I'm back!!!!

Hi there! I’m back again after a very looooooong absence. A lot of things have taken place since the last time I posted anything in this blog. Well, at this point everything is silent here in the seminary, except for some weeks wherein the seminary grounds was invaded by scores of athletes and spectators due to the Palarong Pambansa. The seminary was the venue for three sports events: lawn tennis, archery and taekwondo. However during the games I was all the while in Tanauan, which was my first pastoral assignment before I came here to the seminary. These two pics are those of the church belfry and the rectory. I spent two weeks there, enjoying a brief stint in the parish. This was however marred towards the end since I got sick, perhaps due to over fatigue (as if fatigue were not enough). During my last Sunday there I had to take over most of the schedules in the parish since the pastor went someplace else and I was left to celebrating six masses that day (actually it was seven, but one sked was canceled, perhaps due to the Pacquiao-Hatton fight). What made the day was when I came to celebrate Mass for the gay association of that town who were holding their Santacruzan de Mayo Devotions. Not that I have anything against them, but usually you don’t see a bunch of gay guys and transvestites asking a priest to celebrate mass for them…to put it loosely, one could say that their interests belong to another sphere.

I should’ve devoted the next day to more rest and relaxation but I think I overloaded my “day-off” (priestly life doesn’t have such a thing) with so much activity that by evening I was feeling really wrung out. The next morning I was wracked with fever.

Anyway, I’m back here in the seminary and to its relative serenity. I’m taking things more calmly…

house warming

I've just spent an hour fixing up the appearance of this blog, you know, placing all the pictures and arranging the elements that would appear in it. actually i just woke up from the dawn marian procession and Mass that we just had here in my place where I'm currently assigned, and i found myself with a splitting headache afterwards, so i went off to bed while I could hear the seminarians in the basketball court just below my room playing. I would've joined them in their sports (I actually play badminton with some of the enthusiasts here in the Sacred Heart Seminary), but I found myself too weak. So I thought that I'd better conserve my strength and build up energy for the hectic sked that I have for today (recollection with High School students in Tanauan, Leyte, hearing confessions, Mass, and another Mass with the Neo-Catechumenate in the evening). i dozed off for about two hours and when I finally woke up I started to tinker with my laptop. I came across my account in Google and this is where this all started. i decided to fix this blog thing and post this entry. Since summer vacation is fast approaching, i would be having less academic commitments and more pastoral ones; i would be having more time to place my thoughts and experiences in this blog space or whatever you may call it....
...A seminarian just came and knocked at my door. I'm off to hear hear student confessions in no time, but I'll be back to share more thoughts soon.