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"WORKS OF LOVE ARE ALWAYS WORKS OF PEACE!"

EMMAUS HOUSE OF APOSTOLATE

 A BRIEF HISTORY

    Founded on the premise of “serving Christ and finding love in the person of the poorest of the poor and dying destitute”. Emmaus house of the apostolate look seed on November 22, 1984. ingrained with this great desire, moved by mother Teresa of Calcutta’s compassion for the poor and the dying, and inspired by the good Bishop Almario, Jr’s dream of putting up a refuge for the homeless and unwanted, Rev. Florentino Concepcion began his ministry with a handful of indigent patients whose bills have grown pile-high in their long confinement at the Bulacan Provincial Hospital because no family would lay claim on them. First home for these displaced patient was an old house near the railway in Catmon, Malolos, Bulacan where Fr. Boyet as the good priest has come to be known, took them in, fed them, cleansed their wounds, nurse them back to health and gave the a family of caring people who share in Fr. Boyet’s conviction.

     The following months saw a growing need for space as more patients kept coming in. and so the family moved to its second home in Barihan, Malolos, Bulacan. The TB-stricken out-patient. The sore-infected street-burn, the drunkard of a father rejected by his family, a lonely spinster, are just some of those who sought in this new-found home.

     As the number of residents kept increasing, so has the apostolate’s faith in the Heavenly Father whose providential care has never ceased to sustain the house of its needs. People from all walks of life merge in this humble abode with a common desire to find the ‘opportunity…to glorify God and sanctify themselves… through personal sacrifice for the poor, the sick and the dying,” they offer gifts of material goods, time and labor, all for the love of God’s least.

     1985 saw a great milestone in the House’s struggle to serve. The kindhearted Caparas family bequeathed their 1.527 square meter property in Caingin, Malolos, Bulacan to serve as permanent site of the Emmaus house of apostolate. And with God’s help, the Bishop’s blessing and the combined efforts of the people moved by the spirit of the Apostolate, the House was built and came to be what it is today.

The Apostolate houses to date seventy-two residents

      The house has come to depend greatly on people who take time to offer free and voluntary service. This team of Apostolate workers se tot eh administrative, dietary, sanitary and medical needs of the home.

      The Apostolate, however, does not content itself to the mere provisions of the needs of the residents, rather it finds a deeper fulfillment when it is able to gain one lost soul back to the Father’s fold even just before He meets his Creator, or when it is able to stir up a different kind of hunger among the residents, co-workers and benefactors alike for a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God through daily experiences that intimate silence shared before the Blessed Sacrament and the ultimate celebration of Christ’s sacrifice in the Holy Eucharist. 

      The Spirit of the Apostolate hardly ever settles. And through the years it has blown to different directions beyond the confines of the House, embracing a lot more of the poorest of the poor, people seriously deprived materially, spiritually, or socially in relation to their neighbors” and to their God. The lonely prisoner longer for acceptance and justice, the indigents whose hospitalization has become a perennial worry for them, the clusters of families among the squatters who never know when or what their next meal would be, the wayward youth who longs for attention and a sense of belonging. They have come within the Apostolate’s reach. For them whoa re quite in the dark as to who god is and the great role He plays in our lives, the Apostolate hopes to open doors that they may know Him more, find Him very much alive in their lives.

     The spirit of the Apostolate continues to reach out, not really very far but deeper into each person it comes in contact with, professionals, religious, illiterates and fools, who for as long as they believer in the BEST FOOD which is Christ and whom the Emmaus Apostolate can only offer would savor His richness and “spread His fragrance everywhere He goes.