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.

A Birthday Greetings from Bo Sanchez

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Hi floi,

Happy Birthday!
I want to thank you for being you.
I celebrate your goodness.
I celebrate your uniqueness.
I celebrate your greatness.
Because God created you a great person.
With a glorious destiny beyond your wildest imagination.
Go live your phenomenal life!

May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez

New Learning at the Age of 59

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Wow!

Today is wonderful day for God has given me a new learning through an Awesome Presentation. It is something to be remembered at 59.

Our talented HCDC Campus Minister Richard Escobido shared the knowledge he got from Communication Foundation for Asia.

Thank you Richard. .

Is it Possible to Have Two Names and Two Birthdays?

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At the begging it sounds confusing, but later on it became amusing. This is my experience of having two name with two birthdays. I grew up knowing that my name is FLORDELUNA. When I was in college, as our school registrar required us to submit our birth certificate it was found out that my  name is FLODELUNA. Since childhood up to first year college I celebrated my birthday every May 23. When I saw my birth certificate, my birth date is May 24. Which is which?  Either of the two. Both are important to me.

Today, I embrace this two names. Flordeluna, the flower of the moon. Flodeluna, the simple flower on earth. I celebrated these two dates. A two day birthday celebration. Wow! Fantastic! I honor the Holy Spirit as my guide in this two days celebration. I offer Holy Mass and a novena to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives the joy in my life. 

Tomorrow and the following day ( May 23 & 24 is another joyful days of celebration of the gift of life God has given unto me. Two days of celebrating the goodness and the love of God and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in my life. He is guide, and my protector. Thank you Holy Spirit!

 

Culture from Agriculture

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Do you know where this word culture comes from? One boy responded, it came from the mountain! Really! Mountain? One anthropologist said, that the word culture derived from the word agriculture. Hey hey! Correct! You taker of a plants in a certain conditions to the other. A plant from the plot to the pot. You cultured it .It transformed from nature to human resource.

Culture involves people, in different places with different lifestyle, beliefs, ideas , values and practices.

Is there superior and inferior cultures? None! Cultures emerged from the experiences of people in particular place and time. There is no point also of comparison, but there is call to respect each others culture.

A Challenge to be with the Young

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This is the  logo of the 24th Catechetical Congress and Seminar Workshop organized by the Communication Foundation for Asia . And this year's congress focuses on the New Evangelization.  What is new? The message remains the same : THE PROCLAMATION OF THE PERSON JESUS CHRIST. But the culture of the people 30 years ago may be different from our present generation. And to be with this young generation is quite challenging especially  in bringing the message of salvation to them. There is call to understand their culture and at same discover a new way, and  new methods  of introducing Jesus that would be fitting to them.

I am so blessed together with our school chaplain Fr. Rolando Mandreza and Richard Escobido, we are all from the Holy Cross of Davao College attended this Seminar Workshop.

We have good pool of speakers,  Sr. Gemma Victorino, PDDM, PhD who discussed about biblical grounding. Fr. Ben Alforque, MSC the Director of CRC,  Dean Rolando Tolentino of the University of the Philippines and Estella Garcia who is a pioneered BEC organizer.

Faculty C Recollection Prayer

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 The following is intended prayers for college faculty set c who will be at Eden Nature's Park for a day         of recollection

“Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise.” 
 
 Prepare our hearts, we pray, O Lord our God,
by your divine power,
so that at the coming of Christ your Son
we may be found worthy of the banquet of eternal life
and merit to receive heavenly nourishment from his hands.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

Reading:

 Meditation:
We reflect today on a promise of a day full of hope
of plenty, of peace. We ask for the grace to be open,
to respond to whatever the Lord is offering us in these precious days
of preparation and anticipation.

No matter how difficult our situation, we can trust in the Lord;
we can eat and be satisfied.

I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

On that day it will be said:
“Behold our God, to whom we looked to save us!
This is the LORD for whom we looked;
let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us!”

Intercessions:
The Word of  God humbled himself to dwell with us so
that we might see his glory.  Rejoicing in hope, let us call
upon him:
Emmanuel, be with us.

Ruler, just and righteous,
- bring justice to the poor and the oppressed.

King of peace, you beat swords into plowshares and spears
    into pruning hooks,
- turn hatred into love and our grievances into forgiveness.

You do not judge by appearances,
- recognize those who are your own.

When you come with power and might upon the clouds,
- grant that we may come before you without shame.

 Lord's Prayer

Closing Prayer:
Lord of all,
you are a God of plenty, a Lord who provides
for us in our need.
As I begin these early days of Advent
help me to believe that you know what I need.
Give me the courage to listen to your voice
and the freedom
to open my heart to the graces you are
offering me to place my trust in you.

 May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil
and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.

Song 

Text of the prayers are taken from Creighton University Online Ministries.