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During World War I Pope Benedict XV made repeated but forlorn pleas for peace, and finally, in May 1917, made a direct appeal to Mary to intercede for peace in the world. The response was Mary's first appearance at Fatima just over a week later. At this time Fatima was just a small village about seventy miles north of Lisbon; the three children to whom she appeared were Lucia dos Santos, aged ten, and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, brother and sister, aged eight and seven respectively. The Angel of Portugal However,…continue reading →

Father Lemuel Camacho, a former nursing supervisor and now a newly-ordained priest in the Diocese of Essex County, New Jersey, recounted how he came to the priesthood. During his 2008 pilgrimage to Fatima, RN Lemuel, who had been mulling a late transition to the priesthood, had his hands folded in prayer, looking for a sign - any small signal - from the Blessed Mother about his possible call to a priestly vocation. Down on bended knee in the Chapel of the Apparitions at the Our Lady of Fatima Shrine in Portugal, he asked…continue reading →

Sister Leopolda, nee Barbara May Ledesma, curator of the Fatima Museum and a member of the Oblate Sisters of the Virgin Mary of Fatima, was on a brief visit to the Philippines. Fr. Bong Tupino of Christ the King Parish Greenmeadows invited Sr. Leopolda to speak to a select group of parishioners last February 13 before she Hlew back to Fatima, Portugal. She began her one and a half hour talk by stating that in the midst of the world’s darkness and despair, the light of Fatima is the solid ground where Catholics…continue reading →

Last February 11, the Catholic world celebrated the Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. We call ‘Message of Lourdes’ the gestures and words that were exchanged between Virgin Mary and Bernadette Soubirous, at the Grotto of Massabielle, during the time of the eighteen apparitions. This message can be heard as: God is love and he loves us as we are. Lourdes in the 19th century was one of the main places in the district with more than 4,000 inhabitants including nobles, notaries, advocates, doctors, officers as well as manual workers, tradesmen, slate workers,…continue reading →

The Christ the King Parish Social Hall was the venue for the Our Mother of Perpetual Help Vicariate (CTK is one of the parishes in the vicariate, along with Our Lady of Perpetual Help – Cubao, Our Lady of Miraculous Medal , TransFiguration of our Lord, Nativity of Our Lord, St. John Paul II – Eastwood, and San Roque – Bagumbayan). Welcoming the Parish Pastoral Council members of the seven different parishes was CTK’s own Fr. Bong Tupino, who spoke on behalf of the designated incharge Fr. Arnel Recinto. Fr. Bong was quite…continue reading →

The circles of people whose hands are intertwined symbolize the communion within the BECs. These communities are linked together by the outline of the cross which signifies the parish as communion of communities. It also includes other faith communities and organizations that are in the parish that – although trans-parochial in nature- are called to actively take part in the life of the parish and BECs. The outline of the cross also symbolizes the vertical and horizontal dimension of communion – communion with the Triune God and with each other. The bread and…continue reading →

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference has designated 2017 as the year of the Parish as Communion of Communities. According to the CBCP Committee on Basic Ecclesial Communities, “This is a year when we more deeply discern not only the structures of governance of our dioceses and parishes but also of the quality of faith life in the parish, the fellowship, belongingness, and participation by its members. In a special way we shall probe into our efforts of making the parish a communion of communities, a communion of Basic Ecclesial Communities and of covenanted faith-communities…continue reading →

Thousands of Catholics, including over 50 parishioners from Christ the King Parish Greenmeadows, joined a threehour pre-dawn march with church leaders around the Quirino Grandstand parade grounds in Rizal Park, Manila in one of the largest shows of opposition to President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly crackdown against illegal drugs and attempts to revive the death penalty. 20 of the 50-strong CTK contingent gathered as early as 3 am and Jilled up a tour bus from JKL Tours. The Christ the King PPC members who went included Amelia Alba, Sheryl Coronel, Louie Laudico, Irene Robles.…continue reading →

CTK parish priest Father Bong Tupino had always argued that CTK parish does a decent job of ministering to the pre-school children through the Mustard Seed Ministry, to the youth through the Youth Ministry and PREX Youth, to the families and married couples through the Family & Life Ministry, but there continues to be a void as far as ministering to the elderly is concerned. The parish currently has a few activities that involve senior citizens , e . g . , EMHC’ s g iv i n g communion at the homes…continue reading →

The Our Lady of Perpetual Help Vicariate, which includes Christ the King Parish, held the BEC Basic Orientation Seminar for the various parish BEC leaders in the vicariate at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish. The CTK delegation consisted of four youth leaders f rom the Libis community and Dive BEC leaders from Libis that included Ching Botero, Libis BEC Coordinator, Jo Piyaw, Libis assistant BEC coordinator, and Tiny Perfecto, BEC coordinator for St Ignatius Village . Host i n g the delegations was Msgr. Jun Bogaoan, BEC priest minister of OLPH…continue reading →