Family Occasions, Speaking Heart to Heart

  August 27, 2024 Hi!  How is each and every one?  Do you ever get to count your blessings?  Do you ever catch yourself smiling and uttering the words ‘love mo ako talaga, Lord!’ I forgot now what happened that I was having fun with Our Lord telling Him over and over again that ‘love niya ako’. Episodes like this happen often but also many other opposite episodes happen as often. I don’t remember though having uttered the negative when things don’t happen the way I want. At times I remember St. Teresa’s words addressed to Our Lord, “It is no wonder you have few friends.” Now I am problematic; I don’t remember any of those episodes. Usually it happens when appointments are made and done; plans are facilitated and provided for; persons respond without any fuss; whenever I feel His provident care; His prompt response. When I am still thinking of something and it is already realized, I get to utter, ‘Ang bilis mo naman, Lord. ’ Or I feel like a spoiled brat or I sing ‘...

  August 20, 2024 Hi!   How is each and every one? Talking about being kind, what is it really to be kind?   Education in good manners is all about being kind.   Good manners aside from self-dignifying are other people dignifying too, if there is such a way of saying it.   Kind persons are good mannered in every way.   They are virtuous in many ways perhaps without even realizing it? But they are good company, edifying, and exemplary of good living.   They are considerate, thoughtful, tactful, careful so as not to cause any inconvenience or hurt to others.   It is unfortunate that nowadays good mannered persons are becoming a rare species.   Unfortunately, a good lot of younger generations have not caught up with the older ones who have had the opportunity to be educated in good manners early on in their life inside and outside the home. The other night we shared a video of an interview with a couple.   Both spouses are celebrities. ...

  August 13, 2024 Hi!   How is each and every one? On August 15, the Church will be celebrating the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On November 1, 1950, Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary to be a dogma of faith:   “We pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.”   The Pope proclaimed this dogma only after a broad consultation of bishops, theologians and laity.   There were few dissenting voices.   What the Pope declared was already a common belief in the Catholic Church. “Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord...