GOOD NEWS IN THE DIOCESE OF LEGAZPI

Greetings of Peace!

In the problems of your life (marital problems, broken family, sickness, cancer, loneliness, depression, stress, old age, broken-heartedness, despised love, career, sexuality, cruelty, financial, bankruptcy, poverty, vices, lustfulness, injustice, gambling, drug addiction, calamity, and the like), can JESUS CHRIST do something

FOR YOU?

GOOD NEWS!

Yes, He can!

JESUS CHRIST rose from death with power over all your problems (like marital, broken family, sickness, cancer, old age, career, sexuality, cruelty of others, financial, bankruptcy, poverty, vices, lustfulness, injustice, gambling, drug addiction, calamity, etc.). In His Church, you can find the inheritance He has earned for you.

COME, LISTEN!
and be a PART of the

EVANGELIZATION
that can change your life.

CATECHESIS

every Monday and Friday
will start on

February 2, 2009
at 7:00 in the evening
at St. Raphael's Church,

Legazpi City.

JESUS SAYS:

COURAGE! DO NOT BE AFRAID.

I HAVE CONQUERED THE WORLD.

Ini po sarong imbitasyon na makipagtuparan kita sa Diyos.

Edad 13 anyos pataas; daraga, soltero, may agom o wara,

mayaman o pobre, maski anupaman na sitwasyon an saimong kinamumugtakan o pinaghalean,

"God is calling you.
Do not be afraid."

Salamat asin Dios an magbalos saindo.

*** This invitation (by the bishop of Legazpi, Msgr. Lucilo B. Quiambao) is being forwarded to you and your loved ones. Please feel free to share to the people in your household, in school, at work or in your community. If you are away from Legazpi, kindly forward to your acquaintances, friends, relatives, immediate family, work collueagues, etc. who are in the area. Thank you! ***

For the love of you.

In the name of the Father, the Son,

and the Holy Spirit.

Cheers,

♥ GOLDIMYRR ♥

..*...*.. The Will of God will never take you...*...*....*...*..

..*...*.. )¤..where the Grace of God cannot protect you*..*...*..

~THE WEDDING~

In the Bible, there is a parable about the Father who prepared a banquet for a carefully chosen people to celebrate his son's wedding.

ATTEND THE CATECHESIS FOR GROWN-UPS
Happening every Tuesday and Thursday
starting August 17, 2010 at 7:00 in the evening
at St. Raphael the Archangel Parish Church, Legazpi City.

All the invited guests either declined or ignored the invitation due to preoccupations in life:

One said he has just bought a field and is on his way to visit it.
Another said he is just married and cannot leave wife, as the law insists.
Others may have indicated positive response at receiving the invitation, but simply did not show up when the moment came.

What happens then? Because all that The Father wants is to share the merits and joy of his son's wedding, he instructed his servants to go tell everyone else that there is a feast in his house and no sooner, the house was filled with other people, commoners, nobodies and beggars alike.

Even the thugs and bums at the slums were welcomed, and they weren't stoned or discriminated.

Even the prostitutes and the harlots came, and they were served like the ladies of noble families, like virgin princesses treated with respect.

THIS PARABLE IS MORE THAN JUST A STORYTELLING.

IT IS ALL ABOUT US.

In eschatological terms, JESUS is the groom and the church is His bride and we are the church.

"For God so loved the world, He gave us His only son...."

Every so often and in different ways, God is continually seeking to seal a covenant with us--no matter how good or bad we think of ourselves or others perceive us. GOD LOVES US.

But how do we respond?

Are we like those "chosen guests" with hardened hearts in the story?

Or the ordinary people who know "Love" works?

=Simple pleasures, great wonders.= (#1)

This morning, I accompanied my aged grandmother and still-partly-handicapped uncle to church for the Holy Eucharist.

It was raining when we left home and my grandmother was on her usual complaints of how discouraging it is to go out when the road is wet and full of mud, so there I was appeasing her thoughts again....

But a little after, as the mass started, the sun started to shine and as we went home, it was very bright and sunny outside, with a cool gentle wind blowing about. then, going home afterward, as the trimobile we were in turned to lakandula drive, i was overwhelmed by the sight of a marvelously thick but short-spanning spread of colors in the sky: it was a rainbow that commenced just about at the right foot of lignon hill and ended somewhere a little nearby. i exclaimed upon the sight of it and asked my grandmother if she can see it and she was amazed at how big and low it is.

Then as we entered the interior street that leads to our place, the trimobile had to move to the side of the road to make way for a carabao who was leading a cart, seemingly having come from a delivery of gravel or sand to a neighbor.

we live in the provincial suburbs but i already barely see a carabao these days. almost all of the agricultural fields in our area have been converted into industrial and residential lots so these animals of the field, for me, are just sights i can take pleasure of when i go to the next barangay more distant than ours from the heart of the city.

and as i go home, i shared what i saw to my sisters and i say, these things are simple but they are most beautiful.... that, it's a wonderful feeling when in the ordinariness of your everyday, you come across something or someone, and it makes you remember that somebody DID CREATE THE WORLD BEAUTIFULLY, only, we sometimes preoccupy ourselves with unnecessary things to do and to worry about that we don't often get to have the time to pause and appreciate what has been given us.

i am grateful i just had that chance^^,

The Classic

"I am Yours, like the sun which sets
and shall return to thee as all else ends
while by the forts of the city
You stand in wait of your beloved."