St. John Bosco

“Here is my house.  From here my glory shall shine forth.”  These are Mary’s words to Don Bosco in the vision. See History.

The indulgence is the remission of temporal punishment...

The Jubilee, or Holy Year, is a time for conversion, and it could be the last chance to escape eternal damnation. See Indulgence
 

National Shrine of Mary Help of Christians
Mary Help of Christians Street,
Better Living Subdivision, Parañaque City
Metro Manila, Philippines 1711
Tel. Nos. (63-2) 823-3286, 823-3288   Fax No.  823-9482
E-mail address:  [email protected]
Jubillee 2000

Our family joins the whole Christendom in celebrating the Jubilaeum 2000. See Jubilee.

The Five Doves represent the five continents, namely:  Asia (yellow), Oceania (blue), Europe (white), America (red), and Africa (green).
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OUR PARISH VISION
COMMUNITY BUILDING
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
CHRISTIAN FORMATION
A united, loving, caring, and organized COMMUNITY OF DISCIPLES (PCP II) where:
  • the parishioners are involved and committed in the formation of  BASIC ECCLESIAL COMMUNITIES
 A peaceful Community where:

HUMAN and economic values are developed;

  • there are leaders who are dedicated, honest and persons of integrity;
  • there is an organized management of traffic, peace and order;
a clean and healthy ENVIRONMENT is promoted;
  • the parishioners are living witnesses of the  CHURCH OF THE POOR (PCP II;

    • equal rights between the rich and the poor are recognized.
 A Christian Community:
  • centered in CHRIST and rooted in GOD’S WORD;
  • imbued with the SALESIAN SPIRIT and true devotion to the BLESSED MOTHER, particularly in the YOUNG;

    • made up of apostolic and evangelical FAMILIES.


YEAR of GOD the FATHER

A Journey of Authentic Conversion
In this third year of our preparation for the Great Jubilee 2000, the sense of being on a "journey to the Father" should encourage everyone to undertake by holding fast to Christ the redeemer of humankind, a journey of authentic conversion.  This includes both a "negative" aspect, that of liberation from sin, and a "positive" aspect, that of choosing good.  Accepting the ethical values expressed in the natural laws which is confirmed and deepened by the gospel is the proper context for a renewed appreciation and more intense celebration of the Sacrament of Penance in its most profound meaning.  The call to conversion as the indispensable condition of Christian love is particularly important in contemporary society where the very foundation of an ethically correct vision of human existence often seem to have been lost.

It will therefore be necessary especially during this year to emphasize the theological virtue of charity, recalling the significant and lapidary words of the First Letter of John:  "God is love."  (4:8, 16).  Charity, in its two-fold reality as love of God and neighbor, is the summing up of the moral life of the believer.  It has in God its source and its good.
 

- John Paul II, Tertio Millenio Adveniente, 50

MESSAGE OF OUR PARISH PRIEST
Maligayang Kapistahan sa Inyong Lahat!

Our Fiesta Celebration in honor of our Patronness, Mary Help of Christians, is enhanced by the Jubilee Year and the Silver Anniversary of our parish.  May 24th will therefore be a JUBILEE MARIAN FIESTA for our community.  To make this celebration a heartfelt community experience, we are once more organizing the AREA MASSES where we expect the participation of the members of the different Homeowners Association.  Please patronize your Area Mass as scheduled.  Through the intercession of our Blessed Mother, your involvement will definitely merit for your family and for your community the outpouring of the Jubilee grace.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have supported me as your parish priest in these past three years.  You have touched my life in a very special way and your memory will always be for me a golden treasure.  Now is the time to pass on the torch of leadership to my successor, Fr. GC Carandang as your new parish priest.  Please welcome and love him as you have done for me.  I will be praying for you constantly in the new assignment the Salesian Congregation has given me.
 

Yours in the Blessed Mother,
- Rev. Fr. Rolo Alcasid, SDB
May 2000
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