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Another acknowledgement of your moral integrity and achievements, congratulations Doy Jun, we are proud of  you!

Pink grasshopper!

James Chubb, education ranger for East Devon District Council, said: "There are billions of meadow grasshoppers across England but this is the first pink one I have ever seen.

"It is caused by a genetic mutation in its reproductive cycle.

"It's almost a full adult, so if it has survived this long being bright pink there is a chance it will live to reproduce and pass on its pink gene."

He said grasshoppers of different colours were "unusual" but not unheard of. BBC

This is the secret of the long marriage of the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent, separate bathrooms, separate beds.
The 61-year-old princess, born Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, at Carlsbad in what is now the Czech Republic, said her mother gave her good advice when she married Prince Michael.

"My mother when I married said you must have separate bathrooms and separate bedrooms. That was the only sure way of keeping a marriage alive because it was an invitation as opposed to just being there and that makes it more romantic. bbc

Kanang epidurial kay adunay masipyat, ang akong kauban sa kwarto pag-panganak, nibati nga ang iyang left leg is numb.

The wife screamed, " ajaw na sugo-a si Bokyong, hala ikaw ang  delihensya ug bugas, sakja ang atong Yamaha de sikad, ajaw langan-langan!" Promptly he jumped to his eco-friendly motorcycle to follow the command of his wife.

(Inday, wild fantasy!)

Hala Bokyong dagan sa silingan, huwam ug bugas usa ka salmon!  Bokyong replied crying, "Tay wala nay silingan kay napalid na sa bagjong Gloring".

Congratulations Williams family to your new baby, may the Good Lord shower him lots of blessings!
Lami jamo kining mag-bati. Pag-gawas sa baby sulit man pod sa kalipay.

Seek His Guidance   

Raise your mind to the Lord and implore him to guide your mind himself, to speak to your heart and move your will. 

Atan screamed pahiluma ng bata kay nagkalanrakas pata dinhi!  Bokyong replied" Tay, gigutom mi Tay!",
Atan had forgotten that the rice is not dry enough to be pounded.


this is the old method of pounding rice.

Hallo Vinz,  unsa man imong gusto ang Ots ibutang dili sa ilong kon dili  sa baba?
Na hala imagina na lang.

Hoy Calle, purbida ajaw sa homana.

Most Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary


This feast is a counterpart to the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (January 3); both have the possibility of uniting people easily divided on other matters.
The feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary began in Spain in 1513 and in 1671 was extended to all of Spain and the Kingdom of Naples. In 1683, John Sobieski, king of Poland, brought an army to the outskirts of Vienna to stop the advance of Muslim armies loyal to Mohammed IV in Constantinople. After Sobieski entrusted himself to the Blessed Virgin Mary, he and his soldiers thoroughly defeated the Muslims. Pope Innocent XI extended this feast to the entire Church.

Comment:

Mary always points us to God, reminding us of God's infinite goodness. She helps us to open our hearts to God's ways, wherever those may lead us. Honored under the title “Queen of Peace,” Mary encourages us to cooperate with Jesus in building a peace based on justice, a peace that respects the fundamental human rights (including religious rights) of all peoples.

Quote:

“Lord our God, when your Son was dying on the altar of the cross, he gave us as our mother the one he had chosen to be his own mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary; grant that we who call upon the holy name of Mary, our mother, with confidence in her protection may receive strength and comfort in all our needs” (Marian Sacramentary, Mass for the Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary).

Mortify Our Selfish Spirit   

Let us take care to mortify our selfish spirit which puffs us up, makes us impulsive, and leads to aridity of the soul. 

Is a typhoon coming? Why the darkness of the clouds? The rice to be dried are still outside, akong mga hinahay, Dios ko?

Doktor Laway is very famous for curing diseases like these, he munch some words, put some spit in his hand and rub the locked jaw of Atan, then low and behold, his fever was gone, he could talk normally and he gave his sweetest smile!

( tolog nako Belle, ikaw nay tiwas!)

Lee, dili ba ang hugaw sa Ramiro anha pod molanding?

mokanta ug all by myself!

Atan got terribly sick because he was bitten by an irong bu****.

Kadtong panahona hawod ang mga taga-Guindulman kay adunay taga Tabajan naka bana ug taga Dauis kadtong mga banggi-itan, Cimafranca! Manghod man ka naho ( 58 ko karon).  Anha ka kita sa kinabuhi nga kolob hayang kay kining pamilyaha napordoy naron.

Yes, Ondoy Lindy, labi na kon buwanon, either K of C or Cainggit.

Lady Gaga was interviewed and was asked about some object hanging like a penis, does she really possess one? Promptly sprung 2 bodyguards and she (German tv moderator)  was thrown out of the room.

According to a sex test, she is possibly a hermaphrodite. She got no uterus und no fallopian tubes.Australian daily Telegraph.
She will undergo more testings form the experts to decide on her sports career and future

kini anggid sila;John Bobbit!

On the night of June 23, 1993, John Wayne Bobbitt arrived at the couple's Manassas, Virginia apartment highly intoxicated after a night of partying and, according to testimony by Lorena Bobbit in a 1994 court hearing, raped his wife. (Note: He was tried and acquitted for this alleged spousal rape in 1994; he was prosecuted by the same district attorney who prosecuted Lorena for allegedly attacking John.) Afterwards, Lorena Bobbitt got out of bed and went to the kitchen for a drink of water. According to an article in the National Women's Studies Association Journal, in the kitchen she noticed a carving knife on the counter and "memories of past domestic abuses raced through her head." Grabbing the knife, Lorena Bobbit entered the bedroom where John was asleep; and she proceeded to cut off more than half of his penis.[1]

After assaulting her husband, Lorena left the apartment with the severed penis. After driving a short while, she rolled down the car window and threw the penis into a field. Realizing the severity of the incident, she stopped and called 911. After an exhaustive search, the penis was located, packed in ice, and brought to the hospital where John was located.

The penis was re-attached by Dr. David Berman during a nine and a half hour operation.[2]

Dili nako masoko karon, maglagot ko kariyot, apan dali nako mapoypoy.

Congratulations Inday Bulak, himsog bata-a! Makalingaw na kaajo Day?

Asa ra na, kon ikaw maghimo ug junior.

Na-a jud wa  lang ma expose sa media!

How could we  have missed it? 
March 15 was Penis Day in Japan .
Here are  the photos.














The actual festival is called Honen Matsuri. Celebrated  every March 15 in Komaki, a town about 45 minutes north of Nagoya, Japan, this is the time of year where folks haul out a large wooden penis to give three cheers to fertility and renewal. The custom is an  old one that is connected to bringing about a good harvest and having  babies. 

Belated Happy Penis Day!

St. Cyprian
(d. 258)

Cyprian (d. 258). Cyprian is important in the development of Christian thought and practice in the third century, especially in northern Africa.
Highly educated, a famous orator, he became a Christian as an adult. He distributed his goods to the poor, and amazed his fellow citizens by making a vow of chastity before his baptism. Within two years he had been ordained a priest and was chosen, against his will, as Bishop of Carthage (near modern Tunis).

Cyprian complained that the peace the Church had enjoyed had weakened the spirit of many Christians and had opened the door to converts who did not have the true spirit of faith. When the Decian persecution began, many Christians easily abandoned the Church. It was their reinstatement that caused the great controversies of the third century, and helped the Church progress in its understanding of the Sacrament of Penance.

Novatus, a priest who had opposed Cyprian's election, set himself up in Cyprian's absence (he had fled to a hiding place from which to direct the Churchâ€"bringing criticism on himself) and received back all apostates without imposing any canonical penance. Ultimately he was condemned. Cyprian held a middle course, holding that those who had actually sacrificed to idols could receive Communion only at death, whereas those who had only bought certificates saying they had sacrificed could be admitted after a more or less lengthy period of penance. Even this was relaxed during a new persecution.

During a plague in Carthage, he urged Christians to help everyone, including their enemies and persecutors.

A friend of Pope Cornelius, Cyprian opposed the following pope, Stephen. He and the other African bishops would not recognize the validity of baptism conferred by heretics and schismatics. This was not the universal view of the Church, but Cyprian was not intimidated even by Stephen's threat of excommunication.

He was exiled by the emperor and then recalled for trial. He refused to leave the city, insisting that his people should have the witness of his martyrdom.

Cyprian was a mixture of kindness and courage, vigor and steadiness. He was cheerful and serious, so that people did not know whether to love or respect him more. He waxed warm during the baptismal controversy; his feelings must have concerned him, for it was at this time that he wrote his treatise on patience. St. Augustine (August 28) remarks that Cyprian atoned for his anger by his glorious martyrdom.




Comment:

The controversies about Baptism and Penance in the third century remind us that the early Church had no ready-made solutions from the Holy Spirit. The leaders and members of the Church of that day had to move painfully through the best series of judgments they could make in an attempt to follow the entire teaching of Christ and not be diverted by exaggerations to right or left.


Quote:

“You cannot have God for your Father if you do not have the Church for your mother.... God is one and Christ is one, and his Church is one; one is the faith, and one is the people cemented together by harmony into the strong unity of a body.... If we are the heirs of Christ, let us abide in the peace of Christ; if we are the sons of God, let us be lovers of peace” (St. Cyprian, The Unity of the Catholic Church).


Patron Saint of:

North Africa

Complete Trust   

The more numerous your enemies become, the more you ought to abandon yourself with complete trust in the Lord.  He will always sustain you with his powerful arm so that you may not stumble. 

Thanks for posting this one, but I think a person should learn to categorize or prioritize things to be done. It common here in Europe in an effort to have it all instead of one at a time.
Hello stress, hypertension, diabetes and depression.

Na-usikan jud ko mag huna-huna.Hinaut pa nga kadtong adunay mga daghang kahoy sama sa  acacia sa Guindulman, makakat-ong sila pag hatag ug bili sa kakahuyan.

Welcome awaits Iraq shoe thrower 


Dargham al-Zaidi is helping to prepare the family home for his brother's party
The Iraqi journalist jailed for hurling his shoes at former US President George W Bush is to be freed on Monday - to an uncertain future.

Muntadar al-Zaidi's release after nine months in prison will be celebrated by many across the Arab world to whom he has become a hero.

He is reported to have been offered money, lucrative jobs, marriages and even a career in politics.

His brother says an official boycott may stop Zaidi's return to journalism.

Zaidi, a reporter for al-Baghdadiya TV, shot to fame on 14 December 2008 when he hurled his footwear at Mr Bush during a televised news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

He called Mr Bush "a dog" and threw his shoes as a "farewell kiss" from Iraqis killed, orphaned or widowed since the US-led invasion.

Zaidi was jailed for three years for assault, but the sentence was reduced on appeal.

Although the incident embarrassed the Iraqi government, there was an outpouring of support for Zaidi - and his act of defiance - across many Arab countries.

Zaidi's brother, Dargham, says the attention lavished on the reporter has been amazing.

"We have had pledges of money, the Emir of Qatar promised a golden horse, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (of Libya) said he would award him Libya's highest honour, other people said they would buy him a sports car," he said.

"Rather, he told me he is interested in working in a humanitarian organisation or becoming an activist for women's and orphans' rights," he told AP news agency.

He added that Zaidi had declined offers to stand for several independent political parties.

Al-Baghdadiya TV - which has continued to pay Zaidi's salary during his time in jail - believes he will return to work there.

"As far as I know, from what he has told me - and I speak to him weekly - he will come back to work for al-Baghdadiya," said Abdul-Hamid al-Sayah, manager of the Cairo-based station.

Mr Sayah said they planned to hold a press conference with Zaidi and a talkshow appearance where he would explain his actions.

Whatever the outcome, Zaidi's relatives were preparing a party at the family home in Baghdad where special posters of their "hero" were fixed to the walls ready for his release on Monday.

Nia pa jud dugang;

Bed sharing 'drains men's brains' 

Bed sharing disturbed sleep quality
Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power - at least if you are a man - Austrian scientists suggest.
When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day.

The lack of sleep also increases a man's stress hormone levels.

According to the New Scientist study, women who share a bed fare better because they sleep more deeply.

Professor Gerhard Kloesch and colleagues at the University of Vienna studied eight unmarried, childless couples in their 20s.

Each couple was asked to spend 10 nights sleeping together and 10 apart while the scientists assessed their rest patterns with questionnaires and wrist activity monitors.

The next day the couples were asked to perform simple cognitive tests and had their stress hormone levels checked.

Sharing the bed space with someone who is making noises and who you have to fight with for the duvet is not sensible

Although the men reported they had slept better with a partner, they fared worse in the tests, with their results suggesting they actually had more disturbed sleep.

Both sexes had a more disturbed night's sleep when they shared their bed, Professor Kloesch told a meeting of the Forum of European Neuroscience.

But women apparently managed to sleep more deeply when they did eventually drop off, since they claimed to be more refreshed than their sleep time suggested.

Their stress hormone levels and mental scores did not suffer to the same extent as the men.

But the women still reported that they had the best sleep when they were alone in bed.

Bed sharing also affected dream recall. Women remembered more after sleeping alone and men recalled best after sex.

Separate beds

"Historically, we have never been meant to sleep in the same bed as each other. It is a bizarre thing to do.

"Sleep is the most selfish thing you can do and it's vital for good physical and mental health.

"Sharing the bed space with someone who is making noises and who you have to fight with for the duvet is not sensible.

"If you are happy sleeping together that's great, but if not there is no shame in separate beds."

He said there was a suggestion that women are pre-programmed to cope better with broken sleep.

"A lot of life events that women have disturb sleep - bringing up children, the menopause and even the menstrual cycle," he explained.

But Dr Stanley added people did get used to sharing a bed.

"If they have shared their bed with their partner for a long time they miss them and that will disturb sleep."

This info applies to the Philippine ATMs, amigo.

When a thief forces you to take money from the ATM, do not argue or resist. You might not know what he or she might do to you. What you should do is to punch your PIN in the reverse mode.
I.e. if your PIN # is 1254, you punch 4521.The moment you punch in the reverse mode, the money will come out, but will be stuck into the machine half way out and it will alert the Police (security) without the notice of the thief. Every ATM has it; it is specially made to signify danger and help. Not everyone is aware of this.                                               
                                                                       
Forward this to all your loved ones, friends and those you care about.

emailed by a computer bank system analyst

Rare tongue-eating parasite found
A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast.

Fishermen near the Minquiers - islands under the jurisdiction of Jersey - found the isopod, a type of louse, inside a weaver fish.

Marine researcher Paul Chambers, from the Société Jersiaise, was one of the fishing party and identified the find.

He said he was surprised to find the isopod away from the Mediterranean sea.

Isopods are normally about 2cm (1in) long and live in fish, surviving on the animal's blood, in warm waters.

'Quite vicious'

Mr Chambers told BBC Jersey: "When we emptied the fish bag out there at the bottom was this incredibly ugly looking isopod.

"Really quite large, really quite hideous - if you turn it over its got dozens of these really sharp, nasty claws underneath and I thought 'that's a bit of a nasty beast'.

"I struggled for weeks to find an identification for this thing until, quite by chance I stumbled across something that looked similar in a Victorian journal.

"Apparently there's not too much ill effect to the fish itself except it's lost its tongue."

Experts at the University of Southampton confirmed that the creature was an isopod and that there had been several sightings of them in Cornwall in 1996.

Mr Chambers added: "It doesn't affect humans other than if you do actually come across a live one and try and pick it up - they are quite vicious, they will deliver a good nip."

From BBC

Couples should consider sleeping apart for the good of their health and relationship, say experts.

Sleep specialist Dr Neil Stanley told the British Science Festival how bed sharing can cause rows over snoring and duvet-hogging and robs precious sleep.

One study found that, on average, couples suffered 50% more sleep disturbances if they shared a bed.

Dr Stanley, who sleeps separately from his wife, points out that historically we were never meant to share our beds.

He said the modern tradition of the marital bed only began with the industrial revolution, when people moving to overcrowded towns and cities found themselves short of living space.

  If you've been sleeping together and you both sleep perfectly well, then don't change, but don't be afraid to do something different

Dr Neil Stanley
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Before the Victorian era it was not uncommon for married couples to sleep apart. In ancient Rome, the marital bed was a place for sexual congress but not for sleeping.

Dr Stanley, who set up one of Britain's leading sleep laboratories at the University of Surrey, said the people of today should consider doing the same.

"It's about what makes you happy. If you've been sleeping together and you both sleep perfectly well, then don't change, but don't be afraid to do something different.

"We all know what it's like to have a cuddle and then say 'I'm going to sleep now' and go to the opposite side of the bed. So why not just toddle off down the landing?"

Tossing and turning

He said poor sleep was linked to depression, heart disease, strokes, lung disorders, traffic and industrial accidents, and divorce, yet sleep was largely ignored as an important aspect of health.

Dr Robert Meadows, a sociologist at the University of Surrey, said: "People actually feel that they sleep better when they are with a partner but the evidence suggests otherwise."

He carried out a study to compare how well couples slept when they shared a bed versus sleeping separately.

Based on 40 couples, he found that when couples share a bed and one of them moves in his or her sleep, there is a 50% chance that their slumbering partner will be disturbed as a result.

Despite this, couples are reluctant to sleep apart, with only 8% of those in their 40s and 50s sleeping in separate rooms, the British Science Festival heard.

St. Thomas of Villanova
(1488-1555)


St. Thomas was from Castile in Spain and received his surname from the town where he was raised. He received a superior education at the University of Alcala and became a popular professor of philosophy there.
After joining the Augustinian friars at Salamanca he was ordained and resumed his teaching, despite a continuing absentmindedness and poor memory. He became prior and then provincial of the friars, sending the first Augustinians to the New World. He was nominated by the emperor to the archbishopric of Granada, but refused. When the see again became vacant he was pressured to accept. The money his cathedral chapter gave him to furnish his house was given to a hospital instead. His explanation to them was that "our Lord will be better served by your money being spent on the poor in the hospital. What does a poor friar like myself want with furniture?"

He wore the same habit that he had received in the novitiate, mending it himself. The canons and domestics were ashamed of him, but they could not convince him to change. Several hundred poor came to Thomas's door each morning and received a meal, wine and money. When criticized because he was at times being taken advantage of, he replied, "If there are people who refuse to work, that is for the governor and the police to deal with. My duty is to assist and relieve those who come to my door." He took in orphans and paid his servants for every deserted child they brought to him. He encouraged the wealthy to imitate his example and be richer in mercy and charity than they were in earthly possessions.

Criticized because he refused to be harsh or swift in correcting sinners, he said, "Let him (the complainer) inquire whether St. Augustine and St. John Chrysostom used anathemas and excommunication to stop the drunkenness and blasphemy which were so common among the people under their care."

As he lay dying, Thomas commanded that all the money he possessed be distributed to the poor. His material goods were to be given to the rector of his college. Mass was being said in his presence when after Communion he breathed his last, reciting the words: "Into your hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit."

Thomas of Villanova was already called in his lifetime "the almsgiver" and "the father of the poor." He was canonized in 1658.



Comment:

The absent-minded professor is a stock comic figure. This absent-minded professor earned even more derisive laughs with his determined shabbiness and his willingness to let the poor who flocked to his door take advantage of him. He embarrassed his peers, but Jesus was enormously pleased with him. We are often tempted to tend our image in others’ eyes without paying sufficient attention about how we look to Christ. Thomas still urges us to rethink our priorities.

It has been proven that a person with good looks has better chances to be successful in his career.

On criticsm;

No person sees all of his faults. Every
person considers himself righteous
and feels whatever he does is correct.
For every act a person does, he has
a thousand excuses and rationalizations.
A person does not see what goes
against his prejudices. Other people
can be much more objective about us
and can find our wrongdoings and faults.
Hence, we must be willing to listen to
what others think that might be helpful.
Our original way of looking things will
frequently rise over and over again. We
therefore have to be on the lookout to
challenge ways of thinking that needlessly
cause negative emotions.
For this reason, we must consistently
work on positive ways of thinking as we
are all one big family.

Alice N Wonderland

Mayor Fe Anana Piezas did not learn from her stay in the USA to treasure nature, what a pity!

Possessing God   

By loving God the soul is certain of possessing him.  When a person loves money, honors, and good heath, unfortunately, he does not always possess what he loves, whereas he who loves God possesses him at once. 

We are already making some silent campaigns here for Noynoy.

kissing puts you in shape and it burns calories!
Because of the exchange of saliva that takes place, it is also believed to boost the immune system, in that it naturally encourages one’s organism to find the proper ways of fighting the bacteria one is being exposed to. In this regard, kissing is basically like a sort of “vaccine,” only much pleasanter, experts say.

On a final note, kissing is also known for reducing stress, preventing the formation of dental plaque and cavities, curing hiccups and, of course, for proving that, sometimes, two heads are, indeed, better than one. Furthermore, statistics show an average person spends an estimated 20,160 minutes of their lives locking lips â€" if you reckon you’re a bit behind on that, and you truly want to experience all the positive effects kissing has on the body, it might be a good idea if you started acting on it already.
Pahaloka ko Day!

I could remember that the trees were planted by some Americans who stayed in that area to help the locals to learn how to  read and write, yes the trees are more than 100 years old.

As what I have learned this is a test to know if your brain starts to degenerate.

both true!

Some women are allergic to latex condom.

asa dapit, Inday Hazel?

Exchange of saliva, wow! basta walay withdrawal, ha ha ha 

St. Peter Claver
(1581-1654)


A native of Spain, young Jesuit Peter Claver left his homeland forever in 1610 to be a missionary in the colonies of the New World. He sailed into Cartagena (now in Colombia), a rich port city washed by the Caribbean. He was ordained there in 1615.
By this time the slave trade had been established in the Americas for nearly 100 years, and Cartagena was a chief center for it. Ten thousand slaves poured into the port each year after crossing the Atlantic from West Africa under conditions so foul and inhuman that an estimated one-third of the passengers died in transit. Although the practice of slave-trading was condemned by Pope Paul III and later labeled "supreme villainy" by Pius IX, it continued to flourish.

Peter Claver's predecessor, Jesuit Father Alfonso de Sandoval, had devoted himself to the service of the slaves for 40 years before Claver arrived to continue his work, declaring himself "the slave of the Negroes forever."

As soon as a slave ship entered the port, Peter Claver moved into its infested hold to minister to the ill-treated and exhausted passengers. After the slaves were herded out of the ship like chained animals and shut up in nearby yards to be gazed at by the crowds, Claver plunged in among them with medicines, food, bread, brandy, lemons and tobacco. With the help of interpreters he gave basic instructions and assured his brothers and sisters of their human dignity and God's saving love. During the 40 years of his ministry, Claver instructed and baptized an estimated 300,000 slaves.

His apostolate extended beyond his care for slaves. He became a moral force, indeed, the apostle of Cartagena. He preached in the city square, gave missions to sailors and traders as well as country missions, during which he avoided, when possible, the hospitality of the planters and owners and lodged in the slave quarters instead.

After four years of sickness which forced the saint to remain inactive and largely neglected, he died on September 8, 1654. The city magistrates, who had previously frowned at his solicitude for the black outcasts, ordered that he should be buried at public expense and with great pomp.

He was canonized in 1888, and Pope Leo XIII declared him the worldwide patron of missionary work among black slaves.




Comment:

The Holy Spirit's might and power are manifested in the striking decisions and bold actions of Peter Claver. A decision to leave one's homeland never to return reveals a gigantic act of will difficult for us to imagine. Peter's determination to serve forever the most abused, rejected and lowly of all people is stunningly heroic. When we measure our lives against such a man's, we become aware of our own barely used potential and of our need to open ourselves more to the jolting power of Jesus' Spirit.


Quote:

Peter Claver understood that concrete service like the distributing of medicine, food or brandy to his black brothers and sisters could be as effective a communication of the word of God as mere verbal preaching. As Peter Claver often said, "We must speak to them with our hands before we try to speak to them with our lips."


Patron Saint of:

African-Americans
Colombia

Serve God With All Your Heart   

I recommend to you to have a firm and general proposal to always serve God with all your heart; do not worry about tomorrow. 

This is settled once and for all that Semenya is a female.

Love is foremost a feeling, why duty? Is it stated in the constitution?

I personally doubt the sincerity of this thread.

There are no ugly Filipinas, they are all adorable in all shapes of faces.

That´s the point why Schroeder won in Germany as a chancellor because he said we won´t join the wagon about the Afgahnistan/Iraq war.  It turns out to be a great lie, German troops are there and there is a present investigation concerning German troops violating NATO rules, hence injuring/causing death to civilians in Kundus,  Afgahnistan.

Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary


The Church has celebrated Mary's birth since at least the sixth century. A September birth was chosen because the Eastern Church begins its Church year with September. The September 8 date helped determine the date for the feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8 (nine months earlier).
Scripture does not give an account of Mary's birth. However, the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James fills in the gap. This work has no historical value, but it does reflect the development of Christian piety. According to this account, Anna and Joachim are infertile but pray for a child. They receive the promise of a child that will advance God's plan of salvation for the world. Such a story (like many biblical counterparts) stresses the special presence of God in Mary's life from the beginning.

St. Augustine connects Mary's birth with Jesus' saving work. He tells the earth to rejoice and shine forth in the light of her birth. "She is the flower of the field from whom bloomed the precious lily of the valley. Through her birth the nature inherited from our first parents is changed." The opening prayer at Mass speaks of the birth of Mary's Son as the dawn of our salvation and asks for an increase of peace.




Comment:

We can see every human birth as a call for new hope in the world. The love of two human beings has joined with God in his creative work. The loving parents have shown hope in a world filled with travail. The new child has the potential to be a channel of God's love and peace to the world.
This is all true in a magnificent way in Mary. If Jesus is the perfect expression of God's love, Mary is the foreshadowing of that love. If Jesus has brought the fullness of salvation, Mary is its dawning.

Birthday celebrations bring happiness to the celebrant as well as to family and friends. Next to the birth of Jesus, Mary's birth offers the greatest possible happiness to the world. Each time we celebrate her birth we can confidently hope for an increase of peace in our hearts and in the world at large.




Quote:

"Today the barren Anna claps her hands for joy, the earth radiates with light, kings sing their happiness, priests enjoy every blessing, the entire universe rejoices, for she who is queen and the Father's immaculate bride buds forth from the stem of Jesse" (adapted from Byzantine Daily Worship).

You will get used to it, and just consider it as a compliment, perhaps you are better looking in person as in your avatar.

In many cultures, the birthday of every person merits a celebration. Family and friends gather to wish the "birthday child" many happy returns. There are well-wishing, balloons, cards, cakes, candles, a favorite meal, there are gifts and jests--all the things that say, at least once a year, "You are special, there's only one of you, we are happy that you exist." So, it is for the people of God and Mary.

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. 

Are they using drugs?

Wala maanad si Gen ug dagat padre, bout nako pasabot!

Way dagat sa Baguio , Padre!

Thrilling ang Tubag Bohol karon, ang mga hens himonga-an!Wow, bibo ang atong baby production.

How careful could we be, to get the right choice?

Tan-awa palihug ug balik ang litrato, sipat si General kay ang naglitrato Amerkano!

Binol-anon kasagaran dinhi Day, gawas ni Raldampong kay tu-a siya sa Marocco, tig-ibot ug ngipon sa mga Arabo. Ang lengwahe sa mga Franses,  French ang kapital sa France, Paris. Klaro ba  Indayon?
Bon jour, Mademoiselle!

It is to be seen in Seville, Spain as The Sudarium of Oviedo:
One of the relics held by the cathedral in the town of Oviedo, in the north of Spain, is a piece of cloth measuring approximately 84 x 53 cm. There is no image on this cloth. Only stains are visible to the naked eye, although more is visible under the microscope. The remarkable thing about this cloth is that both tradition and scientific studies claim that the cloth was used to cover and clean the face of Jesus after the crucifixion. We are going to present and look into these claims.

According to this history, the sudarium was in Palestine until shortly before the year 614, when Jerusalem was attacked and conquered by Chosroes II, who was king of Persia from 590 to 628. It was taken away to avoid destruction in the invasion, first to Alexandria by the presbyter Philip, then across the north of Africa when Chosroes conquered Alexandria in 616. The sudarium entered Spain at Cartagena, along with people who were fleeing from the Persians. The bishop of Ecija, Fulgentius, welcomed the refugees and the relics, and surrendered the chest, or ark, to Leandro, bishop of Seville. He took it to Seville, where it spent some years.

Kon mawala na ang usa ka tawo, anha nato mailhan ang bili!

Blessed Frederick Ozanam
(1813-1853)


A man convinced of the inestimable worth of each human being, Frederick served the poor of Paris well and drew others into serving the poor of the world. Through the St. Vincent de Paul Society, his work continues to the present day.
Frederick was the fifth of Jean and Marie Ozanam’s 14 children, one of only three to reach adulthood. As a teenager he began having doubts about his religion. Reading and prayer did not seem to help, but long walking discussions with Father Noirot of the Lyons College clarified matters a great deal.

Frederick wanted to study literature, although his father, a doctor, wanted him to become a lawyer. Frederick yielded to his father’s wishes and in 1831 arrived in Paris to study law at the University of the Sorbonne. When certain professors there mocked Catholic teachings in their lectures, Frederick defended the Church.

A discussion club which Frederick organized sparked the turning point in his life. In this club Catholics, atheists and agnostics debated the issues of the day. Once, after Frederick spoke on Christianity’s role in civilization, a club member said: "Let us be frank, Mr. Ozanam; let us also be very particular. What do you do besides talk to prove the faith you claim is in you?"

Frederick was stung by the question. He soon decided that his words needed a grounding in action. He and a friend began visiting Paris tenements and offering assistance as best they could. Soon a group dedicated to helping individuals in need under the patronage of St. Vincent de Paul formed around Frederick.

Feeling that the Catholic faith needed an excellent speaker to explain its teachings, Frederick convinced the Archbishop of Paris to appoint Father Lacordaire, the greatest preacher then in France, to preach a Lenten series in Notre Dame Cathedral. It was well attended and became an annual tradition in Paris.

After Frederick earned his law degree at the Sorbonne, he taught law at the University of Lyons. He also earned a doctorate in literature. Soon after marrying Amelie Soulacroix on June 23, 1841, he returned to the Sorbonne to teach literature. A well-respected lecturer, Frederick worked to bring out the best in each student. Meanwhile, the St. Vincent de Paul Society was growing throughout Europe. Paris alone counted 25 conferences.

In 1846, Frederick, Amelie and their daughter Marie went to Italy; there Frederick hoped to restore his poor health. They returned the next year. The revolution of 1848 left many Parisians in need of the services of the St. Vincent de Paul conferences. The unemployed numbered 275,000. The government asked Frederick and his co-workers to supervise the government aid to the poor. Vincentians throughout Europe came to the aid of Paris.

Frederick then started a newspaper, The New Era, dedicated to securing justice for the poor and the working classes. Fellow Catholics were often unhappy with what Frederick wrote. Referring to the poor man as "the nation’s priest," Frederick said that the hunger and sweat of the poor formed a sacrifice that could redeem the people’s humanity

In 1852 poor health again forced Frederick to return to Italy with his wife and daughter. He died on September 8, 1853. In his sermon at Frederick’s funeral, Lacordaire described his friend as "one of those privileged creatures who came direct from the hand of God in whom God joins tenderness to genius in order to enkindle the world."

Frederick was beatified in 1997. Since Frederick wrote an excellent book entitled Franciscan Poets of the Thirteenth Century and since Frederick’s sense of the dignity of each poor person was so close to the thinking of St. Francis, it seemed appropriate to include him among Franciscan "greats."




Comment:

"Those who mock the poor insult their Maker" (Proverbs 17:5). Frederick Ozanam never demeaned the poor in offering whatever service he could. Each man, woman and child was too precious for that. Serving the poor taught Frederick something about God that he could learn only there.


Quote:

Professor Bailly, the spiritual leader of the first St. Vincent de Paul conference, told Frederick and his first companions in charity, "Like St. Vincent, you, too, will find the poor will do more for you than you will do for them."

Congratulations on Your New Baby

How great you are,
gracious God, to give
our family and community
a new child. How can we
thank you enough!

Humility   

Humility is an elusive virtue.  The more we pursue itâ€"and the more we seem to acquire itâ€"the more we take pride in our accomplishment, and we find ourselves back at square one. 

Bujag imong anak, Indayon. Kalooy sa Diyos nakaluwas ra jud ka . Hago ang manganak, naka-agi ko ug sama sa imong panganak. Praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord that everything turned well, ingat Indayon.

Manay

Inday taga-Digos, makaauli gani ko maagi ko nimo aron mag-inom ta!

dako ranggo, libre sung-ay!

Mike emotional qoutient is now gets high consideration, currently there are studies being conducted on possible ways that an EQ may affect a person’s abilities to perform under pressure, resolve conflict, and generally cope with challenges. Of course those who are not proponents of the concept believe these abilities are simply a matter of personality, which cannot be measured or modified. Other studies have linked EQ measurements to communication and other social skills that people either lack or possess.

EQ actually stands for Emotional Intelligence Quotient. Much like an intelligence quotient, or IQ, an EQ is said to be a measure of a person’s emotional intelligence. However, there is much debate surrounding the legitimacy of a definition of emotional intelligence quotient, primarily because there is no standard against which it can be measured.

Intelligence is nothing without social skills.

Manay

I knew a man who could be a loving person, I just have a problem that I´m, so possesive. One day he hold my hand and ask this question in German. I was so confused because I´m missing a man in my life for quite sometime, the smell, the strong muscles etc. ha ha ha ha.
So second round na sab after 2 years hibernation, the same man, the same question, I told him he will know tomorrow, Sept 7 2009.   to be continued kay Sept 6 pa man karon. LOL.

Kapila nako gi labay-labajan kini nga thread, now I took time to listen to the sound, wonderful!

“How about us Honey, Can we be that? can we do it for life??”

While asking  Belle ,  imo po gi-kiay kiay imong tingog?

Mind you folks it breaks my heart as a woman and mother that we are easily vulnerable to such crime since we are biologically smaller and weaker. If a woman is raped in Pinas, it is not seldom to hear ; bali kay  biga-on! 

Kuyaw kaayo , is this the present moral of our PNP? I know there are still honest men, but we are discussing here is not cliché but hard reality. Nganong daghan mang chicks nga mokapot nila? Mosamot sila ug kagara.

In-ani man jud ang atong military dili ba?  Kosog mag patisoy-tisoy. Kinsa man diay kanang mga suki sa massage parlor? Mga pulis!
Dagko ug mga tiyan, kon adonay gokdanay sa mga tulisan dili maka-apas kay dali hangakon.

The campaign in Spain about the imprisonment of this rapist put the country in bad light. Nobody in the   Phil Embassy Madrid, aired their side about the whole situation. They just keep their mouth shut. This is the political clout of Ate. This is one of the reason why she is unpopular here in Germany and will never be invited by Angela Merkel.

In a true Islam tradition, dead are buried within 24 hours wrapped in white linen.

I will try and see if I could get the name of him!

Blessed Claudio Granzotto
(1900-1947)

Born in Santa Lucia del Piave near Venice, Claudio was the youngest of nine children and was accustomed to hard work in the fields. At the age of nine he lost his father. Six years later he was drafted into the Italian army, where he served more than three years.
His artistic abilities, especially in sculpture, led to studies at Venice’s Academy of Fine Arts, which awarded him a diploma with the highest marks in 1929. Even then he was especially interested in religious art. When Claudio entered the Friars Minor four years later, his parish priest wrote, "The Order is receiving not only an artist but a saint." Prayer, charity to the poor and artistic work characterized his life, which was cut short by a brain tumor. He died on the feast of the Assumption and was beatified in 1994.



Comment:

Claudio developed into such an excellent sculptor that his work still turns people toward God. No stranger to adversity, he met every obstacle courageously, reflecting the generosity, faith and joy that he learned from Francis of Assisi.


Quote:

In the beatification homily, Pope John Paul II said that Claudio made his sculpture "the privileged instrument" of his apostolate and evangelization. "His holiness was especially radiant in his acceptance of suffering and death in union with Christ’s Cross. Thus by consecrating himself totally to the Lord’s love, he became a model for religious, for artists in their search for God’s beauty and for the sick in his loving devotion to the Crucified" (L’Osservatore Romano, Vol. 47, No. 1, 1994).