The events that first brought Christianity to our shores also brought much division, discrimination, sowing the first seeds of conflict between the Christians, Muslims and Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines.
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This year, 2021, the Philippine Church is celebrating 500 years since the arrival of Christianity. On March 31, 1521 Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet moored at Limasawa Island (Leyte), at the time part of the outlying territory of the Rajahnate (Kingdom) of Butuan (Northern Mindanao)....
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In all circumstances of our life, I believe that God journeys with us accompanies us, and listens to us just like Jesus was with Cleopas and the other companion on the way to Emmaus
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FR. CLARENCE BECKLEY was born on February 8, 1939, in Springville, Iowa. He graduated from Holy Rosary High School in La Motte, Iowa and went to St. Columban’s College, Milton, Massachusetts, USA where he was ordained on December 21, 1966.
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The events that first brought Christianity to our shores also brought much division, discrimination, sowing the first seeds of conflict between the Christians, Muslims and Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines.
In all circumstances of our life, I believe that God journeys with us accompanies us, and listens to us just like Jesus was with Cleopas and the other companion on the way to Emmaus
This year we are celebrating 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines. We thank and praise God for the gift of our faith. With the theme “Gifted to Give”, we are all challenged to deepen our faith further and to share this precious gift to others.
Our faith has continued to grow and develop in so far as we have been able to respond to all these new challenges. It is thanks to the wisdom and faith-commitment of the people with whom we have lived and worked over the years that God has allowed our Columban Mission to evolve into what it is today. We can look back with immense gratitude, as we face an uncertain future with renewed joy and hope.
As we mark 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines, we celebrate the ways in which our faith in Christ has grown up and come of age – how it has learned to respond confidently and courageously, in the face of injustice, greed and conflict, with acts of justice, truth and compassion.
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