tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11079212842819023562024-03-05T01:26:46.326-08:00People, Places and PraisesGod's call to daily communion is manifested through the people He sends our way and by places and events He leads us into. May we all have an open mind and heart to see and embrace His messages and give our praise back to our Lord.Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comBlogger215125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-23151380749779055322016-04-10T18:02:00.001-07:002016-04-10T18:02:20.171-07:00Right Reason“Amen, amen, I say to you, you are looking for me not because you saw signs but because you ate the loaves and were filled." John 6:26
Today's Gospel reading came a day after Jesus has miraculously fed around 5,000 persons. The people were all filled and they wanted more. Realizing that Jesus and his disciples were gone, they got into the other boats and went to the Capernaum to lookAim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-33662013948559142522016-03-22T19:48:00.000-07:002016-03-22T19:48:02.445-07:00God's Plan
Last Palm Sunday, the responsorial psalms came from
Psalms 22: 8-9, 17-20 and 23-24.
All who see me scoff at me;
they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads:
“He relied on the LORD; let him deliver him,
let him rescue him, if he loves him.”
Indeed, many dogs surround me,
a pack of evildoers closes in upon me;
They have pierced my hands and my feet;
I can count all my bones.
Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-18442080546715520542015-09-01T09:55:00.001-07:002015-09-01T09:55:33.098-07:00The Man of the Hour
On December 8, 1941, the then Japanese Imperial Army
launched their invasion attack on the Commonwealth of the Philippines. It was
the start of a 3-year brutal and inhuman atrocities by the occupiers on the
hapless and helpless poor Filipinos. It took the famous return of Gen Douglas
McArthur at Leyte Gulf to regain their liberation. But the human cost during
the occupation was so devastating Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-59442363764454791452015-04-02T02:17:00.003-07:002015-04-02T02:17:58.986-07:00Ika-Apat na Huling Salita
This Tagalog reflection is prepared by my father, Silvino Sr., who will be one of the speakers for the Seven Last Words program of our Holy Parish Catholic Church. God's mercy and blessing be with us all.
Ika-4 na
Wika
Eloi,
Eloi, Lama Sabachtani!
Diyos ko,
Diyos ko, bakit mo ako pinabayaan?
Pagninilay:
Isang matinding panaghoy at pagdaing na nagmumula sa
isang tunay na taong Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-53730823892742124282015-03-06T18:22:00.000-08:002015-03-06T18:22:10.562-08:00Listen
Yesterday, during our first-Friday mass healing
with Fr. Faller at the SM Megamall, I pointed to Aim, our three-year old son, one
of the photos of the Stations of the Cross which shows Jesus crucified.
Me : Aim, who is that on the cross?
Aim :  Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-68758800922606959462015-03-06T16:16:00.002-08:002015-03-06T16:16:38.303-08:00Geometry of True Wealth
In the pentagon figure without any given length of sides or
angles formed, what is the sum of all angles inside? To solve this trivial
question, we must choose to remember and apply a basic geometry rule – that any
given triangle has a sum 180 degrees for all 3 angles. Then, we choose one
vertex and draw imaginary lines to its opposite vertex to create triangle
figures. By “dividing” the Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-85449824320946224212015-02-28T12:08:00.000-08:002015-02-28T12:08:14.120-08:00Healing
photo from google with credit to celebrationspublication.com
Read: Mark 1:40-45.
The story of Jesus’ healing of the leper reveals
us three “conditions” that happened during his miraculous healing.
Approach
“A leper
came to Jesus…”
A lot of people has the wrong notion how be “healed”.
They turn to get a quick-fix albeit temporary solution to their ailments. At
the on-set of an Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-86721891924188258052015-01-14T00:33:00.002-08:002015-01-14T00:33:35.419-08:00Voice-Over
Do you remember Fender and Rodney?
Fender was that indefatigably annoying and
funny robot that helped a young dreamer, Rodney Copperbottom found his mission
in life.
How about Alex and Marty?
They were that best buds Lion and Zebra who
always turned their misfortunes away from home into hilarious misadventures of
fun and friendships. And amazingly, they always pull through their tough Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-78918924086613953272014-12-25T10:41:00.001-08:002014-12-25T10:41:05.800-08:00What Makes Our Christmas Get-Together Special?Is it in knowing that your parents are both healthy if you discard their hi-blood, diabetes, athritis and a slew of other OA symptoms?
Is it in sharing a low-fat, low-cholesterol meal with everybody from the moment the Noche Buena dishes are cooked until the wee hours in the morning?
Is it the exchange gifts that we have thought over and over a few weeks before hoping to make sure Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-82317278574273106772014-12-18T15:49:00.000-08:002014-12-18T15:49:24.218-08:00Christ is Christmas
Our family loves our gold fish.
We bought them last January for Zek’s 10th
birthday. Well, actually, both he and Aim really wanted a puppy, a cat and a
pair of birds….and a horse..and a pig…and lots of chickens. In short, they
dreamt of putting up a petting farm inside our 40 square meter flat. Heaven forbid
that their dream come to fulfilment for I dread competing with a pig in my Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-37960265766858773542014-11-23T20:03:00.001-08:002014-11-23T20:03:31.927-08:00In All Things
“Daddy, ouch si Aim”, as our three-year old toddler
pouting-face while pointing at his back head.
“What happened?” I asked.
“Nauntog sa table dito”, his squeaky high-pitch tone
went, still rubbing his tiny hands on his head.
“Are you OK? What do you want Daddy to do?”
“Daddy, kiss the ouch,” now with his cute face beaming
and brimming with confidence.
“OK”, as I embraced him Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-44371604555242333542014-10-26T22:36:00.001-07:002014-10-28T10:01:29.382-07:00SLAP each other
Here is an unsolicited advice to all newly-wed couples out there.
SLAP each other.
Whaaaat?
Yes, you must slap each other.
Before you howl and Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-7561983334692344262014-10-26T22:28:00.001-07:002014-10-28T10:00:48.035-07:00Beautiful NAIA
While queuing at the OFW counter of the airport immigration, one officer
broke the pervading silent and gloomy ambiance.
"Para po sa maayos na pag-check ng immigration, pumila lang po tayo ng
maayos at huwag magsabay-sabay sa paglapit sa Immigration officer."
However, upon seeing a wife distancing herself from her husband, she quickly quipped, "Pwede Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-7800549937162682712014-09-21T21:26:00.000-07:002015-02-28T12:39:14.183-08:00Family Healing
(While browsing over my unfinished articles, I came across this one which I completed on Sept.21, 2015 but I never got to post due to an equally sudden event. My wife, who was supposedly eight weeks pregnant, experienced painful cramps the following day Sept.22 which persisted and ended with the diagnosis that our angel in her womb is already gone. We took comfort in knowing that we now have twoAim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-17424325286452959982014-08-24T16:41:00.003-07:002014-09-21T21:27:10.267-07:00It's All In Your Hands
Many centuries ago, two teenage boys decided to play trick on one of the wise old philosopher who wandered about the Agora, or market place, of ancient Athens. They captured a tiny bird. Afterwards, they approached the wise old man as one of them held the bird in his hands behind his back where the old man can’t see it. Then approaching the old man he said,”Wise man of Athens, I have in my handsAim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-19167935974531223232014-08-14T07:59:00.001-07:002014-08-14T07:59:21.163-07:00A Question of Essential
In the 2011 comedy movie “The Big Year”, the three main
protagonists Bostick, Brad and Stu have chosen the same year to go for their
“big year” in which they will have to travel the whole of North America trying to
find and name the most bird species in a given calendar year. They share the
same passion and drive to meet their goal. But their commonality ends there.
Bostick who was the previous Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-85151183121953749482014-08-12T09:08:00.001-07:002014-08-12T09:17:20.346-07:00A Beautiful Love Story
We all heard the story about the wife catching his husband
sniffing and sighing on their sofa before midnight. Realizing that it was their
20th wedding anniversary the next day and touched by his random show of
afffection, she asked him why he was emotional. The husband’s dead-panned
answer was that he remembered his wife’s father’s threat of 20-year jail time
when they eloped and how a free manAim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-64872134791817380062014-08-01T09:44:00.001-07:002014-08-01T09:44:08.621-07:00Pencil Parable
Pencil Parable: Your goodness or true-worth is within.
She was short, wrinkly-skin and old. She was a foreigner
without material wealth and lived in one of desolately poor part of India. But
despite falling way below the wordly standard of success, she is mostly revered
and admired by a lot of people and genuinely loved by those whose lives she has
touched. Her beauty transcended outward Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-40555668178077015252014-07-29T22:01:00.000-07:002014-07-29T22:01:14.506-07:00For Aim
A few days ago, we bought our youngest son Aim his first
bicycle with balancing wheels. Our young tot wasted no time to ride it around
my father’s small garage. To give him more maneuvering space, I opened the
gates and positioned myself halfway across the street for safety. Aim was
having such fun that he started making shifty sharp turns that I felt the need
to intervene. Slowly, I tried to Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-52709426104352245492014-07-14T08:01:00.001-07:002014-07-14T08:01:48.103-07:00The Return
Just like most Pinoys, I am a self-confessed basketball
fanatic with immovable loyalty to my favorite teams since the first time I
learned to handle the orange rubber ball.
For the local team it has always been San Miguel Beer and
for the international team, I will forever be a Laker fan.
For San Miguel, it all started when the team was composed
of the efficiently coached, solid core of Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-59460387982882164092014-07-05T03:08:00.000-07:002014-07-05T03:08:34.668-07:00Old Vs. New
“..that you should put away the old self of your former
way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires, and be renewed in the spirit
of your minds, and put on the new self, created in God’s way in
righteousness and holiness of truth.” - Ephesians 4:22-24
Consequently, brothers and sisters, we are not debtors to
the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live accordingAim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-61691500829170114652014-06-25T10:05:00.000-07:002014-06-25T10:05:18.208-07:00Lift
Matthew 11:28 - Come
to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads and I will give you
rest
In most fitness gym anywhere, a type of multi-purpose body
building equipment that has the one-weight multi function work-out can be
found. Curiously, with any single choice of weight load, say 50lbs (roughly 23
kgs), one can notice different levels of resistances for each Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-66619596176716833512014-04-14T10:48:00.002-07:002014-04-14T10:48:37.980-07:00Look Up
One time in a supermarket, my two sons decided
to have fun (oh no, not again!) by running around through the mazes of display
cabinets, freezers and fruit stands. Aim would playfully prod his kuya to play “catch
me” as he giggled and scurried away. I was a bit worried for Aim to get lost as
he is simply too young to know his surroundings so I followed and kept watch at
a distance. To my Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-80144685861955317562014-04-10T10:28:00.000-07:002014-04-10T22:29:29.566-07:00I Do
He was thin, dark and shy.
She was slender, petite and friendly.
He was nursing a rejected heart.
She was a nursing student with an open heart.
He caught a glimpse of her gorgeous smile.
She pretended he was far by a mile (at least that's how
he felt then).
He found himself visiting her in the days that followed.
She cordially accepted his friendship, meek and mellow.
Their Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107921284281902356.post-33316043748491740652014-03-28T00:04:00.000-07:002014-04-10T10:29:19.829-07:00Blindness
Blindness is defined as the state of being sightless. A blind individual is unable to see. In a strict sense the word "blindness" denotes the inability of a person to distinguish darkness from bright light in either eye. (definition from www.medicinenet.com)
When Jesus healed the blind man from birth, He answered the blind belief of the people and inadvertently exposed the other kind of Aim Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14184222245643048912noreply@blogger.com