Monday. August 17, 2026. Sta. Clara de Montefalco was born in Montefalco, Italy. From an early age, she lived an eremitical life. Clare was a lively and intelligent young girl, but equally prayerful. The small community of hermits grew and was established as a formal convent of nuns under the Rule of Saint Augustine. At 23 years of age she was elected abbess, and became mother, teacher and spiritual director of the convent. A young woman of deep spiritual perception, though with almost no formal education, she was much sought after for advice and counsel from people of all walks of life, and from within the walls of the cloister became a director of many souls. She was deeply devoted to the Passion of Christ and was known to experience periods of ecstasy as she contemplated the mystery of the Cross. For many years she received no consolation in her interior life except that of her own fidelity to prayer and acts of penance. During her final illness she repeated to her sisters that she bore the cross of Christ in her heart. After her death, this was verified when the nuns examined her heart and found in it symbols of the passion of the Lord, formed from cardiac muscle. Clare died on August 17, 1308, at the age of 40. The life of St Clare of the Cross is a striking reminder that holiness is the work of grace and not of human effort. Cooperation with the work of God is indispensable for spiritual growth, “for He who made us without our willing it, will not save us without our willing it.” (Maridol: My Morning Prayer)
EWTN Online Mass Presider Father Matthew Mary, MFVA
O God, you wished to exalt Saint Clare of the Cross by imprinting on her life and on her heart the signs of the Passion of our Lord, so that she could serve as a model of faith and of charity for her fellowmen. Dear St Clare, help me to recognise my ignorance and my failings and turn to God for instruction, forgiveness, and protection. Through your intercession, grant also to us a living devotion to the Cross of Jesus so that we, too, may become, by means of our faith and good works, humble co-workers of the Divine Redeemer in the salvation of the world. Amen. Sta. Clara de Montefalco, please pray for us.
Sta. Clara de Montefalco Parish Church – Pasig
Radyo Katipunan Online Mass Presider Fr. Jun Viray, SJ
WORD Today. Matthew 19:16-22. A young man approached Jesus and said, “Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?” He answered him, “Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.” He asked him, “Which ones?” And Jesus replied, “You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; honor your father and your mother; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.” The young man said to him, “All of these I have observed. What do I still lack?” Jesus said to him, “If you wish to be perfect, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then follow me.” When the young man heard this, he went away, for he had many possessions. (Maridol: My Morning Prayer)
Reflection. The words of the Popes. Today’s Gospel begins with a great question posed to Jesus: “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Those words express a constant desire in life: our yearning for salvation, for an existence free from failure, evil and death. This hope of the human heart is described as something to be “inherited”, not something to be gained by force, begged for, or negotiated. Eternal life, which God alone can give, is bestowed on us as an inheritance, as parents do with their children. That is why Jesus tells us that, to receive God’s gift, we must do his will. It is written in the Law: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,” and “your neighbour as yourself.” When we do these two things, we respond to the Father’s love. God’s will is the law of life that the Father himself was the first to follow, by loving us unconditionally in his Son, Jesus. To live eternally, we do not need to cheat death, but to serve life by caring for others in this, our time together. That is the supreme law that is before all society’s rules and gives them their meaning. (Pope Leo XIV, Angelus, 13 July 2025)
“The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.“ (Shakespeare). Business Enterprises are not Legacy: the wake you leave, WHO you leave it to, WHAT you leave, and WHY? Let the Montinola Cumagun Care Foundation’s Good Work speak, not our name.
Our Lady of the Impossible, grace those late in life but had more in life who tried to be their brothers’ keepers for those who have less in life – Grace for our children, and their children’s children to wholeheartedly support the MONTINOLA-CUMAGUN CARE FOUNDATION OBJECTIVES: (1.) Special Children SPED, a child’s mind is the most precious thing to waste. (The motto of the American Negro College), and the Handicapped Senior Citizens – Physical Therapy. (2.) Financial Support for Diocesan priests and Grade School Teachers for the rural areas. (3.) Computer Start-up Education Tools for selected public schools and (4.) Selected Start-up Management and Financial Support for Small Businesses. “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” Luke 12:48. “The sin of the rich man was not that he did wrong things, but that he did nothing. (William Barclay, in Antonio G. Cumagun Autobiography Song of Myself Memoirs, Looking Back at Serendipity, 2002) Our Lady of the Impossible – “Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled was left unaided. . .”
Ester and my state of health – vital stats are recorded by Ester’s everyday, 2 PDNs/24 hrs.
This morning, Ester’s BP was 110 /80. Hr. 77 O2sat 97%. Temp 36. 3
Last Night’s BP 110/70. HR 72. O2sat 96%. Temp.36.3
Tony’s morning BP was BP 110 /70. HR.65. O2sat 99%. Temp. 36.5
Last Night’s BP 110/70. HR 62. O2sat 98%. Temp.36.6
Beata John Paul 1, watch over Cristina C, Justice Jun’s state of health, and Ester’s health recovery of more than 5 years of stomah adhesion recovery, our autistic son John Paul’s (was baptized John Paul a decade before Cardinal Luciano of Milan took the regnal name of John Paul) emotional and physical disability, 57 years old, and my weakening 89-year-old body.
FOR THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED AND SOULS IN PURGATORY
In Memory of all those who left us. We remember you in the morning and at night. You are always with us. We pray for the souls in Purgatory.
Blessed Mother Mary, I bring to you for your intercession the souls of Amb. Manuel R. and Dolores G. Cumagun, Juana Cumagun, Annette Cumagun, Lina Beltran, Judge and Mrs. Dolores Cumagun, Gov. Primo & Magdalena H. Gaffud, Dr. Trino, Sr. & Angeles Montinola, Betty, Luie, Trino, Jr. Montinola, Bernardino, and Isabel Jalandoni. Dr. Terry Lirio-Montinola, Dr. & Mrs. Tomacruz, Akira Tsusaka, Boy Eugenio, Jesus Ibañez, Sen. Nene Pimentel, Santiago Ranada 111, Boysie Villavicensio, Patria Manuel, Dr. Mariano Laurel, Rene Datu, (Ateneo ’54 – Jimmy Ongpin, Atty. Ato Gonzales, Buddy Joaquin, Fr. Unson, Msgr. Tantoco, Atty. Art Alafriz, Robert Arevalo Ylagan, Maximo Abesamis, Jr., Jesse Paredes), Atty. C. Platon, Araceli Rivera, Rey Castañeda, Col. Tanseco, Dr. E Fores, Dr. J. Caedo, Christine Syjuco, Leni Panganiban, Raul Boncan, Atty. Spanky and Dolly Perez, Amb. Albert del Rosario, Nellie Valdez, Toti Herbosa, Tec Syjuco, AL, Umberto (Beck) Gonzales, and Rufo Colayco. Pray 7 Our Father and The Credo.
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