(By: J. Veltri, sj) I enter into a retreat seeking a deeper knowledge and faith that GOD wants to communicate personally with me, no matter where I have been or how closed I have been in the past. This is a tme of disengagement – because I recognize that we are rhythmic creatures needing activity…
Laudato Si Week : May 16-25 Our insistence that each human being is an image of God should not make us overlook the fact that each creature has its own purpose. None is superfluous. The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were,…
” Let us allow ourselves to be loved, so that we can give love in return. Let us allow ourselves to stand up and walk towards Easter. Then we will experience the joy of discovering how God raises us up from our ashes.” -Pope Francis
Psalm 116:1-9Thanksgiving I love the Lord for he has heard *the cry of my appeal;for he turned his ear to me *in the day when I called him. They surrounded me, the snares of death, *with the anguish of the tomb;they caught me, sorrow and distress. *I called on the Lord’s name. O Lord, my God, deliver me! How…
One thing that I would not want to miss during my home visit…is the SUNSET. Almost everyday when the weather permits you can find me praying the Vespers at the sea wall while waiting for the sun to set and fades over the horizon. There’s something in this beauty that emits more energy, that…
We were always given a chance to be drawn closer to God and perfect opportunity comes in this time of LENT. Our Holy Father, Pope Francis said that in this life, we are always in need of conversion and that during this season of Lent the Church invites us to pray for this conversion. He…
Evening Prayer in October O God, whose hand hath spread the sky and all its shining hosts on high, And painting it with fiery light, made it so beauteous and so bright: Who, on the fourth day, didst reveal the sun’s enkindled flaming wheel, Didst set the moon her ordered ways, and stars their ever-winding…
The first day of September marks a special event in the Church and in our world today. Pope Francis instituted the World Day of Prayer for the Creation in 2015 and today on its third year the Holy Father inked a Joint Message with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. This is the first time that…
Captured this amazing sunset on my first two days at home with my dear Papa, Abby and Popoy….in Ipil, Surigao City (January 2017)
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