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‘I will publicly wave the banner of his Most Humble and Most Sacred Heart to remind people that in this Heart is the Love that saves ...’
This month, a movement of young Catholics in the Philippines organized prayerful “Humility Marches” — city-wide Eucharistic processions and public acts of reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus — in key cities throughout the country, offering a spiritual alternative to secular “Pride Month” celebrations.
It was pioneered by a Filipino youth who was saddened by what he saw on his Jesuit university campus.
“I started the ‘Humilitas March’ because of an inspiration I received one day. In June 2023, I was walking around the campus of my university when I saw a crowd promoting the vice of pride, waving their flags in a university dedicated to Our Lady. Then I felt this pain deep in my heart because I could not understand how it was possible for a Catholic university to allow an event that promotes vice and pushes for an ideology that is contrary to the truths of our faith,” said Raven Castañeda, a college student who founded the movement.
Castañeda then went to the adoration chapel to pray before the Blessed Sacrament. In that chapel, Raven and some friends had restored the Holy Hour devotion on their college campus, after they had been told it was lost for nearly 20 years. “But when I pushed open the heavy metallic door, I found an empty chapel,” he said.
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‘Humility March’ for the Sacred Heart Counters ‘Pride March’ in the Philippines
‘I will publicly wave the banner of his Most Humble and Most Sacred Heart to remind people that in this Heart is the Love that saves ...’
