By Rev. Santiago E. Panilagao
The Pontifical Mission Societies in the Philippines held its 57th General Assembly for Mission Directors last June 21-25 in Sto. Nino Spirituality Center in Consolacion, Cebu City with the theme, “A Dynamic Philippine Church-In-Mission.”
The objectives of the assembly is to have a common understanding of mission in our present times; to deepen our understanding of our role and work as diocesan Mission Directors in our local Churches and in promoting the Four Pontifical Societies and; to learn some skills in making localized modules on mission.
The 5-day gathering was focused on current trends of the mission particularly the Philippine setting. The missionary work of the church nowadays is very much affected by the advancement of science and technology, thus, widened the gap between the rich and the poor.
To challenge missionaries to effectively work in their Mission Directors themselves must have a heart for the mission. He has to be appointed full time since he has to establish missionary work within the structure of the diocese. Through animation he makes mission as the heart of the diocese.
To conclude, some recommendations were made: 1. The Mission Director must be appointed from 4-5 year term for him to establish mission plan, programs and activities to the parish level and school base. 2. The four PMS association shall be given primary concern - the Propagation of the Faith, Holy Childhood, St. Peter the Apostle and Missionary Union. 3. The mission envelopes must be distributed on Mission Sundays. These envelopes which are forms of mission awareness serve as the parishioners’ contribution to the mission. 4. To encourage the priests to center their homilies on the missionary work of the Church during the month of October.
For the past three years, the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro ranks the 5th among the highest remittance of contribution to PMS. The venue for the next general assembly is Davao City.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Gusa Parish hosts mass wedding
By Ma. Corazon Siojo
Nine couples were wed at the San Isidro Parish in Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, sponsored by the Lourdes College Batch ‘75 on June 26, 2010. Parish priest Fr. Fermin Tan officiated the wedding rites.
The sponsorship covered expenses such as seminar fees, civil registry application/documentation fees, church decorations, transportation for the brides, and a hotel room for make-up and preparation, as well as the lechon and wedding cake served during the reception. Batch ‘75 volunteered as the choir during the wedding ceremony.
On behalf of Batch ‘75, which has a history of working on charitable projects with San Isidro Parish , Batch President Grace Fernan would like to extend her gratitude to San Isidro parishioner Corazon Almirante Siojo, Fr. Fermin Tan, and Sr. Tess Dalugdugan for their kind collaboration.
Nine couples were wed at the San Isidro Parish in Gusa, Cagayan de Oro City, sponsored by the Lourdes College Batch ‘75 on June 26, 2010. Parish priest Fr. Fermin Tan officiated the wedding rites.
The sponsorship covered expenses such as seminar fees, civil registry application/documentation fees, church decorations, transportation for the brides, and a hotel room for make-up and preparation, as well as the lechon and wedding cake served during the reception. Batch ‘75 volunteered as the choir during the wedding ceremony.
On behalf of Batch ‘75, which has a history of working on charitable projects with San Isidro Parish , Batch President Grace Fernan would like to extend her gratitude to San Isidro parishioner Corazon Almirante Siojo, Fr. Fermin Tan, and Sr. Tess Dalugdugan for their kind collaboration.
Bag-ong tuig tingtungha sa SJVTS gibuksan sa Santos nga Misa
Ang mga gasa sa Espiritu Santo may dakong kalambigitan sa kinabuhi sa mga seminarista. Mao kini ang taho sa Misa sa Espiritu Santo ni Arsobispo Antonio Ledesma sa mga seminarista sa St. John VianneyTheological Seminary niadtong Hunyo 25, 2010. Ang Misa sa Espiritu Santo maoy “official” nga pag-abri sa tunghaan 2010-2011 ug pag-ilaila sa mga tig-umol, seminarista, ug tanang lumilihok sa seminaryo sa kanhng Obispo.
Gi abi-abi ni Arsobispo Ledesma ang bag-ong rector sa seminaryo nga si Rev. Fr. Celerino Reyes, S.J. May bag-o usab nga mga tig-umol sa mga seminarista nga mao sila: Rev. Fr. Demlie Valmores ug si Rev. Fr. Julius Clavero sa Arkidiosesis sa Cagayan de Oro. May siyam ka mga pari ug usa ka laygo nga moumol sa mga seminarista ug modumala sa seminaryo.
Karong ika 25 ka tuig sukad natukod ang seminaryo dunay 58 ka mga seminarista sa Vianney: Cagayan de Oro 8; Butuan 11; Dipolog 2; Tagum 6; Malaybalay 11; Tagbilaran 6; Talibon 3; Iligan 3; Cotabato 2 ug Tandag 6.
Gipasabut sa Arsobispo nga ang lihok sa Espirito Santo dili lang paghiusa sa tibuok simbahan kondili mao usab ang paghatag sa kusog ug paggiya sa lokal nga simbahan.
Gi abi-abi ni Arsobispo Ledesma ang bag-ong rector sa seminaryo nga si Rev. Fr. Celerino Reyes, S.J. May bag-o usab nga mga tig-umol sa mga seminarista nga mao sila: Rev. Fr. Demlie Valmores ug si Rev. Fr. Julius Clavero sa Arkidiosesis sa Cagayan de Oro. May siyam ka mga pari ug usa ka laygo nga moumol sa mga seminarista ug modumala sa seminaryo.
Karong ika 25 ka tuig sukad natukod ang seminaryo dunay 58 ka mga seminarista sa Vianney: Cagayan de Oro 8; Butuan 11; Dipolog 2; Tagum 6; Malaybalay 11; Tagbilaran 6; Talibon 3; Iligan 3; Cotabato 2 ug Tandag 6.
Gipasabut sa Arsobispo nga ang lihok sa Espirito Santo dili lang paghiusa sa tibuok simbahan kondili mao usab ang paghatag sa kusog ug paggiya sa lokal nga simbahan.
AGGAp, consumer group host forum on power rate hike
By Louise Dumas
The Konsumanteng Kagay-anon, partnered with the Archdiocesan Good Governance Apostolate conducted a public forum on the Ancillary Services Charges of the National Grid Corp. (NGCP) imposed on Mindanao consumers.
After the power problem experienced by the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro - and in fact the rest of Mindanao- since February, consumers were shocked to find that their electric bills have doubled. Parishioners of the Our Lady of Fatima Parish who attended the forum decried the fact that their bills went up but they could not understand the items listed on their billing statements. The representative from the Cagayan Electric Power and Light Company, however, said that they had issued a memorandum about the increase and that it had been due to the ancillary services charged by the NGCP.
Engr. Cerael Donggay, former NPC vice president for Mindanao, explained the dynamics of the ancillary services. A discussion paper made by Engr. David A. Tauli was also handed out to the audience. Among the arguments presented questioning the validity of the ancilliary charges had been that the power barges of Therma Marine Inc. (TMI) were operated as base load in February. Since this had been the case, charging should not be as ancillary service which is higher than for the base load operations.
Engr. Tauli’s paper also reasoned that the Ancillary Services is only to support the main transmission service. It includes Contingency Reserves, Reactive Power support and Black Start capability. The main problem during the power crisis, however, had been the actual supply for distribution to consumers and not reserves. The power plants in Mindanao, according to the discussion, had also no need for support in their Black Start capability. Black Start capability refers to the process of recovery from a Total System Blackout using a generating unit without an external power supply.
Other points were discussed including the validity of NGCP going into a contract with providers instead of the NPC or the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corporation which was set up to manage the power sector of the Philippines after the government decided to restructure the sector through privatization.
According to Engr. Tauli’s discussion paper, the Ancillary Services Procurement Agreement between the NGCP and TMI was only given a Provisional Approval. Presently, the Energy Regulatory Commission is conducting hearings for the approval of the ASPA. The multi-sectoral audience which attended the forum agreed to form a group which would lobby legislations that would solve the power problem in Mindanao and at the same time find ways to stop the approval of the ASPA of NGCP and TMI.
The Konsumanteng Kagay-anon, partnered with the Archdiocesan Good Governance Apostolate conducted a public forum on the Ancillary Services Charges of the National Grid Corp. (NGCP) imposed on Mindanao consumers.
After the power problem experienced by the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro - and in fact the rest of Mindanao- since February, consumers were shocked to find that their electric bills have doubled. Parishioners of the Our Lady of Fatima Parish who attended the forum decried the fact that their bills went up but they could not understand the items listed on their billing statements. The representative from the Cagayan Electric Power and Light Company, however, said that they had issued a memorandum about the increase and that it had been due to the ancillary services charged by the NGCP.
Engr. Cerael Donggay, former NPC vice president for Mindanao, explained the dynamics of the ancillary services. A discussion paper made by Engr. David A. Tauli was also handed out to the audience. Among the arguments presented questioning the validity of the ancilliary charges had been that the power barges of Therma Marine Inc. (TMI) were operated as base load in February. Since this had been the case, charging should not be as ancillary service which is higher than for the base load operations.
Engr. Tauli’s paper also reasoned that the Ancillary Services is only to support the main transmission service. It includes Contingency Reserves, Reactive Power support and Black Start capability. The main problem during the power crisis, however, had been the actual supply for distribution to consumers and not reserves. The power plants in Mindanao, according to the discussion, had also no need for support in their Black Start capability. Black Start capability refers to the process of recovery from a Total System Blackout using a generating unit without an external power supply.
Other points were discussed including the validity of NGCP going into a contract with providers instead of the NPC or the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corporation which was set up to manage the power sector of the Philippines after the government decided to restructure the sector through privatization.
According to Engr. Tauli’s discussion paper, the Ancillary Services Procurement Agreement between the NGCP and TMI was only given a Provisional Approval. Presently, the Energy Regulatory Commission is conducting hearings for the approval of the ASPA. The multi-sectoral audience which attended the forum agreed to form a group which would lobby legislations that would solve the power problem in Mindanao and at the same time find ways to stop the approval of the ASPA of NGCP and TMI.
Aligning for Interfaith Dialogue
During the first quarter of this year on March 16-18, senior officials from the 118 member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) met in Manila. In this special ministerial meeting at the Philippine International Convention Center, the heads of delegations declared their understanding and support for the extraordinary theme chosen for their conference: “Interfaith Dialogue and Cooperation for Peace and Development.”
The theme was extraordinary because the Non-Aligned Movement was originally a political grouping of nations organized more than half a century ago that did not want to align themselves with either the Communist Bloc or the Free World, political aggregations that divided the world at that time during the era of the Cold War.
But now, the NAM countries were all aligning themselves behind the call for interfaith dialogue – an implicit admission that the fault lines threatening the world’s unity today may no longer run across ideological lines, but rather more profoundly across religious lines.
Manila Declaration
Thus, the Manila Declaration adopted by the NAM delegates stressed the need for “dialogue among cultures, civilizations and religions” in direct opposition to the “clash of civilizations” theory propounded by some political observers at the coming of the third millennium. Along with this call for dialogue was the reaffirmation of common fundamental values contained in the United Nations’ Millennium Declaration: “freedom, equality, solidarity, tolerance, respect for nature and shared responsibility.”
Bag-ong diakono mangalagad sa Jolo
Rev. Ricky Bacolcol |
Ni Mark Harvey Elloren
Si Sem. Ricky Bacolcol, 34, giordinahan pagka-diakono ni Most Rev. Fr. Angelito Lampon, O.M.I., D.D., Obispo sa Vicariate sa Jolo, didto sa San Nicolas de Tolentino Parish, Mambajao, Camiguin, niadtong Mayo 29, 2010. Siya sakop sa SAHA batch sa St. John Vianney Theological Seminary nga nigradwar niadtong Marso 2010.
Si Ricky nga natawo sa Mambajao mibalhin sa Vicariate sa Jolo tungod kay nakita niya ang dakong panginahanglanon ug tawag sa pagkapari didto sa maong dapit apan buot gihapon niya maordinahan sa iyang yutang natawhan, ang Mambajao, Camiguin.
Sa homiliya ni Obispo Lampon, ang pagbalhin ni Ricky usa ka “risgo” tungod kay iyang gibiyaan ang “comfort zones” diri sa Cagayan aron mangalagad sa lugar diin siya gikinahanglan.
Sa 15 katuig niya sa pormasyon, nakaingon si Obispo Lampon nga si Ricky usa ka mapailubon nga tao. Sa kataas sa tuig nga iyang gitagana sa pormasyon siya nagpakita ug determinasyon ug wala nawad-an sa paglaum.
Si Ricky nisulod sa San Jose de Mindanao Seminary niadtong 1995. Nakahuman siya sa kurso nga Sociology sa Xavier University. Niadtong 2000, misulod siya sa St. John Vianney Theological Seminary. Unum katuig siya nagtudlo didto sa Jolo isip iyang Ministry Year.
Si Ricky maordinahan pagkapari sa Vicariate sa Jolo.
Tunghaan sa Arkidiyosesis migamit og stratehiya pagpataas sa motungha
Students doing research at Xavier Academy in Initao, one of the parochial schools under Archdiocesan supervision. |
Ang Commission on Catholic Education sa Arkidiyosesis sa Cagayan de Oro mihan-ay ug mga bag-ong pamaagi aron pagsulbad sa nikunhod nga motungha sa mga parokyanong mga tulunghaan karong tuig ting-eskuwela.
Sa usa ka pakighinabi, miasoy si Rev. Fr. Rolando Gabutera, SSJV, ang Superintendente sa Komisyon sukad pa niadtong 2008, nga gawas sa preschools nga nakakuha og taas nga motungha, ang pagkunhod sa motungha sa tanang mga ang-ang naka apekto gayud og dako sa mga parokyanhong mga tulunghaan ubos sa iyang pamunoan.
Matud ni Fr. Gabutera, ang usa ka dakong hinungdan sa pagkunhod sa motungha karong tuiga mao ang pagsaka sa mga nagkalain-laing mga balayranon kon miscellaneous fees. Midugang og sugid si Fr. Gabutera nga adunay nga dagkong parokyanhong tulunghaan dinhi sa atong Arkidiyosesis nga mikunhod gayud ang motungha bisan pa sa gihatag nga hinabang sa Department of Education aron mabuligan ang mga ginikanan nga mahatagan ang ilang mga anak og makadiyos nga edukasyon.
Kabahin niining gipatunhay nga mga kabag-ohan, adunay tulo ka mga pamaagi nga gipahimutang karon sa Komisyon aron dili magpadayon ang pagkunhod sa motungha. Usa niini mao ang pagpalit ug mga computers aron nga makapahigayon sila ug mga computer classes nga wala sa nga publiko nga tulunghaan. Gihunahuna nga kini nga pamaagi makapataas sa motungha sa parokyanhong mga eskuwelahan.
Ang ikaduha nga pamaagi mao ang istrikto nga pagpatuman sa paggamit sa inandam na daan nga talaan-panun-anan sa tanang parokyanhong tulunghaan. Kini sukwahi sa nabatasan na sa mga magtutudlo nga sila ang magbuot ug mag-andam sa ilang itudlo sa matag hilisgutan kon subject. Kining ikaduha nga pamaagi gilantaw gihapon nga makataas sa kalidad sa edukasyon sa parokyanhong tulunghaan sa Arkidiyosesis.
Ang ikatulo nga pamaagi mao ang paghatag og dugang pagpahinungod sa makadiyos nga edukasyon nga maoy makahatag sa mga kabatan-onan og husto nga pag-umol sa pagtuo og pamatasan. “Ang atong tumong mao man ang pag-umol sa kinatibuk-ang pagkatawo; atong gilantaw ang pag-edukar sa hunahuna, sa kasingkasing ug sa pagpanginabuhi sa matag magtutuon,“ kini ang pamahayag ni Fr. Gabutera. Tali niini, ang mga estudyante gi obligar nga moduyog sa mga makataong buluhatong-pagpakiglambigit ug sa First Friday nga pagsaulog sa Eyukaristiya kon misa.
Gipangusgan ni Fr. Gabutera nga mapaabot ngadto sa mga ginikanan kini nga mga kabag-ohan. “Buot natong malantaw sa mga ginikanan nga husto ang ilang pagdesisyon sa pagpatungha sa ilang mga anak sa atong parokyanhong mga tulunghaan,” pamahayag ni Fr. Gabutera.
“Peacebuilding seminar” sa mga Obispo gipahigayon sa CDO
Ni James Sia
Usa ka seminar mahitungod sa paggambalay sa kalinaw diha sa pagkulokabildo sa nagkalain-laing pagtuo ang gipahigayon niadtong Hunyo 1-2, 2010 didto sa Southeast Asian Rural Social Leadership Institute (SEARSOLIN), ning siyudad sa Cagayan de Oro. Kining maong seminar, nga gitambungan sa atong halangdong arsobispo sa Cagayan de Oro, si Most Rev. Antonio J. Ledesma, S.J., D.D. gipangulohan ni Ginoong John Paul Lederach, usa ka banggiitang magtutudlo sa Kalibutanong Paggambalay sa Kalinaw didto sa Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies sa Unibersidad sa Notre Dame sa Indiana, Estados Unidos.
Kuyog ni Arsobispo Ledesma ang upat pa ka mga obispo sa atong Katolikong Simbahan sa nasud. Kining mga obispo mao sila si Most Rev. Colin Bagaforo, D.D. sa Arkidiyosesis sa Cotabato, si Most Rev. Angelito Lampon, D.D. sa Apostolic Vicariate sa Jolo, si Most Rev. Martin Jumoad, D.D. sa Prelature sa Isabela ug si Most Rev. Elenito Gallido, D.D. sa Diyosesis sa Iligan. Uban usab sa grupo sa mga Obispo sila si Rev. Fr. Stephen Broncano sa Diyosesis sa Butuan ug si Ms. Myrna Siose nga mirepresentar sa Episcopal Commission on Indigenous People (ECID) sa Arkidiyosesis sa Cagayan de Oro. Mitambong usab sa maong seminar ang representante sa Catholic Relief Services nga mao si Ms. Myla Leguro.
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