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FILCOS celebrates birthday of Blessed Mother
FILCOS Blacktown-Northwest has
organized the celebration of the
feast of the nativity of the Blessed
Mother Mary on Saturday, 8th of
September 2007. This will be held
at the Our Lady of Czestochowa
Church (Polish Catholic Church),
116 Quakers Rd. Marayong, starting
at 2.00pm. A procession of statues
and images of our Mother Mary will
be held, followed by the holy mass.
There will be refreshments and
fellowship after the mass.
Filipino Chaplain Fr. Raning Creta
will be the principal celebrant of the
mass which will focus on the theme
“Celebrating the love of the Father,
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit,
together with Mary our Mother”.
FILCOS members and devotees of
the Blessed Mother Mary are invited
to this celebration and to bring their
images or statues of the Mother and
participate in the procession before
the mass.
This celebration is now intended as
one of the yearly activities of the
newly revitalized FILCOS Blacktown
Northwest to coincide with the
celebration of the FILCOS
anniversary and fiesta.
Number 4, September 2007
New FILCOS 
communities formed
Christian communities have been
established recently as part of the
revitalisation strategy for FILCOS, in
the thrust to strengthen its
religious, social and cultural
foundations. Part of this revival
strategy was the renaming of
FILCOS Blacktown to FILCOS
Blacktown - Northwest and the
widening of its geographical
scope to include areas in the
Northwest sector of Sydney. This
move is to recognise the fact that
FILCOS member families have been
quite mobile and that their new
places of residence now include
suburbs to the north of the
Blacktown local government area
e.g. Kellyville, Baulkham Hills and
Castle Hill.
The newly created Christian
communities are –
• Divina Pastora Community
(Rooty Hill) - The coordinators are
Fr. Nards, FILCOS officers & St. Nicholas community members
Bernard & Evelyn Liwag, Lorenzo &
Helen Liwag, Charlie & Nimfa Ilagan
and Rudy & Marivic dela Cruz.
• St Nicholas Community
(Glenwood 1) – The coordinators
are Ditas Banez, Gloria Lorenzo and
Bot & Vangie Mejia.
• Sta. Rita Community
(Glenwood 2) - The coordinators are
Primo & Lyn Pangilinan and Perlita
Kingsford.
• San Pedro Community (Castle
Hill) - The coordinators are Jay &
Leah Bonifacio.
FILCOS supplied to these new
communities Our Lady of Fatima
statues which were then enthroned
in the name of their chosen saint
and venerated during the novena.
FILCOS coordinator Lito Yunon
expressed his thanks to the
coordinators of these communities
for answering the call of the Lord to
do this service for HIM.

 
My dear brothers and sisters in
Christ and my fellow devotees to
the Blessed Virgin Mary, greetings!
Coordinator’s 
On behalf of the officers and
Message
members of FILCOS Blacktown –
North West, I thank you for joining
us LITO
By in this joyous occasion to
YUNON
celebrate the feast of the nativity of
our Blessed Mother Mary.
We are blessed that this day has
become a reality, a day of
thanksgiving for all the prayers that
our Blessed Mother has done for all
of us and for FILCOS being an
instrument for this celebration. We
are grateful for all our generous
donors who have supported this
celebration. We know the prayers
of our mother Mary will be upon
you and will grant you answers to
all your prayers in accordance with
the will of our Lord Jesus Christ.
FILCOS intends to make this
celebration a yearly event that will
coincide with both the FILCOS
anniversary and the FILCOS fiesta.
I would also like to thank everyone
for their continuing support
throughout the whole year. With
your support, FILCOS has been
able to create five more Christian
communities which have been
entrusted with Fatima statues for
their own block rosary. FILCOS has
also been regularly supporting
community, religious, social and
fundraising activities and events.
We have also shown our
humanitarian concern for our
kababayans in the Philippines by
sending goods in aid of typhoon
victims. We hope and pray that in
the years to come FILCOS will be
able to continue making significant
contributions to the Filipino
community.
Once again, congratulations to
everyone on this joyous occasion
and happy birthday mother Mary!
God bless us all.
FILCOS forthcoming 
activities
Coordinator Lito Yunon announced
that FILCOS will organize a program
of praise and worship, liturgy
reading and reflection and
recollection that “will strengthen our
spirituality and bring us closer to
God”. In addition, FILCOS will
continue to support MPC activities
including the annual Carols by
Candlelight.
A social dance will be held on
Friday, 15 February 2008, 7.00pm
at Bowman Hall, Blacktown. In
keeping with its Valentine’s Day
theme, the motif for the night will
be anything red. It promises to be a
fun event for anyone who loves to
dance and have a night out with
friends.
The dance is a fundraising activity of
FILCOS with funds going to the
support of various projects planned
for the year. This includes plans to
purchase more statues of our
Blessed Mother for the Block Rosary
so that newly-established
communities can have their own
statue for their Fatima novenas.
First Kapamilya sa
Australia to be held in
November
Kapamilya sa Australia 2007 will be
held for the first time this year to
bring Filipino Australian community
members and families together in a
day-long festival of music, food,
information, entertainment, sport,
games and rides. Special guest
stars John Lloyd Cruz and Bea
Alonzo are flying in from the
Philippines for this event.
Kapamilya sa Australia 2007, under
the joint sponsorship of ABS-CBN
Global, Philippine Airlines,
Blacktown City Council and the
Philippine Australian Community
Foundation, will seek to engage
members of the Filipino community
in an event that supports the
Filipino Multi-Purpose Centre (MPC)
project.
This exciting event will be held on
Saturday, 24 November 2007 at the
Blacktown Olympic Park, a world
class sports and leisure venue,
located in Rooty Hill.
Tickets purchased prior to the event
at $10/$5 are eligible to go into the
draw for the lucky door prize of two
return airfare tickets to Manila.
For more information, contact Luz
Tiqui (9831 1013) or Gerald Oblea
(0404 042 024).
MPC Pageant 
underway
The 2007 MPC Pageant will have an
exciting culmination when the
candidates will be judged during a
lavishly choreographed show and
the winners proclaimed on Sunday,
18th November 2007 at the Tivoli
Showroom at the Rooty Hill RSL
Club. Titles at stake are MPC Miss
Teen Philippines Australia 2007 and
MPC Charity Queen 2007.
For details about tickets and the
MPC Pageant, contact Gerald Oblea
on 0404 042 024.

Calendar of Activities
September 2007 – February 2008

8 September 2007 – 2.00pm

Celebration of the feast of the
nativity of Mother Mary
Polish Catholic Church, Marayong

8 December 2007
MPC Feast of the Immaculate
Conception Procession and Mass
and Carols by Candlelight

15 February 2008 - 7.00pm

FILCOS Social Dance
Bowman Hall, Blacktown

Who can I contact if I 
have any suggestion or 
enquiry about 
FILCOS?
The contact persons listed below
would be happy to provide
information & receive any feedback:
OBET DIONISIO 9837 3234
PINONG OBLEA 9837 1188

MINERVA SANTOS
Writer & Editor