Happenings sa Village

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6th Pista ng Poon Hesus Nazareno sa Jamaica, Queen

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph & Thelma Pasaoa
Mr. & Mrs. Gouglas & Menda Ealdana
2012 Hermano & Hermana Mayeres

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13th Pista ng Poon Hesus Nazareno sa Village

Nanding and Marilyn Castilo
2012 Hermano & Hermana Mayeres

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Invitation Reminder: Poon Hesus Nazareno Fiesta

To All Devotees of Poon Hesus Nazareno,

We have two Poon Hesus Nazareno Fiesta celebration this weekend to start the New Year 2012.

You are invited!

JAN 8, SUNDAY at 3:00 P.M. - The Filipino Pastoral Ministry's 13th Annual Poon Hesus Nazareno sa Village at Our Lady of Pompei Church in Manhattan, NYC and

JAN 9, MONDAY at 7:30 P.M. - The 6th Annual Poon Hesus Nazareno sa Jamaica at the Immaculate Conception Church - Jamaica, Queens sponsored by the San Lorenzo Ruiz Association of America,Inc. (SLRAA)

See details on the attached flyer for your info.

Please invite your family and friends to celebrate this religious tradition that is dear to all of us.

See you all,
Cely

8th year anniversary of the San Lorenzo Ruiz at Scalabrini Center in Jamaica.

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FPM Christmas Party

Dear Friends and Members of the FPM Family,

Your are Invited to the FPM Annual Christmas Party on December 18, 2011 Sunday after the 3:00 P.M. Filipino Mass -

The event is free...bring your friends and join the FUN... If you want to join in the Exchange gift, please bring your gift (minimum of $20).

May this Christmas bring love, joy and abundance blessings to you and your family as we celebrate the birthday of the Baby Jesus.

We wish one and all a Blessed Christmas and a pleasant New Year filled gladness, good fortune and happiness always.

Thank you for your continued help and support to the Filipino Pastoral Ministry.

From all of Us,

Msgr. Romy Montero,
the officers, members, volunteers and staff of the Filipino Pastoral Ministry

An Invitation to All

Today is the feast day of the Immaculate Conception - a holiday of obligation It is also the 8th year anniversary of the San Lorenzo Ruiz & Scalabrini Center in Jamaica.

An Invitation to All

Today is the feast day of the Immaculate Conception - a holiday of obligation It is also the 8th year anniversary of the San Lorenzo Ruiz & Scalabrini Center in Jamaica.

A Mass will be celebrated at the San Lorenzo Ruiz & Scalabrini Center tonight at 7:30 P.M. for the feast day of the Immaculate Conception and the anniversary celebration of the Center. Please come and join us tonight for the celebration

San Lorenzo Ruiz and Scalabrini Center 168-41 84th Ave Jamaica Hills NY 11432. (The SLRSCenter is at the corner of 169 St. and 84th Ave.)

FPM FOUNDERS DAY.

A Mass of Thanksgiving and Remembrance to commemorate the 8th year death anniversary of the late Fr. Bobby Sison, Filipino Pastoral Ministry Founding director.

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An Invitation to All

The Novena Mass to the Poon Hesus Nazareno in preparation for the feast day on January 8, 2012 started on November 6 and will continue every Sunday before the 3:00 P.M.Tagalog Mass. Please come and join in the weekly Sunday Novena Mass. This year's Hermano and Hermana Mayor are Nanding and Marilyn Castillo. If you have petitions or Mass Intentions that you like to be included in the Mass, please send it to the office of the FPM - Pompei church. Weekly sponsors for the Novena Masses are also welcome.

Here are some of the upcoming November Activities:

November 19 Saturday
1. 6:00 P.M. CENACLE to be held at the FPM community room
2. 7:30 - 8:30 P.M. Mini-lecture on Scriptures conducted by Bro. Adolfo Novio. Overview of the course: Introduction to the Scriptures,The foundation of the Scriptures,The Pentateuch,The Creation Story, Abraham, Jacob, Exodus Story.
Each session will be for an hour after the CENACLE depending on the participation and interests of the community.

November 20 Sunday 3:00 P.M. FPM FOUNDERS DAY.
A Mass of Thanksgiving and Remembrance to commemorate the 8th year death anniversary of the late Fr. Bobby Sison, Filipino Pastoral Ministry Founding director.

November 23 Wednesday 6:30 P.M. Pre-Thanksgiving Mass Celebration
Novena in honor of Mother of Perpetual Help and the Pre-Thanksgiving Mass followed by the FPM Annual Pot-luck Thanksgiving Dinner at the Fr. Demo Hall.
You are invited to attend the Mass and also bring something for sharing with everybody.

November 27 Sunday November Birthday Celebration
All November birthday celebrators are invited to come and attend the Mass for a special blessing and fellowship after the Mass.

December 3, Saturday - The annual Parish CHRISTMAS BAZAAR of Our Lady of Pompei Church.

We hope that you will take time to come and participate in all the activities mentioned above.

See You All,

Cely

hi, folks!
just to give you an idea of where i am now, and what's happening in my little kingdom. kindly open the attachment. thanks for your prayers and support.
happy all saints' day!
fr. mike Click here...

Halloween: The Real Story!

Father Augustine Thompson, O.P.,

We’ve all heard the allegations. Halloween is a pagan rite dating back to some pre-Christian festival among the Celtic Druids that escaped Church suppression. Even today modern pagans and witches continue to celebrate this ancient festival. If you let your kids go trick-or-treating, they will be worshiping the devil and pagan gods.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The origins of Halloween are, in fact, very Christian and rather American. Halloween falls on October 31 because of a pope, and its observances are the result of medieval Catholic piety.

It’s true that the ancient Celts of Ireland and Britain celebrated a minor festival on Oct. 31 — as they did on the last day of most other months of the year. However, Halloween falls on the last day of October because the Feast of All Saints or "All Hallows" falls on Nov. 1. The feast in honor of all the saints in heaven used to be celebrated on May 13, but Pope Gregory III (d. 741) moved it to Nov. 1, the dedication day of All Saints Chapel in St. Peter’s at Rome . Later, in the 840s, Pope Gregory IV commanded that All Saints be observed everywhere. And so the holy day spread to Ireland . The day before was the feast’s evening vigil, "All Hallows Even" or "Hallowe’en." In those days, Halloween didn’t have any special significance for Christians or for long-dead Celtic pagans.

In 998, St. Odilo, the abbot of the powerful monastery of Cluny in Southern France, added a celebration on Nov. 2. This was a day of prayer for the souls of all the faithful departed. This feast, called All Souls Day, spread from France to the rest of Europe.

So now the Church had feasts for all those in heaven and all those in purgatory? What about those in the other place? It seems Irish Catholic peasants wondered about the unfortunate souls in hell. After all, if the souls in hell are left out when we celebrate those in heaven and purgatory, they might be unhappy enough to cause trouble. So it became customary to bang pots and pans on All Hallows Even to let the damned know they were not forgotten. Thus, in Ireland, at least, all the dead came to be remembered — even if the clergy were not terribly sympathetic to Halloween and never allowed All Damned Day into the Church calendar.

But that still isn’t our celebration of Halloween. Our traditions on this holiday centers around dressing up in fanciful costumes, which isn’t Irish at all. Rather, this custom arose in France during the 14th and 15th centuries. Late medieval Europe was hit by repeated outbreaks of the bubonic plague — the Black Death — and she lost about half her population. It is not surprising that Catholics became more concerned about the afterlife. More Masses were said on All Souls’ Day, and artistic representations were devised to remind everyone of their own mortality.

We know these representations as the "Dance Macabre" or "Dance of Death," which was commonly painted on the walls of cemeteries and shows the devil leading a daisy chain of people — popes, kings, ladies, knights, monks, peasants, lepers, etc. — into the tomb. Sometimes the dance was presented on All Souls’ Day itself as a living tableau with people dressed up in the garb of various states of life. But the French dressed up on All Souls, not Halloween; and the Irish, who had Halloween, did not dress up. How the two became mingled probably happened first in the British colonies of North America during the 1700s when Irish and French Catholics began to intermarry. The Irish focus on hell gave the French masquerades and even more macabre twist.

But, as every young ghoul knows, dressing up isn’t the point; the point is getting as many goodies as possible. Where on earth did "trick or treat" come in?

"Trick or treat" is perhaps the oddest and most American addition to Halloween, and is the unwilling contribution of English Catholics.

During the penal period of the 1500s to the 1700s in England, Catholics had no legal rights. They could not hold office and were subject to fines, jail and heavy taxes. It was a capital offense to say Mass, and hundreds of priests were martyred.

Occasionally, English Catholics resisted, sometimes foolishly. One of the most foolish acts of resistance was a plot to blow up the Protestant King James I and his Parliament with gunpowder. This was supposed to trigger a Catholic uprising against their oppressors. The ill-conceived Gunpowder Plot was foiled on Nov. 5, 1605, when the man guarding the gunpowder, a reckless convert named Guy Fawkes, was captured and arrested. He was hanged; the plot fizzled.

Nov. 5, Guy Fawkes’ Day, became a great celebration in England, and so it remains. During the penal periods, bands of revelers would put on masks and visit local Catholics in the dead of night, demanding beer and cakes for their celebration: trick or treat!

Guy Fawkes’ Day arrived in the American colonies with the first English settlers. But, buy the time of the American Revolution, old King James and Guy Fawkes had pretty much been forgotten. Trick or treat, though, was too much fun to give up, so eventually it moved to Oct. 31, the day of the Irish-French masquerade. And in America, trick or treat wasn’t limited to Catholics.

The mixture of various immigrant traditions we know as Halloween had become a fixture in the Unites States by the early 1800s. To this day, it remains unknown in Europe, even in the countries from which some of the customs originated.

But what about witches? Well, they are one of the last additions. The greeting card industry added them in the late 1800s. Halloween was already "ghoulish," so why not give witches a place on greeting cards? The Halloween card failed (although it has seen a recent resurgence in popularity), but the witches stayed. So, too, in the late 1800s, ill-informed folklorists introduced the jack-o’-lantern. They thought that Halloween was druidic and pagan in origin. Lamps made from turnips (not pumpkins) had been part of ancient Celtic harvest festivals, so they were translated to the American Halloween celebration.

The next time someone claims that Halloween is a cruel trick to lure your children into devil worship, I suggest you tell them the real origin of All Hallows Even and invite them to discover its Christian significance, along with the two greater and more important Catholic festivals that follow it.

Be sure to check out -
All Saint's Day by Dr. D'Ambrosio
All Soul's Day by Dr. D'Ambrosio

FPM Laksambayan 2011

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Despedida Party for Fr. Mike Lagrimas

To All,

As promised by Fr. Mike, he sent the Cenacle Reflections made in the Philippines. As you all know Fr. Mike left last Sunday to return to his Diocese in Novaliches. He asked for our prayers so that he will able to continue his ministry. He said that our prayers are the source of his inspiration and the beautiful insights in all the reflections he shared with us. Please continue to pray.

God Bless,
Cely

Fr. Mike Lagrimas delivered his last Homily in New York at the 30th Anniversary of San Lorenzo Ruiz

2011-2012 Hermanos & Hermanas UST Alumni San Lorenzo Ruiz Devotional Group reprented by:
Gary Villanueva, MD
Joseph Bumatay, MD
Fred Donaire, MD

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Despedida Party for Fr. Mike Lagrimas

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Nativity of Our Lady Feast Day Celebration

Hermanas Mayores
Lucita de los Santos, Lydia Aquino and Jovita Claro

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REMINDERS TO ALL:

The Filipino Pastoral Ministry have a long weekend events at Our Lady of Pompei as follows:

Sept 3 First Saturday Cenacle at 6:00 P.M.
Sept 4 Sunday 3:00P.M. NATIVITY OF OUR LADY Feast Day celebration
Sept 5 Monday 2:00 P.M. - Despedida Party for Fr. Mike Lagrimas at Fr. Demo Hall Pompei Church

Please come and join us for all the celebrations. Invite your friends and family.

See you All.

Cely

2011 FPM Annual Picnic

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Independence Day/ FPM BBQ Party

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23rd Anniversary
Feast day of Our Mother of Perpetual Help June 22, 2011

Minerva P. Rodriquez - Hermana Mayor 2011

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