3834_Salesian Oratory of Don Bosco for the poorest of the poor

By ASH-Tarlac

Tarlac, Philippines, December 11, 2015 - A big thank you to Jun Baron and his family, Milit his wife and Jamo Baron his son, to Ernie Alvar Saker Putbol, Vitug Ness Lut, Jay Pietro Soliman Julie Macalintal, wife Julie and son Joshua and Butch Sta Rita. Jun is member of the ASH of Tarlac, an alumnus of Don Bosco Technical Institute of Tarlac of Class 76 and a former seminarian of the Redemptorist Order. Jamo is a blue-blooded Atenean Eage, a man for others; Ernie who is a DBYC member of DB Mandaluyong, was a former Salesian Brother, assigned in Don Bosco Pampanga, Cebu and Tarlac and belongs to the core group of Ash Tarlac; Lut, a former co-teacher from DBTI Tarlac, is now a DECS supervisor. Jay Soliman Julie Macalintal is an alumnus of DBTI Tarlac and was Butch's student in Public Speaking. He comes together with his supportive wife Julie, and genius son Joshua; Butch, is servant animator of Ash Tarlac, former religious of the Salesians of Don Bosco, having undergone Salesian formation in Don Bosco Juniorate and the Academy in Pampanga, the Seminary College in Laguna and DB Technical Institute in Makati.

At the beginning of the Year of Mercy the ASH TARLAC member reached out to one of the poor neighborhood young people.

* ASH means "Always Salesian at Heart" for the poorest of the poor - it is part of a larger lay movement called ASH-APPS of former Salesian past pupil-seminarians of Don Bosco together with their family, supporters, collaborators, partners and friends, with communities in Tarlac and in the Philippines (Bacolod, Iloilo, Victorias Negros, Cebu, Baguio, Laguna, Metro Manila) and the Middle East. This movement is NOT exclusive only to Salesians or Bosconians but is OPEN TO ANY LAY FAITHFUL and INCLUDES ALL who want to sanctify themselves in Jesus by serving the poor!

Pope Francis on the Jubilee Year of Mercy Dec. 8, 2015, Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mother

"...The INFINITE MERCY of the father WELCOMES EVERYONE, and GOES OUT PERSONALLY TO MEET EVERYONE. It is He who seeks us. It is He who comes to encounter us. How much wrong we do to God and His grace when we speak of sins being punished by his judgement before we speak of their being forgiven by His mercy... WE HAVE TO PUT MERCY BEFORE JUDGEMENT. God's judgement will always be in the light of His mercy."