March 23, 2011
By: Bobot Apit
Mar 17, 2011 - Thursday Meditation (Father Knows Best!)
The essence of faith is trusting that God knows our needs better than we do and trusting that our prayers will be answered in ways we cannot anticipate. God sometimes sends us challenges to prepare us to cope with greater difficulties ahead. When we are faced with adversity, instead of asking God “why me” or “how could you let this happen to me,” we should try to trust that a greater good or hidden purpose will emerge as God’s most recent gift to us.
Thursday in the First Week of Lent
Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25
Psalm 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8
Matthew 7:7-12 "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! 12 So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Meditation by Eileen Wirth ( Creighton University , Jesuit)
“If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.” Matthew
As a kid growing up in a large farm family, it never occurred to me to ask my parents for expensive gifts. Santa had a budget, soda was a birthday treat, eating out a special occasion and chores a given. That’s just the way it was. Little did I know then that my mother, especially, was daily giving all of us gifts far more valuable than anything under the Christmas tree.
Every evening after supper (not dinner, this was a farm) we assembled around the kitchen table with our homework, Mother presiding. She was a one-woman tutoring force, ensuring that all of us completed our assignments. We took the arrangement for granted even when we weren’t especially grateful for some of her “gifts” like demanding that we struggle with algebra and physics problems until we solved them. Not being of the math and science persuasion, I would have given up after a futile try or two. Although I never got good at either field, I learned a LOT about persistence – the kind of “good gift” that Matthew refers to in today’s gospel.
Jesus knew that wise parents do not always give their children what they seek any more than God does when we run through our daily lists of requests. I think the essence of faith is trusting that God knows our needs better than we do and trusting that our prayers may be answered in ways we cannot anticipate. Often we will see God’s wisdom only in retrospect just as I now see Mother’s wisdom in insisting completing difficult assignments.
I wonder if God sometimes sends us challenges to prepare us to cope with greater difficulties ahead. In hindsight, we may even see that our greatest difficulties led to far greater good or happiness than we could ever have imagined. The bottom line: when we are faced with adversity, instead of asking God “why me” or “how could you let this happen to me,” we should try to trust that a greater good or hidden purpose will emerge as God’s most recent gift to us.
(Disclamer)
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March 23, 2011
Mac Cabreros
Mar 16, 2011
Marikina City, naghanda sa paggalaw ng Marikina fault
Sa layuning maibsan ang epekto ng paglindol sa sandaling gumalaw ang Marikina fault, nagsagawa ng earthquake drill ang mga taga-Marikina City noong Miyerkoles.
Ayon kay Mayor Del de Guzman, dahilan sa walang makapagsabi kung kelan magkakaroon ng paglindol, isinagawa nila ang drill upang magkaroon ng awareness ang mga taga-Marikina.
Binanggit ni Mayor De Guzman na tuluy-tuloy ... Continue reading...
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March 23, 2011
City enforces smoking ban in public places
ROXAS City — The city government is determined to enforce the “no smoking” ordinance in all public places here.
Councilor Powell del Rosario, who authored the ordinance, said they will strictly enforce the same as it is not only a campaign on health but on environmental protection and preservation.
When the ordinance is enforced, all offices in the city hall will be free from cigarette smoke as they have designated ... | | | Continue reading...
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March 23, 2011
Mac Cabreros
Mar 16, 2011
Gurong may sakit sa puso, dumarami
Nabahala ang Department of Education (DepEd) sa pagdami ng mga gurong may sakit sa puso, diabetes at hypertension.
Ito, ayon kay Education Secretary Armin Luistro, kaya nila itinaguyod ang wellness program, saan ipinupursige ang pag-eeherhisyo at mamuhay ng maayos at magandang lifestyle.
“Nagkakasakit an gating mga guro dahil subsob sila sa pagtuturo at iba pang gawain sa paaralan,” pahayag n... Continue reading...
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March 23, 2011
Mac Cabreros
Mar 16, 2011
Japan, lulubog
Kung si Danny Atienza, isang psychic at tinaguriang Nostradamus ng Asia, ang paniniwalaan, lulubog ang bansang Japan.
Sa ginanap na Fernandina Forum sa Club Filipino sa Greenhills, San Juan City, sinabi ni Atienza na mabubura sa mapa ang naturang bansa.
Ginawa ni Atienza ang prediksyon matapos na yugyogin ng 8.9 magnitude na lindol at sinundan ng dambuhalang tsunami noong Marso 11, saan malaki ang pinsalang idinulot... Continue reading...
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March 23, 2011
Text messages that sparks reign of terror in the Phl under investigation
By Jason de Asis
SENATE OFFICE, Manila, March 16, 2011-Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr., chair of the public service urged the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to exert all efforts to identify the source that sparked reign of terror in the spread of the malicious text messages that caused panic to the public where the Senate asked why the NTC cannot effectively address to identify such kind of malici... Continue reading...
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March 23, 2011
Legarda lauded the Senate 3rd reading approval of Phl-Japan Agreement on technical cooperation
By Jason de Asis
SENATE OFFICE, Manila, March 16, 2011-Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations lauded the approval of the Senate on third reading regarding the Philippine-Japan Agreement on Technical Cooperation (ATC) where she reported that this would bring multitude of benefits to the country.
“The government has limited resources toward promoting susta... Continue reading...
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March 23, 2011
NIA assured Pantabangan Dam can withstand Intensity 10 quake
By Jason de Asis
CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija, March 16, 2011-The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) assured yesterday that the country’s largest dam that supplies irrigation to over 100,000 hectares of farmlands in Central Luzon, can withstand a powerful earthquake even one that is stronger than the Intensity 9 tremor that triggered a tsunami in Japan.
NIA administrator Antonio Nangel said that the giant Pantabanga... Continue reading...
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March 23, 2011
Casiguran police sergeant raps two complaints at the Ombudsman and trial Court
By Jason de Asis
CASIGURAN, Aurora, March 16, 2011-A Casiguran police sergeant is now facing formal complaint before the office of the ombudsman and Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) Atty. Juliet M. Isidro Reyes.
The complainant was Salvador Tesorero, 35 years old and a resident of barangay Bianoan in this town who filed the charges to Atty. Reyes against SPO1 Danilo Mendoza who was assigned in a PNP checkp... Continue reading...
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March 23, 2011
PerryScope
by Perry Diaz
Merci in jeopardy
For the second time in two years, Ombudsman Merceditas “Merci” Gutierrez will soon be facing impeachment charges against her in the House of Representatives. But this time around, with her protector — former President and now-Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo — no longer in power, Gutierrez would be dealing with a House dominated by a coalition allied with President Benigno Aquino III.
Recently, in an attempt to defend hersel... Continue reading...
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