Dear Ramon,
I would like to be proven wrong. I did not meet a single member of the
Center for Good Governance group at the December 6 De La Salle Advent
Recollection at the Our Lady of Star Chapel at the DLSU-Santiago Zobel campus.
There was not a single member either of other organizations/ batches to
whom I had extended an invitation to join us.
Non-attendees missed a rare opportunity to tour the Philip J. Lhuillier
Museum which houses a selection of rare religious Christian Antiquities. Philip
is HS. '64 and the incumbent Ambassador to Italy. His curator, Joseph Renta
(also a St. Benilde graduate), toured us. It was mind-boggling! I had kiddingly
declared to the PR staff that I was ready to levitate in the area of the
reliquaries. But, it was not to be! I will obviously have to do much more by
way of indulgence accumulation !
Non-attendees also missed talks, straight-from-the heart, of fellow
LaSallites: Br. Dennis Magbanua (President of DLSU-Zobel)and Br. Vic Franco
(President of the College of St. Benilde).
The main speaker was Fr. Francis Tiquia of the Oblate Apostles of the Two
Hearts. His field of specialization is exorcism and was trained in Rome to
polish his craft.
One of my HS. '58 classmates, George Rickard, texted me yesterday, "Was
about to text you that I attended today's affair just 4 u. Well thank u cuz I
liked d lecture, d company, and d museum trip. La Salle won against San Beda
and will meet Ateneo in the finals."
That compliment is the best early Christmas gift I have received for some
time. It was seconded by my other classmates, Prim de Guzman and Rod Salazar
(with his wife, Bong, a sister of Br. Benilde Feliciano).I would like to
believe that it was a sentiment which prevailed among all who attended the
event and shared of themselves.
If I mention it now, it is simply to stress the fact that organizations
are largely aggrupations of individuals. The organizational march is a march of
many individuals.
Br. Vic Franco had underscored education as the pressing need of the
Philippines: starting with the individuals to the families to organizations on
a values-laden platform.
Education was defined in its broad front and not boxed in by academic
parameters.
He did stress, however, that the Philippine population was largely bereft
of adequate academic education for the majority in terms of all
levels:elementary, secondary, and college...hence, the rationale and Christian
platform of the One La Salle Endowment Fund.
Br. Vic Franco invited all to visit him in his three campuses to learn
more of what they were doing for the communities they serviced. In so doing,
joint endeavors by the school with the rest of the Lasallian Community (which
includes alumni and their families)would be catalyzed.
Br. Dennis summarized the work of the Christian Brothers in the
Philippines (now all of 17 District Schools nationwide servicing a student
population estimated at 84,000 annually, predominantly college). There were
also the La Salle-supervised schools nationwide, now 30, estimated population
unstated.
He also made a direct call for a wider base volunteers to help them in
their mission of transforming communities into active Christian communities.
Fr. Tiquia laid bare the workings of Satan. In sum, he said that prayerful
individuals are less prone to succumbing to the insidious ways of the devil who
is constantly preying on all of us.
In sum, they all said a mouthful.
The underlying note, expressed in different levels of diplomatic language,
was that greed left large sectors of populations in extreme poverty and without
access to opportunities.
It is time that we act on their requests to lift this country and the
world out of its seemingly hopeless condition.
It is time that we re-examine our respective individual lives and
organizational programs.
An Advent Recollection event, among other spiritual endeavors, helps in
facilitating that process.
De La Salle U-Manila will be hosting a Christmas Eve Mass come December
24, 7-9 pm., at the main chapel. Many will recall that we had spent so many
moments of recollection at the Most Blessed Sacrament Chapel. And perhaps, many
of us were also transformed as a result of those spiriitually energizing visits.
I will be there come December and I will bring non-LaSallites as well to
join me in sharing that gift of One La Salle !
It is time for unconditional alliances for the disadvantaged.
It is time to say thank you to all who have impacted on our lives.
In ending, let me say thank you to all again.
I am very grateful and proud of my heritage as a LaSallite, the gift of my
parents.
We all need to leave our own individual and organizational legacies as
LaSallites.
Let me now quote from a booklet on St. John Baptist de la Salle, "I
Journey With The Dream". I had secured many copies, truth tell, for
distribution to others, from the Pastoral Office of DLSU-Manila:
"As I look back over 40 years and the gigantic task I have undertaken and
brought to success, I smile at my early reluctance and the hesitation. I smiled
too at God's ways, how He guided me, one step at the time. Certainly, if I had
known the troubles and the pain I would have had to endure, I would not have
touched this work with a 40-foot pole !
The end approaches, my dream has come true for the many young people I
wanted to help and I pray the same for thousands more as yet unborn. I am at
peace. God be praised."
In friendship forever
Your brother, DE LA SALLE
Again, Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year to all !
Tony
--- On Sun, 12/7/08, Ramon Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Ramon Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: Somewhere in time..beautiful!!!!
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 4:16 AM
> Hi Dear LaSallite,
> Tony,thanks for your email. I can't be there on the
> 6th as I am still
> here in Sydney, but whatever,
> you guys have a great day and a very Merry Christmas and a
> Wonderful New
> Year.
> Ramon,
> The real LaSallite.
> P.S. That other name is so effeminate.
>
> Antonio JH. Cervantes wrote:
> > Dear Mon,
> > I have personally called Patrick Pantaleon to
> enlist the Center for Good Governance to attend the December
> 6 event. I have also copy furnished all with the egroup
> address.
> > Oye, let's get going in massing together
> spiritually and with the values of St. de La Salle...to form
> a WHOLE MOVEMENT WITH PRO-ACTIVE AND CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAMS
> FOR THE LESS PRIVELEGED AND DISADVANTAGED.
> > I will not comment on your Center objectives.
> That is best left to you guys. I have already made my
> position known in the past.
> > If we are to take a handle on governance in the
> Philippines (governing to benefit the majority), then we
> will have to be actively involved in the processes of
> governance in whichever capacity: NGO, private and public
> sector positioning, et al.
> > Whichever, enough.
> > MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL.
> > See as many of you local folks at the December 6
> event !
> > And yes, the Grade School and High School Chapter
> of the DLSAA is just as adamant as you and I in calling
> ourselves LASALLITES. Bueno, I will see how many of them
> attend the December 6 event ! I will keep my peace until
> then, haha !
> > Tony
> >
> > PS. So, Manny Blanco (Pres. of the DLSAA GS. and HS.
> Chapter), how many
> > in your chapter are going ? And there you have it
> expressed unequi-
> > vocally: LASALLITES ...as in the Last of the
> LaSallites Club as the
> > other fond name for the GS. and HS. Chapter of
> DLSAA...all the way
> > from Australia and I guess from all over the
> world !
> >
> > And while I'm at this, Johnny Sy, how many in
> the Engineering Chapter
> > are going ? ...Pues, all the other Chapters,
> Portia ?
> >
> > Pues, all the respective batches of the 4-9ers
> group planning and
> > working their butts off for the March 7, 2009
> Homecoming ? How many
> > per batch of the known batches of ten out of the
> 33 ?
> >
> > Please respond directly to the folks tallying up
> the attendance
> > for December 6 ...to establish the number of
> snacks and lunches
> > to order ...by Tuesday Dec. 2 ideally. Done ?
> Thank you all.
> >
> > Oye, if you don't know, then do so directly
> with the DLSAA attention
> > Benji Uichico (Exec. Director) and Migs Lisbona
> (Deputy Exec. Dir.).
> > Their emails are in the cc portion of this email.
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 12/1/08, Ramon Franco
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> From: Ramon Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: Somewhere in
> time..beautiful!!!!
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 1:35 PM
> >> Hi Tony,
> >> And yes I was with you when we received that
> Loyalty medal
> >> and yes we
> >> are La Sallites. Period. When I was the Editor of
> our
> >> newsletter
> >> here in Sydney, I insisted on using the LaSallites
> instead
> >> of that other
> >> one. And it stayed that way. I do not know what
> is
> >> happening now after us
> >> foggies on the board retired.
> >> LaSallites it is and should always be. I do not
> know or
> >> understand where
> >> that other word came from. Yukky.
> >> All the best,
> >> Ramon Franco
> >>
> >> Antonio JH. Cervantes wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear Chris,
> >>> I stand corrected. You are a member of
> the
> >>>
> >> Lasallian Community as it has been defined by the
> >> Provincialate and De La Salle Philippines.
> >>
> >>> I was positioning myelf as a full-blooded
> >>>
> >> LaSallite who had spent all his elementary, high
> school, and
> >> college years at De La Salle College. And joining
> some
> >> twenty others in 1963 in the march to receive
> their Loyalty
> >> Medal during the commencement exercises on March
> 19, 1963.
> >>
> >>> In sum, one need not have necessarily
> graduated
> >>>
> >> from any La Salle district school to be considered
> a
> >> LaSallian ...although us fogies demand that we be
> called
> >> LaSallites. Period.
> >>
> >>> One only need be an ACTIVE participant in
> the
> >>>
> >> propogation of the values of St. De La Salle in
> carrying out
> >> his mission then and as it has evolved through the
> years.
> >>
> >>> I look forward then to your joining the
> >>>
> >> first-ever De La Salle Advent Recollection come
> December 6
> >> (from 8 am. to 3 pm.)at DLSU-Zobel. The new Our
> Lady of the
> >> Star Chapel seats 400 comfortably. Your attendance
> will help
> >> in filling it to the rafters.
> >>
> >>> That is your Christmas gift to me.
> >>> And to St. John Baptist de La Salle with
> his
> >>>
> >> Institute of Christian Brothers.
> >>
> >>> This note is obviously as well a plug for
> the
> >>>
> >> Lasallian Institute for the Environment (LIFE), an
> >> autonomous unit of LA SALLE ONE or De La Salle
> Philippines
> >> (an aggrupation of the 17 district schools
> nationwide).
> >>
> >>> I have since linked them up with various
> >>>
> >> institutions. May I now shamelessly suggest that
> you link
> >> them up with Anglo Philippines (which owns the
> Atlas
> >> Consolidated in Cebu) ? Done ? DONE !
> >>
> >>> Folks, please correspond directly with
> Ben
> >>>
> >> Eusebio, incumbent Executive Director of LIFE, for
> any
> >> initiatives you would like to take up with LIFE !
> He is
> >> joined in the effort by prominent
> environmentalists from La
> >> Salle with local and international ...mind
> boggling
> >> ACHIEVEMENTS...like Ed Gomez, Atty. Tony Oposa,
> Dr.
> >> Licuanan, and more out there who have not perhaps
> been
> >> identified.
> >>
> >>> Let's GO !
> >>> Let's have an environmental summit
> soonest to
> >>>
> >> hear them out and create a volunteer corps with
> LIFE and the
> >> rest of LA SALLE ONE.
> >>
> >>> If I may be further shameless as I always
> am in
> >>>
> >> pushing worthwhile advocacies, can the incumbent
> and past
> >> Lasallian Excellence Awardees join Ben, Ed, and
> Tony (also
> >> awardees)to initiate this effort ...as a start-up
> project in
> >> formalizing the Association of Lasallian
> Excellence Awardees
> >> (to include Sports Hall of Fame Awardees and
> whoever else
> >> awardees/recipients of citations like media?
> >>
> >>> And can the DLSAA and DLSP unequivocably
> support
> >>>
> >> this proposed project/s?
> >>
> >>> Tony
> >>>
> >>> PS. WATCH FOR DEVELOPMENTS IN A PROPOSED
> TIE-UP WITH
> >>>
> >> TEAM ENERGY
> >>
> >>> PHILIPPINES and its FOUNDATION (formerly
> Mirant
> >>>
> >> Philippines with
> >>
> >>> Humphrey Fellow Paul Flake overseeing its
> >>>
> >> corporate social respon-
> >>
> >>> sibility program among others). Details
> after the
> >>>
> >> trip of Ben
> >>
> >>> Eusebio this December 5 to the Carbon
> Sink
> >>>
> >> Project of Team Energy in
> >>
> >>> Pagbilao, Province of Quezon...an
> >>>
> >> internationally-awarded environ-
> >>
> >>> mental project with upland reforestation,
> >>>
> >> mangrove rehabilitation
> >>
> >>> and reforestation, ecodestination
> facilities, and
> >>>
> >> community develop-
> >>
> >>> ment projects among many others!
> >>>
> >>> Bloody, can't make it again because
> of the
> >>>
> >> December 6 event. So,
> >>
> >>> I excused Ben Eusebio who will instead
> make the
> >>>
> >> trip come Dec. 5.
> >>
> >>> They no longer their helicopter for my
> >>>
> >> spoiled-brat use, haha !
> >>
> >>> Can somebody please invite Gov. Tet
> Garcia of
> >>>
> >> Bataan, a LaSallite,
> >>
> >>> to December 6 ?
> >>>
> >>> Also, Mayor Vic Sumulong of Antipolo, as
> >>>
> >> full-blooded a LaSallite
> >>
> >>> as can be ?
> >>>
> >>> Also, Mayor Barzaga of Dasmarinas, an
> alumna
> >>>
> >> ...with her Representa-
> >>
> >>> tive husband ?
> >>>
> >>> OR MORE TO THE POINT, can you folks bring
> your
> >>>
> >> fellow LaSallites
> >>
> >>> and respective batches to the December 6
> event?
> >>>
> >> With family ?
> >>
> >>> and ...PLEASE COMMIT SOONEST AND ADVISE
> THE FOLKS
> >>>
> >> CONCERNED so that
> >>
> >>> we can remove the nightmare of feeding
> unexpected
> >>>
> >> visitors.
> >>
> >>> If not, we will have to invoke for
> heavenly help
> >>>
> >> to recreate Cana !
> >>
> >>> THANKS ALL.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --- On Mon, 12/1/08, Chris M. Gotanco
> >>>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> From: Chris M. Gotanco
> >>>>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >>>> Subject: Re: Fwd: FW: Somewhere in
> >>>>
> >> time..beautiful!!!!
> >>
> >>>> To: "Antonio JH. Cervantes"
> >>>>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >>>> Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 11:59 AM
> >>>> Hi Tony.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am just now going through my clogged
> inbox and
> >>>>
> >> came
> >>
> >>>> across this well-writen email you cc'd
> me some
> >>>>
> >> months
> >>
> >>>> ago.
> >>>>
> >>>> Your kilometric messages somehow make me
> always
> >>>>
> >> try to put
> >>
> >>>> off reading them--but always find your
> pieces
> >>>>
> >> interesting
> >>
> >>>> when I get a chance to wade through them
> (haha)!
> >>>>
> >>>> I have, therefore, decided to create a
> separate
> >>>>
> >> file for
> >>
> >>>> you so it will be easier to find your
> stuff when I
> >>>>
> >> feel
> >>
> >>>> like getting inspired (ha3x)! I used to
> file them
> >>>>
> >> under
> >>
> >>>> "Humphrey" but noticed that your
> were
> >>>>
> >> dominating
> >>
> >>>> the space anyway!
> >>>>
> >>>> By the way, may I correct your statement
> that you
> >>>>
> >> are the
> >>
> >>>> only LaSallite among the Humphreys
> (although
> >>>>
> >> technically
> >>
> >>>> that could be true). I also consider
> myself a
> >>>>
> >> LaSallian
> >>
> >>>> having taught in the MBA program off and
> on for
> >>>>
> >> nearly 35
> >>
> >>>> years (since 1973 under Al Guerzon as
> dean, and
> >>>>
> >> on to
> >>
> >>>> Dicky Gonzalez, Lydia Echauz and Popoy
> Juico).
> >>>>
> >>>> Let's get together with Cora and Zeny
> >>>>
> >> soon--perhaps
> >>
> >>>> during the extended holidays.
> >>>>
> >>>> Cheers!//Chris
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --- On Thu, 15/5/08, Antonio JH. Cervantes
> >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> From: Antonio JH. Cervantes
> >>>>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >>>> Subject: Fwd: FW: Somewhere in
> time..beautiful!!!!
> >>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> >>>> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> >>>>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >>>> Cc: "Chiqui Go"
> >>>>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >>>> Date: Thursday, 15 May, 2008, 4:28 AM
> >>>>
> >>>> Note: forwarded message attached.
> >>>>
> >>>> Dear Folks,
> >>>> This is being written at 3:30 am. of
> >>>>
> >> Thursday,
> >>
> >>>> May 15. It appears my adrenalin levels
> have again
> >>>>
> >> gone
> >>
> >>>> to pot to further pump on my cerebrum.
> >>>> And, having gone through the nth
> email of
> >>>>
> >> Nando
> >>
> >>>> Crame from Australia, I was subjected
> either with
> >>>>
> >> the
> >>
> >>>> inadequacies of my computer or my own
> inabilities
> >>>>
> >> to
> >>
> >>>> cope with it or both ...but managed to
> complete
> >>>>
> >> it.
> >>
> >>>> "Somewhere in Time" came in
> spurts
> >>>>
> >> for my
> >>
> >>>> viewing
> >>>> with the music not quite keeping in step
> with the
> >>>> visuals evolving.
> >>>> Whichever, it brought me back to
> Psalm 104,
> >>>>
> >> this
> >>
> >>>> being a result of my childhood upbringing:
> being
> >>>> exposed to the many types of Protestant
> >>>>
> >> activities,
> >>
> >>>> Methodist, Baptist, Episcopalian, and the
> lot.
> >>>> I was after all a child of the Sunday
> School
> >>>>
> >> of
> >>
> >>>> Protestant traditions in my early youth
> while
> >>>>
> >> being
> >>
> >>>> enrolled in a Catholic institution with
> its rigid
> >>>> adherence to various dogma.
> >>>> The explanatory notes in my Bible
> clarify:
> >>>>
> >>>> The Beauty of Nature
> >>>> Creation sings God's Praise
> >>>>
> >>>> "How many are your works, O Lord ! In
> wisdom
> >>>>
> >> you made
> >>
> >>>> them all." ...104:24
> >>>>
> >>>> Psalm 104 shows appreciation for every
> aspect of
> >>>> nature, even creatures like wild goats,
> lions, and
> >>>>
> >> the
> >>
> >>>> "leviathan", the whale or sea
> >>>>
> >> monster.........
> >>
> >>>> The author saw how the world fits
> together,
> >>>>
> >> everything
> >>
> >>>> in its proper sphere. At night, wild
> animals hunt;
> >>>>
> >> at
> >>
> >>>> daybreak humans go out to work. The rain
> falls,
> >>>> nourishing crops for people and grass for
> cattle,
> >>>>
> >> but
> >>
> >>>> also watering the forest to provide a
> place for
> >>>>
> >> birds
> >>
> >>>> to nest.....
> >>>>
> >>>> God's Perfect Work
> >>>> The intertwining of nature is not,
> for the
> >>>> psalmist, like a complex machine,
> dangerously
> >>>> sensitive. Things fit together because an
> >>>>
> >> intimate,
> >>
> >>>> personal God watches over them. ... The
> psalmist
> >>>> doesn't just marvel over the
> complexity and
> >>>>
> >> beauty of
> >>
> >>>> nature; in it he sees the work of God....
> >>>>
> >>>> The beauty of the earth, made by God,
> calls
> >>>>
> >> out
> >>
> >>>> for purity---purity of the heart.
> >>>>
> >>>> Life questions:
> >>>> How does nature affect you ?
> >>>> How do you affect it ?
> >>>>
> >>>> Can we now ally with the La Salle
> Initiative
> >>>>
> >> for
> >>
> >>>> the Environment (LIFE) and any other other
> >>>>
> >> advocates
> >>
> >>>> for stewardship of nature?
> >>>>
> >>>> And can its convictions be those of
> Psalm 104
> >>>>
> >> ?
> >>
> >>>> Good morning all ! I am ready to go
> back to
> >>>>
> >> sleep
> >>
> >>>> although that seems a remote possibility.
> Or
> >>>>
> >> perhaps,
> >>
> >>>> when I will have read another Psalm, that
> will be
> >>>>
> >> so !
> >>
> >>>> But then, many of the Psalms were
> meant to be
> >>>> sung, and sung joyfully. Modern church
> formality
> >>>>
> >> seems
> >>
> >>>> far removed from their frequent command,:
> >>>>
> >> "Sing for
> >>
> >>>> joy! Shout aloud !" ...further
> declares the
> >>>> explanatory notes.
> >>>>
> >>>> So, I am now off instead to read the
> early
> >>>> edition of Business World, a complimentary
> copy
> >>>>
> >> for my
> >>
> >>>> brother, Behn, now traipsing over Western
> Visayas,
> >>>>
> >> and
> >>
> >>>> challenging me to do so with his barrage
> of
> >>>>
> >> multimedia
> >>
> >>>> messages to me: the wondrous gifts of God
> of
> >>>>
> >> nature in
> >>
> >>>> the Philippines !
> >>>>
> >>>> Tony Cervantes
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Get your preferred Email name!
> >>>> Now you can @ymail.com and
> @rocketmail.com.
> >>>>
> http://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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