Family Occasions, Speaking Heart to Heart

  February 4, 2025                                                    Opus Dei   Hello!   How is each and every one? Especially in these times is wellness much in the minds, hearts and lips of most everybody.   Why is that so?   Have you at one moment or other ever found yourself wondering why it is?   In the times of our parents life has been simple; meals and food items, cuisines, menus, gadgets, recreation and rest, relationships, etc. a little bit of everything in moderation does it good for each one of us.   But life has become complicated.   Each one needs to find out for herself what is going on around in every aspect of life in the world.   Discernment is crucial.   We need to know and experience what works well and what does not; to discern the truth in what we read, hear and observe.   Curio...

  January 28, 2025 Dreamstime.com   Hello!   How is each and every one?   The week passed by with celebrations every other day.   The 21 st was the anniversary of the First visit of the Successor of St. Josemaria to the Region of the Philippines and East Asia in 1987; the 23 rd was the anniversary of the election of the Prelate in 2017; the 25 th was the conversion of St. Paul, the end of the Christian Unity Octave. It was a week of thanksgiving more than any other day. A friend of thirty nine years now from Canada dropped by for a visit; it is her turn among her siblings to be with her 90 year old aunt who took care of her father. She had a lot of stories; we enjoyed having her. The two of us dared to take a selfie.   Imagine without any experience in doing so each one of us tried.   She took a better shot not without effort; same with me with much effort but I must say it was a good enough shot. It was fun. We realized simple are our joys ...

  January 21, 2025 Opus Dei Hello!   How is each and every one? The New Year of hope 2025 is running on its first 20 days running fast forward with a lot of things to look forward to and invites each one of us to continue with joyful prayer of thanksgiving, adoration, reparation and petition.   Tranquility of order is being aimed at and worked on by a whole country with its entire good willed people cascading down to the people all over the world. With God let it be so for His great glory and for each one of us who is a child of His.   God created the world beautiful and good for His children to enjoy and to work on using all the talents, gifts and resources He has given each one of us. In doing so each one of us becomes the god our Father God wants us to be.   Remember His words:   “ Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Mt 5:48). Path To Holiness The Kingdom of God is ours.   We belong to the one family of God and this is the rea...