We have Joseph Y. Haw Jr., S.J.’s “Pagbibiyaya ayon sa Pagdedevocion at Pagsisiyam sa Cabanal-Banalang Ina ng Caliuanagan,” which is certainly a delight, starting from the fact that it is written entirely in Filipino: the first and hopefully not the last of its kind in our nascent journal. Here he traces the important role of prayer-books and novenas, translated and disseminated in the local language, as a means of nurturing the faith in a way that is rooted in and responsive to a people’s context and culture. In particular, he examines the theological notion of grace imparted through the Pagdedevocion at Pagsisiyam sa Cabanal-Banalang Ina ng Caliuanagan (Devotion and Novena to the Most Holy Virgin of Light), which is one of the Marian devotions introduced by the Jesuits in the Philippines that were discussed in the previous article. Originally devel- oped to combat an emerging heresy at the time of its writing, the author explores how the novena was able to counter its neo-Pelagian tendencies in a subtle but effective way through its sound anthropology as well as its solid doctrine concerning grace, justification, and redemption centered on developing friendship, paquiquipagcatoto, with God. He also expounds on the role of Mary within this whole dynamic of grace as beautifully elaborated in the novena. – from the Associate Editor’s Preface