What a lovely way to spend Monday morning attending mass online. St. Paul Media have daily masses now. Fr. Pao, who is a friend on Facebook was the mass presider. What a lovely homily. He said and I quote:
For those who believe, no sign is necessary,
For those who do not believe, no sign is possible.
Good news are always welcome. I learned this morning that our family friend Fr. Aly is transferring as parish priest to our town, Our Lady of Light Parish. Years ago, that was back in 1995, he was an assistant vicar at the said parish and he was the one who was assigned to bless our home. He was just about two years into the priesthood. He became our friend, the kids loved his stories about seminary life when he visited us in several occasions in the past. He was then transferred to three more parishes in other cities and towns in our province. He was the one who officiated at Nissa’s wedding eight years ago. I messaged him a while ago and he said he will be here in Cainta by November 11. What a blessing! It is always nice to get in touch with old friends. Looking forward to meeting him again soon.
Yesterday was quite a busy one for me. I spent the afternoon weeding and trimming our snake plants outside our fence. My goodness, these people who pass by our place (it is a corner lot very near one of our inner gates in the subdivision) are so careless with their trash – cigarette butts, candy wrappers, plastic with straws from soft drinks they buy in nearby sari-sari stores. Did you know that cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic litter in the world? Our place has the same problem. They just throw their litter haphazardly about the place and our outside garden is not spared from it. I wonder when they’ll be disciplined enough to dispose of their trash properly.
I’ve always said that those trash that you throw with not a care about the environment would eventually come back. When the rainy season sets in and the streets get flooded, they are carried away and they clog the drains and water outlets causing flash floods.
Let’s protect our environment. Let’s protect our world.
I didn’t know you could celebrate Mass online, Arlene.
Modern times, eh? 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes, Sambuhay TV mass has a YouTube channel. They cater to OFWs whose country there are into are not Catholic.
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The news about Fr Aly is good; the litter is not
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I know Derrick, thanks a lot!
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I have no idea why people will throw stuff in other peoples’ yards. I bet they get offended if the same thing happens in their yards.
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They are so careless and so uncouth Elizabeth. Where has good manners gone?
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We were hounded at school to pick up after ourselves. Sometimes we all had to go outside to pick up litter on the school grounds.
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That is nice. Some people nowadays don’t even care about those litters on the ground.
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Littering is a worldwide problem, Arlene! I think some places are worse than others, but trash belongs into the trash can. I remember when we stopped along a road in Bali to take in a beautiful view of the countryside and I happened to look down the hillside. It looked like a garbage dump down below. Just sad!
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Our mother Earth is precious, we should really care for it. And you’re right, the problem of littering is everywhere but I guess if we take into ourselves to care for our environment, that wouldn’t be a problem.
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That’s true! But unfortunately not everyone thinks and acts that way.
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Really, really sad 😦
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