OLMC Parish Coro De Monte Carmelo

"There's no greater service than serving the Lord"
- LJ

It's November 1st, 2023 😌🙏✨

All Saints Day with the Coro De Monte Carmelo 🤍

The choir and trumpets made one voice of praise and thanks to God - orchestra and choir in perfect harmony singing and playing praise to God: Yes! God is good! His loyal love goes on forever!. The priests couldn't even carry out their duties because of the cloud - the glory of God!
- 2 Chronicles 5:13 -

Hola! The Coro De Monte Carmelo CDMC of The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish is now opening it's doors for newly recruited talents called to serve the Lord and His church.

We are now opening and in need of new young singers for the following sections
Sopranos, Altos, and Basses that are willing to be trained and are interested in the congregation.

Auditions will take place at the Fabian Residence at Ayala Zone 1, Calle San Pedro Z.C. every Saturday .

For more details and information feel free to ask questions by leaving a message in this official group page of the CDMC Choir or you may contact the following focal persons!

Ronalene Fabian
#0960-837-1693

Amer Bantuas
#09977080655

Nino Torreciba
#09262445365

See You and God bless! 🤗❤️


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6 𝙎𝙏𝙄𝙂𝙈𝘼𝙏𝙄𝘾 𝙎𝘼𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙎

We are about to celebrate the Memorial of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina tomorrow, one of the stigmatist saints. Stigmata is known as the spontaneous appearance of the wound marks of our crucified Lord on a person's body. These marks include the nail wounds at the feet and the hands, the lance wound at the side, the head wounds from the crown of thorns, and the scourge marks over the entire body, particularly the back.

A person suffering from the stigmata is referred to as stigmatic. Such person may have one, several, or all of these wound marks. Moreover, they may be visible or invisible, and they may be permanent, periodic, or temporary in appearance. In the case of Saint Catherine of Siena, she received invisible stigmata. She felt the pain but no visible wounds.

Aside from Saint Francis of Assisi, there are also several stigmatic saints recorded by the Church. To know more about some of the reported stigmatic saints and the types of stigmata they possessed, you may refer to the prepared infograph under this post.

The infograph highlights only six notable of the several stigmatic saints: Saints Catherine of Siena, Francis of Assisi, Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, Rita of Cascia, Veronica Giuliani, and Gemma Calgani.

(Infographics from HugotSeminarista page)

MEMORIAL OF SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA
+ 23 September

Coro De Monte Carmelo (CDMC) served as the choir during the founding anniversary thanksgiving mass held last Sep. 05, 2022 at Ayala National High School!
Thank you Ma'am Angie Cuizon for having us 😊

Saturday Rehearsals for the preparation of the Installation of our Parish Priest on August 27!
First reading of the song "Canticorum Jubilo" ✨
Blessed Saturday choristers 💝

Flores de mayo

"We remember how you loved us to your death and still we celebrate for you are with us here"
- From the song "We Remember"

Coro De Monte Carmelo participates in the "Visita Iglesia" a yearly tradition of the catholics devotion to the Paschal Season of Lent where seven churches or parishes are visited to contemplate and reflect.

Below are the pictures of the Blessed Sacraments of the different Parishes in Zamboanga taken during the Visita Iglesia of the CDMC.


#04-14-22

"You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh ; rather, serve one another humbly in love".
- Galatians 5:13

Coro De Monte Carmelo during the Good Friday Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish OLMC Parish - Ayala, wearing the sponsored Choir Shirts by the Family Marcos of Ayala. We thanked you for your humble hearts and generosity God bless your family.

Good Evening OLMC Parishioners!

In line with the Paschal Season of Lent, here's the list of the upcoming program, activities, and celebrations of the Holy Eucharist at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish.

" During this season of conversion, let us renew our faith, and recieve with open hearts the love of God"

A blessed Saturday to each and everyone!

We are now in the Paschal Season of Lent, and in alignment to our celebration of the upcoming Holy Week we are now opening the opportunity to our christian children who can sing and aging 7-10 years old and are vaccinated as part of the requirements to participate in our Angels this upcoming Provanza and Easter Sunday.
For more information you can call our focal person #0965-867-1532

Solemnity of Christ the King

The Lord is King; he is robed in majesty.

OLMC Parish Coro De Monte Carmelo now takes appointments on their Page.

6 FACTS ABOUT ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Every 04th of October, the Church remembers Holy Father, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscans. He renounced his wealth, lived his new life in radical poverty, went on daring missions to hostile lands, and experienced mystical ecstasy.

Let's get to know more about St. Francis of Assisi with these 6 facts about him:

1. His name was originally "John".
At his birth in 1182, his mother had Saint Francis baptized John (Giovanni), after St. John the Baptist. However, when his father, a rich cloth merchant names Pietro di Bernardon, returned from business travels, he renamed him Francis (Francesco) because France was where he made his livelihood.

2. He was a party animal.
Before his conversion, Francis, who was wealthy and good looking, lead a life full of partying and frivolity . His partying buddies even called him “dominus”, because he was the King of Partying, paying for lavish parties full of food, wine, and women.

3. He was a prisoner of war for a year
At around the age of 19, before his conversion, he joined the military and fought in a war against a nearby city. He was taken prisoner and held for a year, but was eventually released unharmed.

4. He traveled into Muslim territory to convert the Sultan.
During the 5th Crusade, Francis traveled to Egypt to convert the Sultan Malik al-Kamil. He even challenged the Islamic religious leaders to a trial by fire where he would walk through fire with them to prove the truth of Christianity. Though the Sultan did not convert, Francis and Sultan became true friends, and ten years later, al-Kamil freely gave Jerusalem to the Christians.

5. He was the first person recorded to have received stigmata.
During a 40-day retreat, dedicated to the Archangel Michael, he had a vision of a six-winged Seraph attached to a cross. He miraculously received at the same time a painful wound of the heart, which seemed to pierce it. When the vision ended his own hands and feet bore the marks of the angelic crucifixion which he had seen in the vision.

6. The Franciscans got papal approval after Pope Innocent III had a vision.
Francis’ biographer, Saint Bonaventure, recounts that Pope Innocent III had a dream in which he saw “the Lateran basilica almost ready to fall down. A little poor man, small and scorned, was propping it up with his own back bent so that it would not fall. “I’m sure,” he said, “he is the one who will hold up Christ’s Church by what he does and what he teaches.”

After having this dream, Innocent III approved the rule of Francis and the founding of the Franciscan order.

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Sources:

(1) 7 Fascinating Facts about Saint Francis — Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal World
(2)12 Fascinating Facts You Didn’t Know About the Great St. Francis of Assisi — ChurchPop — [published on October 03, 2015]
(3) Saint Francis of Assisi — Franciscan Media

Hapoy Feast Day to Saint Therese of the Child Jesus 🙏💝✨

𝙏𝙃𝙀 9 𝘾𝙃𝙊𝙄𝙍𝙎 𝙊𝙁 𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙇𝙎

Today, we are celebrating the feast of the Archangels. Archangels are part of the 9 Choirs of Angels.
We know from Christian tradition and from the Holy Scriptures that there are different names given to groups of angels — nine “choirs” of angels in all. Over the centuries, many theologians and spiritual writers have considered the choirs from various perspectives.

A helpful spiritual truth to internalize as we grow in our love for God and progress along our spiritual journey: Whatever other purposes they may have, the hierarchy of angels is meant to help us to understand the qualities of God and how we might grow in the ways of holiness. It provides us with a sense of order, progress, and ascent in our understanding of how God’s infinite knowledge establishes and maintains the order and beauty of creation through principles that we can grasp and through the ministry and oversight of His faithful servants, the angels.

These designations are not matters of dogma but rather spiritual tools to help us to appreciate the ways of holiness — the means by which God assists us through the mediation of the angels. The names themselves describe either a characteristics of these mighty spirits or an aspect of their mission in God’s plan.

Let’s turn to the individual choirs so that we can examine the powers each have, and how they relate with one another.

• 𝙁𝙄𝙍𝙎𝙏 𝙃𝙄𝙀𝙍𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙃𝙔 (𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙙𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙂𝙤𝙙 𝘿𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮)

1. SERAPHIM
The seraphim are the angels closest to God. As such, they reflect most immediately the highest attribute of God manifest in cre­ation: His love. They are on fire with the love of God; the very name means “incandescent ones” or “burning ones.” Classical sa­cred art portrays them as entirely red and ablaze. They are usually depicted as having six wings but no faces — simply a sea or ring of flame around the Holy Trinity. Because of this burning love, more than any other angel they have the most perfect knowledge of God, which makes them the most perfect adorers. St. Jerome notes that they not only burn by themselves, but they also inflame others with the love of God.

According to the prophet Isaiah, the seraphim are the angels whom he hears crying out “Holy, holy, holy,” as one of them purifies Isaiah’s mouth with a coal from the altar so that he might serve as the Lord’s messenger (Isa. 6:3–8). In the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Mass, the priest evokes this moment as he prays for worthiness in proclaiming the Gospel. We too should pray to the seraphim that we might be purified in our responsibilities as teachers and bearers of the Word to our families, our friends, and all those over whom we have responsibility. It was a seraph who appeared to St. Francis of Assisi when he received the stigmata. Later mystics, too, will speak of the seraphim as the Lord’s messen­gers and intermediaries when they had extraordinary experiences of loving and transforming divine union.

2. CHERUBIM
The cherubim have a deep intellectual knowledge of divine se­crets and of the ultimate causes of things; their name means “all-knowing one.” As such, they constantly contemplate the wisdom and the love of God in His relationship with mankind. They reflect His omniscience. The cherubim were the mighty adorers of the first covenant in its wisdom; images of the cherubim were the only images of beings that were permitted in the ancient Temple of Jerusalem. Their carved figures adorned the lid of the Ark of the Covenant, which prefigured both the Virgin Mary “taberna­cling” the unborn Christ and the Eucharistic tabernacles of our churches, containing the new manna of Christ’s sacramental Body and Blood. Embroideries of the cherubim also covered the beautiful drapery that separated the Holy of Holies from the outer court of the Temple. It was that veil that was ripped from top to bottom when Our Lord died on the Cross as the sign that He had passed into the Eternal Sanctuary and that the Temple of Jerusalem had fulfilled its purpose (Matt. 27:51). The cherubim are still consid­ered protectors of the New Covenant and so are often depicted on tabernacles and Eucharistic vessels.

3. THRONES
The thrones, as their name suggests, can be thought of as be­ings raised up to form the seat of God’s authority and mercy. A throne manifests the glory and authority of a king; it expresses stability and power. And since a throne is also a judgment seat, these angels are especially concerned with divine judgments and ordinances.

In the early Church, a common representation of God’s glory in Heaven was a mosaic behind the altar and above the seat of the bishop that represented an empty throne with a radiant cross mounted above it. This image represented Christ the King, Lord of all and Judge of the living and the dead. But His judgment seat was also a throne of mercy, for Christ has redeemed the world by His Cross. His love has brought us to salvation. The thrones are never seen or experienced as “flying” but as “rolling” across the heavens, in keeping with their manifesting the Lord’s stability.

• 𝙎𝙀𝘾𝙊𝙉𝘿 𝙃𝙄𝙀𝙍𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙃𝙔 (𝙁𝙪𝙡𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙂𝙤𝙙’𝙨 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚)

The second hierarchy receives knowledge of divine secrets through the first three choirs — knowledge that they could not perceive by themselves. The ardor of the seraphim inflames their love; the wisdom of the cherubim reveals the depth of the mysteries; and the stability of the thrones draws them into constant adoration of God’s majesty. In the Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas teaches that the names “domination,” “power,” and “principality” belong to government in different ways. The place of a lord is to prescribe what is to be done, and so Gregory says that “some companies of the angels, because others are subject to obedience to them, are called dominations.”

4. DOMINATIONS
The dominations are concerned with the government of the uni­verse. They are the first of the three choirs in the second ring, which is the ring of the cosmos — the angels who are charged with great and universal stewardships. The dominations in particular are involved in the workings of divine power. They coordinate the ministries of all the angels who deal with creation. We see in the angelic world that the Church’s teaching that God works through secondary causes is beautifully demonstrated. The angels mediate God’s power just as the saints intercede for us with Him.

5. VIRTUES
St. Peter mentions the virtues in his first epistle (3:22), as does St. Paul in his Letter to the Colossians (1:16). The name is in some way a mistranslation or at least a “false cognate,” since this choir of angels does not deal with acquired habits (virtues), but rather exercises innate, raw power over the physical universe. According to Pseudo-Dionysius, their name refers to “a certain powerful and unshakable virility welling forth into all their Godlike energies, . . . mounting upwards in fullness of power to an assimilation with God; never falling away from the divine life through its own weakness, but ascending unwaveringly to the super-essential Virtue which is the Source of virtue.”1 They are the lords of causality and the principles of cosmic order in the material realm. They ensure the well-being of the world.

6. POWERS
The powers (dunameis) form the third and last choir of the sec­ond angelic hierarchy, according to Pseudo-Dionysius, while other scholars and spiritual writers consider them to be the fifth choir. This choir is mentioned occasionally in the Old Testament, such as in the book of Daniel where we read, “Bless the Lord, all pow­ers, sing praise to him and highly exalt him for ever” (Dan. 3:39). Some scholars maintain that the name “powers” is also used to indicate angels in general, since it is the Septuagint’s translation of the Hebrew sabaoth. In the New Testament St. Paul writes that there are powers who have remained faithful to God and powers who have fallen away and become part of the empire of Satan (Eph. 6:12). The choir of powers is thought to introduce man to the higher mysteries while repressing the attacks of the “hostile powers” of Hell against the deepest laws of physical creation.

• 𝙏𝙃𝙄𝙍𝘿 𝙃𝙄𝙀𝙍𝘼𝙍𝘾𝙃𝙔 (𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 & 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙮)

The third sphere of angels is concerned with Almighty God’s plan of salvation for mankind. It receives from the highest sphere its focus on the immutability of God, which is manifested in creation by the harmonious principles and intelligent organization of the laws of nature, which are upheld by the angels of the second sphere. In turn, the angels of this third sphere pour out their influence on those who have the greatest interaction with us in the ordinary course of things established by God.

7. PRINCES OR PRINCIPALITIES
The princes are also described as having members who have fallen away and others who have remained faithful. Principalities are the leading choir of the last hierarchy of angels. Their activities are described by Pseudo-Dionysius in this way, “The name of the Celestial Principalities signifies their Godlike princeliness and au­thoritativeness in an Order which is holy and most fitting to the princely Powers.” They are often seen as being the guardians of nations or peoples; this is why St. Michael is described in the book of Daniel as “the prince of Israel,” who comes to the aid of Gabriel against the demonic prince of Persia. It seems fitting that this first choir in the “ring of salvation” should also look after the spiritual structure of the supernatural life of the Church.

8. ARCHANGELS
This choir is the most known and loved in popular devotion. Among the archangels we find St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael. It is traditionally believed, due to the statements of Ra­phael in the book of Tobit, that there are only seven archangels.

Three of their names occur in Scripture, and so the Church uses these names in our worship — St. Michael, the prince of the heav­enly host and the only one called “archangel” in the Scriptures; St. Gabriel, the messenger of the Incarnation; and St. Raphael, the angel of healing and of medicine.

The names of the other four are not used in our Liturgy, though there are certain churches that preserve these names and make use of them in private devotion, including some Eastern Catholic Churches. Roman Catholics of­ten refer to them as the seven archangels or the seven assisting spirits around the throne of God.

The seven archangels have been regarded from the very begin­ning as having a special place in God’s plan; their number is often associated with the seven days of the week and the seven sacraments. It is thought that the archangels were outstanding in their fidelity to God, and so in the writings of the saints they are often called archan­gel princes, an appellation that connotes leadership and authority in the heavenly realm. Many spiritual authors and mystics speak of their special assistance and often attribute other “groups of seven” to their protection or patronage — virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and so on. The archangels are also associated with the protection of nations, dioceses, religious communities, and the mission of the Church.

9. ANGELS
The ninth and final choir of angels is composed of those who are most involved with the doings of mankind. These angels are those who are sent out on missions from God and from whom the guard­ian angels are chosen. The angels who fill up this choir may be the lowest, but they are beloved because the Lord places them at our sides to watch over us and to care for us. They are the ministers of Christ’s love and our protectors. They defend us against harm and temptation. They warn us of impending evil and inspire us to remain faithful to God in prayer.





Sources:

(1) What Are the Nine Choirs of Angels?—Catholic Exchange (Retrieved on September 29, 2021);

(2) Explanation and Hierarchy of the 9 Choirs of Angels—Infographic Facts (Retrieved on September 29, 2021);

(3) 📷 Icons Infographic Facts