Manaoag Dominican Radio
By Joel R. Tangunan
Manaoag-Pangasinan
September 6, 2013
It is a small room in the corner that you could not almost notice it, but this small room is the storage of God's enormous, countless and infinite number of blessings and it is called "a radio station" right in the corner heart of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag in Pangasinan. Our 102.3 FM Manaoag Dominican Radio with the slogan of May Kasama Ka! (Si Hesus, si Maria at kami), a community radio station of the people for Christ has been bringing and sharing the call and the prayerful heart of Apo Baket or Our Lady of Manaoag to live the life of Christ as way of life to every family in every home in Manaoag and to the world for five years now.
102.3 FM Manaoag Dominican Radio, a former Radyo Dominiko ng Manaoag was founded as a gift to Apo Baket by Rev. Fr. Gallardo Butch A. Bombase, Jr., O.P. on August 15, 2008. Fr. Butch is a licensed amateur radio hum operator and a KBP licensed member broadcaster.
This small radio station with its humble beginning of broadcasting the live mass on air from the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rasary of Manaoag thru a transmitter with the capacity of 100 watt only that reaches the entire Manaoag and some near towns and few near provinces, but God is so kind. He touched some people like Mr. Wilson Chua, a good friend of Fr. Butch and the owner of Bitstop Network Services Incorporated in Dagupan, Pangasinan which one of the businesses is to provide an access to the internet for the streaming of radio stations thru the www.eradioportal.com and helped Manaoag Dominican Radio to reach the world through the internet for free from 2008 up to the present. Since then, this radio station upgraded its way to EVAngelize, CAtechesis, SAcraments, Sanctify and Service the people thru the use of radio medium and internet. We launched our own website with the URL of www.radyomanaoag.com last year of 2012 on March, where you can watch the live mass in real time.
We are signing on everyday at 5 o'clock in the morning that commences with the solemnity of the live morning prayer and rosary at 5:45am, to be followed by an integrated live mass at 6:00am, 11am and 4pm from Monday to Sunday, but our Saturday afternoon live mass starts at 4:30pm. Our hearts are dedicated to broadcast the mass and the teachings of Catholic faith and we are one with the mission and vision to unite and bring back the people to Christ who are unreached and somehow lost and remind them that our faith in one God is the only source of enlightenment to be able to analyze and fathom the depths of why a person could scarcely find his way to embrace his inner serenity.
As we are in the digital age of this technological rapidity and modernization, where almost everything is in a click of a finger in searching the answers to the questions, it seems that the internet gateway and the living of sophistications life that is far from the reality and fundamental of the basic inner of us, have drifted some of us away from realizing our common vision of Christ's disciples called to Christian which will cultivate us in our own of being the best-version of God's children. The technology of our radio and internet streaming of the Word of God is uniting our steps together towards the renewal of the Christ's Church in us and reaching out to such thing that made us away from the light and left us alone in confusion. Through this radio, let us all come into the light love of God and offer our brothers and sisters a humble invitation to return and to be a blessing to every one.
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Author Joel Tangunan (front-left) is a physically challenge or commonly known as physically disabled. He is a volunteer webmaster, online manager, songwriter, graphic designer and voice over talent of 102.3 FM Manaoag Dominican Radio in Manaoag Church in Pangasinan.
His disability is not a hindrance to what he can do to serve God and to be a blessing to others. He turns his disability into something that is productive. He uses his talents to glorify God and to share whatever he can share to youths as their inspiration to go on in life, with or without difficulties.
A Small Room In The Corner That Reaches The Unreachable
By Joel R. Tangunan
Manaoag-Pangasinan
September 6, 2013
It is a small room in the corner that you could not almost notice it, but this small room is the storage of God's enormous, countless and infinite number of blessings and it is called "a radio station" right in the corner heart of the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag in Pangasinan. Our 102.3 FM Manaoag Dominican Radio with the slogan of May Kasama Ka! (Si Hesus, si Maria at kami), a community radio station of the people for Christ has been bringing and sharing the call and the prayerful heart of Apo Baket or Our Lady of Manaoag to live the life of Christ as way of life to every family in every home in Manaoag and to the world for five years now.
102.3 FM Manaoag Dominican Radio, a former Radyo Dominiko ng Manaoag was founded as a gift to Apo Baket by Rev. Fr. Gallardo Butch A. Bombase, Jr., O.P. on August 15, 2008. Fr. Butch is a licensed amateur radio hum operator and a KBP licensed member broadcaster.
This small radio station with its humble beginning of broadcasting the live mass on air from the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rasary of Manaoag thru a transmitter with the capacity of 100 watt only that reaches the entire Manaoag and some near towns and few near provinces, but God is so kind. He touched some people like Mr. Wilson Chua, a good friend of Fr. Butch and the owner of Bitstop Network Services Incorporated in Dagupan, Pangasinan which one of the businesses is to provide an access to the internet for the streaming of radio stations thru the www.eradioportal.com and helped Manaoag Dominican Radio to reach the world through the internet for free from 2008 up to the present. Since then, this radio station upgraded its way to EVAngelize, CAtechesis, SAcraments, Sanctify and Service the people thru the use of radio medium and internet. We launched our own website with the URL of www.radyomanaoag.com last year of 2012 on March, where you can watch the live mass in real time.
We are signing on everyday at 5 o'clock in the morning that commences with the solemnity of the live morning prayer and rosary at 5:45am, to be followed by an integrated live mass at 6:00am, 11am and 4pm from Monday to Sunday, but our Saturday afternoon live mass starts at 4:30pm. Our hearts are dedicated to broadcast the mass and the teachings of Catholic faith and we are one with the mission and vision to unite and bring back the people to Christ who are unreached and somehow lost and remind them that our faith in one God is the only source of enlightenment to be able to analyze and fathom the depths of why a person could scarcely find his way to embrace his inner serenity.
As we are in the digital age of this technological rapidity and modernization, where almost everything is in a click of a finger in searching the answers to the questions, it seems that the internet gateway and the living of sophistications life that is far from the reality and fundamental of the basic inner of us, have drifted some of us away from realizing our common vision of Christ's disciples called to Christian which will cultivate us in our own of being the best-version of God's children. The technology of our radio and internet streaming of the Word of God is uniting our steps together towards the renewal of the Christ's Church in us and reaching out to such thing that made us away from the light and left us alone in confusion. Through this radio, let us all come into the light love of God and offer our brothers and sisters a humble invitation to return and to be a blessing to every one.
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Author Joel Tangunan (front-left) is a physically challenge or commonly known as physically disabled. He is a volunteer webmaster, online manager, songwriter, graphic designer and voice over talent of 102.3 FM Manaoag Dominican Radio in Manaoag Church in Pangasinan.
His disability is not a hindrance to what he can do to serve God and to be a blessing to others. He turns his disability into something that is productive. He uses his talents to glorify God and to share whatever he can share to youths as their inspiration to go on in life, with or without difficulties.