October 18, 2015 www.ssaparish.com 29th Week in Ordinary Time Forbes Park, Makati 2015 Year of the Poor - Mercy and Compassion Santuario de San Antonio Parish Center Office • Tel. nos. 8438830-31 turn to page 5 Francis Fest, which marks the 40th year of Santuario de San Antonio as a parish, presented the country’s leading international pianist Cecile Licad and the ABS-CBN Philharmonic under conductor Gerard Salonga, filling the church to capacity. Bartok’s overwhelming propulsive and percussive Concerto No. 1 is largely a dialogue between piano and drums, a huge drum and two smaller ones enlarging the orchestra. The Concerto, daunting and perilous even for the most seasoned virtuoso, is replete with dissonant chords requiring tremendous energy and vitality, abrupt, shifting accents and rhythmic changes — original and innovative for 20th century music. All these were met with Licad’s phenomenal technique. Big screens showed close-ups of Licad’s strikingly nimble and forceful fingers; indeed Licad is one of the very few women pianists I have heard who possesses masculine power, consistently manifesting this in the Concerto’s hard texture and abounding atonalities. Steadily descriptive and expressive, Licad evoked poignant beauty in Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, deep melancholy in Macdowell’s Sonata No. 1 (Tragica) which laments the death of a friend; a vivid, intoxicating Spanish spirit in Gottschalk’s La Jota Aragonesa, Manchega and Souvenir d’ Andalousie, therein, the audience “hearing” the clicking of castanets, the snapping of fingers, the strumming of guitars, the thunder of zapateados. Or “seeing” dizzying turns and twirls. How brilliantly Licad had captured the essence, the substance of Spanish music! Cecile Licad: Awesome!; A Call for PH, B’way Songs by Rosalinda L. Orosa
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October 18, 2015www.ssaparish.com
29th Week in Ordinary Time Forbes Park, Makati2015 Year of the Poor - Mercy and Compassion
Santuario de San Antonio Parish Center Office • Tel. nos. 8438830-31
turn to page 5
Francis Fest, which marks the 40th year of Santuario de San Antonio as a parish, presented the country’s leading international pianist Cecile Licad and the ABS-CBN Philharmonic under conductor Gerard Salonga, filling the church to capacity.
Bartok’s overwhelming propulsive and percussive Concerto No. 1 is largely a dialogue between piano and drums, a huge drum and two smaller ones enlarging the orchestra. The Concerto, daunting and perilous even for the most seasoned virtuoso, is replete with dissonant chords requiring
tremendous energy and vitality, abrupt, shifting accents and rhythmic changes — original and innovative for 20th century music. All these were met with Licad’s phenomenal technique.
Big screens showed close-ups of Licad’s strikingly nimble and forceful fingers; indeed Licad is one of the very few women pianists I have heard who possesses masculine power, consistently manifesting this in the Concerto’s hard texture and abounding atonalities.
Steadily descriptive and expressive,
Licad evoked poignant beauty in Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, deep melancholy in Macdowell’s Sonata No. 1 (Tragica) which laments the death of a friend; a vivid, intoxicating Spanish spirit in Gottschalk’s La Jota Aragonesa, Manchega and Souvenir d’ Andalousie, therein, the audience “hearing” the clicking of castanets, the snapping of fingers, the strumming of guitars, the thunder of zapateados. Or “seeing” dizzying turns and twirls. How brilliantly Licad had captured the essence, the substance of Spanish music!
Cecile Licad: Awesome!; A Call for PH, B’way Songsby Rosalinda L. Orosa
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Mission Sunday
For most people Mission Sunday is just a fund-raising activity: a second collection at Mass, a piggy bank or an envelope to contribute some money. Needless to say, Mission Sunday is much more than that. This year, the celebration of Mission Sunday will be enhanced by a very important event, namely, the canonization in Rome today of the parents of St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Patroness of the Missions. (Read more on this in the attached feature). First and foremost, Mission Sunday is a day to thank the Lord for the gift of our faith; for indeed, our faith is a precious gift from God which none of us could ever earn or deserve. For some mysterious design of God, it was given to us and not to others. We have been richly blessed by the gift of Christian faith. Through it we have come to know the true and triune God, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the origin and purpose of our life, and our eternal destiny. Two thousand years after Christ sent his apostles to preach the Good News to all nations, but only one third of the world population has so far received the gift of faith. This means that two out of three persons in the world—a great majority—have not heard or have not received the Good News of the Gospel. We are lucky to be in the minority of believers. It is this awareness of being lucky, of being blessed and enriched, by God’s mercy, with the gift of faith that impels us to do mission work in order to share with others the beauty and the richness of our faith. It is not that we want to proselytize and engross our ranks for the sheer joy of being the largest religious denomination. Rather, it is the desire to share with others the treasure of our faith. We want others to enjoy the blessings we have received from God. That is our understanding of mission--and Mission Sunday.
The fact that, after 2000 years, only one third of the world’s population has received the Christian faith should make us think: Why so few? Why so slowly? Have we not perhaps been remiss in our task of proclaiming the Good News, as commissioned by Christ? An old Chinese lady, when told by a foreign missionary that he was visiting her because that is what Jesus had told us to do two thousand years ago, replied: Two thousand years ago? Where have you been all this time? A good question indeed to ask ourselves on Mission Sunday: Where have we been all this time? You might say: But Father, you said earlier that faith is a gift from God. So, it is something we cannot give; only God can give it. You are right there. But faith is like a seed that is sown in the heart and mind of people. And Christ, in his goodness, has chosen us to help sow the seed of the Gospel. He has also told us to “ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers to his harvest” (Lk. 10:2). God produces the yield, yes, but we have to do the sowing. When I was sent to the missions (before Vatican II), it was widely believed that mission work was reserved for priests and religious. However, Vatican II made us aware that all Christians share in the mission of Christ. All Christians are missionaries, by the fact of being baptized into Christ. Another important change to take place during the last 50 years has to do with mission territory. Before Vatican II, missionaries were sent from first world countries into third world countries. After Vatican II, the practice of religion has weakened considerably in first world countries and the number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life has dwindled. As a result, missionaries from the third world (especially Latin America and the Philippines) are now being sent to first world countries. Today, as we appeal for material and financial support for the missions, and as we thank God for the gift of faith, we
SUNDAYGOSPEL REFLECTIONby Fr. Jesús Galindo, OFM
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also pray that the missionary spirit and awareness may always be kindled and alive in all of us!
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Parents of St. Therese of the Child Jesus,
To Be Canonized October 18, 2015
The parents of St. Therese of Lisieux will be canonized Oct. 18 at the Vatican during the Synod of Bishops on the family. Louis Martin (1823-1894) and Marie Zelie Guerin Martin (1831-1877) will be the first married couple with children to be canonized in the same ceremony. Other married couples are among the blesseds of the church. Pope Francis issued the decree approving their canonization Saturday during the public consistory on canonizations at the Vatican; more than 40 cardinals attended. During the consistory, Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said the couple lived an “exemplary life of faith, dedication to ideal values, united to a constant realism, and persistent attention to the poor,” according to Vatican Radio. The cardinal said the French couples serve as an “extraordinary witness of conjugal and family spirituality.” Married in 1858, the couple had nine children; four died in infancy and five entered religious life. During their 19-year marriage, the couple was known to attend Mass daily, pray and fast, respect the Sabbath, visit the elderly and the sick, and welcome the poor into their home. They will be canonized along with Italian Fr. Vincenzo Grossi (1845-1917), founder of the Institute of the Daughters of the Oratory, and Spanish Sr. Maria of the Immaculate Conception (1926-1998), a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross, whose canonizations the pope also approved Saturday.
BLS. LOUIS AND ZELIE MARTIN, PARENTS OF ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX
What is the secret?Seeing married couples who are happy and in love makes us wonder if they have special formulas in their relationships. What is the secret formula? Being married means giving oneself to each other a hundred percent, not 50-50. If couples live by formulas, Pope Francis simplifies the secret for a successful marriage, which boils down to three simple concepts: permission, thanks and
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Sickly Antonio was born on December 23, 1807 to a religious family. At a young age, he already desired to be a priest. He was ordained a priest in 1835 and after his studies, was made pastor of Sallent. He was sent as a missionary to the mountain village of Vildrau. Frustrated in his effort to become a foreign missionary he decided to put all his efforts into evangelizing Catalonia, his Spanish home province. Upon finding many people there suffering from diseases Antonio turned to studying medicine so he could help them. Soon Antonio was preaching missions and retreats all over Catalonia. But God seemed to have given him special gifts of healing, prophecy and even the ability to read men’s hearts that large crowds began to follow him. Antonio also wrote and published his book The Catechism Explained and it became a best seller Seeing the need for a publishing house for religious books so that the gospel of Christ could be spread further Antonio and other priests founded the very successful Religious
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Tito and Rory Lagdameo are happilymarried for 58 years!
Tito is Chairman Emeritus of Educhild Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to the education of
parents for the proper upbringing of their children. He is the author of the book “Take on the Parenting Challenge.”
Tito and Rory Lagdameo have 8 children, 21 grand-children, and 2 great-grandchildren!
RANDOM THOUGHTSVoices from yesterday and today…
By: Peachy Maramba
ST. ANTHONY MARY CLARET: Founder of the Missionary
Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians)
1807 – 1870
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wedding anniversary.” There is no perfect family. It is normal for husband and wife to quarrel; but we should never end a day without asking for forgiveness. “Never, never, never!” as Pope Francis would say, “This is a secret, a secret for maintaining love and making peace.” Marriage is an everyday task. Husband and wife help each other so that they grow together. When couples celebrating 50 years together are asked “Who supported whom?” and they look at each other and answer, “Both!” we can only admire and exclaim, “This is beautiful! This is a beautiful witness!” (Reference: Address of Pope Francis to engaged couples preparing for marriage at St. Peter’s Square on February 14, 2014)
forgiveness. PLEASE. “Can I? May I?” We have to learn to ask: “May I do this?” “Would you like to go out tonight?” It is to ask permission or to enter into the lives of others with courtesy. It may look easy but it is not; as often times we are rude and offensive in our manners. True love does not impose itself impolitely and aggressively. THANK YOU. The Holy Father said, “It seems so easy to say these words, but we know that it is not. But it is important! We teach it to children, but then we ourselves forget it! Gratitude is an important sentiment.” In a relationship, we need to recognize the other person as a gift of God. We say thank you to God for all the gifts and to each other for everything. “Thank you” is not a word used only with strangers to show that we are polite. We need to learn to say thank you in order to get along well in married life. I AM SORRY. In life we make so many mistakes. We have to learn to recognize them, instead of accusing others, and to apologize. “I’m sorry for raising my voice today,” “I’m sorry if I left without saying goodbye,” “Excuse me for being late,” or “for talking too much without listening,” “Forgive me for not remembering our
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Random Thoughts...from page 3Library. Thus began his printing apostolate for the diffusion of the Good News, which has since expanded to all parts of the world including the Philippines. When he died he is said to have published 200 religious books! In 1849 Antonio founded an international religious order - the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (or Claretians as they are better known) to convert many souls and poor sinners. After gaining the necessary permissions Antonio and five other priests held their first meeting on the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and met beneath a picture of Our Mother of Divine Love - so great was his devotion to God’s Mother. Antonio was appointed Archbishop of Santiago, Cuba. After being ordained a Bishop on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary in 1850 he left Spain for Cuba. Here he initiated spiritual reforms, established the Teaching Sisters of Mary Immaculate and he helped farmers by fostering sound farming methods and credit unions among the poor. After seven years Antonio was recalled against his wishes to be the confessor and spiritual adviser of Queen Isabela of Spain. When he resigned his see in 1858 he was appointed Director of the Escorial, the royal pantheon in Spain, where he was able to encourage not only literature and the arts but also sciences. He established a science laboratory, music and language schools and even a museum of natural history. He also helped to revive the Catalan language. When Queen Isabela was driven from the throne in 1868 by a revolution, Antonio was forced to go into exile with her to Paris. In 1870 Antonio was still able to participate in Vatican Council I where he spoke out in favor of the infallibility of the Pope. But when the revolutionaries in Madrid went on a witch hunt looking for all former members of the court, Antonio had to go into hiding to avoid being imprisoned for treason. It was in the Cistercian French abbey of Frontfroid where Antonio found refuge that he died on October 24, 1870. Pope Pius XII canonized this “irrepressible evangelist” a saint of the universal Church on May 7, 1950. Every 24th of October we honor the memory of this great saint who was a leading figure in the revival of Catholicism in Spain preaching over 25,000 sermons and publishing some 200 books and pamphlets during his lifetime. Ahead of his time he instigated a strong devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary that God’s Mother in Fatima asked for 47 years after his death. When his relics were translated in 1897 his heart was found to have remained incorrupt. He is also the patron of weavers and savings banks.
SOURCES of REFERENCE: Butler’s Lives of the Saints – Vol. IV – pp 179 – 180; The Illustrated World Encyclopedia of Saints – p 219; The Book of Saints – p 268.
Read more on St. Anthony Mary Claret at our website www.ssaparish.com
BLESSING OF NICHESOn November 2, 2015, Monday, 9:00AM, mass will held at Crypt 3 lobby for your dearly departed loved ones interred at Santuario de San Antonio Crypt. Blessing of niches will follow after the mass.* Please light your candles at designated areas only. * Candles are available for sale at the Parish Office.NOTE: * The main church will be used if many people will attend the Crypt 3 Mass on All Souls’ Day. * There is no scheduled First Saturday Mass at Crypt 3, for the month of November.
Cecile Licad...from page 1
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Musicologists describe Liszt’s St. Francis Walking on Waters an “impressionistic acquarelle.” Licad’s subtle nuances delineated the calm of the sea, and a storm surging and ebbing, then rising to a torrential triumph, with Licad’s overwhelming chordal passages, in the swiftest tempo, covering the entire keyboard.
In sum, Licad brought to mind what her legendary mentor Rudolf Serkin observed: “She is at home in any style.” And awesomely so! The deafening clamor led to two native encores, the first converted into a dazzling bravura piece, both works signifying Licad’s pride in being Filipino. The third was an excerpt from “Embraceable You,” which the pianist dedicated to her son who was celebrating his birthday.
The concert opened with welcome remarks from Francis Fest chairperson Amelita Guevara, followed by a disciplined, cohesive, engaging orchestral rendition of Liszt’s Les Preludes conducted by Salonga.
Reprinted with permission.ENCORE, The Manila Times
October 10, 2015
by ROSALINDA L. OROSA
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FrancisFest Review
Pianist Cecile Licad performed a demanding program that challenged not just her but also the ABS-CBN Orchestra conducted by Gerald Salonga and the well-heeled audience who came to support the fundraising concert for the Santuario de San Antonio Parish. The Bartok Piano Concerto # 1 would have been enough to tire other pianists but Cecile gave a full concert that also included works by Liszt, Chopin and McDowell. If that were not enough, she continued to please and amaze the audience by giving not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4 but 5 encores including an entire movement of Chopin’s Piano Concerto # 2! What a wonder woman!
Adding delight and pride was seeing members of the PCC Family paticipate in the choir and orchestra. Kevin Castelo, head of the Drumline of the FEU Drum and Bugle Corps, which just won 1st place in the Jember Open Marching Competition in Indonesia shared a passage with Cecile in the Bartok concerto!
It was a super duper concert! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo Cecile !!! Your music touches the hearts of so many! Gerard, you were spectacular !!! We all love watching how the two of you interact!
Gerard, you are the most versatile conductor I have ever known. Mom, you are a shining star for having put all this together and helping so many people with this fund raiser!
It was really an amazing experience, Cecile, salamat talaga from the bottom of my heart. You’re one of the most brilliant musicians of our time, and we’re all very lucky to have had the chance to work with you and learn how to really walk the talk. That Bartok is one of the most amazing pieces I’ve ever learned, and I’m glad the first time performing it was with you. Tchaik 1, Rach 2, De Falla, Saint-Saens Gminor, Chopin polonaise, Totentanz – daming beses mo na akong nabibinyagan, pwede na kitang maging ninang. Big thank you also to Tita Amelita for getting me and the orchestra for this, and for convincing Piki to green light it.
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