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Philippines

Update from Columban Lay Missionaries

By Rowena D. Cuanico

There are always exciting happenings at the Columban Lay Missionaries – Philippines, reasons for us to celebrate, rejoice and give thanks.


L to R Sherryl Lou Capili, Nanise Mounga, Joan Yap

PH 19, comprised of Joan Yap (Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay), Sherryl Lou Capili (Silang, Cavite) and Reina Mosqueda (Los Baños, Laguna) have completed their nine-month orientation program. After their commissioning Masses in their home parishes (9 May, 1 May and 8 May respectively) they will go to Taiwan for three years, the first of which will be spent learning Mandarin. As PH 19 implies, Joan, She and Reins belong to the 19th group of Filipino Columban lay missionaries to be sent on overseas mission.

Response to Who Will Console Consuelo?

By Lucille Arcedas

I have just read the article Who Will Console Consuelo? and it really touched me. There are many Consuelos around but sometimes I fail to recognize them because self-righteousness dominates me.

I once asked Miladdie, who served in the prison apostolate in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, where we are both from, if she wasn’t afraid of the prisoners. She told to me how nice these people are.

By Erl Dylan J. Tabaco

The author is from Cagayan de Oro and is a Columban seminarian.

As I packed my things for a one-week vacation, I felt very excited because the places we were going to were new to me. Aside from it, I could relax after all the hard work of the school year. It was past seven in the morning when we finally reached our first destination, seven hours by bus from Manila, Banaue, Ifugao. Famous for its mud-walled rice terraces, it engaged my attention. As I was standing in front of that magnificent view, the sun’s rays illuminating the sky reminded me of a beautiful passage in the Bible. Reflecting on the magnificent scenery, I kept wondering about the beauty of God’s creation. It was a dream come true for me because before I had seen the rice terraces only in photos and movies.


Erl and Au Luceno

Thirty Days Alone With God

By Martin Koroiciri

The author is a Columban seminarian from Fiji doing his spiritual formation year in Cubao, Quezon City. Here he shares something of his Thirty-Day Retreat, following the Exercises of St Ignatius, at the Jesuit Retreat House, Novaliches, Quezon City, last October-November.

They say that prayer is our conversation with God. If there was ever a phobia in my life, it was of prayer, one of seeing the reality of myself as I am, of seeing my imperfections and accepting them. On this particular journey of prayer I faced my fear. My journey with God is personal and intimate and confidentiality restricts me from sharing all that happened to me on this journey.


In Contemplation

Fire In My Heart

By Gloria S. Canama

Gloria S. Canama, from Tangub City, Misamis Occidental, was a member of the first group of Filipino Columban Lay Missionaries to go overseas, to Pakistan in 1991.

‘The fire which is in the sun, the fire which is in the earth,
that fire is in my own heart.’ Upanishad

My childhood dream was always to be a religious sister. The seed must have been sown by the Columban missionaries, Sisters and priests, who were my educators and friends from my early years. I was baptized by the late Columban Fr Paul Cooney in St Michael’s Parish, Tangub City, Misamis Occidental.


Gloria during Filcom mass, Fr Abid, Pakistani OFMCap main celebrant,
Sr Jean, Filipina Medical Mission Sister -guitarist

Consolation Prize J

How Can I Make Peace Come Alive in My World?

By Mika Angela C. Sareno
Second Year – St Bartholomew, Lourdes College, Basic Education Department, Cagayan de Oro City

I have a dream . . . a dream so majestic, so wonderful, yet, as a child, so hard to reach. A dream that utterly speaks of what I really want here on earth. A dream, when embossed in reality, could change millions of lives forever . . .

Consolation Prize I

How Can I Make Peace Come Alive in My World?

By Alfred Benedict Bayan
Fourth Year – 1 (St Frances Xavier Cabrini), Saint Augustine’s School, Tagudin, Ilocos Sur

Shalom! Peace! Peace be with you! This is probably the most soothing greeting we can give to someone at all times. It is the greeting we give and receive at Mass before Holy Communion, and it is the same greeting that Jesus gave his apostles when He appeared to them in the Upper Room after His Resurrection. Is peace really that essential to one’s life? Is it necessary among people? Peace. It may be the word that is most spoken, but is it truly being pondered upon and lived out, or is it foreign in our world?

Consolation Prize G

How Can I Make Peace Come Alive in My World?

 By Jessa Mae Margallo
First Year – Gauss, Liceo de Cagayan University High School, Cagayan de Oro City

 

Don’t ask what the world needs
Ask what makes you come alive,
And go do it!
Because what the world needs
Is people who come alive!!! (Howard Thurman)

Consolation Prize D

Making the World’s Dream Come True

By Arielle Angelique S. Cruz
Fourth Year – St Helena, St Scholastica’s Academy, Bacolod City

The world has always dreamt of peace. It is the one thing that people miles apart have longed for since the time they could think. The thought of a planet brought together in harmony and understanding is what urges those in power and wisdom to move and put it into solid reality.

Consolation Prize C

A PEACE OF MY PEACE

By Kelly Stan L. Fausto
Third Year – Ampan Carbonell, Mary Help of Christians School, Mabiga, Mabalacat, Pampanga

How can I make peace in this world happen? That’s a very tough question. Donating a million pesos, traveling around the world to help every citizen, and to build houses for the homeless. That’s a very good idea, but I suppose not everyone could do that, neither could I. Everyone could help and there are many reason to do so. Feeling miserable and facing a lot of conflicts in life is not an option for you to not consider what other people feel. You need to stay put and to make things better in a way that you help not only yourself, but everyone else also.  But peace doesn’t require the hardest things and the agony that you go through. It needs the best that is in you.

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