‘We are fed up’: Thousands pray at Portugal’s Fatima shrine for world without COVID-19

Reuters 05/13/2021

FATIMA, Portugal — Suffering from an autoimmune disease, 71-year-old Maria Emilia travels – often by foot – to one of Catholicism’s most famous sanctuaries in Portugal every year. But the coronavirus pandemic made her trip more important…

Palma on Feast of Immaculate Concepcion: Pray for pandemic to end

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 12/08/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippine — Cebuanos can survive, they can revive This was the homily of Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma for the pontifical Mass for the Feast of the Our Lady of Immaculate Concepcion on December 8, 2020.…

Lapu-Lapu fluvial procession: Devotees on colorful boats brave rough seas to escort Virgin Mary home to her shrine

Norman V. Mendoza 11/13/2019

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Philippines — The weather cooperated and the rough seas at the tip of Punta Engaño was not a hindrance as the fluvial procession of the image of the Virgin of the Rule from the Hilutungan…

Follow Virgin Mary, priest tells Our Lady of the Rule devotees

Norman Mendoza 11/12/2018

Be meek and humble like Mary. Fr. Bernard Corpuz issued this reminder to the hundreds of devotees who crammed the Our Lady of the Rule Church on Monday morning during the Mass that followed the fluvial procession…

Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

08/18/2018

O Mary Immaculate Queen, glorious Queen of the Universe, most powerful Virgin, merciful Mother of a merciful God and refuge of sinners, we consecrate ourselves to thy Royal and Immaculate Heart. It is through thee that Jesus…

A ‘smaller’ Our Lady of Guadalupe joins the Sto. Niño in this year’s Traslacion

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 01/13/2017

A smaller but elegant image of the Our Lady of Guadalupe de Cebu is accompanying the Sto. Niño icon in the Traslacion and fluvial procession this year. Fr. Romeo “Dodong” Desuyo of the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our…

Crimson Christmas

Jason A. Baguia 12/23/2016

Christ’s birthday comes, bloodshed in your houses and streets notwithstanding. Do not be surprised. You saw Catherine Hardwicke’s “The Nativity Story” 10 years ago and found yourself educated by this scene. About three months before her baby…

Blood cries for Guadalupe

Jason A. Baguia 12/16/2016

The body count in the Philippine government’s war on drugs rose to 5,927 on Monday, the twelfth of December, while Catholics across the archipelago celebrated the fiesta of the Blessed Virgin Mary, “Our Lady of Guadalupe.” This…

Priest says Lapu-Lapu fiesta goes smoothly

Norman V. Mendoza 11/21/2016

THOUSANDS of devotees flocked to the Birhen dela Regla Parish in Lapu-Lapu City to pay respects to and venerate the city’s patron saint. Devotees from all over Cebu and nearby provinces like Bohol and Negros Oriental made…

Thousands of devotees pay homage to Mama Mary of Lindogon at the IEC Pavilion

Dominic D. Yasay 10/07/2016

Twin sisters Gemma and Marissa Limpangug were supposed to take their ailing 82-year-old mother to the Basilica Minore Del Sto. Niño to attend the 11 a.m. Mass. But due to heavy traffic, they decided to attend Mass…

Catholics celebrate Mama Mary’s birthday

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 09/08/2016

Catholics all over the world today celebrate the traditional birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In Cebu, thousands of devotees are expected to troop to the Marian shrine in Simala, Sibonga town. At 10 a.m., Cebu Archbishop…

There’s something about Martha

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 07/16/2016

In 1618, the Spanish artist Diego Velázquez painted “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary.” The work, done in oil on canvas, depicts two women in the kitchen, one young, the other elderly. The young woman,…

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