San Fabian holds Archdiocesan Congress on the Divine Mercy

22 June 2008, Saturday. The first ever Archdiocesan Congress on Divine Mercy was held in the Parish of St. Fabian, Pope and Martyr  with the participation of about six hundred devotees coming from the different parishes of the Archdiocese. Majority of the participants came from the host parish and the Parish of St. Thomas Aquinas, Mangaldan, Pangasinan. The Congress was conceived and encouraged by Msgr. Renato P. Mayugaba, DD, the Auxiliary Bishop of Lingayen-Dagupan.

Two talks were shared in the morning. Sis. Silvana M. de Vera shared to the congregation the history and the spread of the devotion. She talked about the life of St. Faustina, the Secretary of mercy, who was the recipient of the messages and revelations from Our Lord Himself. Fr. Oliver E. Mendoza talked on the the essence and the elements of the Devotion to the Divine Mercy. In the afternoon, several devotees gave their testimonies regarding the mercy of God in their lives. They shared about the physical healing they have received through the praying of the Chaplet: two were cured of her cancer, and the other was her amazing recovery from an illness; a deliverance from certain serious accident was given to one while she was praying the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy while traveling with her family.

Msgr. Renato P. Mayugba, DD celebrated the mass as a culmination of the day's affair.