Footprints

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Your Mind and what you think of the world.... (Upon reading The Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer )

Your attitude then is paramount. 2 conditions of viewing the world - the positive and the negative. It's + or -. What is inside of you, your thinking will be manifested by the outside. If you want to be connected to the Origin, you have to purify your thinking by taking out the carbon dioxide of hatred and letting in the oxygen of love, kindness and beauty. With these you are in harmony with the Origin/the Creator which is the perfectness of you- the reason why you are on this earth at this point in time. The Creator of the Origin has the intention of your purpose....

7 Faces of Intention: 1) Creativity 2) Kindness 3) Love 4)Beauty 5)Expansion 6)Unlimited Abundance 7)Receptivity.

Love life. Love the beauty of the world with its ugliness. Be grateful that you are reading this; that you have a place in this earth; that you are with a purpose. Ergo, keep in tune to the music that this world gives. Listen to it with sincerity, with passion, with life.

St Timothy Summer Dinner Dance (July 29, 2007)

Was a success. Lots of donated foods, drinks, dancing feet and wonderful music. And the music reverberated thru the church's basement. There were 3 live singers - 2 ladies and a gentleman plus another 2 on the background with their guitars. It was a motley crowd.

St. Timothy was alive with its new pastor, Fr. Peter Fernandes. Of course, there was tanduri chicken , kabobs, pita bread, pancit, chicken tenders, egg rolls, cakes, muffins, salad and fruits.

Visitors loved the live band. A couple almost stayed to the end just to listen to the sparkling voice of Ellen Balmadrid . 'Twas a night well spent.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Looking beyond our horizon we recall the glimmer of the past. Once again, the past becomes a pulsating present. Fr. Danny appears in the scene. And talks become gospel truth. Meanwhile, Fr. Pecto with bated breath hurriedly explains the beauty of saying the right thing and not to falter. However, Fr. Carlos' waiting may manifest the reply of tomorrow as Fr. Joseph's patience remain unquestionable. Maybe, the pastor can shed the light. Pastor Nonoy, that is.

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Friends and Memories. // Our greatest assets are our friends. True friends. Real friends. Sincere friends. And they fill the pages in the book of memories. They are diamonds. They last. They are forever... Really! Is friendship a lost cause? Surf www.roomwithapew.blogspot.com

Monday, June 18, 2007

On Father's Day

On Father's Day

A father of two (on the left)and a father of the many (on the right) holding the image of the Holy Infant Jesus (Santo Nino) made in Cebu City, Philippines. This Holy Infant Image is a gift for Father Max of Uganda as a token of friendship.

"The family stands on two pillars of which each pillar is vital and essential for the family's growth and stability These two pillars are " Father and Mother". Today - we honor the father for the role in the life of the family.

St. Joseph played a significant and exemplary role in the life of the Holy Family. In his concern to provide for the family, he undertook the trade of a carpenter. When the family was in danger, he guided them to a safe place. When the time came for his family to deliver her firstborn in a foreign land, he turned to beg, without thought or care, for shelter. And, in his personal anguish, when the child was lost in Jerusalem, he neither blamed the mother, nor anybody else, but anxiously searched to find him.

Without the father, the family becomes vulnerable and faces a formidable challenge to cope up with the world. The weak and the fatherless find the world hostile toward them, for the father is the strength to his children and motivating force to overcome difficulties in their lives. Sadly, it is all too often, that only after the father is gone, he is appreciated for the love he gave to his family. Therefore, we have more reason to celebrate Father's day with sincere gratitude to them, for the dedication and many sacrifices.

The first Father's Day was observed on June 19,1910, in Spokane, Washington. At about the same time in various towns and cities across America, other people were beginning to celebrate a "Father's Day". In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge supported the idea of a national Father's Day. Finally, in 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's day.
Father's Day has become a day to not only honor the father but all men who act as a father figure. Stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, and adult male friends are all honored on Father's day.
Today, let us pray that fathers will always execute their duties to their families with love and fidelity; that all the fathers will look at St Joseph, emulate his life and an exemplary figure to all people, especially to their own children. (Fr. Peter Fernandes,sfx)

June 17,2007 Father's Day.

On this day a reminder on the role of being a man, male figure, father,stepfather, grandfather,

uncle, or a father of the church. Historical dates:

June 19, 1910-ist Father's Day observed in Spokane, Wash. 1924, an idea of national Father's day gained support from Pres. Calvin Coolidge. 1966, Pres. Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation making 3rd sunday of June as Father's Day.

"Honor thy father..."

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Filipiniana Night's smile-fraught faces garbed in barong tagalog with the captain of tour ship Carnival Liberty plying the Mediterranean ocean.

Eve Caermare Trabanca aboard the ship Carnival Liberty
as it slices the calm, bluish Mediterranean sea.

The Carnival Liberty ( Panama built) on her maiden voyage cruising the tranquil Mediterranean Sea on regal splendor that started at the port of Civitavecchia, Italy to dock at 7 ports of: (1) Naples, Italy (2)Dubrovnik, Croatia (3) Venice, Italy (4) Messina, Sicily (5) Barcelona, Spain (6) Cannes, France (7) Livorno, Italy.

The Filipiniana Night of the Mediterranean Tour.

Greg, Eve (wife), Zeny Buen (wife of Dr. Willy Buen), Babylane Rueles(cousin) and friend nurse, Fely Arceo.

The ship that maiden voyage us to a Mediterranean tour to ports of Italy, Croatia, Spain and France. Details found on Journey of a Lifetime on the preceding blog.

Monday, May 28, 2007

May 28, 2007: Memorial Day

In time's memory lanes, we remember familiar faces that etch wonderful moments in our lives. These golden moments that awaken our somnolence stare straight to our very core and unfold like a gorgeous panorama.

Yesterday's Dipolognon fiesta celebration attended by a record-breaking crowd from Zamboanga del Norte and beyond at Proesel Park, Lincolnwood, Illinois, USA invigorated me as I met www.Dipolognon 's owner and publisher, Eddie Artajo among others. He was also one of the pioneer officers of ZAMNAI. Details of the celebration are found online on www.dipolognon.com and comment on the resurrected www.ambibo.com.

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. )

Monday, May 14, 2007

When marital world collides, the panacea is holding tight to Mother Nature's bosom to feel the comfort of its idyllic panorama ,gorgeous landscape , beautiful flowers and placid,therapeutic waters.

Civilization find its beginning always in a place where there is water. When water is found, progress is not faraway. The Niles. The Tigres-Euphrates Rivers. The Hoover Dam. And Las Vegas glistens and glows in the desert.