galing sa Vatican, ang mga masasamang-loob ay ang mga bandidong Muslim na kilala sa pangalang al-Nusra Front at sila'y kabilang sa napakaraming umaangkin ng Syria sa ngayon. Layunin ng grupong bandido na gawing Islamic Country ang Syria at palalaganapin ang batas na Sharia sa nasabing bansa.

Narito sa ibaba ang detalye ng balita mula sa TREND.az

A Syrian Catholic priest has been publicly executed by rebels at a monastery in the northern Syria, the Vatican says, BBC reported.

Father Francois Murad, 49, was beheaded on 23 June when militants attacked the convent where he was staying.

The Vatican news agency said the circumstances of the killing were not fully clear.

But local sources said the attackers were linked to the jihadist group known as al-Nusra Front.

Unconfirmed video footage claiming to show the priest's death, together with that of two other unidentified people, has been posted on Catholic websites.

Father Murad had moved to the convent in the area of Gassanieh for safety reasons, the Vatican said.

He was a member of the Franciscan order, the official custodian of Christian sites in the Middle East.

Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the head of Franciscans in the region, said Syria had now become a battleground not only between Syrian forces but also between Arab countries and the international community.

"Let us pray so that this absurd and shameful war ends soon and that the people of Syria can go back to living a normal life," he said.

Correspondents say many of Syria's ethnic and religious minorities are being drawn into the conflict as the fighting intensifies and becomes more sectarian in nature.

Gunmen in northern Syria abducted two Orthodox Christian bishops in April as they travelled from the Turkish border back to the city of Aleppo

Pinoy na Martir at Kaanib ng Iglesia ni Cristo ay malapit nang maging Santo!

Isang Pinoy na naman ang nasa listahan ng mga magiging Santo ng banal na Santa Iglesia ni Cristo sapagkat si Fr. Jose Maria de Manila ay ma-beatify sa España sa darating na Oktubre 13, 2013. Narito po sa ibaba ang kabuuan ng balita:

CBCP News, MANILA, July 19, 2013—The Capuchin friars in the Philippines will soon introduce and promote the devotion to Fr. Jose Maria de Manila, a Manila-born Capuchin who was martyred in Tarragona, Spain in the 20th century.

The Kapatiran ng Capuchino ng Pilipinas in the coming days will introduce and promote the devotion to Fr. Jose Maria de Manila in all their parishes across the Philippines.

Vatican has recently announced the beatification of 500 Spanish Martyrs of the 20th century, including Fr. Jose de Manila, this coming October 13, 2013 in Tarragona, Spain.

Father Jose Maria de Manila (Eugenio Saz-Orozco Mortera Camacho), a priest born in the Philippines of Spanish parents, was educated at the Ateneo de Manila, San Juan de Letran and the Pontifical University of Sto. Tomas. He is one of the 32 Capuchin priests and lay religious brothers to be beatified together with other Spanish civil war martyrs mainly Augustinians and Dominicans.

Born in Manila on September 5, 1880, Fr. Jose was the son of the last Spanish mayor of Manila, Don Eugenio Saz-Orozco and Doña Feliza Mortera Camacho.

Record shows that he had his simple profession in Lecaroz, Navarra, Spain on October 4, 1905, his solemn profession on October 18, 1908 and was ordained to the priesthood on November 30, 1910.

Opisyal: Beato Juan Pablo II at Beato Juan XXIII magiging santo na ayon sa Vatican

Larawan nina Santo Juan XXIII (mula sa Time.com) at Juan Pablo II (mula sa Time.com)

Pirmado na ng Santo Papa ang ganap na pagiging "Santo" nina Beato Juan Pablo II at ni Beato Juan XXIII ayon sa Vatican News. Mababasa rin ang nasabing balita mula sa AFP, Reuters, France24 at Fox News.

(Vatican Radio) Journalists in the Holy See Press Office busy getting to grips with Pope Francis’ first encyclical the Light of Faith, were somewhat surprised Friday lunchtime when Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. called them back for a second announcement: Pope Francis had approved the cause for canonization of two of his venerable and much loved predecessors Blessed John XXIII and Blessed Pope John Paul II... (Ituloy ang pagbabasa rito...)

Purihin ang Dios at dininig niya ang panalangin ng kanyang Bayan upang ganap na maging Banal ang Papang minahal ng maraming tao.

Santo Juan Paolo II at Santo Juan XXIII, ipanalangin niyo kami!  Amen!

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.

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.

Marso: Panalangin para sa mga kababaihan at mga Kristianong inuusig dahil sa kanilang pananampalataya

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VATICAN CITY - Ngayong buwan ng Marso, makiisa tayo sa panalangin ng banal na Papa Benito para sa mga kababaihan, lalong lalo na ang mga kababaihang naging daan ng kaganapan ng buhay at pag-ibig sa ating mga lipunan.

Inaalala rin natin sa buwang ito ang lahat ng mga Kristiyanong inuusig dahil sa kanilang pananampalataya partikular ang mga Kristianong namumuhay sa pangkalahatang Asia lalong lalo na sa Gitnang Silangan kung saan ang mga Kristianong Arabe ay patuloy na nakakatanggap ng 'Second Class Status" mula sa lipunan ng Islam.

Sila ang mga Kristianong patuloy na namumuhay at sumasaksi sa pag-ibig ng Dios. Idalangin din natin lahat ang mga taong naging instrumento ng kanilang pag-uusig. Na sa pamamagitan ng ating mga panalangin ay maibsan nila ang takot bagkos manahan sa kanila ang banal na Espiritu upang bigyan sila ng lakas at tatag na ipahayag ang kanilang pananampalataya sa kabila ng panganib mula sa mga mapanupil na lipunan o kultura.

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