God invites us to be Holy. I think one of the characteristics that will help us in order to be Holy is first to be faithful in anything that we do; doing things according to God’s Will. This Will is to follow the commandments. In reality we live according to what we believe and yet we are invited to look on the good things around us, in the goodness of the hearts of our neighbor and the good examples that they have shown us. Perhaps Faith is like a salt when place on the water it cannot be seen and yet it has an effect. We cannot see faith through our naked eyes and yet we can feel it in the innermost part of our being human—in our soul. We cannot feel the true essence of life if we don’t have Faith. It is what makes our life worth living. Faith is an invitation to man for good relationships.

Presence of Grace

Thank you for being the presence of God's grace.

Always thank the Lord

Salamat po

GOD is Merciful

One of my friends told me that Purity is one of the hardest virtues to be fulfilled, whether you are a religious or layman. To attain this virtue one has to have trust, faithfulness, and sacrifices because everything in this world is connected and everything has a purpose. at that time because of my innocent mind I really don't know what purity is, (many years back). But now as for my experience most of the people would say that being impure is part of being human or it is nomal for a person to be experienced, but for me it is not an excuse. It is better for a person to strive and remain pure. I believe that even holy persons experienced the hardships of preserving this virtue, but I guess beacuse of their prayers, sacrifices, courage, hopes and their intimate communion with the Lord they remain pure.

In dealing with the concept of holiness, St. Thomas Aquinas, after pointing out the close relation between holiness nad purity, concludes with the assertion that a man of holiness means a pure man, a man without blemish of earth.

Don Bosco in his Biographical Memoirs, defined purity as, "the virtue that outshines all others in heaven." He suggested that to preserve purity we have to remember that we are "always in the presence of God." Don Bosco's love for purity is the outcome of his ardent love for souls. He was convinced that he helped his boys to sanctificatoion, by constantly inculcating to them the "LOVE for purity."

But still what is this virtue really all about? why is it important?According to the Gospel of St. Matthew, Ch. 5 v.8: "Blessed are those who are pure of heart, they will see God." For now who are those people whom we believe and proclaimed by the Church that they already see God, those are the Saints, those are the pure people.

St. Augustine warns us that "It is not the essential to consider what a man does, but also, and more especially, with what will and intention he does it." "The works of man" he continues, "are not known except by examining to see if they are rooted in Charity or Love, because even flowers have thorns." That it may be in one instance we will be misled to imputiy. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WHEN WE WORK LET US WORK FOR THE WORLD NOT IN THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD BUT IN THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD.

Gift and Mystery

This is a gift and yet a mystery.
Matutuwa ka ba kung makatatanggap ka ng isang gift na may mystery?
okey lang kung di mo sasagutin hehe...
sinasabi nila na ang Vocation daw is a gift from God but it is full of mysteries. Noong una di ko rin maintindihan kasi ang gusto ko kung bibigyan ako ng regalo ay alam ko kung ano. pero mali pala and mas maganda di mo alam kung bakt iyon ang inirealo sayo para mas lalong mong maintindihan, mahalin, panampalatayanan, at lubos na paniwalaan ang Diyos mo. magulo nga lang, medyo nakakalito pero isang lang ang masasabi ko; Ito ang Totoo.

Unexpected

Sometimes we don't expect the things that happened to us, we didn't ask for it but it comes and sometimes it hurts us, first emotionally then followed physically and of course spiritually.
Sometimes we would like to ask God; WHY? then later I just realized this was wrong because the right question sholud be, THANK YOU!, because I know that God prepared more precious and important gift for us. JUST WAIT FOR IT. May GOD bless us all =).

I AM NOT SUPERMAN!

I can't do miracles
I can't do extra-ordinary things
I don't have powers
I don't know how to fly
I can't control others
BUT
i could offer my life to...

I am sure that I am not SUPERMAN

to be continued...