Archbishop Romulo Valles, CBCP President (CBCPNEWS /MANILA BULLETIN)
“Please know that you are prayed for, you are remembered and we are mindful of the great difficulties that many of you working and laboring for many kinds of services,” CBCP President Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles told church-run Radio Veritas.
“Giving St. Joseph as patron saint for workers and of laborers is a sign that the heart and mind of the church is with you,” he added.
The CBCP Episcopal Commission on the Pastoral Care or Migrants and Itinerant People particularly paid tribute to migrants and seafarers.
“Amidst separation from our country and amidst this troubling and trying time of COVID-19 pandemic they continue effectively and efficiently in their work places. We appreciate and grateful for their resiliency, courage and strength to labor harder and honestly for our country and for their family,” CBCP Vice Chairman Bishop Ruperto Santos said in an interview.
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“We are happy to know that in recent days, in true bayanihan spirit, neighborhoods and communities have organized themselves to help needy families, especially with food and other basic necessities,” CBCP President Davao Archbishop Romulo Valles said in a statement Wednesday, April 21.
He urged parishes and religious communities to carry on their charitable works “even if we are all suffering”.
“Let us again challenge ourselves to continue helping the most needy families in our midst,” CBCP News quoted prelate.
Valles issued the statement as community pantries sprouted across the country to help the needy amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
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“With the surge of the coronavirus in the Philippines and especially in our province, I am encouraging all Cagayano faithful to unite ourselves in a particular time of the day to pray for the stop of the spread of the virus,” an advisory from the Office of Archbishop Ricardo Baccay reads.
“Let us toll the bells in all our Churches in the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao at 3 p.m., the Hour of Great Mercy, to invite the people to pause and silence for that purpose,” it further read.
Baccay said churches may also continue the practice of ringing bells at 6 p.m. for the Angelus/Regina Coeli and 8 p.m. for the repose of the souls of the dead to include especially those who died because of the virus.
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Initiated by Saint John Paul II on April 30, 2000 during the canonization of Polish nun Saint Faustina Kowalska, the Apostle of Divine Mercy, devotees habitually recite the Novena and Chaplet of the Divine Mercy every day at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
The world’s tallest statue of the Divine Mercy at 100 feet may be found at the National Shrine of Divine Mercy in Marilao, Bulacan. It was blessed and dedicated during the 4th World Apostolic Congress on Mercy (WACOM) which was held in the country in 2017.
Divine Mercy Sunday focuses on the diary of St. Faustina, who wrote in the 1930s for mankind to know about Jesus’ great mercy and His promise of complete forgiveness of sins on this day.