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BALAYAN, BATANGAS June 20, 2009—Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Joseph Adams, graced the Festival of Fathers held the Parish of the Immaculate Conception at Balayan, Batangas, Saturday, June 20.
Msgr. Ruben Dimaculangan, Moderator Curiae and newly-installed Vicar General said this was the first time the current papal nuncio visited the Archdiocese of Lipa.
Meanwhile, the Festival of Fathers (June 20) is one of the activities lined up for this year, declared in the Archdiocese as Year of St. Joseph, the faithful Icon of the Fatherhood of God. The said event is also another meaningful way of celebrating Father’s Day Celebration which happens to be on June 21 this year.
The opening of the Year of St. Joseph was held last April, at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Nasugbu, also located at Western Batangas. Roughly, 300 hundred handpicked participants from all the 57 parishes and Catholic schools gathered in a two-day symposium aimed at forming speakers’ bureau for each of the seven vicariates of the Archdiocese.
Moreover, last May 1, the Archdiocese held a lecture-workshop in honor of St. Joseph, the Patron of Workers. Three lecturers deepened the workers’ Joseph-based spirituality.
This time, it was be the turn of the fathers to see how they could be more Joseph-like in the exercise of their paternity at their homes and community. This is the very reason for this so called Festival of Fathers.
In addition, two contests were launched during the festival of Fathers: The Search for Model Fathers for the Vicariates and the archdiocese under the auspices of the Archdiocesan Commission on Family and Life and an Essay Writing Contest under the Archdiocesan Commission on Social Communications and Mass Media about fathers in line with the theme of the year-long celebration.
On he other hand, Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles announced that this visit of the Papal Nuncio will also be the Archdiocese’s appropriate time to open the Year of Priests, as declared by the Holy Father, Benedict XVI.
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