Divine Word Seminary Tagaytay Alumni

20/09/2025

18/08/2025

Balabac, Palawan – August 18, 2025.The Alternative Learning System (ALS) students of the Immaculate Conception Parish ALS Center, under the Arnold Janssen Catholic Mission Foundation, Inc. (AJCMFI), celebrated their graduation with simple but solemn and joy-filled program. The event was a testamen...

30/07/2025

14/03/2025

🕊️ Inviting You to the Lenten Jubilee Talk Series! 🕊️

📍 Spes Pilgrim Center
⛪ Shrine of Jesus the Divine Word
🏛️ Christ the King Mission Seminary, Quezon City

📅 March 15, 2025, Saturday, At 4:30 pm
🎤 Speaker: Fr. Peter Vu, SVD

Fr. Peter is a Vietnamese missionary priest and a scholar of Sacred Scripture. He earned his Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (2023) and pursued further studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He currently teaches at Divine Word Seminary, Tagaytay.

⛪ Mission & Ministry:
🌍 Former missionary in Palawan
📖 Former Biblical Apostolate Director, Vicariate of Puerto Princesa

📜 Talk Title:
“We Hope for Justice” (Isa 59:11): The Hope Motif in Isaiah’s Vision

🙏 Come and deepen your Lenten journey with Scripture and reflection!

Also via Zoom
Meeting ID: 885 8764 6172
Passcode: LENT2025

08/03/2025

Join us this Lenten season as we journey through Scripture and reflect on the themes of Jubilee and Hope in the Bible.

Be inspired by insightful talks from esteemed speakers as they explore the profound messages of hope found in the Word of God.

Let this be a time of renewal and deepening faith as we prepare our hearts for Easter.

Lenten Talks happen every Saturday (March 8, 15, 22, 29 and April 5 and 12) at 4:30 PM at the Spes Pilgrim Center of the Diocesan Shrine of Jesus the Divine Word, Christ the King Seminary, Quezon City.

You can also join us through zoom, log in at:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81374115314?pwd=aRAcKuvzT6bF2Crr6P6ajABivE7eH7.1

Meeting ID: 813 7411 5314
Passcode: LENT

Don’t miss this opportunity to grow spiritually and find hope in God’s promises!



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May the holy Triune God and Our Dear Blessed Mother bless you always and in all ways!

22/02/2025

📅 February 23, 2025 – Seventh Sunday of the Year

📖 Readings: 1 Sam 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 | 1 Cor 15:45-49 | Luke 6:27-38

🕊️ “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” (Luke 6:36)

✨ CREATIVE NONVIOLENCE ✨

👑 David as a teacher of nonviolence? Hard to believe! Later in his reign, he would arrange for Uriah’s death to satisfy his own lust for Bathsheba. Yet, before becoming king, David showed remarkable acts of what we now call creative nonviolence.

📌 Example 1: The Cave at Engedi
While hiding in a cave, David has the perfect chance to kill Saul, who enters unaware. Instead, he cuts off a piece of Saul’s mantle and later tells him:

“See and be convinced that I plan no harm… I have done you no wrong, though you are hunting me down to take my life.” (1 Sam 24:12-13)

📌 Example 2: The Desert of Ziph
David infiltrates Saul’s camp at night. Abishai offers to kill Saul with one strike, but David refuses. Instead, he takes the king’s spear and water jug, later taunting Saul’s general and shaming the king into a change of heart.

💡 David’s occasional nonviolence was strategic. Jesus makes it a way of life!

📖 In today’s Gospel, Jesus calls for radical love of enemies:

✅ “Love your enemies, do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back…” (Luke 6:35)
✅ “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” (Luke 6:36)

🔹 David spared Saul because he was ‘the Lord’s anointed’ (1 Sam 26:23).
🔹 Jesus calls us to love our enemies because we are ‘children of the Most High’ (Luke 6:35).

📌 Matthew’s version: “Be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matt 5:48)
📌 Luke’s version: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.” (Luke 6:36)

❤️ The word for “merciful” (oiktirmón) is rare, appearing only here in the Gospels. It echoes God’s covenant love in Exod 34:6 and Ps 103:8. If we claim to know God, we must extend that mercy to all.

🤔 Something to reflect on:
If Jesus made nonviolence and love of enemies central to His teaching, why has Christian practice been so slow to embrace it?

⚖️ To make it concrete:
Which is closer to Jesus’ teaching—the death penalty or life imprisonment without parole?

🙏 A Short Prayer for Peace (St. Francis)
“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.”

13/01/2025

R.I.P. Fr. Juan Simon ‘Johnny’ Cervania, SVD, 64

07/01/2025

R.I.P. Fr. Reiner Franke, SVD, 85
SVD Perpetual vows: 1968
Ordination to the Priesthood: 1969
Last assignment: Regional Major Seminary (Davao City) and Director of Talomo Cultural & Language Center (Davao City)