(May 24, 2009) – Not content with a successful FM station, which caters to the young audience with its modern pop music, the Archdiocese of Lipa went full swing in its evangelization effort through radio by inaugurating a new FM station, curiously with call sign DZAL, a pun on the Tagalog word “dasal”. Of course, AL stands for Archdiocese of Lipa. And what a way to celebrate the World Communication Sunday!
Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles led the group of his clergy, led by members of the Commission on Social Communication and Mass Media, local government leaders and lay leaders to brave the afternoon sun in trekking to Barangay Sto. Domingo, Batangas City. After a concelebrated Mass and a simple program, he climbed the knol, several thousand feet above sea level, to bless the newly-constructed transmitter site of this FM station which will carry much on the AM programs, that were the content of the Archdiocesan’s AM Station (DWAM-AM), whose transmitter conked out sometime in 2002. That AM station was founded in 1972, shortly before Martial Law. Read the rest of this entry »
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(May 12, 2009) – The intermittent afternoon downpour failed to spoil the spirit of more than 70 priests and religious sisters that gathered at the so-called apparition site at Carmel Lipa in this historic celebration, tagged as “A Day of Spiritual Renewal for the Clergy of Lipa and the Carmelite Sisters in the Presence of Our Lady, Mary Mediatrix of All Grace”. Mo. Mary Teresa, OCd, superior of Carmel Lipa, in her welcome remarks, explained, “This is the first time in the history of our Carmel that the Archbishop and Clergy of Lipa grace us with their presence in this site of the apparition.” And indeed, for most of the younger clergy this is the first time they set sight on what they learnt only from accounts written about the 1948 alleged apparition, which church authorities in early 1950s have declared to “lack the supernatural element”. 
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