Easter is a time of celebration and reflection, and music plays a vital role in enhancing the experience. Apart from the usual service songs, here are some recent songs in Bicol composed by N. Alforte and R. Dolor (© 2025) that resonate with the themes of Easter. These songs hope to offer diverse musical styles…
(Cf. Plene in Communione/ In Plena Communione) Schismatic yet in full communion. This is the absurdity and contradiction that some religious groups that denominate themselves as “Roman Catholic” (or its variations) fall into when they claim that they are in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, even though they have historically been separated from…
“A suitable place may be allotted to the vernacular in the Masses which are celebrated with the people, especially in the readings and “the common prayer,” and also, as local conditions may warrant, in those parts which pertain to the people…“ Sacrosanctum Concilium, n. 54 Cf. Lexico sa Liturgia; Tarambobong.
(Last updated: 23 May 2026) This lexicon has been prepared to help the faithful understand some difficult Bicol words used both in Liturgy and the Bible. This is by no means the only one of its kind. One may also use a similar list of Bicol words that have also been collected in “Dictionary”, in…
On the day the Diocese of Libmanan celebrated its 16th Anniversary as a Diocese, the newly designed Diocesan Crest and the Bishop’s Coat of Arms were also unveiled before an assembly of SKK Leaders, SKK Council Chairpersons, and the clergy. The new design was drawn by a group of experts on heraldry who call themselves…
Cathedral of St. James the Greater, Libmanan, Camarines Sur (8:00 a.m.). Parishioners coming from parishes of the Central District, consisting of the two vicariates of St. James the Greater (Libmanan) and Our Lady of the Pillar (San Isidro, Libmanan) flocked to the Libmanan Cathedral to celebrate the 16th Anniversary of the elevation of the Prelature…
Alanao/San Jose, Lupi (Camarines Sur), March 15, 2025. On this bright Saturday afternoon, at 3 pm., a large crowd gathered at what used to be just a diminutive chapel in this village that lie on the northernmost part of Lupi (Camarines Sur), close to the boundary that separates Camarines Sur from Camarines Norte. The occasion…
The Holy See has released the official Jubilee prayer. It has been translated into several languages and can be found on the official Jubilee website. The Bicol and Tagalog translations are posted here, together with the original English text.
Following the decree released by the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (DDW-DS) on December 24, 2024, the celebration of the feast day of St. Teresa of Calcutta (better known as Mother Teresa), Foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, was inscribed in the General Roman Calendar. According to the same decree,…
At the conclusion of their 129th Plenary Assembly in Nuvali, Santa Rosa (Laguna), last January 27, 2025, the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a pastoral letter, “May pag-asa pa ba?” calling on the faithful to a pilgrimage of hope in this Year of Jubilee 2025. The letter is rendered here in Bicol,…
