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SAN JOSE: HUWARAN NG MGA AMA Dakilang Kapistahan ni San Jose, Kabiyak ng Puso ng Mahal na Birhen 2 Samuel 7, 4-5a. 12-14a. 16/Salmo 88/Roma 4, 13. 16-18. 22/Mateo 1, 16. 18-21. 24a (o kaya: Lucas 2, 41-51a)

Miyerkules, Marso 18, 2015 

Dakilang Kapistahan ni San Jose, Kabiyak ng Puso ng Mahal na Birhen  

Dalawa po ang Kapistahang ipinagdiriwang ng Simbahan sa karangalan ni Señor San Jose. Ang una po ay bilang Esposo ng Mahal na Birheng Maria at Ama-amahan ng Panginoong Hesukristo. Ang pangalawa naman ay bilang Manggagawa. Pero, ang kapistahan natin ngayon ay higit pa sa karaniwang kapistahan. Sapagkat sa kalendaryo ng Simbahan, ang pagdiriwang natin ngayon ay ang Solemnidad o Dakilang Kapistahan ni San Jose bilang Esposo ng Mahal na Ina at Ama-amahan ni Kristo. 

Ang Ebanghelyo ngayon ay tungkol sa relasyon ni San Jose kay Maria bago pa isinilang si Hesus. Mag-nobyo sina Jose at Maria at dahil sa pagmamahalan nila ay inisip nilang magpakasal. Nakatakda na silang magpakasal, ngunit may dumating na isang problema sa buhay at relasyon ng mag-nobyo. Natuklasang buntis ang Mahal na Ina at para bang isang iskandalo na ito sa mata ng tao. Bago pa mang magpakasal ang Mahal na Birhen kay San Jose, natagpuan siyang buntis. 

Dahil dito, inisip ni San Jose na hiwalayan si Maria alang-alang sa kapananan nila. Kung nagsama pa rin sila, mapapahiya sila ng mga taong makakausap nila. Siguro, ang mga katrabaho ni Jose ay iiwas sa kanya dahil sa reputasyon ng pagiging ama ng isang anak sa labas. Halos lahat ng mga tao ay iiwas sa kanila dahil sa iskandalong iyon. Magkakaroon sila ng reputasyon dahil sa iskandalong iyon at mga masasamang pangalan ang tatawagin nila sa mag-nobyo. Alang-alang sa kanilang reputasyon, hiniwalay ni Jose si Maria upang walang mapahiya. Pero, ang balak ni Jose na maghiwalay kay Maria ay tahimik, upang hindi mapahiya si Maria. 

Pero, nagpakita ang isang anghel kay Jose sa panaginip. Dala ng anghel ang isang utos ng Diyos - pakasalan si Maria. Ipinaliwanag ng anghel kung bakit. Hindi nakipagtalik si Maria sa sinumang tao. Naglihi si Maria sa pamamagitan ng Espiritu Santo. Hindi siya ipinagkanulo ni Maria. Hindi rin pangkaraniwan ang batang dinadala ni Maria sa sinapupunan niya. Kahit na may pagdududa si Jose tungkol kay Maria at sa kanyang katapatan kay Jose, kung inuutos ng Diyos na magpakasal kay Maria, sinunod niya ito. Hindi siya nagsalita o nagtanong, sumunod siya sa katahimikan. 

Mapapansin natin na si San Jose ay hindi nagsalita sa Bibliya. Tahimik si Jose, walang salitang namutawi mula sa bibig niya sa Bagong Tipan. Kapag binabanggit o nasa eksena siya sa Bibliya, hindi siya nagsasalita. Bagkus, siya'y gumagawa. Ang mga gawa ni Jose ang nagsasalita para sa kanya. Noong inutusan ng Diyos sa pamamagitan ng anghel na pakasalan si Maria, hindi siya nagsalita. Sinunod niya talaga ang utos ng Diyos at ang ginawa niyang iyon ang nagsalita para sa kanya.

May isang kasabihan sa wikang Ingles, "Actions speak louder than words." Ang mga ginawa ni San Jose na nakasulat sa Bibliya ay patunay na siya'y masunurin sa kalooban ng Diyos. Kahit sa panahon ng pagsubok, hindi nagsasalita si Jose, ginagawa niya ang iniuutos sa kanya ng Diyos. Noong nagpakita ang anghel ng Panginoon at nagbalita tungkol sa balak ni Herodes, walang itinanong si Jose, bagkus, dinala niya ang mag-inang Maria at Hesus papunta sa Ehipto hanggang sa pagpanaw ni Herodes. Noong namatay si Herodes, doon lamang sila bumalik. 

Isa pa pong halimbawa ng mahalagang ginawa ni San Jose ay ang pagsama niya sa Mahal na Birhen noong nawala ang Panginoon nang tatlong araw. Tatlong araw hinanap nina Jose at Maria ang batang Hesus na nawawala sa Jerusalem. Isinama ni Jose si Maria habang nawawala si Hesus nang tatlong araw. Noong mahanap nila si Hesus sa templo, walang sinabi si Jose. Bagkus, siya'y nanatiling tahimik at iniuwi niya sina Maria at Hesus kung saan sila'y nabuhay bilang pamilya na tunay na nagmamahalan. 

Tahimik na sinunod at ginampanan ni San Jose ang kanyang pananagutan sa Diyos bilang amain ni Kristo sa lupa. Hindi madali ang gumanap bilang ama-amahan ng Anak ng Diyos, ngunit ginampanan niya ito nang mabuti. Sinundan rin ni Jose ang bawat utos ng Diyos tungkol sa kapakanan ng Kanyang Anak. Masipag na nagtrabaho si San Jose para sa mag-inang sina Maria at Hesus. Binuhay at tunay na minahal ni Jose si Maria bilang esposo at si Hesus bilang anak hanggang sa araw ng kanyang kamatayan kung saan ay ginantimpalaan siya ng Diyos para sa kanyang pagiging masunurin sa kalooban Niya at pagiging ama-amahan ng Mesiyas. 

SOURCE:
http://pagnilayannatin.blogspot.com/2014/03/san-jose-huwaran-ng-mga-laykong-ama.html

DOMINICAN SAINTS OF LA NAVAL DE MANILA (CONTINUATION)

San Juan Macias

San Juan Macias
A cooperator-brother like Saint Martin, he was born in Ribera, Spain in 1585. Embracing the Dominican way of life in 1623, he became a porter and set about at once serving the poor who came to the priory gate for alms. He is distinguised for his great devotion to the rosary and untiring supplications for the souls in purgatory.
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San Martin de Porres

San Martin de Porres

Today's humble saint, son of a white Spanish father and a black Panamanian mother, was born in Lima, Peru in 1579. As a boy, he learned the art of healing. As a Dominican, he served as infirmarian, healed the illness of the poor and also of animals. He led a life of profound prayer, penance and extraordinary spiritual gifts. He is the patron saint of the poor and the sick.

Santa Rosa de Lima (ivory) - Intramuros image saved from the war

Santa Rosa de Lima

The first saint of the Americas, she was born in Lima, Peru in 1586. An intelligent and efficient woman, she took Saint Catherine of Siena as her model. At 15, she recieved the habit of the Third Order Dominican. In obidience to her parents, she did not enter the Convent but lived at home a humble life of penance and mystical prayer.

Santa Catalina de Ricci (ivory) - Intramuros image saved from the war

Santa Catalina de Ricci

Remarkable for her spirit of penance and life of contemplative prayer, she recieved many extraordinary favors form God including the mystical espousals and sacred stigmata. Nonetheless, she was also an eminently practical person and an able adminsitrator for 36 years as prioress of her community.

San Juan de Colognia

San Juan de Colognia

Born in Germany towards the end of the 16th century, he was sent to work in Holland, where he brought relief to the catholics cruelly persecuted by heretical Calvinists. With 18 other religious of different orders and secular priests, he was hanged in 1572 for the defense of the Holy Eucharist and the Primacy of the Pope. He was beatified in 1675 and was canonized by Pius IX on June 29, 1867.

San Luis Beltran


San Luis Beltran

The patron of all Dominican Novices and formation personnel, he volunteered for the foreign missions and was sent to Latin America. There he labored for over seven years among hostile Indian tribes of Colombia, Venezuela and the West Indies. He converted countless numbers through the miraculous gift of tongues.

San Pio Quinto (ivory) - Intramuros image saved from the war

San Pio Quinto

Elected pope in 1566, he accomplished great reforms in the Church, notably among the clergy and in the Roman Missal. By his prayers, especially the rosary, this Pope of the Rosary obtained from God the naval victory for the Christians at Lepanto. After fulfilling every duty of the "Pastor Bonus," he died on May 1, 1572.

San Vicente Ferrer (ivory) - Intramuros image saved from the war

San Vicente Ferrer
Born in Spain in 1350, he recieved the Dominican habit at the age of seventeen. In his turbulent epoch, he was an angel of peace, preaching the word of God with special stress on penance and the Last Judgement. He was outstanding for the gift of prophecy, worked astonishing miracles and brought back thousand to the practice of their faith.

San Antonio de Florencia - Wooden replica of the Intramuros Image

San Antonio de Florencia
Born at Florence in 1389 and joined the Dominican in adolescence, he was soon promoted to positions of responsibility becoming sucessively prior of Cortons, Naples and Rome. In 1446, he reluctantly became Archbishop of Florence and was noted for his mercy to the poor as well as for his prudence and good counsel.

Santa Catalina de Sena (ivory) - Intramuros image saved from the war

Santa Catalina de Sena
The 23rd child of hard-working parents, she was born in Siena, Italy in 1347. She showed early signs of unusual sanctity, joined the Third Order of Dominicans and became a spiritual guide to many. She influenced public affairs and encouraged the pope to leave Avignon in 1377 and return to Rome. She dictated spiritual writings, died in 1380, and was declared Doctor of the Church in 1970.

Santa Ines de Montepulciano (ivory) - Intramuros image saved from the war

Santa Ines de Montepulciano
She was born in 1268 and embraced the religious life at an early age. Because of her precocious wisdom and sanctity, she became superior in her community at the age 15. Later she founded a monastery of Dominican nuns in Montepulciano and became its first prioress. She died in 1317 at age 49 and was canonized in 1726.

San Alberto Magno

San Alberto Magno
A doctor and teacher of the church, he is a patron of scientists and philosophers. His most attentive student concerning Aristotelian philosophy was Saint Thomas. He became provincial and then Bishop of Ratisbon but after two years returned to teaching. A profound and holy professor, he died at Cologne in 1280.

San Raymundo de Penafort

San Raymundo de Peñafort
A Spaniard born in 1175, he became a priest and professor of philosophy and canon law. A co-founder of the Order of the Redemption of Captives, he studied Arabic and the Koran so as to dialogue with Muslims. He died a centenarian on January 6, 1275 and was a declared a saint in 1601.

. Santo Tomas de Aquino (ivory) - 17th century image from the UST museum

Santo Tomas de Aquino
This great Dominican teacher lived only for 49 years (1225-1264). But he traveled much, from his birthplace at Aquino in central Italy to Cologne, to Paris, to Rome and to the monastery near Naples where he died. Thomas prayed much and dedicated his brilliant talents investigating the sublime truth of God in the light of faith and the human intellect. Canonized in 1323, he is the patron of all Catholic schools and is titled "the Angelic Doctor."

 Santa Margarita de Hunguria

Santa Margarita de Ungria

Of royal patronage, she was offered to God before her birth in 1242 in petition that her country would be delivered from the Tartar Invasions. In fulfillment of the vow, she spent her childhood in the monastery. Shortly after when her parents obtained papal dispensation for her to marry the king of Bohemia, she refused and said.: I esteem infintely more the King of heaven... than the crown offered to me by the king of Bohemia.

San Jacinto de Ordowatz

San Jacinto de Odrowatz

Also known as the Polish Saint Dominic, he was born of the noble family of Odrowatz.He performed astounding miracles and cures. On every occasion of his life, our Lady was to lighten the load for him, and as a last favor, she appreared to tell him that he would die on the Feast of the Assumption.

San Pedro de Verona - Wooden replica of the Intramuros Image

San Pedro de Verona 

Born of heretical parents in Verona in 1206. At age 15, he met Saint Dominic in Bologna and begged admission to the Order. He soon became a celebrated preacher and engaged in disputes with the heretics all over Northern Italy. Enraged, his enemies ambushed and killed him on the road to Milan. In his own blood, he wrote: Credo in unum deum. He is the first Dominican martyr.

 

Santo Domingo de Guzman - Intramuros image saved from the war

Santo Domingo de Guzman
Founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans). Born at Calaroga, in Old Castile, c. 1170. He became a priest with thoughts of misionary work in Northern Europe. But then he saw the dangers in the Albigensian heresy. He lived and preached in evangelical poverty, gathered others around him and founded the Order of Preachers. Dominic labored in France, Spain and Italy. Consumed by work and penance, he died 

6 August, 1221.

San Jose Esposo - though the Intramuros image was already destroyed, the Niño was saved and is currently attached to the image of Santa Ines

San Jose Esposo

Honored on 19 March since the end of the 10th century, Declared Patron of the Universal Church in 1870 by Pope Pius IX. Patron of workers and carpenters; Also of Austria, Belgium, Bohemia, Canada, Mexico, Peru, and Vietnam ; Mentioned in the Roman Canon

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OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY

LA NAVAL DE MANILA

Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary of La Naval de Manila (Spanish: Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario de La Naval de Manila; Tagalog: Mahal na Ina ng Santo Rosaryo ng La Naval de Manila; colloquially known as Santo Rosario or Our Lady of La Naval de Manila), is both a title and an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in the Philippines. As with the Battle of Lepanto of 1571, Filipinos credit her intercession for successfully repulsing Dutch invasion during the Battles of La Naval de Manila.

The image of Our Lady of La Naval, whose feast is celebrated every second Sunday of October, is a 16th-century ivory and wood statue enshrined at the Santo Domingo Church (formally, the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary) in Quezon City. The image, its regalia, and the Santo Domingo Church Complex have been designated National Cultural Treasure of the Philippines PH-16-0009-NCT by the government in 2009 as amongst the country's Cultural Properties.

Measuring some 1.52 metres, the body is made of hardwood while the face and hands, as well as the entire Child Jesus in its arms, are made of genuine ivory. Since its creation, the statue -- considered the oldest dated ivory carving in the Philippines -- has always been decorated with elaborate garments and a crown.^[1]

The statue has merited several papal honours: Pope Pius X who granted it a canonical crown in 1907, Pope Paul VI who proclaimed her Patroness of Quezon City and Pope John Paul II who proclaimed her Patroness of the Philippine Navy. Pope Pius XII also sent her an Apostolic Letter on the occasion of the Tricentenary of La Naval de Manila while Pope Leo XIII issued an exhortation for people to come in pilgrimage to Santo Domingo Church and to pay respects to the Virgin which was then in Intramuros.

For the canonical coronation of the image, some 310,000 individuals lead by the professors of the University of Santo Tomas, donated their heirloom jewels, precious gems, gold and silver to the for the Canonical Coronation of October 1907. These form part of the image's large collection of elaborate jewels some of which date to the 1700s.

In 1593, the new Spanish Governor-General Don Luis Pérez Dasmariñas, commissioned a statue of Our Lady of the Rosaryfor public veneration in memory of his recently deceased father. Under the direction of Captain Hernando de los Rios Coronel, the sculpture was made by an anonymous Chinese immigrant, who later converted to Christianity; this is the commonly cited reason for the statue's Asian features. The statue was later given to the Dominican friars, who installed it at the Santo Domingo Church.

In 1646, naval forces of the Dutch Republic made several repeated attempts to conquer the Philippines in a bid to control trade in Asia. The combined Spanish and Filipino forces who fought were said to have requested the intercession of the Virgin through the statue prior to battle. They were urged to place themselves under the protection of Our Lady of the Rosary and to pray the rosary repeatedly. They went on to rebuff the continued attacks by the superior Dutch fleet, engaging in five major battles at sea and losing only fifteen members of the Spanish Navy. After the Dutch retreat, in fulfillment of their vow, the survivors walked barefoot to the shrine in gratitude to the Virgin.

Later, on 9 April 1662, the cathedral chapter of the Archdiocese of Manila declared the naval victory a miraculous event owed to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, declaring:

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"granted by the Sovereign Lord through the intercession of the Most Holy Virgin and devotion to her Rosary, that the miracles be celebrated, preached and held in festivities and to be recounted amongst the miracles wrought by the Lady of the Rosary for the greater devotion of the faithful to Our Most Blessed Virgin Mary and Her Holy Rosary.[3]

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Pope Pius X authorized granting the statue a canonical crown in 1906, which was bestowed by the Apostolic Delegate to the Philippines, The Most Rev. Ambrose Agius, O.S.B.. During the Japanese bombardment in 1942, fearing that the statue would be destroyed, church authorities hid the statue at the University of Santo Tomas until 1946, the 300th anniversary of the battles.

The statue was transferred in October 1954 to a new shrine built to house it inside the new Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City–the sixth Santo Domingo Church since its erection in the late sixteenth century. For this journey, devotees constructed a boat-shaped carriage (Spanish: Carroza Triunfal) to carry the image to its new home, which was declared her National Shrine by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. In October 1973, La Naval was formally declared the patroness of Quezon City, at that time the national capital.

During the People Power Revolution of February 1986, a replica of the statue was brought in procession to the Malacañan Palace by the Dominican friars, in a peaceful protest of the state of martial law instituted by President Ferdinand Marcos. The replica was also brought to the eastern gate of Camp Crame, the police headquarters where the rebel forces headed by Juan Ponce Enrile and Fidel V. Ramos were confined during the uprising. Many Filipino Catholics attribute the revolution's peaceful victory to the miraculous intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Filipino historian Nick Joaquín attributed one of the red jewels in one of the statue's crowns to an old legend of a giant serpent found in the Pasig River; the local folktale is more likely a metaphor of the triumph of Christianity over paganism. The other crown was supposedly inscribed and donated by King Norodom of Cambodia in 1872, one having disappeared after a burglary in 1930 while another one was simply two pearls adorning the orbs of the statue.

CREDITS:

LA SAGRADA EXPEDICION

http://lasagradaexpedicion.weebly.com/

WIKIPEDIA

http://wikipedia.org

LA NAVAL DE MANILA ONLINE

http://lanavaldemanila.blogspot.com/

Descriptions: from the La Naval Novenario 2006

DOMINICAN SAINTS OF LA NAVAL DE MANILA

               San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila

San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila

The Filipino proto-martyr, Lorenzo was born in Binondo, Manila. As a young man, he became a member of the Rosary Confraternity. Implicated in a crime of unclear circumstances, he left his wife and children and set sail for Okinawa in 1636 together with other Dominican Missionaries. Arrested, they were brought to Nagasaki where they underwent hideous torments for their Christian faith, giving up their souls to God on September 28, 1637.

Beata Juana de Aza (ivory) -
Intramuros sacristy image saved from the war

Beata Juana de Aza
The mother of Saint Dominic, she was beatified by Pope Leo XII in 1828. Devotion to her persisted through the centuries despite the poverty of records. The mother of three priests, one of whom died a death of heroic charity and two who were raised to the altars of the Church, she can safely be judged to have been not only a valiant woman but also a saintly one. Her picture, as that of any mother can be seen reflected in her sons.

Beata Margarita de Castello

Beata Margarita de Castelo

Born a dwarf, deformed, and blind, Margaret was abandoned by her parents but found refuge in the homes of the poor. By her radiant charity, she became a source of hope and consolation for the poor, the outcast, the sick and the imprisoned, to whom she ministered tirelessly as a Lay Dominican. She is Patroness of Pro-Life Philippines.

Santo Tomas Khuong

Santo Tomas Khuong

Thomas Khuong belonged to a noble family on Tonkin and could well be a son of a Mandarin. A Christian since childhood, he became a priest and a Dominican tertiary. He was imprisoned many times because of his faith. When he was in his 80's in 1859, he was arrested again. The judge tried in vain to make him trample on the crucifix and invited him in vain to persuade his Christian followers to apostatize but he firmly replied, "to redeem mankind, Christ voluntarily suffered death... I too, want to give love for love, spilling all my blood for him." While genuflecting to adore the crucifix, his head was cut off, it was the 30th of January 1860.

San Francisco de Capillas

San Francisco de Capillas

Francis was born in Baquerin de Campos, Palencia, Spain on August 14, 1607. He entered the Dominican Priory of St. Paul of Valladolid. He arrived in Manila in February 1632, where he was ordained priest. In 1641, he attended the Provincial Chapter held in Manila and asked the new Provincial to send him to China. In 1642, he left for China with his friend, Fr. Francis Diez. He went to the villages and town in Fogan and Funing converting huge numbers of Chinese. He was captured and remained incarcerated for two months. He died on January 15, 1648. He was canonized by Pope John Paul II on October 1, 2000.

 San Vicente Liem dela Paz

San Vicente Liem de la Paz

The first Vietnamese Dominican, he was born in Tra'Lu in 1731. He recieved the Dominican habit in Manila and continued his studies at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Intramuros. Already a priest, he asked to return to his land to work among his people; he labored for 14 years until he was captured and martyred on November 7, 1773.

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