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Episode Title: The Fiat of Mary and How It Proceeded Salvation through Jesus

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Mary’s “Yes” was an important turning point in world history. More than its religious aspects, the fiat was serving the much-awaited Hope that the world has waited for so long since Adam and Eve. Through Mary’s love of God and her indisputable Faith to Him, she was serving the human race with the same faith, hope, and love that generates forth the Gospels. It is in the same Gospels that we have continued to believe in and revered the Way, the Truth, and the Life, who is Christ the Lord.

Highlight points:

Mary’s Yes as a catalyst of one’s individual faith in Jesus.
The fiat as a procession of salvation promised in the Scriptures
Mary’s affirmation to God’s will as avenue to accepting the Catholic faith

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The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is, by far, one of the most glorious events in Church history. It has defined generations of faith and reverence to the grace of the Almighty God. Through her singular grace of Immaculate Conception, the Lord did not allow the earth to corrupt her most sanctified body but, instead, took her physical and spiritual self into Heaven. More than just being a vessel of salvation, the Blessed Virgin is highly dignified of the singular salvation that only a few of the holy men have received throughout the history of the world.

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The importance of the Assumption of Mary
The promise behind the singular grace of Mary’s assumption
The essence of the Assumption of Mary to our Christian lives

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To end our Flores de Mayo celebration, it is time to ask ourselves what it really means to be Christian. It is appropriate now that we measure the simplicity of our Christian living - how we are more inclined to goodness and practice of love than just mere spoken or acted belief. The whole point of having the Flores de Mayo celebration is to recalibrate everyone back to the Christian life that can be practiced by every faithful, even in the simplest of ways yet enveloped with profound love to God and to our brothers and sisters.

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The importance of living a simple life that is rooted in love
The notion of deep faith in terms of living a Christian life
How can a Christian stay faithful, hopeful, and charitable through the simplest actions?

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Christianity, as we know it, is more than just a way of life. It is a cause that brings us all together as a family, as a community, and as a communion of souls united in the spirit of Love and Mercy, guarded by the virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love. To be a Christian in the modern world is to be a continuum of the early Christians who continue to hold on to faith in Jesus. It is about representing Christ in a world that is driven by materialistic causes, selfish intentions, and insecure notions of the self. Christianity is a guide to Life, to be able to live Life and live it to the fullest of goodness and grace.

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The essence of Christianity in the lives of the faithful.
The Pentecost for those who haven’t realized Christ in their lives
The Holy Spirit to the Catholics, non-Catholics, and non-believers

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Just like the season of Spring, the Catholic Church is always at a point of rejuvenation. This is how the Church survived two thousand years of faith. It is in the constant adoption of the ancient mysticism that the rituals of the Church perpetuate. Also, the month is dedicated to the Mother of God simply because she is the point of origin of the Catholic faith.

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The reason why we celebrate the Flowers of May in honor of the Mother of God
The Call to Renewal on the Faith of every Christian
An Invitation to Joining the Month-long Celebration through virtual catechism

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In light of the modern-day Catholic Christian teachings, beliefs, and practices, what is the relevance of the devotion to the faithful’s everyday life? What does it entail to trust Jesus amidst all the doubts and worries hurled to us by the trends of the modern world? How is the devotion of Divine Mercy a helpful guide to our faith, hope, and love in the Lord?

As we move towards the greatest obstacle of our generation, we need to be more receptive to the grace of God’s Divine Mercy. With all the hardships, we are truly grateful to have a God who doesn’t weigh much on our actions but our openness to His constant mercy and forgiveness. Our daily lives have been utterly demanding especially now that we need to work harder to survive the current pandemic and all other life challenges. Yet, Jesus is always there to remind us to trust Him more than we trust ourselves. Our devotion is measured by how much we trust in divine grace and, through the devotion of Divine Mercy, we can deepen it and make it our humble guide to life.

To trust Jesus despite the oppositions of reality we continuously face at every waking moment is to put our will to Him, model our thoughts, words, and actions like His. It is to ultimately submit ourselves to His divine love and mercy more so when we fail to fulfill our Christian duties. Our world today is calling more on loving oneself, yet it has disregarded the core value of loving God above everything else as well as loving our brethren. To submit in Divine Mercy and to trust in Jesus is to fulfill our Christian mission in loving God above everything else and loving others as much as the self.

My dear friends, the institution of the Sunday of Mercy on the eighth day of the Easter Octave is linked to the Resurrection and how this momentous event in Christian history procures the devotion of Mercy and Love of God towards His beloved creation, who is now His children. It is on this devotion that the Lord shrouds us in His fatherly love, envelops us in the protection of Mercy and Compassion regardless of our sins, and His plea to conversion, to constant belief in His presence, His affection, and, ultimately, His love for all of us. Divine Mercy is the link to the theological virtues and the Way where we can all see God at the end of our lives.

May we all, today, confidently profess to His Divine Mercy by saying, “Jesus, I trust in You”

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As we begin proclaiming the greatest news of all, our Christianity may have come along with doubts and fears. What’s in it for me that the Lord has risen from the dead? How does our Christianity become solidified by the faith in the Risen Lord? What is the message of the Resurrection to our modern-day Christian life?

Christ’s resurrection wasn’t God’s selfish attempt to make Himself known. It was a selfless call and foresight borne to us with a promise that, soon, we will also rise from the dead and live with our Creator, Savior, and Sanctifier, who is God eternal. Our Lord’s rising from the dead is an affirmation that Death is a conquerable human nature through trusting oneself to the will of God. His resurrection is what brings us hope of the eternal life promised to us in our daily covenant with our Divine Creator. His conquest of death solidifies the faith planted in our hearts from the moment our God created us in His image and likeness. His promise “of life of the world to come” (Nicene Creed) is His undying act of love that brought everyone back to the Father. All these are fulfilled according to the will of the One who created us, saved us, and sanctified us in spirit and truth.

Christianity is nothing without this momentous event. It is the very reason why we hold high regards to the Easter octave where we remember how we are as Christians, as children of the One True God -- Father, Son, and Spirit -- and the core tenents of our doctrines and magisterium. The Holy Church, in all aspects, is essenced from Easter morning. Totally and undoubtingly believing in the resurrection of our Lord and Savior strengthens everything we have held dear in our Christian faith.

The Resurrection of our Lord on the easter morning of the Third Day after His triumph on the Cross signifies a promise to all who heed the call of sacrifice out of Love. It is an invitation to faith, open access to the fount of Mercy where the Lord calls upon all of us - including those too much indulged into the modernity of the world, and a beacon of hope that the promise of Eternal Salvation through Divine Charity and utmost submission to God’s Holy Will is not negotiable nor discriminatory. Modern-day Catholicism and Christianity have hurled all of us towards an inevitable doubt towards what happened on Easter Sunday, but it is also solidifying the shroud of mystery that continuously nourish us to believing all the more our Christian values, our Catholic catechisms, and our deep devotions to the Lord through our union with all who believed in the resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Happy Easter, my dear brothers and sisters, and may the Risen Lord bless us all, keep us safe from the wraths of sin and death, and bring us to everlasting life.

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Friends, true love requires sacrifice and hardships. It is what our Lord had promulgated as the universal law of charity. None can ever express true love without experiencing first the hardships and tribulations in doing it. No one truly loves while keeping a safer stand. This act, my dear friends, is the message of the Cross - we are bound to love through hardships as our God was bound to sacrifice His divinity to be with us, His creation, and express His love for us. The cross, more than anything else, is a symbol of Love that transcends all generations. It is a powerful yet humble reminder of how God, in His majesty, chose to love His creation and even laid down His mortal life to save mankind, who is His beloved.

But why did God do it? Why did the Lord undergo all of it rather than use His almighty power to disperse the wrath of sin and death from His creation? It’s all on the law God has established on Love and Mercy. While He has given essence to this universal law, He is also subjected to it. God wasn’t exempted from the law of Love where sacrifice has to be made for Him to express His love to His creation. The Lord also showed us that even He has to go through it all to love and be loved. The Calvary experience is both a call to love and to be loved. The Cross was, is, and will always be a sign of ultimate universal love that conquers all, even death and sin. Our God pinned to the cross is a picture of Love that cannot be disputed nor doubted. Jesus Christ has shown us the way to love God through our love to our dearest brethren, including those outside our circle of faith.

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the Lord’s Passion is our roadmap towards knowing and understanding Love. It is our guide towards deepening the faith we hold dear from the moment of our baptism. It is our beacon of light that keeps us illuminated on our journey towards Him. Through our commemoration of the Paschal mystery, we are indulged in the special love the Lord has shown us. Through remembering the suffering Lord on the cross, we are reminded of the true value of love. Through our deep anticipation of His second coming, we are prepared for the life of the world to come. Through Jesus, we are all part of the family that God has created through His establishment of Love and Mercy to the universe. The Holy Week is the ultimate season where we remember all these, remind ourselves of the Love the Lord has shown us on the cross, and preparing us to embrace the kind of love we ought to show our brethren through our acceptance of the suffering, as much as Lord has accepted the Cross to show us how much He loves us all.

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As a Catholic who shares in the universal communion with the Almighty and the entire congregation of the faithful - alive or departed - the Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion is more than just the commencement of the holiest week in our doctrinal foundations. It was also a reminder for us to uphold the new law instilled in our hearts from the moment of conception up until the last ash in our body. It is also the spark of the new movement that we remember annually on the powers of Faith, Hope, and Love that is the core tenet of our spirits in connection to the One who has created us, loves us, and even willing to save us from the destructive force of death and sin. Truly, we are humbled to be participating in this auspicious moment in universal history where God meets Man and embraces him to salvation through the new law He will forever inscribe in our hearts and souls.

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The season of Lent isn’t a black hole in Catholic history that withholds us from gaining happiness. Rather, it is the constant reminder that our happiness and freedom come from God alone, and His suffering on the cross reminds us of His covenant to happiness and grace for His beloved creation. He suffered because He loves us so much, even unto death on the cross He shall bear to constantly remind us of that joyous Love He bore for us. Lent is about turning around from our selfish ways and looking up to God who, in His glory and power, has looked down on us, humbled himself, and become a part of Creation to display His union with us. The suffering is our constant union that we are never alone. God, whilst abounded in grace, is willing to show love in the fruits of suffering and torment. True Love, in God’s majestic plan, is that of “giving one’s life to another” (John 15:13).

Suffering and atonement are two distinct acts yet deeply intertwined in God’s love. We all suffer because we love, and we atone because we wanted to remain in the oneness of God’s love to His creation. We are bound to be with God, but we must also do our part to enjoin the spirit of suffering and penance to our daily acts. On a human perspective, to suffer and become repentant isn’t human nature. It bores divine roots and can teach us ways on how to be faithful, hopeful, and to love like the Lord who is the tenet of Faith, Hope, and Love - our ultimate Christian virtues.

To suffer is also to stay away from what holds us here on earth and become universally connected to the Divine, which is partly essenced by the spirit that gave us life. Our soul, as universal and cosmic, is God’s gift to man whom He shaped from the ashes of Eden to give us the experience of divine charity and universality, which is resonant of the Lord’s life, death, and resurrection as a salvific act to His beloved. The spirit we bore inside and driving us towards our salvation requires a test of fire - the suffering we have to endure to purify us of our material intentions and polish our spirits to become worthy of the Almighty’s grace - and through God’s example on the cross, we now know how to be at one with the Lord’s divinity and forgo the material attachment we have.

As we begin the season of Lent, may we all be reminded of the Lord’s weary and how it supersedes the material worries we have. May the ashes remind us that we aren’t born to be great, but to do great for the glory of the One who has created us. May the palm’s broken ashes remind us of the humility we have to bear to obtain the salvation we all long for while we live, protect us from all our temptations, and constantly remind us of the Love that God has gratuitously given us, alongside His Faith and Hope that connects Him and His beloved creation.

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My dear friends, we share the same experience with the one person who was also in the same shoes with us during her time. A gracious lady was once a troubled person who wasn’t even sure of the tomorrow she’ll face. Following the wars happening around her, the oppressions from foreigners invading her homeland, and the uncertainties on whether a Savior is coming, she chose to contemplate on her environment and sought God in the midst of it all. She fervently prayed for the salvation of the world. She chose to maintain her silence and look inside it to find God amidst the noise of war, famine, and worldwide catastrophe. Most importantly, she prayed for her Messiah. This is how she was destined to become the Mother of our Lord.

The Blessed Virgin Mary is the epitome of a Catholic despite the troubles surrounding her. She is the perfect example of perfect humility whilst challenged to bear the greatest gift she received from the Almighty. She is the ultimate reason why a Catholic is born from enduring the torments of everyday life. She is the Mother of God.

As a Catholic facing the pandemic, we hope for the new year of 2021 to become more about us, to come in our advantage. However, it isn’t the essence of our Christianity. As the Church strategically placed the celebration of the Theotokos on new year’s day, she reminded us that our new year is bound to start with the ways our dear Mother Mary followed - in total contemplation and communication with the will of God. Her “yes” was, is always, and will always be, the point of origin of our faith. Through her relentless trust in the salvific power of God, she experienced hope amidst undying despair. In her hopes of bringing the world towards the fulfillment of God’s ultimate messianic plan, she introduced Love to us - who is the Lord Jesus Christ.

My dear friends, as we close the year 2020 and welcome the year 2021, may we remind ourselves of the true meaning of a new beginning. As Catholics, we are always called to an everyday renewal of our baptismal vows. Like Mary who renewed her deep devotion to God every single day of her life through prayer, adoration, and contemplation of the Scriptures, we are called to renew our devotion to God, uphold a deeper contemplation to the Gospels, and indulge our souls to a fount of prayer, charity, and complete desire to become examples of Jesus in this world. We are Catholics born from the affirmation of the Mother of God, placed under her motherly guidance, and brought up to salvation through her maternal intercession to our Lord and God.

Happy New Year to all of us. Let us keep safe and return to God while we still can.

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On this day, we are commemorating the biggest event in human history. It was on a momentous night, over two thousand years ago, when God had fulfilled His promise to the people of the world - salvation from the wrath of sin and death. Today, “the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14a)

My dear friends, Jesus is the ultimate promise of the Father, the paramount of His Love and Mercy to His creation. Through Him, everything was renewed in ways we can never imagine. In His birth, we are now experiencing the kind of hope we have never experienced in our wretched lives. In His humble nativity, we are rekindled to the faith we ought to give to our Lord and God. In His joyous coming, we are exposed to a deeper kind of love that only the Lord can provide us.

So today, my dear friends, let us light our Christmas candles and remember that Jesus is “the light of the world” (John 8:12)

But, with what is happening around us, do we really deserve the kind of love, the type of hope, and the aspect of faith endowed to us in Baptism? Are we also rekindled in our mission as Catholics given the fact we are all locked away because of the pandemic? What’s left in the glad tidings knowing we cannot celebrate it fully for fear of death and afflictions brought by the coronavirus disease? What is the true essence of Christmas that makes it worth celebrating even in times when we’re no longer sure.

Pandemic or not - Jesus is the reason we celebrate Christmas. There is nothing more than that. Christmas is more than just giving gifts and hosting parties. We are called to celebrate Christmas as a solemn remembrance that our loving God once made a huge decision that saved us all - to become a human being like us and show us the way to salvation Himself. The essence of Christmas is love, and through the love we can show to each other despite the limitations we face, we can celebrate Christmas just the way it should be. The mission isn’t about becoming a pompous Catholic. The mission is to be Catholic who is one with the Church in celebrating the joy of the season and salvation through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

My dear friends, the true essence of Christmas is love. In love, we find light and joy. In Jesus, we find the same because He is love. The essentials of a solemn Christmastide is not what is displayed on the table or what is wrapped beneath those gift boxes. It is in our faith that we remember how He loves us so much that he endured everything - from the moment of His humble birth up to His death on the Cross. Through the mysteries of our faith we draw Hope that will inspire us to become a better Catholic, to remain universal in our truths and affections, to be more encouraging to those who are losing it all, and to show them what it’s like to trust God above everything else. Through Hope, we enjoy the fruits of Love that were endowed to us by the Lord, who is the Holy Spirit, where we can show the world that the only way to salvation is through loving one another, not just in romantic or filial sense but a kind of love that endures everything just to make everyone feel it. It is the true meaning of Christmas. It is the ultimate reason we celebrate it year after year. It is what makes Christmas the best time of the year.

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My dear friends, Jesus is the same - yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). There is nothing more relevant than this universal truth. Despite the pandemic, the pressure of keeping our economics and well-being in check, we can celebrate the fact that we are loved, we are shown mercy, we are given compassion despite the troubles and shortcomings we have incurred in our lives.

Advent is the reminder for the modern-day Catholics that there is always hope alongside faith and love. We are baptized not just to a religion but to a pathway of salvation that takes us to God through our actions and our graces. We are given a chance of a lifetime to become better in a world where everything seems to go downhill. We are Catholics with universal traits of piety, charity, and humility that continues to guide us no matter what happens in our lives.

Much of the health restrictions may have hindered us from celebrating Mass, attending important events as Christians, and enjoying the blessings of the Church, but we can never be stopped from being the spitting image of Jesus to the world. We are celebrating Advent because we wait for the world to completely accept Jesus. We are waiting for His inevitable coming that will prove the world that there is nothing more important than loving God and our dear brothers and sisters, regardless of age, gender, race, and social status.

As we celebrate a Year of Mission to the Nations, a year that we can foster care and charity to everyone like the Church’s great protector, Saint Joseph, we are called to prepare ourselves to engage in a mission that is grounded in the doctrines and magisteria of the Church. While we think that being sent on a mission requires mobility, today’s generation has a lot of tools that can continue to bring glad tidings to the world without going out of our homes. While we are all called to go out and preach the Gospel, show love and mercy to the least of our brethren, we can still lead a good example to everyone through our social media platforms. We can remain devout to the season of Advent through giving the world an idea of how wonderful it is to be part of the Mission that Christ has given us from His birth until the day He will come again.

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Pope Francis quotes in his letter how Saint Joseph, “in every situation, declared his own ‘fiat’, like those of Mary at the Annunciation and Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.” In this affirmation, he found joy throughout his life. Yes, he has endured a lot like his spouse and adopted son, but he never felt bad or disheartened about it.

The Advent season of this year is no different than that of the first advent. Joseph waited for news on Mary’s whereabouts, her revelation on bearing a child that is from God, on preparing Mary to give birth while the burdens of colonial census bore him to go back to Bethlehem, his patience while knocking on doors to find an inn, and his humility when he brought his pregnant wife to give birth on a stable.

As we celebrate a Year of Missions, proclaiming our rich Catholic faith to the nations of the world, we also have to bear Joseph and his virtues in our hearts. We can connect to him by becoming a more mature Catholic in delegating our Faith to the faithless, in extending our Hope to the hopeless, and expressing our Love to the hated, the neglected, and the marginalized.

Like our dear medical and social frontliners who are battling the coronavirus disease while risking their life, their time, and their personal affections, we can look inside our sorrows and find joy like Saint Joseph. Knowing he will never gain any merits on earth for fostering the Messiah in his home, he has assured himself of the happiness in Heaven in exchange for all the sorrows he bore while raising a home for Jesus, his Lord, and the Blessed Virgin Mary. We can also take heed of the saint’s perseverance in protecting his wife and fostered Child, working his best in providing for them both economically and spiritually, and giving them their everyday needs than only looking at his gains when working his mission on earth as the custodian of the Savior. My dear friends, we can be like a Saint Joseph in this time of pandemic, starting from home and to our community. We can be a custodian of Faith, Hope, and Love in the Advent season.

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On the Second Day of Advent, we continue to prepare for the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Also, this season is a perfect moment of preparation for the upcoming quincentenary celebration of the first Mass in the Philippines, which is a commemoration of the first evangelization of the nation to the Way, the Truth, and the Life - Jesus and His Church.

The liturgical year, themed Year of Missio ad Gentes (Mission to the Nations), is bound to be filled with wondrous celebrations of worship, festivities, and commemorations on the arrival of the Spanish explorers and friars to the country. When looking back at the moment when the Filipinos, of all the peoples in the Far East, received such a grace as faith in the True God, we all couldn’t help ourselves but overflow with joy and gratitude. Why does a small nation of roughly seven thousand and seven hundred scattered islands receive such a grace when all other surrounding nations have far greater honor to receive it?

My dear friends, God chose our country not only for a purpose but also out of love and fidelity to His peoples. The CBCP Letter that introduces the New Liturgical Year, Missio ad Gentes, revealed to the Filipino faithful how auspicious is the quincentenary celebration of Catholic and Christian faith to the nation. Especially in this time of national crisis, we are reminded of how important it is to continue and remain steadfast in our faith. That, being said, we will light another candle for this sunday of Advent.

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The first Sunday of Advent is usually celebrated with the lighting of the first of the four candles that mark the Sundays before Christmas. But today, the lighting could not be witnessed by many due to the restrictions in mass gatherings. The pandemic has created a lot of guidelines on coming together, with which we have not anticipated to happen this year. Yet, we will continue to do it anyway. Today, we will light the first Advent candle.

But what’s the point of all this? What lies deep in the symbolism behind the candles and the traditions we do as part of our preparation for the Lord’s coming? With what we have struggled and fought upon, is it just right to pause and contemplate on the salvation brought by Jesus to our lives? The point is, Jesus is our core to everything. He is the cause of Faith, the anchors of Hope, and the source of Love that nourishes us even with these troubling times.

The moment we take a break and listen to the voice of God deep inside our hearts, we will begin to realize how essential it is to have Jesus in our thoughts, words, and actions during the pandemic and other calamities we have encountered this year. It is hard, but it’s all worth the wait. Jesus is worth the wait. Jesus is worth every suffering, every trial, every confusion, every answer, everything we know, and everything we do. In fact, He is worth more than whatever there is in this world. Understanding and ensuring this in ourselves would open our minds and hearts to the true meaning of Advent - that is we are all His children, His siblings, and His beloved. We celebrate Advent because we believe in the destiny we all share as God’s creation and, now, as His beloved adopted children

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My dear brothers and sisters, Jesus is King. There is no greater declaration of admiration to our Lord and Savior than honoring Him as the King of kings and Lord of Lords. More than that, He is the King of our lives. He is the ruler of our destinies. He is the protector of our Faith, the keeper of our Hope, and the Influencer of our Love for Him and His beloved children. The Lord is King. There is nothing far greater to shout than being one with the crowd who sings Hosanna in the Highest. It is the epitome of our Christianity. All we ever wanted to do is to be one with the saints and angels in Heaven shouting, cheering, chanting songs of praise and adoration to the One who sits at the right hand of God Almighty.

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My dear friends, the Days of the Saints and the Souls are reminders of our mission as a Church, our devotion towards goodness and salvation through continuous repentance and charity. This solemnity of all the saints and the souls is a testimony to the Apostle John on God’s undying and enduring love for mankind. Our participation in the traditions of honoring the saints and remembering the souls is an act to emulate His love and mercy in our lives, to our brothers and sisters, and the whole Church, including those who have gone before us. We are all bonded in the truth “that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him: (1 John 4:9) and this is what keeps the Holy Mother Church bonded in life and in death.

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