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Filipino ordained as a Jesuit priest
Pictured as they lay before the altar during their ordination in St Marys church are, left, Father Nico Lariosa, right, and left, Father Alan Wong.
Polistico
to thrill
AFTER years of absence from the
Australian scene, Jun Polistico
returns to Australia and promises
to entertain his audience better
than ever.
By BENJIE DE UBAGO
Polistico will perform in Sydney at the Marconi Club on
September 22, 2018 and at Spring Vale Club in Melbourne
on September 23, 2018.
Dubbed as “the Frank Sinatra of the Philippines”, he’s
the crooner with the golden voice.
Polistico was born in Ormoc, Leyte, and with his velvety
tones he rose to fame in the 1970s.
He was the star attraction at the night club circuit in the
Philippines, from Kudos, to Hilton, Philippine Village and
others.
In 1975, he was the chosen entertainer for Ali-Frazier
fight, Thrilla in Manila’.
He later joined the Society Of Seven band in the USA,
and sang his way up and down the Las Vegas strip.
Polistico returned home and slipped right back as
Philippines’ No 1 male vocalist in the country with hit
songs, Mahiwaga and Sana’y Walang Wakas.
He has also toured Australia numerous times between
1999 and 2001.
Performing on the Polistico show are three seasoned
ladies of the entertainment industry : Gina Fernandez;
Nanette Ursua-Frohriep; and Lalaine Lozano. n
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JULY 2018 | AK NewsMagazine, Vol 8 No 10
THE first known Filipino Jesuit
(Catholic Order of the Society of
Jesus) in Australia was ordained
priest at St Marys church in North
Sydney on Saturday, June 16,
2018.
Father Nico
Lariosa, originally
from Legaspi in the
Bicol region of the
Philippines, was
ordained along with
Alan Wong of China.
After completing
secondary school
and undergraduate
studies in the
Philippines, Lariosa
moved to Brisbane to earn his Masters in Philosophy at the
University of Queensland.
He had this call to the priesthood that refused to leave
him.
“I felt much more strongly the desire to become a Jesuit
(priest),” Lariosa said.
He entered the Jesuit order in 2007, on the same that
his friend Alan Wong did.
Both of them went on to theology studies at Boston
College in Massachusetts USA.
Fr Nico is now based at St Aloysius College in Kirribilli.
It was soon after 1995 World Youth Day that Lariosa
aged 12, entered a minor seminary in Tabaco City,
Philippines.
He became inspired to join the Jesuit order three
years later, when he heard the story of a 26-year-old Jesuit
from the Philippines, Brother Richie Ferndando, who died
protecting a group of Cambodian students from a grenade
Lariosa said Br Fernando’s retreat diary entry inspired
him to give his life for Christ.
“He wrote, ‘I wish, when I die, people remember not
how great, powerful, or talented I was, but that I served
and spoke for the truth, I gave witness to what is right, I was
sincere in all my works and actions, in other words, I loved
and followed Christ’.
“Those words spoke to me as a 15 year old in the
seminary." n
Mission
accomplished
VAA, Inc. on a feeding program;
support farmers in Visayas
A DELEGATION of eight members of
the Visayan Association of Australia
(VAA, Inc.) went on a mission of
charity to the Visayan region of the
Philippines in May 2018.
By MARILIE BOMEDIANO
The delegation headed by president Jhun Salazar executed
the Association’s mission of providing relief to underprivileged
townsfolk, going on a feeding program, paying respects to
town elders, and visited students sponsored by the VAA, Inc.
Reigning Mrs Charity Queen Australia and Mrs Visayas
Australia, Annie Marquez, coordinated the mission.
Other delegation members were founding president Edna
Voros, directors Josephine Brown, Dian Ford, Annie Quebec,
Sarah Salazar, and Imelda Serra.
Few days after arrival in the Philippines the group convened
at Carigara, Leyte, to attend a special event, the Quebec clan
grand reunion hosted by Ms Annie Quebec.
Feeding and Distribution of School Supplies at Palompon, Leyte during
the Visayan Association of Australia's Overseas Outreach Program. VAA
members hard at work from left to right is Dian Ford, Sarah Salazar,
Annie Quebec, Edna Voros, Mrs Charity Queen Annie Marquez wearing
sash and crown. Working behind the scenes, Josephine Brown, Jhun
Salazar and Imelda 'Chit' Serra and a number of helpers.
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