Family Occasions, Speaking Heart to Heart

  May 6, 2024   Provincia de la Inmaculada   Hi!   How is each and every one?   We are now in the sixth week of Easter   and heading towards Ascension Sunday.   Jesus will be leaving us to go to His Father as He has been telling us to prepare a place for each one of us.   But He is not leaving us alone.   He is sending the Spirit of Love to stay with us and remain in each one of us, to be around us, and in our midst. The Holy Spirit will teach us to love more, He will strengthen our love for God the Father, God the Son, for our mother, Mary and for St. Joseph and for each one of us.   Love will abound and good will flourish amongst us.   We will drown evil with the abundance of a good life.   St. Augustine said:  “Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good.  We are the times! Such as we are, such are the times.” (Sermon 80:8). Hence let us seek to ren...

 April 30, 2024 Hi! How is each and every one?   Tomorrow May 1, aside from being Labor Day, a public holiday, it is the feast day of St. Joseph, the carpenter worker.   He is a good carpenter.   Remember?   Jesus is known by his father, ‘isn’t he the carpenter’s son’?   Jesus who is said and identified as He who did all things well, qui bene omnia fecit !, is the son of the carpenter!   His father must have taught him well.   Indeed, like father like son! What an honor to St. Joseph.   Jesus reveals him to us. Ergo, therefore, are you and I not excited to go to St. Joseph ‘Ite ad Ioseph!’ to ask him to teach us how to do our professional work, duties of the moment, any task for that matter well? I am always excited to go to St. Joseph.   He is the patron saint of four things. Go to St. Joseph to ask him for different concerns in life:   for a good husband, for a good profession, for interior life and vocation in general, for a ...

 April 23, 2024 Hi!  How is each and every one? In preparing for this post I was searching for a fitting cover photo and title when the words of a song by the same title came to mind and I know there is such a song.  I searched for it to see if the lyrics are to my liking, clean, pure and edifying.  I listened to the song a lot of times and I liked it, I am sharing the same with you.  I forwarded it to my siblings viber group and in a few seconds the response from my comedian bro popped up that says, “Pinks, sobra naman romantic yan kanta.  Long na nga eh lasting pa?  Suerte naman! At least hindi taken na nga for granted naman.  Miriam Defensor Santiago in her book “Stupid is forever”, one of her one-liner jokes or pick-up lines was “Taken na nga for granted naman.”   Knowing you I am sure you would be happy to have the words of the song written down.  Following is the continuation of the previous post on the same symphony of love of...