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The Parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary’s (PIHM) official newsletter, TUGON, was nominated once more as a finalist for Best Local Community Parish Newsletter in the 33rd Catholic Mass Media Awards for 2011. The other finalists were the Windhover (Philippine Jesuit Magazine) and Balikbayan Magazine (published by Asian Journal Publications) and Windhover was announced as the winner last October 19,2011.

Though TUGON didn't get the award at the CMMA, the Tugon staff is still grateful for the blessing and opportunity to represent the Parish! Visit the Tugon FB site at http://www.facebook.com/PIHMTugon

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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).

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.