Thank You Santo Padre, Papa Francesco!

From the Filipinos who really admire you, we love you Pope Francis! 

Thank you for the heartfelt and emotional visit in the Philippines. It was indeed remarkable and historical. May your teachings and love for us unite each and everyone of us, that we always see the good in our neighbors and fellowmen. Truly blessed and nurtured. God has made you His instrument. We're so inspired with the humility and compassion you've shown to the poor and in need. I can't explain the feeling when I saw you  few meters away from our view, your radiance enlightened us and covered us with love and hope. I almost cry 'cause of too much happiness and there's this unexplained feeling after 'cause seeing you is incomparable and uplifting. I can literally feel you and the ease you give and I feel blessed even afar, until now. All the hardships and jostling in the crowd are worth the while.

Being in the modern and new generation of personage, I must say that we are really lucky to experience this. The crowd who followed and attended all the activities of Pope really amazed me, it's sensational that's why it makes me proud to be a Filipino. Everyone showed unity, from poor to rich, adults to young, they didn't mind the sudden changes of weather just to see the Highness. Have a safe flight going back to Rome. Til we meet again. God bless you Papa Francesco! We'll always pray for you. Mahal kayo ng mga Pilipino!

To all the Filipinos, we've become saints for 5 days so I'm hoping that it won't change now that Pope Francis isn't around. He may not be around but his principles and powerful words will remain in our nation. He really believes that the vitality of the Church relies in every Filipino so let's make it happen. 

Viva Il Papa, Papa Francesco!

You'll always have a special place in our hearts and we know that we have in yours too. 

Thank you Lester for coming along. It was a rough ride and tiring marathon but we made it! We've seen the holiness of Santo Papa! It's fulfilling and unparalleled. :)

Now Playing: We are all God's children

: I love Pope Francis!

: Migs Lorenzana

Welcome to the Philippines Pope Francis!

Bienvenido Jorge Mario Bergoglio, our beloved Pope Francis!

The Pope of the New World just arrived in the Philippines yesterday (January 15, 2015) and is set to have religious activities and meetings from today up to January 18, and his departure is on 19th of the present month.

Photo Courtesy: GMA News 

To this day, my enthusiasm towards religion and religious stuff is on extreme since I grew up in a religious family. I can't explain the happiness and thrill I feel now that Pope Francis is in the land of the most religious country in Asia. When the late Pope Saint John Paul II had his State visit and World Youth Day in the Philippines, I was 3 years of age and too innocent to recognize the full implication of his holiness 'cause that was back in 1995. I couldn't contain myself even though I was just sitting here and watching the rock star pope behind this electrical tube. I can literally feel the extremity of Pope Francis' presence as if like I was already blessed. It's overpowering. Goosebumps!
(I badly want to see him physically! Ugh!)

Photo Courtesy: Rapler

Pope meets our president, PNoy and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle. And can you imagine the crowd of people waiting for the Pope's mobile to pass by? Just WOW!! Indeed love from Filipinos for the world's Catholic Leader.

Manila Cathedral's beauty. Today, Pope Francis held his first ever holy mass in the Philippines' most historical church. 

Photo Courtesy: Rappler

Photo Courtesy: ABS-CBN News

Pope Francis: "Do you love me?"

People: "YES!"

Pope Francis: (laughs) "...Jesus' said"

He smiles so sweet and he won't stop.

I must say that our today's generation is very lucky and truly blessed to witness and experience this once in a lifetime encounter with the Pope. This is priceless!

The Philippines bear witness to the youthfulness and vitality of the Church.

And it's real! The Pontifical's first ever Tagalog tweet.

Thank you people's Pope for visiting us and recognizing the faith of every Filipinos. It's a clear evidence that your compassion humbles and defines you for showing humility and simplicity, and for being close to the poor. You are the very instrument of God that reminds us how His love works in many ways and that it lives. Please pray for us! Bless this country.

As the Santo Papa visits our nation, we can't restrain the dialogue of the other religious group about the Papal visit. Permission to post this but please do respect our Leader as we respect yours. If you hate our religion, where do you think that hatred comes? Is it because we have statues, or because of the controversies our priests have borne? It is the person who commits mistake not the religion itself that makes the member unqualified. Remember, Judas once betrayed Jesus and had sinned, but the organization of Christ isn't sinful even though Judas is a member, meaning, our priests may have sinned but it doesn't generalize the whole community of Catholic, therefore it's their very own conscience. If your religion is the promise of God to the world and people, do you think He'll permit it to be indiscreet and vilified? Why do you recruit and persuade people and not let them choose and justify their faith in whatever religion he thinks is suitable? Why do you say that your religion is the only way to be in God's heaven, and that if we don't submit ourselves upon your care and glory we'll be burned in hell? Do you think you'll be glorified when you insult and vilify religions? Wow! Christ has never deprived one's supposition and faith 'cause at the end of the day, those who truly believe in Him, who has strong relationship with Him and who does things according to His will, will matter in heaven and not the religion where you are affiliated. Think twice before you speak on behalf of your so-called sacred religion.

"If we take away poor from the Gospel, we won't understand the whole message of Jesus Christ" - Pope Francis (during his homily in Manila Cathedral)

Long live Santo Papa! We love you!

Semana Santa 2013: Holy Wednesday

Sorry if the quality of the photos are not that good, I just used a phone camera since I'm not techie and I'm not really fond of using high tech gadgets and equipment. 

Ang pagpapagaling  ni Jesus sa lalaking bulag

Ang pagbubuhos ng pabango kay Jeesus

Ang pagpapatawad ni Jesus sa babaeng nahuling nakikiapid

Ang pagpapala ni Jesus sa mga bata

Ang pagpapatawad ni Jesus kay Maria Magdalena

Ang pagbisita ni Jesus kay Martha at Maria ng Betania

Pinagaling ni Jesus ang anak ni Jairo

Ang paglilinis ng templo

Ang pagsasalu-salo ni Jesus, Mahal na Ina at Juan na alagad

Ang pagpapaalam ni Jesus sa Kanyang Ina

Pananalangin sa halamanan kasama ang tatlong alagad

Ang panlulumo sa halamanan

Pananalangin sa halamanan

Ang pagpapagaling ni Jesus sa tainga ni Malco

Ang pagpapagaling ni Jesus sa tainga ni Malco

Ang pagkakanulo

Ang pagdakip Kay Jesus

Ang pagsisisi ni Simon Pedro

Hinatulang mamatay sa krus si Jesus

Ang pag-aatang ng krus Kay Jesus

Ang ikalawang pagpapatanaw

Ang ikalawang pagkasubasob ni Jesus

Ang pagpapako sa krus

Ang pagsibat sa tagiliran ni Jesus

Ang pagsasapalaran sa damit ni Jesus

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Holy Wednesday; Holy Week 2012



Have a meaningful Holy Week. God bless us all!
Loving God <3

Semana Santa 2012: Good Friday

  I don't really have the plan of doing the sacrificial walk. I just said that I'll be watching it passing us by to save my energy. There were 95 floats that joined the Good Friday procession as I have estimated. They're not in exact order, sorry. By the way, Baliuag, Bulacan is the original district who introduced this well-known long procession that showcases life-sized tableaux of Christ. 

SENAKULO 

We've got different religions in the World. I am in a Roman Catholic religion and I just really want to give an emphasis with the Catholic's culture of having tableau of Christ. In and out of the Church, we have them, up to the altar down from our very own backyard (groto) and that's the major thing that the other religions are questioning about. It was even said in the bible, that God does not want us to praise and honor statues. I've got an explanation about the concern. We don't really honor statues, they're just the reflection of the Son of God, and it's Jesus Christ whom we praise. We don't want to get misled of imagining what Christ's face is like so for a clearer vision, we rely on what the tableau pictures us. It's like looking at your girlfriend/boyfriend's picture in your wallet. You hold and kiss it but you don't honor and worship the picture itself. The purpose is to remind you how does he/she look like. That's it! 

HAVE A BLESSED HOLY WEEK

Migs Lorenzana