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https://doi.org/10.55997/2001pslviii176a1
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Eugene Dominic V. Aboy, OP
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The events following the Second Vatican Council have affirmed the advantages of using social communication as a means for evangelization. The Church formally recognized, although not without its dangers, that media can serve as a modern-day “Areopagus” in which the preaching of the Gospel can be amplified. Furthermore, prompted by the needs of the time, the Roman Pontiffs beginning from Paul VI up to the present have called for a “New Evangelization” that would respond to the challenges of secularization by proclaiming the Good News through new and creative means. The unprecedented worldwide disaster brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has only cemented the use of social communications in the life and liturgy of the Church more permanently. However, this moment of tragedy can be regarded as an opportunity for grace and transformation so that the Gospel can find new life in virtual seeds. Virtual preaching, which employs social communications as its primary
tool, is thus an authentic and effective way of New Evangelization in the New Normal.
Keywords : Virtual Preaching, New Normal, New Evangelization, Social Communications
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https://doi.org/10.55997/2002pslviii176a2
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Romeo B. Galang Jr.
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The chapter on the ethno-social history of the religious ceremonies of the cathedral City of Vigan in Ilocos Sur, The Philippines is now unknown. Yet, two hundred years ago, power play between ethnic groups flared up to disrupt the celebration of the city’s traditional Holy Week procession. The scandalous incident sparked an investigation, providing an account that is the basis of contemporary views on past traditional celebrations of these solemn events. More importantly, it unravels the social structure of the city, its ethnic composition and their inherent privileges. The Holy Week incident in Vigan was a precursor to the tense ethno-social rivalry that would also take place in the extramural towns around Manila later in the 19th century, with grave implications on the solemn traditions of
the church. Using archival materials, this paper analyzes the events based on the concept of processional standards and images as symbols of authority. The claims of the gremios – the tax collection affinities of ethnicities – are analyzed, unveiling the prevailing events in the city regarding the ascendancy of the Chinese mestizos. This paper further argues that the mestizos’ appropriation of the processional standards as symbols of authority was meant to enhance their ascendancy, extending their realm to the religious sphere as an addition to their previous political and economic gains.
Keywords : Religious Processions, Naturales, Mestizos de Sangleyes, Town Elites, Gremio, Social Pre-eminence, Altarpiece
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https://doi.org/10.55997/2003pslviii176a3
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Lester Mendonsa
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Lay apostolate has gradually evolved since New Testament times. The zeal of baptized believers to spread the divine message of salvation in fidelity to the divine mandate and the ecclesial mission underwent many a challenge at every phase in Church history. This article seeks to review the development of lay involvement in the apostolate of the Church through the centuries and the 1917 code. The intent is to identify and highlight the pastoral and juridical role of the laity in Church history until it came to be officially recognized at the Second Vatican Council.
Keywords : Laity, Lay Apostolate, Magisterium, 1917 Code
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https://doi.org/10.55997/2004pslviii176a4
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Feorillo Petronillo Demeterio III and Noella Ma-i Orozco
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Obando, Bulacan is famous for its fertility dance ritual that is celebrated in the middle of May in front the sacred images of Saint Paschal Baylón, Our Lady of Salambao, and Saint Clare of Assisi. Following a postcolonial trend of scholarship, many assume that this dance ritual existed prior to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, and was merely subsumed under Catholic discourse to facilitate the conversion of the natives to Christianity. Using mostly 19th century Spanish publications, and 20th century American and Filipino publications, and viewing the sacred images, their patronages and rituals as a Deleuze-Guattarian assemblage, this paper challenges this rather naïve postcolonial line
of thinking by arguing that the Obando assemblage that we more or less know today took more than three centuries to configure. This research paper does not only proffer a more textually grounded historical account of the configuration and reconfigurations of this popular religious assemblage, but also the first journal publication on the history of Obando Church’s sacred images, patronages, and rituals. This paper therefore is an attempt to initiate a more sober scholarly discussion on the said history. Theoretically and historiographically, this paper tests whether the Deleuze-Guattarian assemblage framing of a local phenomenon could generate not just an alternative narrative, but a fuller and more sensible one. This paper contains two substantive sections: the first one gives a chronological account of the installations of the three sacred images in Obando Church; while the second one traces the changing configurations of the sacred images’ patronages and rituals.
Keywords : Obando, Bulacan, Saint Paschal Baylón, Our Lady of Salambao, Saint Clare of Assisi, Patronages, Rituals, Assemblage of Deleuze and Guattari
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https://doi.org/10.55997/2005pslviii176a5
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Antonio C. Campo López
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This article provides an overview of the development of the Marian invocation of the Rosary in the southern periphery of the Philippines in the 17th century. In its various manifestations such as the foundation of brotherhoods, daily religiosity through quotidian prayer or protective dedication in hostile territories, the figure of the Virgin of the Rosary was of outstanding importance in the Moluccas
Islands and in other regions of present-day Indonesia. During the Spanish sovereignty in these islands (1606-1663), in the Spanish capital of this territory, the city of Rosario, the prayer and worship of Our Lady of the Rosary was a key element to understand the religiosity developed in this territory.
Keywords : Brotherhood, Dominicans, Iloilo, Moluccas, Ternate, Rosario, Siau
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https://doi.org/10.55997/2006pslviii176pr1
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Regalado Trota José
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In 1611 the Dominicans in the Spanish colonial Philippines established a college-seminary that is now known as the University of Santo Tomas. For the next three hundred years until the first two decades of the 20th century the medium of instruction was Spanish. The University operated a printing press that served the needs not only of the school but also of the Dominican order and other institutions besides. Because of its various patrons the University Press ran publications in different languages, which in the last decade of Spanish rule (1890-1898) included not only Spanish and Latin but also Greek, French, and various Filipino languages. In 1898 the Philippines was sold by Spain to the United States of America, and the first English manuals, with corresponding Spanish and Tagalog texts, began to be
printed in Manila in this year. The University, which remained in Spanish hands, now faced the challenge of an ever-growing English-speaking studentry. Eventually, the rector made the tough decision that English be the language of instruction in all classes and laboratories beginning with the academic year 1924-1925.
This article attempts to show how the Philippines, and the Dominicans in Asia’s oldest university in particular, confronted the change from Spanish to English through the publications of the University of Santo Tomas Press. The University Press printed an outline of examinations which showed that at least by 1893 English was being taught; in this case, at the Dominican–run secondary school of San Juan de Letran.
Keywords : Dominicans, education, English, textbooks, University of Santo Tomás Manila
