EPAL

This is the second time and our last visit of the year to my friend/ kuya/ partner in service (CLP)/ inaanak (kumpil)/ Kuya Ned at Sacred Heart Novitiate, Novaliches Metro Manila. Akalain mo at ninang ako ng Kuya ko na to! He is well know in our chapter na "very particular with time". So whenever we are serving the SFC and KFC pag late na kami, makikita mo siya nakatayo sa site/ venue na nakatingin sa relo tapos titingnan ka at titingin ule sa relo, lol. As I've said earlier this is our last visit for him this year, the next will be January 2013, and he is also the sharer of the month. 

The first time we visit. I joined this pic at Nescafe Serendipic Contest and I won from one of the bloggers contest, unfortunately until now still haven't get my prize, anyways here's my prize, picture na lang ha (taken from the blog), masaya na ako!!!

credit to the owner

The Sacred Heart Novitiate

The Chapel

THE GOSPEL: Mark 10:35-45

The Request of James and John

³⁵ Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we want you to do for us whatever we ask.”

³⁶ “What do you want me to do for you?” he asked.

³⁷ They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.”

³⁸ “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

³⁹ “We can,” they answered.

Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink and be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with, ⁴⁰ but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared.”

⁴¹ When the ten heard about this, they became indignant with James and John. ⁴² Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them. ⁴³ Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, ⁴⁴ and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. ⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Kuya Ned's Sharing:

Everytime daw na nababasa niya ang gospel na to, he always reminded of the word epal, as in capital E.P.A.L in other words ma-Papel, pa-Bibo and always wants to be the center of attraction. As like what James and John's request to Jesus: "Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory." He also pointed out that nowadays there are people do have the KIA traits, which means Know It All. And as of this moment it is popularly said as IKR, I Know Right?!!! He also relate himself with James and John. He also told a version the famous Filipino story of  "Wala ka sa Lolo ko" and "Wala ka sa Lola ko". At the end of the sharing he stretched out that we must be EPAL in our own little way and good way. He said that we must be E. P. A. L.: Everytime Praise GOD, All the time Love GOD :)

 

France. Farrah, Gwen, me, Gemma, Damo, Kuya Ned, Kuya Joe

Damo is also a first year Jesuit aspirant like Kuya Ned, he is a Cambodian.

And of course after the mass, foods are flooding. hehehe, the foods are from fellow visitors! :)

Everytime Praise GOD, All the time Love GOD :)