Stood and Guided: An Exhortation by Bro. Weldann Panganiban

Original post HERE.

We stand unshaken on one rock!

We are guided on one teaching!

We have no fear, we continue our journey,

As One Church: Holy, Catholic and Apostolic!

Never would we stumble upon the devil’s snare,

Nor do the darkness reign over us.

Always does the Lord love us,

Through his blood, he saves us!

To Peter the Fisherman he entrusts the Church,

Giving him the Keys of the everlasting Kingdom.

Hades will never triumph over it;

Death would never prevail in its ports!

Paul stands bearing Christ the Light,

Guide to the gentiles and stronghold of nations.

Once did he persecute the community of believers,

But he died defending the faith sealed on the Cross.

Peter and Paul! Your blood strengthens the faith!

Your life is holy simplicity, your martyrdom great victory!

You led the flock to the knowledge of the Divine;

You left an example through a life of love and sacrifice.

Blessed would always be the Ecclesia!

Blessed forever is the believer in Christ the Lord!

Trials would always come along our way,

But we will always stand, strong and pure!

Blessed be Peter, the leader and key-holder!

Blessed be Paul, the eminent teacher!

Two great Apostles and Fishers of men,

Two great Pillars, Inspiration and Witness!

Pray for the Church, the Pope and Bishops,

Pray for the Clergy, Laity and Religious.

Pray for the continuous propagation of the Faith

Amongst peoples, tongues, race and nations.

We stand unshaken on one rock!

We are guided on one teaching!

Christ leads us to Eternal Life,

At the end of days, with Him we live!

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Bro. Weldann Panganiban is an administrator of 100% Katolikong Pinoy Ministry since the Easter Season this year; and he is among the six current admins, including our Founder, Bro. Francis Raymund Gonzales.. He also maintains two blogs here at Blogspot.

A Week with No Priests and other randomness

You heard it right.

Our priests--almost all of them--are at the World Trade Center in Pasay City currently attending the Second National Congress of the Clergy (or maybe I could abbreviate it to NCC II), that would follow the one held last 2004. The theme for this congregation is "Faithfulness of Christ, Faithfulness of Priests" which is also synonymous to and in line with Pope Benedict XVI's declaration of Annus Sacerdotalis--the Year of/for Priests. What made me blog this stuff is that because there is something that wondered me most.

The NCC II coincided with our preliminary examination (which is a week late than the other colleges in UST); and every examination, I attend a morning Mass (and if ever, confess to a priest) out of impulse desire to be inspired in the middle of the exam. I thought the Dominicans were also in the clerical retreat, so I still went to the chapel to at least pray to God that He would inspire me as I take the papers on that day. To my surprise, I still heard Mass and there are still priests saying it. The assumption that I made was: "Maybe they do not want to attend because they have this passion of serving the faithful even if their brothers (their fellow priests) are in renewal of themselves; or maybe how they wished to attend the clerical retreat, but at least they have to consider their pastorate before setting off to Pasay. Anyway, Pasay is just about thirty minutes from Sampaloc, Manila."

Anyway, that was just an assumption. Of course in one way or another they would like to participate, though they also have to say the Triduum Masses for Saint Thomas Aquinas (our University's patron saint), for by the time I am writing this blog, St. Thomas' feast day is just six hours away....

Yeah, that was just a piece of random fact I made here. Nothing extraordinary. Let's just pray for and with our priests that they may serve the Lord with all they are just as we serve Him through ourselves and the best of us.