fonz josemaria's story: October 2006

Layman or Religious Brother?

This week is a long week...

Fr Stehpen Diesta from philippines was in singapore but he is out-station at italy at the Diocese of Macerata, where he studied there and ordian there... i cant believe that he's in his 30's and lived in italy for 13 yrs and that is real long... i got a chance to bring him out on last friday to some churches and nice places and even brought him to an coptic orthodox church...

Fr Stehpen and ~fonzZz jm

on wednesday i attended eucharist with my brother in my community and after the celebration he can tell you "Fonz, you know something, i can see your furture there 'looking at Fr Stephen' what the hell" i just let it be as what i have said "when the day comes let it be"...

on saturday i got a chance to see and listen to Fr Stephen played some songs with guitar... Cool man that priest can really play a guitar and he sings very well....

Fr Stephen plays the guitar at dinner table

today i saw some franciscan at my parish selling their yr end calendar and this yr is about the "Canticle of the Creatures" some more inside have "Brother Wolf & Sister Death" (-_-') what a day as what i normally do wanted to help them but i had to attend a meeting for the youth's retreat at malaysia... justine called me for lunch and i didnt really want to go but he keep on asking me to follow but i just obey and followed them for lunch after a good lunch from them i walk with justine back to the parish and we had a nice chatting session while walking back...
saw Darrick studying so hard for his Mariology subject and some more their exams are coming real soon.... Darrick ask me whether to consider about Religious Life not just in Franciscans but in any religious order... that really keeps me thinking till now at this very moment...

what to do i just wait and see whether is it a True Calling
"Fonz remember the world will tempt you and you will see whether you Calling is Real after your NS"

~fjm outta......

We have Loved them in Life, Let us not forget them in Death

I realised that this yr lots of people are dying and returning to the Lord...
And this is not a funny thing because people thinks that when we die we are gone from this world and totally gone. but as for a believer of Christ and a follower of Christ dead is not the end but rather is a beginning of life eternal with God.

Thats why Jesus Himself died for us so that he can take us to heaven and by his death he has washed away our sins with his own blood.

St Paul said in his letter "O Death, where is your Victory? O Death, where is your Sting? The sting of death is sin and sin gets its power from the Law and we overcome this through our Lord Jesus Christ" the Risen Christ has taken the sins of the world and we have to go on carry the dying Jesus in us so that his Resurrection may appear in us.

Think for a moment......

~fjm outta......

WWW aka Wild Wild Wet

today was my very 1st time to step into wild wild wet with my best brother with his galfriend and lastly with his family... we had fun man... some more so many people over there tried all the rides and the best is the uolah-lah best!

nothing to say liao but will blog more... i promise...

~fjm outta......

Neocatechumenate to Coach Russian Orthodox Priests

Founders Enter Agreement With Moscow Patriarchate

MOSCOW, OCT. 22, 2006 (Zenit.org).- In agreement with the Russian Orthodox Church, the Neocatechumenal Way will teach its methods of evangelization to Orthodox priests.

Kiko Argüello and Father Mario Pezzi, initiators and leaders of the Neocatechumenal Way, told ZENIT of the plan. They met Thursday with Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, president of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate's Foreign Relations Department.

The agreement reached will be implemented in two stages, Argüello explained: Initially, the Russian Orthodox priests will be taught the Way's principles of evangelization, and then they will be trained.

"We do not intend to engage in proselytism," clarified Father Pezzi. "Metropolitan Kirill and the Orthodox delegation that accompanied him received us very cordially and were aware that we had informed Cardinal Walter Kasper about our visit." Cardinal Kasper is the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

The initiative to take the methods and principles of evangelization of the Neocatechumenal Way to the Russian Orthodox Church arose within the Way itself and took several years to develop.

For love

Kiko Argüello said: "During our meeting with Metropolitan Kirill we explained to him that the Way hopes that the people's faith will grow, so that a change will take place in them and they will be able to love. We have come to Russia to show our love.

"In Europe, people are abandoning Christ and society is increasingly penetrated by individualism where what is important is the satisfaction of the 'ego,' the delight of our 'I.' Few people come to church, that is why God is preparing a new evangelization. And the Russian Orthodox Church knows that there must be a different way of catechizing."

During a meeting the leaders had in Moscow's Cathedral on Friday night, Argüello, Father Pezzi and Way co-founder Carmen Hernandez thanked some 250 members of the Neocatechumenal communities of Russia and Estonia, who met on the occasion of their visit, for the formation they have given and the support of the groups.

from Zenit.org

~fjm outta......

Good Samaritan?

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"Conservative" Christianity

Watch this!

~fjm outta......

Totally Forgotten......!

Love Story - Unknown "chinese song"

hey guys...
i have been not blogging for a very long time even though i dunno whether there are people reading it anot but for me i just post it for myself to read also... ahaha!

this week have been so stressful have to work so hard to get a 4 pointer in all my subjects this is killing me man and so more i can skip class... ahaha! the coming week cannot skip class liao if not i cant get what i really wan that is "Higher Nitec Course"

maybe i just want to go back to my younger days la...

~fjm outta......

Run Boy! Time is Running!

1st day of school after the 3 weeks holidays... back to square 1... haii...
so sad i got back my result after my final exams and i only got 2.529 GPA Points still to low and i need at lest 3.5 GPA Points to get to another Business Course... i'm so worried that i can even get a course after my this present course... i really have to force myself to work and do my assignments, projects & presentation...

"i just need to work hard and to another stage, if not Army is coming"

~fjm outta......

Icons

What do you think of this Icon? it speaks alot of words... as what the Early Fathers of the Church says "an Icon speaks more then a thousand words" dont you think these Icons look very nice? to those who think not nice or other things i cant say much... these Icons are painted at the Cathedral of Madrid by Kiko Argüello, Founder of the Neo-catechumenal Way
ENJOY!

~fjm outta......

Sermons

i find this sermon very fruitful... Listen to it..

http://www.bolt.com/fonzjosemaria/audio/EWTN__Daily_Mass_Homily__/2397591

~fjm outta......

friends are always friends

Today is so sad to see my friends to leave for Rome in Italy back to their own home and to work...
I had spend gooe time with them to bring them out to see how singapore is like and also to taste singapore's REAL food! lovely people and also cute la... they always makes me laugh cause they speak in italian and i speak in english...
I hope i can meet them soon either in singapore or in italy... some more they invited me to their house to stay...
I'll always remember what Velantina said "i want to live/stay at singapore" ahaha! i think they know the life style here already...
ok i that all i wanna say at this moment... will miss them just like they are my brother & sister... i think they will be a good parents to their own children...

"alfonso mangiare" meaning "alphonsus eat"

Antonio & Velantina

~fjm outta......

Thoughts of Today

Today 4th Oct 06....

I was thinking of St Francis of Assisi, Patron of Animals, Merchants, Ecology & Italy
let me tell you what i know about him...

he's a man of Poverty & Humility, he live his life as what the Gospel aka "Teachings of Christ" has taught him... Francis comes from a very rich family, he's father wants him to be a "Somebody" in his family but is he actually everybody in the village likes him... he was a very picky person and he was not that good in education.

One day while riding through the countryside, Francis, the man who loved beauty, who was so picky about food, who hated deformity, came face to face with a leper. Repelled by the appearance and the smell of the leper, Francis nevertheless jumped down from his horse and kissed the hand of the leper. When his kiss of peace was returned, Francis was filled with joy. As he rode off, he turned around for a last wave, and saw that the leper had disappeared. He always looked upon it as a test from God...that he had passed.

His search for conversion led him to the ancient church at San Damiano. While he was praying there, he heard Christ on the crucifix speak to him, "Francis, repair my church." Francis assumed this meant church with a small c -- the crumbling building he was in. Acting again in his impetuous way, he took fabric from his father's shop and sold it to get money to repair the church. His father saw this as an act of theft -- and put together with Francis' cowardice, waste of money, and his growing disinterest in money made Francis seem more like a madman than his son. Pietro aka "His Father" dragged Francis before the bishop and in front of the whole town demanded that Francis return the money and renounce all rights as his heir.

The bishop was very kind to Francis; he told him to return the money and said God would provide. That was all Francis needed to hear. He not only gave back the money but stripped off all his clothes -- the clothes his father had given him -- until he was wearing only a hair shirt. In front of the crowd that had gathered he said, "Pietro Bernadone is no longer my father. From now on I can say with complete freedom, 'Our Father who art in heaven.'" Wearing nothing but castoff rags, he went off into the freezing woods -- singing. And when robbers beat him later and took his clothes, he climbed out of the ditch and went off singing again. From then on Francis had nothing...and everything.

Francis went back to what he considered God's call He begged for stones and rebuilt the San Damiano church with his own hands, not realizing that it was the Church with a capital C that God wanted repaired.

he never wanted to found a religious order but he founded the Franciscan Order... Francis was never a priest, though he was later ordained a deacon under his protest. Francis was thinking of what he was doing as expressing God's brotherhood. His companions came from all walks of life, from fields and towns, nobility and common people, universities, the Church, and the merchant class. Francis practiced true equality by showing honor, respect, and love to every person whether they were beggar or pope.

Francis loves nautre "God's Creation" and that was included with the brotherhood. Francis really felt that nature, all God's creations, were part of his brotherhood. The sparrow was as much his brother as the pope.

Francis was a man of action. His simplicity of life extended to ideas and deeds. If there was a simple way, no matter how impossible it seemed, Francis would take it. So when Francis wanted approval for his brotherhood, he went straight to Rome to see Pope Innocent III. You can imagine what the pope thought when this beggar approached him! As a matter of fact he threw Francis out. But when he had a dream that this tiny man in rags held up the tilting Lateran basilica, he quickly called Francis back and gave him permission to preach.

Francis' final years were filled with suffering as well as humiliation. Praying to share in Christ's passion he had a vision received the stigmata, the marks of the nails and the lance wound that Christ suffered, in his own body.

Years of poverty and wandering had made Francis ill. When he began to go blind, the pope ordered that his eyes be operated on. This meant cauterizing his face with a hot iron. Francis spoke to "Brother Fire": "Brother Fire, the Most High has made you strong and beautiful and useful. Be courteous to me now in this hour, for I have always loved you, and temper your heat so that I can endure it." And Francis reported that Brother Fire had been so kind that he felt nothing at all.

How did Francis respond to blindness and suffering? That was when he wrote his beautiful Canticle of the Sun that expresses his brotherhood with creation in praising God.

Francis never recovered from this illness. He died on October 4, 1226 at the age of 45.
Francis is considered the founder of all Franciscan orders.

If the world would be like St Francis of Assisi, I tell you the whole world is HEAVEN... but now you hear from news everyday it speak of Molesation, Religious problems, Nuclear Testing and many more... If the world can think of this word PEACE but we cant cause we cannot give peace to others only the Almighty God can give it to us... as what Our Lord taught his followers, "Carry your Cross everyday if you want to be a Follower of mine" this also apply to all of us who believe in Him.... ahhh God if you really can see what the world is up to i hope and pray that i can see and meet you soon if it is Your Will...
let Your Will be done on earth and also in heaven...

~fjm outta....

think about it......

what you ever think where will you be after you leave this world?
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i have attended so many funeral services and Mass and the priest keep saying that "so&so is in heaven now with the Lord" i just wonder if it is true... cause i cant see myself in heaven with God... i myself a very sinful person going to heaven... i'm just thinking how is heaven look like? mmm...
anyone knows how heaven looks like please tell me!

~fjm outta......