Monthly Archives: April 2020

by Tessa Mangahas Filipinos are known for their extended families. Why is the Diocese of Cubao building a retirement home for its elderly and sickly priests? Won't their families take care of them? I think that after years of actively serving the Church in their prim, hearing confessions, saying Masses, and being with die faithful in their crisis, priests deserve a decent home to retire in. We are seven children in the family. I also have pamangkins who are reassuring me that they will take care of me. But I don't want to…continue reading →

by Bing del Rosario CASA DE SILENCIO :A Clergy Retirement Home and Spiritual Renewal Center for the Cubao Diocese The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cubao, under the direction of Bishop Honest.) F. Ongtioco DD, is building a clergy retirement home for its retired, soon-to-retire, chronically ill, and disabled priests. To be housed in the same building is a spiritual renewal center where the diocese faithful can stay overnight while participating in religious retreats. Ground Floor As designed, Casa de Silencio can house as many as 18 retired priests, each one having his own…continue reading →

by Fr. Steve Zabala — Parish Priest The Festive Christmas season has ended followed by a few weeks in Ordinary Time. The Christmas season was a time of heartfelt generosity, especially in CTK. We launched Casa Setenta, a campaign to raise P70 million from 700 donors in 7 months, from December 7, 2019 to July 7, 2020 for Casa de Silencio, the retirement home for priests and spiritual center of the Archdiocese of Cubao. The response was nothing short of phenomenal. In just about six weeks from its launch, the CTK community was…continue reading →

by Bishop Broderick Pabillo (Excerpt- from the tail of Bishop Broderick Pabillo on the fits day of Stewardship Month September 1, 2019 which was also the start of the three-month 40th Fiesta Celebration and the 14th anniversary of CT. K as a Stewardship Parish. Bishop Pabillo was recently appointed by the Vatican as the Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Mani, after Cardinal Chita Tagb, ammed a new post in Rome, I am glad that I have been invited to speak on the themes of Stewardship and Catholic Social Teachings, especially on the…continue reading →

The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on January 29, through its president Archbishop Romulo Valles issued an Oratio Imperata or obligatory prayer against the virus outbreak now gripping the globe called Coronavirus Disease 2019 or COVID 19. Aside from the praying of the Oratio Imperata, the CBCP also issued advisories on worship in die walce of COVID 19 including: 1.Changing the holy water in fonts regularly. 2. Practice communion by hand and not by mouth. 3. Discourage physical contact in worship such as holding hands while reciting or singing die Our…continue reading →

Fr. Steve recently announced the creation of two ministries to address the demands of the present times, namely the Ministry on the Environment and Ministry of Disaster Risk Reduction. Heading the latter is Irwin Reyes, a member of the EMHC, Knights of Columbus, Adoration Nucturna and Communion of the Sick. Irwin has laid down his priorities which include the enhancement of the security and safety of the parishioners that attend services at CIIG Among his proposals are beefing up securiry, improving responsiveness of security personnel to needs of mass goers, conducting roving inspections,…continue reading →

The Department of justice has cleared four Catholic bishops from a sedition case that accused them of plotting to overthrow the Duterte administration. The DOJ ruled that Archbishop Socrates Villegas, Bishops Pablo Virgilio David, Honesto Ongtioco and Teodoro Bacani, Fr. Robert Reyes and La Salle Bro. Armin Luistro, showed no intention of committing sedition and that the complaints filed by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group lack evidence. The sedition case and other charges stemmed from a viral video accusing President Duterte and his family of the illegal drug trade. (CBCPNews)continue reading →

Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle left Manila for Rome on February 9 to assume his new task of promoting the mission of the Church in the world. The Archdiocese of Manila's Office of Communications said Tagle was appointed by Pope Francis as the new Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, one of the leading departments in the Roman Curia. He succeeds Italian Cardinal Fernando Filoni. He is only the second Asian to hold the post, with the other being Cardinal Ivan Dias who served from 2006 to 2011. Cardinal Tagle was…continue reading →

CTK and other parishes of the Cubao Diocese bonded together and responded to the urgent needs of those stricicen by the recent Taal Volcano eruption. Helmed by the Social Services Development Ministry of the Diocese, F. Ronnie Santos made a diocese-wide appeal for donations of basic necessities including food, water, tents, toiletries, even portalets and the like. Called Bayanihan 4 Batangas, #bayanihan4batangas, donations from the Cubao parishes forwarded these to the Cubao SSDM, who in turn delivered the relief items to several lesser-served. parish churches and areas that were transformed as temporary evacuation…continue reading →