Santuario de San Antonio Parish Office • Tel. nos. 8438830-31

Forbes Park, MakatiAugust 28, 2016

We Care Because We Pray

www.ssaparish.com22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

We Care Because We Pray

Sometimes the first step we take is the beginning of a journey that leads us to a thousand miles.The SSAP Scholarship Program began that way in 1996 when our parish started a Scholarship Program with P400,000, funds earned from the previous year’s FrancisFest. Twelve young boys from the poorest areas of Makati were chosen to learn a trade at Don Bosco Technical School. More and more applicants came each year, so that Monark Foundation, Inc., Punlaan School, and Manila (formerly Maligaya) Institute were added as partner schools for vocational/technical courses, opening scholarships to girls as well. When needy and promising applicants for college came knocking, the Scholarship

SSAP Scholarship Program by Millete Ocampo

committee widened its wings and accepted them to our program.

Funds allocated to the SSAP Scholarship Program from FrancisFest support our technical/vocational scholars. Our budget for each scholar is approximately P50,000 a year to cover tuition, food and transportation allowance,

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step

Lao Tze, Chinese philosopher

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English Tutorial with Sir Renan Prado

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plus expenses for various Values Formation programs that help enhance the scholars’ personalities. This school year, the parish allotted P1.450 Million to the Scholarship Program, allowing us to take in 28 technical /vocational scholars.

In addition, we have 19 college scholars who are funded separately by generous parishioners who answer our appeal for sponsorship in the Parish Bulletin before the beginning of each school year. They are not included in the budget allotted to us by the parish.

Sponsored youth all have dreams of helping their parents uplift their lives. Most of them succeed, braving distance and traffic, heat and rain, and stringent living conditions away from home, to pursue their goals. We have gem graduates, achievers who excelled in school and in their jobs, who take pride in being able to help their families, send a sibling to school, and start their own families and homes. We have graduated almost a thousand scholars and lives have been changed!

Walk with us and take the first step of a journey of a thousand miles…. donate to FrancisFest 2016 for our vocational/technical scholars, sponsor a college scholar in full, or sponsor his/her tuition, or transportation, or food allowance.

(For more information on how to sponsor a scholar, please call Jackie, our socio-pastoral worker, at Tel. No. 843-8830 Line 4, or visit us at the San Antonio Parish office.)

SSAP Scholarship Program from page 1

Christmas party & homecoming of past scholars

Cluster groupings

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Santuario de San Antonio Pastoral TeamFr. Baltazar A. Obico, OFM - GuardianFr. Reu Jose C. Galoy, OFM - Vicar Provincial, Parish PriestFr. Mark Adame G. Bakari, OFM - BusarFr. Jesus E. Galindo, OFM - MemberFr. Efren C. Jimenez, OFM - Member

RDIP - PB Editorial Team & General InformationSuzette H. Gatmaitan – Head, RDIP-PBMarilou Consing – Editor in ChiefJavier Luis Gomez - Assistant EditorEarl Leonard Sebastian - Assistant EditorHannah Roa - Assistant EditorMarie Tycangco - Assistant EditorJeannie Bitanga – Website AdministratorAlexa Montinola - Assistant Website AdministratorEdward Lu – Art & DesignColorplus Production Group Corp. – Production

Santuario de San Antonio Parish Center Office Tel. nos. 8438830-31Email: ssap_info@yahoo.comWebsite: www.ssaparish.comWebsite email: webi@ssaparish.comFoundation website: www.santuariodesanantonio.org

Parish Pastoral Council Edmund Lim, KHS – PresidentCristina Teehankee – Vice PresidentSuzette H. Gatmaitan – Secretary

We have graduated almost a thousand scholars and lives

have been changed!

Granduation picnic at Miriam Mini Forest

Chefs in the making at Maligaya Institute

Values Formation Talk by Mariza del Rosario

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SANTUARIO DE SAN ANTONIO PARISH Presents

F R A N C I S F E S T 2016 Featuring

The Orchestra of the Filipino Youth and

Brian Berino Pianist

On Monday, October 3, 2016 at 7 o’clock in the evening

Conducted by MAESTRO OLIVIER OCHANINE

For the benefit of Santuario de San Antonio Parish’s Outreach Programs, For the Franciscan Priestly Formation (3rd & 4th year Theology Students – OLAS),

For the Franciscan mission in poor and rural parishes in Luzon, And for the preservation and improvement of our Parish Church.

We invite families - parents and children - to share their blessings and store up treasures in heaven.

Any amount, big or small, is most welcome.

INDIVIDUAL/FAMILY DONATION PACKAGES

( ) DIAMOND - Php 600,000.00 & up ( ) BRONZE - Php 200,000.00 Entitlements include: Entitlements include:

§ Acknowledgement in Parish Bulletin * Acknowledgement in Parish Bulletin § 12 Complimentary Concert Tickets * 4 Complimentary Concert Tickets § Acknowledgement in and Copy of * Acknowledgement in and Copy of

FrancisFest 2016 Souvenir Program FrancisFest 2016 Souvenir Program

( ) PLATINUM - Php 500,000.00 ( ) PATRON - Php 100,000.00 Entitlements include: Entitlements include:

§ Acknowledgement in Parish Bulletin * Acknowledgement in Parish Bulletin § 10 Complimentary Concert Tickets * 3 Complimentary Concert Ticket § Acknowledgement in and Copy of * Acknowledgement in and Copy of

FrancisFest 2016 Souvenir Program FrancisFest 2016 Souvenir Program

( ) GOLD - Php 400,000.00 ( ) DONOR - Php 50,000.00 Entitlements include: Entitlements include:

§ Acknowledgement in Parish Bulletin * Acknowledgement in Parish Bulletin § 8 Complimentary Concert Tickets * 2 Complimentary Concert Tickets § Acknowledgement in and Copy of * Acknowledgement in and Copy of FrancisFest 2016 Souvenir Program FrancisFest 2016 Souvenir Program

( ) SILVER - Php 300,000.00 ( ) FRIENDS OF ST. FRANCIS Entitlements include: - Php5,000.00 to Php 20,000.00

§ Acknowledgement in Parish Bulletin Entitlements include: § 6 Complimentary Concert Tickets * Acknowledgement in Parish Bulletin § Acknowledgement in and Copy of * Acknowledgement in FrancisFest 2016

§ FrancisFest 2016 Souvenir Program Souvenir Program

§ §

( ) YOUTH DONATIONS – Any amount to support our benefiaries. We encourage the Youth in our Parish – all ages – to also be instruments

of God’s love by sharing a portion of their own savings with those who have less. Entitlements:

• Acknowledgement in Parish Bulletin • Special page for YOUTH DONORS in FrancisFest 2016 Souvenir Program

PLS FAX THIS CONTRACT TO: SANTUARIO DE SAN ANTONIO PARISH Tel Nos. 843-8830 * Fax No. 843-9223

Edmund Lim Mobile No. 0917-525 5379 Email Add: elim@tri_isys.com Tina Teehankee Mobile No. 0917-819-1649, 0908-812-1753 Email Add: clteehankee@yahoo.com

Office Address: McKinley Road, Forbes Park, Makati City

Donor Information

Individual/ Family Name: _______________________________________________________

Address_____________________________________________________________________________

Tel # : _____________________ Fax # :__________________Mobile # : ________________________

E-mail Address: ______________________________________________________________________

Signatory: _____________________________________ Title: _________________________________ Please sign over printed name Please make check payable to SSAP Foundation, Inc.

How You Can Help

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THE ABC’S OF CATHOlIC DOCTRInE by Lianne Tiu

August 28, 2016

Most people start with the intention of being faithful to their vows, whether in marriage or in religious life. However, when the newness starts to wear off, when the road gets difficult because of boredom, weaknesses, and problems, it becomes more challenging to live fidelity.

Here are some tips on how to stay faithful:

• Realize that many times, you will not be faithful.

• Make an effort to remain faithful. It is not easy but it is possible. It gets more difficult in a generation of instant gratification that does not consider long-term consequences.

• Stay away from occasions of sin:

Avoid over-familiarity with someone of the opposite sex: Stay away from meeting with him/her alone behind closed doors, or from being physically or emotionally intimate.

Guard your eyes: Avoid surfing off-limits websites, or watching indecent movies, or gazing at women’s legs and cleavages or men’s bodies.

Be on guard at the workplace or on social network: Reject getting in touch with old flames, or making new friends on the internet.

Everything starts as an innocent activity that becomes a potential threat to fidelity.

• Love and give unconditionally. Selflessness is a key to a healthy relationship.

• Forgive. Forgiveness will bring peace to your heart.

• Pray! Find quiet time everyday to converse with God; share with Him your joys and sorrows. Keep turning to Him.

• Be humble. Pride destroys relationships. Be sorry for your mistakes. Go to the Sacrament of Penance.

• Be faithful in big things as well as in small things. Blessed Mother Teresa said, “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” Aside from physical infidelity, other types of cheating which should be avoided are mental infidelity (the practice of fantasizing about other partners) and emotional infidelity (sharing your inner self with someone else).

• Receive Holy Communion often. Jesus will preserve you from unfaithfulness.

• Have devotion to the Blessed Virgin. No one was more faithful to Jesus than Mary. She is the‘royal road’to live fidelity to your vows.

Reference: Staying Faithful Everyday (myrealmariage.com); Teachings of St. Josemaria Escriva; www.sistersofmary.org; www.catholic.org; “Commitment and Faithfulness in Relationships” by Dr. Bill Strom

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Parish Bulletin

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August 28, 2016

SUNDAY - AUGUST 28* 8:00AM - Thrift Shop* 9:00AM - CCD Religion Class* 4:00PM - CORO Practice

MONDAY - AUGUST 29*8:00AM - Thrift Shop*8:00AM - Livelihood Assistance

Program at St. Francis Friendship Home

*1:00PM - OFS Formation

TUESDAY - AUGUST 30*8:00AM - Thrift Shop*8:00AM - Livelihood Assistance

Program at St.Francis Friendship Home

*9:00AM - JPIC Hospital Ministry PGH Visitation

*2:00PM - Health Care Ministry Dancercise “Open to all Parishioners”

*4:00PM - Marian Cenacle Group Prayer Meeting

WEDNESDAY - AUGUST 31*8:00AM - Thrift Shop*8:00AM - Livelihood Assistance

Program at St.Francis Friendship Home

*8:00AM - JPIC-Scholars Committee Planning Meeting

*4:00PM - CCD Religion Class

THURSDAY - SEPTEMBER 1*8:00AM - Thrift Shop*8:00AM - Livelihood Assistance

Program at St.Francis Friendship Home

*9:00AM - Health Care Ministry Visitation at Rizal Medical Center, Pasig City

*2:00PM - Health Care Ministry Dancercise “Open to All Parishioners”

FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 2*8:00AM - Thrift Shop*8:00AM - Livelihood Assistance

Program at St. Francis Friendship Home

*3:00PM - Health Care Ministry monthly healing mass

*6:30PM - Men of the Sacred Heart Monthly Meeting

*7:00PM - Household Help Charismatic Prayer Meeting

*9:00PM - Tig-awit Choir Practice

SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER 3* 7:30AM - JPIC Scholars Tutorial* 8:00AM - Thrift Shop* 9:00AM - JPIC Scholars Committee

Meeting & Parish Involvement

*4:00PM - VOSA Practice*4:00PM - LUKE 18 Prayer Meeting

David LuConnie GomezMarilou ArteficioVictoria Kate de VeneciaMa. Pilar OledanPhilip Cuazon, Sr.Iggy ClavecillaAfrica and Cecile ReynosoMaxima “Amah” SyAurora GonzalezTommy Dy BuncioNaning BagabaldoRemedios Maceda BerrisCedric CastroPilar del GallegoNena JalandoniVictoriano ChungErlinda Miranda-OledanZwei Lopez GadiShallouh Bancil SwinnertonFrancisco TankiangCynthia ArmsFelicisimo AlcantaraRosario de Leon TobiasGloria SyjucoRaffy ChanEdric Co

Peter SooChito San JoseNancy ImperialJohnny LopezLisa AlvendiaLetty LigonNorma J. CarlosSony Lopez GonzalezShaina BhudhraniGia GonzalezOrlando BernardoRolando SotasoCecilio HidalgoVictorina LeusIya OcampoBernadette GonzaliGuillermo ProfetaDra. Ofelia AdaponSoldedad T. ConsingJulius Cesar SamaniegoRamon Palanca

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

PARISH AnnOUnCEMEnTS

CAlEnDAR OF MInISTRIES FOR THE WEEK PlEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK

HEALING MASSFirst Friday • September 2, 2016 at 3PM

Ground Floor, Parish Center

...when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.

Luke 14:1.7-14

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