CHAPEL OF THE EUCHARISTIC LORD WAS MADE AS MISSION STATION

On July 24, 2026 the Archbishop of Manila, Jose F. Cardinal Advincula, D.D. raised the Chapel of the Eucharistic Lord into a mission station. It was attended by all the priests of the Vicariate of St. John the Baptist where the Chapel of the Eucharistic Lord belongs. It was graced also with the presence of the Hans Sy and family who are the primary benefactors of having SM Megamall Chapel. Msgr. Noly A. Que, LRMS and Fr. Mark Lemuel Tibay, LRMS were appointed and installed as team ministry head and member respectively to take charge of the Chapel of the Eucharistic Lord as a mission station. A mission station is a special endowment to a chapel or a church to have full rights of celebrating the sacraments like what a parish can have and do. This means that the Sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Holy Orders, Anointing of the Sick, Reconciliation, and Matrimony may be celebrated in the Chapel. According to the Decretum, full rights have been given to those appointed and installed as pastors for the mission station. In his homily, the Cardinal considers raising the chapel into a mission station as an "historic moment." He emphasized that the establishment of a mission station is primarily a form of a "renewal of mission" because it is God who is reaching out to his people in the modern peripheries of the city. Second, he said that the Chapel is raised into a mission station in order to continue what God has begun especially in the time of the Prophet Jeremiah who proclaimed that there is a God who gathers rather than scatters. The chapel is expected to gather God's people and celebrate God in their midst. The celebration was attended by more than a thousand people. The Church indeed brings the sacraments closer to the people.

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SAN CARLOS SEMINARY 2026 CALENDAR

CLINICAL PASTORAL EDUCATION (CPE)

The Ratio Fundamentalis no. 163 reinforces this path of development among seminarians. It says: "Due attention should be given to the human sciences, such as sociology, pedagogy, and psychology, in the aspects most relevant to formation for priestly ministry. This will expand within seminarians the capacity to know the human soul, in all its richness and frailty, in order to facilitate the formulation of calm and balanced judgements regarding people and situations." The CPE is also a practical ministry that equips an individual towards compassion and shepherding. It addresses personal issues to shape the individual towards pastoral competence and healthy intersubjectivity.

The Second Plenary Council (PCP II) also encourages and promotes the Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) for those priests who intend to do their apostolate in hospitals and similar locus of pastoral care for the sick. The CPE equips them for competency and the necessary preparation for their ministry among the sick. The PCP II no. 617 says: "Encouragement and on-going formation, such as Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), should be given to priests who show an aptitude and desire to minister to the sick in hospitals. Suitable material support should be given to those who volunteer or are assigned to this difficult ministry."