Palo Archdiocese feeding program launch today
TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines — The La Mesa ni Marta (Table of Martha), a feeding program for the poor initiated by Palo Archbishop John Du will be launched today (Maundy Thursday) during the Eucharistic celebration of Our Lord’s Last Supper with His Disciples.
The project was thus called after Martha, who in the Gospel was very busy serving the Lord Jesus Christ. “Thus the church must also be busy serving the Lord,” said Father Amadeo Alvero, social communications director of the Palo Archdiocese in an earlier CBCP News report.
La Mesa ni Marta also serves as the sign of the church’s readiness to take care of the poor, especially during the Year of the Poor that was formally opened in the archdiocese on November 29 at the Palo Cathedral during a Mass celebrated by Du.
Meanwhile, on Good Friday, after more than a decade, a Seven Last Words reflection will be held once more inside the Sto. Niño church. In previous years, the parish would just broadcast the Siete Palabras reflection held at the Palo Cathedral of The Transfiguration of Our Lord.
The parish will also conduct house-to-house blessing in its parochial districts—Siren, Seawall, Sabang, Quarry and Pampango, all of which were within the so-called Ground Zero of typhoon Yolanda’s storm surge.
The activities were intended to give parishioners ample time for more meaningful commemoration of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. — (FREEMAN)
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