Healing Mass
Healing Mass – June 2026
This evening at 6:30 in the Basilica, we will have a Healing Mass with Fr. Albino Vecina, CRSP.
Fr. Albino’s Vocation Story of a Barnabite
There are many signs/ways of vocation to the priesthood, these could be objects that are sacred, people, situations, occasions, feelings, places, etc. We should be attentive or be opened to these things.
My desire to become a priest started in my childhood years, it probably started when I was 8 years old and remained intact until I was grown up. As a little boy I always kept thinking that one day I would be at the altar during Mass, serving as an altar boy or I am the one celebrating the Mass. I believed that would be the happiest experience if this dream comes true.
Why Barnabite and not the other Congregation?
To be honest I had no idea about the Barnabites nor had any ideas about religious congregations, what I had known was only about priests, like our Diocese priests. I never heard about the Clerics Regular of St. Paul known as Barnabites. I become a Barnabite student from my formation years and now a Priest because God chose me and put me into this religious order of the Holy Mother Church (Catholic Church) as Her Divine Founder Jesus said, “it was not you who chose me, it was I who chose you to go forth and bear fruit. Your fruit must endure…” (Jn. 15:16 NAB)
God used people in choosing me for the Barnabite Order, Isabel, the Mother of a former Barnabite Seminarian and Brother Joseph Bernales. They were God’s human instruments why I landed at this Religious Congregation of the Clerics Regular of St. Paul (Barnabite Fathers and Brother). It was her who bridged me to her son Joseph and Joseph to this congregation. This was God’s way of putting me in this Religious Zaccarian Family and in 2002 I joined the Seminary. I professed my First simple profession in 2008, I was accepted to the Final profession in 2013, ordained Deacon a week later, and was Ordained Priest on February 18, 2014. To be a Barnabite is not my choice but God’s choice. I trusted and accepted God’s choice for me to serve Him in this Religious Order and contribute with God’s grace fruits for the good of the Church and glorify our heavenly Father.
Being a Barnabite is God’s precious gift given not only for the chosen person but above all for the Holy Mother Church.
Fr. Albino Mary Vecina, CRSP
Barnabite Father