(propose title) A Day Only for Jesus: The celebration of the Great Supplica to the Most Holy

Name of Jesus of the Rogationist Seminarians.

Aside from Christmas, Easter and other Eucharistic Liturgical Celebrations or feast or
solemnities of our Lord that may be considered to be as a day that is dedicated only for Jesus.
There is a very peculiar day within the Rogationist Spirituality that is being celebrated by the
Congregation from the very beginning and that is the Great Supplica or the Feast of the Most
Holy Name of Jesus which is precisely a day only for Jesus.
The Rogationist Celebration of the Most Holy Name of Jesus every end of January (January
31st) is a day offered to Jesus that is much different from Christmas and other feast and
solemnities of the Lord. The father founder, St. Hannibal by giving more emphasize to the most
holy name of Jesus (that is liturgically celebrated by the Church in line with the season of
Christmas as a memorial every 3rd day of January. Yet due to the fact that St. Hannibal has a very
deep devotion to the Name of Jesus he himself set its feast day in the last day of January within
his institutes to give its importance, this he made possible with an ecclesiastical approval.) place
a special day only for Jesus that is inline with his most holy name.
The Great Supplica is a much different occasion intended for Jesus. This was the day that the
whole community gathered to pray, celebrate and only to focus themselves to Jesus by
remembering the graces that they have granted through the past years, by adoring Him through
the Eucharist and Holy Hour with the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, by meditating on His
words as St. Hannibal urge his beloved children to prepare for that day by having a novena with
an adoration for nine days.
These initiatives have been manifested within the community of the Rogationist Seminarians in
Manila. Where this year the Great Supplica was celebrated in a Sunday. The whole liturgy from
the Lauds (Morning Prayer) to the Holy Mass was followed inline with the great supplica. This
was explained before the 11 am mass with a brief video presentation and in a short introduction
of a seminarian commentator to the mass-attendees. It was immediately followed by the
Supplication of 35 petitions by the whole community in front of the Blessed Sacrament as soon
as it was exposed after the celebration of the mass. In the afternoon, there were games as the
Rogationist Seminary community invites other communities like the religious brothers,
postulants, and other confreres from those serving the houses and the parish. Different
communities were gathered as one until the opening of the lights for the logo of the celebration
of the 500th year centenary of Christianity in the Philippines followed by an evening prayer and a
usual dinner.
It is through all these efforts that makes the Rogationists centered themselves in a celebration
wherein they could give their whole attention to the person of Jesus, not only to His name.
Perhaps, one may say that it is different than Christmas, for people often times may not
remember that day as a day only for Jesus because they focus themselves more on other things
like the gifts. But the great supplica is a separate day from those, it is really a day to remember
Jesus alone without any other kinds of diversions.