Happy Father’s Day! :D
lalo na sa daddy ko, Ernesto Liwanagan! hahaha…:DD
i love you daddy! :DD ♥
lalo na sa daddy ko, Ernesto Liwanagan! hahaha…:DD
i love you daddy! :DD ♥
Inspire
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Food Photos! :D (pilingerang photogXD)
Pasensya at hindi maganda ang kuha...tignan ang titulo.haha!:P Well, i'm really aspiring to be a photographer. Isa pa lang 'yan sa dinami-rami ng kagustuhan kong maging.haha!:D
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! :D
Photo by : Kuya Renz! hahaha...:DD
Happy mother's day to our moms! :D
I love you mama Luth! :DD God bless! :)) mwaahh! :* :* :*
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Happy Mother's Day
Mothers do so much to help their children... so it's only fitting that we return the favour. Celebrate Mother's Day with this Igniter Media video, featuring a loving conversation between a mother and her son!
Visit this article to read about a Mother's Day miracle, in which a brave mother talks about her last-minute decision to save her child from abortion!
---from XT3.COM (thanks for this video! :) )
Join XT3.COM, a social networking site that "relates to the Catholic faith"! :DD
Friday, May 6, 2011
Prayer for Mothers on Mother’s Day
Father God we your children come before you this day on behalf of our Mothers as we wish to honor each, praying for our Heavenly Fathers’ Blessings to fall upon all mothers this day and each day of their lives. Many of you r precious mothers are the sole breadwinner in a broken home as some are divorced or widowed. There are unwed mothers who also hold everyday jobs. Many of our mothers are blessed with loving husbands and children who honor and respect them. A number of them have not yet received the Hope of Salvation that is freely offered by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We whose mothers have passed on are in awe of those who still know the presence of this precious soul who has formed the nature of our values, character and integrity. Many of us regret having moments of gratitude that were not expressed but now are unavailable because our mothers have passed. May all children young and old, value each one of these precious protective souls, as they have sacrificed so much for the families they love. Father we pray for your mercy and blessing for each mother. We pray that the Holy Spirit comfort each mother this day by bringing loving appreciative children into their homes. May all husbands and all children honor each wife and mother this day with love and respect. We pray that each mother have the knowledge of the sacrifice and love of our Lord Jesus Christ, kneeling before Him as Savior. In Jesus’ precious name we pray.
Amen.
Have a Great Mother’s Day Weekend!!
www.getoutthebox.org
---from SPIRITUALINSPIRATION.TUMBLR.COM (thanks for this post! =) )
Monday, May 2, 2011
My new favorite song, FUCKIN' PERFECT(Clean version) by Pink! :)
Fuckin' Perfect by Pink
Made a wrong turn Once or twice Dug my way out Blood and fire Bad decisions That's alright Welcome to my silly life Mistreated misplaced Misunderstood Miss "no way, it's all good" It didnt slow me down. Mistaken Always second guessing Underestimated Look I'm still around Pretty, pretty please Don't you ever, ever feel Like you're less than
Less than perfect Pretty, pretty please If you ever, ever feel Like you're nothin' You are perfect to me You're so mean When you talk About yourself, you were wrong Change the voices in your head Make them like you instead So complicated Look how we all make it Filled with so much hatred Such a tired game It's enough I've done all I can think of Chased down all my demons I've seen you do the same Ooooh Pretty, pretty please Don't you ever, ever feel Like you're less than Less than perfect Pretty, pretty please If you ever, ever feel Like you're nothin' You are perfect to me The whole worlds scared So I swallow the fear The only thing I should be drinking Is an ice cold beer So cool in line And we try, try, try But we try too hard And it's a waste of my time Done looking for the critics 'Cause they're everywhere They don't like my jeans They don't get my hair Strange ourselves And we do it all the time Why do we do that? Why do I do that? Why do I do that? Yeeeeaaaahhh Oooooooh Oh pretty, pretty please Pretty, pretty please Don't you ever, ever feel Like you're less than
Less than perfect Pretty, pretty please If you ever, ever feel Like you're nothin' You are perfect to me You're perfect, you're perfect Pretty, pretty please If you ever, ever feel Like you're nothin' You are perfect to me
http://artists.letssingit.com/pink-lyrics-fucking-perfect-c437mzt
Benedict XVI’s beatification homily: full text
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2011/05/01/benedict-xvis-beatification-homily-full-text/
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Six years ago we gathered in this Square to celebrate the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Our grief at his loss was deep, but even greater was our sense of an immense grace which embraced Rome and the whole world: a grace which was in some way the fruit of my beloved predecessor’s entire life, and especially of his witness in suffering. Even then we perceived the fragrance of his sanctity, and in any number of ways God’s People showed their veneration for him. For this reason, with all due respect for the Church’s canonical norms, I wanted his cause of beatification to move forward with reasonable haste. And now the longed-for day has come; it came quickly because this is what was pleasing to the Lord: John Paul II is blessed!
I would like to offer a cordial greeting to all of you who on this happy occasion have come in such great numbers to Rome from all over the world – cardinals, patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches, brother bishops and priests, official delegations, ambassadors and civil authorities, consecrated men and women and lay faithful, and I extend that greeting to all those who join us by radio and television.
Today is the Second Sunday of Easter, which Blessed John Paul II entitled Divine Mercy Sunday. The date was chosen for today’s celebration because, in God’s providence, my predecessor died on the vigil of this feast. Today is also the first day of May, Mary’s month, and the liturgical memorial of Saint Joseph the Worker. All these elements serve to enrich our prayer, they help us in our pilgrimage through time and space; but in heaven a very different celebration is taking place among the angels and saints! Even so, God is but one, and one too is Christ the Lord, who like a bridge joins earth to heaven. At this moment we feel closer than ever, sharing as it were in the liturgy of heaven.
“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe” (Jn 20:29). In today’s Gospel Jesus proclaims this beatitude: the beatitude of faith. For us, it is particularly striking because we are gathered to celebrate a beatification, but even more so because today the one proclaimed blessed is a Pope, a Successor of Peter, one who was called to confirm his brethren in the faith. John Paul II is blessed because of his faith, a strong, generous and apostolic faith. We think at once of another beatitude: “Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven” (Mt 16:17). What did our heavenly Father reveal to Simon? That Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Because of this faith, Simon becomes Peter, the rock on which Jesus can build his Church. The eternal beatitude of John Paul II, which today the Church rejoices to proclaim, is wholly contained in these sayings of Jesus: “Blessed are you, Simon” and “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe!” It is the beatitude of faith, which John Paul II also received as a gift from God the Father for the building up of Christ’s Church.
Our thoughts turn to yet another beatitude, one which appears in the Gospel before all others. It is the beatitude of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of the Redeemer. Mary, who had just conceived Jesus, was told by Saint Elizabeth: “Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her by the Lord” (Lk 1:45). The beatitude of faith has its model in Mary, and all of us rejoice that the beatification of John Paul II takes place on this first day of the month of Mary, beneath the maternal gaze of the one who by her faith sustained the faith of the Apostles and constantly sustains the faith of their successors, especially those called to occupy the Chair of Peter. Mary does not appear in the accounts of Christ’s resurrection, yet hers is, as it were, a continual, hidden presence: she is the Mother to whom Jesus entrusted each of his disciples and the entire community. In particular we can see how Saint John and Saint Luke record the powerful, maternal presence of Mary in the passages preceding those read in today’s Gospel and first reading. In the account of Jesus’ death, Mary appears at the foot of the cross (Jn 19:25), and at the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles she is seen in the midst of the disciples gathered in prayer in the Upper Room (Acts 1:14).
Today’s second reading also speaks to us of faith. Saint Peter himself, filled with spiritual enthusiasm, points out to the newly-baptized the reason for their hope and their joy. I like to think how in this passage, at the beginning of his First Letter, Peter does not use language of exhortation; instead, he states a fact. He writes: “you rejoice”, and he adds: “you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:6, 8-9). All these verbs are in the indicative, because a new reality has come about in Christ’s resurrection, a reality to which faith opens the door. “This is the Lord’s doing”, says the Psalm (118:23), and “it is marvelous in our eyes”, the eyes of faith.
Dear brothers and sisters, today our eyes behold, in the full spiritual light of the risen Christ, the beloved and revered figure of John Paul II. Today his name is added to the host of those whom he proclaimed saints and blesseds during the almost twenty-seven years of his pontificate, thereby forcefully emphasizing the universal vocation to the heights of the Christian life, to holiness, taught by the conciliar Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium. All of us, as members of the people of God – bishops, priests, deacons, laity, men and women religious – are making our pilgrim way to the heavenly homeland where the Virgin Mary has preceded us, associated as she was in a unique and perfect way to the mystery of Christ and the Church. Karol Wojtyla took part in the Second Vatican Council, first as an auxiliary Bishop and then as Archbishop of Kraków. He was fully aware that the Council’s decision to devote the last chapter of its Constitution on the Church to Mary meant that the Mother of the Redeemer is held up as an image and model of holiness for every Christian and for the entire Church. This was the theological vision which Blessed John Paul II discovered as a young man and subsequently maintained and deepened throughout his life. A vision which is expressed in the scriptural image of the crucified Christ with Mary, his Mother, at his side. This icon from the Gospel of John (19:25-27) was taken up in the episcopal and later the papal coat-of-arms of Karol Wojtyla: a golden cross with the letter “M” on the lower right and the motto “Totus tuus”, drawn from the well-known words of Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort in which Karol Wojtyla found a guiding light for his life: “Totus tuus ego sum et omnia mea tua sunt. Accipio te in mea omnia. Praebe mihi cor tuum, Maria – I belong entirely to you, and all that I have is yours. I take you for my all. O Mary, give me your heart” (Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, 266).
In his Testament, the new Blessed wrote: “When, on 16 October 1978, the Conclave of Cardinals chose John Paul II, the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, said to me: ‘The task of the new Pope will be to lead the Church into the Third Millennium’”. And the Pope added: “I would like once again to express my gratitude to the Holy Spirit for the great gift of the Second Vatican Council, to which, together with the whole Church – and especially with the whole episcopate – I feel indebted. I am convinced that it will long be granted to the new generations to draw from the treasures that this Council of the twentieth century has lavished upon us. As a Bishop who took part in the Council from the first to the last day, I desire to entrust this great patrimony to all who are and will be called in the future to put it into practice. For my part, I thank the Eternal Shepherd, who has enabled me to serve this very great cause in the course of all the years of my Pontificate”. And what is this “cause”? It is the same one that John Paul II presented during his first solemn Mass in Saint Peter’s Square in the unforgettable words: “Do not be afraid! Open, open wide the doors to Christ!” What the newly-elected Pope asked of everyone, he was himself the first to do: society, culture, political and economic systems he opened up to Christ, turning back with the strength of a titan – a strength which came to him from God – a tide which appeared irreversible. By his witness of faith, love and apostolic courage, accompanied by great human charisma, this exemplary son of Poland helped believers throughout the world not to be afraid to be called Christian, to belong to the Church, to speak of the Gospel. In a word: he helped us not to fear the truth, because truth is the guarantee of liberty. To put it even more succinctly: he gave us the strength to believe in Christ, because Christ is Redemptor hominis, the Redeemer of man. This was the theme of his first encyclical, and the thread which runs though all the others.
When Karol Wojtyla ascended to the throne of Peter, he brought with him a deep understanding of the difference between Marxism and Christianity, based on their respective visions of man. This was his message: man is the way of the Church, and Christ is the way of man. With this message, which is the great legacy of the Second Vatican Council and of its “helmsman”, the Servant of God Pope Paul VI, John Paul II led the People of God across the threshold of the Third Millennium, which thanks to Christ he was able to call “the threshold of hope”. Throughout the long journey of preparation for the great Jubilee he directed Christianity once again to the future, the future of God, which transcends history while nonetheless directly affecting it. He rightly reclaimed for Christianity that impulse of hope which had in some sense faltered before Marxism and the ideology of progress. He restored to Christianity its true face as a religion of hope, to be lived in history in an “Advent” spirit, in a personal and communitarian existence directed to Christ, the fullness of humanity and the fulfillment of all our longings for justice and peace.
Finally, on a more personal note, I would like to thank God for the gift of having worked for many years with Blessed Pope John Paul II. I had known him earlier and had esteemed him, but for twenty-three years, beginning in 1982 after he called me to Rome to be Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, I was at his side and came to revere him all the more. My own service was sustained by his spiritual depth and by the richness of his insights. His example of prayer continually impressed and edified me: he remained deeply united to God even amid the many demands of his ministry. Then too, there was his witness in suffering: the Lord gradually stripped him of everything, yet he remained ever a “rock”, as Christ desired. His profound humility, grounded in close union with Christ, enabled him to continue to lead the Church and to give to the world a message which became all the more eloquent as his physical strength declined. In this way he lived out in an extraordinary way the vocation of every priest and bishop to become completely one with Jesus, whom he daily receives and offers in the Eucharist.
Blessed are you, beloved Pope John Paul II, because you believed! Continue, we implore you, to sustain from heaven the faith of God’s people. Amen.
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Six years ago we gathered in this Square to celebrate the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Our grief at his loss was deep, but even greater was our sense of an immense grace which embraced Rome and the whole world: a grace which was in some way the fruit of my beloved predecessor’s entire life, and especially of his witness in suffering. Even then we perceived the fragrance of his sanctity, and in any number of ways God’s People showed their veneration for him. For this reason, with all due respect for the Church’s canonical norms, I wanted his cause of beatification to move forward with reasonable haste. And now the longed-for day has come; it came quickly because this is what was pleasing to the Lord: John Paul II is blessed!
I would like to offer a cordial greeting to all of you who on this happy occasion have come in such great numbers to Rome from all over the world – cardinals, patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches, brother bishops and priests, official delegations, ambassadors and civil authorities, consecrated men and women and lay faithful, and I extend that greeting to all those who join us by radio and television.
Today is the Second Sunday of Easter, which Blessed John Paul II entitled Divine Mercy Sunday. The date was chosen for today’s celebration because, in God’s providence, my predecessor died on the vigil of this feast. Today is also the first day of May, Mary’s month, and the liturgical memorial of Saint Joseph the Worker. All these elements serve to enrich our prayer, they help us in our pilgrimage through time and space; but in heaven a very different celebration is taking place among the angels and saints! Even so, God is but one, and one too is Christ the Lord, who like a bridge joins earth to heaven. At this moment we feel closer than ever, sharing as it were in the liturgy of heaven.
“Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe” (Jn 20:29). In today’s Gospel Jesus proclaims this beatitude: the beatitude of faith. For us, it is particularly striking because we are gathered to celebrate a beatification, but even more so because today the one proclaimed blessed is a Pope, a Successor of Peter, one who was called to confirm his brethren in the faith. John Paul II is blessed because of his faith, a strong, generous and apostolic faith. We think at once of another beatitude: “Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven” (Mt 16:17). What did our heavenly Father reveal to Simon? That Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Because of this faith, Simon becomes Peter, the rock on which Jesus can build his Church. The eternal beatitude of John Paul II, which today the Church rejoices to proclaim, is wholly contained in these sayings of Jesus: “Blessed are you, Simon” and “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe!” It is the beatitude of faith, which John Paul II also received as a gift from God the Father for the building up of Christ’s Church.
Our thoughts turn to yet another beatitude, one which appears in the Gospel before all others. It is the beatitude of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of the Redeemer. Mary, who had just conceived Jesus, was told by Saint Elizabeth: “Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her by the Lord” (Lk 1:45). The beatitude of faith has its model in Mary, and all of us rejoice that the beatification of John Paul II takes place on this first day of the month of Mary, beneath the maternal gaze of the one who by her faith sustained the faith of the Apostles and constantly sustains the faith of their successors, especially those called to occupy the Chair of Peter. Mary does not appear in the accounts of Christ’s resurrection, yet hers is, as it were, a continual, hidden presence: she is the Mother to whom Jesus entrusted each of his disciples and the entire community. In particular we can see how Saint John and Saint Luke record the powerful, maternal presence of Mary in the passages preceding those read in today’s Gospel and first reading. In the account of Jesus’ death, Mary appears at the foot of the cross (Jn 19:25), and at the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles she is seen in the midst of the disciples gathered in prayer in the Upper Room (Acts 1:14).
Today’s second reading also speaks to us of faith. Saint Peter himself, filled with spiritual enthusiasm, points out to the newly-baptized the reason for their hope and their joy. I like to think how in this passage, at the beginning of his First Letter, Peter does not use language of exhortation; instead, he states a fact. He writes: “you rejoice”, and he adds: “you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:6, 8-9). All these verbs are in the indicative, because a new reality has come about in Christ’s resurrection, a reality to which faith opens the door. “This is the Lord’s doing”, says the Psalm (118:23), and “it is marvelous in our eyes”, the eyes of faith.
Dear brothers and sisters, today our eyes behold, in the full spiritual light of the risen Christ, the beloved and revered figure of John Paul II. Today his name is added to the host of those whom he proclaimed saints and blesseds during the almost twenty-seven years of his pontificate, thereby forcefully emphasizing the universal vocation to the heights of the Christian life, to holiness, taught by the conciliar Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium. All of us, as members of the people of God – bishops, priests, deacons, laity, men and women religious – are making our pilgrim way to the heavenly homeland where the Virgin Mary has preceded us, associated as she was in a unique and perfect way to the mystery of Christ and the Church. Karol Wojtyla took part in the Second Vatican Council, first as an auxiliary Bishop and then as Archbishop of Kraków. He was fully aware that the Council’s decision to devote the last chapter of its Constitution on the Church to Mary meant that the Mother of the Redeemer is held up as an image and model of holiness for every Christian and for the entire Church. This was the theological vision which Blessed John Paul II discovered as a young man and subsequently maintained and deepened throughout his life. A vision which is expressed in the scriptural image of the crucified Christ with Mary, his Mother, at his side. This icon from the Gospel of John (19:25-27) was taken up in the episcopal and later the papal coat-of-arms of Karol Wojtyla: a golden cross with the letter “M” on the lower right and the motto “Totus tuus”, drawn from the well-known words of Saint Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort in which Karol Wojtyla found a guiding light for his life: “Totus tuus ego sum et omnia mea tua sunt. Accipio te in mea omnia. Praebe mihi cor tuum, Maria – I belong entirely to you, and all that I have is yours. I take you for my all. O Mary, give me your heart” (Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, 266).
In his Testament, the new Blessed wrote: “When, on 16 October 1978, the Conclave of Cardinals chose John Paul II, the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, said to me: ‘The task of the new Pope will be to lead the Church into the Third Millennium’”. And the Pope added: “I would like once again to express my gratitude to the Holy Spirit for the great gift of the Second Vatican Council, to which, together with the whole Church – and especially with the whole episcopate – I feel indebted. I am convinced that it will long be granted to the new generations to draw from the treasures that this Council of the twentieth century has lavished upon us. As a Bishop who took part in the Council from the first to the last day, I desire to entrust this great patrimony to all who are and will be called in the future to put it into practice. For my part, I thank the Eternal Shepherd, who has enabled me to serve this very great cause in the course of all the years of my Pontificate”. And what is this “cause”? It is the same one that John Paul II presented during his first solemn Mass in Saint Peter’s Square in the unforgettable words: “Do not be afraid! Open, open wide the doors to Christ!” What the newly-elected Pope asked of everyone, he was himself the first to do: society, culture, political and economic systems he opened up to Christ, turning back with the strength of a titan – a strength which came to him from God – a tide which appeared irreversible. By his witness of faith, love and apostolic courage, accompanied by great human charisma, this exemplary son of Poland helped believers throughout the world not to be afraid to be called Christian, to belong to the Church, to speak of the Gospel. In a word: he helped us not to fear the truth, because truth is the guarantee of liberty. To put it even more succinctly: he gave us the strength to believe in Christ, because Christ is Redemptor hominis, the Redeemer of man. This was the theme of his first encyclical, and the thread which runs though all the others.
When Karol Wojtyla ascended to the throne of Peter, he brought with him a deep understanding of the difference between Marxism and Christianity, based on their respective visions of man. This was his message: man is the way of the Church, and Christ is the way of man. With this message, which is the great legacy of the Second Vatican Council and of its “helmsman”, the Servant of God Pope Paul VI, John Paul II led the People of God across the threshold of the Third Millennium, which thanks to Christ he was able to call “the threshold of hope”. Throughout the long journey of preparation for the great Jubilee he directed Christianity once again to the future, the future of God, which transcends history while nonetheless directly affecting it. He rightly reclaimed for Christianity that impulse of hope which had in some sense faltered before Marxism and the ideology of progress. He restored to Christianity its true face as a religion of hope, to be lived in history in an “Advent” spirit, in a personal and communitarian existence directed to Christ, the fullness of humanity and the fulfillment of all our longings for justice and peace.
Finally, on a more personal note, I would like to thank God for the gift of having worked for many years with Blessed Pope John Paul II. I had known him earlier and had esteemed him, but for twenty-three years, beginning in 1982 after he called me to Rome to be Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, I was at his side and came to revere him all the more. My own service was sustained by his spiritual depth and by the richness of his insights. His example of prayer continually impressed and edified me: he remained deeply united to God even amid the many demands of his ministry. Then too, there was his witness in suffering: the Lord gradually stripped him of everything, yet he remained ever a “rock”, as Christ desired. His profound humility, grounded in close union with Christ, enabled him to continue to lead the Church and to give to the world a message which became all the more eloquent as his physical strength declined. In this way he lived out in an extraordinary way the vocation of every priest and bishop to become completely one with Jesus, whom he daily receives and offers in the Eucharist.
Blessed are you, beloved Pope John Paul II, because you believed! Continue, we implore you, to sustain from heaven the faith of God’s people. Amen.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Sacrifice and Change
Fasting and Abstinence are not only observed through eating less than the usual, or having only one full meal a day, or not taking any meat. We can also observe these two by leaving our addictions behind or lessen those, for just a week or days, at least. Just like these simple, yet difficult things to give up on. I can say one of those addictions is texting. We can at least take a rest in texting, instead of spending money to load your sim, why not donate it to the Church? or even buy some food, to give it to that child on the street. Another is watching TV, instead of spending too much time watching shows,movies, etc., try just to take a moment of silence, reflect. And the most usual thing people, especially teens, including me, do and I think would be difficult to sacrifice, is facing the computer 24/7, blogging, chatting, searching, watching vids, sound tripping, and the like. You can start, at least, by using the computer for just half day, then for the next day, use it for a half of the half of the previous day, until you can totally not use the computer especially for the Good Friday, when we commemmorate the death of Jesus Christ, and to why is it called Good? it's because on that day through the body and blood of Christ, the world, the people had its salvation. That's why Cross doesn't only signifies death, nor sorrow, but the best thing it symbolizes is LOVE.And the best thing to do this Holy Week, is have a change of heart, or METANOIA(though we can do this any time of the year, any time we want). Change for the better, instead of the feeling of hatred, replace that feeling with love, instead of greed or envy, replace that with contentment, happiness and gratefulness, instead of doubts, replace it with faith, and most of all, place God in your heart, have a good conscience, not only for the Holy Week but all through out our lives.
What we're doing is nothing compared to what Jesus done for us. He sacrificed His life for us, He gave us salvation, our freedom, our lives and with that, we should all be thankful to Him. We should show Him that we are worthy of His salvation and show Him how we truly love Him. Just a simple act can mean so much to Him. I know a lot of us would find it hard to sacrifice such things because we are used of doing those things everyday but we should learn how to sacrifice.
But it doesn't end in sacrificing for the Holy Week. It's not only during this time that we would sacrifice, would be more good than the usual days, and to be holy, as what the name says, Holy Week. Everyday is a day to be holy, to be good or to be better, to know God, to love God, and to introduce to others who God is and made known to them how deep is the love of our loving and merciful God for all of us. All of these would be of nothing if after Holy Week we would leave those good ways, if after this week, we would go back to the normal, a person of hatred, of envy, of anger, etc. What we started-as a changed and better person, should be continued, should remain in us and should be improved as time goes by. In doing these things, we should bear in mind that it's not because that's what others tell us to do, not because we will look good in that way, but because it is what God wants us to be, for His people to take the right path. We are doing this because of our love and faith in Him, we are doing this for God, whose love is unconditional and endless.
May we all have a safe, significant and a meaningful Holy Week! God bless everyone! :)
Saturday, March 26, 2011
NO TO RH BILL!
Filipinos rally against birth control
Prayers and march as legislators agree to drop two-child provision of controversial bill
Filipino Catholics light candles and pray for “life”
Hundreds of thousands of Filipino Catholics rallied today in a show of force against a proposed reproductive health law.The Archdiocese of Manila and various “pro-life” groups led the prayer rally and Mass was officiated by Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales of Manila.
The rally carried the theme “Filipinos! Unite Under God for Life” and coincided with the Feast of the Annunciation, which the activists have declared as the Day of Unborn Children.
Pro-Life Philippines said Pope Benedict VI has sent a “special message” which reportedly includes a “special indulgence” for all who will attend to Filipinos that would be read during the prayer rally.
At the House of Representatives, leading proponents of the controversial reproductive health (RH) measure withdrew several provisions of the bill, including a section “encouraging” limiting families to two children, hours before the start of the protest.
In a letter to priests, religious and laity of the archdiocese, Cardinal Rosales said the rally was for all those who value family and life values.
He urged the clergy and all Catholics to join the event to show “that our country will never allow the repressive bill to be passed.”
Similar activities were also held in other major cities.
But leftist lawmaker Neri Colmenares of Bayan Muna (Nation First) said the “silent majority of Catholics” are in favour of the passage of the proposed measure in Congress to make individuals responsible for planning their families.
“As a practising Catholic, I believe the majority of us are in favor of the RH bill, having understood the salient provisions of the bill that would protect the reproductive health of women,” Neri said.
He said most legislators are in favor of the passage of the proposed measure, adding he is confident the “silent majority” of Filipinos are also for it.
In Cagayan de Oro in the southern Philippines, civil society and religious groups called for an “open and fair discussion” on reproductive health.
President Benigno Aquino, who was invited by the bishops to attend the gathering in Manila, said the government “cannot close our eyes to the reality of our huge population, that is why the state should address it along with other issues like maternal and child health.”
He said the centerpiece of the government’s policy is the promotion of responsible parenthood, which includes raising the awareness of those of reproductive age about the consequences, good or bad, of bearing children.
He clarified that his administration is against abortion.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Si TC! :D
http://opensourcecbe.blogspot.com/2009/12/c-with-dosbox-in-windows-7.html
naalala ko lang bigla si Turbo C. :)) para sa mga gumagamit ng windows 7 dian, eto po ung way para mapa run ang TURBO C. :)) God bless! :))
Friday, March 18, 2011
Ang daming mga hula at prediksyon ang lumalabas ngayon, kaya naman ang mga tao, may mangyari lang na maliit na bagay, ayun, inuugnay agad sa katapusan ng mundo o 'yung 2012. Ang ilan, masyadong pinapalala ang mga bagay bagay, ang wild ng imagination. Bago pag-isipan at alalahanin ang mga katakot takot na pwedeng mangyari sa mundo, hindi ba pwedeng ayusin muna ang sira sa sarili? Iayos ang mga mali at alamin kung paano maiaalis ang sarili sa pagkalugmok sa kasalanan, sa tukso, at sa anumang kasamaan? Bigyan ng importansya ang oras sa pamamagitan ng paglalaan nito kasama ang mga mahal natin sa buhay at pagbibigay kasiyahan at kaluguran sa Panginoon? Bakit imbes na mag-alala, na alam naman nating walang maidudulot na mabuti, bakit hindi na lang isipin kung paano makapamumuhay ng malinis at ng ayon sa kagustuhan ng Panginoon? Imbes na mag-alala, matakot at manakot, bakit hindi na lang tayo magdasal at magtiwala sa pagmamahal ng ating Panginoon? Kung ito lang ay ating magagawa, hindi ganito kalaking takot ang ating mararamdaman dahil alam natin na kahit na ano'ng mangyari, ang Panginoon ay nasa tabi natin, gumagabay at nakayakap sa atin. Ako man ay nahihirapan gawin ang mga bagay na 'yan, ngunit kung gugustuhin natin at magkaroon ng malaking pananampalataya, magagawa natin. Natatakot din ako. Ngunit iniisip ko na lang nandiyan ang Panginoon bilang ating proteksyon. Alam natin na hindi niya hahayaang tayo ay masaktan at mapinsala. Kung tatanungin mo, bakit naman nagkakaroon ng ganitong mga pangyayari - ang lindol, tsunami, giyera, patayan at kung anu-ano pa, hindi Siya ang may gawa ng mga 'yan, tayong mga tao ang nagpahintulot na mangyari ang mga pangyayaring 'yan. Ako man ay natatakot kapag naiisip ko ang mga bagay na sinasabing mangyayari sa 2012, ngunit hindi nga ba't walang nakakaalam nito, kung hindi ang Diyos? Tanging ang Diyos ang nakakaalam at wala ng iba. Malaki ang aking paniniwala na mababasa mo at mababasa ko pa 'to sa taong 2012, 2013,2014, at sa mga susunod pang mga taon at tayo'y magpapasalamat sa Diyos dahil nananatili at nagsasaya pa din tayo dito sa mundo, masayang pinagmamasdan ang kagandahan sa paligid na sinasabing masisira at mawawala na nga daw. :))
God loves us! :))
Monday, March 14, 2011
Prayers are offered not only when there are calamities, it is only the time when we need it the most but everyday is a day to pray. We should know how to give thanks to our God for every morning, day and every breath He gives us, for all the blessings of hope, love and the presence of the people we love and we should be sorry for all the wrong things we've done. Everyday, talk to God and see how light you would feel, how satisfied you are and how you would be delighted in every seconds of your life. Praying gives us this feeling of warmth when we're cold, feeling of happiness after solving a problem, comfort after a sorrow. It's like a feeling when you passed all your subjects, the feeling of being satisfied or even being full after being hungry, relaxing after doing all your school works, and sleeping in silence at the end of the day. God is not only called when we are in need, when we are suffering, having problems and having hard times. We, people are hurt by the reality that there are people who will only remember us in times when they are in trouble or in need of something but when the times they are full of happiness and joy, it's as if we didn't exist. We should know how to talk to God every day of our lives, not just because someone said so, but because as the people of God, communication to Him is really a must and it is the right thing to do. If we can stay several hours talking to someone on the phone, hurting our eyes staying at night just to chat with someone, and stand for hours when you met someone on the street just to have a conversation with him/her, what more having time to talk to our Creator, to our Father, to our God? Isn't it worthy after all? Isn't it a feeling of joy and happiness? Isn't it a feeling of comfort? Think. :))
Let's continue to pray for the people in Japan, Libya, and New Zealand. Let's ask for the guidance of God to keep all of us away from harm or danger and to let peace and love enter each and everyone's heart. God bless people!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
He is there, have faith
A lot of "not-so-good" happenings occurred recently - quake, storm, flood, war, violent killings and a lot more. Different people in different places experienced misfortunes or better, say, challenges. I'm afraid that would do something about the predictions about 2012, which may be true or may not be, no one knows, only God. But through it all, we should know how to stand up again, be stronger, begin a new life and we should draw closer to God. We should know that in times like this, in the arms of our Father is the best and safest place to be in.
"Panatiliin lang pong nakahawak sa mga safety hand rails..." - lines that I usually hear when riding an LRT. Hand rails serve as a grip for the passengers so as they would not fall or tumble while the train is running. People who are not able to take a hold on those rails, would just try to keep their balance but there are times that no matter how hard you try to keep yourself balanced, you just can't do so, like what I sometimes experienced. Just like in life, you can't always stay focus only on yourself, we're responsible for each other, you just can't always go on by yourself, you need someone to hold on., we need someone to lean on to. As the saying says, "No man is an island." People need someone on their sides in order to feel that they are love, to give love, to share happiness with, to have someone to help you with the chores, to have someone whom you can have a duet with, someone who you can chat with and even the simplest, someone just to stay beside you even in the silence. But when you feel that you're all alone and the world has turned you down, there He is! He, who stays beside you for all the time, He, who is willing to help you in everything you do, He who has unconditional love for you, He who is willing to do everything for you and He who already risked His life just to save you, and He did and still does these without any conditions, without expecting nothing in return, it is because HE LOVES YOU, HE LOVES US! So with our situation now, we should not lose hope, He is there. Instead of wasting our time thinking and worrying if the world will really going to end in the year 2012, why don't just spend our time living life at its best? why don't just spend more time with your love ones? why don't just repent and turn back to God? and why don't deepen our love to God, just believe and hold on to Him. Worrying doesn't change anything, it only makes things worse. Don't you dare say that the things happening are punishments of God, you're absolutely mistaken! God is love and will not do anything that will hurt His people. He will not give us problems that we can't handle. Instead of finding someone to blame for all the things happening in your life, reflect, and bear in mind, you're the one who's responsible for what's going on with your life. In times like this, it's not good to be apart from God, instead, we should tighten our hold on Him and embrace Him the most. Everything has its reason. Everything, everyone changes. Unlike in mathematics, in life, there are no constants, only variables. You may experience happiness, joy, fun but you can also suffer, grief, and be saddened. All of those are essential in life. Just remember, He is there and He knows best.
Despite these heartbreaking occurrences in our world, remember the lyrics from a song, "God is watching us from a distance.." God is our refuge, God is our Savior. He is our Father, He is our Creator. No matter what happens, for sure and for always, He is there, have faith.
God bless everyone! :))
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