A thought on the struggles of Life

Do not be afraid
Worry not
for your name He has called
and the yoke you shall carry is light, let down your burden

go to HIM and HE will give u rest

then Go and make disciples of Men, Go and live in the light, Go and bring the hearts of many to the One who can unite them all. And if today you hear His voice, a voice in the wilderness, harden not your hearts,

but open your hands, your heart, your spirit...
Live a life that allows the invisible, the mystery of the eternal love of God be made visible through the life of your body, the life of your light

Amen

Books For Loan at the SFC Library

These are all available to borrow.. Some are CDs, some are Books.
Contact me.
God Bless

DAILY
A scriptual rosary
Gospel Readings - year 2008

INTRO TO FAITH
The Faith Explained - Leo Trese
We Pray: Living in God's Presence - Oscar Lukefahr, C.M
Catholicism For Dummies - Rev John Trigilio/Rev Kenneth Brighenti

MEDIA
Behind the Screen - Lewerenz and Nicolosi

REFLECTION
40 Days of Lamentations - Frank Padilla

ADVOCACY
Battle Cry For My Generation - Ron Luge

CHRIS WEST - TOB
Theology of the Body for Beginners - Chris West
Winning the Battle For Sexual Purity (Straight Talk For Men)(3 CDs) - Chris West
Good News About Sex and Marriage - Christopher West
Created and Redeemed (TOB intermediate)(10 CDs) - Chris West
Created and Redeemed (TOB intermediate) Leaders Guide - Chris West

CONTEMPLATING - COMPARISON
Man's Search For Meaning - Victor Frankl

SERVANT LEADERSHIP
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
The 8th Habit - Steven Covey
Jesus, My CEO -

APOLOGETICS
Peter Kreeft Talks on:
-Arguments for God's Existence
-God's Existence
-Desire
-Divine Truth
-Ecumenism
-Fated and Free
-God's Existence II
-Good, True and Beautiful
-Grief Observed
-Happiness
-Heaven
-Identity
-Imagination
-Lost in the Cosmos
-Christianity in Lord of the Rings
-Mere Chrisitanity
-Moral Theology and Homosexuality
-One Thing Needed
-Philosophy: Handmaiden of Theology
-Prayer for Beginners
-Pristesses
-Problem of Pain
-Pro-Life Logic
-Pro-Life Philosophy
-Relativism
-The Sea
-Sex in Heaven
-Suffering
-Ten Insights on Evil from LOTR
-Till We have Faces
-Time and Eternity
-Word
-Angels
-Arguements for God's Existence
-Language of Beauty
-Cosmic Dance
-Culture War
-Dark Side

Filipino Americans demand for apology from ABC and Desperate Housewives Petition and a Loving Reaction

So here's an interesting one:

Filipino Americans demand for apology from ABC and Desperate Housewives Petition

amazing how these days, we try to live out as Christians, helping many.. but the laughing point comes down to a
sentance that a writer feels is worth the laughs.. and this coming from a company such as ABC, a child company of Disney that pushes Family Friendly viewing.

Just another intersting thing to talk about, and something to take to heart.
Our children hear everything, see everything and read everything..

The world is listening.. imagine what we could do if we only witnessed for the World the beauty of God's Love.

So in our reaction, let us try to show that Love right now, a major wrong has occured, but let us react in Love.. do not slander, just promote the love of God and the blessings and gifts He gives all of us Filipinos, in fact.. that he gives everyone.

Pray for ABC and Terri Hatcher and the writers, I hope they see it is more than just a mistake in a line, but a way of programming that has to change.

God Bless

Its 40 days For Life... What Can we do?

As 40 Days for Life is here,
I figured it best to provide some resources to help us all.

PRAYER TO
SAINT MICHAEL
THE ARCHANGEL
St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen..

The Holy Rosary

Excellent Catholic resources

Let us go out and make diciples of Men, let us pray, fast and witness for Christ, witness for Life.

Latest Zenit News

Latest Zenit News

Long Blogs and Gas Lines

Some say my blogs are too long,
so are gas lines when you find a cheap one.

anyway, I will attempt to help the problem
by writing short blogs.
Starting with this one. :D

SFC USA listening: live blog

SFC USA
listening: live blog

Link to the latest CFC conversation of Tito Frank Padilla and Tito Joe Tale.
Why is it on here.. Cause I want you to read the human in it.
Then I want you to love.
This is family, and even if we can read between the lines, or choose to hear what we want to hear.. it is still, and will always be family.

What do families do? they love... :)

so go out and love your neighbours.
CFC means family, and family means noone gets left behind or forgotten.
(If Stitch can do it, so can you)



SFC USA
listening: live blog

Jesus Freak and Living Single

I was asked today about what a person gets out of marriage verus livign single..
I walked away for awhile to think about it..

I returned with this though "there is a difference of living single and being single"

To live single means a life where you find happiness and dedication to our one God, it is much like that of taking a vocation of the Holy orders, meaning, to remain pure in your life and chaste so you can concentrate on serving God

But i dont think many of today's youth are thinkking about Single this way..
So what do you get in marriage?
The commitment, the vow provides happiness, a gift of Life and a reflection of our Lord's union with the Church, we are called and made for eachother, and thats that.

So as a single, do you live as a single or just be a single?
God's love for us calls us to purity, calls us to greater things, it calls us to Love others.

With todays world of instant gratification and happiness, no wonder so many cant see beyond the blinders of society to see real Love.

Once again, Love is the answer, and living single, although hard, and keeping pure, although hard is achieved from a love of God, and love for whoever God has ready for you.

An email I read this morning said dare to be different, even if society wants you otherwise. I agree.. be different Love Jesus with all your heart and soul, and let him work wonders in your life, to be Single is to be ready and armed and entrusting fully in Jesus our Lord.

I think being a freak for that is well worth it.

Believe and Live!

Mom and Dad (my CFC) - Love is the Answer

I read a note on the wall of my Grandfather's house.
He passed away last tues, and his funeral was sat, with the burial this morning.

it simply read
"
Mom and Dad,

I can't repay the lessons that you taught when I was small
Or give you a gift for the daily treasures I recall...

I can't return the encouragement and loving words of praise
In quite the way you did for me through all my childhood days....

But there is one gift that I can give, Its all the love you've earned,
For love is what you always taught....

And love is what I learned."

Brothers and Sisters, Guests and relatives, For love is what you always taught, and love is what I learned

Let me give this gift to you all, let me express to all love in the largest way possible.
To cry, to laugh, to worry and to smile, all out of love.

For both in life and death, we belong to God, and in this do we find Hope,
because both in life and death, the greatest thing that we feel is God's love,
and the greatest thing we can do for all is love.

Love,
My brothers and sisters Love is the answer.

-Changing Servant

Living in a world of choices

As I reflect upon a recurring theme of Deut. 30, He has given us two choices: Death and Life.
Which one we choose is always the major questions, for sometimes we choose a false good. We can easily be disillusioned or deceived by the evil one.

There are times in our lives where we believe we have the answers, but really we don't have more than a clue to the real answer.

This is the world we live in, a world of choices.
Which do we choose, and where will it take us?

For me, I was thinking about a reaction a coworker mentioned, they said that they personalize things too much, but their psychiatrist helped them find a solution.. to just not personalize things. Well, the initial problem they found with personalizing things was they got frustrated, perhaps because they believed they would have all the answers? who knows..

At the time I went along with it and said, sure.. I mean, hey why not.. it seems simple enough as a solution. But lets look again at the situation.

By personalizing things, the person was passionate, full of zeal and worked hard and did good for the good reasons, once this individual changed their pattern to a cold approach, they still were frustrated, and started not liking so much what they were doing. could it get better or worse?

well, I think the solution lies in knowing the truth. The truth is to choose to live and we can only live through Christ Jesus. So the other solution, unmentioned here is choosing to personalize, but lift up the frustrations and the burdens to our Lord, and let Him take up the load. Be zealous but be calm, be on fire, but be at peace.

What does this mean for the rest of us?
How do you implement it? Is there a big enough reason to care?

of course there is, what this means is that the joy of the Father is yours to take. He promised you a choice, so choose the right one.

If everyone chooses the easy way out, and continues to believe they can leave God out of the equation, then like this individuals passion, your life will go cold. You will be hallow, a body with no spark in the soul. You will continue to live your life but the sun will never shine. The Church walls, all great and spectacular will be empty and cold, with no life within them. It will be as if an eclipse has fallen upon your world.

But if you choose to live, if you choose life always, then the sun will forever shine, the flowers forever bloom, the church halls filled with music and might, the stain glass lit with color upon the floors and ceilings and your love will know no bound.

So next time you hear someone talk about shutting down, lessening the personalization, no longer believing in God or the power of the Holy Spirit, or just being dragged by the current of society, shine your light upon them, destroy the darkness, bring them Hope. In all of us is the Hope of the world, for in our hearts, in our souls, as the Creator has created us in His image, our Hope lies in him, the light of the world.

Amen.

To serve or volunteer: not just semantics

Let me start with a thought on differences,

When it is time for the coming of Jesus.. we will know that God works in so many different ways in so many types of faith, but all pointing to the universal truth, and come the day, all will know Jesus the same way, because he lets his children learn where they will so they be nourished

its so beautiful.. and so confusing

Because human nature is to tell everyone about the good you've experienced, and we are all about defining absolutes, that the happiness we found is the right way; Instead of seeing it like a Picasso painting, it is relative and abstract, happiness is a personal gift of the Spirit to everyone.. and our uniqueness is what allows such desires to grow in different ways at different times..

So what does this mean?

Well, I think it is rather simple.
We are all on the same but different levels. We all will and do experience joy, love and happiness.
But sometimes at different degrees. One find conviction, another only moral responsibility.

When one volunteers, they are doing so aside from their main work, the y are doing so to be a responsible citizen, to do it with passion in the heart and to do it cause it is the moral thing to do.
Perpetual volunteerism does not exist, because the human desire of needs to survive and live defeats the needs of the higher desire, for a number of reasons, from ignorance to intentional blindness to relativism.

But if one serves, they are convicted, they do it not out of pity or responsibility, but instead at a higher level, they do it to be accountable to the cause. It is not done to the side, but done at the foreground with the passion and conviction int he heart. Perpetual is achievable because the nourishment is at a higher calling, it is God's own nourishment, and the servant becomes an instrument for God, seeking no self needs, but that only to serve our Lord and His people.

What does it mean to Change?

I was asked the question:

how many people are eager to change?..

My reaction was: hahah

and this is why:

Thats a great question..
the actual question is:
why do people fear change..

Change is a natural occurance and it always ends with some result
the interruptation of that result being good or bad is the driver to make more people fear it..
seasons change,
humans change as they grow,
the suns position changes,
the earth's rotation changes.

I believe if people saw themselves as controllers and inputters to change, they would be eased..

I think the idea of change without them is hard to swallow

ie: a person is living in the morning, and in the afternnon is dead..
People are more eased if they coulvd've beenthere , cause perhaps they could have done something to stop the change..even if it was inevitable

Hence our obsession on time machines and parallel universes in science fiction

But, if we look at the positive aspect instead, if we look at change as a means , as a vehicle to create something better, whether an environment or a moment, then people would embrace.

So why not see Christianity as a vehicle of change.. to change from evil into good, to change from ignorance into knowledge

If any Christian believed themselves capable of such change, capable of beinan agent of change, then imagine what could happen..

Not to say we can change things all on our own.. but to be agents as in to be used for chagne..

We are called to love, to share love, to spread love, imagine if we did this so openly knowing that tomorrow would be a better day, that we would be steps closer to the true image and likeness we were inteded for.

Why not aim for that change?