TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — Devotees flocked to the St. Joseph the Employee Cathedral Shrine right here to thank God and pray for private intentions as Catholics celebrated the Feast of the God the Father of All Mankind on Sunday, Aug. 4.
Anna Mae Mino, 28, a businesswoman from Taguig Metropolis, stated she had extreme despair and nervousness that had affected her every day life.
“There’s a sense of overwhelming unhappiness or vacancy in my coronary heart,” she stated.
It led her to query God due to her struggling when she and her husband separated final July after 9 years of marriage. She was additionally financially affected after a enterprise accomplice scammed her hundreds of thousands.
When she devoted her time to God the Father, her life turned significant. She stated she discovered solace and luxury.
“I really feel God’s presence and steering,” she added.
One other devotee, Teodula Pelias, had an eye fixed drawback.
Whereas in Canada final yr, she was instructed that her blurry or cloudy imaginative and prescient was attributable to a cataract.
Pelias, 61, from Iligan Metropolis, went again to the Philippines final Might 6. In Cebu, she was launched to the God the Father and he or she was miraculously healed.
“I’ve discovered my objective in life and I’m prepared to observe His will,” Pelias stated.
In the meantime, the oldest devotee within the province, 92-year-old Eufronio Bruñidor, reveals no indicators of slowing down as he gave God credit score for his lengthy life.
“There isn’t a secret. It’s good meals, good train, good relaxation. And most of all, religion in God the Father of All Mankind,” he stated.
Mino, Pelias, and Bruñidor attended the 9 a.m. Mass at St. Joseph Cathedral Shrine in Tagbilaran Metropolis to affix the celebration of the Feast Day of the God the Father of All Mankind.
At 3 p. m., a Mass was additionally held on the Birhen sa Barangay Shrine in Barangay Cogon.
After the Mass, a “patunob,” a ritual of touching the heads and shoulders of devotees with the picture of the God the Father, was carried out.
A banquet was additionally held on the convent attended by devotees and candle distributors.
Mino, Pelias, and Bruñidor got here to know of God the Father of All Mankind by way of Sister Precy Aseneta-Macasaet, a missionary.
Macasaet launched the devotion to God the Father of All Mankind in Bohol when she arrived in 2010 when it was unknown to many Boholanos.
She had no acquaintances, associates, and kinfolk when she arrived in Bohol.
She introduced alongside together with her a picture of the God the Father of All Mankind which was given to her by the late Cebu Archbishop Cardinal Ricardo Vidal. She stated the picture was given to Vidal by Saint Pope John Paul II.
Macasaet’s mission to Bohol was by no means simple.
She stated she was doubted, hated, and humiliated.
“I endured every thing for His will. It’s not me whom they persecuted however God the Father,” she added.
The devotion has unfold in lots of cities in Bohol province. It additionally unfold in Cebu, Manila, Normal Santos, Cagayan de Oro Metropolis, Baguio Metropolis, Nueva Ecija, and Tuguegarao Metropolis.
“I’ll proceed to inform the world of God the Father’s overflowing love and mercy to His kids. Allow us to all keep in mind that what flows out of God’s deepest coronary heart is love,” Macasaet stated.