DAMULAG ng Brevs

The 20th Breviarian Big Tent Festival Goes International — Thailand 2025!

2025-10-31T10:10:00.001+08:00

For 26 years, the Breviarians have journeyed together in faith — serving Christ through prayer, music, media, and the arts. Each year, the Breviarian Big Tent Festival (BBTF) gathers young Catholics to rediscover the beauty of the Eucharist and the rhythm of the Liturgy. It is a time of renewal, leadership formation, and joyful encounter with the Lord.

This year, the Brevs reach a new milestone. The 20th Breviarian Big Tent Festival is being held in Thailand, marking the first-ever international gathering in our community’s history. With the theme “Come and See” (John 1:39), this Eucharistic-Liturgical Youth Leadership Camp brings together Breviarians and young people from different nations — united as Pilgrims of Hope in celebration of the Jubilee Year 2025.

The Festival features pilgrimages to sacred sites, cultural exchanges, and moments of deep prayer and formation. More than just an event, BBTF20 is a living witness to how God continues to move among the youth — forming leaders with clarity, conviction, and compassion.

As the Breviarians continue to BRing EVery Soul TO Christ the King, this year’s Big Tent reminds us that the mission has no borders. The Eucharist unites us, Christ sends us, and His love compels us to go farther — to encounter, to serve, and to shine.

Rev. Fr. Benedict Jason Lopez a.k.a. Big Brev is Now a Parish Priest

2025-09-05T17:33:00.003+08:00

Last August 24, the Sta. Barbara Parish — together with the Breviarians — joyfully welcomed Big Brev, Rev. Fr. Benedict Jason Lopez in his installation as Parish Priest.

The celebration, marked by a Holy Mass presided by Bishop Rafael T. Cruz, was not just an event but a blessing for the entire community.

Every installation reminds us that the Church is alive, moving, and calling us to go deeper in service. Father BJ’s courageous “yes” is an invitation for us to also renew our own “yes” to God’s mission — in our families, our communities, and beyond.

First Friday Pilgrim Vigil September 2015

2015-09-04T12:25:00.000+08:00

First Friday Pilgrim Vigil - August 2015

2015-08-06T01:25:00.001+08:00

the [MOB] rules #55

2015-07-25T10:31:00.000+08:00

A Brevstock Invitation

2015-01-09T01:38:00.000+08:00

Beyond music, The Grand Finalists will be identifying their respective choice of advocacy or outreach in the school or community. The winners will be awarded grants to realise their Advocacy of Mercy and Compassion (COMRADES). Non-winners will also continue to do so with the grants to be given through their Brevstock Clubs. All these in honor of the Pastoral Visit of His Holiness Pope Francis, the Vicar of Christ, to the Philippines, on January 15-19, 2015, with his pastoral theme, ‘Mercy and Compassion’.

Brevstock XV Semi-Finals

2014-12-06T22:02:00.002+08:00

Brevstock XV Carries Big Tent 16 Theme

2014-08-11T11:26:00.000+08:00

Breviarian Big Tent Festival 16 Theme

2014-08-11T11:23:00.000+08:00

the [MOB] rules #54

2014-08-05T19:48:00.002+08:00

WHAT: the [MOB] rules #54
WHEN: August 10, 2014, 1-6PM (after our 11am mass service)
WHERE: Convent of the Holy Spirit
WHAT TO BRING: Yourself, Breviary, Rosary, Writing materials, Php50
WHY: Because You are a BREV.

Hebrews 10:25 "Do not absent yourself from your own assemblies, as some do, but encourage each other..."

BRing EVery Soul TO Christ the King...INVITE A FRIEND!

November 1, 2013 Mass Service

2013-10-30T23:08:00.001+08:00

All Saints Day Mass Service on November 1, 2013, Friday will be at 10AM Baguio Cathedral. See you there! Brev It Up!

Last Week of October 2013 Services

2013-10-26T20:36:00.001+08:00

Gear up and spend your vacation in the Lord's Vineyard

October 26, 2013 Saturday
3PM - Formation TALK: The Media by Bro. Bot Balbero
4PM - Music Practice in preparation for Mass Services and Prison Outreach

October 27 2013 Sunday
830AM - Prison Outreach: Baguio City Jail
Brevs-in-Charge: ALL Brevs Available
1100AM - Camp John Hay Mass Service at CJH Golf Club House
Brevs-in-Charge: ALL Brevs Available
5PM - Mass Service at Baguio Cathedral
Brevs-in-Charge: All Brevs Available

October 29, 2013 Tuesday
4PM - Special Anniversary Mass Service at Camp John Hay
Brevs-in-Charge: All Brevs Available

October 30, 2013 Wednesday
10AM - Porta Vaga Mass Service at Our Lady of the Atonement ORATORY
Brevs-in-Charge: ALL Brevs available

October 31, 2013 Thursday
515PM - Mass Service at Our Lady of the Atonement Cathedral
Brevs-in-Charge: ALL Brevs Available

Ephesians 6:7-8
Rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

Typhoon Santi

2013-10-11T23:00:00.001+08:00

Due to TYPHOON SANTI, the following services are POSTPONED:

October 12, 2013 Saturday
9AM - Mass Service w/ the Bishop at Sankabalayan Hall

October 13, 2013 Sunday
8AM - Out of Town Outreach: Regional Rehabilitation Center
for the Youth, Sablan, Benguet

October 14, 2013 Monday
9AM - Mass Service at Camp John Hay (Centennial Anniversary)

We will still meet tomorrow for our song practices after DSWD outreach...unless weather gets worse.

Thank you...keep safe...God bless!

We are Called...

2013-10-08T22:45:00.002+08:00

Attention Soldiers of Christ!

October 12, 2013 Saturday
9AM - Mass Service w/ the Bishop at Sankabalayan Hall
Brevs-in-Charge: ALL Brevs Available
3PM - Outreach at DSWD-CAR Regional Haven, North Drive, beside NBI
Brevs-in-Charge: Ladies only

October 13, 2013 Sunday
8AM - Out of Town Outreach: Regional Rehabilitation Center
for the Youth, Sablan, Benguet
Meeting Place: DSWD-CAR, North Drive
Brevs-in-Charge: Kolbe & WojtylaBrevs -Men only
4PM - Mass Service at St. Vincent
Brevs-in-Charge: V Trinidad
5PM - Mass Service at Baguio Cathedral
Brevs-in-Charge: Cathedral Brevs

October 14, 2013 Monday
9AM - Mass Service at Camp John Hay (Centennial Anniversary)

October 15, 2013 Tuesday
7AM - Mass Service at Carmelites Monastery, Dontogan, Baguio City
Brevs-in-Charge: ALL Brevs available

October 19, 2013 Saturday
3PM - Mass Service at CRC Hall
Brevs-in-Charge: ALL Brevs Available

Ephesians 6:7-8
Rendering service with a good will as to the Lord and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

Red Carpet 2013

2013-09-19T11:30:00.003+08:00

Hebrews 10:25 Do not absent yourself from your own assemblies, as some do, but encourage each other; the more so as you see the Day drawing near.

the [M.O.B.] Rules #53

2013-08-29T19:16:00.002+08:00

Breviarians: Habemus Papam!

2013-03-15T11:09:00.001+08:00

Breviarians: Habemus Papam!

courtesy of www.catholicvote.org

Breviarian Big Tent Festival: BBTF 14 Logo launched!!!

2013-03-02T19:37:00.001+08:00

Breviarian Big Tent Festival: BBTF 14 Logo launched!!!: Courtesy of Brev Buttercup.

Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation at end of month

2013-02-11T23:00:00.000+08:00

Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation at end of month

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday said he plans on resigning the papal office on February 28th. Below please find his announcement.

Full text of Pope's declaration

Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.
From the Vatican, 10 February 2013

BENEDICTUS PP XVI

Taize Prayer Encounter

2013-02-04T22:00:00.001+08:00

Thank You CBCP and Youth Pinoy for the Support last Brevstock 13

2013-01-17T11:50:00.000+08:00

Lay youth group hold concert for Aetas, schools

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BAGUIO City, Dec. 6, 2012—A Catholic lay youth group is holding a musical concert to help a community of indigenous people in Tarlac and build chairs and tables for two schools in Baguio City.

Aside from helping build the water system of the Aeta Community of Sitio Yangka in Capas, Tarlac, organizers of the concert are tying up with ISA (Initiatives for Social Action), to also help build chairs for Grade 1 of Happy Hallow Elementary School, and additional chairs and tables for the BCNHS-Rizal Annex at Pacdal, both in Baguio City.

Titled “Brevstock 13 Ground Zero: 1,000 Voices, a Thousand Dreams, One Foundation,” the concert is slated for a two-day run―December 7 and 8.

Organized by the Breviarians or Brevs, the event is a program of the youth organization based in Baguio City which is serving at the Our Lady of Atonement Cathedral.

It started as a small group of young Catholics eager and full of zeal to serve the Lord through the Church. The group broke all stereotypes and boundaries by opening its doors to young members of the community in Baguio.

The concert is an opportunity for the youth group to evangelize through music, also a way of giving thanks to the Lord for the year that has been and for the year that will be, “in response to our faith and mission,” the organizers said.

Through the musical, the group hopes to express its vision while creating a venue where people will be able to reach out to the less fortunate.

The event also serves as a vehicle to promote Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) to a bigger audience and turns it into a lasting experience for its attendees as well as create an avenue for the first ever Battle of the Bands for CCM.

Endorsing the youth activity, Baguio Bishop Carlito Cenzon called on all Christian Communities in the diocese to support the worthy endeavor of the Brevarians.

Concert’s venue will be at the Baguio Convention Center with tickets sold for Php 100.00. December 7 concert will be for the Battle of the Bands from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. while December 8 is for the Gala concert from 7 to 10 p.m.

Additional information on the concert may be gathered from Mr. Antonio Alex Manongdo at 09283453197, Ms. Anne Corpuz at 09239113831, Mark Robe L. Corpuz, CPA at 09165440263, Arch. Aldrich Manzano of Saint Louis University at 09174675739, Arden Chan the Committee Head for Tickets at 09175003327, and Jaypee Ortiz the Stage Director at 09279272713. (Jandel Posion)

source: http://www.cbcpnews.com/cbcpnews/?p=9202#comment-940

Pastoral Letter

2013-01-13T16:47:00.000+08:00

Pastoral Letter

"Fill the Earth and Subdue it..." (Gen. 1:28)

To our dear fellow citizens of Baguio City and Benguet:

May God's Peace be with you!

We write you this letter in response to a question directed to me and to the leadership of Catholic Church in Baguio City: "Bishop, what are you doing to stop the cutting of our trees at Luneta Hill by SM?" This question arises because of the official news that the cases laid before the Regional Trial Court against SM were junked by the presiding judge (Sun Star, Dec. 15 and 16, 2012). We are stupefied that the judge ruled in favor of SM, dismissing the three environmental cases, ruling that "the mall extension and the earthballing of trees in their Luneta Hill property will not cause irreparable injury to the Environmental Protection Order issued on April 10, 2012 which had pervented SM from the earthballing that it had already begun.

What is our reaction to this court ruling?

First, we are shocked at how the court disregarded the opinion of our witnesses as "non-experts" in environmental matters, and we protest. we cannot take that court opinion sitting. With due respect to the Honorable Judge who presided over the case, we cannot accept its ABSURD statement that earthballing of those trees will not cause irreparable damage to the environment or to us, the Constituents. This statement goes against everything being said about climate change and the need for us citizens to study and observe and protect our environment. We are forbidden to cut a single tree in our backyar without permit from the DENR. We have been enjoined and encouraged to plant trees everywhere we can. And we are obeying, already for many years, because we agree the value of trees for our health, for clean air, translated into production by trees of oxygen, and absorption of Carbon Dioxide.

Of course, apparently, the ruling of the Honorable Judge based itself on the opinion of the so-called experts from DENR. Those so-called experts have advertised their incompetence in hte way they earthballed the trees at Luneta Hill, as we can see from the photographs taken after the fact. The way they did the earthballing, is what the internet lists as "how to get rid of a tree stump in your yard: mutilate and cut off the feeder roots..." Or, how to prevent a tree from surviving.

Sorry, but in this case, we on our part, rely more on our environmentalists and our farmers, of which we have plenty in Baguio-Benguet, than on those so-called experts relied upon by the court.

Secondly, on SM's claim that they need to cut those trees and bring down the hill because of erosion problem: Do they have certification from the Mines and Geoscience Bureau that the problem is that serious, which calls for that drastic solution? We plant trees and bamboo everywhere to contain and prevent erosion, why should we do it differently here in the case of Luneta Hill? We know of Baguio Engineers who can present a better solution.

Thirdly, we own those trees at Luneta Hill; we want to protect them.

There are persons stills living in Baguio who say they planted those trees at Luneta Hill. We can thank them for that. They did it for us and for future generations of Baguio residents. we need those trees, for the ever-growing populations in Bguio, with the increasing numbers of motor vehicles plying our Central Business District. we need those healthy, grown trees to help absorb the heavy pollution which has reached high levels, as we ourselves can feel.

SM may claim they bought that hill in which the trees stand (even if they cannot show a title to that property, which makes it subject to doubt on its legality or authenticity...) but, in the name of civiv-mindedness, they cannot just do what they want with that property. They should feel that we need those trees...

And therefore, we plead with SM: spare those trees! We plead with our leaders of the City: move to recall the permit given to SM for its expansion program! Build parking facilities elsewhere!!!

We plead with our fellor citizens of Baguio: let your opinion be heard by the City and SM!

Baguio needs YOU. This is one moment when we hear reechoing God's instruction to our first parents: "fill the earth and subdue it..." (Gen.1:28). Let us join up in taking care of our corner of the world.

(sgd) BISHOP +CARLITO J. CENZON, CICM, DD

Diocese of Baguio, Bishop's Residence, January 13, 2013

Short Notice! First Pilgrim Vigil of 2013

2013-01-03T16:27:00.000+08:00

We will be having our Breviarian First Friday Pilgrim Vigil on January 04, 2013 at Our Lady of Grace Parish, Upper Q.M., Baguio City from 8PM to 2AM only.

Please bring your families and remember to keep warm.

God bless!

2013: Revival

2013-01-03T14:24:00.002+08:00

Yes! 2013 will be a Revival. It's the Year of Faith so we will be going back to the basics and core of the Breviarian's way of life: Eucharistic and Liturgical. First on our list is the emphasis on the importance of the Mass so starting today, January 3, 2013, we will be going back to our 5:15 PM Tuesdays and Thursdays Mass Service at the Baguio Cathedral. So hope to see you there! God bless everyone!

What We Did Last Christmas Eve 2012

2012-12-25T14:01:00.000+08:00

We had the privilege of putting something extra special last Christmas Eve when Fr. Seraph Balmadres asked the Brevs to do a Christmas Serenade before the Panunuluyan and Christmas Eve Mass. It was a short notice but the grace was given to pull it off as we maximized the availability of those who were serving during the whole 9 days of Misa de Gallo. Thank You, dear Lord for the opportunity to serve You.