Rev Fr Luciano Ariel Felloni
28 May 1973 – 2 February 2025

2 February 2025
It is with great shock and sadness to find out that this great man, man of the people, man of the Filipino Christians, had passed away today after a long battle with illness.
RIP, Fr Felloni

Rev Fr Luciano Ariel Felloni of Roman Catholic Diocese of Novaliches

8 September 2017

I came across of this rather remarkable man just a few weeks ago.  A friend shared  Father Luciano Felloni’s  link in Facebook.

I was really pleasantly surprised when I started playing the video.  The Father was talking in fluent Tagalog.  In fact he is so comfortable with the language that I think he talks the mother tongue better than yours truly.  (Before anyone mentions about the malansang isda, I do love Tagalog and Ilocano but because I don’t get to speak them everyday for 30-odd years now, my fluency sometimes needs recharging!)  🙂

He said that he is more fluent in Tagalog than in English because he came from a country, where English is not the normal medium of instruction.

This handsome disciple of Jesus, is originally from Argentina, though his ancestors are pure Italians.

Father Felloni engagingly introduced himself as Tubong Argentina(born in Argentina), Dugong Italiano (with Italian {blood} ancestry), Pusong Pinoy (with a heart of a Filipino), Bulsang Ilocano (Ilocano pocket {Ilocanos are noted for being extreme frugality with money}).

He has been in the Philippines for more than 20 years.

He was ordained to the priesthood at the age of 26. He mentioned somewhere that he used to take a bus, public transport, with Jorge Mario Bergoglio, a fellow Argentinian, who of course is now Pope Francis!

Fr Felloni was given his parish church in the Philippines at the age of 29.  The church was in Payatas, located in Quezon City.  Payatas is known for being a landfill, a dump site.  A smokey mountain of rubbish and trash, where poverty-stricken Filipinos, both young and very old make a living by picking up a bit of plastic, paper, metal, useful wood and the occasional treasures to be had.

Father Luciano worked, supported, and prayed with these underprivileged people for over 10 years. He knew their problems, he knew how they live, he knew how they survive.

He is a true Filipino at heart.

Lately, he has been making noises against the extensive summary killing of the drug addicted, the pedlars, pushers, etc. borne from Duterte’s  ‘War on Drugs’.

I hope this priest, with his heart in the right place, will not become one of the growing statistics of this summary killing that is still rampantly going on.

GOD BLESS YOU FATHER LUCIANO FELLONI!

Father Felloni has a social media project of turning Christians into cybermissionaries. Every morning, with his Almusalita (this is a coupling of two Tagalog words: almusal meaning ‘breakfast’ and salita means ‘word’), he shares readings from the Holy Bible.

With his beautiful homilies, he wants those who loved the readings to like, share in our ‘wall’ and tag friends with his video in Facebook.  By doing so we can all be cybermissionaries and make the word of the Lord go viral.

I have been religiously doing so. 🙂

This is the best sermon ever in Tagalog and this is done by the good Father Felloni.

As Father Felloni would say, if you like this video (blog) please like it, share it in your wall and tag your friends.  Let’s be all cybermissionaries by spreading the Word of God.