Catholicism in the Philippines

Catholicism in the Philippines and the Oblates’ Mission

Posted by Oblates of the Virgin Mary

Category: Oblate Communities

Every country brings pieces of its own culture to the Catholic faith, and the Philippines is no different. Catholicism in the Philippines carries with it an especially strong devotion to Mary and the saints. Let’s take a brief look at Catholicism in the Philippines today.

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Br. Leland Thorpe, OMV

On The Mountain with God

Posted by Oblates of the Virgin Mary

Category: Seminarian Blog

authored by Br. Leland Thorpe, OMV Jesus took Peter, James, and John, and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them. – Mark 9:2 The first time that I saw the Alps, I was floored. We had arrived at our hotel in Lucerne on a foggy evening, after…

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Mary, Did You Know?

Posted by Oblates of the Virgin Mary

Category: Seminarian Blog

This article began as a response to a discussion that recurs every year around this time… the debate over the orthodoxy or heterodoxy of the popular song Mary, Did You Know?. I figured I would weigh in on this song that I have come to love. Here is a spectacular performance of it: Several objections…

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Br. Leland Thorpe, OMV

Treasure of God’s Heart

Posted by Oblates of the Virgin Mary

Category: Seminarian Blog

This post is adapted from an exegetical reflection on the first reading for the Feast of the Sacred Heart by Br. Leland Thorpe. Ever since the Oblates of the Virgin Mary were consecrated as a Congregation to the Sacred Heart in 1873, this feast day has had a special prominence in the Congregation’s life and…

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Nothing if not You, Lord

Posted by Oblates of the Virgin Mary

Category: Seminarian Blog

Authored by Jay-Ar San Juan There is a beautiful story of when St. Thomas Aquinas was writing his treatise on the Eucharist for the Summa Theologiae. The story goes that he was very dissatisfied with it; he believed that his work did not do justice for the great mystery of the Eucharist. He was later…

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