Sunday, September 30, 2012

AKO'Y ISANG TOMASINO

AKO'Y ISANG TOMASINO

QUADRICENTENNIAL SONG
1611-2011
BY GERARDO M. DE LEON






Nalagpasan mo ang mga pagsubok
Di mabilang na mga Bagyo
Kahit ilang baha man ang danasin
Kasaysayan mo'y hindi kayang anurin

Ang 'yong sahig, dingding, mga pintuan
Saksi sa 'yong dakilang nakaraan
Tinamnan ng tama puso't isipan
Mga bayaning sa silong mo ay nanahan

CHORUS

Nag-iisa ka lang
Pinagpalang pamantasan
Apat na siglo nang
Nagtuturo sa kabataan
Pagmamahal sa Diyos,
Karunungan may dangal
Ako's nagagalak matawag na
Isang Tomasino 

Ang ngalan mo'y hindi nadudungisan
Ilan mang siglo pa ang nagdaan
Dahil ang Diyos ika'y iniingatan
Tunay kang binasbasang paaralan

(REPEAT CHORUS)

Nagsisilbi sa kapwa
Naglilingkod sa bayan
Nagmamahal sa Diyos
May karunungan, may dangal
Ako'y nagagalak
Ako'y isang Tomasino!


VIDEO LINK  http://youtu.be/XwpLKoCd3cs   UST Symphony Orchestra


Saturday, September 29, 2012

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

ST. THOMAS AQUINAS

HE WAS BORN AROUND 1225 A.D. in Rossasecca, Sicily.  He was sent to a Benedictine monastery in nearby Monte Cassino but later chose to become a Dominican friar.  He attended the University of Cologne where he was nicknamed "Dumb Ox" (and probably bullied) because he was fat and also because he listened more than he spoke.  He got his doctorate at the University of Paris.  Thomas was quickly recognized as a brlliant philosopher and theologian.  At age 31, he began writing his famous book opus Summa Theologica.  He wanted to bring together and show how they formed a unified whole in one book, the sum of many volumes, all the truths of the Catholic faith.  Thomas wrote in the Summa Theologica the many gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Third Person in the Holy Trinity (appearing as a dove) and defining each as:

Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Strength, Knowledge: Direct the Intellect
Fortitude, Reverence, Fear of the Lord: Direct the Will Toward God

Thomas died on March 7, 1274.  He was canonized less than 50 years later.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Ephphatha! (Be Opened!)

EPHPHATHA
Then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, "Ephphatha!" - that is, "Be opened!" And immediately the man's ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly.  St. Mark 7:34-35
Your words are spirit and life, O Lord:
Richer than gold,
Stronger than death.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Labor Day

COME TO ME
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy burdened,
And I shall give you rest.
Take up my yoke and learn from me,
For I am meek and humble of heart,
And you'll find rest for your souls.
Yes, my yoke is easy
And my burden is light.

The first official Labor Day was celebrated in New York in 1882.  It became an official national holiday in 1894.  It was meant to honor and respect all laborers.   


Published  9/2/12   ust1611 blogspot
Web Page: Labor Day

How Charlemagne Discovered the Relics of St. Anne



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From: jpl
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by Taylor Maxwell




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Saint Anne holding her daughter, the Virgin Mary




This is one of the best relics stories of all time.


On Easter AD 792, Charlemagne discovered the relics of Saint Anne with the help of a physically handicapped boy. 


Below is the account, preserved in the correspondence of Pope Saint Leo III, concerning the discovery of the relics of Saint Anne in the presence of the Emperor Charlemagne.




Fourteen years after Our Lord’s death, Saint Mary Magdalen, Saint Martha, Saint Lazarus, and the others of the little band of Christians who were piled into a boat without sails or oars and pushed out to sea to perish — in the persecution of the Christians by the Jews of Jerusalem — were careful to carry with them the tenderly loved body of Our Lady’s mother. They feared lest it be profaned in the destruction, which Jesus had told them was to come upon Jerusalem. When, by the power of God, their boat survived and finally drifted to the shores of France, the little company of saints buried Saint Anne’s body in a cave, in a place called Apt, in the south of France. The church, which was later built over the spot, fell into decay because of wars and religious persecutions, and as the centuries passed, the place of Saint Anne’s tomb was forgotten.



The long years of peace, which Charlemagne’s wise rule gave to southern France, enabled the people to build a magnificent new church on the site of the old chapel at Apt. Extraordinary and painstaking labor went into the building of the great structure, and when the day of its consecration arrived [Easter Sunday, 792 A.D.], the beloved Charlemagne, little suspecting what was in store for him, declared himself happy indeed to have journeyed so many miles to be present for the holy occasion. At the most solemn part of the ceremonies, a boy of fourteen, blind, deaf and dumb from birth — and usually quiet and impassive — to the amaze ment of those who knew him, completely distracted the attention of the entire congrega tion by becoming suddenly tremendously excited. He rose from his seat, walked up the aisle to the altar steps, and to the consternation of the whole church, struck his stick re soundingly again and again upon a single step.



His embarrassed family tried to lead him out, but he would not budge. He continued frantically to pound the step, straining with his poor muted senses to impart a knowledge sealed hopelessly within him. The eyes of the people turned upon the emperor, and he, apparently in spired by God, took the matter into his own hands. He called for workmen to remove the steps.



A subterranean passage was revealed directly below the spot, which the boy’s stick had indicated. Into this passage the blind lad jumped, to be followed by the emperor, the priests, and the workmen.



They made their way in the dim light of candles, and when, farther along the passage, they came upon a wall that blocked further advance, the boy signed that this also should be removed. When the wall fell, there was brought to view still another long, dark corridor. At the end of this, the searchers found a crypt, upon which, to their profound wonderment, a vigil lamp, alight and burning in a little walled recess, cast a heavenly radiance.



As Charlemagne and his afflicted small guide, with their companions, stood be fore the lamp, its light went out. And at the same moment, the boy, blind and deaf and dumb from birth, felt sight and hearing and speech flood into his young eyes, his ears, and his tongue.



“It is she! It is she!” he cried out. The great emperor, not knowing what he meant, nevertheless repeated the words after him. The call was taken up by the crowds in the church above, as the people sank to their knees, bowed in the realization of the presence of something celestial and holy.



The crypt at last was opened, and a casket was found within it. In the casket was a winding sheet, and in the sheet were relics, and upon the relics was an inscription that read, “Here lies the body of Saint Anne, mother of the glorious Virgin Mary.” The winding sheet, it was noted, was of eastern design and texture.



Charlemagne, overwhelmed, venerated with profound gratitude the relics of the mother of Heaven’s Queen. He remained a long time in prayer. The priests and the people, awed by the graces given them in such abundance and by the choice of their countryside for such a heavenly manifestation, for three days spoke but rarely, and then in whispers.



The emperor had an exact and detailed account of the miraculous finding drawn up by a notary and sent to Pope Saint Leo III, with an accompanying letter from himself. These documents and the pope’s reply are preserved to this day. Many papal bulls have attested, over and over again, to the genuineness of Saint Anne’s relics at Apt.



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