Gracious and loving God, we thank you for the gift of our priests.
Through them, we experience your presence in the sacraments.

Help our priests to be strong in their vocation.
Set their souls on fire with love for your people.

Grant them the wisdom, understanding, and strength they need to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
Inspire them with the vision of your Kingdom.

Give them the words they need to spread the Gospel.
Allow them to experience joy in their ministry.

Help them to become instruments of your divine grace.

We ask this through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns as our Eternal Priest.

Amen.

Happy 26th Sacerdotal Anniversary, Fr Manoling!

“We are an Easter people, and alleluia is our song.”

TYF is overjoyed to see that two of our Odette rehab partners in Ubay, Bohol used their school facilities for their parishes’ traditional Easter salubong.

The Holy Child Academy, which we featured in an earlier post, used the front of the newly constructed school building for the salubong, while the San Pascual Academy used the school stage, whose rehab was also recently completed with TYF’s financial support.

The children and their families involved in the salubong will surely hold dear these memories of the jubilant resurrection.

From Cenacle Retreat House FB Page:

𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐕𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐥 | 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞

“Tonight, we wish to reflect on this point, that grace proves victorious every step of the way of Jesus’ passion and death as grace proves victorious at the moment of His resurrection. There is only one theme throughout the paschal mystery. There is no victory after defeat. There is only the victory of grace, the victory of divine love throughout the narrative…

…every step of the way of the cross — manifested not the triumph of the evil in human hearts but the triumph of divine love and grace.” - 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘍𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰, 𝘚𝘑’𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬! 🙏🏼💛✨

(𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦: https://www.cenaclephilsing.org/victory-of-grace/)

Some of TYF's Super Typhoon Odette rehabilitation projects are slowly wrapping up.

These ten fishing boats are among the last of 60 that were commissioned by the Diocese of Talibon Social Action Center.

On March 30, the boats were blessed and turned over by Msgr Jonathan Pacudan, parish priest of Santo Niño Parish, Ubay to 10 families in his parish.

As we look forward to the start of a grace-filled Holy Week Triduum, we remember the lines of a favorite song --
"In giving to all that we receive,
and in dying that we're born to eternal life."