Come and join Sr. Eppie in the contemplative healing pilgrimage and
discover the gift of healing in your life.

           Heal my body….

                  Heal my mind….

                         Heal my spirit….

                                Heal my pocket….

                                        Heal my memories….

The door or threshold of our convent is an importatnt sysmbol. We are gathered here this early dawn to symbolize the entrance and acceptance of Lodife Edullantes to initial formation called Postulancy. Our gate symbolizes transition and new way of life. For our Regina Rosarii community, Christ the Good Shepherd and the gate for the sheep, is the most important door, because “whoever enters through Christ will be saved, and will come in and go and find pastures.”

We now welcome our new postulant its, Fe, inside our gate. We welcome her to new life; welcome to new beginnings, and welcome to our hearts.

Dear Members and Friends,

It is early dawn, I cannot sleep. I checked my email in search for an email sent earlier re the Seminar on Preaching. One of the emails that I needed to answer was the proposal for a Bose' Sound System for the S Trail and the Pilgrims' Place. My heart skipped a beat! Hah, so expensive! Where will we get the money this time?

Easter has come with a big bang at Regina Rica. For the first time, we celebrated the Holy Week liturgical celebration at the Regina Rica chapel. The Easter vigil was celebrated in a quiet way because we do not have sufficient electrical power to light street lights and to brighten fully the chapel.  But in spite of the dim lights the brightness of the resurrection of Jesus never dimmed in our hearts.

The Dominican Sisters of Regina Rosarii, mission partners and volunteers celebrated Easter with gift giving that included Easter eggs. We thank our Lady for the thousands of pilgrims we have ministered to during the holy week. Our daily newspapers have acclaimed RICA as a new Lenten destination for holy week together.

Jesus is risen! And amidst thousands of sunflowers at Regina RICA that have blossomed on Easter day, we too have a joyful smile in our hearts.

Sister Eppie Brasil, OP of the Philippines was very personally inspired by Father Werenfried.

On the panel she told us how her vocation and her pastoral work was really brought to life by the generosity of the "speckpater."When I saw him for the first time, he came toward me and embraced me. I have experienced his kindness and the assurance that everything would be well in the projects that I was working on and so it was."

Father Werenfried helped her to build a great chapel in 1987 in honor of Our Lady in Bacolod City, Philippines.  He had accompanied her through many difficulties. "With the help of God I could overcome difficulties and an incurable disease. ( Sr. Eppie was healed of Myasthenia Gravis).
I will be thankful to Father Werenfried for his help forever."

This was written in German and translated by our friend Gertrud Kieserg and sent to us.
Sr. Eppie Brasil, OP and her only sister joined the Dominican Order. You will be interested to know that the parents of Sister Eppie also joined the Dominican Order. Her mother, Sister Amelia and her sister, Sister Matthew have seen Father Werenfried when he was still alive.

Our Radio program in Radio Veritas @ Sacred Space on the Air 10PM to 11PM was visited by Fr. Eric Salobir, OP

Sr. Matthew Brasil, OP, Sr. Menchi Advincula, OP and Ricky Bolanio our web master and lay associate attended the 1^st Dominican Social Media Summit 2013 at San Pio V Building, Santo Domingo Church Compound January 19, 2013. We were welcomed by Fr. Clarence Victor Marquez, OP the Director of the Institute of Preaching  & Promoter of Evangelization through Social Communication. The Keynote Address was given by Fr. Erick Salobir, OP. The General Promoter for Social Communication for the Order of Preacher.

Dear members and friends,

New Year 2013 gives us many promises of blessings, bounty and beauty. It is our attitude in life that counts. We are happy to welcome the New Year with great hope for a life of gentleness, gratitude and generosity. This is our cry and advocacy this new year. We pray you too can discover the bliss of living a gentle life that brings serenity a grateful life that brings the magic of abundance a generous life that attracts wealth

May we all learn the lessons that life brings. Our mistakes are our teachers.

We are happy to announce to you about the healing of Lilia, a breast cancer victor. She comes regularly to Regina RICA to thank our Lady for healing her from breast cancer stage 3. She was on chemo when I first saw her; a scarf over her head, a mask in her face. Now she bounces down the hills and climbs the S trail with a lilt in her feet. Thank you Virgin most powerful for this blessing.

I want to praise and thank our God for the healing of Anne from Alabang. She was present during the Dedication of the Chapel. She had leukemia, cancer of the blood. She was weak from fever. She had nosebleeds, hematoma and bleeding in her legs. Yet now her blood chemistry is normal and her Doctors are overwhelmed by this outcome and miracle healing. She is now cancer free.

Thank you Mama Mary. You are indeed, Virgin most powerful.

May God bless you all with a new year of plenty, prosperity and peace.

One with you in the eternal NOW,

Sister Eppie

For Sr. Eppie nothing happens by chance everything that happens has a reason. Annmartha is has become our lay member and our prayer warrior who prays and texts our radio listeners and gives them hope. She listens to us every Sunday 10 PM to 11 PM at Radio Veritas.