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My talk will not be long.  In this talk I will focus on why it is urgent that we work hard so that the House Bill 4244 or the so called Reproductive Health Bill will not be passed by Congress and the Senate.  I will also explain and refute the ideas on which those who are in favor of the HB 4244 base themselves.

Before anything else I would like to remind ourselves of the broader or complete meaning of pro-life advocacy.  We should defend and promote life from the womb to the tomb in all stages of life.  Here I would like to quote lengthily from the encyclical letter of Blessed John Paul II, “Evangelium Vitae, the Gospel of Life, No. 3”

“Every individual, precisely by reason of the mystery of the Word of God who was made flesh (cf. Jn 1:14), is entrusted to the maternal care of the Church. Therefore every threat to human dignity and life must necessarily be felt in the Church's very heart; it cannot but affect her at the core of her faith in the Redemptive Incarnation of the Son of God, and engage her in her mission of proclaiming the Gospel of life in all the world and to every creature (cf. Mk 16:15).

Today this proclamation is especially pressing because of the extraordinary increase and gravity of threats to the life of individuals and peoples, especially where life is weak and defenseless. In addition to the ancient scourges of poverty, hunger, endemic diseases, violence and war, new threats are emerging on an alarmingly vast scale.

The Second Vatican Council, in a passage which retains all its relevance today, forcefully condemned a number of crimes and attacks against human life. Thirty years later, taking up the words of the Council and with the same forcefulness I repeat that condemnation in the name of the whole Church, certain that I am interpreting the genuine sentiment of every upright conscience: "Whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or willful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where people are treated as mere instruments of gain rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others like them are infamies indeed. They poison human society, and they do more harm to those who practice them than to those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator".

On September 26 will be the 2nd anniversary of Ondoy. President Aquino declared September 26 as Save Sierra Madre Day. The date falls on Monday. May we invite you to integrate into your Sunday Liturgy, the suggested Kyrie and an additional Panalangin ng Bayan. 

Liturhiya para sa September 25, 2011

I. PAGBABALIK-LOOB: 

Pari: Sa paggunita natin ng mga trahedya sa ating bansa dala ng mga malalakas na pag-ulan at pagbaha, ating ituon ang ating pagbabalik-loob sa paghingi ng kapatawaran sa pagwasak natin sa biyaya ng Diyos. Alalahanin din natin sa mga sandaling ito ang mga kapatid, kamag-anak at mga kaibigan na sa kanilang pagkasawi sa mga trahedyang naganap dala ng pagkasira ng Inang Kalikasan ay unti-unting napupukaw ang ating mga puso sa mas malalim na pananagutan para pangalagaan at ipagtanggol ang Inang Kalikasan lalo’t higit ang Sierra Madre. (sandaling katahimikan)

Tagapamuno: Sa mga pagkakataong kami ay naging dahilan ng pagkatuyo ng mga sapa, ilog, at batisan; sa mga gawain naming nagdulot ng polusyon sa karagatan at sa aming mga tubig-kanlungan, Panginoon maawa ka.

We will launch the project: "Buhayin ang mga Bukal at Ilog ng Marikina Watershed" on September 24 ,  Saturday in Sitio San Joseph,  Brgy San Jose Antipolo,  in the Parish of Annunciata. 

Isa itong kilos ng simbahan nating bilang paggunita sa Ondoy sa September 26.

Naglalayong panumbalikin ang kaluntian at pangalagaan ang kabundukang sakop ng Marikina Watershed.  Magsisimula 8:00 ng umaga, magtitipon tayo sa San Joseph Covered  Court para sa maikling programa at sa ganap na 10:00 am ay sabay-sabay tayong magtatanim ng kawayang matinik sa 2 kilometrong haba sa 2 gilid ng ilog mula sa Purok Mainit pababa sa ilog ng Payaguan.

St. Paul of the Cross Parish conducted its first Parish Photography Seminar last Sept. 10 and 17, 2011.

The Parish now has ten photographers to pioneer the Photography Team under our SPCP-SOCOM. They are expected to cover our Fiesta activities in October.