Filipinos in the United States were urged by Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula to be agents of communion and solidarity with all people.
“With Mary as our Queen of Peace, let reconciliation and solidarity win over our political, regional and economic divisions,” CBCP News quoted the prelate who addressed a group of Marian devotees in New Jersey on Aug. 6.
Advincula said he is praying that "each of us may courageously and devotedly live out and witness to our Christian faith in whatever circumstance we find ourselves in."
He also encouraged Filipinos to be “bearers of life and hope” to others, especially those “who feel alone, abandoned or alienated."
“Let us bear Christ to one another, especially those among us who are forlorn, discouraged, and distressed,” he added.
Meanwhile, Advincula said being in the said part of the US was like coming home to him.
CBCP News said New Jersey was like a ‘home’ to the cardinal.
As a young priest, he served in at least three parishes there during the 1980s.
In 1984, he served at St. Cecilia Parish Church-Kearny. In 1985 to 1989, he was at the St. Mary’s Immaculate Conception Parish Church-Jersey City, and in 1988 at the Star of the Sea Parish Church in Long Branch.