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Quote from: ben on July 28, 2011, 09:31:42 AM
He's been messing with too many people's rice bowls, that's why we see so many angry editorials against PNoy

perhaps he views their rice bowl as being too full. maybe pnoy believes rice bowls shouldn't be filled to the brim, but then again he probably believes in 'quality' over quantity. Porsche quality.

Fr. Roel, og mo balik pood ka next year, gusto pood ko mo meet up nimo og ang mga Puppies.

hmmm...next year! mibalik ako

To an abortionist , this is considered a "successful surgery".

In other words, don't worry about anything. Trust in God's provisions now, and later...

     

Risks

Risks of surgical abortion include:

    * Damage to the womb or cervix
    * Emotional or psychological distress
    * Excessive bleeding
    * infection of the uterus or fallopian tubes

The risks of surgical abortion increase as a woman gets further along in her pregnancy. That's why it's important to make a decision about abortion as early as possible, when the procedure is safest.

The risks for any anesthesia are:

    * Reactions to medications
    * Problems breathing

The risks for any surgery are:

    * Bleeding
    * Infection

Call your health care provider if you have had a surgical abortion and you have:

    * Excessive vaginal bleeding (may lead to shock)
    * Continued pain or pregnancy symptoms (possible sign of ectopic pregnancy)
    * Signs of infection, including persistent fever, vaginal drainage with a foul odor, vaginal drainage that looks like pus, or abdominal pain or tenderness


http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/surgery/abortion/overview.html

Description

A surgical abortion uses a vacuum to remove the fetus and related material from a woman's uterus (womb). The procedure is usually done after 6 weeks of the woman's last menstrual period

You may receive medicine (sedative) to help you relax and feel sleepy. The doctor may numb the cervix so you feel little pain during the procedure.

If the surgical abortion is done after 12 weeks of pregnancy, the doctor must first open (dilate) the cervical canal. Small sticks called laminaria are placed into the cervix to help it open. Sometimes, this is done a day or two before the actual abortion procedure. Next, the doctor inserts a hollow tube into the womb before using the vacuum to remove the pregnancy-related tissues from the womb.

Medicines may be given to help the uterine muscles contract. This reduces bleeding.

My goodness! Don't mess with a woman jyud eh...i wonder what precipitated this event...

Do these politicians and supporters of RH bill know how it is like to deliver a child? A living, breathing child?

I have delivered a child during a rotation in the Obstetrics/Gynecology Ward. It is not some kind of animal that comes out of a woman's vagina after 9 months of formation in the uterus. No. It is not some kind of 'it', but a human being. A human being with a soul, with a nervous system. A human being who can hear, feel pain, feel joy, and all the senses preordained all humans can experience by God.

Do these politicians know the effects of misoprostol (the abortifacient drug)? I do. I have treated patients who came to the E.R because of the massive blood loss after taking misoprostol. Hundreds of American patients die every year because of the effects of misoprostol , when used for abortion.

The only ones to benefit from this RH bill passing are the pharmaceutical companies.

In America, misoprostol is also known as "Cytotec". It is voraciously prescribed in these so called "Family Planning Facilities", which charge a pregnant mother some $400 for the pills that will induce her uterine lining to rip and to induce massive bleeding, killing the living child in the process.

As a Medical Intern and a Clinical Instructor of Advanced EKG and Advanced Cardiac Life Support , I concur with Dr. Baumgartner. Life does not begin at delivery, life does not begin during 'fetal' stage of gestation. No. A human being's life begins during conception. When the 23 chromosomes that belong to mother join and unite with the 23 chromosomes that belong to the father. Together, they make a totally new , living being.


Life begins at conception. This is fact.

Life Begins at the Beginning
(A Doctor Gives the Scientific Facts on When Life Begins)

By Fritz Baumgartner, MD

April 12, 2005

Dear Friend,

We can approach abortion from many perspectives: Biological, embryological, genetic, philosophical, social and economic, at the very least. As for the first three â€" my approach as a scientist, physician, surgeon, and simply someone who finished medical school, is factual.

There is no more pivotal moment in the subsequent growth and development of a human being than when 23 chromosomes of the father join with 23 chromosomes of the mother to form a unique, 46-chromosomed individual, with a gender, who had previously simply not existed. Period. No debate.

There is no more appropriate moment to begin calling a human "human" than the moment of fertilization. And don't let anyone tell you otherwise, because it would be a degradation of factual embryology to say it would be any other moment. For example, some pro-abortion zealots and even, shockingly, some disingenuous physicians claim it is the moment of primitive notochord formation (nonsense!) or, even more absurdly, the moment of implantation. (It defies sanity to claim that the implantation of a developing blastocyst onto a uterine wall defines humanity more than does the completion of an entirely new DNA map, which defines a new organism's existence).

And to say that "size" is a determinant of humanity, of course, is an unscientific reason to deny an embryo his or her human status.  In any event, it is an embryological reality, which no embryology textbook on earth denies, that at the moment of fertilization a new human being is formed.

Following below is some information about some of the less noble ideologies of my colleagues in medicine as they pertain to defining humanity and defending abortion. I hope it helps you refute pro-abortion lies.

Abortion is violence

Some people muse whether modern-day abortion is as bad as the Holocaust genocide of the Nazis. What is our answer?

Looking at numbers alone, we are now, in 2005, comparing 44 million surgically aborted babies in the USA alone (not even considering the babies who die by pharmaceutical methods like the Pill, RU486, DepoProvera), to 6 million Jews in Europe. The evil rationale of the Holocaust was racial hatred -- the furthering of an “Aryan race” and genocide against Jews. The rationale of our modern Holocaust, by the very admission of pro-abortion groups, is primarily convenience.

The vocation of medicine and the vocation of motherhood are both profoundly sacred and should teach us that human life is of immense value. Abortion hijacks the vocations of motherhood and medicine and distorts them into something unrecognizable. Abortion takes ordinary pregnant mothers and makes them accomplices in â€" literally â€" murder. When human life is thus cheapened, we all lose. As I wrote in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology,

"Modern American society has a strange ambivalence to violence and death, on the one hand expressing horror at high school massacres yet on the other hand perhaps merely shrugging in discomfort at the willful termination of early human life to the tune of tens of millions. The roots of this ambivalence lie in convenience, self-centeredness, and our national confusion regarding legitimate versus illegitimate 'choice.' Teenagers intuitively sense phoniness and hypocrisy and may have more trouble than adults in reconciling this apparent paradox, which seems so unnatural to the innocent mind yet on the other hand is almost taken for granted by society and, sadly, by medicine. As Mother Teresa of Calcutta said, ‘If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill each other?…Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want…’ " (1)

Hippocratic Oath was anti-abortion

When does life begin?

Some people claim that our human lives really do not begin at fertilization, and that a more realistic time for the dignity of "humanity" to be imparted on a growing blastocyst-embryo would be about a week after fertilization, about the time of implantation.

It does not change things that in centuries past, some great Catholic theologians and philosophers differed on when precisely a biological entity becomes infused with a human soul. St. Thomas Aquinas, using the limited scientific knowledge of the 13th century, followed Aristotle that the conception of a male child was completed at day 40, and that of the female child at the 90th day, with replacement of the embryo's “nutritive soul” by a human soul. The Venerable Maria de Agreda, a 17th-century visionary, wrote that human "ensoulment" occurs at different times for boys and girls, and that it occurs at a time later than fertilization.

I am not a philosopher or theologian but a student of medicine and surgery. I can speak to you with authority that from a pure, unadulterated biological and embryological standpoint, there is no greater pivotal moment in our growth and development than when 23 chromosomes from our father join with 23 chromosomes from our mother to form a unique, new biologic entity who heretofore simply had not existed.

This new biological individual is complete, has a gender, and is fully and uniquely programmed and equipped to grow and develop and change until death. All he or she needs is nutrition and a warm place to grow. To say that an embryo has the "potential" to become a human being is biologically and technically imprecise â€" and dangerous.

Perhaps even more dangerous is the concept that it is not a precise moment, but a gradation of human worth. With this model, a preborn baby at 3 months is somewhat of a human being, but a newborn is more of a human being.


http://www.prolife.com/life_begins.html

Brothers and Sisters,


Do you ever feel like life is too stressful at times? When everything is spiraling down, you feel like you're doing everything you can , however, you are getting nothing out of your hard work? I'm sure we all experience this feeling, surely, I do too.

We all hear of stories when people succumb to the stresses of life by taking their life. My beloved brothers and sisters, if we remember the pilgrim lives of Apostle Paul, Peter, Timothy, Luke, we see and hear that living and preaching the word is never an easy thing. Even the original church fathers were themselves tempted and faltered from time to time. Peter, the leader of the apostles, denied Christ 3 times before the rooster's call. Why even Apostle Paul went through challenges during his stay in Greece and in Rome. Despite these factors, the church fathers eventually kept the Word of God in Jesus Christ till the end. In fact, most of the Apostles endured a painful death while preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

They were truly convinced in this Truth. Convinced in the Divine Promise of the Resurrection of the Righteous on the Last Day.

Last night, as I was walking back from work, I walked past St. Boniface Catholic Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. I happened to read the message on the Gate. The message , which said, "Here rest the faithful awaiting the blessed hope and glorious coming of our Great God and Savior Jesus Christ," really touched me. Thousands of men and women are buried in St. Boniface Cemetery, which is a German-American cemetery. It is quite empowering and inspiring to know that these people trusted in the Christian message of Resurrection of the Righteous on the Last Day.

I was strengthened. Truly, there is a Resurrection of the Holy Dead, who wait until The Lord Jesus Christ will come again....

Thanks for sharing this, Fr. Roel Lungay. 

To : Isles, Sir Daray, Vincent, David, Ate Lumine, and Fr. Roel.


Thank You for the warm birthday wishes! This year has been a challenging and really life-changing experience. With all the responsibilities on my shoulders in the hospital and in instructing. I will admit that it has been a humbling and at the same time empowering experience. Turning 26 is quite interesting. It reminds me that I'm not getting any younger (just 3 more years of my 20s!) haha. I ask God to bless all of us and to strengthen, guide all of us this year and in coming years.


Please keep me in your prayers. Behind this big exterior is a soft hearted man who relies on God during these critical years of medicine. Please keep me in your prayers.

I am grateful for the prayers!

Love and Thanks,
Bran Lorenz

A form of spiritual and self expression? or is it a psychological condition (histrionic behavior, attention seeking, sadism)?

Body modifiers utilizing extreme piercing techniques:

Body Modification: Body modification (or body alteration) is the deliberate altering of the human body for aesthetic or non-medical purpose, such as sexual enhancement, a rite of passage, denoting affiliation, trust and loyalty, religious reasons, shock value, and self-expression.





reference: wikipedia

...from Indonesia.



His condition is caused by the virus called HPV (Human papilloma virus)

Tens of thousands of men have answered questions about children, money, sex, marriage and many other issues that a popular men's website is about to publish in a piece called "The Great Men's Survey." This report will be fully released in August, but some insighful information for all has been released this week. Roughly about 68,000 men participated in the survey when all was said and done.

Here are some key points. Younger men are more likely to have a problem dating a woman with children, 68% of the men said they believe in the institution of marriage and plan to get married someday, 92% of the men said they would be OK if their female partner or spouse made more money than them but about one third of men filling out the questionnaire said it was very important or somewhat important that their wife or future wife signed a prenuptial agreement.

About 47% to 50% of men under age 30 were fine with dating a woman with children, but almost half of the male respondents aged 15 to 28 were not comfortable with the idea of dating a woman with children. Men's discomfort with dating a mom dropped with each additional decade of age, falling below 15% of men aged 50.

If they had to choose between having a child or a dog, men under age 20 would pick the dog by a tiny margin of 28% to 26%. Men between 35 and 50 wanted the child more than a puppy. About one-third of all men wanted both a child and a dog, while about 13% didn't want either creature in their house.

If men could have only one child, apparently the desire for a boy was greater than that for a girl, but the older the men were, the less the gender of the child mattered.

To maintain a healthy relationship, about 12% of men under age 30 thought couples should have sex every day. More than 75% of men answering the survey thought couples should have sex several times each week. About 1% said sex once a month would be okay.

Some experts feel that the best way to understand male mating behavior is as the product of biological evolution. Evolution is only concerned about getting genes into the gene pool. It selects for genes that increase their own presence in the gene pool, and this is accomplished by having a large number of surviving offspring.

The elements of male sexuality are consistent with the pressure to have many offspring that reach reproductive age themselves. Men are biologically programmed to get have as many surviving offspring as possible, that is precisely the thing that evolution selects for. Note that this expresses the outcome that evolution selects for, but it doesn't specify the mechanisms by which that happens, and does not compel men to act on the predisposition.

Commitment to a family is good: it helps the offspring reach adulthood, but the commitment is not necessarily exclusive. A wife's womb is a bottleneck. More children outside of the marriage would increase reproductive success, as would more marriages, if the man can support them.

A man wants sex more often than a woman, on the average, and especially when the woman is occupied with pregnancy, lactation, and caring for children. Some feel menopause is nature's way of telling a man to find someone younger. This encourages a man to seek out more than one woman.

Men commonly fantasize about sex with many women. Giving reasons for being unfaithful, men commonly report they are "bored" with sex with their wife or girlfriend, that they need "variety." These are the ways natural selection translates into human experience.


http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/231837.php

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today alerted health care professionals to a change in heparin manufacturing that is expected to decrease the potency of the common anti-clotting drug.

To ensure the quality of heparin and to guard against potential contamination, the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), a nonprofit standards-setting organization, adopted new manufacturing controls for heparin. These changes include a modification of the reference standard for the drug’s unit dose.

Manufacturers in the United States label the amount of heparin included in their products based on USP standards. The changes adopted by the USP for the heparin unit dose match the World Health Organization’s International Standard (IS) unit dose definition that has been in use in Europe for many years. The revised USP reference standard and unit definition for heparin is about 10 percent less potent than the former USP unit.

A unit is the measure of a drug’s activity in the body. For heparin, a unit dose is the measure of the drug’s ability to block the blood’s natural clotting ability (anticoagulation). Heparin’s potency is determined by the dose of the drug required to produce a specific level of anticoagulation.

Manufacturers for the U.S. market have begun to make heparin using the new USP standard. While the USP manufacturing controls take effect Oct. 1 for production, the FDA has asked that they not ship this new product to customers until Oct. 8, 2009, or later. The delay will give health care providers and facilities time to learn about the changes and to make adjustments to their pharmacy procedures and dosing practices, according to John Jenkins, M.D. director of the Office of New Drugs in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

“Although the FDA-approved labeling for heparin has not changed, including the recommended doses, it is essential that health care professionals be aware of the potential difference in potency between the old and new vials of heparin when administering the drug,” said Jenkins. 

Four companies market heparin in the United States. APP, the largest manufacturer, markets heparin in vials; Hospira markets heparin in intravenous bags, vials, and syringes; Baxter markets heparin in intravenous bags, and B. Braun markets heparin in intravenous bags. The FDA has asked that all manufacturers identify their new products to help pharmacies and health care professionals differentiate it from the former product.

Prescription and overâ€"theâ€"counter medicines available in the United States must generally meet USP's public standards, when such standards exist. The revised standards for heparin are contained in a new USP monograph.

The monograph was revised, in part, in response to a 2007- 2008 incident of heparin contamination involving a manufacturing step in China. The contaminated heparin was associated with deaths and other adverse events in the United States. The monograph was changed to include a test for the contaminant.

For more information

FDA Alert to Health Care Professionals
http://www.fda.gov//Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm184502.htm

USP Heparin Information
http://www.usp.org/hottopics/heparin.html

Information for Consumers: What You Should Know about Changes to Heparin
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm184504.htm

Quote from: Lorenzo on July 28, 2011, 04:37:58 AM
Do you believe that you, those who believe in the Resurrection on the Last Day, will be raised when Our Great God Jesus Christ comes again?

Do you believe....?

Jesus tells us and promises us this:


The LORD Jesus Christ said,

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.


    -John 6:39-40

Do you believe that you, those who believe in the Resurrection on the Last Day, will be raised when Our Great God Jesus Christ comes again?

Do you believe....?

For men are not cast off by the Lord forever.Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.

  -Lamentations 3:31-33

For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one;he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

    -Psalm 22:24

Quote from: Lorenzo on July 28, 2011, 04:06:43 AM
Credentes et Nunc-Credentes, Da Fidei Quae Fidei Sunt!

Pax Vobis In Nominae Iesus Christus Dominus Est.



Lorenzo.

Translation:


To the believers and non believers, let us give to faith what belongs to faith.

In all things, Go In Peace In The Name of Jesus Christ Who Is Lord.

Credentes et Nunc-Credentes, Da Fidei Quae Fidei Sunt!

Pax Vobis In Nominae Iesus Christus Dominus Est.



Lorenzo.

hmmmm. but physics is never permanent.

in the distant past, the men of 'science' used to say to the day-dreamers of the world, "it is impossible to fly, and much more impossible to walk on the moon!"

did we not shatter such limitations some 50 years ago when man ascended to the heavens?

perhaps the physicists in tubag bohol would care to give their input?

Mr. Ferniz, where art thou?

aha, ha, ha, ha!

40 years of work eh? 10 years of monkeying around and 10 years of barking at passers-byes. aguy!

This just too much. May God comfort the dying, the living. May God have mercy on the dead.

haha. straight to the point, eh, sir daray?

hehehe fashionable diay ni si botoyitot. liwat sigoro sa ijang amo.

haha. isles, that is quite funny how your cat manages to wipe any residue on your carpet. smart oy. my little puppy, maxine, does the same , but on the grass. after i take her outside to pee and poop, if there are any residues she will scrape her bum bum on the grass.

Home Is Home Because Of My Grandmother and Grandfather



The sound of my Lola's voice as she used to hold me and my cousins
Her very soft hand combing my hair as she used to sing me a Cantonese lullaby
To the scent of Johnson's baby cologne that she used to put on me and my cousins
as we prepared to attend Sunday Mass at Senor Santo Nino Parish Church in Valencia.

To the smell of the spicy Sichuan style chicken soup she would cook.
Lola's smile, her soft voice, and her beautiful brown eyes always imprints on my mind
everytime I visit my Lolo's and Lola's home in Valencia.



Lola holding my baby cousin Christian Grace




Lola Nating, Papa Romeo (my uncle), and Lolo Ciano

May God be merciful to you, Gloria, and forgive you of your sins. I pray that your ills are healed as your sins should be too. May our forgiving and merciful Father God grant you peace and strength to bear these trying times.

This will be a beautiful addition!

Two Things That Characterize This Experience

We could talk for hours about what that experience is. In fact, most of my messages are just that—descriptions of the experience of the Spirit of God in the life of the believer. But I'll mention two things from the book of Acts—things that mark the experience of being baptized in the Holy Spirit or of receiving the gift of the Spirit.

1. A Heart of Praise

One is a heart of praise. In Acts 10:46 the disciples knew the Holy Spirit had fallen because "they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling (or magnifying) God." Speaking in tongues is one particular way of releasing the heart of praise. It may be present or may not. But one thing is sure: the heart in which the Holy Spirit has been poured out will stop magnifying self and start magnifying God. Heartfelt praise and worship is the mark of a real experience of the Holy Spirit.

2. Obedience

The other mark I'll mention is obedience. In Acts 5:29 Peter and the apostles say to the Sadducees who had arrested them, "We must obey God rather than men." Then in verse 32 he says, "We are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit whom God gave to those who are obeying him." ("Gave" is past tense; "obey" is present, ongoing tense.) It is inevitable that when the object of your heart's worship changes, your obedience changes. When Jesus baptizes you in the Holy Spirit, and infuses you with a new sense of the glory of God, you have a new desire and a new power (1:8 ) to obey. Whether or not you speak in tongues, these two things will be your experience if you have been baptized in the Holy Spirit—a new desire to magnify God in worship and a powerful disposition to obey God in everyday life.





http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/how-to-receive-the-gift-of-the-holy-spirit

Four Reasons Why It Is Right to Do So

Here are four reasons from Acts.

1. Terminology

The very term "baptized in the Holy Spirit" (1:5; 11:16) implies an immersion in the life of the Spirit. "John immersed in water; you will be immersed in the Spirit." If the Spirit overwhelms you like a baptism, you can't imagine him merely sneaking in quietly while you are asleep and taking up inconspicuous residence. That may be the way it starts (Paul may have this early movement in mind in 1 Corinthians 12:13), but if it ends there, Jesus and Luke would not call it a baptism in the Spirit.

2. Power, Boldness, and Confidence

Jesus says in Acts 1:5 and 8 that baptism in the Spirit means, "You shall receive power . . . and you shall be my witnesses." This is an experience of boldness and confidence and victory over sin. A Christian without power is a Christian who needs a baptism in the Holy Spirit. I am aware that in 1 Corinthians 12:13 Paul says that baptism in the Spirit is an act of God by which we become a part of the body of Christ at conversion, so that in his terminology all genuine converts have been baptized in the Spirit. But we have done wrong in limiting Paul's understanding of the baptism in the Holy Spirit to this initial, subconscious divine act in conversion and then forcing all of Luke's theology in Acts into that little mold. There is no reason to think that even for Paul the baptism in the Holy Spirit was limited to the initial moment of conversion. And for sure in the book of Acts the baptism in the Holy Spirit is more than a subconscious divine act of regenerationâ€"it is a conscious experience of power (Acts 1:8 ).

3. The Testimony of Acts

In fact the third reason I think this is that when you take your concordance and look up every text in Acts where the Holy Spirit works in believers, it is never subconscious. In Acts the Holy Spirit is not a silent influence but an experienced power. Believers experienced the baptism in the Holy Spirit. They didn't just believe it happened because an apostle said so.

4. The Consequence of Faith

The fourth reason we should stress the experience of baptism in the Holy Spirit is that in Acts the apostles teach that it is a consequence of faith not a subconscious cause of faith. As a convinced Calvinist I believe with all my heart that the grace of God precedes and enables saving faith. We do not initiate our salvation by believing. God initiates it by enabling us to believe (Ephesians 2:8â€"9; 2 Timothy 2:25; John 1:13). But this regenerating work of God's Spirit is not the limit of what Peter means by baptism in the Spirit. In Acts 11:15â€"17 Peter reports how the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius just as on the disciples at Pentecost. "As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as on us at the beginning. I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John baptized in water, but you shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.' If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I should withstand God?" Notice that the gift of the Spirit, or baptism in the Spirit, is preceded by faith. The NASB correctly says in v. 17 that God gave the Holy Spirit after they believed. So the baptism of the Spirit (v. 16) or the receiving of the gift of the Spirit (v. 17) cannot be the same as the work of God before faith which enables faith (which Luke speaks of in 2:39; 5:31; 16:14; 11:18; 15:10; 14:27). The baptism in the Spirit is an experience of the Spirit given after faith to faith.

How to Receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit.



I close by pointing you to Peter's instructions for how to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:38â€"41.



The Word of God Must Be Heard

First, the Word of God must be heard. Peter has preached that in God's plan Jesus was crucified, raised, and exalted as Lord over all the universe and that forgiveness of sin and spiritual renewal can be had from him. The Word has been heard.

The Sovereign God Must Call Men and Women

Second, the sovereign God must call men and women to himself, or they will never come. Verse 39:, "The promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, everyone to whom the Lord our God calls to him." No one comes to faith in Christ unless the Father draws him (John 6:44, 65). The preached Word is heard with conviction and power only when the effectual call of God lays hold on the hearers.

We Must Receive the Word

Third, we must "receive the word." Verse 41: "So those who received his word were baptized." Receiving the Word means that it becomes part of you so that you trust the Christ it presents. You trust his provision for your forgiveness. You trust his path for your life. You trust his power to help you obey. And you trust his promises for your future. And that radical commitment to Christ always involves repentanceâ€"a turning away from your own self-wrought provisions and paths and powers and promises. And when you really turn to Christ for new paths and new power, you open yourself to the Holy Spirit, because it is by his Spirit that Christ guides and empowers.

We Must Express Faith Through Water Baptism

Finally, we must give an open expression of faith in the act of water baptism in obedience to Jesus Christ. Baptism was the universal experience of all Christians in the New Testament. There were no unbaptized Christians after Pentecost. Christ had commanded it (Matthew 28:18f.) and the church practiced it. So we do today.

Therefore, I invite you to experience the greatest thing in the worldâ€"Repent, trust Christ, open yourself to the power of his Spirit, be baptized in his name, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.



http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/how-to-receive-the-gift-of-the-holy-spirit

Mr. Business Cat; ijang amo ay si Gwargz hehehe

Hmmm , i guess this is Botoyitot, the famous cat who belongs to Hubag Bohol. Wearing a disguise eh? 

This is disgusting to read.

Quote from: chicogon on July 27, 2011, 01:50:13 AM
Aw, happy birthday diay Dong Enz. May your tribe increase!!! (Did I say enough?) 

Thank You Fr. Roel! Oo nag birthday ko diri sa Chicago. I will tell you a secret: that i wish i was back in Bohol to celebrate my birthday just like last year.

America is nice. Chicago is poshy. But nothing can beat Bohol. If it was up to me, i would be back in Bohol right now--in my lolo's house in Valencia.

This dog belongs to Ate Ging kai baker suprema! hahaha! the best cake maker in the west coast...

this dog belongs to ms da binsi. kai dali mo katawa. hahaha!

kini, this boy belongs to aleth hazel


kai serious eyes man.

this boy probably belongs to either: michael ligalig, or han delaguna.

this dog probably belongs to fr. roel. bwahaha oy ka cute! liwat jud sa ijang amo.

ahoang iro ni sija...bwahahaha

Quote from: hubag bohol on July 24, 2011, 06:55:13 AM



He he... 

ha ha ha!

If someone is experiencing troubles, why would that person go to a fortune teller to pray for them?

If you are experiencing troubles, adto sa simbahan. Ampo sa Ginoong Hesus Kristo. The One and Only One who can help you.

Not some con artist fortune teller who charges 45000 pesos for candles.

God does not care about the cost of candles. nor the color.

He listens to the intent and the purpose of the prayer. And will answer it according to His Will....

True to his name diay ni si Cuban. Ning Cub-Cub sa ijang jail sentence. 

Quote from: statesville on July 27, 2011, 12:03:37 AM
black candles?..unsay mahimo sa kandila in resolving a marriage dispute...

hahaha! to save a failing marriage diay ang purpose sa aning black candles?

pero 45000 pesos? sus ka mahala pood. i can't ever imagine paying a man $1000 to pray for me.

so the purpose of that prayer is already impure. kai money-based naman diay.

hehehe cute bitaw ni sija oy! gamay kaajo..

hahaha! i love the lady. cute man gud. awww, diba?

hehe cute!

Out of my own limited experience with terminal patients, one patient that I was making rounds with several months ago was on her last months of life. She was a CHF patient in hospice care. Her CHF (congenital failure precipitated the events of acute renal failure) was on its last stages and when I made rounds with her, she started to talk about God.

I was really impressed with her prodigious faith!

This woman, who was dying of heart failure, was there talking to me and glorifying God. What faith, indeed.
Several weeks later, I found out that she passed peacefully in her sleep. The day before, she was still glorifying God.

The strength to accept what you cannot change (her heart failure) and the realization of the world to come was so embedded in this woman. I can still hear her southern accent and her baptist hymnals! She had a beautiful voice.

QuoteGroopman recalled the case of one patient, the devout wife of a Protestant minister, who was stricken with terminal cancer. "I worried as I cared for her that [her] faith would be tested and ...lost," he said. Instead, the woman "found in her faith tremendous strength," he said. "It allowed her to weather the storm of her illness and pass through it without flinching."

Balancing Medicine and Faith
Physicians contrast their views on spirituality at new BC symposium

By Mark Sullivan
Staff Writer





The surgeon author of the award-winning book How We Die said he once administered a fatal dose of morphine to a terminally ill woman to ease the suffering of her deeply religious family on the eve of the holiest day of their Jewish faith.

Dr. Sherwin Nuland recalled the Yom Kippur 1977 incident at a Nov. 14 forum in Boston's Copley Theater sponsored by Boston College and The Atlantic Monthly, the first event in a new annual symposium on belief and non-belief in American culture.

Nuland and Dr. Jerome Groopman of Harvard Medical School were the featured guests in a dialogue that focused on how religious belief or non-belief, and divergent understandings of the meaning of life, intersect with medical decisions.

"It was more than I could bear to leave that family out in the waiting room," said Nuland, a self-described agnostic, recalling his decision to hasten the death of his patient.

He said he was mindful that, for the woman's family, the next day was the Jewish Day of Atonement, a solemn day that would be made more so by worry and grief.

"It was a personal response, perhaps a selfish response," said Nuland, of the Yale School of Medicine. "I was overwhelmed by awe and by the solemnity of the night. There was something about what the family was going through...It would be torture for them all night long.

"I would not let them keep suffering through the night, [but would] end it 12 hours earlier," said the surgeon, who said legal proscriptions against such an action were not as clearly defined 23 years ago as today. "That may have been the wrong decision," he said, but "it came out of my own sense of responsibility to [the family].

Said Nuland: "I find myself, as a person lacking belief, overwhelmed by someone else's belief."

The symposium is modeled on a series of public conversations established in Milan by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, SJ, based on his supposition that within each person lies "a believer and a non-believer," each trying to convince the other.

Nuland, whose recent book The Mysteries Within describes the influence of myth, superstition and religion on the development of medical thought, occupied what Cardinal Martini has called "the chair for the non-believer" at the forum.

"I have never been able to convince myself that life has inherent meaning," said the veteran surgeon and self-described skeptic, who said he does indeed "wonder at the marvels of nature and of the human mind," but sees spirituality emanating from physiological need, not heavenly design.

Putting the case for religious faith was Groopman, a cancer and AIDS researcher who is experimental medicine chief at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His best-selling book The Measure of Our Days: A Spiritual Exploration of Illness inspired this fall's new ABC television series "Gideon's Crossing."

An observant Jew, Groopman said he doesn't encounter "a large tension between being a scientist and a person of faith." From the religious wellspring of his Hasidic and Orthodox forebears from Eastern Europe, he said, he drew "a deep and abiding humanism, love for one's fellow man and woman, and a sense that each person you care for as a physician is...made in the image of God."

Groopman recalled the case of one patient, the devout wife of a Protestant minister, who was stricken with terminal cancer. "I worried as I cared for her that [her] faith would be tested and ...lost," he said. Instead, the woman "found in her faith tremendous strength," he said. "It allowed her to weather the storm of her illness and pass through it without flinching."

He said his own faith was tested by another case involving a young boy who survived leukemia only to be stricken with AIDS from a tainted blood transfusion. "His father, who drove a delivery truck, deeply believed in his Catholic faith, and waited for God to intervene to save his son," said Groopman. "We failed to save [the boy's] life - and therefore God failed. I had no answer for him. I found myself unable to rationalize in any way, as a believing person, such a horrific tragedy."

Yet the boy's father was able to "create meaning" from his son's death by returning to the Church and working to help other children similarly afflicted, he said.

Boston College President William P. Leahy, SJ, and Atlantic Monthly Editor-in-Chief Michael Kelly offered welcoming remarks at the symposium, which was simulcast on the Boston College campus and in Washington, DC, for 100 alumni and guests of the Boston College Alumni Association.

Probably my favorite song of all time.

Grey's Anatomy Music Event - Cast Sing 'How To Save A Life' (7x18)

now this man will predict on the following:

1. how much time he will spend in jail
2. how much court fees will cost him

lol. tsk tsk. pariho ra pood ni siya sa mga mayans. they predict the world to end in 2012 kono , but could not even predict the doom of their own civilization some 1000 years prior.

4. Fortitude

While counsel is the perfection of a cardinal virtue, fortitude is both a gift of the Holy Spirit and a cardinal virtue. Fortitude is ranked as the fourth gift of the Holy Spirit because it gives us the strength to follow through on the actions suggested by the gift of counsel. While fortitude is sometimes called courage, it goes beyond what we normally think of as courage. Fortitude is the virtue of the martyrs that allows them to suffer death rather than to renounce the Christian Faith.



5. Knowledge

The fifth gift of the Holy Spirit, knowledge, is often confused with both wisdom and understanding. Like wisdom, knowledge is the perfection of faith, but whereas wisdom gives us the desire to judge all things according to the truths of the Catholic Faith, knowledge is the actual ability to do so. Like counsel, it is aimed at our actions in this life. In a limited way, knowledge allows us to see the circumstances of our life the way that God sees them. Through this gift of the Holy Spirit, we can determine God's purpose for our lives and live them accordingly.



6. Piety

Piety, the sixth gift of the Holy Spirit, is the perfection of the virtue of religion. While we tend to think of religion today as the external elements of our faith, it really means the willingness to worship and to serve God. Piety takes that willingness beyond a sense of duty, so that we desire to worship God and to serve Him out of love, the way that we desire to honor our parents and do what they wish.



7. Fear of the Lord

The seventh and final gift of the Holy Spirit is the fear of the Lord, and perhaps no other gift of the Holy Spirit is so misunderstood. We think of fear and hope as opposites, but the fear of the Lord confirms the theological virtue of hope. This gift of the Holy Spirit gives us the desire not to offend God, as well as the certainty that God will supply us the grace that we need in order to keep from offending Him. Our desire not to offend God is more than simply a sense of duty; like piety, the fear of the Lord arises out of love.

3. Counsel

Counsel, the third gift of the Holy Spirit, is the perfection of the cardinal virtue of prudence. Prudence can be practiced by anyone, but counsel is supernatural. Through this gift of the Holy Spirit, we are able to judge how best to act almost by intuition. Because of the gift of counsel, Christians need not fear to stand up for the truths of the Faith, because the Holy Spirit will guide us in defending those truths.

Counsel builds on both wisdom, which allows us to judge the things of the world in light of our final end, and understanding, which helps us to penetrate to the very core of the mysteries of our faith.

"With the gift of counsel, the Holy Spirit speaks, as it were, to the heart and in an instant enlightens a person what to do," writes Father Hardon. It is the gift that allows us as Christians to be assured that we will act correctly in times of trouble and trial. Through counsel, we can speak without fear in defense of the Christian Faith. Thus, the Catholic Encyclopedia notes, counsel "enables us to see and choose correctly what will help most to the glory of God and our own salvation."

2. Understanding

Understanding is the second gift of the Holy Spirit, and people sometimes have a hard time understanding (no pun intended) how it differs from wisdom. While wisdom is the desire to contemplate the things of God, understanding allows us grasp, at least in a limited way, the very essence of the truths of the Catholic Faith. Through understanding, we gain a certitude about our beliefs that moves beyond faith.


Understanding is the second gift of the Holy Spirit, behind only wisdom. It differs from wisdom in that wisdom is the desire to contemplate the things of God, while understanding allows us, as Fr. John A. Hardon writes in his Modern Catholic Dictionary, to "penetrate to the very core of revealed truths." This doesn't mean that we can come to understand, say, the Trinity the way that we might a mathematical equation, but that we become certain of the truth of the doctrine of the Trinity. Such certitude moves beyond faith, which "merely assents to what God has revealed."

Once we become convinced through understanding of the truths of the Faith, we can also draw conclusions from those truths and arrive at a further understanding of man's relation to God and his role in the world. Understanding rises above natural reason, which is concerned only with the things we can sense in the world around us. Thus, understanding is both speculativeâ€"concerned with intellectual knowledgeâ€"and practical, because it can help us to order the actions of our lives toward our final end, which is God. Through understanding, we see the world and our life within it in the larger context of the eternal law and the relation of our souls to God.

1. Wisdom

Wisdom is the first and highest gift of the Holy Spirit, because it is the perfection of faith. Through wisdom, we come to value properly those things which we believe through faith. The truths of Christian belief are more important than the things of this world, and wisdom helps us to order our relationship to the created world properly, loving Creation for the sake of God, rather than for its own sake.


Wisdom is the perfection of faith. As Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J., notes in his Modern Catholic Dictionary, "Where faith is a simple knowledge of the articles of Christian belief, wisdom goes on to a certain divine penetration of the truths themselves." The better we understand those truths, the more we value them properly. Thus wisdom, the Catholic Encyclopedia notes, "by detaching us from the world, makes us relish and love only the things of heaven." Through wisdom, we judge the things of the world in light of the highest end of man—the contemplation of God.

The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are enumerated in Isaiah 11:2-3. They are present in their fullness in Jesus Christ but are found in all Christians who are in a state of grace. We receive them when we are infused with sanctifying grace, the life of God within usâ€"as, for example, when we receive a sacrament worthily. As the current Catechism of the Catholic Church notes, "They complete and perfect the virtues of those who receive them." Infused with His gifts, we respond to the promptings of the Holy Spirit as if by instinct, the way Christ Himself would.

Biblical Reference:


2 The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
3 And He will delight in the fear of the LORD,
And He will not judge by what His eyes see,
Nor make a decision by what His ears hear.

   -Isaiah 11:2-3

Minister:
God of power and mercy,
in love your sent your Son
that we might be cleansed of sin
and live with you forever.
Bless us as we gather to reflect
on his suffering and death
that we may learn from his example
the way we should go.

We ask this through that same Christ, our Lord.

All:
Amen.

Minister (or family leader, or you):
We adore you, O Christ, and we bless you.

All:
Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

After each station:

All:
Lord Jesus, help us walk in your steps.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan leads a procession following a mass at the Missionaries of Charity home in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With support from Catholic Relief Services, the home serves more than 1,000 children and adults who are orphaned or ill. Photo by Jim Stipe/CRS.

Quote from: islander on July 26, 2011, 03:24:00 PM
ow, that's still very young, with the world at your feet and the heavens to reach out to.  sukol pa man gani si hubag ug bugsay nga kapila na mo-retire.  nagligas ra tag edad; i'm only 17 (dollars, hehe, not pesos.)

hehe, bata pa pero daghan na responsibility sa pamilya og sa mga patients.   paeets!

sometimes, how i wish i could go back to the simpler days when i was still a kid.

getting older is nice, but the responsibilities that comes with it is quite stressing. awww, such is life eh?

For a long time, the Philippines was considered to have a relatively low AIDS rate, but in recent years this has started to change. Nowadays HIV in the Philippines is described as “hidden and growing”.

At a recent forum in Tagaytay, the Philippines’ first Catholic HIV/AIDS network was launched. Caritas Internationalis’ special advisor on HIV and AIDS, Msgr Robert Vitillo, says the network comes at the right time. Caritas Philippines will play a key role in the AIDS network.

“One reason the network is so important is the shift in the pattern of the epidemic, which could grow more rapidly than in the past,” says Msgr Vitillo.

The Philippines has a large migrant population that leaves the country to look for work. There is a greater risk of HIV infection among migrant workers and the return of migrant workers to the Philippines is thought to have an impact on the country’s AIDS rate.

The network will coordinate and strengthen the Church’s work on HIV. The Church and Caritas already have a number of programmes in the Philippines. A big focus of Caritas’ work is empowering local communities to help themselves.

A Caritas pilot project to prevent stigma and discrimination in communities which was started on small scale is about to be expanded to 29 dioceses.

The Church works in many other areas concerning AIDS in the Philippines. It offers diagnosis, care and treatment, counselling, training and income generation projects.

“We now need to coordinate our efforts together, support each other, learn from each other and strengthen one another in this work. It is for this reason that we have come together,” said Bishop Broderick Pabillo of Manila at the forum.



http://www.caritas.org/activities/hiv_aids/PhilippinesCatholicAIDSNetwork.html

It is the love of God who touches each and every giver to give donations to church. In return, the money collected is used to fund and the the tens of thousands of families afflicted with AIDS, who normally could not afford care and provisions.

God is truly magnificent..

4.8 million people with AIDS are given care, aid, and health care by the Roman Catholic Church. This money comes out of the donations from the people, through the mercies of God who compels the gracious givers...to give.

God Bless the Catholic Church...may we do more! and more!

Moved by compassion, Catholic Relief Services initiated our first HIV and AIDS project in 1986 in Bangkok, Thailand. We now have AIDS programming in 62 countries across Africa and the hardest-hit regions of Asia and Latin America. We operate more than 280 HIV and AIDS projects in the poorest and most vulnerable areas of the developing world, with an expenditure of over $170 million in 2009 alone. In partnership with other faith-based and non-governmental organizations, CRS directly supports more than 4.8 million people affected by the epidemic.

CRS programming in HIV and AIDS has evolved to help individuals, families and communities as they struggle through the physical, economic, social and emotional devastation of the disease. By working with local partners â€" including Catholic, governmental, and other faith-based and private organizations â€" we empower people and communities to stem the tide of the pandemic.


http://crs.org/hiv-aids/

hahaha. kiss the kittens for me. an extra kiss for the chubby one.

tigulang na ko jyud. 26 na.

Ning ingon ni sija nako, "Doc, wag ka ma akig sa akon haw? Joke lang gid"

My response was, "I am not angry, but just know that not all Bol-anons are kuripot, and not all gastador."

I was so very annoyed that he tried generalizing the 'kuripot' aspect.

He also joked that bolanons have 'rubber bands' on their wallets kono. I was so very disappointed with this kind of comment.

Do you think that Bol-anons are kuripot?

When I talked to a young ilonggo man this month (sa hospital, kai nurse man ni siya), we exchanged some life experiences and opinions of the Philippines. I told him that I was from Bohol and shared to him about the beauty of the Chocolate Hills, the lush green of Bohol, and the overall kindness of the Boholano people.

He joked around but said, "Bards, tinuod bala ang Bolan-on kuripot gid pero manggaranon?"

I didn't know how to answer his question.

How could this guy assume that Bol-anons are kuripot? Or if it is true, what's wrong in being "financially conservative?"

economical man ning tawhana. bol-anon sigoro ni sija.

ha, ha, ha, wise gyud ning pinoy da!

hehe, how about you show case your cooking skills and make us some bicco cake with the carmelized brown sugar on top. eh?

Quote from: chicogon on July 26, 2011, 02:29:41 PM
Kung di mada sikmahay mag gigkanay nalang ta unya da tila... tila way sukod sa bawos 

ayaw na lang gud pag away-away. pwede man ta tanan mag sinulti lang maayo. diba, fr. roel?

The Catholic Church operates the majority of the world's orphanages and accepts abandoned and maltreated children with open arms, and helps to find them homes.

The Catholic Church operates hospitals and fights to bring Catholic Medical Care to those who believe that Spiritual Faith coincides with Proper Medical Care. Spiritual and Medical Healing, as the saying goes.

The Catholic Church fights, and has continued to fight, for the rights and dignity of the defenseless, the unborn, those who are unable to mentally care for themselves, and the dying.

The Catholic Church , which has withstood oppression from the world for over 2000 years , has endured perilous journey enacted by the world onto the faithful, continues to shed light to the dark corners of the world.

Jesus said to Peter, the first pope, "Not even the gates of hell can overcome the church..."

How Catholic Relief Services Serves :


How We Serve

Our work is about more than helping people survive for the day. Catholic Relief Services approaches emergency relief and long-term development holistically, ensuring that all people, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, are able to participate in the very fullness of life â€" to have access to basic necessities, health care and education â€" all within peaceful, just communities.

To achieve this, we focus on six key areas of service:


Emergency

In areas devastated by natural disasters and wars, CRS is often among the first on the ground providing water, food, shelter, protection from abuses and other basic needs. But our work does not stop there, especially during times of war or when disaster strikes in conflict zones. In the course of providing emergency assistance, we also address the root causes of conflict and help communities bring about lasting change and peace


Hunger

Millions worldwide are unable to meet their most basic, daily needs for a variety of reasons. CRS takes a multipronged approach to combat chronic hunger and poverty. We address a combination of pressing concerns by mitigating hunger, developing agriculture, improving water and sanitation, developing sustainable work options, providing microfinance to support small businesses, and providing a safety net for those who have no other means of support


Education

Lasting improvement in the lives of the poor cannot be achieved without education. Access to education for all, particularly girls and women, as well as improved quality of education are key components of CRS' work around the world. Equally important is community involvement in education, without which long-term, positive change is elusive.




Health

In much of the developing world, people have little access to health care â€" no clinics, no hospitals, no doctors, no medicine. Focusing on remote and underserved areas, CRS establishes community-based health care systems that give people the tools they need to manage their own health needs. Our community health programs focus on caring for those affected by HIV and AIDS; improving child survival, especially among orphans and vulnerable children; developing proper water and sanitation systems; improving nutrition; and advancing maternal and child health.

Peace

The way we provide emergency aid and development assistance can actually prevent or transform conflicts. Peacebuilding, therefore, lies at the heart of all we do. Conflict resolution, education and prevention are integral to our work of development and emergency recovery. Part of peacebuilding also means strengthening civil society through civic organizations that help communities collectively advocate for their own needs. This, in turn, encourages good governance and holds governments accountable to their people. In this way, such tragedies as human trafficking can be halted and the most vulnerable are given the protection they need.

Helping at Home

CRS serves the poor and vulnerable overseas. Here at home, we work to help American Catholics put their faith into action, encouraging them to advocate for changes that uproot the unjust structures that constrain the lives of the poor and perpetuate poverty, conflict and inequality. Programs educate Catholics at home about the causes of hunger, help them foster economic justice through conscientious consumerism, and build peace and justice in the world by raising their voices in the halls of U.S. and international governing bodies.


http://crs.org/how/