{"id":473,"date":"2021-04-07T17:17:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/500yoc.com\/?p=473"},"modified":"2021-04-07T17:34:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T17:34:13","slug":"where-it-all-began-filipinos-in-spain-celebrate-500-years-of-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/500yoc.com\/where-it-all-began-filipinos-in-spain-celebrate-500-years-of-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Where it all began\u2019: Filipinos in Spain celebrate 500 years of Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Hero&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.1&#8243; use_background_color_gradient=&#8221;on&#8221; background_color_gradient_start=&#8221;rgba(52,130,193,0.68)&#8221; background_color_gradient_end=&#8221;rgba(26,52,76,0.73)&#8221; background_color_gradient_type=&#8221;radial&#8221; background_color_gradient_direction_radial=&#8221;top left&#8221; 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And the first place we look for and where we gather is the church,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop was speaking during Mass to celebrate the opening of the Jubilee Year in the Philippines on Easter Sunday, April 4.<\/p>\n<p>Around a hundred Filipinos attended the celebration held at the Parroquia de San Francisco Javier y San Lu\u00eds Gonzaga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a privilege to be in Spain, where it all began,\u201d said Auza, who has been the nuncio to Spain and Andorra since January 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The archbishop then used the occasion to ask the Filipinos to pray for the Church in Spain, which \u201chas been experiencing a crisis of vocations to the priesthood and the religious life and a waning religious practice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Filipinos today, according to him, are the \u201cinheritance and inheritors\u201d of the faith the missionaries planted in the Philippines 500 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are commissioned to make that faith bear abundant fruit everywhere we are,\u201d Auza said. \u201cAs an act of giving back and of gratitude, may we then be leavens of the Joy of the Gospel here in Spain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also present during the Mass were 10 other priests, including Society of Divine Word Fr. 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