Monthly Archives: May 2017

Last May 13 and 14 weekend, the Family and Life Ministry of Christ the King Parish, Greenmeadows held its 111th Marriage Vocation Program for 34 soon-to-be-married-in-CTK couples. Facilitated by none other than former Family and Life Ministry heads Doy and Estrelle Lopez, the actual originators of the Marriage Vocation program, assisted by other veteran couple-sharers, the two-day quarterly seminar was held at the St. Luke Room at the CTK Formation Center. The Family and Life Ministry is now headed by Regie and Joanne Polancos. At 16 hours long over two weekend days, Christ…continue reading →

Last May 14, Mother’s Day, Christ the King parish church presiders consistently gave recognition to all the mothers in the crowd by asking them near the end of the mass to go to the front for special blessings. In his homilies during the May 13 Saturday anticipated 7:30 pm mass as well as the May 14 Sunday noon mass, Fr. Bong gave special tribute to mothers, tying up the story of Our Lady of Fatima and her admonition - ‘do not be afraid’ - to the three shepherd children, with the sacrifices made…continue reading →

Last April 4, hot on the heels of the Home Care Provider livelihood training that ended just the week before, the Ladies of Charity - CTK Chapter, started another livelihood project, this time in barangays Masagana and Matandang Balara in Project 4. With the blessing of Fr. Bong Tupino, LOC launched its Housekeeping livelihood course that would last from April 4 till June 29. As with the previous livelihood course, this Housekeeping course is scheduled Tuesdays to Fridays, 8 am to 12 nn. Ladies of Charity project chairman is Teri Floro, assisted by…continue reading →

The Catechetical Ministry co-headed by Alma Yeh and Sheryl Coronel mounted the annual Flores de Mayo catechism classes for Libis youth, held during the children’s summer break. The classes had been running daily, during the weekdays, for the entire month of May, from 1 to 4 pm starting May 2. The first hour, 1 to 2 pm, had been devoted to formal catechetical lessons. Then the 2 to 4 pm period was devoted to activities, praying the rosary, and floral offerings. Last year, the classes drew 90 participants. This year, the Libis village…continue reading →

This May 13 marks the 100th year anniversary, or centennial, of the 8irst of several Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, in Fatima, Portugal. In May 1917, in the midst of World War I, Pope Benedict XV, after repeated but forlorn appeals for world peace, made a direct appeal to Mary to intercede for peace in the world. The response was Mary’s first appearance at Fatima just a week later, on May 13, to the three shepherd children - Lucia dos Santos, Francisco Marto, and Jacinto Marto. The appearances would continue every 13th…continue reading →

Fr. Bong Tupino was the co-pilgrimage chaplain, along with Fr. Jeffrey Quinetela, for the April 16 to 29, 2017 edition of ‘Enthralling Eastern Europe’, a ‘Journeys of Faith’ pilgrimage tour that took pilgrims through Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. Poland stops included Warsaw; Lichen with Poland’s biggest basilica and its icon of the Lady o f Sorrows ; Czestochowa, Poland’s spiritual capital and visited by pilgrims from all over the world, with the Black Madonna icon in the Jasna Gora Monastery; Wadowice, birthplace of St. John Paul II; Wieliczka with the…continue reading →

Buklod ng Panginoon, the renewal movement based in St. Ignatius Village, now headed by Cita Pabillo who took over from Lulay dela Cruz, held a pilgrimage of Pampanga churches last April 25. The ambitious itinerary included five landmark Pampanga churches: ‣ Holy Rosary Parish Church of Angeles, Pampanga ‣ Archdiocesan Shrine of Christ Our Lord of the Holy Sepulchre, also in Angeles, Pampanga ‣ Met ropoli tan Cathedral of San Fernando, in San Fernando, Pampanga ‣ San Guillermo Parish Church in Bacolor, Pampanga ‣ St. James the Apostle Parish Church in Betis, Guagua,…continue reading →

As part of the CTK celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, Bishop Raul Martirez gave a Marian Talk last May 20 on the apparitions. Bishop Raul began with a brief geography and history lesson to set the time and place context of the apparitions. He noted that in all the events where the Virgin Mary has manifested herself, it is almost always to the poor, young, illiterate village people, e.g., Juan Diego in Guadalupe, Bernadette in Lourdes, Lucia, Jacinta and Francisco in Fatima. Bishop Raul then…continue reading →

We congratulate Christ the King Parish’s Bible Quiz team, composed of Trix Delena, Peter Banico, and Sheryl Coronel for garnering first place in our Lady of Perpetual Help Vicariate (which has seven parishes) quiz contest held last May 6. The trio will be representing the OLHP Vicariate, together with 2nd placer Transfiguration Parish, at the Cubao Diocese level bible quiz competition, to be held on July 22.continue reading →

The second General Assembly for Lectors & Commentators took place last May 6, a Saturday. The first hour was led by LeCom Coordinator Mel Novales who went through the calendar of activities for May and June. He reminded the group that the two remaining GAs are schedule for July 26 and October 21 and the schedule for renewal of current members is on September 16 in the afternoon at Lantana, Cubao. He also reminded the LeComs that at least General Assembly and two formation talks need to be attended to qualify again for…continue reading →