Chavez Cyrillus Mariae Poon

This is a true story, at least according to James S. Hewitt. A retired teacher decided to volunteer some time tutoring children in a local children’s hospital. She was given the name and room number of a nine year old. There was also a note saying that the boy’s class in school was studying nouns and adverbs. The tutor got hold of her fourth grade material and headed over to the hospital. She was shocked to find that the boy was in the burn unit. She almost turned around and went home, but she got up her courage and went inside. He looked even worse than she feared. “Hi,” she said, “I’ll be your teacher while you’re here. It’s important that you learn about nouns and adverbs.” And she went right into the lesson. When she finished, she said she’d be back the next week. And she hurried away.

A few days later the teacher received a call from the boy’s mother asking if she would be coming for a lesson that day. Thinking that she had really done a poor job with the child and that the boy’s mother would rather he be left alone, the lady apologized for her nervousness and said that she would certainly understand if the boy’s Mom would rather she didn’t return. “No, no,” said the Mom, “You have it all wrong. I don’t know what you said to my son, but since your visit he has really been fighting hard to respond to his treatment. It seems that he has finally decided to live.”

The teacher returned the next day and found the child with a therapist and his mother. He was doing his best to cooperate with the therapist. When the boy saw the teacher he said to his mother, “I know I’m going to live. They wouldn’t send a teacher to work on nouns and adverbs with a kid who’s dying, would they?”

He has given us hope that we will live. God wouldn’t send his Son if we were a lost cause. He wouldn’t make Him a King if that King were to have no subjects. He wouldn’t allow him to die on the cross if He didn’t realize that some of us would call out to him with our lives, “Jesus, remember us, when you come into your kingdom.” Modern day prophets of doom who see negative in every aspect of life have given up on society.

But Jesus has not given up on us. He refuses to give up. He is the King who loves his subjects. He loves them to death.

Life just isn’t…

Life isn’t about keeping score. It’s not about how many people call you and it’s not about who you’ve dated, are dating or haven’t dated at all. It isn’t about who you’ve kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. It’s not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it’s not about grades, money, clothes or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn’t about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it’s not about how accepted or not accepted you are. Life just isn’t about that.

But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It’s about how you feel about yourself. It’s about trust, happiness and compassion. It’s about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance and building confidence. It’s about what you say and what you mean. It’s about seeing people for who they are and not what they have.

Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else’s in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise. These choices are what life’s about.

The confessional is truly a sacred space.

It is a doorway into the inner sanctuary of the human soul and the heart’s point of entry for Divine Light.

No one should be left to carry the burden of sin alone. The weight of our sinful choices and actions can press heavily upon our hearts and lives, wounding us interiorly and distancing us from God and from one another.

The Sacrament of Reconciliation is the place where the wounded come to be healed. It is there that they acknowledge their wounds and receive healing and peace through the forgiveness of the God of infinite love.

During His earthly ministry, Our Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, exercised this divine authority to forgive sins: “Your sins are forgiven”

On the evening of Easter, He entrusted this same power to His Apostles when He appeared among them and said: “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them, and whose sins you retain are retained”. In this moment, Christ instituted the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

The priest who sits in the confessional is therefore one who is deeply humbled. Though himself a sinner, he is called by God to stand in His place and to pronounce forgiveness in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. The priest-confessor is not the master of God’s mercy, but its servant.

The effects of the Sacrament of Confession are profound: reconciliation with God through the forgiveness of all sins; reconciliation with the Church, in which God desires us to make our home; and the restoration of the state of grace, enabling us to rediscover the person God created us to be.

Through this sacrament, the penitent also receives peace and serenity of conscience, spiritual consolation, and an increase of strength for the ongoing struggle of Christian life—a struggle which, through frequent confession, becomes a beautiful and grace-filled journey toward holiness.

Let us go to confession.

I had a discussion with my friends few months ago about how to evangilizing someone to let them know about the Catholic faith, many of them had their own ideas, but I want to share my idea which is a very good example about evangilizing people.

I remembered when I was in secondary school while I’m having my lunchbreak, I usually pray the rosary in the playground, then one day one of my classmate saw me praying the rosary, then he come over to me and asking what I’m doing, I told him that I’m praying the rosary, because my classmate is a non-Catholic, he was very interest about the rosary, so I briefly explained to him, after that, he decided to pray the rosary together with me then eventually, he was baptized as Catholic few years ago. Deo Gratias!

Jesus told us to spread the Gospel into the world, we should also know how to evangilize to the people, many people think they didn’t know more about the Gospel, it dosen’t matter, if you know how to pray, especially the rosary, try to pray either when you in the streets or inside the MTR.

Although some people might look at you what are you doing, but this ok, don’t be afrard, just pray for the person who are curious about what are you doing.

Most of all, try your best to evangilize the whole nations through your daily actions!