I fell in love with this song the moment I heard it. And when we had lunch with Gary V sev­eral years ago and he men­tioned that this was one of his favorite songs as well (and we asked him to sing it to us), I fell in love with it again. I think Gary sang this song in the wed­ding of Mike and Ange, two friends of mine. I don’t know if he got to do his own ver­sion in an album though.

The first time I read this book by Parker Palmer, it was just before I went on the retreat that changed my life.
Voca­tion does not come from will­full­ness. It comes from listening.Life is dif­fer­ent now. I am no longer as con­fused as I was before. I went through a dif­fi­cult rela­tion­ship the past years and I have just recently moved on from it. I have a good career. I’m think­ing about study­ing again. And I plan to teach some­time in the future.
Life is good. The uni­verse is …

This was some­thing I gave as a homily years ago when I was still a Jesuit and my par­ents cel­e­brated their 25^th Wed­ding Anniver­sary. In a world where talk is cheap and com­mit­ments more and more tem­po­rary, some peo­ple do stay together despite every­thing. This is about my mom and my dad. And even if their anniver­sary is still in June, I would like to share this at this early part of the year, because it is a good reminder for us to be there for the long haul.

We had the mass in my favorite chapel in Sacred Heart Novi­tiate, the Immac­u­late Con­cep­tion Chapel. It has one of the most beau­ti­ful stat­ues of Mary ever. I hope you could go to Sacred Heart Novi­tiate, in Novaliches, Que­zon City, Philip­pines, and pray in that cute lit­tle chapel and behold the beau­ti­ful Mary pray­ing with us and pray­ing for us as we start our jour­neys this year. May she be there for the long haul. And may we con­tinue to be pleas­antly sur­prised at the many things hap­pen­ing to us.

150 Years. 150 Things About the Ateneo. (101−150)">

This is the last of a three part series on 150 things about the Ate­neo. It’s dif­fi­cult to exhaust every­thing about the Ate­neo; so this is not an attempt at exhaust­ing every­thing about it, it is an attempt to show­case the beauty, and the his­tory, as well as talk about triv­ial things we prob­a­bly do not know about it. I hope it helps all of us Ate­neans (and even those who aren’t) cel­e­brate our expe­ri­ence and cel­e­brate the great­ness of who we are, what we stand for.

This is what we are about. This is the Ate­neo Way.

150 Years. 150 Things About the Ateneo. (51−100)">

We started with the First 50 last week, and we are con­tin­u­ing with the next 50 things about the Ateneo.