Krista Clarise B.

Del Rosario
SECTION: C MUS-1
DATE SUBMITTED: November 9, 2019

MODULE 2
PART 1
a. Background of the Parish (ie. name, location, brief history, goals)
- Name of the Parish: Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish
- Address: 135 JP Rizal Street Balite, Rodriguez, Rizal
- Brief history: The parish was established in 1877 and originally covered the
entire town of Rodriguez at the slopes and foothills of the Sierra Madre
mountain range. The parish was founded by Father Eustaquia, who was
known in town as “Padre Quako”. The old Spanish church constructed upon
the establishment of the parish served the townsfolk well for decades and
sustained the heavy damages caused during the World War. The Church was
used as an army garrison by the Japanese soldiers during the war. Thus, it was
a major preoccupation and undertaking of the pastors and parishioners in the
post-war years, to renovate the Church and convent. Now, when the Diocese
of Antipolo was established in 1983, the parish of Our Lady of the Most Holy
Rosary, which by then had already crossed the centennial milestone of its
presence in this part of Rizal.The parish focused not only in the building,
restoration and expansion of the parish church structure and facilities, but on
strengthening and animating the parish community through organization
buildinh and continued evangelization and formation.
- VISION: “Kaming mananampalataya ng Parokya ng Ina ng Kabanal-
banalang Santo Rosaryo ay nagmimithi na maging isang alagad ni Kristo na
muling nabuhay kasama ni Maria sa patnubay ng Banal na Espiritu”.
- MISSION: “Kung saan maisabuhay ng bawat isa ang pananampalataya nang
may pagkiling sa mga dukha”.
b. Organizations in the parish or ministry
Ministry
- Lectors, commentators, lay ministers
- A night of the Altars
- Youth ministry
- Mother butler

c. Challenges encountered
- According in the conducted interview, she said that the challenges that they
have encountered is mostly more on the different personalities of the people
who participates in the organizations and how they handle each and every one
of those who joins.
- I also asked one of the administrative staff if they had encountered such an
incident wherein no one participated in one of their youth camps and she
actually mentioned that everyone is really participative in the community
when it comes to youth camps so they don’t have any problems with regards
to that situation
d. Programs and Activities
- Pilgrimage
- Ahunan Antipolo
- Medical Mission
- Damayan Program (for the unprivileged in the community)
- Lectors and Commentators gift giving to the unprivileged during December
- Palarong Pamparokya every summer
- Little Saints (Familiarizing the different Saints to the children)
- Paharana kay Maria (different choirs gather up in the Church to “harana” in
celebration of the birthday of Mama Mary)
PART 2: Reflection
1. What is your perspective on the community development programs and /or social
action activities implemented in your place of worship?
- I think that the programs and social actions that my parish have started are
really “makabayan” and very diverse in a sense that all the people can join
different programs based from their ages. I also noticed that most of the
programs that they do helps the people from impoverished communities in
Rizal which is great because even though they aren’t really part of the
government, they still take initiative to help the poor in the community.
2. Knowing the challenges your place of worship encountered, as a Christian/Muslim,
how will you respond to the call of these circumstances?
- In total honesty, I am not really that cooperative in my parish and I am not
part of any ministry in the Church and because of that, I just hope that the
administrative staff in my parish handles their situations well in order to avoid
having difficulties.
3. As a Thomasian, how can you exhibit the 3 core values in responding to the
challenges and threats in uplifting human dignity?
- As a Thomasian and as a person, I believe that I can show to people in our
country that each and every one of us has dignity and we should be able to
know how to respect each other so no one would feel violated. I can exhibit
the 3 core values of the university by giving this as an example of how we
should protect our own dignity towards other people who seem to challenge
us.
PICTURES FROM THE INTERVIEW: