O Dear Lord,Thank you for my birth!
thank you for my coming death.
As I am living give me conversion, being with you.
None else that I want. Amen.
St.Augusitine writing Confessions
While remembering all his youthful follies, he remembers how God's unfarthomable grace has been a shield for him, how grace leads to discover his faith into Three in One God.
Divine Illumination
St: Augustine receive divine illumination from Jesus the Son of God and Mary, the mother of Jesus, enlightening him while he is writing his discourse.
St.MONICA and St.AUGUSTINE at Ecstacy at Ostia
Two saints, mother and son receive a vision of heaven at Ostia, near Rome. It was the last moment of the two being together, looking heaven ward, and later St.Monica died and was buried there.
Seminarians on the wall.
With co-seminarians, where trying to escape the scourging sunlight, sitting on the fence and keeping ourselves calm with jokes.
Rosary Garden at Tabor Hill, Talamban
A place of prayer and peace, a place of love and charity where being together with the mother of our Divine Lord, and recitation of Holy Rosary knocks the doors of Heaven.
30 April, 2014
Lord, Thank you.
O Dear Lord,Thank you for my birth!
thank you for my coming death.
As I am living give me conversion, being with you.
None else that I want. Amen.
22 April, 2014
Two points...
It has been so long time I haven't write anything for this blog. By the reason of being transferred from one place to another, adjusting to fit oneself in new culture and custom is seemingly difficult one, taking time of unknown measure, one doesn't know when will be the end of these adjustments and familiarizing everything around. Though without divine assistance it could have been impossible to progress in faith and daily experience. People might ask, how could you feel any divine assistance. Yes, they are right to be curious that how one is sensitive to the grace of a God who can't be touched, smelled or there is nothing of tangibleness.
In my opinion, it is plausible that there would be people who have difficulty to imagine the grace of God or whatsoever extraordinary experience. However, the grace of God is nothing extraordinary, nothing supernatural. Because God has promised that he will be with us, then it is very natural to experience God's grace. But how to experience, then? It is a difficult question to handle since it is always personal experience of a belief that divine assistance is encountered. Generally, these personal encounters with divine assistance can be unified in the basis facts they agree upon. The most important one is to reflect and realized events happening in our past expereinces. By scrutinizing them one eventually will come to see, 'Oh, it has been seemingly difficult to handle yet I don't how it was solved.' And so on, these surprises will gradually surface during the process of self-interrogation, serious reflections, and recognizing one's weakness in the course of time. Then, there comes, realization of the presence of divine assistance. This process really takes time and more of humility of the heart. A proud man's heart cannot be open to divine assistance because he will insist that all the success is achieved through his intelligence or capacity, and the failures were because of ill-fate.
A humble person will attribute every success to divine assistance which he say, he is not worthy to have it yet, it was God's special favor for his children.This is not the only attribution and there are more of it, for example, simply praying...'O Lord, your ways are more perfect than the ways i chose for myself' and one would accept failures as God's intervention for a better purpose. It is very beautiful since it is always attributed to God and even in the time of big failure, it helps us to recover immediately after realizing it as God's plan for us. No bitter feelings remain in the heart accusing our neighbor as the cause of our failure and blaming ourselves for incapacity. Human beings are made as human beings with capacities of a human being. It would be hurtful for both parties forcing or expecting someone to be perfect in his/her behavior, attitude etc... Although, i think, no one knows what really is perfection in every aspect of day to day life. We simply guess and impose our thoughts on someone over whom we expect perfection. It was the Jews thought that Jesus lacks perfection to claim as the Son of God the most high. Then with their prejudices they had him killed so that there would be no one among them arises claiming to be the son of God.
Finally, I summarize two points, first realizing God's assistance in our day to day life in which we experience ups and downs. The second is realizing our imperfection in very moment of our life. By these very two facts we will be able to go a little upward in spiritual life, balancing all our expectations, hopes and desires with failures, unwanted results and difficulties.
Wish you a blessings-filled day to you..
fra-gil
In my opinion, it is plausible that there would be people who have difficulty to imagine the grace of God or whatsoever extraordinary experience. However, the grace of God is nothing extraordinary, nothing supernatural. Because God has promised that he will be with us, then it is very natural to experience God's grace. But how to experience, then? It is a difficult question to handle since it is always personal experience of a belief that divine assistance is encountered. Generally, these personal encounters with divine assistance can be unified in the basis facts they agree upon. The most important one is to reflect and realized events happening in our past expereinces. By scrutinizing them one eventually will come to see, 'Oh, it has been seemingly difficult to handle yet I don't how it was solved.' And so on, these surprises will gradually surface during the process of self-interrogation, serious reflections, and recognizing one's weakness in the course of time. Then, there comes, realization of the presence of divine assistance. This process really takes time and more of humility of the heart. A proud man's heart cannot be open to divine assistance because he will insist that all the success is achieved through his intelligence or capacity, and the failures were because of ill-fate.
A humble person will attribute every success to divine assistance which he say, he is not worthy to have it yet, it was God's special favor for his children.This is not the only attribution and there are more of it, for example, simply praying...'O Lord, your ways are more perfect than the ways i chose for myself' and one would accept failures as God's intervention for a better purpose. It is very beautiful since it is always attributed to God and even in the time of big failure, it helps us to recover immediately after realizing it as God's plan for us. No bitter feelings remain in the heart accusing our neighbor as the cause of our failure and blaming ourselves for incapacity. Human beings are made as human beings with capacities of a human being. It would be hurtful for both parties forcing or expecting someone to be perfect in his/her behavior, attitude etc... Although, i think, no one knows what really is perfection in every aspect of day to day life. We simply guess and impose our thoughts on someone over whom we expect perfection. It was the Jews thought that Jesus lacks perfection to claim as the Son of God the most high. Then with their prejudices they had him killed so that there would be no one among them arises claiming to be the son of God.
Finally, I summarize two points, first realizing God's assistance in our day to day life in which we experience ups and downs. The second is realizing our imperfection in very moment of our life. By these very two facts we will be able to go a little upward in spiritual life, balancing all our expectations, hopes and desires with failures, unwanted results and difficulties.
Wish you a blessings-filled day to you..
fra-gil
