Society of Our Lady of the Rosary

Our commitment to take care the mother earth is non-negotiable.We are solidifying this commitment to Mother Earth today by donating almost 200 pieces of fruit bearing trees to the Diocese of La Union and to be planted on October 4, 2024. Grateful to the Bishop of La Union ( Bishop Dan) for welcoming the community.

Our Indonesian Community continously seek for your financial help and prayer to complete the construction of the new building for our new Orphanage Facility and for the Brother's Convent.

If you want to help our mission and you are in Indonesia, you can visit our Orphanage at JI Gurita, Block D, No167/168, RT.004-RW 006 Kel. Kunciran Indah, Kec. Pinang Kota, Tangerang Provinsi Banten, Postal Code:151444 and look for FRT. HENDRIKUS SURI, SBMVR , the Local Superior of the community.

Community Life shows us that love means living together as Brothers. We live an everyday life of mutual support and concern for each other. Our life is centered on Jesus Christ through Mary, rooted in prayer and charity.

Photos captured after the meeting and Holy Mass at the Shrine of Santo Nino in Tondo. Thanks to Bishop Dan, Fr. Tugs, Fr. Vic and the Vietnamese Brothers

The whole community of the Society of Our Lady Of the Rosary (Societatis Beatae Mariae Virginis Rosarii) (Philippines, Indonesia and New Zealand) would like great you Happy Birthday! May the Lord bless you!

Photos captured during the medical check up @ Buklod Orphanage Center, Fr. Amelio, M.D
conducted the medical check up to all the children in the orphanage.

FEEDING PROGRAM @ Moonwalk Paranaque City. Thank you to our LAY ASSOCIATES and VOLUNTEERS for your help. May God bless you all!

Photos captured inside the Bishop Residence Chapel after the Holy Mass with Bishop Gerry.

ASCORBIC ACID VITAMIN for the Staffs of Brgy. Don Bosco, Paranaque City. Received today by the Admin.

A fruitful and meaningful encounter with the Representative of Bishop Dan, Rev. Fr. Victor and his company. A million thanks for sharing your time to know us and the institute.

To the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady of the Rosary, Thank you for being always there for us.

WHAT: ADVOCACY CONFERENCE 2024

WHERE: University of Santo Tomas
Institute for Religions

TOPIC: Global Citizens in Dialogue and Communion

THEME: Accompanying the Youth Toward Building Peace and Becoming Global Citizens.

Thank you Actress Iza Calzado for bringing gift, food items and above for bringing joy to these adorable children. God bless you !

Our loving and adorable children. Through these little children, the Brothers in-charge in taking care of them can testify that children are great teachers, teaching them how to be patience, how to be kind, how to be faithful and loyal, how to be obedient and a lot more... Thank you Lord for entrusting these children to our care!

Photos captured inside our Orphanage Center in Indonesia with our adorable and loving children.

If you want to help our mission and you are in Indonesia, you can visit our Orphanage at JI Gurita, Block D, No167/168, RT.004-RW 006 Kel. Kunciran Indah, Kec. Pinang Kota, Tangerang Provinsi Banten, Postal Code:151444 and look for FRT. HENDRIKUS SURI, SBMVR , the Local Superior of the community.

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
FOR LENT 2024

Through the Desert God Leads us to Freedom

Dear brothers and sisters!

When our God reveals himself, his message is always one of freedom: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Ex 20:2). These are the first words of the Decalogue given to Moses on Mount Sinai. Those who heard them were quite familiar with the exodus of which God spoke: the experience of their bo***ge still weighed heavily upon them. In the desert, they received the “Ten Words” as a thoroughfare to freedom. We call them “commandments”, in order to emphasize the strength of the love by which God shapes his people. The call to freedom is a demanding one. It is not answered straightaway; it has to mature as part of a journey. Just as Israel in the desert still clung to Egypt – often longing for the past and grumbling against the Lord and Moses – today too, God’s people can cling to an oppressive bo***ge that it is called to leave behind. We realize how true this is at those moments when we feel hopeless, wandering through life like a desert and lacking a promised land as our destination. Lent is the season of grace in which the desert can become once more – in the words of the prophet Hosea – the place of our first love (cf. Hos 2:16-17). God shapes his people, he enables us to leave our slavery behind and experience a Passover from death to life. Like a bridegroom, the Lord draws us once more to himself, whispering words of love to our hearts.

The exodus from slavery to freedom is no abstract journey. If our celebration of Lent is to be concrete, the first step is to desire to open our eyes to reality. When the Lord calls out to Moses from the burning bush, he immediately shows that he is a God who sees and, above all, hears: “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey” (Ex 3:7-8). Today too, the cry of so many of our oppressed brothers and sisters rises to heaven. Let us ask ourselves: Do we hear that cry? Does it trouble us? Does it move us? All too many things keep us apart from each other, denying the fraternity that, from the beginning, binds us to one another.

During my visit to Lampedusa, as a way of countering the globalization of indifference, I asked two questions, which have become more and more pressing: “Where are you?” (Gen 3:9) and “Where is your brother?” (Gen 4:9). Our Lenten journey will be concrete if, by listening once more to those two questions, we realize that even today we remain under the rule of Pharaoh. A rule that makes us weary and indifferent. A model of growth that divides and robs us of a future. Earth, air and water are polluted, but so are our souls. True, Baptism has begun our process of liberation, yet there remains in us an inexplicable longing for slavery. A kind of attraction to the security of familiar things, to the detriment of our freedom.

In the Exodus account, there is a significant detail: it is God who sees, is moved and brings freedom; Israel does not ask for this. Pharaoh stifles dreams, blocks the view of heaven, makes it appear that this world, in which human dignity is trampled upon and authentic bonds are denied, can never change. He put everything in bo***ge to himself. Let us ask: Do I want a new world? Am I ready to leave behind my compromises with the old? The witness of many of my brother bishops and a great number of those who work for peace and justice has increasingly convinced me that we need to combat a deficit of hope that stifles dreams and the silent cry that reaches to heaven and moves the heart of God. This “deficit of hope” is not unlike the nostalgia for slavery that paralyzed Israel in the desert and prevented it from moving forward. An exodus can be interrupted: how else can we explain the fact that humanity has arrived at the threshold of universal fraternity and at levels of scientific, technical, cultural, and juridical development capable of guaranteeing dignity to all, yet gropes about in the darkness of inequality and conflict.

God has not grown weary of us. Let us welcome Lent as the great season in which he reminds us: “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery” (Ex 20:2). Lent is a season of conversion, a time of freedom. Jesus himself, as we recall each year on the first Sunday of Lent, was driven into the desert by the Spirit in order to be tempted in freedom. For forty days, he will stand before us and with us: the incarnate Son. Unlike Pharaoh, God does not want subjects, but sons and daughters. The desert is the place where our freedom can mature in a personal decision not to fall back into slavery. In Lent, we find new criteria of justice and a community with which we can press forward on a road not yet taken.

This, however, entails a struggle, as the book of Exodus and the temptations of Jesus in the desert make clear to us. The voice of God, who says, “You are my Son, the Beloved” (Mk 1:11), and “You shall have no other gods before me” (Ex 20:3) is opposed by the enemy and his lies. Even more to be feared than Pharaoh are the idols that we set up for ourselves; we can consider them as his voice speaking within us. To be all-powerful, to be looked up to by all, to domineer over others: every human being is aware of how deeply seductive that lie can be. It is a road well-travelled. We can become attached to money, to certain projects, ideas or goals, to our position, to a tradition, even to certain individuals. Instead of making us move forward, they paralyze us. Instead of encounter, they create conflict. Yet there is also a new humanity, a people of the little ones and of the humble who have not yielded to the allure of the lie. Whereas those who serve idols become like them, mute, blind, deaf and immobile (cf. Ps 114:4), the poor of spirit are open and ready: a silent force of good that heals and sustains the world.

It is time to act, and in Lent, to act also means to pause. To pause in prayer, in order to receive the word of God, to pause like the Samaritan in the presence of a wounded brother or sister. Love of God and love of neighbour are one love. Not to have other gods is to pause in the presence of God beside the flesh of our neighbour. For this reason, prayer, almsgiving and fasting are not three unrelated acts, but a single movement of openness and self-emptying, in which we cast out the idols that weigh us down, the attachments that imprison us. Then the atrophied and isolated heart will revive. Slow down, then, and pause! The contemplative dimension of life that Lent helps us to rediscover will release new energies. In the presence of God, we become brothers and sisters, more sensitive to one another: in place of threats and enemies, we discover companions and fellow travelers. This is God’s dream, the promised land to which we journey once we have left our slavery behind.

The Church’s synodal form, which in these years we are rediscovering and cultivating, suggests that Lent is also a time of communitarian decisions, of decisions, small and large, that are countercurrent. Decisions capable of altering the daily lives of individuals and entire neighbourhoods, such as the ways we acquire goods, care for creation, and strive to include those who go unseen or are looked down upon. I invite every Christian community to do just this: to offer its members moments set aside to rethink their lifestyles, times to examine their presence in society and the contribution they make to its betterment. Woe to us if our Christian penance were to resemble the kind of penance that so dismayed Jesus. To us too, he says: “Whenever you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces so as to show others that they are fasting” (Mt 6:16). Instead, let others see joyful faces, catch the scent of freedom and experience the love that makes all things new, beginning with the smallest and those nearest to us. This can happen in every one of our Christian communities.

To the extent that this Lent becomes a time of conversion, an anxious humanity will notice a burst of creativity, a flash of new hope. Allow me to repeat what I told the young people whom I met in Lisbon last summer: “Keep seeking and be ready to take risks. At this moment in time, we face enormous risks; we hear the painful plea of so many people. Indeed, we are experiencing a third world war fought piecemeal. Yet let us find the courage to see our world, not as being in its death throes but in a process of giving birth, not at the end but at the beginning of a great new chapter of history. We need courage to think like this” ( Address to University Students, 3 August 2023). Such is the courage of conversion, born of coming up from slavery. For faith and charity take hope, this small child, by the hand. They teach her to walk, and at the same time, she leads them forward. [1]

I bless all of you and your Lenten journey.

- POPE FRANCIS

Giving Recollection during this Lent to the TEAM OF RAPID DEPLOYMENT BATALLION ( RDB) - SPECIAL ACTION FORCE ( SAF) of PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE

THEME: Family - A Gift from God
Resource Speaker: Rev. Frt. Rey P. Ragrag, SBMVR

After the Recollection, followed by a tree Planting Activity in the DAS Facility in Tagatay.

To the whole RDB - SAF of the Philipine National Police, thank you for donating fruit bearing trees. May God bless you!

Thank you Lord and Our Mother, Our Lady of the Rosary, for sending people ready to help in our Orphage Center in Indonesia. Your help whether it is in kind or in cash will help us in providing the needs of these orphans entrusted by God to our care!

If you want to help our mission and you are in Indonesia, you can visit our Orphanage at JI Gurita, Block D, No167/168, RT.004-RW 006 Kel. Kunciran Indah, Kec. Pinang Kota, Tangerang Provinsi Banten, Postal Code:151444 and look for FRT. HENDRIKUS SURI, SBMVR , the Local Superior of the community.

In this season of Lent, let us not forget to reflect, review, and renew our hearts. Always pray that God will give you a loving heart, a heart that really care for others, and above all a heart ready to die for doing Christ's mission here on earth...

THANK YOU - IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY COLLEGE - PARANAQUE, for inviting REV. FRT. REY P. RAGRAG, SBMVR to be your Resource Guest Speaker at your Recollection.

THEME: FULLFILLING GOD'S PURPOSE YOUR LIFE

'sPurpose

A pastor transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning. He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service. Only 3 people said hello to him, most looked the other way. He asked people for change to buy food because he was hungry. Not one gave him anything.

He went into the sanctuary to sit down in the front of the church and was told by the ushers that he would need to get up and go sit n the back of the church. He said hello to people as they walked in but was greeted with cold stares and dirty looks from people looking down on him and judging him.

He sat in the back of the church and listened to the church announcements for the week. He listened as new visitors were welcomed into the church that morning but no one acknowledged that he was new. He watched people around him continue to look his way with stares that said you are not welcome here.

Then the elders of the church went to the podium to make the announcement. They said they were excited to introduce the new pastor of the church to the congregation. "We would like to introduce you to our new Pastor." The congregation stood up and looked around clapping with joy and anticipation. The homeless man sitting in the back stood up and started walking down the aisle.

That's when all the clapping stopped and the church was silent. With all eyes on him....he walked up the altar and reached for the microphone. He stood there for a moment and then recited so elegantly, a verse from the bible.....

“Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’

Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me!

Moral Lesson:

If you have the opportunity to help, always make sure to help. Never let go of the opportunity to render service. When you help never consider the gender, race, color and social affiliation.

A million thanks Bishop Gerry for giving us the chance to work in your diocese. You never hesitate to embrace us. You offer us not only a house but a home for our community. You are a gift to us from God. We will always remember you in our prayer. May the good Lord bless and keep you safe always!

Our Lady of the Rosary, the mother of our community remember always your sons, guide each one of us and protect us from any harm. Be always with us in all our undertakings. Amen!

Heaven can be anything that melts the hardest core inside you with love and softness. Kids are that source of affection and warmth that is acquainted with them in any manner feels like taking hold of heaven.

If we nurture the dreams of children, the world will be blessed. If we destroy them, the world is doomed.

Our future missionary in the Societatis Beatae Mariae Virginis Rosarii

True happiness is obtained through acts of kindness filled with loved that we have with our loved ones, our friends and our neighbors. Happy a New Year filled with many blessings!

Greetings from Our loving and adorable children in our Orphanage in Indonesia - Administered by Frt. Henry, SBMVR and Frt. Lovel, SBMVR)

Celebrating New Year with the children in Paranaque.

Seeing these children happy is our great achievement in life. Photos captured during our FUN DAY ACTIVITY.

POPE’S MESSAGE | May Christmas bring peace to our world and turn sorrow into joy.!

Pope: May Christmas bring peace to our world and turn sorrow into joy - Vatican News In his Christmas message at the midday Urbi et Orbi blessing on Christmas Day, Pope Francis speaks of how the child Jesus reveals God's tender love ...

May the message of Christmas fill your life with love, joy, and peace, and may God’s grace be with you during this special season. Merry Christmas everyone. ( Greetings from Our loving and adorable children in our Orphanage in Indonesia - Administered by Frt. Henry, SBMVR and Frt. Lovel, SBMVR)

Actual distribution of 200 snack food items to poor children in CAMEILA CREEK & ANNEX 22 , Paranaque City

Preparations for the distribution 200 snack food items to poor children in CAMEILA CREEK & ANNEX 22 , Paranaque City