tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76083845056336709322024-09-17T04:05:10.791+08:00Christian Brothers and Christian SistersBlog discussing Christian rites, events and practises, with a focus on Philippine Catholic traditions.Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-29894743700674738472016-08-10T09:57:00.001+08:002016-08-10T09:57:39.410+08:00SHARING DREAMS NOT NIGHTMARES.In the Bible seminars our church organization offers, there is an activity called "Gospel Sharing." We also do this activity in our Marriage Encounter prayer meetings.
What is gospel or bible sharing? It is a prayerful reading of Scripture in a small group in order to better understand, pray and live the Word of God.
We call it Bible sharing because the passage we reflect on is Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-3813089909411311562016-01-17T07:41:00.000+08:002016-01-17T07:41:41.455+08:00TELL ME A STORY.I attended a Kerygma Conference one time. That was in 2014. In one
of the sessions I went to, there were five preachers who talked about
their style of preaching and talking to a large audience. In that
session alone, (two same sessions ran concurrently side by side) there
were at least a thousand people.
All preachers were
excellent. I actually liked them all, in varying Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-49198873791279922412015-10-07T08:23:00.000+08:002015-10-07T08:23:57.402+08:00Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-23409902739129701462015-09-08T11:21:00.000+08:002015-09-08T11:21:17.866+08:00Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-47962376659007672922015-07-29T16:59:00.002+08:002015-07-29T17:01:42.485+08:00God Listens. All the Time.Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-31821579968356442772015-05-06T10:05:00.001+08:002015-05-06T10:20:00.093+08:00Let's drive for more blessings !Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-54314004067311174802015-04-13T11:08:00.001+08:002015-04-13T11:12:56.182+08:00My God, My Director.Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-15832734087362204962015-03-25T10:57:00.002+08:002015-03-25T19:28:13.461+08:00VIA CRUCIS TAKES THE ROUTE OF THE BATAAN DEATH MARCH. Historic Philippine Churches Pope Francis might have loved to see in His recent Papal Visit to the Philippines.On March 14, 2015, our parish of San Andres Apostol of the Diocese of Antipolo went on a local pilgrimage to the northern province of Bataan in the Philippines. It was part of the parish's Lenten celebration, dubbed VISITA IGLESIA, a Catholic practise which involves visits to as many churches as possible, usually done on the eve of Maundy Thursday.
Bus 5, Visita Iglesia 2015 of San AndresGene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-77415719274726201712015-03-22T11:27:00.000+08:002015-03-22T11:27:48.003+08:00Is there a slack in your life?Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-23135071753358515732015-03-12T10:42:00.000+08:002015-03-12T10:42:38.027+08:00The good, the bad, the ugly, the rich, the poor.Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-32572606195352233062015-03-09T07:05:00.000+08:002015-03-09T07:05:11.141+08:00My Kind of Pope.I was a teen when the first Papal visit took place in Manila. Pope Paul VI came to Manila on November 27, 1970.
Together with a classmate from the State University, we travelled from Manila to the Elliptical Road in the Capital City of Quezon City to hear Pope Paul VI's celebrate the Holy Mass.
It was probably a semestral break or classes were suspended for the Pontiff's visit, because weGene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-80812159517455257952015-03-07T10:01:00.001+08:002015-03-07T10:01:24.347+08:00Anticipation.Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-67473827384676259282015-01-10T18:17:00.002+08:002015-01-10T18:35:33.062+08:00A Night at the Procession, Jan. 9th
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panose-1:2 4Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-11592236612856511292014-12-26T09:14:00.001+08:002014-12-26T09:23:19.021+08:00Christmas in a Barrio.In the tiny town where my father grew up - up north in a province called Nueva Ecja - the houses that lined the street leading to the main Church were built of wood and nipas.
The barrio used to be called Papaya until 1957, is now known as General Tinio. A first class municipality, it boasts of a population of 42,634 people.
The town is at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountain, adjoining Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-69751928789596870622014-12-09T08:00:00.001+08:002014-12-09T08:43:35.084+08:00La Immaculada Concepcion.
La Immaculada Concepcion of Pasig
Yesterday, December 8th, the Catholic faithful commemorated the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is one of only three official Holidays of Obligation celebrated by the Catholics in the Philippines, the other two being Christmas Day and the Solemnity of Mary on January 1st.
I remember a story my mother told us when we were young, which Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-18853429367668828652014-12-03T07:13:00.003+08:002014-12-03T07:15:09.809+08:00DiscipleshipGene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-69238311796925143042014-10-02T08:36:00.000+08:002014-10-02T08:43:08.752+08:00Bring Back the PiecesThere's an old song by the Spiral Staircase with the lyrics,
"Bring back the pieces of a broken man babe
He’s sorry can’t you see
Bring back the pieces of the broken man
you’re every part of me"
If you just read the lyrics without knowing the song, it could very well be a prayer, just say "Babe Jesus, instead of just "babe."
When song writers write their lyrics and simple folks singGene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-84352210582098812242014-09-19T10:00:00.003+08:002014-09-19T10:50:20.736+08:00Homeless,
When I worked in New York many years ago, I saw the sad truth of homelessness. At the subway stop at 33rd, in the dark recesses of it, one could make out the presence of homeless people not through their shadows but through their stink. Smell of dried urine and of un-washed bodies and clothing.
There was a New York City woman who put a name to homelessness, who became its poster girl. Her Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-73233199061992935742014-06-27T07:26:00.000+08:002014-06-27T08:01:00.162+08:00Shepherd.If I were to draw the portraits of the priests that had made an impression on me, the very first would be that of the priest of my pre-teen.
He was the picture of a fatherly priest - bespectacled, in his early fifties, always smiling, and warm. He used to come to the house of my grand aunt to have lunch, listen to an uncle play the piano, and even go for some rounds of mahjong (Chinese card Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-59787691980196437942014-05-19T09:38:00.003+08:002014-05-19T10:06:10.036+08:00One fine sunny day with our own little miracle. It's always good to start the day on a positive note. Then your song
will be on key all day long and at bedtime, you'd be whistling as you turn
the lights off.
One fine sunny Sunday, I drove my
co-navigator, La Veya, (Vicky) to her Zumba class and on my way home, I stopped by our local church, the San Andres Apostol, to say a prayer to the visiting Image of the Blessed Virgin
Mother, the OurGene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-44489119721102129532014-04-24T10:02:00.000+08:002014-04-24T10:04:38.435+08:00The Holy Week Drill.A cousin of mine travels from the East Coast of the U.S.A to the Philippines every year just to tend to his family's Santo, the Santa Magdalena, in its participation in Holy Week rituals.
Santa Magdalena (Mary Magdalene) has been with his family for maybe ninety years or so. The other Santo in our family, Santa Veronica, should also be the same age as Magdalene.
The Santo which is now under ourGene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-6117248436985899442014-04-01T09:26:00.003+08:002014-04-01T09:26:42.332+08:00Rooted in Love.I was googling "invocation and Come Holy Spirit" and saw one beautiful song on You Tube. I played it over and over and then I was crying.
Then on Saturday, one of the speakers in our LMW class who was a priest, talked about Missiology, and the new thrust, New Evangelization, of Pope Francis.
The two instances bore deep into my being, and instantly brought to mind how some close family Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-18944625167894354902014-03-25T10:37:00.000+08:002014-03-25T10:43:33.881+08:00PentateuchI was sitting in a class called Lay Minister of the Word or LMW one fine Saturday, when the speaker said, "Pentateuch."
Sounds Greek to me.
In fact the word "Pentateuch," comes from two Greek words Penta “five” and teuchos meaning “box,” “jar,” or “scroll.” Originally the word was used as an adjective meaning “a five-scrolled (book).”
The Pentateuch, also known as the Five Books of Moses, Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-23753039109929379012014-02-05T08:20:00.001+08:002014-02-05T08:34:29.604+08:00No fanfare. Enter the King of Glory.During its infancy in the years 1910's, the Holywood film industry was populated by no more than four major studios: Paramount, Warner Bros, RKO and Columbia.
MGM with its famous roaring lion Leo emerged only in 1916, but in spite of this fact, from the end of the silent film era through the late 1950s, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was the dominant motion picture studio in Hollywood.
Leo theGene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7608384505633670932.post-29189396740114267312014-01-23T07:46:00.001+08:002014-01-23T07:46:11.667+08:00Welcome to the New World!The Book of Apocalypse or the Revelation tells us about the completion of the new creation, the New Heaven and the New Earth, that has begun by Christ's resurrection.
So we are a New Creation! Let's all rejoice!
The New Year, 2014 ushers the Year of the Laity; God's faithfuls who help the Church in its undertakings - within the parish levels.
New Year, as always, brings new hope, new Gene Fajardo Pagkanlunganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03257704441164363690noreply@blogger.com0