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32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time / Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica Forbes Park, Makati

JUST FOR THE SHEER JOY 8 Ways to Maintain Health

and Wellnessby Chuchi QuevedoHealth Care Ministry

HAVE YOU EVER RECEIVED AN UNEXPECTED GIFT? REMEMBER THE JOY YOU EXPERIENCED?

You can contribute to this kind of joy to the 200-250

plus JPIC-Scholars we are expecting to attend the JPIC SCHOlarship Annual Christmas Party / Graduation Party / Reunion on the 1st Saturday of December, December 6, 2014 -- an event that is looked forward to with much anticipation not only by our scholars but also by us as well.

They will be sure to relish receiving their entrance / raffle prizes after they turn in their scholars’ Update Forms and win prizes as they join the fun games organized by the SYA!

THIS IS WHERE WE NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN, DEAR PARISHIONERS. PLEASE SHARE A FEW ITEMS WITH OUR SCHOLARS AND SEND THEM OVER TO THE PARISH OFFICE c/o our JPIC Socio-Pastoral Worker Ms. Jackie at your earliest convenience and no later than Wednesday, December 3, 2014.

You don’t have to look further than your closet. It will just take a few minutes to gather a few white elephants that are sure to make our scholars happy: unused

Dr. Denky de la Rosa, MD, the training head at the St. Luke’s Medical Center (Global City), Section of Medical Oncology, delivered a very interesting and lively talk on the 8 Ways to Maintain Health and Wellness last Oct. 25, Saturday.

Dr. Denky is a Cancer Specialist trained at the UERMMC, UP-PGH, and the National Cancer Center in Singapore. She said that Wellness is something we work at, not just something that will automatically happen. Wellness involves responsibility, choice, ACTION, DOING. In a nutshell, Dr. Denky advocates the following rules: 1. Don’t smoke. 2. Drink alcohol in moderation, if at all. 3. Avoid risky sexual behaviors. 4. Get vaccinated. 5. Get screening tests. 6. Exercise regularly. 7. Avoid weight gain. 8. Eat a healthy diet.

Dr. Denky de la Rosa

T-shirts, toiletries, backpacks, corporate giveaways such as umbrellas and ball pens will be most welcome.

So, just for the sheer joy, yours and our scholars’, ensure a little Christmas cheer this season!

SSAP JPIC SCHOlarship Comm. / Mariza V. del Rosario

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SUNDAY GOSPEL REFLECTION

By Fr. Jesús Galindo, OFM

Business and religion have always gone together. They did in the time of Jesus and they do so now—with a slight difference: In Jesus’ time, they brought business to the temple; now, we bring the temple to business centers (malls, banks, government offices, etc.). Fund-raising activities are a usual occurrence in most parishes. Attached to most churches are stores selling religious articles. Clerks in parish offices are busy collecting all sorts of fees; and collection boxes are strategically located in our churches. Jesus, though “meek and humble of heart,” got quite angry when he saw the vendors and money changers in the temple of Jerusalem. He threw them all out, as we read in today’s gospel. Those people, bible scholars tell us, were doing a legitimate service to worshippers by providing the unblemished animals needed for the sacrifice (Ex. 12:5), and the shekel coins used to pay the temple tax (Ex. 30:13; Mt. 17:24). Perhaps it was their overpricing and exploitation that irked Jesus. We read today the gospel passage about the cleansing of the Temple in connection with the feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. For over 300 years Christians had no churches; they met in private homes and in the catacombs. When emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, he made it the official

religion of the State and donated to the Church the palace he had acquired from the Laterani family. Said palace was transformed into a basilica—the official residence of the Pope. Thus, the Lateran Basilica is considered the Mother of all Christian Churches. All religions have places of prayer and worship (churches, mosques, synagogues, ashrams, etc.) where God is believed to be present, or where God’s presence is more intensely felt. Sometimes they are referred to as the “house of God.” In today’s gospel, Jesus calls the Temple “my Father’s house.” We know that God dwells in the whole wide universe. He cannot be confined in any physical structure, in any temple, no matter how ornate and how large it may be: “The Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands” (Acts 7:48). Jesus promised his presence, not to any physical structure, but to the community gathered in his name: “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mt. 18:20). It was Jesus himself who introduced a new concept of temple. When the Jews, after the cleansing of the temple, asked him for a sign, Jesus pointed to his own body as the temple where God dwells: “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up” (Jn 2:19). In today’s second reading, St. Paul says: “Do you not know that you are the temple of God?” God then dwells in people, not in buildings. Perhaps this is the reason why Jesus never built any church or chapel but rather spent his time feeding the hungry and healing the sick—God’s temples. The pastoral implications are clear: Important as it may be to have a beautiful church building, it is by far more important to have a beautiful community. The church building should be the mirror of the community using it. It is incongruous to have a beautiful church while the parish community is rocked by intrigue and division. People won’t like to go to a church that houses a broken community. In most parishes, the largest bulk of the budget goes to construction and repairs of the church and convent. If we really believe that people are God’s living temple, then we have to re-assess our pastoral priorities and invest more on people and less on structures.

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You are God’s building.

Agnes was born in Assisi in the year 1198. She was the younger sister of St. Clare. At fifteen she joined Clare at the Benedictine convent of Sant’Angelo di Panzo. Determined to follow her sister’s life of poverty and penance, she resisted her relatives’ attempts to force her to return home, and was given the habit by St. Francis and sent to San Damiano with Clare, thus founding the Poor Clares. St. Francis appointed her abbess of the Poor Clares’ convent at Monticelli near Florence in 1219. She established convents at Mantua, Venice, and Padua, and supported her sister’s struggle for poverty in their Order. Agnes was with Clare at her death and died three months later, on November 16, 1253 reportedly as predicted by Clare. Many miracles have been reported at her tomb in Santa Chiara Church in Assisi. Her feast day is celebrated on November 16.

From Catholic Online

St. Agnes of Assisi

The first priest of the Eastern Church to be canonized by the Western Church was St. Josaphat because he was martyred for his great efforts to reunite the Orthodox Church with Rome.

Josaphat was born John Kunsevich at Vladimir, Ukraine in 1580. In 1604 he and his good friend Joseph Rutsky entered the Monastery of the Holy Trinity at Vilna where they were ordained priests of the Byzantine rite in 1609. It was then that John took the name Josaphat. From the beginning they were intent on reforming the Ruthenian church which now covers the area of the present day Belorussia and Ukraine.

Soon they had worked their way up in the Church with Joseph becoming the abbot of Holy Trinity and Josaphat sent to Poland to found new houses. Upon his return in 1614, he was named abbot of the monastery while Joseph made metropolitan of Kiev.

In 1617 Josaphat was appointed bishop of Vitebsk, Russia. Eight months later when the Archbishop of Polotsk died, he took over the sec. He found the diocese in a terrible state and called synods to put into effect his reforms which by 1620 became effective.

There was widespread opposition to Rome because both the church

RANDOM THOUGHTSVoices from yesterday and today…

By: Peachy Maramba

ST. JOSAPHAT KUNSEVICHof POLOTSK

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The ABC’s of Catholic Doctrine

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leaders and lay people were worried that the pope and the cardinals would arbitrarily interfere in their lives. Besides they were Westerners and thus were unfamiliar with their Eastern Europeans religious customs, spiritual traditions and folk beliefs based on centuries of ancient native cultures. A group of dissident bishops of the Orthodox church then began to sow seeds of dissension claiming that Josaphat was not only “turning Latin” but was in actuality a Latin priest and a “robber of souls.” Soon riots broke out as people chose sides.

Unfortunately, Josaphat was not given the support he should have received from the Latin bishops of Poland because while he advocated unification with Rome he insisted on maintaining Byzantine rites and customs. In the meantime the followers of the bishop of Polosk, Meletius Smotrisky, who had been elected by the group of dissident bishops hatched a plot against Josaphat to drive him from the area. A priest named Elias was sent to harass Josaphat several times. After many warnings he was finally arrested and locked up by one of Josaphat’s deacons on November 12, 1623. However, he was set free shortly after an angry mob assembled, stormed the grounds and broke in demanding his release. They then seized Josaphat shouting, “Kill the papist!” After hitting Josaphat on the head with a halberd and shooting him with a bullet they dragged him from his home and threw him into the Divina River at Vitebsk, Russia.

He was canonized in 1867, the first Eastern saint to be formally canonized for furthering religious unity especially among Christian Churches.

SOURCES of REFERENCE: Butler’s Lives of the Saints – vol. IV pp 337 – 340; The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Saints – p. 250; The Book of Saints – p. 281; and others.

The Catholic Chancellor of Lithuania, Leo Sapieha, fearing that the discord and dissension that St. Josaphat created might make the area politically unstable allowing the neighboring Cossacks to invade, falsely accused Josaphat of fomenting trouble and of using violence and closing down non-Catholic churches. Read more on St. Josephat’s efforts to reunite the Orthodox Church with Rome at our website www.ssaparish.com

…and we are excited to talk about it. Is this a sin of detraction? We have learned that we should not reveal hidden faults of others, even though they are true, without good reason because it damages their good reputation. As they say, “If you cannot speak kindly of someone, say nothing.” We need to control our tongues. There are times, however, when we have to reveal faults of someone for purposes of correction or prevention. For example, a manager has the duty to report the faults of those under his charge, for proper action by a higher officer. This is an obligation of justice, not a sin of detraction. Neither is it a detraction to discuss matters, which are common knowledge to everyone, such as the crime of a person who has been found guilty in court for his offense. But even in such cases, we should not condemn the sinners, but their sins, and to pray for them. Since we do not know their real intentions, we assume ignorance and human weakness instead of malice and bad faith. Even in the worst of circumstances, we make excuses for the evildoers, as we can also act the same way if we suffer the same kind of temptations. “Because God alone is the judge, even angels refrain from accusing sinners before the Lord.” (2Peter 2:10-11)

(Reference: “The Faith Explained Today” by Joe Babendreier; “Guide to Christian Living” by Fr. Marciano Guzman)

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November 10Leo the Great, pope and doctorSt. Leo was probably born in Rome and was raised to the See of Peter in 440. He was a true pastor and father of souls. He labored strenuously to safeguard the integrity of the faith and vigorously defended the unity of the Church. He pushed back or at least softened the onrush of the Barbarians. He has then deservedly won the title “the Great.” He died in 461.

November 11Martin of Tours, bishopSt. Martin of Tours was born in Pannonia of pagan parents around the year 316. He gave up military life and was baptized. Soon after he founded a monastery at Liguge in France where he led a monastic life under the direction of St. Hilary. He was ordained a priest and chosen bishop of Tours. He provided an example of the ideal good pastor, founding other monasteries, educating the clergy, and preaching the Gospel to the poor. He died in 397.

November 13Frances Xavier Cabrini, virginSt. Frances Xavier Cabrini was born in Lombardy, Italy, in 1850. At Codogno, Italy, in the diocese of Lodi, she founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in 1880. In 1887 she established many schools, hospitals and orphanages. With the encouragement of Pope Leo XIII, she set out for the United States in 1889, where, for the next twenty-eight years, she established many schools, hospitals and orphanages. Her missionary zeal also led her to South America where she founded schools in Argentina, Brazil and Nicaragua. Mother Cabrini died in Chicago on December 22, 1917, and on July 7, 1946

she became the first United States citizen to be canonized.

November 15Albert the Great, bishop and doctorSt. Albert was born at Lauingen along the Danube about the year 1206. Having studied at Padua and Paris, he entered the Order of the Preachers and excelled as a teacher. Ordained bishop of Ratisbon, he strove earnestly to establish peace among peoples and between cities. He wrote brilliantly on many subjects to the advantage of sacred and secular sciences alike. He died at Cologne in 1280.

November 16Margaret of ScotlandSt. Margaret was born around the year 1046 in Hungary where her father was exiled. She was married to king Malcolm III of Scotland and gave birth to eight children. The ideal mother and queen, she died at Edinburgh in 1093.

On the same day, November 16Gertrude, virginSt. Gertrude was born at Eisleben in Thuringia in 1256. As a young girl she was received into the Cistercian nuns at Helfta and applied herself to her studies, concentrating on Literature and Philosophy. Devoting her life to God, she dedicated herself to the pursuit of perfection, and gave herself over to prayer and contemplation. She died November 17, 1301.

Reference: Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours. Published and distributed by Paulines Publishing House, Daughters of St. Paul, 2650 F.B. Harrison St., 1300 Pasay City, Phil. 13th printing 2010. ISBN 971-590-357-6.

CALENDAR OF SAINTSFOR THE WEEK

BIRTHDAYS10-Nov-14Nimfa Dumago

11-Nov-14Martin SyquiaAnnalace Gomez

12-Nov-14Manuel HechanovaRenna AngelesMichelle MontelibanoCesar AfableMaria Luisa Ysmael Perez RubioRico Dacut

13-Nov-14Chit MontoyaTeresita ArroyoKaren WestlyApples P. MeerBianca Marie Chua

14-Nov-14Judy GuevarraPebbles Roxas

Nikki CalapatiaBambi RodriguezRoxie MacedaSusan Sare Mariza V. del Rosario

15-Nov-14Lourdes TyAndres ClaparolsRadi CalalangJose Jericho Tupaz VI

16-Nov-14Celia TantocoSofia GomezLore Chan San DiegoGerry CastilloVito CastañedaAnnie LimFranny CaleroBernadette Kahn

For corrections and additions to this list, contact Susan at the parish office.

SSAP Prayer Schedules

LITURGY OF THE HOURSMorning Prayers: Monday to Saturday7:00 am before 7:30 MassEvening Prayers: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdaysafter 6 pm Mass

ROSARYWeekdays, before every Mass

PORZIUNCOLA ADORATION CHAPEL:Open 24 hours

BOOKSTORE HOURS:Open everyday except Mondays: 8:30 am-Noon, 1 pm-5:30 pm

SUNDAY-NOVEMBER 9* 8:00AM - Thrift Shop* 9:15AM - CCD Sunday

Religion Class* 4:00PM - CORO Practice

MONDAY - NOVEMBER 10* 8:00AM - Thrif Shop* 1:30PM - OFS Formation

TUESDAY - NOVEMBER 11* 8:00AM - Thrift Shop* 9:00AM - JPIC Hospital

Ministry PGH Visitation* 2:00PM - Health Care

Ministry Dancersize “Open to All Parishioners”

* 4:00PM - Marian Cenacle Group Prayer meeting

WEDNESDAY - NOVEMBER 12* 8:00AM - Thrift Shop* 4:00PM - CCD Religion

Class

THURSDAY - NOVEMBER 13*8:00AM - Thrift Shop*9:00AM - Health Care

ministry Visitation at Rizal Medical Center, Pasig, City

*7:00PM - SYA prayer meeting

FRIDAY - NOVEMBER 14* 8:00AM - Thrift Shop* 2:00PM - Health Care

Ministry Dancersize “Open to all Parishioners”

* 7:30PM - Household Help Charismatic Prayer Meeting

* 9:00AM - TigAwit Choir Practice

SATURDAY - NOVEMBER 15* 8:00AM - Thrift Shop* 4:00PM - VOSA Choir

Practice* 4:00PM - LUKERS Prayer

Meeting

CALENDAR OF MINISTRIES FOR THE WEEK

Please Pray for the SickMeldy CojuangcoConnie GomezMarilou ArteficioMa. Pilar OledanIggy ClavecillaCecille ReynosoMaxima ‘Amah’ SyAurora GonzalezTommy Dy BuncioNaning BagabaldoRemedios Maceda BerrisCedric CastroAnselmo Trinidad Jr.Pilar del GallegoNena JalandoniRosario LopezVictoriano ChungErlinda Miranda-OledanZwei Lopez GadiShallouh Bancil SwinnertonTony Boy Floirendo Jr.Francisco TankiangCynthia Arms

Felicisimo AlcantaraRosario de Leon TobiasDavid B. LuGloria SyjucoRaffy ChanEdric CoPeter SooChito San JoseRon JacobsNancy ImperialJohnny LopezLisa AlvendiaLetty LigonNorma J. CarlosSony Lopez GonzalezCorazon M. SamaniegoShaina BudhraniGia Gonzalez

If you want a name added or deleted, contact Bernadette at the Parish office tel. nos. 8438830-32.

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WEDDING BANNS08-Nov-14Carlos Muñoa Ortoll, Jr. & Maria Georgina Wieneke Choy, San Agustin Parish, Panglao, Bohol20-Nov-14Bernard Denis Almeda Datoc & Maria Carolina Rivera Cuyco27-Nov-14Jessie C. Limguangco & Karen M. Banque28-Nov-14Henrik O. Resurreccion & Ma. Czarina VictoriaSan Pablo29-Nov-14Emmanuel A. Mangahis & Batalina Lourdes V. Tejerero02-Dec-14Juan Miguel M. Relosa & Princess Joyce T. Canlas03-Dec-14John Vincent Sales Castro & Michelle Olivia Gonzalez Lolim05-Dec-14Tristan Enrico S. Timbol & Nicolai anne B. Terry05-Dec-14Ronald E. Acedillo & Marie Camille C. Paulino07-Dec-14Victor Eleazar SJ Santos & Gemma V. Laderas07-Dec-14Dennis Harvey Choa Gan & Helen Anne Bernardo Sayo10-Dec-14Jason Orenza Rodriguez & Charmaine Villanueva Almodovar10-Dec-14Angelo Roman Estrada Cabalona & Mycah Cortez Sarmiento11-Dec-14Eric Brian I. Añonuevo & Marika Fenella B. Capati

12-Dec-14Brian Joseph G. Sison & Cheryl F. Beltran12-Dec-14Gino San Diego Trinidad & Eryn Jade Echavez de Leon 13-Dec-14Cesario Antonio S. Singzon Jr & Esther Claudine Fernandez Lim13-Dec-14Richard Michael P. Guerrero & Princess Jessan B. Solas18-Dec-14Adrian A. Sanchez & Ma. Cecilia Manalad18-Dec-14Herbert Roy Mirondo Cruz & Maylen Katherine Ponferrada Blanquiso 20-Dec-14John Antony T. Recolito & Maria Cynthia V. Salvador20-Dec-14Kim Loyola Zamora & Jacquelyn Po Chan20-Dec-14Paul John C. Quirante & Mary Abhegael Abonales22-Dec-14Royce Amores Villanueva & Hiromi Yu Alabanza22-Dec-14Deuz Mark Anthon B. Gueriña & Caroline Marcel B. Ramos23-Dec-14Jose Antonio Jobim B. Garcia & Katrina Mae S. Gamponia23-Dec-14Armando Casibang & Ma. Barbara Tarrosa29-Dec-14Syfeuang Maokhamphiou & Melissa Patricia Bautista Ong

05-Jan-15Lenin Ramos Madlangbayan & Shanna Zane Casayuran Delos Santos06-Jan-15Carlo William Evangelista Lim & Patricia Kalaw Feria07-Jan-15Aristotle Tatad Sayas & Ma. Patricia C. Lorenzana09-Jan-15Dennis Cristoffer Babista Tagaza & Marion Angelle Ordas Rivera11-Jan-15Jaime Joseph Trinidad & Stephanie Shaw16-Jan-15Benjamin C. Gadi III & Caroline Jayne P. Del Rosario17-Jan-15Ryan March B. Mateo & Mary Grace Cindy B. Garces18-Jan-15Jan Erwin Manalo Veloso & Ma. Christina Gay Macasieb Dantes23-Jan-15Michael Martin Nomorosa Merchan & Terecy Joyce Pasion Chia24-Jan-15Clarence Paul Aguilar Canlas & April Joy Rogacion Ocampo31-Jan-15John Paul Vizconde Tan & Victoria Margarita Caruncho Espiritu10-Feb-15Raffy R. Leoncio & Maria Elaine Arboleda14-Feb-15Bradlee Zigfrid Cagampan Dungo & Elizabeth Dy Castañeda19-Feb-15Jose Velmore Vidad & Joanna Marie M. Trono

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To Serve Or Not To Serve

I sometimes get asked by people why I became an altar server at my parish or why do I serve at mass? Some would even tease me that I could be doing something else that was fun instead of serving. And to be honest, I never really used to give it much thought. I guess you can say I just found myself serving at mass 4 years ago. How did this happen? Because my older brother was already an altar server at SSAP. So right after my first communion, I found myself serving with him and my dad, who’s a Eucharistic Minister as well.

It was only when the Altar Server Ministry of SSAP was formally formed with my dad as its Ministry Head that I started reflecting on my reasons for serving at mass. For one, I invited my best friend to join the ministry. And it felt really good to be doing something with my best friend that was meaningful. During the orientation, my brother quoted Pope Benedict XVI when he spoke to the new members : “When you’re close to the altar, you’re close to God.” That’s when I started thinking that by serving, I was also getting closer to God and showing my love for him. I realized all of a sudden the true meaning of what we get told during religion class : that God truly loved us so much

that He had given us His only son, Jesus, who in turn, gave up his life so that all of us will be saved. And serving at mass is therefore my way of saying “Thank you” to God.

Our ministry is slowly starting to grow with more young girls and boys signing up to serve at mass. It’s actually fun being able to teach them and eventually seeing them serve on their own. My brother once told me that one day they’ll also be teaching other kids to serve and in fact, some have already brought in their siblings and showing them how to serve. I’m really happy to be a part of this and I’m hoping God is happy, too.

So now, if someone were to ask me whether “to serve or not to serve,” my answer would definitely be a loud YES to serve !

For those interested to be an Altar Server, pls. email ssapaltarserver@gmail.com.

See more pictures of altar servers in action at our website www.ssaparish.com

By : Jonathan Huang

(L-R) Jonathan Huang, Mika Limjoco,David Huang

(L-R) Jonathan Huang, Sophia Montelibano, David Huang

(L-R)Jonathan Huang, Macie Carlos, Nicole Nair, Christie Nair, David Huang

(L-R) David Huang, Coby de Lara,Jonathan Huang