To the Ilonggo Faithfuls
Posted on April 22, 2005
To the Ilonggo Faithfuls
His Excellency Bacolod Bishop Vecente Navarra has recently issued a Pastoral Letter to all the Catholics in Bacolod. Please read below:
TO ALL PARISH PRIESTS, PAROCHIAL VICARS, CHAPLAINS AND RECTORS OF CHURCHES, SUPERIORS OF SEMINARIES, RELIGIOUS CONGREGATIONS, SECULAR INSTITUTES AND APOSTOLIC LIFE, HEADS OF SCHOOLS AND L.O.M.A.S AND THE CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL OF THE DIOCESE OF BACOLOD.
Greetings in the Risen Lord!
Once again we rejoice together with the whole Christian world because now we have a new Pope, POPE BENEDICT XVI, in the person of then CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER.
He is the 264th Successor of St. Peter, but the 265th Pope of the Universal Church in Rome.
I exhort our faithful, and Clergy, the Religious and the Lay, in the Diocese of Bacolod to accept him as the One sent by God to lead us, to guide us and to take care of us precisely at this point-in-time, in the life and history of the Church and of the world, this early part of the Third Millenium.
His election to the Papacy means just that. God has chosen him. And God knows best than any human judgments, preferences or choices. And as men and women of faith, we strongly and firmly believe God will be with him and will never abandon him, as he steers the Boat of Peter in safety and toward the Port where the Father beckons all of us.
Let us, therefore, love him, support him with our prayers and humble submission, and place our full trust and confidence in him, as he complies the heavy tasks with grave responsibilities incumbent upon his Office, as Chief Shepherd of the Universal Church and Servant of the Servants of God.
In a special way, let us pray for him and lift him up to the Almighty every time we mention or hear his name mentioned - “Benedict - English / Benedicto - Ilonggo” - in the Canon of the Holy Mass.
I also take this opportunity to inform you that sometime later we will offer a tribute to our newly-elected Holy Father, by holding a Holy Mass of Thanksgiving in the Cathedral Church of Bacolod. The date and the time will be announced in due time. Please come and offer this Holy Mass together with me and our priests.
So again, let us rejoice and be glad
! HABEMUS PAPAM!
With the assurance of my prayers and pastoral blessing!
Devotedly yours in the Risen Lord,
+VICENTE M. NAVARRA, D.D. Bishop of Bacolod
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