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i just want to welcome myself to the other side of the fence!!! This is going to be an exciting journey of my life. i hope i can make it and find the things i'm looking for.

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Death maybe understood as the end of life, a state in which the internal organs and the whole system of the body are not anymore functioning. The Passion of Christ showed how His body gone through the same process. In our observance of the Holy Week, we mourn of Christ's death. We feel guilty of what we have done that caused our Savior to die and not to see Him anymore. Indeed, we never saw Him but the promise He said that He would be with us until the end of time, brings new eyes for us to see Jesus again. To be able to do this, one has to see that wisdom of a Son of God hanging on the cross. His death was indeed a mystery but he left something for us to understand the whole thing - LOVE. Love is common by the time Jesus was born and until His death on the cross. This is a love of a Father for his children, a love of Jesus for all of us. There we can see how life is formed in each one of us when His body is suffering. While the body of Jesus is dying, a new strength in us is flowi...

Courtesy of Manila Bulletin (Wednesday issue: April 2, 2009) pls. click the link for the whole story... Fr. Rico Ponce (center) says some Carmelite formators even encourage seminarians to go out temporarily to find growth and development. (Photos by RICHARD VIÑAS) http://mb.com.ph/articles/201098/a-peek-life-inside-seminary A peek into the life inside the seminary By RACHEL C. BARAWID April 1, 2009, 8:39pm

“The mystical state is the highest level of religious experience and the goal of all religious life. It is also the goal of all human development, both on the individual level and in term of human evolution.” This is the opening statement of the first chapter of the book of Willingis Jäger entitled Contemplation, a Christian path. I find it also fitting to start my reflection with this statement because I find it true that indeed, religious have all something to look up why they dedicated themselves to a life less traveled. This is not only for us Catholics but also undeniably for other religious beliefs. They too, if not for the mystical experience, have also some goal for them to attain, may it be in another description fitted to their own context. What is then a mystic? I’ve learned from Fr. Martin, a carmelite priest, in one of our discussions in Prophets that a mystic is someone who had the experience of God. This experience of God is of the experience of Love because God is Lov...

Thanks for all individuals who showed concern and spent time in forwarding this mail/blog regarding the niece of our friar. For now she's safe...One of her friend took her from where she is working. She has been very sick and her employer didn't do anything about her condition. she is now taking cared of...May God Bless you and repay all the good deeds you have done... Fr. Toto is extending his thanks to all... we will keep you all in our paryers... -melskiens-

This is the letter sent to me by one of our Friars. He was asking help if i can post this letter in my blog hoping that someone might see this and could be of help, in whatever way, especially in locating her niece who is in Singapore right now.. please spare a little of your time in reading this letter and perhaps forward this letter or this blog to your friends who is in Singapore or to those who could be of help..thank you very much and may God help us all... Dear Melskiens, Our family has been alarmed by a call of our niece working in Singapore. Her name is CHERRY MAE “Mecai” CAINOY GLODOBE. She’s been working as an OFW since October 2008. The address of her location is c/o Kohmci Jacelyn, 3 Jalan Khamis, Singapore 577849. The other day, February 24, 2009 (Tuesday) my cousin Armondo Cainoy Tagocon, in Baungon, Bukidnon received a frantic call from her… she was crying very badly and seemed on the run. Between sobs, she requested that our family sends $600.00 to her. When she...