Family Occasions, Speaking Heart to Heart

December 31, 2024 Mary, Mother of God, Mother of the Church Diocese of Sindhudurg   Hello!   How is each and every one? Am sure each one of us did our best to have a happy Christmas and a Happy Family celebration.   Without myself realizing it I did have a happy Christmas and an equally happy Family celebration as well.   I guess with good dispositions the good Lord blesses everything in such a way that everything turns out well, joyful and wanting nothing more.   Emmanuel is truly there in our midst and most certainly inside each one of us.   Awesome, indeed! Personally, I am happily realizing and experiencing awe and joy as I reminisce the recent past experiences with pleasure or nostalgia.   This year’s Christmas joke had as a theme Ang Kwento ni Lola Basyang .   My joke was Queen of Sudoku because I am the only one among the rest who is fond of Sudoku and I find rest of mind and body doing Sudoku.   Moreover I am a Banana Queen be...

  December 24, 2024 Opus Dei   Hello!   How is each and every one?     Happy birthday, Jesus!!! What a joyful Christmas Day!!!!   Our Savior, Jesus Christ is born today!!! Come, let us welcome Him and adore Him with His mother, Mary and father, Joseph into our hearts in grace.   O come, O come Emmanuel!   He comes to bring us love, joy, peace and salvation!!! What are you and I giving Him today? I give Him my dignity, attention and devotion. I want to do what He tells me to do at every given moment of the day.   I want to spend time with Him and bring many others to spend time with Him also. I am offering to Him these hours that I am working on this post so I can publish it tomorrow in time for His birth. The solemn opening of the Jubilee Year will be held today, December 24, with the opening of the holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.   The celebration, which will begin at 7 p.m. (Rome time), will be broadcast l...

  December 17, 2024 Hello!   How is each and every one? Today is the birthday of the Holy Father Pope Francis.   Let us keep him in mind throughout the day and every day in our prayers, work and other activities during the day. As he is the sweet Vicar of Christ on earth, let us keep him company in our prayers as Jesus Christ does with each one of us in our day to day life. Last Saturday, we had the Christmas party of our staff in the house with their families.   It started with anticipated Mass at 4:45 before which there were ongoing confessions for whoever wanted and needed to receive the sacrament.   After the Mass of course was dinner and then the fun moment everyone was eagerly awaiting to participate in.   The games were held outside in the garage which was cleared of cars. There were two petite young energetic female game masters.   Participants were all generations from grandparents, parents to 2, 3, 4 year old girls; 8 year old boys; teens...