5695(I)_Philippines North: Clerics Admitted to the Sacred Ministries

By Bro, Lorenzo Gabriel T. Estrella, SDB
Photos: Cl. Francisco Kherubim Nuwa, SDB

       Seminaryo ng Don Bosco, Manila, The Philippines, 15 September 2021-- Sixteen clerics of the Seminaryo ng Don Bosco were admitted to the Sacred Ministries yesterday, on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

       Of the sixteen, nine were installed to the Ministry of Reader, while the remaining seven were accepted to the Ministry of Acolyte

       Readers:

1. AGUILA, John Joseph (FIN)
2. BERNARD, Alfred (FIS)
3. MERCADO, Enrico (FIN)
4. GRANADA, Joel (FIN)
5. NUWA, Francisco Kherubim (INA)
6. VALENZUELA, Jose Felimar (FIN)
7. VELARDE, Antonio (FIS)
8. VILLANUEVA, Jojo Agar (FIN)
9. WIDIANTO, Antonius (INA)

       Acolytes:

1. AUNG, David Yan Naing (MYM)
2. BELO, Filomeno Martins (TLS)
3. BANGUIS, Genson (FIS)
4. DUNGCA, Paul Aldrin (FIN)
5. GONZALES, Daniel (FIN)
6. MAI LI, Joseph Labya (MYM)
7. PETATE, Nathaniel (FIN)

       The rite of installation was incorporated in the Holy Mass, which was held at six in the evening at the Seminaryo Chapel. Main celebrant was the Rector, Fr. Renato Molina, who also gave the homily which connected the ministries they were about to receive to that of Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross.

       After the mass, a simple dinner celebration was held in the refectory, in which the first-year students of theology offered a song as a tribute to the newly installed clerics, and Fr. Ramoncito Padilla SDB congratulated them with a short speech.

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