It’s just 2 hours before the year 2009 comes to a close, and I thought how has this year changed me and the country? How different I am now, compared to the same time last year. What are the events in 2009 that greatly impacted us? Who are the key people that we met that [...]
Archive for December, 2009
17 Dec
Simbang Gabi: 2nd & 3rd Day
Last night is my second day of my Simbang Gabi and I’ll attend the mass at St. John Bosco church in Makati. The mass started as soon as the clock hit 8. We sing entrance song, the first reading from the book of Genesis that praises Judah, read the responsorial psalm, and then to Daily [...]
15 Dec
Simbang Gabi…A tradition
Today is December 16, 2009 and for all Filipinos it’s time for Simbang Gabi (for some they start it at the evening of December 15 – anticipated mass for December 16 dawn Mass). Simbang Gabi is a novena to our Blessed Mother. It’s a 9 days mass that begins December 16 and culminates with the [...]
7 Dec
Repent…
New Things usually excite us. As we prepare for Christmas, however, our joy and anticipation come from old and familiar things: Yuletide colors and decor, Christmas tunes and carols, and the figure of the first nativity scene – thew Baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph, the magi and the shepherds. The hustle and bustle that accompany our [...]
1 Dec
As I bid Farewell
I was never a man of hate or pain I never wanted to see people cry I always had a way with words and could see the world through their eyes I want you all to remember me As though I have never left Remembering the way I made you feel Or the way I [...]
1 Dec
The Coming…”It pays to wait”
Waiting is an essential part of our lives. Life is not finished in itself; there is always something more to it, something yet to come. Parents wait for their children to grow up, children wait for their time to go to school and get a job and be married, we all wait for the sun [...]
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