Pasasalamat Sa Mahal Na Birhen Maria

Every month of May we honor our Blessed Virgin Mary. It is our humble way of expressing our gratitude for her constant intercession for our community. Last year, our Santacruzan came with grace and beauty as we line up the procession of sagala. The image of Mother Mary was so impressive with beautiful flowers surrounded her float. We end up the acitivty for the evening by offering flowers for to our Lady.

This year, we don't have the sagala since our attention was focus on our fund raising for the concreting of the congregation area of St. Joseph the Worker Church - "Give Me Five, Sagot ko Semento ng Simbahan ko!".

But we did not forget our Blessed Mother. We attribute the roof of our church through her intercession. We remember, when we signed the contract for the roof last September 8, 2010 (the birthday of Mother Mary) and completed the roof on the Feast of Immaculate Conception (December 8, 2010). Our community - the St. Joseph the Community early years is attributed and founded by our common devotion to the Mother of God.

On May 28, 2011, the last Saturday of the month, we are inviting everyone to honor our Blessed Virgin Mary in our community. The Schedule will be as follows;

5:30 p.m. Procession of the Image of Mother Mary.

6:30 p.m. Floral Offering and Coronation of Mary

7:00 p.m. Thanksgiving Mass

We encourage everybody to join this tribute to our Lady - "Pasasalamat Sa Mahal na Birhen Maria". Please bring your rosary, a candle and flowers to offer.

Mother Mary, Pray for Us.

Give Me Five

We have launched last April 24, 2011 the next fund raising campaign for the St. Joseph the Worker Church - "Give Me Five Sagot Ko Semento ng Simbahan Ko".

We are at the stage of concreting the congregation area of St. Joseph the Worker Church. We encourage once again everyone to participate in this endeavor. As we have done in the previous construction developments in St. Joseph the Worker Church, the participation of the faithful is important. The cost estimates for this stage which is the based preparation and concreting of the congregation area is P250,000 for an area of 460 sq meters. This is where we derive the P500 per square meter. We ask 250 families to be generous to us.

We are now accepting the pledges every Saturday and Sunday at the basement of St. Joseph the Worker Church from 9:00a.m. to 11a.m and 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please ask for a receipt for your donations.

Photo Essay of May 1, 2011 Celebrations in SJWC

Pictures Taken on May 1, 2011 Celebrations

Briefing our City Mayor Hon. Danilo Leyble together with

his beloved wife Atty. Carmencita Leyble, how we are slowly building

St. Joseph the Worker Church.

Preparing of our Traditional Petiton Baloons for St. Joseph the Worker

Releasing our Petition Baloons after our Prayers

to St. Joseph the Worker

Our Holy Mass Celebration

The faithful joined the celebration of Feast of Divine Mercy,

also the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, our patron saint.

The Holy Eucharist is well attended

Young Volunteers of St. Joseph with our Parish Priest

Fr. Alfredo "Jhun" Meneses, Jr.

Our parish priest could be easily mistaken as one

of our young volunteers.

Partner Builder of St. Joseph the Worker Church

The Procession in the Afternoon

The Knights of Altar led the procession

Returning to St. Joseph the Worker Church

for our final prayer in the evening.

We thank all our benefactors and sponsors.

We also would like to thank Mayor Danilo Leyble together and his wife

Atty. Mechie Leyble for their generosity and support.

Happy Fiesta!

A Day of Mercy and A Day of Joyful Celebration

With the Joy of Easter in our hearts, we celebrated three important occasions in our community. First, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, which is designated on May 1. This date also happened to be the second Sunday of Easter, which is the feast of Divine Mercy (this particular feast takes precedence of any other feast as required in our liturgical celebrations). And on that same Sunday, was the beatification of the late Pope John Paul II in Rome.

Before, the celebration on May 1, 2011, we were permitted to have a Triduum Mass in honor of our patron saint St. Joseph the Worker. We thank Fr. Clifford, Fr. Pheng Reyes, MJ and Fr. Freddie Dulay, MJ who presided over our Triduum Mass.

And on May 1, 2011, we used the liturgical readings of the feast of Divine Mercy, but before the Holy Mass, we recited the prayer to St. Joseph the Worker followed by the releasing of petitions balloons. We also asked the intercession of Blessed Pope John Paul II.

We thank Fr. Alfredo “Jhun” Meneses, Jr., who presided over the Holy Mass at 7:30 a.m. He is also the new parish priest of San Antonio de Padua Parish, in which our community belongs.

Hon. Mayor Danilo “Nilo” Leyble and his wife Atty. Carmencita “Mechie” Leyble also joined us in our celebration. We thank Mayor Nilo Leyble for gracing our festivities and for becoming a partner builder of St. Joseph the Worker Church.

Truly, May 1, 2011 became a Day of Mercy and A Day of Joyful Celebration for all of us.