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THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA
www.kalatas.com.au | Volume 4 Number 9 | June 2014
COMMUNITY
Recognition for ‘One’
and United Teams
Marriage enrichment
for couples
FR. NARDS Mercene, a Filipino Chaplain in Australia, conducted his regular monthly Marriage Enrichment Seminar (MES) last month at the St. Ezekiel Moreno/Augustinian Recollect Sisters Convent in Doonside.
The couples who participated in MES Class 206
were Nelson and Marian Cabusas, Jeerico and Agnes Caspe, Jojo and Norie Fajardo, Bobby and Marilyn Jimenez, Bernard and Tess Macapagal, Tim
and Ritchie Perez, and Roy and Celia Tomita.
The Marriage Enrichment Seminar (MES) was
initiated in Sydney in 1988 by Rev. Fr. Nards Mercene, Chaplain of the Filipino Catholic Chaplaincy, Archdiocese of Sydney. The seminar is inter-
active with conferences and activities that promote a spirituality that can sustain married couples through difficult times, help them re-discover each other, and enable them to strengthen their
marital and family bonds based on Australian cultural environment.
All couples whether they are married in the
church or by a marriage celebrant, or are living
together but are intending to get married in the
church may attend the Seminar. Contact persons
to ring for more information: Fr. Nards Mercene:
H-9604 5512, M-0410 505 177, Manding Abogado:
H-9610 8478, M-0413 147 740 and Annie Abogado
M-041 c3r"