Holy Wednesday ended up with a visit from our neighbor who is a good friend. We had a lovely and enriching sharing. She gave me a jar of pickled papaya. Yum!
Last night I also watched the Sambuhay TV Mass Holy Recollection 2019 with Fr. Pao Asprer who is also a friend at FB. Sambuhay is sponsored by the Society of St. Paul. Learned a lot about faith, temptations and prayers. It was a very meaningful and inspiring Recollection. Fr. Pao is that good, a young priest who was ordained four years ago. I jotted some points which he discussed.
- Proximity to power is power in itself
- True prayer is listening.
- If you know yourself, that’s a sign of true wisdom.
- In the face of temptation, we’ll know ourselves better.
He touched on some quotes by Thomas Merton and I am glad I am reading one of his books at the moment. The Seven Storey Mountain is a 467 pages book with so fine prints. I don’t read it at night because the prints are so small. Good luck to my eyes. It’s not that kind of reading that you have to finish in one go. There are so many words that you can reflect on. This book has been on my wish list for quite a while. Maybe Grace (my friend from Canada) saw it on Goodreads so she gave me a copy.
By the way, Grace posted the photos they took when she and her husband were here for a while last month. She was the one who gave me a copy of the book. I grabbed this from the album she just posted, the two of us together at the lobby of Richmonde Hotel in Pasig City.
We’re getting old, imagine more than four decades of friendship. and I’ve always said that “when friends meet, hearts warm”.
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