Come Visit Me Here – Mary Mediatrix of All Grace
Commission on Research and Documentation of Mary Mediatrix of All-Grace (CORD) Archdiocese of Lipa
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COMMUNIQUE
A document released by Archbishop Ramon Arguelles of the Archdiocese of Lipa dated May 31, 2016. Seeking to communicate to all the concluding lines of the CDF decree PROT. N. 226/1949 PRESUMED APPARITIONS OF THE BVM AT THE CARMELITE CONVENT IN LIPA, PHILIPPINES. It also seeks to advocate all to never doubt the love of
PROT. N. 226/1949 – PRESUMED APPARITIONS OF THE BVM AT THE CARMELITE CONVENT IN LIPA, PHILIPPINES
In response to the September 12, 2015 decree of Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a decree dated December 11, 2015. A copy of which was only communicated and given to Archbishop Ramon Arguelles on May 28, 2016, and seen for the first time by the public
The Woman Clothed with the Sun – Lipa Apparition
A documentary produced and narrated by June Keithley- Castro, a renowned broadcast journalist from the Philippines about a Marian Apparition that happened in the Carmelite Monastery in Lipa Philippines in the year 1948. This Documentary was chosen by the Cultural Center of the Philippines as the Best Documentary in 1992.
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September 12, 2015 Decree of Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles
As an Archbishop of Lipa, many have been requesting him to open the case of Lipa Apparition. Due to these demands of the laity, Archbishop Ramon Arguelles then set up a committee to restudy and further investigate the Lipa phenomenon. The Commission on Research and Documentation (CORD), consisting of priests, nuns, and laypeople, gathered documents
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REFLECTIONS of Most Rev. Mariano Gaviola, D.D., J.C.D.
Click thumbnail to read A book of reflections on the Lipa phenomenon which was written by Lipa Archbishop Emeritus Mariano Gaviola y Garcés (Archbishop of Lipa 1981–1992) dated April 16, 1995. Herein we can also find the course of action he took while he was still the Archbishop of Lipa wherein the ban on the
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April 12, 1951 Decree
A decree by the then Apostolic Administrator Rufino Santos on matters concerning the Lipa Phenomenon issued the day after the negative decree was declared, remarking “until a final decision on the matter will come from the Holy See”.
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April 11, 1951 Negative Verdict
The 1951 committee of six Filipino bishops signed the negative verdict on Lipa Apparition to which everybody bowed down in obedience, even the recently removed in position but believers of Lipa Apparition, former Lipa Bishop Alfredo Versoza and Auxillary Bishop Alfredo Obviar. Everybody fell silent, including the community of Lipa Carmel who was afraid that
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The Lifting of the Ban
The devotions remained suppressed but continued silently. Two foreigner priests brought statues of Our Lady to their assigned parishes in Mindanao where the devotion to Our Lady Mary Mediatrix of All Grace also flourished silently. Meanwhile, in Batangas and many other places, the silent devotion continued. Until on May 21, 1990, Archbishop Mariano Gaviola suddenly
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The Disapproval
(Pictures from left to right: Cardinal Rufino Santos who was then the Apostolic Administrator of Lipa in 1951, Bishop Alredo Versoza, Bishop Alfredo Obviar, Mother Mary Cecilia of Jesus, Sr. Mary Anne Cuna, Sr. Teresita Castillo) At first, the local bishop of Lipa at the time Bishop Alfredo F. Verzosa was incredulous of the reported