Don Orione Saint: May 16, 2015 in Montalban

11 years of canonization of Don Orione, 15 years of the Cottolengo Filipino.

The feast of the May 16, 2015 was marked with a special stamp this year in the Orionine Community of Montalban in the Philippines.

In the , a unique Eucharistic celebration, we have commemorated the 11th anniversary of the Canonisation of our Founder, Don Luigi Orione and the 15 years of the Cottolengo Filipino's foundation.

During the Mass presided by Rev. Father Antonio Eucinei De Souza, coordinator of the mission in the Philippines, surrounded by the confreres Father Diego Lorenzi, Father Julio Cuesta, Father Stefan Bulai, Father Stan Achi and Father John Castillio, Father Antonio did not fail to stress the link between these two events. He presented St Luigi Orione as the Apostle of Charity, Father of the Poor, the Benefactor of all Suffering and outcast who bends constantly where human misery is lived and where one is confined to the existential peripheries. It is this zeal for the poor and the love for those living in the existential peripheries that pushed his spiritual son to lay the missionary tent of the congregation in this archipelago of the Pacific Ocean.

Let's note that it will soon be 25 years (1991-2016) as the first Orionines missionaries, Father Luigi Piccoli and Father Oreste Ferrari, on the invitation of the Archbishop Mgr. Sin and the mandate of the Superior General Don Guiseppe Masiero implanted the Congregation in the Philippines.

Today, through the works of charity such as the Cottolengo, the Congregation is better known and has the assistance of many benefactors.

After the celebration, which was attended also by our Sisters, the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity, the Director of the Administrative Board, the Rev. Father Julio Cuesta thanked everyone who attended the event and expresses the joy of the Cottolengo always able to benefit from their support. In the Cottolengo, "Life is Love" he has emphasized.

The commemoration of the May 16 continued in the evening in the parish "Mother of the Divine Providence" of Payatas with another parish Mass followed by a procession with the statue of St Luigi Orione.

The SLOS Blog Committee