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.
22 July, 2012
21 July, 2012
Humor
A schoolteacher asked her primary six class to construct sentences with the words: defeat, detail, defense.
There was a pause before a pupil raised his hand and said he could make a sentence with them; "The cow jumped over defense and detail went over defeat."
There was a pause before a pupil raised his hand and said he could make a sentence with them; "The cow jumped over defense and detail went over defeat."
Note: Defense= The Fence
Detail= The tail
Defeat=The feet:
Well, i guess, this is because of the TexTMsgs in Mobile Phones..
Israeli MP tears up New Testament in parliament
Says the Gospels are responsible for the killing of millions of Jews and should be consigned to the 'garbage can of history'
Yesterday a photographer captured the shocking scene of Israeli MP Michael Ben-Ari tearing up a copy of the New Testament and throwing it in the bin. He did not commit this act in just any old place; he did it in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament.
Mr. Ben-Ari is a member of HaIhud HaLeumim (National Union), a religious Jewish right wing party close to the Occupy Movement.
The gesture, which brings to mind the action of U.S. pastor Terry Jones who set fire to a copy of the Koran, was in response to an “unacceptable provocation” by the Israeli Bible Society, an Evangelical entity which in recent days sent a copy of the New Testament in Jewish to all 120 Israeli MPs.
“We are pleased to send you this book which we hope will help you and illuminate your way,” the accompanying letter written by Victor Kalisher read. “We hope and pray that this book may help you in your important position in service of the people.”
A very unwise move in a country like Israel where Christian proselytism is a topic that has always caused tension. Arutz Sheva, the news agency that is most sympathetic to the religious conservatives, promptly reported the news the other day, with the headline: “Christians Flood Knesset with ‘New Judaism’”.
The article said many MPs were furious about this gesture and that Tzipi Hotolevy, a member of the Likud party, has specifically asked Knesset’s president, Reuven Rivlin, “to put a stop to the dissemination of what she said is outright missionary material in the Knesset.”
But yesterday, Michael Ben-Ari decided to go even further and got a photographer to capture the moment when he publicly ripped the pages out of the book in question and then threw them in the bin. As he did so he said: “This abominable book [the New Testament] brought about the murder of millions of Jews in the Inquisition and autos da fé.” “This is a provocation by church missionaries and there is no doubt that this book and those who sent it belong in the garbage can of history.”
Full story: Israel: MP tears up Gospel after calling it an “abominable book”
Source: Vatican Insider
Mr. Ben-Ari is a member of HaIhud HaLeumim (National Union), a religious Jewish right wing party close to the Occupy Movement.
The gesture, which brings to mind the action of U.S. pastor Terry Jones who set fire to a copy of the Koran, was in response to an “unacceptable provocation” by the Israeli Bible Society, an Evangelical entity which in recent days sent a copy of the New Testament in Jewish to all 120 Israeli MPs.
“We are pleased to send you this book which we hope will help you and illuminate your way,” the accompanying letter written by Victor Kalisher read. “We hope and pray that this book may help you in your important position in service of the people.”
A very unwise move in a country like Israel where Christian proselytism is a topic that has always caused tension. Arutz Sheva, the news agency that is most sympathetic to the religious conservatives, promptly reported the news the other day, with the headline: “Christians Flood Knesset with ‘New Judaism’”.
The article said many MPs were furious about this gesture and that Tzipi Hotolevy, a member of the Likud party, has specifically asked Knesset’s president, Reuven Rivlin, “to put a stop to the dissemination of what she said is outright missionary material in the Knesset.”
But yesterday, Michael Ben-Ari decided to go even further and got a photographer to capture the moment when he publicly ripped the pages out of the book in question and then threw them in the bin. As he did so he said: “This abominable book [the New Testament] brought about the murder of millions of Jews in the Inquisition and autos da fé.” “This is a provocation by church missionaries and there is no doubt that this book and those who sent it belong in the garbage can of history.”
Full story: Israel: MP tears up Gospel after calling it an “abominable book”
Source: Vatican Insider
19 July, 2012
LORD, HERE I AM.: NO TIME FOR GOD!
LORD, HERE I AM.: NO TIME FOR GOD!: Once a man died and went to the gate of heaven and was waiting for the long time. He got impatient and stopped the angel who was passin...
07 July, 2012
Dear friends in Christ,
When
at the time of Holy Communion, it happened that an elderly lady after receiving
Holy Communion she held the right hand of the priest who was distributing Holy
Communion. She held it for a few minutes and other people had to wait for her
until she has released it. The priest was somewhat astonished then he continued
the Holy Mass.
Here is an interesting story
related by a priest…
One day afternoon
while he was preparing homily for the next day, suddenly the cell phone rang. He
picked and answered it was a request for ‘mass for the dead’ in one of the
memorial chapels downtown. He accepted and went at the time requested. He
celebrated the holy sacrifice of the Lord for the departed soul.
When
at the time of Holy Communion, it happened that an elderly lady after receiving
Holy Communion she held the right hand of the priest who was distributing Holy
Communion. She held it for a few minutes and other people had to wait for her
until she has released it. The priest was somewhat astonished then he continued
the Holy Mass.
At the end of
the Mass the priest approached the elderly lady and asked “Mom, what happened
to you?” “Son, nothing” softly answered the lady. Then she related that when
she sees a priest she feels that she sees God. That’s the reason why she held
the hand of the priest as if she held the Hand of God. She could feel the
warmth of the Hand of God manifest in the person of priest.
Yes,
priests represent the person of Jesus Christ who came into this world, the
history of humankind. This was the teaching of the Catholic Church for her
children; both the clergy and lay faithful might be sanctified through Jesus
Christ. We can see there are many priests and prophet in the old testaments.
And Jesus is the eternal High Priest who was also a sacrificial lamb. He
offered himself for our sins, teaches Saint Paul.
I heard from a
discussion of friends, they say that there is a certain sect claims to be
Christians and the leader is teaching that the Catholic Church is full of
sinners and worst of the sinners are priests. I have a question, it is “Which
is right?” the Catholic Church or the certain sect? As far as I know, the
founder of that mentioned sect is still alive and teaching distorted or
mutilated Gospels, particularly New Testament and Old Testament. The Catholic
Church has existed more than 20 centuries. It has suffered the bitterness and
rejection of the people. It had suffered the never-ending persecution
throughout centuries, in and out. From the beginning to the present day it has
reached the furthest corners of the world. When I reflected on him, the leader
of that sect, hatred and ignorance have covered him, unable to see the truth.
Not only him,
there are also sects fabricated in america, claiming Salvation belongs only to
them! One of them said, only 144,000 will be saved! Aha… what an exact number?
Jesus said to his disciples “Go to the whole world and proclaim the Good News.”
is it the number of the people living on earth exactly 144,000. It is sure,
that is the misinterpretation (or poor knowledge in Biblical understanding) of
book of Revelation of St. John. That number is only for Israel (twelve tribes)
(12*12000=144,000)! Awful! Jesus said, “I am coming soon! I will bring my
rewards with me, to give to each one according to what he has done.” True shepherd never climbs the fence
and scatter the sheepfolds.”
May the Good
Lord give us true shepherd who really care and protect the sheep.
