2017 THEME: “Spread Out Unsparingly H O LY T R I N I T Y C O M M U N I T Y An Underway Member B of the SWORD OF THE SPIRIT March 2017 BULLETIN – ISSUE 01 DAVAO CITY, PHILIPPINES
and Make Firm Your Stakes”
By Cherish Magarin, University District
Golden Celebrators. Back Row , L- R : Jeanette Famador, Helen Mozar, Rosanna Porre, Michelle Porras, Pamela Grace Famador, Villa Lim. Front Row, L-R: Arlene Varquez, Mildred Batalan, Marites Cabilogan, Marlene Vidallo, Allen Famador, Gamaliel Urbi, Juneric Cuas, Jun Adriatico.
Newly Dedicated Children of Community with their Families.
February Birthday and Wedding Anniversary Celebrators.
Welcoming a new member of the family truly brings great joy. We in the community celebrated with gladness as we formally welcomed both the new-born children of HTC members as well as children of the newly committed brothers and sisters in the community. For this reason, we celebrated on February 17, 2017 – Sunday, the Day of Dedication. This ceremony is based on the account in the bible when Christ Jesus was presented by his foster father Saint Joseph and the Blessed Virgin Mary at the temple in Jerusalem. Both Joseph and Mary embraced their duties and responsibilities as parents to Jesus. With humility and joy, they followed the law of the Lord and on that occasion they have witnessed how Jesus was proclaimed to be “a revealing light to the Gentiles, the glory of Israel”. We in the community would like to follow the path that Joseph and Mary took, that is, as parents, embracing the duties and responsibilities that the Lord has given them. On that day of dedication, the fathers of the family presented their children to the whole community with joy and pride. The children who were presented were Matthew and Samantha Cainglet, Cosette and Anikka Cubarrubia, Kasandra Batucan, Marius and Joseph Corona, Samantha Gutierrez, Justin and Julliann Gonzales, Angelo and Gabriel Boragay, Julliane Revillame, Xander and Comrad Bonhoc, Bella and Miguel Gelacio, Sofia, Rafael and Orlando Samson, and David Magmanlac. It is our community’s prayers that these children will continue to grow with love and joy in the hands of the Lord. And one day, see these children grow to serve and love the Lord like their parents. (Continued on page 3) Credits to Jayson Nadela for photos used in this article.
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By Gika Triz B. Alidon, North F This year’s HTC theme, “Spread Out Unsparingly, Make Firm Your Stakes” was launched and presented during the general assembly on February 12. The general assembly began with a mass officiated by Fr. Ely Ubag at the Ateneo Grade School Chapel. We then had our praise and worship led by Paul Garcia, Kairos Ministry head. During the praise and worship, he also gave everyone the opportunity to reflect more deeply about this year’s theme and what it means to each one of us personally. Simultaneously, the Friends of Jesus (FOJ) and Junior Young Adults (JYA) also had their respective activities. The FOJ watched an animated film about the story of creation, consistent with the gospel readings for the past week. Meanwhile, the JYA had arts and crafts. They dressed up paper bags in keeping with the valentine theme and gave these to their parents as presents.
After the praise and worship, the Young Adults also had their own activity. The boys and girls were grouped separately and listened to the talk on “True Love Waits” given by Matthew Famador for the boys and Regine Guino for the girls. Meanwhile, at the general assembly, Nicol Fernandez, South District Coordinator, presented the new affiliate members of HTC. Affiliate members are those who: (1) completed the Life in the Spirit Seminar or an equivalent course; (2) have at least attended Module 1 of Foundation Courses 1; (3) cannot live out their commitment in the outreaches of HTC, namely, Christ’s Youth in Action, Ang Lingkod ng Panginoon and Emmaus Way, and; (4) willing to sign the commitment and attend the next Community Weekend (if they have not attended it yet). Affiliate members will be joining the assemblies of HTC and will be included in the Men’s and Women’s Groups. The new affiliate members of HTC are
Gilbert and Julie Ann Gelacio, Chris Jandic and Jared Buagas. Their commitment brings up the total members of HTC to 201 active members. Gammy Urbi, Evangelization Ministry Head, also presented the theme of Emmaus Way for this year, that is, “Light of the World, Salt of the Earth”. In line with this year’s theme, our Senior Coordinator, Cesar Mozar, laid out how we will live out our theme concretely by way of our plans and programs for this year or the 2017 Community Directions. Since 2013, the community has been implementing a five-year Community Action Plan (2013-2018) which is consistent with the Sword of the Spirit ten-year plan (20102020). The three main areas of our Community Directions are: Way of Life, Leadership and Mission.
The new affiliate members of HTC welcomed by their Pastoral Leaders. Way of Life Cesar Mozar, recalled the community action plan in 2013 which said that “In the area of way of life, we said that by 2020 we will have a full member status in the Sword of the Spirit and Underway B status within the next 3 years.” True enough, HTC was able to attain Underway B Status in 2016. Furthermore, it is also our goal to “grow in numbers to at least 300 members by 2018, divided in to four districts - two married districts, one university district and one singles’ district”. He also said that it is our goal to “consistently implement our program for way of life to attain at least 85% compliance. During the last survey, many have been complying with our way of life”, he recalled. “In our Strengthening Way of Life Programs, we are following seven themes, at two years per theme. Last year, we focused on Family Life and Caring for One
Another. This year we will continue [with] Caring for One Another and refresh ourselves on Financial Giving, he added. Leadership “Our goal is by 2018 is to develop sufficient number of leaders to cover all community needs as well as another 20% to be available for outreach and expansion work”, Mozar added. As of now, we have barely enough leaders and servants. To address this, the community will continue to follow the Leaders’ Training Macroschema (which we started implementing last year). Mission In the area of mission, Cesar Mozar emphasized that “our first mission field is our children, and second is ‘the lost, the least and the last’. For our first mission field, we have our Kairos Program. For our second mission field, we have Emmaus, CYA and Ang Lingkod ng Panginoon.
“Our main vehicle for evangelization is Emmaus Way and our goal is to strengthen it by adding more members”, Mozar added. JYA busy with their arts and crafts.
FOJ watching a movie on the Story of Creation.
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After the Dedication Ceremony, we presented and honored the brothers and sisters who celebrated and will be celebrating their 50thbirthday this year. The celebrants were joyful
throughout the ceremony, saying their prayer of thanksgiving to the Lord for the blessing of 50 wonderful years. Many of them were teary-eyed and smiling as they prayed. It is a blessing to witness this moment wherein we, as a community, celebrate the life the Lord has given us. These celebrations are proof of how high and how wide the Lord’s love is. Whether we are young, old, a new or long-time
member of community, life is worth celebrating because we are assured that the Lord loves us tremendously.
Gelacio Family (South E) with PLs Marvin & Cherry Caballero Corona Family (North F) with PLs Rod & Maya Aque and North District Coordinator Jun Lim
Gutierez Family (North Tract B) with PLs Paul & Afe Garcia
Cubarubia Family (North C) with PLs Noel & Imelda Sanchez
Magmanlac Family (South D) with South Dist. Coord. Nicol Fernandez
Batucan Family (North E) with PLs Lito & Riza Aperocho
Bonhoc Family w(South D) with PLs Francis & Mabel Rizon and South Dist. Coordinator Nicol Fernandez
Samson Family (South E) with PLs Marvin & Cherry Caballero & South Dist Coord. Nicol Fernandez
Revillame Family (South C) with PLs Edgar & Maethel Ponce
Gonzales Family (South A) with PLs Lito & Linda Duran
By Manilee Araune, Single Women A
Theology Weekend participants from HTC with Dr. Jake Yap.
The third Mindanao Theology Weekend was held at Davao Eagle Ridge Resort on February 25-26 with 75 attendees
coming from Davao City, Malaybalay, and Cagayan de Oro .This one-and-a-half day Theology seminar tackled topics on Moral Theology such as Human Freedom and Conscience, The Morality of Human Acts and Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery. It is interesting to note that all the participants are men leaders from Holy Trinity Community (Davao City),The Light of the World Community (CDO),The Good Shepherd Community (Maramag) and Ang Buhing Pulong (Malaybalay).To answer the question as to why only men are invited to this Theology weekend,Dr. Jake Yap the lecturer,a Theologian and professor of Theology at the Loyola School of Theology and a brother of the Servants of the Word,has this to say: “Teaching is a governmental role.Teaching is a ruling function because when we teach,we expect to be followed.And in a Christian community,this is the role of men leaders.”
CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES FOR MARCH & APRIL 2017 DATE
DAY
TIME
ACTIVITY
VENUE
MARCH 01
WED
6pm-9pm
EMMAUS BASIC COURSE 2017 WELCOMING DINNER
D’leonor Hotel Bajada
03; 10; 17; 24 (WED) 6pm-9pm
EBC 2017 – TALKS 1 TO 4
D’leonor Hotel Bajada
05
SUN
7am
1st SUNDAY MASS, FAMILY DAY, HONORING THE PARENTS
ADDU Roxas; Homitori
12
SUN
North: 9am South: 1pm
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY
North: RCG South: Ateneo Grade School
15
WED
6pm-9pm
PL’S FORUM
Lispher Inn
26
SUN
8am-11:30pm
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Homitori
31
WED
6pm-9pm
EBC 2017 MAKE UP SESSION / TRAINING ON 1 TO 1
HTC Center
02
SUN
7am
1st SUNDAY MASS, FAMILY DAY, RECOGNITION DAY
ADDU Roxas; Homitori
07
FRI
6pm
PIM PENITENTIAL RITES
Homitori
09
SUN
North: 9am South: 1pm
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY
North: Homitori South: Ateneo Grade School
13
HOLY THU
5:00am 2:00pm 4:00pm
MORNING WATCH (WAY OF THE CROSS) RETREAT W/ FR. MARBENDEAR MORALLAS MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER, WASHING OF THE FEET, ALTAR OF REPOSE, VIGIL UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT
Shrine Hills Ateneo Grade School
14
GOOD FRI
2:00pm 4:00pm
RETREAT, CONTINUATION REENACTMENT OF CHRIST’S CRUCIFIXION & VENERATION OF THE CROSS
Ateneo Grade School
15
BLACK SAT
4:00pm 6:00pm
SEDER MEAL EASTER VIGIL MASS
Ateneo Grade School
16
EASTER SUN
7:00am
EASTER CELEBRATION
Homitori
19-23
WED-SUN
KAIROS MINDANAO
Malaybalay, Bukidnon
30
SUN
EASTER ALAY BUHAY: CHURCH FENCE PAINTING (by District)
To be Announced
APRIL
8:00am
MARCH CELEBRATORS 1 2 2 3 4 5 7 11
RONNIE VIDALLO MAYA AQUE BEA ALVAREZ EOAN ABLAS* MAE SAZON RICA AMARIS AMBROSIO* JUNE ADRIATICO JOHN PAUL SALAVER*
2 BINGBONG & JOAN SALAVER 8 JOEL & MICHELLE SARMIENTO
BIRTHDAY REY CORONEL SAMANTHA CAINGLET* ELEANOR MAGARIN JELLICOE NOLAN PAREñO PAUL GARCIA CHARMAINE CARREON JOFER MEDINA ARNEL FAMADOR ANNIVERSARY 19 NONOY & WENG NOBLEZA 12 12 16 17 18 18 20 22
22 27 28 29 29
RENZ MATTHEW VIDALLO ORLANDO SAMSON, JR. GABRIELLE MACAVINTA GEMA ESTRADA RONA MICHAELA VIDALLO*
*CHILDREN 23 ERICH & GABBY ALBA
APRIL CELEBRATORS 2 3 4 5 6 7 7
BEL MORALES PAULEEN CAROLINE PONCE* BEBS PORRE ROY SAZON YANNICK FERNANDEZ* JULLIANE REVILLAME* DONNA MAE TAGALOG*
8 CESAR & HELEN MOZAR 16 JESSIE & RAISA MAGMANLAC
BIRTHDAY JEREMIAH JORGE TORIBIO* KAYLEEN MICHA GALANG* NOES GALANG GERARD DORIA NEREN QUITAIN ELY LOPEZ LEAH MEMBREVE ANNIVERSARY 23 ALBERT & RUSSET CAINGLET 14 14 15 17 17 18 19
20 22 26 29 30
MICHELLE PORRAS PAMELA MONTEVERDE ANN ABLAS JOAN SALAVER JOVY MEDINA *CHILDREN
30 RONNIE & LYNN VIDALLO