HOLY CROSS OF DAVAO EMPLOYEES ANNUAL RETREAT

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One of the good programs provide by the Holy Cross of Davao College to its Faculty and Staff is the spiritual nourishment that we call RETREAT. This activity is done every beginning of the school year. Faculty and staff are divided into different groupings and assigned to the different venues with their respective retreat speaker and CM facilitator

This year, I am assigned  to be with the College Faculty ages 52 - 65. Our venue is at Benedictine Sisters Ulas. Wow! This retreat house serve nutritious and  delicious food. And we have Bro. Noel Vic from the Sacred Heart Brothers as our retreat speaker. Retreat is spiritual activity for us to journey with our-self, God and others. People is a school sitting like us needs this activity to refresh, refocus, re energize ourselves as to start the whole year round of facing our school task as educators. This would help us draw more  closer to God and commit ourselves to our mission.

Three Movements in Life's Journey

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Three Movements in Life's Journey

 It is said that, ” life is journey”. In a journey we usually take different movements. These movements has to be balanced for us to enjoy the journey and become a precious moment.

The first movement is the Sitting Moment.

This is the very moment where you are. What are the sitting moment of our lives? This is moment where one will find him/herself. Know where are this time? Where are your going? What harbors in your mind and heart?

Second is Kneeling.

Upon knowing where we are, our feelings, thoughts and looking all the demands of life, we are invited and encourage to kneel. Kneeling moment is a praying moment. Do you find time to pray? Bring your agenda to your

Creator and listen to Him.

The third movement is the Walking Movement.

Life is more meaningful if it has a sense of others not minding their business but of minding what can you share with them. Service is a love acted upon. Living a life with a sense of mission. These three movements help us live a more meaningful  and beautiful life. Beware of the danger ! That is magnifying one and depreciating the other. It has  to be balanced.

PS. Know the Desire of your Heart.  Surely, your heart will guide you  http://myownmission.blogspot.com/2011/05/hearts-desire.htm

Heart's Desire

 Each one of us have a top most heart's desire. A nurse by profession with great possibility of working abroad to earn dollar opted to live a simple life and give herself to the mission because of her heart's desire as God's gift planted by God into her  heart. Her name  is Dolly. A Lay Missionary Associate of the PME. This woman recognized that there was a certain special longing deep  within herself as she encountered Jesus Christ through a religious seminar on her teen age days. That experienced lead her to a desire for God. After her nursing course she was invited by her close friend who is a med tech by profession and was working in the mountain with the lumads ( natives ). Dolly  made a kind of exposure at the beginning but amazingly she stayed working with the health program for natives for more than 5 years. What made her stay for 5 years?  Because of her heart's desire. 

Dolly shared this experienced of the love of God not only to the natives in the Philippines, but she opened herself to  people in other countries like Cambodia as  she joined the Lay Missionary program of the PME Fathers and became PME Associates. Because of this heart's desire she work in Cambodia for more than 10 years as health workers not to earn dollars but to witness  the love of God to the less fortunate in Cambodia. She was able to share the mission of Jesus happily and continue it joyfully because  of her desire for God.




PS.
By the virtue of our baptism we share the mission of Jesus  and called   to do it in  the place where we are ; it could be in the market place, in the school, hospital , private and public offices, and to our families. Be a missionary on your own little ways. http://laywomenmissionaries.blogspot.com