Youthful beauties here are for the first time engaged in humanitarian works of feeding program and distribution of school kits, provided mainly by the ‘hermana’ or head of festivity and supported by the parish pastoral council of St. Augustine.
Sylvia Austria, the hermana, said the Church hierarchy in this town led by Rev. Fr. Isidro Puyat, parish priest, wanted a more meaningful devotion to Mary “by reaching out to the children in the community.”
“We readily embraced the idea of Fr. Puyat because the Blessed Mother would indeed be looking after these children who need food and things for their schooling,” Austria said.
Flores de Mayo, also called Flores de Maria or Flowers of Mary, is a celebration on the proclamation of Immaculate Concepcion sometime in 1854.
Austria along with the Flores participants and sponsors initially fed hundreds of children from Kalye Moreno, Barangay Niyugan and Sitio Iran, Barangay San Josef here Thursday.
Besides food, they distributed school kits comprising pens, crayons, papers and notebooks in bags, as well as shoes to selected children.
The parish youths also provided brief catechism on Mary and other church doctrines.
“Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ay hindi nakabitin sa ulap. Ang pag-ibig ng Diyos ay dumadaan sa mga taong ginagamit ng Diyos upang maramdaman natin ang kanyang pagmamahal,” Puyat told the children referring to the activity.
The young women will be featured in Santacruzan on May 31.
