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.
27 May, 2014
23 May, 2014
This is the first, who will be the second?
Friday, May 23, 2014
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EUROPE/ITALY – Beatification of Mario Vergara, PIME martyr and Isidoro Ngei Ko Lat, first Burmese Blessed
Rome (Agenzia Fides) – On Saturday, May 24, 2014, in the Cathedral of Aversa, Father Mario Vergara, missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) and his catechist Isidore Ngei Ko Lat will be beatified. They both died as martyrs in Burma in May 1950. Card. Angelo Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will preside at the beatification ceremony.At the end of the general audience on Wednesday 21 May, Pope Francis recalled the beatification with these words: " On 24 May, PIME missionary Fr Mario Vergara and Isidore Ngei Ko Lat, his faithful catechist, will be beatified at Aversa. The two were killed in 1950 in Burma, out of hatred for the Christian faith. May their heroic fidelity to Christ be an encouragement and example to missionaries and especially catechists in mission lands who carry out important and irreplaceable apostolic work, for which the whole Church is grateful".
Father Mario Vergara was born in Frattamaggiore in 1910. Ordained a priest on August 28, 1934, at the end of September he left for Burma, he was entrusted the district Citaciò in the mountains and forests of Soku, one of the Kayin. With the help of catechists he faced countless hardships. During World War II, in 1941 he was interned, with all the Italian missionaries in British concentration camps in India, where he stayed for 4 years. After a period spent in Italy he returned to Burma, and went on a new mission among the Red Kayin, east of Loikaw, near the Salween River. After independence from England (1948), riots and civil war broke out between government and Kayin rebels. Father Vergara takes up the defense of the oppressed, and was very much hated by the rebels operating in that area. When on May 24, 1950 Father Vergara, together with the catechist Isidore went to demand the release of another catechist who had been arrested, he was faced by the rebel leader Richmond, after a tough interrogation, he orders their arrest. Both were massacred on the banks of the Salween River, probably in the early hours of May 25. Their bodies, sealed in a bag, were thrown into the river.
Not much is known about the life of the catechist Isidore Ngei Ko Lat, who is the first Burmese faithful to be beatified. Baptized on September 7, 1918, Isidoro belonged to a family of farmers, who converted to Catholicism. As a child he attended the missionaries and often went with them. He entered the minor seminary in Toungoo, demonstrating zeal and commitment, but because of poor health he had to return to his family . However, he decided to dedicate his life to the Lord, he did not get married and opened a private free school, where he held catechism classes. In 1948 he met Fr.Vergara, who invited him to carry out the service of catechist in Shadaw. (SL) (Agenzia Fides 23/05/2014)
22 May, 2014
A Saint, a Wife, a Mothe, a Nun...Rita was a help
Thursday, May 22, 2014
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Today, we celebrate the feast of St. Rita. Our order rejoices with her intercession. She, Rita is our patroness, personally i have experienced he intercession. I remember when i was a postulant, in the Philippines, i had difficulties continuing the seminary life, i thought of going out of seminary. I felt pressure, I missed my parents, my home land, my brothers and sisters and of course, my friends.
I thought many times to get out of it, yet i said to myself, if i love Jesus why should i be weak. I knew love conquers everything. Then I was inspired to ask intercession of St Rita. I ask her fervently that i'like to remain in the seminary then become a priest, not for myself, not for my family but for all, that i want to serve people. I did pray for some time, not continuously yet it was quite effective. I unknowingly receive grace to continue, then later we were asked to continue to go to novitiate.
During novitiate also, i encountered many difficulties, especially dryness of living monastic life. I felt many times my prayers were not heard. I felt going home again. It was also st. Rita help me remain in the seminary again. I never realized that she is such a powerful intercessor, and our patroness. Because, i think, she experienced many life disturbances, to be obedient, to be chaste, to be humble, to be patient, to be loving, to be forgiving, all such ideal christian virtues. I am one, very happy to belong one of the Augustinian order serving the Lord and His church where we have saints as our living examples, loving the Lord with all our hearts.
I am grateful to God and people he allowed me to encounter, especially i appreciate their prayers offered so that we will continue to live in love, to serve. St. Rita was one of the many examples who is distinguished from the rest as her love, patience, charity, hope were above her self-love. She bowed until her forehead touch the ground yet she was raised by someone who is the author of Life. Thanks be to God. To God be the Glory, forever.
I thought many times to get out of it, yet i said to myself, if i love Jesus why should i be weak. I knew love conquers everything. Then I was inspired to ask intercession of St Rita. I ask her fervently that i'like to remain in the seminary then become a priest, not for myself, not for my family but for all, that i want to serve people. I did pray for some time, not continuously yet it was quite effective. I unknowingly receive grace to continue, then later we were asked to continue to go to novitiate.
During novitiate also, i encountered many difficulties, especially dryness of living monastic life. I felt many times my prayers were not heard. I felt going home again. It was also st. Rita help me remain in the seminary again. I never realized that she is such a powerful intercessor, and our patroness. Because, i think, she experienced many life disturbances, to be obedient, to be chaste, to be humble, to be patient, to be loving, to be forgiving, all such ideal christian virtues. I am one, very happy to belong one of the Augustinian order serving the Lord and His church where we have saints as our living examples, loving the Lord with all our hearts.
I am grateful to God and people he allowed me to encounter, especially i appreciate their prayers offered so that we will continue to live in love, to serve. St. Rita was one of the many examples who is distinguished from the rest as her love, patience, charity, hope were above her self-love. She bowed until her forehead touch the ground yet she was raised by someone who is the author of Life. Thanks be to God. To God be the Glory, forever.
19 May, 2014
16 May, 2014
inconvenience
Friday, May 16, 2014
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I apologize for the inconvenience...
i am still upgrading it's structure.
Thanks and God bless you...
ohlay
13 May, 2014
Tech
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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I love technology, i love it deeply. It helped to exercise my desires in many areas of my interest. I love to help people too, and since i love technology i am always on it. Reading, doing some kind of research and sometime browsing or social networking. I am inclined to study how does a computer work and carries out information we need. So I do a form of self study. Learning something everyday and how to manage them. By benefiting from these day to day experience i happen to know a little more than normal users. I help people from my community when they need computer service. Installing, formatting windows OS and installation of other softwares and removing virus and adwares etc. When i am successful i am so happy and proud to be doing it over and over again. This is the reason i love it so deeply.
I even thank God for technology. Because it allows me to do what i am interested. But for a while i am so sunk into it. I feel restless. I do not know what to do and i wasn't sure of what i was doing at certain moments. Ok, i found something. I did not know that i needed rest from what i am doing. It was I needed to be disconnected. I needed my reflection over my day to day life.
It was a need to revive my tired spirit from too much information loaded in my head and left me heavy with so many ideas running across in the brain. I decided to leave for a while, if possible I will not continue over a span of year of so. I am revived, i felt so refreshed. I prayed, I read books, I do the services i need to finish. I sleep so well. I eat my food with good appetite. They all were the benefits of leaving myself disconnected from media and social networking.
I thank again, and prayed to God that "oh Lord, you are great, You have made me see the foolishness i was doing. And you gave me the courage to decide and do what i needed to do. Thank you for this opportunity to leave things became so close to us unnecessarily. So with this joy i would like to share a link to you. May God bless us in what we are doing and it may help our friendship strengthened with God and with our neighbour.
I even thank God for technology. Because it allows me to do what i am interested. But for a while i am so sunk into it. I feel restless. I do not know what to do and i wasn't sure of what i was doing at certain moments. Ok, i found something. I did not know that i needed rest from what i am doing. It was I needed to be disconnected. I needed my reflection over my day to day life.
It was a need to revive my tired spirit from too much information loaded in my head and left me heavy with so many ideas running across in the brain. I decided to leave for a while, if possible I will not continue over a span of year of so. I am revived, i felt so refreshed. I prayed, I read books, I do the services i need to finish. I sleep so well. I eat my food with good appetite. They all were the benefits of leaving myself disconnected from media and social networking.
I thank again, and prayed to God that "oh Lord, you are great, You have made me see the foolishness i was doing. And you gave me the courage to decide and do what i needed to do. Thank you for this opportunity to leave things became so close to us unnecessarily. So with this joy i would like to share a link to you. May God bless us in what we are doing and it may help our friendship strengthened with God and with our neighbour.
