It's my mother's birthday and we have decided to celebrate it in somewhere three hours away from our place, somewhere down south, and it's in Tagaytay. Got up a bit but not really that early so we could catch the 10am mass at the Our Lady of Monte Maria Oratory. Unfortunately we arrived just when the mass was about to end. But fortunately though there is still healing pray over that followed right after.
I thought what we were going to is a church, until we got there. The place is still a soon-to-become oratory, a place of prayer as what the priest has said. Although it has already been initially developed to cater big number of Catholics visiting them, what is envisioned by Fr. Fernando Suarez there, to build a place known as the Oratory of the Blessed Virgin Mary with a majestic statue of Mary, the tallest in the world, standing on a mountain “like a beacon of light, a proclamation of love and faith, a steadfast companion”, her gaze benign, her hands raised in loving benediction over her children, is yet to come.
I believe that the place has come to certain popularity to Catholics who flock there even from far places because of the healing pray-overs that are held there. And true enough as what is stated in their vision "To share in God’s healing ministry in the world, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary."
Mass Schedules are as follow:
Monday - Friday 4:00pmSaturday - Sunday 10:00am
Our Lady of Monte Maria Oratory is located at Barangay Amuyong, Alfonso, Cavite, Philippines. You can also visit their website to know more http://www.ourladyofmontemaria.org.
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