September 14,2019. Today is the Blessing of the Villa
Maria Seminar/Retreat House.
Photo: Untying of ribbon led by Sr. Regina Kuizom, Sr. Edna Fuentes and Sr. Loreen Granada.
It took 600 working days, exactly one year and 71/2
months for the Villa Maria Community to build it. Now simply named Villa Maria.
While still being finalized, already there are advanced
bookings from the Visayas and Mindanao by both priests and lay groups. Villa
Maria can accommodate as many as a hundred in air conditioned rooms .
Today is a Saturday, Mary’s day. It is also the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.
Graciously willing to officiate at the Blessing was Fr.
Heinz Kulueke SVD, former Superior General of the Society of Divine Word (2012-2018), who came to Cebu at the
end of his term to resume his involvement in our ministry to the girl victims
of sex trafficking.
All who came to the Blessing were invited afterwards to
a sumptuous lunch which became a reunion of old-time friends and benefactors.
Live Jesus and Mary!
- Sr.
M. Fe Mendoza RGS
ADDRESS: Villa Maria, Good Shepherd Convent, Banawa Hills, Guadalupe, Cebu City, Philippines. Tel.No. 254-16-31. |
Photos: Courtesy of Sr. Elena Jalop, Sr. Regina Kuizon and Fr. Nico Perez CSsR |