Ministry to Filipinos at 5125 S Apopka Vineland Road, Orlando, FL 32819 US - Home
MABUHAY!
Welcome to the website of the Ministry To Filipinos in the Diocese of Orlando, Florida.
It was through the initiative and support of His Excellency, the Most Reverend Thomas Wenski, the Ordinary of the Orlando Diocese, that the Ministry to the Filipinos in Orlando came to existence. And we the Filipinos together with the Filipino Clergy here in Orlando are very grateful to Bishop Wenski for his pastoral and paternal concern.
This Filipino Ministry Website is our bridge and window connecting us with other Filipino communities in the United States, our homeland the Philippines and beyond. This will be the site that will provide an avenue for dissemination and information about our ministry, religious celebrations and activities. This site will also be a forum for suggestions, comments, messages, articles, etc., that will connect us with one another to support, strengthen and nourish our ministry.
On behalf of the Filipino Community and the Filipino Clergy in the Orlando Diocese – once again – Welcome!!!
Rev. Felicito S. Baybay
Parochial Vicar
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Ocala, Florida
VISION:
Is for Filipinos to continue the journey as a pilgrim people towards a deeper understanding, proclamation and practice of our faith, as a response of the universal call to build a Christian community, the call to discipleship and the call to service.
MISSION:
- To make known our religious, Pastoral and cultural traditions as Filipinos in the Diocese…
- Be a resource for groups, parishes and diocese for closer understanding and religious sensitivity towards Filipino Catholics in the diocese...
- Build a witnessing community and establish as greater communication with other Filipino communities around the state and elsewhere…
- Work out a program that will address the issues of the youth and young adults…
- Establish effective communication with the bishop, chancery, deaneries, parishes and other Filipino groups…
- Support networking relationships here and abroad…
- Create liturgical forms of worship that Filipinos can be responsive to aside from being nurturing and grace filled…
MAIN THRUST:
Helping/ Supporting/ Walking with Filipinos…
Filipino Mass In Orlando
by Mercy V. Malazarte
The Filipino community is one of the fastest growing immigrant groups in the United States. Today, there are at least a number of parishes with a significant number of Filipino parishioners, many of whom are now actively involved in their local churches. Filipinos are very much steeped into ...