It’s that time of year again when stu­dents move on to “big­ger” (and hope­fully bet­ter) things. I am reprint­ing what I believe is the best ever speech deliv­ered to a grad­u­at­ing high school class. I sug­gest you read this to the end and think about your own high school life.
Really great stuff here. :-)

(Speech deliv­ered by Dr. Anto­nio Miguel Dans (GS 1971, HS 1975) to the grad­u­at­ing class of Ate­neo High School batch 2007 on April 1, 2007 at the AHS cov­ered courts.)
Fr. Hizon, revered fac­ulty, grad­u­ates of Class 2007, parents, …

This is Car­l­iz­ina Jolec­tron, the lat­est Hol­ly­wood beauty. While she doesn’t look at all like any Hol­ly­wood celebrity we know, she does look eerily famil­iar. That is because she really is a com­pos­ite of three actresses we know: she has the lips of Angelina Jolie, the eyes of Car­men Elec­tra and the nose of Char­l­ize Theron.She is just one of the entries of Worth1000.com’s con­test to find the ulti­mate celebrity. The con­test came a week after a sur­vey by Bev­erly Hills’ plas­tic sur­geons named the most desir­able celebrity body parts …

Play​pumps​.Org
URL: http://​www​.play​pumps​.org/

Water is essen­tial to life and a basic human right. Yet, world­wide, more than one bil­lion peo­ple do not have access to clean drink­ing water and more than two bil­lion peo­ple lack ade­quate san­i­ta­tion. 6,000 peo­ple die every­day, or one every 15 sec­onds, due to pre­ventable water-related dis­eases.
But, it doesn’t have to be this way.
In an increas­ing num­ber of com­mu­ni­ties through­out Africa, sounds of laugh­ter can be heard. Chil­dren, boys and girls alike are play­ing on the merry-go-rounds that are part of the Play­Pump® water sys­tem. KIDS PLAY. WATER PUMPS!
The PlayPump …

These are scenes from the Pas­sion of the Christ done mtv-style with the song by Evanes­cence, My Immor­tal.
Below is a short ser­mon by the Arch­bishop of Can­ter­bury Rowan Williams. He is one of the great the­olo­gians of the Angli­can Church.
Good Fri­day Reflec­tionRowan Williams, Arch­bishop of Can­terury, March 25, 2005
Twenty five years ago yes­ter­day, Oscar Romero, Arch­bishop of El Sal­vador, was shot dead at the altar of a hos­pi­tal chapel. He was fully aware of what risks he was run­ning; for some years, he had denounced the mas­sive injus­tices of Sal­vadorean society …

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Just imag­ine if all rep­re­sen­ta­tives of each and every reli­gion in the world were to meet in one room, and they were all allowed just one state­ment to sum up their reli­gion, what would they say?
What would you say if your were your religion’s rep­re­sen­ta­tive?
Maybe I would say some­thing like the state­ment in the poster above.
Some­times we think that we have the exclu­sive con­tract on love. That only WE Chris­tians have the monop­oly to be kind and lov­ing and car­ing of other peo­ple. But …