First Profession, Renewal and Entrance in the Novitiate

The feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul was marked with a special color in Montalban, in the Philippines. Six (6) of our Novice Brothers made their First Profession, three (3) Brothers renewed their vows and eleven (11) Postulants entered the Novitiate.

These were three beautiful event which gathered, religious brothers and priests, friends and family members in the Chapel of the Saint Luigi Orione Seminary on this June 29, 2019, while the universal Church celebrates the Pillars of the Church and the Pope’s Day.

#15: Don Orione in the streets of Gloria Vista and Millex.

May 16, 2004 – May 16, 2019, this marks 15 years that Don Luigi Giovanni Orione the Founder of the Little Work of Divine Providence and of the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity has been raised at the Glory of the Altar as Saint for the universal Church. From that moment, he is no longer a private property of his Congregations and of his spiritual sons and daughters. He belongs to the Church.

The Community of the Sons of Divine Providence, here in Montalban have seen in this celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of his canonization a way to make exposed him more and more to the people and mostly to those living in the surrounding of our Community.

Holy Week’s celebration in Montalban: Maundy Thursday with the Apostolic Nuncio.

It was a special blessing for the Sons of Divine Providence Community of Montalban, in the Philippines. The Apostolic Nuncio of the Philippines, His Excellency Most Rev. Gabriele Giordano CACCIA, D.D. chose to celebrate the Cena Domini with us.

Accompanied by Msgr. Gabriel VIOLA and the religious sisters of St. Paul, members of the Apostolic Nunciature community, they arrived in our compound around 4pm. Short and joyful visit in the Cottolengo, greetings of the Cottolengo boys, visit in the Novitiate and visit in the Seminary. Then started the celebration of the Holy Eucharist in Coena Domini with the washing of feet of 12 of our Cottolengino boys.

1st Formators – Family Dialogue: “Parents and Priestly Vocation.”

Don Orione our Founder and the Constitution of the Little Work of Divine Providence (Sons of Divine Providence) at its Art. 39. say, “The parents of our religious are considered part of our religious family. Following the example and exhortations of our Founder, we foster lively gratitude towards them, our principal benefactors. We welcome them into our houses with cordiality.” What is said of religious could be said of the parents of our students. They are the first formators and benefactors of their children. They play a very important role in their formation and discernment process.

Joy to the world... Christmas is real.

God today becomes one of us so that mankind might rediscover his original identity, Godlikeness.
Merry Christmas...

Entrance to the Postulancy: “Here I Am, Lord” – For a Discipleship in the Footsteps of Don Orione.

Last November 17, 2018 took place in the Chapel of the Saint Luigi Orione Seminary in Montalban (Philippines), the Rite of Entrance to the Postulancy of eleven of our aspirants. Seminarians BONARES Evelio, CINCHES Marsson, DAPO Rolando, ESPINAR Kristian Jude, ESPIÑA Jay, OROS Jackson, OBIS Mark Jayson, SAMILLANO Jenny Boy, SIERVO Eumar Sandy, TARNATE John Paul, VALERTA Mark Raph, after three years of Apirancy have asked to be accepted as Postulants, that is willing to become members of the Religious family of the Little Work of Divine Providence.

They have been welcomed by Rev. Fr. Marcelo Daniel BOSCHI, Delegate Superior of the Missionary Delegation “Mother of the Church” who happened at that time to be in fraternal visit in the Philippines.

Fr. Marcelo, in his homily has commended our new Postulants for they decision to join the Sons of Divine Providence and let themselves be help to discern better and more clearly the plan of God on their lives. He also challenges them to see in this new step, not an end, but the beginning of a whole life thirst. It will be, as he told them, the time to clarify their aspirations and inner thirsts. He therefore invited them to be more open to the formation and generous in their answer to God’s call.

“Scientia maxime cum virtute”

Here is something good to share and meditate on.

Based on the first reading of this Monday, 9th Week of the Ordinary time, Year B, Fr. Stan shares with us his meditation.

Homily: Lesson of moral towards holiness. (2 Pt 1:2-7)

A Chinese proverb says, “Virtue never dwells alone, it always has neighbors.” And another proverb adds, “Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude the worst of vices.”

 school of Philosophy where our seminarians go, the St. Anthony Mary Claret College (SAMCC) has this beautiful motto, “Scientia maxime cum virtute” (Knowledge is best with virtue) from the words of St. Anthony Claret. This emphasizes that the attainment of knowledge and the discovery of the truth are best when achieved and lived with the minimum if not the necessary virtue to develop a responsible and loving individual. There is no achievement without moral foundation.