The past two days have really been amazing and have truly been blessings. I am really enjoying it here in the Philippines regardless of the heat, the people are absolutely amazing. Yesterday the school had an academic assembly, which ran for about two hours, but hey the intermission during the program was dancing, I enjoyed it. Some of the staff here are really great people. I thoroughly enjoy going into there offices and just visit. In this one office, one of the workers kept on calling me handsome, which makes me blush. Besides that I had a brief orientation in the Campus Ministry Office on some of the programs that I will be helping out with. I just hope that three months, well less than three months now will provide me enough time to really immerse myself into experiencing campus ministry. What I do enjoy about the office is that even though it is small there are always students in there, usually playing music and singing. They have some incredible voices and when put together it is absolutely amazing. I wanted to film it, but was too late. I also helped in the gymnasium setting up for the Holy Spirit Mass and there were a whole bunch of students in there and a microphone. Well they wanted me to sing, but I was really nervous and they also wanted me to dance. Even when I started to dance a little the crowd went into a roar. We had the Holy Spirit Mass which was really amazing. All the students were there and the priest gave an excellent homily. I also got introduced again to the school community, now everyone knows who I am. We didn't play basketball last night, but I did go watch the volleyball teams practice, but I also got to experience what major sport badminton is and I think I know how to play it properly now. However, just watching them practice brought back all the memories of when I was growing up and my entire family would play badminton in our backyard. It was games like that that really brought us together. I finished off the night with the Brothers with the last prayer of the novena, then afterwards we kind of celebrated. Br. Poloy and I provided the entertainment by dancing to Jai Ho, which is the music of Slumdog Millionaire. It was a blast and great exercise.
Happy Feast Day to all my Brothers around the world! Today is the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart. I started my day with the Freshman Formation Program. It is a program for incoming freshman of the college that gives them a chance to know there fellow classmates as well as what it is like to be a college student. This program is a class that they have to take in order to take religious studies, it's a must. We also celebrated at lunch with some of the faculty at our place for a big lunch. The afternoon had me in my cassock helping to bless the basic education departments new classrooms since the high school and elementary school start next week. I hung out in the campus ministry office and did some reading then went to a meeting for when the school celebrates the Feast of the Sacred Heart. They celebrate it on the last Friday of June since not everyone is in school yet and it is a big deal for the school. I provided a lot of ideas for the planning. I am starting to see how I can contribute to the Campus Ministry Office. I can now tell you I am going to be busy researching and working on getting things ready for the fiesta. Tonight we went to a Mass that culminated the end of the year of the priests. Afterwards there was a nice meal and like all situations I am in, I have a blast. I really like it here!
Ametur Cor Jesu!!! Ametur Cor Mariae!!!
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