Private Retreat

Fr. John Mahoney, SVD
November 15-21, 2009

Private Retreat

Miss Lorna Aceres
November 14-16, 2009

Mater Carmeli School, Novaliches

Mater Carmeli School, Novaliches

Quezon City

November 20-22, 2009

76 Fourth year and Parent

Speaker: Fr. Larry Tan, SDB

Accompanied by: Sr. Chriseluz Talaroc, cm

Sr. Cristy Salas, cm

St. Teresa Hall

Marriage Encounter

Marriage Encounter

November 20-22, 2009

70 participants

Speaker:

Francisco Palau Hall

HSL - Braille College

HSL - Braille College

November 19-21, 2009

Organizer: Dra. Helen Los Bañes

St. Therese Hall

Social Action Group, Infanta

Social Action Group

Infanta

November 18-20, 2009

Speaker: Deacon Mario van Loon

8 participants

Blessed Daniela Kiosk

University of Assumption, Pampanga

University of Assumption, Pampanga

November 18-20, 2009

42 Students

Speaker: Fr. Jess Santos

Facilitator: Kuya Romy

Francisco Palau Hall

Adult Baptism, CMCS Staff

Adult Baptism
Mr. Romeo Jun Lawas, Jr.

November 14, 2009

Ina ng Laging Saklolo Parish

Tagaytay City
8:00 am

Officiated by: Fr. Egay, OFM

Parish Priest

This is the extended apostolate of the CM sisters in the Center. Sr. Loida Tortogo, cm in charge of formation of the staff, gave Mr. Jun Lawas a lecture on the Sacrament of Baptism and the Basic prayers of the Catholic Church as requirement for adult Baptism. Before the Baptism, he was interviewed by the catechist in-charge in the Parish as well as the Parish Priest. They were happy of the responses and the knowledge of Mr. Jun Lawas. He is our chief Cook in the Center.

BCBP, Las Piñas

BCBP, Las Piñas
November 13-15, 2009
125 participants
Speaker: Fr. Ed Fernandez
St. Teresa Hall

Mater Carmeli School, Novaliches Quezon City

Mater Carmeli School, Novaliches Quezon City

November 13-15, 2009

Fourth Year High School

Speaker: Fr. Larry Tan, SDB

Accompanied by: Sr. Chriseluz Talaroc, cm & Sr. Mia, cm

Francisco Palau Hall

Manila Cathedral School

Manila Cathedral School

53 students and Teachers

November 11-13, 2009

St. Teresa Hall

Clergy of the Archdiocese of Pampanga on Retreat

Archdiocese of Pampanga Clergy Retreat

November 9-13, 2009

112 participants

Speaker: OSB

Private Retreat

Sr. Mary Jane, St. Francis de Sales
November 9-13, 2009

Villa San Miguel - Retreat

Villa San Miguel (Staff)
Retreat

November 14-15, 2009

Singles Ministry, Bulacan

Singles Ministry

Bulacan

Theme: Encounter with self, encounter with God and encounter with others

Francisco Palau Hall

Sisters Servants of Mary on Retreat

November 5-14, 2009
Sisters Servants of Mary
Quezon City
3 Puerto Rican sisters

Retreat Preparation for my Silver Anniversary in Religious Life!!!

Sr. Susi is an Indonesian Sister of the Divine Providence

Retreat November 1-7, 2009

PERJALANANKU UNTUK BERJUMJPA DENGAN JESUS KEMBALI

Pada langkah pertama dalam 8 hari retretku, kucoba mengenang beberapa pengalaman yang membuatku bersyukur, sebagai persiapan dalam hari pertama retretku.
Beberapa pengalaman tersebut adalah:
1. Tuhan memanggilku sepanjang jalan cinta yang tak pernah berakhir: pembebasan dari pengalaman keterikatan; penyelenggaraan ilahi di sepanjang hidupku; papa dan mama yang menjadi katolik, and kehadiran cinta-Nya melalui orang-orang yang kujumpai dalam perjalanan hidupku.
2. Cinta-Nya yang tak terkondisikan dan tak terbatas terhadapku…… saya sadari dan rasakan hal ini.
3. Pengampunan-Nya yang tak terkondisikan dan tak terbatas, yang memberikan kekuatan padaku untuk mengampuni sesama yang melukai hatiku.
Pertama kali Tuhan memanggilku..... sangat berat bagiku.... merupakan jalan yang sangat panjang, bila hanya bergantung dari diriku, tentu tak mungkin aku melaluinya ..... hanyalah oleh Rahmat-Nya aku mampu datang ke novisiat dan mengikuti Dia sampai kini. Banyak kesulitan kualami, baik dari diriku sendiri maupun dari luar diriku, seperti hari ini, aku merasa sangat berat dalam menjawab panggilan-Nya.
Ya, Tuhan memanggilku secara pribadi, tidak terisolasi, tetapi merupakan bagaian dari keluarga Suster Penyelenggaraan Ilahi..... yang membuatku begitu berat dalam menanggapi panggilan-Nya. Aku tau dan merasakan bahwa Tuhan menghendakiku untuk tetap dalam keluarga Suster PI ini dengan segala kesulitan yang ada....dan aku menyadari bahwa rahmat-Nya cukup bagiku. Sekarang yang menjadi masalah bagiku bahwa aku belum mampu secara penuh menerimanya dan mengampuni, sehingga kesulitan yang kualami menjadi begitu berat dan melukai diriku.
Hal ini menyebabkan sulitnya bagiku untuk mulai bersyukur dan berterima kasih....kumohon rahmat-Nya untuk menolong ku mengampuni, sehingga aku boleh mengalami pembebasan.
Aku mulai dengan menimbang-nimbang rahmat Tuhan yang kuterima selama aku di Philippine ini.... oh betapa banyak..... sejak aku berangkat kemari, perjumpaan dengan ibu Lucia, penerimaan dari komunitas romo MSF, bimbingan Rm. Vincent Wahyu, pengalaman workshop di Tay-Tay, kedatanganku di Tagaytay pertama di komunitas Suster Agustinian, kemudian di komunitas CMCS, di St. Rita Hermitage and Wellness home.... oh sungguh menyentuh hatiku….. musik, kebun, labyrinth doa, kapel….banyak lagi…… Dan hal yang paling menyentuh bagiku adalah terbukanya peluang akan misi di pulau Sabu dimana suster Agustinian tertarik akan misi tersebut.
Maka aku mulai dapat merasakan betapa rahmat-Nya begitu berlimpah padaku, Tuhan begitu memanjakan aku......... dan aku mulai dapat menyanyikan lagu ..... singing Alleluia to the Lord..... Alleluaia..... Alleluia to the Lord.....
Hari-hari berikutnya aku diteguhkan oleh perayaan Ekaristi yang kuikuti pada hari itu...... Jangan menyerah ketika pencobaan dating…. Tetaplah berdoa….dan aku mohon pada Tuhan untuk memberikan padaku pengharapan dan kegembiraan…… seperti Jesus…
Ya, bersama dengan Jesus…… mengubah jalan hidupku….. Dan pergumulan ini cukup melelahkan aku pada hari-hari tersebut……. Tapi akhirnya aku menemukan Dia.... dan aku dapat bernyanyi:
In moment like this…… I sing of the song….. I sing of the love song to Jesus
In moment like this….. I lift up my hand…… I lift up my hand to the Lord
Singing I love You Lord….. singing I love You Lord….. singing I love You Lord, I love You
HE LOVES ME…….. HE LOVES ME………. HE LOVES ME……
More and more…….. than everything…….
I LOVE YOU JESUS……… I LOVE YOU YOU…………

Sr. Susi PI Jl. Divina Providentia, Kp. Bajawa
Nasipanaf - Baumata Barat
Kupang 85361 - Timor, NTT

Theme: Gratitude - "All is Grace"

Lord, you are my true love

I give thanks for your graceful love to me.

Your faithful love raise me up again.

Gve me new hope and made everything new.

Renew always my mind, aware that you are my first love.

Fill me with your joyful spirit.

Teach me to do my mission to the Church

and let me in all things deny myself

for my whole life and death is only for you, Christ!

Sr. Susi

"Birth to New Life is the work of God through His Spirit"

October 24-31, 2009

Sr. Nelly Lalic, cm

Missionary from Indonesia

Psalm of Thanksgiving

I bless and thank you, O great God
And shall proclaim your marvelous deeds
All the days of my life.

For it was you who discerned my purpose and
in my innermost being taught me wisdom,
To be born anew and thus be true to your original plan
when you said, “Let us make man in our image and likeness”

I sought wisdom in this regard and your replied,
“What is born of flesh is flesh, what is born of the Spirit is Spirit.
Therefore, I tell you, you must be born from above”.

You opened my heart to be docile to the Spirit
In my searching for this new life
In deep silence and solitude, I saw that your infinite compassion
Led me to be transformed to be born from on high for humanity you love.

And you have touched me with your Word, a double edged sword.
To penetrate my being and to accomplish your will
To forget my old self and to allow myself to be saved by you
And experience change in my life.

The double-edged SWORD cut fiercely through my old way;
timidity, rigidity, passivity, pride, egoistic tendencies.
It paved the new way to what is more of God’s image and likeness:
courage, flexibility and understanding, sensitivity, humility and charity.

You have chastised me with a broken heart to make me whole,
Made me taste pain and sufferings to make me humble,
Sent me illness to take care of my health,
And empty search to make me aware that
my heart is restless until it rests in you.

Amazing is the outpouring of your graces,
O God upon me,
Your wretched but beloved child strengthen my belief that
birth to new life is your work through your Spirit.

Sr. Petronila Lalic, cm
October 30, 2009
CMCS, Tagaytay City

Retreat accompaniment accross the Globe - Africa

An excerpt of an eight day encounter with Jesus!

Theme: Gratitude "All is Grace" - A Pauline retreat

Confessio Spei (The Birth Pangs) Gal. 4:1-7

“God sent his Son, born of a woman…born under the law…to ransom those under the law…so that we might receive adoption.”

As I reflected and prayed on this passage and on the reflection questions what came to me was Advent- the coming of our Lord. I saw it as a time of waiting…a time of hoping…with expectant hope…for the coming of God. At the end of prayer this is what I wrote:

Questions cross my mind
Seeking for logical answers
But there is no logic in your love, Lord
You desired to share your divinity with me
Without any reason
Simply because you want it and you willed it by becoming man
So I can share in your divinity
But your love does not stop there
You want to share, too, in my humanity, in my poverty so I can be rich
God becoming helpless and embracing poverty
What explanations can there be if not for the greatness of your love?
The patience that you bore when you were in the womb
To bring forth light and salvation to the world
O Jesus, that I may share in that salvific mission
That I may bring people close to you
That I may draw them to you
In my own helplessness and powerlessness
For in weakness power reaches perfection
In my weakness is your strength
Jesus, you know my desires
To bring all people back to your Father
May your Divine image be implanted in me.

It has been six days since I started my retreat. There are moments when prayer becomes dry and no insights come. There are times when I am moved with emotions and yet I have persevered in moments when there seems to be nothing. In that nothingness, time is pregnant…waiting to unfold…I am peaceful and content to be with my God. I don’t rely on feelings because it can be fleeting. I can only believe, trust, hope in your love, Lord, my God.

Confessio Pastoralis Gal. 6:18

At the end of prayer this is what I wrote:

God’s image desires to be free
Like that bird in my hands once day
It struggled to be free of the house which is not its natural habitat
To soar, to fly up in the sky, to hop from branch to branch of the tree with its fellow birds
Then it lay docile in my hands
Awaiting for what will come
I freed it from the window
I thrust it in the wind
And automatically it flew straight to the tree
It’s being telling it to fly
To be what it is
The image of God in me groans and cries to be free
But it had to be docile
To God’s plan and to my response
Like the head of the lion
Awaiting to be freed from the marble
To take shape, to be what it is
It has to be freed from what it is not what it is
Chip by chip part of me that keeps that image imprisoned have to go
The desire always to prove, to be better than anyone else, to be perfect
The desire to be loved and accepted so I tried to do things
During the accident I was nothing
But the sisters did the best they can for me
I was not valued anymore for what I can do
Because at that time I can do nothing
I lay there helpless, waiting
And I was loved and valued as a person
As a child of God, as a sister
Lord, I have so much to learn
So much still to learn
So your image can be freed!
Thank you…I always remain grateful for all that you are showing to me
I am grateful for your love and compassion
It is pure love and compassion that I am what I am now.

MY DETERMINED GOAL:

TO KNOW JESUS INTENSELY, DEEPLY AND INTIMATELY

All these days as I looked at my life I’ve known and experienced JESUS as LOVE, COMPASSION AND MERCY, and his love is gratuitous. I don’t deserve it but it is just by his own choice that He has shown me love, mercy, compassion. All is grace! Tuttto e grazia! Lord, how great you are! I can only praise, love and thank you!

Practical questions came to my mind and doubts and apprehensions came: How can I proclaim God in my situation ( I am still having difficulty in walking). I experienced the reassurance of God in his words in Scriptures: I have loved you with an everlasting love so I have kept you for my mercy (Jer. 31:3); for I know what my plans for you are; plans to save you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a future and a hope. (Jer. 29)

The way I see things and the future is different from how God sees them, different from my plans. I can only trust, believe, hope in His love. The future lies in His hands and He will bring to fulfillment what His plans are
PARADOX: In my seeming helplessness and nothingness is God’s greatness
In my seeming uselessness is the great power to preach not by my words but by
example
In my seeming uselessness, I am doing great things without my knowing for it is
not in my power but God
I bowed down and say my FIAT with Mary in faith and trust: Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be down according to what you said.
To bring Christ to the world like Mary is a mystery and God will fulfill it according to His plans. He will be made know in ways that He knows. I can only believe, trust, hope in His LOVE!
Lord, you are great!
To serve the Lord in humility, in tears and trials, give all my best, preach, catechize by words and example.

A M E N!!!!!

Sr. Elsa Solas, cm
Annual Retreat: 24 September-1 October 2009
Carmelite Missionaries, 25 Masai West Road, Nairobi, Kenya

SPC - St. Paul College, Makati on Retreat

SPC - St. Paul College

Makati

November 5-7, 2009

128 Teachers and Staff

Speaker: Fr. Marcell Aranilla

Facilitators: SPC Sisters

St. Teresa Hall

Mater Ecclesiae School on Retreat

Mater Ecclesiae School
Laguna
November 4-5, 2009
147 Teachers and Staff
Speaker: Fr. Egay
Facilitator: Sr. Cristina
St. Teresa Hall

Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan Clergy on Retreat

Apostolic Vicariate of Calapan Clergy

November 2-6, 2009

48 Priests

Theme: Priesthood

Speaker: Bishop Broderick Pabillo, SDB, DD

Francisco Palau Hall

Asian Theological Seminary

Asian Theological Seminary
November 2-4, 2009
23 participants
Speaker: Mr. Charles
Blessed Daniela Kiosk

St. Teresita Academy, Nueva Vizcaya on Retreat

St. Teresita Academy

Nueva Vizcaya
October 29-30, 2009
29 Teachers

Speaker: Dra. Natividad
Sr. Antonia
Blessed Daniela Kiosk

Don Bosco Mandaluyong on Retreat

Don Bosco Mandaluyong
October 29-30, 2009
36 Teachers
Speaker: Fr. Edwin
Organizer: Fr. Bernard, SDB
St. Therese Hall

Apsa Tapat Meeting

Apsa Tapat Seminar Workshop for School Administrators

Theme: A paradigm shift in School Management responding to

Government Trust in basic Education

October 28-30, 2009

65 School Administrators

Facilitator: Mrs. Pabalan

Organizer: Mrs. Los Banes

Francisco Palau Hall