The Philippines today observed a national day of mourning to show national solidarity with families of the nine people, mostly tourists from Hong Kong, who died in a tragic hostage drama on Monday.

“The observance is a very good statement of support and goodwill,” said Father Rex Paul Arijona, chancellor of the Diocese of Legazpi.

He said it shows “we mourn with those who mourn.”

The violent ending to yesterday’s hostage drama in Manila shows a failure of Catholic leaders, the director of an institute for religious life said today.

“The Church has failed, although it is trying its best, to cope with the situation of poverty and helplessness that led to desperation,” Claretian Father Samuel Canilang, director of the Institute for Consecrated Life in Asia, told ucanews.com.

A former seminarian who built a library to help fight terrorism in the southern Philippines has been named winner in a telecommunications company’s “idol” quest.

Armand Dean Nocum, a former Claretian seminarian and journalist, was recently selected as the winner of Smart Communications’ Talk ‘N Text Tipid-Sulit Idol Search.

In basketball, the league always choose a ball that is perfect in weight, size and air content.

An ideal ball, just like an ideal LIFE, bounces ideally.

It would have been lively and merrier if you were there for that broderly basketball game between PAIS vs. XVD.  We missed you, 100-93 was the score, the younger XVDs won.

This is just our way of campaigning for our good health - because HEALTH IS WEALTH.  If you have free time please do come and join us. Much  better if you have already your Seminary Alumni Basketball team for the games. Please also invite us and other alumni teams to be a part of your basketball games skeds if any.

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Have a great day, regards and God bless us always. STAY HEALTHY.

Bro. Romy L. Florencio
Pais - Servant General
(63)9228563173
(02)3467817

PAX be with you,

Come, join and dribble our brotherly basketball exhibition match between Please-Manila/ Pais and XVD's Manila, Sunday, August 08, 2010, 9-12NN, at the Christ the King Seminary(CKTS), E. Rodriguez Ave., Quezon City.

This is one of our PAX activities that carries with it - Health is Wealth Awareness. Tara na ngan magpa-pawis na muna tayo, pangtanggal baga ng mga cholesterol at pang stretch ng ating mga buto-buto.

Thanks,

Bro. Romy L. Florencio     
Pais - Servant General
(63)9228563173
(02)3467817

June 26, 2010, 4PM, PAX Grill, Regular PAX Meeting as per advisory thru text blasts, this was what were discussed and requested. The following is just the summary of the proceedings or directly to what was essentially the point of discussion after bits and colourful exchange of views. This may not be a formal Minutes of the Meeting, anyway, what has been called for, the Meetings below, will imperatively need more than just formalities.

JUNE 30, 2010, Meeting of Stockholders, Board of Directors, Officers of PAX Grill, PAX Members are also welcomed to join in, as they say, we push, pull, swim and sink together as PAX.
AGENDA:    State of the Grill, thru Preparation and submission of related reports
-    For the Period, February 14 to June 15, 2010 or on a 30-day period:
1.    February 14 to March 14
2.    March 15 to May 14
3.    May 15 to June 14
4.    June 15 to present
-    Profit and Loss Statement
-    Inventory of Labor, Utensils, Equipment, and Goods or Stocks
Accounting and Reportorial System
-    Daily inventory of Goods or Stocks, Consumables
-    Weekly Inventory Report
-    Monthly Inventory Report
-    Daily Sales Report
-    Daily Purchase Report
Accounting and Inventory Controls
-    Kitchen Area
-    Dinning Area
Staff Concerns
Grill Management Team
-    Operations Manager or in-charge on Purchasing and Marketing
Formalization of Board of Directors and Officers re PAX Grill
Preparation of BUSINESS PLAN for future’s direction purposes.

After meeting on PAX Grill concerns, PAX General Membership Meeting follows.
AGENDA:    General Membership Concerns
PAX Convention
Formalization of Board of Directors or Trustees and Officers of PAX
July 10, 2010, Saturday, dinner in honor of Fr. Among Ed Panlilio
Other Matters

Please be informed.

MANILA, April 21, 2010— With the unprecedented political endorsements made by some Catholic bishops, a retired prelate called on them to let the people vote according to their conscience in the approaching elections.

While all the bishops are entitled to their own opinions, Retired Bishop Francisco Claver cautioned fellow bishops that endorsing particular bets could divide the church and confuse the people.

Claver reminded them of the church’s duty to ensure that people cast their votes based on their own careful discernment, which is the most important thing.

From Pais Advisory:

Message from Pais/Fr. Gani Petilos(09173061831) and Pais/Fr. Ivan Petilos(09228306025):

Please include in your prayers the eternal repose of our mother, +Incognita Petilos, who peacefully joined her creator last Jan. 31, 2010 at the age of 73. (her remains lie in state now at St. Peter's Memorial Chapel, Quezon Ave., QC).

Her remains will be brought from Manila to Ormoc on Feb. 3 where she will lie in state in our residence in Cogon, Ormoc City.

Internment will be on Monday, Feb. 8, 2010 at Ormoc Memorial Gardens, preceded by a mass aat 2pm at our Mother of the Redeemeer Parish in Cogon, Ormoc City.

MANILA, January 21, 2010—“The Second National Congress of the Clergy (NCC2) is a real retreat experience. It is basically a retreat, a call to interior renewal, a call to holiness.”

This is how Msgr. Jose Bernardo, Jr., Executive Secretary of National Organizing Committee of NCC2, discussed on the framework of the forthcoming national clergy congress in a recent press conference.

Rome’s Advice to Copenhagen

"If you want to cultivate peace, protect creation," said Pope Benedict XVI in his Message for World Day of Peace on Day One of 2010. His predecessors, of course, had always shown concern for the environment long before such concerns became fashionable or laden with economic interest.
From their standpoint nature is neither an adversary to be conquered or destroyed nor an evil from which one must be freed. Rather, it is the garden from which God fashioned the human being,  and which God gave as gift to man and woman to keep and till (cf. Gen 2: 15); it is the place and plan for which man and woman, who were made “in his own image” (Gen 1, 27) are to feel truly responsible. 

In their view the Creator willed the human being to evolve more and more into a co-creator, not an exterminator, though this latter role is what we’ve seen humans often choose to play.