St. Jerome Emilliani and Sta. Susana

Parish

Ayala Alabang, Muntinlupa City, Philippines

Arianne AmanteDFM8

In 1981, Mrs. Josephine Madrigal Bayot offered the Somascan Fathers two homes inside Ayala Alabang Village for their temporary use. The Madrigals also had an old family chapel dedicated to Sta. Susana in their vast mango orchard. Ayala Corporation tore down the Madrigal chapel and built a new church, which became the seat of the St. Jerome and Sta. Susana Parish.

On 4 February 1983, Jaime Cardinal Sin blessed the St. Jerome Emiliani and Sta. Susana Parish and installed Rev. Fr. Cesare De Santis, crs, as the first parish priest, who was assisted by Rev. Giovanni Tarditi and Rev. Valerio Fenoglio. Thus was established the first Somascan parochial church in Far East Asia.

The parish was under construction from the years 1990-1996. It was slowly being built to a beautiful church.

On June 15, 1990, Jaime Cardinal Sin divided the parochial territory into two parishes. The whole Ayala Alabang Village became the new Parish of St. James the Great under the guidance of the diocesan clergy.

On March 15, 1998, the Cardinal reshaped the boundaries of our parish by trans ferring Alabang Stock Farm, Serum Vaccine Laboratory (SVL), and the RITM to the San Roque Parish.

From that little church in the middle of nowhere some 20 years ago, St Jerome church has become the center of the spiritual life of many residents, of countless passers by, and of regular office workers. This beautiful church is becoming too small for the growing community of Alabang.

ACTIVITIES

Flores De Mayo

Kumpisalang Bayan

Marriage and Family Counseling

Etc.

Personal - I am part of The Youth under the ministry of St. James Parish inside Ayala Alabang.

Source: http://somascanfathersphilippines.blogspot.com/2008/02/st-jerome-and-sta-susana-parish.html