Family Occasions, Speaking Heart to Heart

  September 9, 2025 Hello!   How is each and every one?   Yesterday the Church celebrated the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our mother. We also celebrated in the house as we would celebrate our biological mother’s birthday. Talking about birthdays just the other day somebody introduced a young girl by the name of Julyna as July na.   When she was introduced to me I instantly muttered e September na. She laughed and explained that she was born on the July 1.   So her parents named her Julyna. That reminded me of an episode when one of us went for a trim to one of the parlors around the area she was asked the name of the one who cut her hair and she answered “his name is July”.   A month after she had her hair done by the same person and somebody asked who the cutter was.   She said April. No, it was July, her companion replied.   There is nobody there by the name of April. It turned out that she was thinking of her bi...

September 2, 2025 Dreamstime.com Hello!   How is each and every one?   I am fully aware that I owe all of you an explanation.   Although I somehow intuited in the last post, July 1, that I would be out for a seminar and I asked for your prayers for myself and all the others participating in the seminar, I had remained silent the whole two months until today. Now I feel the urgency to start anew. The theme of the said seminar was Psychology and Spiritual Life aside from other topics that were equally very enriching and super enlightening. I must confess I was not in tip top shape during each and every session.   I may have been physically present but not completely, mentally and intellectually 100% present.   The spirit is willing but the body is not completely well.   And then after the seminar I had to focus on other things related to transferring residence from the mid-central to the south. I guess I mentioned it to some persons that I was born to...

July 1, 2025 Hello! How is each and every one?  We are on the first day of the 7 th month of the year.  We are half way through the year 2025 and we are making it through the year 2025 with deep gratitude and hope that is full of joy.  How else can we live through it all? Our hope is in the Lord in whom we trust and depend on.  Without Him you and I can do nothing. He is our strength.   It is He who is eternal, all-good, omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnipresent (present everywhere).  He is deserving of all our love.  Nobody else loves you and me the way He loves-  suffering and dying on the Cross for you and me who are sinners? Let us do our best to seek Him, to find Him, to know Him, to love Him and to serve Him with all the talents and capabilities He has given each one of us. Let us ask ourselves at the end of each day if and in what ways we did love God and serve Him. In fact our day starts by a grateful...