Shrine of St. Joseph the Patriarch

Come to San Jose and you will see a typical Philippine town layout with its center at the town plaza. There you will see the municipal hall, schools, ancestral houses, all dominated by the church perched on the hill.

A popular Catholic pilgrimage site, the Shrine of St Joseph the Patriach was built by the Augustinian friar Fr. Manuel Blanco in 1812 and is an excellent example of Baroque architecture in the Philippines with its geometrical decorations and flowery capitals on the columns.

Below is an excellent video of the church provided by Nathaniel Ona (thanks Tita Olive for forwarding the link).

We all have a responsibility to preserve our heritage. It is my fervent hope that the succeeding parish priests think well and hard before making decisions which would spoil the very things that make the shrine so special. Come on -- painting certain sections of the church pink???? Planning to replace the floor tiles?????

Restoration, not renovation please!!!!

Regino J. Calbay + 9 May 2008

Dear fellow descendants of the Spouses Salvador Aguila and AlejandraMasilungan of San Jose, Batangas, Philippines,

We pray for the eternal repose of Regino J. Calbay "Nonong" J. Calbay, husband of cousin Esperanza G. de Villa "Anching" (Tomasa branch). His remains lie in state at their residence inBarangay Taysan, San Jose, Batangas. Interment is tentatively set for Wednesday 14 May 2008.

Nonong was at the Aguila Clan reunion last 26 April 2008.

God bless!

Juan A. Ona (Paterno branch)

2008 Aguila Clan

Date: April 27, 2008
Venue: Event Center, Lipa City
President: Maria Paz "Ipat" Luna (Irenea)

Some snaps from the event:

Blogs/pics on the reunion:
Leo Ona (Paterno) http://ona3.multiply.com/photos/album/19/Aguila_Clan_2008
Joelle Ona-Horca (Paterno) http://joelleoh.multiply.com/photos/album/76/Aguila_Clan_2008
Ipat Luna (Irinea) http://ipatluna.multiply.com/journal/item/117/Families_and_what_makes_them_keep_going

AGUILA GENEALOGY ONLINE

Dear all,

I am very happy and extremely relieved to report that our genealogy is UP!!

http://aguilaclan.genealogypro.net/

The intro page is of course Uncle Nitong's article and I still have to figure out how to remove the return tabs. As to the default name on the "individuals" page, it says Jinjin, only because Christine Ejido's spouse, whose last name we do not know, is entered as a question mark and is the first name on the list. So just ignore the default name and proceed to the hyperlink on "individuals". This programme allows you to generate your Ahnentafel Report (and while I pretend to be a Genealogist, I should say simply that that is just a list of ascendants).

I am only human so I am sure there will be mistakes. Since I put the site up, I have FOUND the missing 45 people I accidentally deleted, encoded them, filled in missing spouses (where it said Spouse 1 of so and so) and did a few more minor things. There is currently still a glitch in the uploading of the database -- for some reason, one or both parents of wife or husband show up as parents of the spouse as well. Talk about an incestuous glitch!! It does not seem to happen in my own database file so it is in the upload that it goes haywire. I have reported it to Gpro,net and hope they are able to fix it soon. I do wish it was interactive so you could enter your own data but that would be wishful thinking. I could add users and passwords so that we can make the whole list restricted and have it accessed by only clan members with assigned passwords.
We have to enslave someone every year to patiently encode everything we report. AND (and this is my fault) it has to be someone with a Mac and a Genealogy Pro running on it.

This would have privacy options so those of you running from the law, or whose identity is juicy enough to steal, please email me AT ONCE if you wish for this option for you and your descendants. Meantime, please check the data and submit more information, specifically birth dates, birth places, and if we intend to generate a list of living members, kindly submit dates of death of those who have left us. My email: ipatluna@pusod.org and use the subject line CORRECTION TO AGUILA SITE.

Thanks much.

Ipat Luna
Irinea:Mariano:Benjamin

Recurring reunion theme

Dear all,

I am not sure how many of the golden eagles are reading this blog but this is supposed to be a surprise for them so don't ruin the surprise and tell them about it yet.

I am having gift mugs made for them, but when I saw this design, I thought what a nice souvenir program cover it would make.
What do you all think? This would change the entire look so that it will be sideways, landscape style instead of portrait.

By the way PLEASE ask for essay contributions from the 25 and under set. Submit to ipatluna@pusod.org

Ipat

2008 reunion

Mga mahal kong pinsan,

Kailangan na nating magplano para sa susunod na taon. Nais ko sanang magtawag ng pulong bago magtapos ang Nobyembre. Para magawa ito, hihingi sana ako ng isang permanent representative nula sa bawat sangay at dalawa pang alternate members para bumuo ng komite.

Kung may interesado, ito sana ang mga imumungkahi ko:

Magkaroon na ng opisyal na structure at paraan ng pagpili ng Presidente at iba pang opisyal gaya ng Ingat-yaman, opisyal na paraan ng pagtatala ng pondo at ng mga nagdedesisyon para rito para madaling ipasa sa mga susunod na Presidente ang lahat. Oakitama lang kung mali ang iniisip ko na wala pang ganito.

Ang souvenir program ay magkakaroon ng CD na may lamang buong direktoryo ng angkan, Aguila song at ilang video na nagawa na, at mga larawan.

Para sa reunion, magsimula na pong mag-isip kung anong booth ang itatayo. walang limit sa biilang ng booth na maaring itayo ang mga pamilya dahil ito naman po ay may bayad -- sa halip na magbayad para sa entrance, pagkakaroon na laman ng booth ang may bayad. Magkakaroon din ng simplemng hapag pero sana ay sa mga booth kumain ang nakararami para na rin magkaroon ng tunay na usapan at hindi kanya-kanyang umpok na pamilya ang mangyayari.

Ilan sa mga mungkahi kung saan gaganapin ang reunion ay:

mga dating napagdausan na nang nakaraang 5 taon
Events Center (wifi dito, maaring maki-usyoso ang mga nasa abroad sa webcam)
CAP, Lipa

Magsisimula po kaming magtawag ng mga tao bago matapos ang buwan.

Paki-email na lamang sa ipatluna@pusod.org kung may iba pang mungkahi. Hanggang sa muli . . .

Paterno: Frances Faye is born!

Dear Relatives and Friends,

Nas and Sharon proudly announce the birth of their daughter, FRANCES FAYE VERGARA ONA, who made her way into this world by caesarian section at 6:30 a.m. yesterday, 16 October 2007, at the Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. She weighed in at a hefty 7.3 lbs., just about right for an Ona (a.k.a. a new Kennedy of San Jose).

New mom Shawie is doing very well, albeit a tad unhappy that she couldn’t immediately partake of all the food we were gorging on.

As regards the isyu Trixine is trying to brew, please be informed that the name FAYE means faith, confidence, trust and belief. More importantly, it is actually a variant of the names FAITH, and, of course, FE!

As Uncle Boogle so succinctly put it, “SIPSIP SILAAAAHHHH!!!”

Best regards,Aunt Chrissy

Comments from the MALOCA:

Empress Kathy: My court is complete …

Doc Leo:
…in the Ona Pina Tribe, it is customary for the female grand sibling to be named in a rhyming fashion with Fe.
An example is Frances Faye (Fe) V. Ona

Another example is Sophia (So-Fe-Ya) Joo
As to the other female grand sibling, Jaime, well it is supposed to have a rhyme too, I just dont know which Royal line it is connected to.

Tata: Will there be another christening for Jaime or maybe a new nickname?

Genealogy: Frances Faye Vergara Ona is the great granddaughter of Candeleria "Canding" Aguila & Leonardo Ona Sr., granddaughter of Sofronio "Proning" Ona & Fe Calanog, and the daughter of Sofronio Leonardo "Nas" Ona Jr. & Sharon Vergara.