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Saturday, November 19, 2022

A Dedication

 The Children's  Memories

We remember you our dear mother
As a mother, you love your children
Unassuming but there is power
This is how it's going to begin.

In the Queen City, it started
Love grew, nourished until it blooms
This was not the plan but studied
And as Baby Boomers, it zooms.

Soon  the couple received a token
Four beautiful girls and two bright boys
Of the sun's smile and the joyous rain.
"Remember this is life", said the Voice.

The children's role model was their aunt:
A Florence Nightingale sans hubris;
"Strict discipline on what you must want
Will not lead you to your nemesis."

Dear mother is on a lovely bed;
We pay our last respect and goodbye
But there's a place where we must not  dread
Peace and joy that no one can deny.
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Belen Fortich Caermare 
Husband: Luisito Rueles Caermare
Children: Geraldine, Riza, Christy, Francis,  Antoniette, Rexis.

The bereaved family of Belen Fortich Caermare would like to convey 
their heartfelt gratitude for those who in one way or another had eased 
their sorrows in time of her demise.

Thank you very much!
The Children

(N.B.) Evangeline Rueles Caermare Trabanca is the Aunt, deceased, an LDR nurse.

"Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating
the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own."  (Fulton Sheen.)


Saturday, May 19, 2007

Rev. Fr. Anthony Pizarro, CICM
May 19, 2007 , Despedida Party in Chicago
DESIDERATA
Go placidly amid the noise & haste, & remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly & clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud & aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater & lesser persons than yourself.
ENJOY YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
EXERCISE CAUTION in your business affairs for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideas; and everywhere LIFE IS FULL OF HEROISM.
BE YOURSELF. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue & loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, BE GENTLE WITH YOURSELF. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees & the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore, BE AT PEACE WITH GOD, whatever you conceive HIM to be, and whatever your labors & aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. STRIVE TO BE HAPPY!
(Note: This poem is always in Fr. Thony's wallet and has guided him to be admirable, humble and grateful servant of God. His profound obsession is to do something noteworthy maybe write
a book on the goodness of this Life. No wonder he graduated with all A's on his masteral degree which is unprecedented in the school's recorded history.
To Fr. Manny Duterte's Zamboanga del Norte Group he fondly dedicate the above poem. And of Corinthians 13...If I love I conquer everything. )