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Saturday, May 21, 2022

choose life: the JP II story

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THE POPE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ABORTED

John Paul II’s mom chose life after her doctor advised an abortion

Over one hundred years ago on May 18, Emilia Wojtyla gave birth to her second son, Karol, after a difficult and life-threatening pregnancy. The child would grow up to be St. John Paul II.

She had to choose between her own life and that of the baby she was carrying, but her deep faith did not allow Emilia to choose abortion.

Deep in her heart she had to be ready to make this sacrifice for the baby she was carrying.

Emilia Wojtyla was depressed by the insistence of her first doctor, Dr. Jan Moskała, that she have an abortion.

Emilia and Karol Wojtyla made a bold decision that, regardless of everything, their conceived baby was to be born. And so they started looking for another doctor.

They ultimately chose Dr. Samuel Taub, a Jewish doctor from Krakow, who had moved to Wadowice after the First World War. The doctor confirmed that there was a risk of complications during childbirth, including Emilia's death. However, he did not suggest an abortion.

Emilia had a bad pregnancy: she spent most of her time lying down.

On the day of the birth, May 18, 1920, Emilia lay in her apartment in Kościelna street, in the living room … in the presence of a midwife.

At the same time Karol Sr. and their 13-year-old son Edmund had gone out around 5 p.m. to participate in the prayer of the Divine Office in the parish church across the street where they sang the Litany of Loreto.

Emilia asked the midwife to open the window: she wanted the first sound her son could hear to be a song in honor of Mary. In short, Emilia Wojtyla gave birth to her son, listening to the song of the Litany of Loreto.

St. John Paul II also told his personal secretary Stanislaw Dziwisz that he was born to the litany in honor of the Mother of God, she said, adding that he was elected pope at the same time of day that he was born.

Excerpts from CNA and author Milena Kindziuk
It was quiet a touching story of beloved Pope John Paul II who’s now a Saint. Both his life and that of his mother is worthy of emulation. 
Happy Billeted Birthday Pope Saint John Paul II
Long Live the Church!
Augustine Mario

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venerable teofilo camomot of cebu 2022 may 21

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Great News | THE VENERABLE TEOFILO BASTIDA CAMOMOT
Titular Archbishop of Clysma
Founder of the Congregation of Santa Teresa
(1914-1988)

 On May 21, 2022 the Holy Father Pope Francis authorized Marcello Cardinal Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation of the Causes of Saints in the Vatican, to promulgate a decree on the heroic virtues of the Servant of God Archbishop Teofilo Bastide Camomot, granting him the title of Venerable.

 Archbishop Teofilo Camomot was born on March 3, 1914 in Carcar, Cebu. He was ordained to the priesthood on December 15, 1941. He was nominated Auxiliary Bishop of Archbishop Jose Cuenco of Jaro. The episcopal consecration took place at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Cebu on March 26, 1955. Three years after, on June 10, 1958, he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Archbishop James Hayes of Cagayan de Oro. He founded the Carmelite Tertiaries of the Blessed Eucharist in Misamis Occidental in November 1959. This would later become the Congregation of Santa Teresa. After staying for 12 years in Cagayan de Oro, he resigned as Coadjutor Archbishop and returned to Cebu in 1970. He died in a vehicular accident on September 27, 1988. He was then 74 years old. His dedication to the poor and detachment from material possessions were the trademarks of his ministry.

 Known for his fame of sanctity during his life, his death and after his death, the diocesan process of the cause of his beatification and canonization was opened for the first time in the archdiocese of Cebu on December 27, 2010 during the incumbency of Ricardo Cardinal Vidal. Upon the advise of the Congregation of the Causes of Saints, Archbishop Jose Palma authorized the reopening of the diocesan process on the life, virtues and fame of sanctity of the Servant of God Archbishop Teofilo Camomot. The process started on January 5, 2016 until March 2, 2017. In the course of this process, 45 witnesses who knew him personally were interviewed. The Congregation of the Causes of Saints granted the Decree of Validity of the Diocesan Process on November 19, 2015. The “Positio” on the life, virtues and fame of sanctity of Archbishop Camomot was submitted to the Congregation in 2020. The Special Congress composed of 9 Theological Consultants gave their unanimous approval on the heroic virtues of Camomot on October 21, 2021. The Cardinals and Bishops in the Ordinary Session of May 3, 2022, chaired by Marcello Cardinal Semeraro, have affirmed that the Servant of God exercised the theological, cardinal and concomitant virtues to a heroic degree.  

 After the presentation of these facts to the Supreme Pontiff Francis through an accurate report of Marcello Cardinal Semeraro, on May 21, 2022 His Holiness, having accepted and approved the decision of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, ordered that the Decree to this effect be made public and placed among the Acts of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.

Salamat sa Dios!

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Friday, May 20, 2022

fr leo anthony hofstee, op (+1986): the sunshine of tala

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Monday, May 2, 2022

thank you st joseph the worker 2022 may 1

THANK YOU, ST. JOSEPH THE WORKER for sending kuya bob to help us fix the burst old pipes (most probably the old metal pipes subject to rusting, including PVCs) replaced by new PPR prior to, during, & after your feastday of may 1, 2022!