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22 News in Pix Consecration and Installation of the First Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Davao The Procession The Message & Charge The Right Reverend Jonathan Labasan Casimina Date of Consecration & Installation: The Consecration 12 November 2012 The Philippine EPISCOPALIAN The Congregation The Installation The Giving of Staff
SATS CELEBRATES 80; GRAND ALUMNI HOMECOMING Saint Andrew’s Theological Seminary celebrated its 80th Foundation Anniversary with a series of activities that started September 30 and ended November 30, 2012. This year’s celebrations were highlighted by a 3-day SATS Alumni Association Grand Alumni Homecoming with the theme: “Andresitos/Andresitas Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Transforming Challenges into Blessings. The Grand Alumni Homecoming was attended by more than a hundred alumni from both the ECP and IFI churches. Activities of the homecoming included reunion of batches, sharing of testimonies and business meeting that saw the election of SATSAA officers that will serve the next term. The last day of festivities and main reason of the occasion, November 30, the Feast of Andrew the Apostle, started with the traditional procession and Solemn Pontifical Eucharist. Activities that followed include Dedication and Ribbon Cutting: SATS Redevelopment Phase 2; Exhibits; Open house; Games and Sports; Solemn Evensong and Te Deum- it ended with an Entertainment Night. Despite all the fun and remembering the “good old days” at SATS, every Andresitos and Andresitas must now take seriously the theme it set for this first Grand Alumni Homecoming – as well as the call of this year’s anniversary theme which is a paraphrase of Jesus’ call to Andrew, “Follow Jesus, He will make us fishers of men!” The written message of Prime Bishop Edward Malecdan himself once Dean of the Seminary (1994- 1997) set the context of these ‘challenges’ and calls all alumni to task in order to ‘Transform them into blessings’. Below is the full text of the Prime Bishop’s message: Since its establishment in 1932, Saint Andrew’s Theological Seminary (SATS) has been and continues to be the source of ordained leadership in the Episcopal Church in the Philippines and in the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (IFI), although with its two existing seminaries only a few IFI candidates come to SATS for their theological education at present. We give thanks for the 80 years of faithful service of SATS to God and to the churches of the Concordat. It calls for a celebration. And as we bring to mind what the seminary has accomplished so far, it is well that we also remember to project what its ministry should be in the future. We note that the seminary cannot exist without seminarians. It operates because there are people being trained in its classrooms. But alas, the population has declined through the years. The trend shall have to be arrested. The challenge to all dioceses and other SATS stakeholders, especially its faculty and staff and alumni, is recruitment of people with vocation to come to seminary for training. The challenge suggests that we be like Saint Andrew, the first called disciple of our Lord. In the Gospel records we know that Andrew brought his brother Peter (John 1:40-41), the lad with two fish and five loaves (John 6:9), as well as some Greeks to Jesus (John 12:21-22). His ministry seems to have been introducing all sorts of people to Jesus. Therefore, part of our celebration should be a joyful acceptance of the role played by Andrew in the work and ministry of Jesus and the work and ministry of the first established church of Christ. In our efforts to bring people closer to Jesus we make extra effort to bring them to SATS to be molded intentionally in the image and likeness of Him we follow, as well as to be like Andrew our patron.” An evening worship at the SATS Chapel The Philippine EPISCOPALIAN 23
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