Tomasino's Alumni-Homecoming '07

THEME: “The Role of the Thomasian Priest in the Dialogue of Faith and Culture in the Philippines and Asia .”

First Day: January 23, 2007 (Tuesday)

9:00 a.m. Registration
Venue: Ecclesiastical Faculties Hallway

2:00 p.m. Conference: “The Thomasian Priest and the Renewal of the Filipino Culture”
Speaker: MISS ISABELITA C. PALANCA
Committee Chair
Institutional Spirituality Quotient
Bishops-Businessmen's Conference
Venue: Thomas Aquinas Research Complex (TARC) Auditorium

3:15 p.m. Alumni Parade with the UST BRASS BAND
Merienda Fiesta at the Central Seminary Garden

3:30 p.m. Sports/Recreation
Basketball Game with the UST GROWLING TIGERS
Cheer-Dance Performance by the SALINGGAWI DANCE TROUPE
Venue: Central Seminary Gymnasium

6:00 p.m. Opening Eucharistic Celebration
Presider-Homilist: MOST REV. RODOLFO F. BELTRAN, D.D.
Apostolic Vicar of Bontoc-Lagawe
Venue: UST Santisimo Rosario Parish

7:30 p.m. Dinner
Entertainment Program
Socials
Special Guests: UST SINGERS AND UST STRING QUARTET
Venue: Central Seminary Garden

Second Day: January 24, 2007 (Wednesday)

7:00 a.m. Solemn Lauds
Presider-Homilist: MOST REV. BRODERICK S. PABILLO, D.D.
Auxiliary Bishop of Manila
Venue: Central Seminary Chapel

7:30 a.m. Breakfast
Venue: Central Seminary Gymnasium

9:00 a.m. Conference: “The Thomasian Priest and the Evangelization of Asia ”
Speaker: VERY. REV. FR. EDMUND C. NANTES, O.P. Provincial
Dominican Province of the Philippines
Venue: St. Thomas Aquinas Research Complex Auditorium

11:00 a.m. Closing Eucharistic Celebration
Presider-Homilist: MOST REV. JACINTO A. JOSE, D.D.
Bishop of Urdaneta
Venue: Central Seminary Chapel

12:00 p.m. Lunch
Tribute to Jubilarians
Choral Presentation by the CENTRAL SEMINARY PSALTERION
Venue: Central Seminary Gymnasium

During Christmas and Happy New Year

December 24, 2006 and December 31, 2006

The youngest student-priest in PCF was the main presider of the Holy Mass celebrated on the eve of the birth of the Savior Jesus Christ, the Lord. It was Fr. Edwin Fontanilla from the Diocese of San Fernando, La Union. Msgr. Stude Santos delivered a very touching homily composed in a very beautiful Tagalog or Filipino akin to that of Fransisco Balagtas of old. Filipino migrants filled the PCF Main Chapel and the main lobby that night. On the December 31, 2006, in anticipation of the coming of the new year and the feast of the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, another Holy Mass was celebrated at the PCF with Fr. Melchor Braga as the main presider. Msgr. Stude talked about 3 H's for 2007 in his homily: Happiness, Health, Holiness. Without the fourth H, those three are impossible to take place. The fourth H is necessary - Hesus. In Filipino words, 3 M's would be our wishes for 2007: Masaya, Malusog, Maging-Santo. Kulang na kulang ang mga ito kapag wala ang pang-apat na M - si Maria. That's why January 1 is celebrated as the Feast of Mary as Mother because of her great role in our life to be happy, to be healthy, and to be holy.