July 29, 2022

To: All BLD Members
Thru: District Council of Stewards

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
 
Greeting you with the love and peace of Jesus & Mary!
 
Our beloved BLD Community Spiritual Director for 22 years, Archbishop Angel N. Lagdameo, is now home with his Creator and being welcomed, “Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful… enter into the joy of the Master.” (Mt 25:23).  He was laid to rest inside the Jaro Cathedral, Our Lady of the Candles, on July 19, 2022. For 9 days before, we offered novena prayers and Holy Masses for the eternal repose of his soul.

Many words have been said about Archbishop Angel. Each description, encounter and experience with him only spoke of his goodness and kindness. He was and continues to be God’s gift to our Community, Bukas Loob sa Diyos. Truly, his powerful homilies, his counsels, his gentleness, his humor, and most especially his prayers, touched all of us one way or the other.
 
We thank the Lord for giving us Archbishop Angel who lived up to his calling as our Pastor.  He was our perfect shepherd in the image of Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. We will continue to celebrate his well-lived life as God’s faithful servant through our own lives. He lived by example. He showed us how to seek God’s presence by his spirituality, gentleness and caring. He taught us to always be grateful and hopeful. And he encouraged us to persevere in our mission.

To celebrate his life, we would like to continue to honor him as priest, bishop and as our community spiritual director by establishing a fund for him for the benefit of two of his advocacies - the St. Vincent Ferrer Seminary and St. John Marie Vianney Retirement House, the place for retired priest where he stayed upon his retirement as Archbishop of Jaro. In Matthew 6, we are told: “…but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven… for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”

In his memory, you may give your donations for the Archbishop Angel Lagdameo Memorial Fund through the office of Council of Servant Leaders in this account:

Bukas Loob sa Diyos Foundation, Inc.
Peso CA – 0321-0214-41
Bank of the Philippine Islands
Makati, Philippines   /   Swift Code: BOPIPHMM

Please send details of remittance to Alfred Kudemus at alfredsk01@gmail.com and bldcsl@bldworld.org. For any other mode of remittance, please email Alfred.

Thank you for keeping the memory of Archbishop Angel N. Lagdameo alive in our own lives and in helping the seminarians, future priests, and retired priests.

With the love of Christ,
The Council of Servant Leaders

Mar and Jo Tamayo
Presiding Servant Leaders 
Ref: 22-0729-011

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