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File a formal complain and give it to the Dept of Health, have it documented with your medical history upon hospitalized. They will learn their lesson a lot better. More profits for ill health among customers?

makalog ang otok, maka-bright raba kana!

this place is the favorites of Koreans.

there are lots of leftist in our politics , this is not new.

Ramos is second to Marcos in terms of accumulated wealth in whatever form it maybe.

Taga Bulawan ka? Na-a ka sa ato karon? Pag-kolekta ang mga pirma sa taga Bulawan. morag appeal to the local politicians to improve the situation that devastate our Tanguhay river.

Dugay nako sa germany, magloya ko kon dili kaka-on ug kan-on. Gayaya lang ni si Gordon sagana man siya sa pag-kaon busa siya personally maka-pailin ilin sa iyang meals.

You are promoting Kerala, India. We don´t have not much of this anymore since we are destructing our own natural resources, by the way welcome to Tubag Bohol.

Bol-anon man kini ug dagway! Nindot jamo, porya bujag!

Doy sori, gibitik tika kon asa taman ang imong tagalog. Ang katon ay isang aklat na ginagamit kong magsisimula kang mag aral ng wikang tagalog.

Chair of Peter

 
This feast commemorates Christ’s choosing Peter to sit in his place as the servant-authority of the whole Church (see June 29).
After the “lost weekend” of pain, doubt and self-torment, Peter hears the Good News. Angels at the tomb say to Magdalene, “The Lord has risen! Go, tell his disciples and Peter.” John relates that when he and Peter ran to the tomb, the younger outraced the older, then waited for him. Peter entered, saw the wrappings on the ground, the headpiece rolled up in a place by itself. John saw and believed. But he adds a reminder: “..[T]hey did not yet understand the scripture that he had to rise from the dead” (John 20:9). They went home. There the slowly exploding, impossible idea became reality. Jesus appeared to them as they waited fearfully behind locked doors. “Peace be with you,” he said (John 20:21b), and they rejoiced.

The Pentecost event completed Peter’s experience of the risen Christ. “...[T]hey were all filled with the holy Spirit” (Acts 2:4a) and began to express themselves in foreign tongues and make bold proclamation as the Spirit prompted them.

Only then can Peter fulfill the task Jesus had given him: “...

• nce you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers” (Luke 22:32). He at once becomes the spokesman for the Twelve about their experience of the Holy Spiritâ€"before the civil authorities who wished to quash their preaching, before the council of Jerusalem, for the community in the problem of Ananias and Sapphira. He is the first to preach the Good News to the Gentiles. The healing power of Jesus in him is well attested: the raising of Tabitha from the dead, the cure of the crippled beggar. People carry the sick into the streets so that when Peter passed his shadow might fall on them.
  
  Even a saint experiences difficulty in Christian living. When Peter stopped eating with Gentile converts because he did not want to wound the sensibilities of Jewish Christians, Paul says, “...I opposed him to his face because he clearly was wrong.... [T]hey were not on the right road in line with the truth of the gospel...” (Galatians 2:11b, 14a).
  
  At the end of John’s Gospel, Jesus says to Peter, “Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go” (John 21:18). What Jesus said indicated the sort of death by which Peter was to glorify God. On Vatican Hill, in Rome, during the reign of Nero, Peter did glorify his Lord with a martyr’s death, probably in the company of many Christians.
  
  Second-century Christians built a small memorial over his burial spot. In the fourth century, the Emperor Constantine built a basilica, which was replaced in the 16th century.
  
  
  
  
  Comment:
  
  Like the committee chair, this chair refers to the occupant, not the furniture. Its first occupant stumbled a bit, denying Jesus three times and hesitating to welcome gentiles into the new Church. Some of its later occupants have also stumbled a bit, sometimes even failed scandalously. As individuals, we may sometimes think a particular pope has let us down. Still, the office endures as a sign of the long tradition we cherish and as a focus for the universal Church.
  
  
  Quote:
  
  Peter described our Christian calling in the opening of his First Letter, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us a new birth to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...” (1 Peter 1:3a).
  

Draw closer to God    

Remember that the truth is a personâ€"Jesus. Our goal is not just to get good information but to draw closer and closer to Him. Then when we speak, by the power of His Spirit, we can convey the love God has for those who are confused. 

You have to travel to Koronadal, passing Banga and Surallah (Valley of Gods).  It is almost 3000 feet above sea level and inhabited by T´bolis. The place is slowly denuded since this Lumads still practices kaingin. Malaria cases is high here since the lake is not clean and a good breeding place of mosquitos.
This is actually a very nice tourist spot, sad to say this is not a safe place to stay long for a week or so. Naay NPA, Abu Sayyaf, my cousin who was a parish priest of San Lorenzo Church in K´matu, formerly a barrio of Surallah almost drove me away after an overnight stay.

Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto
(1910-1920; 1908-1919)

Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three children, Portuguese shepherds from Aljustrel, received apparitions of Our Lady at Cova da Iria, near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Lisbon. At that time, Europe was involved in an extremely bloody war. Portugal itself was in political turmoil, having overthrown its monarchy in 1910; the government disbanded religious organizations soon after.
At the first appearance, Mary asked the children to return to that spot on the thirteenth of each month for the next six months. She also asked them to learn to read and write and to pray the rosary “to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war.” They were to pray for sinners and for the conversion of Russia, which had recently overthrown Czar Nicholas II and was soon to fall under communism. Up to 90,000 people gathered for Mary’s final apparition on October 13, 1917.

Less than two years later, Francisco died of influenza in his family home. He was buried in the parish cemetery and then re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1952. Jacinta died of influenza in Lisbon, offering her suffering for the conversion of sinners, peace in the world and the Holy Father. She was re-buried in the Fatima basilica in 1951. Their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, became a Carmelite nun and was still living when Jacinta and Francisco were beatified in 2000. Sister Lucia died five years later. The shrine of Our Lady of Fatima is visited by up to 20 million people a year.




Comment:

The Church is always very cautious about endorsing alleged apparitions, but it has seen benefits from people changing their lives because of the message of Our Lady of Fatima. Prayer for sinners, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and praying the rosaryâ€"all these reinforce the Good News Jesus came to preach.


Quote:

In his homily at their beatification, Pope John Paul II recalled that shortly before Francisco died, Jacinta said to him, “Give my greetings to Our Lord and to Our Lady and tell them that I am enduring everything they want for the conversion of sinners.”

Exercise your Faith   

In baptism and confirmation you were given many graces: Faith is a huge one, but you have to activate it and use it, or it grows weak for lack of exercise. 

Pag-araln mo ng wasto ang ating wika upang maging maluning ning ang iyang mga tula. Magsimula ka kaya sa katon?

sulayi ang asian shop ( Sri Lankan, Indian) Nakakita ko dinhi sa Vietnamese shop, ang saging gikan sa Thailand.
adunay African banana (cook banana) morag anggid sa atong saging apan hilabihan ka apahon. Kining ka apahon sa saging maoy morag manilhig sa atong tina-i, matod pa nila. Dili na maayo sa adunay almoranas kay makatobol. ha ha ha, shalan nisimang napod ang topic. I hope this would help Inday Bambi.

Sakto diay Inday Bambi, dili jud ka malomos. this is overpriced.

excessive self-esteem!

Foods that has no fibers causes colon cancer like read meat.

na puno ang akong mailbox angin ni-aning nga topic.

The one responsible for making this survey got kik-kik from Ate!ha ha ha

this is quite interesting, bagong relihiyon? The content is not new but this is disturbing;

(Please pray for Philippine Progression 2010, Liberation of North Korea and Iran, the Haiti recovery and all the world issue.)

colon cleaner kining saging sab-a (hilaw boot ipasabot dili hinog), niluto unya maoy panihapon mga 3-4 ka book. Way laing isagol, dayon inum ug tubig. Very rich in fibers maoy makalimpyo sa tina-i. An african friend told me about this.

I would prefer to eat the real thing. Fish oil as a merchandise meant it has been industrially produced and mixed with unwanted chemicals to keep it´s quality for longer storage purposes.

mahal jamo!

Karon pa ni nako nabasahi, Grasyas kay nauli-an mong duha. Magdag-kit ko ug kandila pasalamat sa Inahan sa Kanunay panabang. God bless.

adunay supporting papers baya kini, kay ang land fraud worth 80 Billion Phil pesos.

He was a very noble person. It never came to his mind to enrich himself and his relatives or cronies. During his presidency,  Caloy told most of the Bol-anons who are in Manila nga walay palakas. This was also true of ex.governor Bernido from Guindulman. Guindulmanons complained that he was not able to build not even "lantay" aron ligiran sa  mga palahobog sa Sawang.

nganong karon  ra kini nigawas, kay eleksyon?

St. Conrad of Piacenza
(1290-1350)


Born of a noble family in northern Italy, Conrad as a young man married Euphrosyne, daughter of a nobleman.
One day while hunting he ordered attendants to set fire to some brush in order to flush out the game. The fire spread to nearby fields and to a large forest. Conrad fled. An innocent peasant was imprisoned, tortured to confess and condemned to death. Conrad confessed his guilt, saved the man’s life and paid for the damaged property.

Soon after this event, Conrad and his wife agreed to separate: she to a Poor Clare monastery and he to a group of hermits following the Third Order Rule. His reputation for holiness, however, spread quickly. Since his many visitors destroyed his solitude, Conrad went to a more remote spot in Sicily where he lived 36 years as a hermit, praying for himself and for the rest of the world.

Prayer and penance were his answer to the temptations that beset him. Conrad died kneeling before a crucifix. He was canonized in 1625.



Comment:

Francis of Assisi was drawn both to contemplation and to a life of preaching; periods of intense prayer nourished his preaching. Some of his early followers, however, felt called to a life of greater contemplation, and he accepted that. Though Conrad of Piacenza is not the norm in the Church, he and other contemplatives remind us of the greatness of God and of the joys of heaven.


Quote:

Pope Paul VI’s 1969 Instruction on the Contemplative Life includes this passage: "To withdraw into the desert is for Christians tantamount to associating themselves more intimately with Christ’s passion, and it enables them, in a very special way, to share in the paschal mystery and in the passage of Our Lord from this world to the heavenly homeland" (#1).

Jesus loves to be present in the festive, joyful moments of our lives.

And remember to go to His mother in all your needs. She desires to help because God has given her that role, and Jesus listens to her requests even when His timetable seems to be different. 

a cousin of mine simply did the same because his old flame is pestering him.

Sa ingredients nalang taas ang alcohol percentage, kinutil nalang ko.

Da-an  pa lagi ko, daghan nami! yehey.

Mao kini ang akong pag-too nga sex on the beach, I want the real thing.!

funny face?

BBC

Being happy and staying positive may help ward off heart disease, a study suggests.

US researchers monitored the health of 1,700 people over 10 years, finding the most anxious and depressed were at the highest risk of the disease.

They could not categorically prove happiness was protective, but said people should try to enjoy themselves.

But experts suggested the findings may be of limited use as an individual's approach to life was often ingrained.

They were given a rating on a five-point scale to score their level of positive emotions.

By the end of the analysis, some 145 had developed heart disease - fewer than one in 10.

But for each rise in the happiness scale there was a 22% lower risk of developing heart disease.


  Essentially spending a few minutes each day truly relaxed and enjoying yourself is certainly good for your mental health and may improve your physical health as well

Dr Karina Davidson
The team believes happier people may have better sleeping patterns, be less liable to suffer stress and be more able to move on from upsetting experiences - all of which can put physical strain on the body.


She said all too often people just waited for their "two weeks of vacation to have fun" when instead they should seek enjoyment each day.

"If you enjoy reading novels, but never get around to it, commit to getting 15 minutes or so of reading in.

"If walking or listening to music improves you mood, get those activities in your schedule.

"Essentially spending a few minutes each day truly relaxed and enjoying yourself is certainly good for your mental health and may improve your physical health as well."

It is not the first study to suggest there is a link between happiness and health.

But Ellen Mason, of the British Heart Foundation, suggested such an association may be of limited value anyway.

"We know that improving your mood isn't always easy - so we don't know if it's possible to change our natural levels of positivity."

Cardiologist Iain Simpson, of the British Cardiovascular Society, added: "Things like reducing cholesterol and diabetes are more important when it comes to reducing heart disease.

"But at the end of the day it heart disease is still the biggest killer in the UK so anything you can do to help should not be ignored."

Nourish His Word   

Let God, through His Spirit, plant the seed of His Word in your heart. Then give it the water and the nourishment it needs. 

Cheers to your health sweet ladies!

Never go to sleep without considering how you have spent the day just past and what you have accomplished for good or evil.

I remember this lines as a motto of an American Indian, it is like retracing your footsteps everyday so as to be a better human when awaking for the next day.

Honest taxpayers in our country are the humble Filipino workers. The big businesses , actors actresses etc, kosog magpalosot.

I got this from my mailbox. This came from a Butuanon nurse in NY. It was long but the content was really substantial. Daghan man mong na-a sa Amerika busa concern ni ninyo. Ang ako lang pangutana nganong 2 ka party system ra man jud diha. Republican and Democrats. Walay Independent or any third party. No one can afford to give a new impulse.

Walay sapayan Doy. Kamusta naman ka? Nauli-an kana sa imong aksidente? Wala ka panghubagi angin sa kalisang? ha ha ha

545 vs. 300,000,000

EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS  SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE.  READ IT  AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.

Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.


545  PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don ' t propose a federal budget.  The president does.

You and I don ' t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don ' t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don ' t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You  and I don ' t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress.  In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.. They have no legal authority.  They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.  I don ' t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash.  The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator ' s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault.  They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall..  No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits..  The president can only propose a budget.  He cannot force the Congress to accept  it..

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.  Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi.  She is the leader of the majority party.  She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want.  If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of  incompetence and irresponsibility.  I can ' t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.  When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it ' s because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it ' s because they want it in the red ..

If the Army & Marines are in   IRAQ ,  it ' s because they want them in IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it ' s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems..

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.  Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you.


This might be funny if it weren ' t so darned true.
Be sure to read all the way to the end:
 
      Tax his land,
      Tax his bed,
      Tax the table
      At which he ' s fed.
 
      Tax his tractor,
      Tax his mule,
      Teach him taxes
      Are the rule.
 
      Tax his work,
      Tax his pay,
      He works for peanuts
      Anyway!
      Tax his cow,
      Tax his goat,
      Tax his pants,
      Tax his coat.
      Tax his ties,
      Tax his shirt,
      Tax his work,
      Tax his dirt.
 
      Tax his tobacco,
      Tax his drink,
      Tax him if he
      Tries to think..
 
      Tax his cigars,
      Tax his beers,
      If he cries
      Tax his tears.
 
      Tax his car,
      Tax his gas,
      Find other ways
      To tax his ass.
 
      Tax all he has
      Then let him know
      That you won ' t be done
      Till he has no dough.
 
      When he screams and hollers;
      Then tax him some more,
      Tax him till
      He ' s good and sore.
      Then tax his coffin,
      Tax his grave,
      Tax the sod in
      Which he ' s laid.
 
      Put these words
      Upon his tomb,
      Taxes drove me
      to my doom... '
 
      When he ' s gone,
      Do not relax,
      It ' s time to apply
      The inheritance tax..   
      Accounts Receivable Tax
      Building Permit Tax
      CDL license Tax
      Cigarette Tax
      Corporate Income Tax
      Dog License Tax
      Excise Taxes
      Federal Income Tax
      Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
      Fishing License Tax
      Food License Tax
      Fuel Permit Tax
      Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
      Gross Receipts Tax
      Hunting License Tax
      Inheritance Tax
      Inventory Tax
      IRS Interest Charges IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
      Liquor Tax
      Luxury Taxes
      Marriage License Tax
      Medicare Tax
      Personal Property Tax
      Property Tax
      Real Estate Tax
      Service Charge Tax
      Social Security Tax
      Road Usage Tax
      Sales Tax
      Recreational Vehicle Tax
      School Tax
      State Income Tax
      State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
      Telephone Federal Excise Tax
      Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
      Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
      Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
      Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
       Telephone State and Local Tax
      Telephone Usage Charge Tax
      Utility Taxes
      Vehicle License Registration Tax
      Vehicle Sales Tax
      Watercraft Registration Tax
      Well Permit Tax
      Workers Compensation Tax
 
     STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.  We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
What in the hell happened? Can you spell ' politicians? '
And I still have to ' press 1 ' for English!?
 
I hope this goes around THE USA at least 100 times!!!  YOU can help it get there!!!
     GO AHEAD - - - BE AN AMERICAN!!!

Gener, pag ganito ng ganito ang yong mga postings, pwede kanang maging therapist!

consider this why meat is to be omitted on Ash Wednesday and Good friday;

The Christian churches that observe Lent in the 21st century (and not all do significantly) use it as a time for prayer and penance. Only a small number of people today fast for the whole of Lent, although some maintain the practice on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. It is more common these days for believers to surrender a particular vice such as favourite foods or smoking. Whatever the sacrifice it is a reflection of Jesus' deprivation in the wilderness and a test of self-discipline.

Ang karne bug-at sa tiyan, bawal in a sense that we should start the lenten season with fasting or to refrain from eating those kind of stuff.
If ever you would eat meat, you can do some act of penance like helping the neighbors, visiting the sick. It is not a sin, this I was told by my jesuit professor but a respect of this day. more details on ash Wednesday;

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent. It is a season of penance, reflection, and fasting which prepares us for Christ's Resurrection on Easter Sunday, through which we attain redemption.



Why we receive the ashes
Following the example of the Nine vites, who did penance in sackcloth and ashes, our foreheads are marked with ashes to humble our hearts and reminds us that life passes away on Earth. We remember this when we are told

"Remember, Man is dust, and unto dust you shall return."

Ashes are a symbol of penance made sacramental by the blessing of the Church, and they help us develop a spirit of humility and sacrifice.

The distribution of ashes comes from a ceremony of ages past. Christians who had committed grave faults performed public penance. On Ash Wednesday, the Bishop blessed the hair shirts which they were to wear during the forty days of penance, and sprinkled over them ashes made from the palms from the previous year. Then, while the faithful recited the Seven Penitential Psalms, the penitents were turned out of the church because of their sins -- just as Adam, the first man, was turned out of Paradise because of his disobedience. The penitents did not enter the church again until Maundy Thursday after having won reconciliation by the toil of forty days' penance and sacramental absolution. Later, all Christians, whether public or secret penitents, came to receive ashes out of devotion. In earlier times, the distribution of ashes was followed by a penitential procession.



The Ashes
The ashes are made from the blessed palms used in the Palm Sunday celebration of the previous year. The ashes are christened with Holy Water and are scented by exposure to incense. While the ashes symbolize penance and contrition, they are also a reminder that God is gracious and merciful to those who call on Him with repentant hearts. His Divine mercy is of utmost importance during the season of Lent, and the Church calls on us to seek that mercy during the entire Lenten season with reflection, prayer and penance.

Dabins, maglana gani ka ug potot, ubanan ug awit, to dream the Impossible dream!

After nine months in-ani nga dagway?

Seven Founders of the Order of Servites
(13th century)

Can you imagine seven prominent men of Boston or Denver banding together, leaving their homes and professions, and going into solitude for a life directly given to God? That is what happened in the cultured and prosperous city of Florence in the middle of the thirteenth century. The city was torn with political strife as well as the heresy of the Cathari, who believed that physical reality was inherently evil. Morals were low and religion seemed meaningless.
In 1240 seven noblemen of Florence mutually decided to withdraw from the city to a solitary place for prayer and direct service of God. Their initial difficulty was providing for their dependents, since two were still married and two were widowers.

Their aim was to lead a life of penance and prayer, but they soon found themselves disturbed by constant visitors from Florence. They next withdrew to the deserted slopes of Monte Senario.

In 1244, under the direction of St. Peter of Verona, O.P., this small group adopted a religious habit similar to the Dominican habit, choosing to live under the Rule of St. Augustine and adopting the name of the Servants of Mary. The new Order took a form more like that of the mendicant friars than that of the older monastic Orders.

Members of the community came to the United States from Austria in 1852 and settled in New York and later in Philadelphia. The two American provinces developed from the foundation made by Father Austin Morini in 1870 in Wisconsin.

Community members combined monastic life and active ministry. In the monastery, they led a life of prayer, work and silence while in the active apostolate they engaged in parochial work, teaching, preaching and other ministerial activities.




Comment:

The time in which the seven Servite founders lived is very easily comparable to the situation in which we find ourselves today. It is “the best of times and the worst of times,” as Dickens said. Some, perhaps many, feel called to a countercultural life, even in religion. All of us are faced in a new and urgent way with the challenge to make our lives decisively centered in Christ.


Quote:

“Let all religious therefore spread throughout the whole world the good news of Christ by the integrity of their faith, their love for God and neighbor, their devotion to the Cross and their hope of future glory.... Thus, too, with the prayerful aid of that most loving Virgin Mary, God’s Mother, ‘Whose life is a rule of life for all,’ religious communities will experience a daily growth in number, and will yield a richer harvest of fruits that bring salvation” (Decree on the Renewal of Religious Life, 25).

Fasting   

When I fast, give me to know what it means to be without, so that I will also know what it means to be filled with you only. 

Biologically speaking late pregnancy is no problem nowadays, with our advance medicine and health care. The trouble is,  a woman in her late forties has a low threshhold of patience and  stamina. It was nerve wracking, since my sleeps for only 4 hours and has gas pains. I was lucky at that time that my ex-partner was  supportive so with my daughter since they have 11 years difference.
Kon sa Pinas pa kini, aduna kay masampit nga kauban sa balay, silingan o partido sa pamilya.
Dinhi imong kanta, imong sayaw.

Manik nga na -lost control! Na pasmo, maka katok man kining gutom. dili ba?

Basin adunay oil sa Ilocos? Basin na-a nagbakasyon si Osama? ha ha ha.
Their presence mean something, this is disturbing because, mag Rest & Recreation gani ang mga Kano, sadya ang mga buring. This means STD, drugs and rock and roll.

Way kalaki kining negosyoha.

how much is your monthly budget for house rent?

In this thread, my problem is how to read betweent he lines, unsa may hidden agenda?

St. Gilbert of Sempringham
(c. 1083-1189)

Gilbert was born in Sempringham, England, into a wealthy family, but he followed a path quite different from that expected of him as the son of a Norman knight. Sent to France for his higher education, he decided to pursue seminary studies.
He returned to England not yet ordained a priest, and inherited several estates from his father. But Gilbert avoided the easy life he could have led under the circumstances. Instead he lived a simple life at a parish, sharing as much as possible with the poor. Following his ordination to the priesthood he served as parish priest at Sempringham.

Among the congregation were seven young women who had expressed to him their desire to live in religious life. In response, Gilbert had a house built for them adjacent to the Church. There they lived an austere life, but one which attracted ever more numbers; eventually lay sisters and lay brothers were added to work the land. The religious order formed eventually became known as the Gilbertines, though Gilbert had hoped the Cistercians or some other existing order would take on the responsibility of establishing a rule of life for the new order. The Gilbertines, the only religious order of English origin founded during the Middle Ages, continued to thrive. But the order came to an end when King Henry VIII suppressed all Catholic monasteries.

Over the years a special custom grew up in the houses of the order called "the plate of the Lord Jesus." The best portions of the dinner were put on a special plate and shared with the poor, reflecting Gilbert's lifelong concern for less fortunate people.

Throughout his life Gilbert lived simply, consumed little food and spent a good portion of many nights in prayer. Despite the rigors of such a life he died at well over age 100.



Comment:

When he came into his father’s wealth, Gilbert could have lived a life of luxury, as many of his fellow priests did at the time. Instead, he chose to share his wealth with the poor. The charming habit of filling “the plate of the Lord Jesus” in the monasteries he established reflected his concern. Today’s Operation Rice Bowl echoes that habit: eating a simpler meal and letting the difference in the grocery bill help feed the hungry.

Holy Family Life   

God entered history through a family in order to make family life holy and show us how to live in our homes. 

Wa man kaha moy silingan mga mamitik og masa-ag nga manok?

An investigation has been launched into the rush-hour train collision which killed 18 people outside the Belgian capital, Brussels.

Rescue workers spent all of Monday searching the twisted wreckage for victims, fearing that the death toll in the head-on crash could rise.

Identification was proving difficult for some victims, officials said.

Fifty-five commuters were seriously injured while a further 89 people sustained minor injuries.

They had been taken to 14 hospitals in the greater Brussels area, officials said.

Rescue crews had to deal with freezing temperatures and blizzard conditions when the crash happened about 0830 local time (0730 GMT) on Monday, near Halle, on the outskirts of Brussels.

The front carriages smashed into each other and were forced up into the air, damaging overhead power lines.

As of Monday evening, officials said 15 men and three women had been killed.

Passenger Sebastien Duckers, who hit his head when he was thrown forward in the crash, told the BBC: "Everyone was frightened and there was a lot of crying and screaming. We were all in a state of shock.

"There was broken glass scattered around the carriage."

He saw one person trapped under wreckage.

The cause of the crash was unknown, but the governor of Flemish Brabant province, Lodewijk De Witte, said one of the trains seemed to have missed a stop signal.

Belgium's track operator Infrabel said it was difficult to speculate on the cause at this stage.
BBC

St. Claude la Colombière
(1641-1682)


This is a special day for the Jesuits, who claim today’s saint as one of their own. It’s also a special day for people who have a special devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesusâ€"a devotion Claude la Colombière promoted, along with his friend and spiritual companion, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. The emphasis on God’s love for all was an antidote to the rigorous moralism of the Jansenists, who were popular at the time.
Claude showed remarkable preaching skills long before his ordination in 1675. Two months later he was made superior of a small Jesuit residence in Burgundy. It was there he first encountered Margaret Mary Alacoque. For many years after he served as her confessor.

He was next sent to England to serve as confessor to the Duchess of York. He preached by both words and by the example of his holy life, converting a number of Protestants. Tensions arose against Catholics and Claude, rumored to be part of a plot against the king, was imprisoned. He was ultimately banished, but by then his health had been ruined.

He died in 1682. Pope John Paul the Second canonized Claude la Colombière in 1992.

Evergreen   

Whether you are in a time of suffering or joy, interior war or peace, feeling weak or courageous--your thirst and God are with you. 

The town of Maribojoc should put a warning sign to those who might get the idea of doing the same adventurous deed. Hopefully this would be a lesson to others, to be very safety-conscious.

St. Apollonia
(d. 249)



The persecution of Christians began in Alexandria during the reign of the Emperor Philip. The first victim of the pagan mob was an old man named Metrius, who was tortured and then stoned to death. The second person who refused to worship their false idols was a Christian woman named Quinta. Her words infuriated the mob and she was scourged and stoned.

While most of the Christians were fleeing the city, abandoning all their worldly possessions, an old deaconess, Apollonia, was seized. The crowds beat her, knocking out all of her teeth. Then they lit a large fire and threatened to throw her in it if she did not curse her God. She begged them to wait a moment, acting as if she was considering their requests. Instead, she jumped willingly into the flames and so suffered martyrdom.

There were many churches and altars dedicated to her. Apollonia is the patroness of dentists, and people suffering from toothache and other dental diseases often ask her intercession. She is pictured with a pair of pincers holding a tooth or with a golden tooth suspended from her necklace. St. Augustine explained her voluntary martyrdom as a special inspiration of the Holy Spirit, since no one is allowed to cause his or her own death.


Comment:

The Church has quite a sense of humor! Appolonia is honored as the patron saint of dentists, but this woman who had her teeth extracted without anesthetic surely ought to be the patron of those who dread the chair. She might also be the patron of the aging, for she attained glory in her old age, standing firm before her persecutors even as her fellow Christians fled the city. However we choose to honor her, she remains a model of courage for us.

Patron Saint of:

Dentists
Toothache

Have a nice weekend Folks!

Look for Jesus     

Help me to see the face of your Son in the least of us, even when it is difficult.

The state of falling in love lasts only 24 months. After this comes the reality and the consequences. The passion and bliss that blinded the mind is non-existent anymore. So this kind of happiness is actually fleeting.

My favorite pop singer Michael Bublé will sing on the opening of the 21st World Winter Olympics!


an article about pre-Olympic trip, this is a nightmare for the securities;

A pre-Olympics trip to Vancouver

Posted by Tiffany Campbell

Submitted by Jay Fredlund



JAY FREDLUND

At the Vancouver city center stop on the Canada line, you're greeted with the biggest Canadian flag I've ever seen! They do seem very proud to be hosting the games.


I drove up to Vancouver on Saturday to pick up my tickets from the CoSport will call office. Good news is that the office was easy to find, and there was plenty of parking. The lady I talked to said it was probably worth coming up before the start of the games, since they anticipate much longer lines during the weekend.

The Canadian Border Patrol gave me some problems as soon as I mentioned the word "Olympics". Almost immediately, the agent started asking me very detailed questions about why I was going to the Games, what events, how much, and then he sent me inside for an "immigration exam." I still don't really know what that is, but there were two agents waiting for me inside the building to escort me to another agent who asked me questions about my employer, how long I've worked there, and whether I had legitimate tickets. This was the only time I've ever been stopped at the Canadian border â€" and I still don't know what they were looking for.



JAY FREDLUND

The Olympic Superstore is located on Granville St in the heart of downtown Vancouver. All sides of this building are covered in pictures of Canadian athletes participating in the games.

I also went to the Olympic Superstore in the Hudson Bay Company department store on Granville Street in Downtown Vancouver. They had a huge selection of official merchandise. Be prepared for massive crowds. This place was so packed it was hard to move, and the lines to pay were ridiculously long. It still baffles me that people were upset that they could only pay with cash or a Visa card. I mean, come on people, haven't you heard Morgan Freeman tell you that Visa is the only credit card accepted at the Olympic Games?




JAY FREDLUND

The Russians had a huge presence at the downtown superstore, and lots of other posters around the city. The 2014 Winter Games will be held in Sochi, Russia.




The trains look like they are preparing for a huge onslaught of people, with added queue lines and such, but there didn't appear to be an increase in the number of ticket vending machines. I could see that being a problem. They had ticket checkers at all the stops I went to. I don't know if they always do that, but it looks like they're active

Our Lady of Lourdes

On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus. A little more than three years later, on February 11, 1858, a young lady appeared to Bernadette Soubirous. This began a series of visions. During the apparition on March 25, the lady identified herself with the words: “I am the Immaculate Conception.”
Bernadette was a sickly child of poor parents. Their practice of the Catholic faith was scarcely more than lukewarm. Bernadette could pray the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Creed. She also knew the prayer of the Miraculous Medal: “O Mary conceived without sin.”

During interrogations Bernadette gave an account of what she saw. It was “something white in the shape of a girl.” She used the word aquero, a dialect term meaning “this thing.” It was “a pretty young girl with a rosary over her arm.” Her white robe was encircled by a blue girdle. She wore a white veil. There was a yellow rose on each foot. A rosary was in her hand. Bernadette was also impressed by the fact that the lady did not use the informal form of address (tu), but the polite form (vous). The humble virgin appeared to a humble girl and treated her with dignity.

Through that humble girl, Mary revitalized and continues to revitalize the faith of millions of people. People began to flock to Lourdes from other parts of France and from all over the world. In 1862 Church authorities confirmed the authenticity of the apparitions and authorized the cult of Our Lady of Lourdes for the diocese. The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes became worldwide in 1907.




Comment:

Lourdes has become a place of pilgrimage and healing, but even more of faith. Church authorities have recognized over 60 miraculous cures, although there have probably been many more. To people of faith this is not surprising. It is a continuation of Jesus’ healing miraclesâ€"now performed at the intercession of his mother. Some would say that the greater miracles are hidden. Many who visit Lourdes return home with renewed faith and a readiness to serve God in their needy brothers and sisters. There still may be people who doubt the apparitions of Lourdes. Perhaps the best that can be said to them are the words that introduce the film Song of Bernadette: “For those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.”


Quote:

“Lo! Mary is exempt from stain of sin, Proclaims the Pontiff high; And earth applauding celebrates with joy Her triumph, far and high. Unto a lowly timid maid she shows Her form in beauty fair, And the Immaculate Conception truth Her sacred lips declare.” (Unattributed hymn from the Roman Breviary)


Patron Saint of:

Bodily ills

Thanks Be to God   

I thank you for all that you have provided--my joys and moments of triumph; my family and loved ones; all that is yet to be. 

The editor Ed Flores,  is kind enough to mail me his website regulary. This is very informative and I would like to share this with you;

http://www.mnnetherlands.com/

Autism is a growing disorder; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that one in 110 children had the condition in 2006. But its causes remain unknown.

With this sentence, your thread is not true.

morag Day, guniti ug iwilik-wilik!

St. Scholastica
(480-542?)

Twins often share the same interests and ideas with an equal intensity. Therefore, it is no surprise that Scholastica and her twin brother, Benedict, established religious communities within a few miles from each other.
Born in 480 of wealthy parents, Scholastica and Benedict were brought up together until he left central Italy for Rome to continue his studies.

Little is known of Scholastica’s early life. She founded a religious community for women near Monte Cassino at Plombariola, five miles from where her brother governed a monastery.

The twins visited each other once a year in a farmhouse because Scholastica was not permitted inside the monastery. They spent these times discussing spiritual matters.

According to the Dialogues of St. Gregory the Great, the brother and sister spent their last day together in prayer and conversation. Scholastica sensed her death was close at hand and she begged Benedict to stay with her until the next day.

He refused her request because he did not want to spend a night outside the monastery, thus breaking his own Rule. Scholastica asked God to let her brother remain and a severe thunderstorm broke out, preventing Benedict and his monks from returning to the abbey.

Benedict cried out, “God forgive you, Sister. What have you done?” Scholastica replied, “I asked a favor of you and you refused. I asked it of God and he granted it.”

Brother and sister parted the next morning after their long discussion. Three days later, Benedict was praying in his monastery and saw the soul of his sister rising heavenward in the form of a white dove. Benedict then announced the death of his sister to the monks and later buried her in the tomb he had prepared for himself.




Comment:

Scholastica and Benedict gave themselves totally to God and gave top priority to deepening their friendship with him through prayer. They sacrificed some of the opportunities they would have had to be together as brother and sister in order better to fulfill their vocation to the religious life. In coming closer to Christ, however, they found they were also closer to each other. In joining a religious community, they did not forget or forsake their family but rather found more brothers and sisters.


Quote:

“All religious are under an obligation, in accordance with the particular vocation of each, to work zealously and diligently for the building up and growth of the whole mystical body of Christ and for the good of the particular churches. It is their duty to foster these objectives primarily by means of prayer, works of penance, and by the example of their own lives” (Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops, 33, Austin Flannery translation).


Patron Saint of:

Nuns

God's Compassion   

Jesus is God drawn close to our wounded humanity, so close that he takes it upon himselfâ€"not merely in some general way but in a way that encompasses each one of us. 

kamong mga lampas kwarenta, hala ajaw ka wala ug pag-laom, ang atong lawas lig-on pa , kasagaran na-a salaki. Ipahipan ang sperm aron masota ang motility.

ps
Anghel nga Asul, naa diay ka sa Altersheim?  Malingaw ka tig-trapo. Agwanta lang Day kay kwarta man na!

sakto jud ka Belle, kay magbuwad ug humay anha man ko palingkoron sa gawas tig-abog sa mga manok!

Inday Grace, kamusta na ang atong Belgian pralines, human na? Patilawa ko beh?

A fair process on the murder of Dacer and co is long overdue. His hiding has to do also with the connivance of Villarroyo, it has to do with the elections again.

thanks for posting and your concern about us oldies getting pregnant. I was 43 when I gave birth to Christ, it was really worrisome because of my age. The Gynecologist made a test by getting a sample of my amniotic , Lorz unsay term? ( taas nga dagum gitusok sa akong tiyan) aron tan-awon kon wala bay anomaliya. I decided to keep my baby whatever the result maybe.
Chris was 2 weeks overdue and I gained  27 kilos, The birth was  a cesarian operation and he weigh 4 and half kilos. Dako nga baby ug kapal sa bohok. Ang mga aleman nga babies kay upao man. Ang mga nurses malingaw sila magligo sa bata kay ilang gamitan ug hair blower. Tinood adunay kalagmitan nga ang bata dili normal, apan si Chris wala na maplano kay ako nag too nag menopause na, ang doktor nagsugid nga lig-on ang akong matris maka-anak pako ug 5, busa akong gihangyo nga i-ligate ko dayon, kay catcher pa man diay ko.

maka-homesick kining litratuha. Salamat Ondoy.

mas barato ang notebook at very portable. Mas dako ang capacity sa laptop mao nga mas mahal. Palihog bana-banaa kon unsa ang imong mga panginahanglan sa gadget nga imong gamiton kada adlaw.

St. Jerome Emiliani
(1481?-1537)

A careless and irreligious soldier for the city-state of Venice, Jerome was captured in a skirmish at an outpost town and chained in a dungeon. In prison Jerome had a lot of time to think, and he gradually learned how to pray. When he escaped, he returned to Venice where he took charge of the education of his nephewsâ€"and began his own studies for the priesthood.
In the years after his ordination, events again called Jerome to a decision and a new lifestyle. Plague and famine swept northern Italy. Jerome began caring for the sick and feeding the hungry at his own expense. While serving the sick and the poor, he soon resolved to devote himself and his property solely to others, particularly to abandoned children. He founded three orphanages, a shelter for penitent prostitutes and a hospital.

Around 1532 Jerome and two other priests established a congregation, the Clerks Regular of Somasca, dedicated to the care of orphans and the education of youth. Jerome died in 1537 from a disease he caught while tending the sick. He was canonized in 1767. In 1928 Pius Xl named him the patron of orphans and abandoned children.




Comment:

Very often in our lives it seems to take some kind of “imprisonment” to free us from the shackles of our self-centeredness. When we’re “caught” in some situation we don’t want to be in, we finally come to know the liberating power of Another. Only then can we become another for “the imprisoned” and “the orphaned” all around us.


Quote:

“‘The father of orphans and the defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling. God gives a home to the forsaken; he leads forth prisoners to prosperity; only rebels remain in the parched land’ (Psalm 68).... We should not forget the growing number of persons who are often abandoned by their families and by the community: the old, orphans, the sick and all kinds of people who are rejected…. We must be prepared to take on new functions and new duties in every sector of human activity and especially in the sector of world society, if justice is really to be put into practice. Our action is to be directed above all at those men and nations which, because of various forms of oppression and because of the present character of our society, are silent, indeed voiceless, victims of injustice” (Justice in the World, 1971 World Synod of Bishops).


Patron Saint of:

Orphans, abandoned children

Christian Virtues   

The practice of prayer develops into a habit, and out of this habitual prayer God forms in us and with us the Christian virtues, especially humility and courage. 

dugangi pa Glace, sige panugid sa imong mga salang dogmok!

Bilib jud ko nimo Day Grazie, sa imong kakugihan.

okay lang Doy Bugsay.

Grabe bitaw, dili jud ko mosabot nga ang petsa nag-yabag.

Cheers to your health and well being, from Manay!

nag-kalanrakas man ang imong posting, 13 February is Saturday and where is Tubigan?

makasoroy ra ko diha pohon.

Ching, ni-adto ko sa Beauring, Namur ang pari adto pogi jamo. ang iyang blue eyes very attractive, he looks like  John Kennedy and he speaks fluent Italian and english. Na-crush jud ko.

Tiguwang, biologically tiguwang like me, 59 years old, dili kini nagkahulugan nga akong huna-huna ug isip tigulang. Angin sa taas nakong naagi-an, sa akong pagto-o dako ang bili sa akong kasayran og kaalam.
Physically I can´t run fast but nature prepared me to do things which younger ones can´t do.

korek Inday, sila maniguwang kita dili!

renegade, abi nimo mahadlok ko mag labay ug pagkaon kay ang akong isip tua sa mga tawo nga walay gika-on. I can´t impose this mentality to others but this is my attitude.
It breaks my heart to see children on the street very hungry. Busa kon makakita ko ug pagkaon mga usikan, maglagot jud ko.

dihay video gi-post dinhi duha ka teenagers nangaon sa Mcdo, daghang salin sa pag-kaon apan sa gawas daghang namalimos.

this is what I mean;

an attitude of sensitivity toward and sense of responsibility regarding injustice and problems in society, this is social conscience.

a visual example;