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About Us

Word and Life Publications Publisher’s Profile and Achievements

OUR PROFILE

The name WORD AND LIFE dynamically synthesizes this objective, while the logo (the book of the Bible right in the center of the Philippines) visualizes the role of God’s Word in the life of the Filipino people.

WLP Awards & Citations

Vision

Word and Life Publications is an apostolic activity of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco in the Philippines.

Its field of action is the Ministry of the Word, particularly Evangelization and Catechesis, both formal and informal.

This apostolate is carried out through all the means of Social Communication, especially print media, in response to the needs of the local Church, in coordination with the national and local hierarchy, and with the cooperation of committed Catholic individuals and organizations.

Its publications are characterized by their being rooted in the word of God, and Christ-centered; their faithfulness to the teaching of the Church; and their special emphasis on Philippine culture, values and situations, as well as the condition, needs, and aspirations of the young.

Mission

The specific mission of Word and Life Publications is the preparation, publication, and dissemination of periodicals, books and audio-visuals and any other formation program that can be reproduced or broadcast through the various means of social communication which are and will be made available by information technology.

These programs will be used for the Christian formation of the people of God in general, and especially of the youth, in faithfulness to the original charism of the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco.

The aim of Word and Life Publications is to help its readers / viewers:
Know their faith better,
Defend it when attacked, and
Make it the inspiration and guiding force in their daily commitments and prayer life.

WLP Activities

Spreading God’s Word

Its mother publication is the periodical WORD AND LIFE (WL). In addition to this magazine. It is a recipient of the Hall of Fame Award from the Catholic Mass Media Award in the Best Youth Magazine Category.

Aside from Word & Life Magazine, Word And Life Publications is currently publishing the following periodicals: Exploring God’s Word and Yaman Ng Salita. All these three periodicals are available in printed and digital editions. You may subscribe to all of them or to any of them through this website. Just click the SUBSCRIPTION TAB on the main page of our website and follow the procedure until the end.

Euchalette, and Patnubay sa Misa, our Sunday Mass Guide, are all available in digital files. You may download them for FREE. Just click the DOWNLOAD TAB on the main page of our website. The rest of the steps are easy.

Publishing At the Service of Catechesis

WLP has also been serving the catechetical ministry in the Philippines through the publication of  several catechism, such as the Catechism of the Catholic Church and its Compendium; the Catechism for Filipino Catholicsand its Tagalog version: Katesismo para sa mga Pilipinong Katoliko (both in complete and abridged versions); and the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church. It has also published numerous encyclicals and apostolic exhortations. It has enriched these documents of the Magisterium with Subject Indexes and other precious Study Aids.

Nurturing Faith and Devotion

WLP has also greatly contributed to the renewal of popular devotions in the Philippines by publishing a New Way of the Cross, The Trail of Light, and a number of pamphlets on the Holy Rosary, the Eucharist and the Holy Shroud. All those have been made available in posters, pamphlets, leaflets, stampitas. WLP also published in comics the lives of various saints such as: Pedro CalungsodDon Bosco, St. Artemide Zatti, and Damien of Molokai.

Reaching Out to the “Forgotten Ones?

Since Easter 1992, WLP has been engaged in an outreach activity called The Good News to the Lonely.” With the help of benefactors, more than 600 copies of its periodicals (specifically Word & Life Magazine, Yaman Ng Salita, and Exploring God’s Word) are given – free of charge – to the chaplains of Metro Manila hospitals and more than a dozen prisons nationwide, every two months. Because of this, the sick and the prisoners are given hope and inspiration as they read God’s Word, and are also empowered to spread the Good News in their respective environments using these materials from WLP.

Conquering the Airwaves for the Lord

In cooperation with Word Media Ministry, WLP has also been airing on Radio Veritas (846 kHz) a weekly program entitled “Bisperas sa Veritas” since 2004. The program is broadcast live every Saturday from 5:00 to 6:00 PM with Fr. Bernard Nolasco, SDB as the main anchor. Lay volunteers of WMM join Fr. Bernard for a very interactive reflection on the Sunday readings. The program uses Yaman Ng Salita. The target audience is the Filipino family. The objective is to help people prepare for the Sunday Mass. 

Expanding God’s Reach throughout the World

Because of the usefulness of WLP’s products in teaching the faith and in inspiring people, some of its products have already been translated and/or published in other countries like India (The Promise, The Acts of the Apostles), China (Way of the Cross), and the US (Litany of the Sacred Heart).

WLP is also spreading God’s Word online. It has Facebook pages (Word And Life Publications / Wordandlife Ph) and a website (www.wordandlife.org). The Word And Life website is very popular and essential to Filipinos – as well as missionaries – all over the world because from there they can download the Sunday Euchalette for FREE. For many Filipinos overseas (and even non-Filipinos), especially in non-Christian countries, this website is their only lifeline to nurture their faith.

For further inquiries about the profile of WLP and its apostolic activities, you may contact us at:

Don Bosco Compound
A. Arnaiz Ave. cor. Chino Roces Ave
P.O. Box 1820, MCPO 1258 Makati, Philippines
Tel. Nos. (632) 8894-5401 * 8845-1792
8818-8636 * Cell# (63)917-6295485