Our 4th fiesta celebration in honor of our Mother of Perpetual Help
The festivity was celebrated with a mass at the Church with members of our community processing with the Mother of Perpetual Help icon together with another Mother Mary miraculous picture from Vietnam.
The mass was concelebrated by Fr. Al and Fr. Thomas with the reading in Tagalog done by Elizabeth Inacay. The combined choirs of St. Cecilia and St. John Neumann provided the beautiful Tagalog and English hymns sang during the mass.
The special fund raising project that our Filipino community initiated to help our parish was a success. We were able to collect close to $1800.00 which we turned over to the Church. Thank you all for your generous contributions; we are sure that the Lord will return this a hundredfold.
A reception followed after the mass and to our surprise Fr. Al, Deacon Duey and some seminarians changed to our traditional barong tagalog and they all looked dashing in it.
We must congratulate the food and preparation service team who did a good job in figuring out how our members will be able to get food without standing for a long time and overcrowding the food tables. We also would like to express our gratitude to all the people who brought food, desserts and juices to share with everyone. Fr. Al liked the maja blanca very much.
We also got involved as members of the organizing committee for the Priests’ appreciation day.
Our Filipino community hosted and helped in setting up and manning the registration table last July 27 during one of the annual summer backyard barbecue potluck. Thanks again to all the faithful servants who helped during the backyard barbecue.
Birthday celebrants:
Kendrick Barreras, Kenneth Barreras, Ofelia Cachola, Elena Casanova, Jason Dalit, John Paul Facundo, Carlos Landayan, Elisa Letrondo, Edgardo Dejesa, Fe Smith, Virgie Sosmena, Art Sotelo
Anniversaries:
Dejesa Edgardo/Macabeo Evelyn
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