WE ARE AN EASTER PEOPLE!

Message of His Excellency Most Reverend Socrates B. Viilegas, Archbishop of Lingayen Dagupan for the people of God to be read as homily during the Easter Sunday Masses in the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan.

It is Easter. We celebrate the greatest mystery of our faith—the words of love at the Last Supper Holy Thursday led to the act of love at Calvary on Good Friday which led us to the triumph of love at the empty tomb today Easter Sunday.

The WORD of Holy Thursday and the DEATH of Good Friday plus the RESURRECTION on Easter morning together make up a whole. It is what our Holy Father Benedict XVI calls the trinity of the paschal mystery.

The paschal mystery is at the heart of our Christian faith. Believing the paschal mystery and living the paschal mystery is what the Church is all about. Without the paschal mystery, all our prayers, projects and teachings become meaningless and unprofitable.

The Church teaches year after year: “The Easter triduum of the passion, the burial and resurrection of Christ is the culmination of the entire liturgical year.”

But the crucial question is: Is there really and effective and dynamic link between our mission and our ministries and the paschal mystery? Is the paschal mystery truly the wellspring and inspiration of the projects and activities of our Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan? Do we posses, or better still, are we possessed by a spirituality of the paschal mystery?

As your pastor, I have been trying my best to listen to you by visiting you in the parishes, schools and barangays. I have met many of you through our church seminars, recollections and social gatherings. As I listen to you, I also listen to God and pray to God to help me guide you.

From my conversations with God and with you, I wish to present for your reflection a possible statement of vision that we can follow in the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan especially in the context of the Easter season.

ICTHUS.

ICTHUS in early Christian tradition was an acrostic referring to Jesus Christ, God’ Son, Savior. ΙΧΘΥΣ is Greek word for fish. For the early Christians, to say ICTHUS was to endanger themselves. It was to risk being killed by the emperor. Much more than a declaration that Jesus is Son of God and Savior, ICTHUS was a declaration of commitment to live one’s life as a follower of Christ, crucified and risen. Let us spell the letters of the word ICTHUS.

I is for Integration of faith and life. It is important that we live what we profess. The world does not listen to speakers anymore but to witnesses. Integrity of life is the opposite of split level Christianity. Integrity is wholeness. Integrity is the new name of holiness. The values of the Gospel must be allowed to transform society. We must evangelize politics, culture, economics and all aspects of human life. If we seek integrity from our public officials, we must first live integrity as Church people.

C is for Catechesis, evangelization and mission. We must be a missionary Church surely ad intra, and hopefully in God’s time, ad extra. The call of Christianity is to plunge into the deep and become fishers of men. The harvest is rich but the laborers are so few. We need to wake up a sleeping giant in the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan—the laity. Every Christian must be a catechist. Every Christian must evangelize. Every Christian is a missionary.

T is for Thanksgiving. This is the middle letter, the focal point, the source and summit of our vision—the Eucharist. In envisioning to become a Eucharistic people, we do not only mean being “liturgy-centered”; we are called to live what the Eucharist celebrates which is to live and die for one another. The Church makes the Eucharist. The Eucharist makes the Church.

U is for Unity in diversity. We have diverse linguistic and ethnic groups—Pangasinan, Ilocano and Tagalog and even Chinese tongues. We come from varied economic levels. Our Christian heritage is our source of communion. We all came from an ancestry of heroes like Urduja and Palaris. Our faith and our heritage of heroes in Pangasinan must make us one in spite of our linguistic or ethnic differences.

S is for Service, Justice and Charity. We shall promote social service and development. We shall seek justice and liberation for the captives of poverty, loneliness and oppression. At the sunset of life when we shall all be judged according to love, may God find us worthy to sit in His kingdom.

My brothers and sisters of the Risen Christ: Are you ready to be ICTHUS again like the first Christians? Let us be ICTHUS! We want to be like Jesus! When the Lord comes again, may he see us and find himself glowing through us! Happy Easter again. I bless you with Easter life and Easter joy!

From the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist, April 4, 2010, Easter Sunday

+SOCRATES B. VILLEGAS

Archbishop of Lingayen Dagupan

Stations of the Cross at Lipit-Inmalog now on its 7th edition

30 March 2010 – San Fabian.  The Stations of the Cross help the faithful to make in spirit, as it were, a pilgrimage to the chief scenes of Christ's sufferings and death, and this has become one of the most popular of Catholic devotions. It is carried out by passing from Station to Station, with certain prayers at each and devout meditation on the various incidents in turn.

The hills and mountain of Brgys. Lipit and Inmalog Sur have been the scene of the Stations of the Cross since 2004. This years meditation on the Way of the Cross in Lipit-Inmalog is on its 7th year. It has attracted more and more parishioners to participate in this unique holding of the Stations of the Cross.

The members of the Parish Youth Apostolate Committee have been re-enacting the scenes of the 14 stations of the cross since 2007.

The members of the Parish Youth Apostolate Committee re-enact the scenes of the fourteen stations of the cross.

To see more pictures, please click HERE.

Palm Sunday in the Parish of St. Fabian, Pope and Martyr

28 March 2010 – San Fabian, Pangasinan. Below are some photos during the blessing of the palms in one of the masses celebrated in the Parish of St. Fabian, Pope and Martyr. The mass was celebrated by Rev. Fr. Felipe Matias.

 

Holy Week Schedule

28 March 2010	Palm Sunday
29 March, Holy Monday
2,30 PM	Parish Lenten Recollection
4,30 PM	“Kumpisalan ng Bayan”
30 March, Holy Tuesday
3,00 PM	Stations of the Cross, Lipit-Inmalog Sur
4,30 PM	Holy Mass (Inmalog Sur)
31 March, Holy Wednesday
2,00 PM	Stations of the Cross, Cayanga-Sagud Bahley
1 April, Holy Thursday
4,00 PM	Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper
6,00 PM – 12 MN	-Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
2 April, Good Friday
12 Noon	Meditation on the Seven Last Words of Jesus
	-Novena to the Divine Mercy
	-Stations of the Cross
4,00 PM	-Celebration of the Lord’s Passion -Procession -Veneration of the Santo Bangkay
3 April, Holy Saturday
9,00 PM	Easter Vigil
4 April, Easter Sunday
5, 00 AM	“Abet-Abet”
6, 00 AM	First Mass
7,00 AM	Second Mass
8,00 AM	Third Mass
4,30 PM	Fourth Mass

Palm Sunday Readings

Ononan Babasaen     Isa. 50:4-7
Babasaen ya inaon ed libro na propita Isaias

Imbangat na Katawan a Dios ed siak so salitaen ko, pian napabiskeg ko so linawa na toon mapaga.  Kapag kabwasan iitdan to ak na pilalek ya ondengel ed ibangat to.  Say Katawan initdan to ak na pakatalus, et ag ak linmaban ed sikato odino inarawian ko.

Intaryak so beneg ko ed saray nansiplat ed siak.  Ag ko ra binaat nen pinabaingan da ak, nen binagut da ray balbas ko tan nilulukdaan day lupak.

Balet ag ak nasakitan na saray panamabaing da lapud tutulongan ak na Katawan a Dios.  Pinakapal koy lupak pian nitepel ko ra.  Amtak ya ag ak napelag ed kababaingan.

Salita na Katawan.

Ebat a Salmo
E. Dios ko, Dios ko, Akin et inkaindan mo ak?

Kumadwan Babasaen Fil. 2:5-11

Babasaen ya inaon ed sulat nen Pablo ed saray taga Filipos
Nepeg yon aligey ogali nen Cristo Jesus: Anggaman a walad sikatoy inka-Dios, ag to impasoot a mansiansian kaparay Dios.  Nilakseb to ingen so inka-Dios to, tan inala toy kipapasen na aripen nen nagmaliw a too.  Nampaabeba tan maonur ya anggad patey – on, anggad ipapatey ed krus.  Kanyan say Dios intanduro to ed sankatageyan, tan initdan toy ngaran a matalonggaring nen say dinan man a ngaran.  Diad ontan, amin da ray apalsan walad tawen, diad mundo tan dalem na dalin ontalimukor iran mangigalang ed ngaran nen Jesus.  Ibawag met ed satan na amin a katoowan a si Jesu-Cristo so Katawan.  Lapud saya, say Dios Ama so nagalang.

Salita na Katawan.

 Birsikulo Kasakbayay Ibanghilyo
Si Cristo nagmaliw a maonur para sikatayo ya anggad patey ed krus.  Kanyan say Dios intanduro to ed sankatageyan, tan initdan toy ngaran a matalonggaring nen say dinanman a ngaran.

Ibanghilyo                Luc. 23:1-49

Babasaen ya inaon ed masanton ibanghilyo onung ed kinen Lucas

Inmalagey iray mamatakken na baley, saray manonan papari, tan saray iskriba, insan da inyakar si Jesus ed kinen Pilato.
Ginapoan dan inakusa, “Narel mi yan too,” inkuanda, “a sosogsogan to ray totoo mi a manggaway aliwa.  Isesebel to met so pambayar na buis ed Impirador.  Ibabaga to nid saray totoo a sikatoy Cristo, say sakey ya ari.

Tinepet nen Pilato, “Sikay ari da ray Judio?”
       

“Sika lan dili so mangibabaga,” ebat nen Jesus.
Inkuanen Pilatod satan ed saray manonan papari tan saray totoo, “Anggapoy naalmok a kasalanan to yan too.”

Balet lalon kuandan impasoot, “Diad panamegley na pambabangat to, nasosogsogan iray totoo.  Inggapo tod Galilea, insan diad intiron Judea, tan wadya la natan.”

Nen nadngel ya nen Pilato, tinepet to, “Akin, taga Galilea yan too?” Nen akabatan ton si Jesus et nanlapud pasen a nasasakopan nen Herodes, imbaki toy Jesus ed sikato ta wadman ed Jerusalem ed saraman ya agew.  Makaliliket si Herodes nen anengneng toy Jesus, ta abayag lan mampipirawat a napilupaan to yan too, lapud amayamay lay abalitaan ton nipaakar ed sikato.  Maniilalon nanengneng ton manggaway milagro si Jesus.  Kanyan abayag a tinepetan to, balet ag balut inmebat si Jesus.  Inmasingger iray manonan papari tan saray iskriba tan ontan lay impangakusa rad kinen Jesus.  Si Herodes tan saray sondalo to niludlurey tan pinapabaingan day Jesus.  Sinolungan day marakep a kawes, insan da impawil ed kinen Pilato.  Diad saman ya agew, akapankaaroy Herodes tan si Pilato, saray gendat a mambobosulan.

Impatawag nen Pilato ray manonan papari, saray opisyal na baley, tan saray totoo, tan inkuantod sikara, “Inyakar yo yan tood siak, ta kuanyon sosogsogan to ray totoo a manggaway aliwa.  Natan, inosisak la tan naimatunan yo met, balet nalmoan ko ya anggapoy kasalanan to ed saray ipapakasalanan yod sikato.  Anggapo met so nalmoan nen Herodes a kasalanan to, kanyan pinapawil to diad sikatayo.  Anggapoy ginawa to yan too a makasengeg na pamateyan ed sikato.  Kanyan pasipsiplatan ko, insan ko la ibolus.”

Balet nankakasakey ya inmeyag iran amiy totoo, “Pateyen itan a too! Si Barabbas so labay min ibolus mo!” (Aprisoy Barabbas lapud golon agawad siudad, tan lapud impamatey to.)

Si Jesus balet so labay nen Pilato ya ibolus, kanyan nansalita lamet ed saray totoo.  Balet lalon inmeyag ira, “Ipasak mod krus!” Ipasak mod krus!”

Pinitlo nen Pilato ya inkuan ed sikara, “Akin, antoy ginawa ton kasalanan? Anggapoy naalmoan kon ginawa ton makasengeg na pamatey ed sikato!  Kanyan pasipsiplatan ko, insan ko la ibolus.”

Balet lalon inkasikasil dan ineyag a nepeg ya ipasak ed krus si Jesus.  Diad kaonuran, analoy impaneeyag da.  Kanyan insintinsia nen Pilato ed kinen Jesus imay kekerewen da.  Imbolus to may toon papaibolus da, samay apriso lapud impanggolo tan impamatey to.  Insan impalima toy Jesus ed sikara, pian nagawaan dad sikato so labay da.

Nen iyaakar dan ipasak ed krus si Jesus, nabet day sakey a lakin nanlapud barrio.  Taga Cirene yan too, tan manngaray Simon.  Sinabat da, tan impasakbat day krus ed sikato, insan da pinatombuk ed kinen Jesus.

Amayamay iray totoon tinmotombuk ed kinen Jesus, pati saray bibiin mannangnangis tan maneermen lapud sikato.  Nilingaw nen Jesus ira tan inkuanto, “Bibiin taga Jerusalem! Ag yo ak nanangisan.  Nangisan yo ingey sikayon dili tan saray anak yo.  Ta onsabi la ray agew ya ikuanda ray totoo, “Mapalar iray bibiin lepes, saray ag mananak, tan saray ag nampasuso!’ Diad sarayan agew, saray totoo ikuandad saray palandey, ‘Tumbaan yo kami!’ tan diad saray pokdul.  ‘Tabunan yo kami!’ No gawaen da yad siak a kaparay mabilay a kiew, anto la kasiy gawaen dad sikayo a kaparay amagaan a kiew?”

Wala met iray duaran kriminal ya inyakar dan pateyen a kabansag nen Jesus.  Nen sinmabi rad pasen a tatawagey “Lapis-lapis na Olo,” diman da impasak ed krus si Jesus.  Impasak da met ed sansakey a krus ira may duaran kriminal, say sakey diad nikawanan tan say sakey diad nikawigi nen Jesus. 

Inkuanen Jesus, “Ama, pirdonam ira, ta ag da amtay gagawaen da!”

Kayari tan nampapalaranan iray kawes to, inapag da.  Manalalagey iray totood man tan bambantayan day Jesus; balet saramay opisyal na baley niludlurey da.  Inkuanda, “Inlaban to ray arum.  Ilaban to met komuy laman ton dili, no tuan sikatoy Cristo a piniliy Dios!”

Niludlurey met na saray sondalo; inasinggeran da, initdan day alak tan inkuanda, “Ilaban moy sikan dili, no tuan sikay ari da ray Judio!”

Onyay akasulat ed olowan to: “Sikato yay Ari da ray Judio.”

Pinapabaingan na sakey ed saramay mambitbitin a kriminal.  Inkuanto, “Aliwa tan sikay Cristo?  Ilaban moy sikan dili tan pati sikami met!”

Balet nampasnukan na samay kaiba to ya inkuanto, “Ag mo tatakotay Dios, anta namparay dusam ed sikato?  Nepeg tan dua so nadusay onya lapud ginawa ta, balet sikato anggapoy kasalanan a ginawa to.” Insan inkuantod kinen Jesus, “Nunot mo ak, Jesus, no kasabim ed Panarian mo!”

Inkuanen Jesus ed sikato, “Kuankod sika: diad sayan agew, kaiba mo ak ed Paraiso.”

Sakey ya alas dosid kaagewan ya anggad alas tris ed ngarem nen binmilonget so intiron dalin, naandiay liwawa so agew, tan apaldua so kurtina na Timplo.  Inmeyag na maksil si Jesus tan inkuanto, ‘Ama, iyawat kod saray limam so ispirituk!” Kapangibaga to ya, inatey.

Nen naimatunan yan agawa na kapitan da ray sondalo, indayew toy Dios.  Inkuanto, “Tua a matonung yan too!”

Sayan agawa naimatunan na amin da ra may dinmagop a nambantay, tan sinmempet iran tapuk-tapuken day kapagewan da.  Manalalagey ed bandad arawi ray amin a kakaaro nen Jesus, pati saramay bibiin tinmombuk ed sikaton nanlapu lad Galilea, tan naimatunan da ra yan agawa.

Ibanghilyo na Katawan.