Dear loved ones,
Pleasant
Greetings, and more Blessed New Year 2018 from CA, USA! The year started with more
Blessings and Graces from GOD, rewards for our faithfulness and complete Trust
on His Love, Mercy, Generosity to provide for all our needs!!! Yeah, GOD the Father, JESUS, and the Holy
Spirit - I LOVE YOU!!!
The
year started with family life crisis, and these trials strengthened my resolve
to TRUST in the Lord completely, for his Mercy and Compassion; These too will
come to pass, be STILL and GOD will act: I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life,
He promised. We abide by His Will, Love, Goodness. HE alone knows what is Best
for us!!!
Our Tuesday Bible Study
class started on Jan. 16, with Msgr. Robert Barron’s Catholicism series: The
Pivotal Payers: St. Francis of Assisi - The Reformer; St. Thomas Aquinas – The
Theologian; St. Catherine of Siena – The Mystic; Blessed John Henry Newman –
The Convert; G. K, Chesterton – The Evangelist; and Michelangelo – The Artist; The
subject. is very interesting, knowing the lives of these outstanding
personalities in our Church History
The cold winter days are
kept warm with the coffee joe that church goers are treated after Mass on Sundays
and Wednesdays. Our group welcome the opportunity to bond together, updating on
our whereabouts, caring for one another – truly the Church as Jesus meant it to
be!
Other highlights of the month:
·
Sean makes it a point to remind me to watch The Good Doctor on Mondays,
with the new Season shows: still wonderful Freddie Highmore!
·
Still kept busy Keeping up with Doctors’ appointments and Tests for Good
Health Maintenance; Kaiser making true to its slogan: Thrive!
·
Our St. Mel Church held an Open House / Dinner for Church volunteers on
Jan. 20. It was to see and talk to families you have seen for more than 10years
yet you got to talk and know them, like the Esguerra family whose sons (now 12
and 7) I have seen for the past 10 years, and many other people;
·
Visited Red’s (Sean’s Claret classmate) 3-storey building-pad in
downtown SAC, then treated us for Lunch at Boiling Crab, as our New Year feast!
·
So Blessed to serve as Eucharistic Minister when Archbishop Bernardito
Auza celebrated Mass at church on New Year’s Day. Msgr. Auza is the Vatican
permanent representative to the United Nations in New York. He is from Bohol,
graduate of UST, and classmate of Fr. Bobot Clemen, my Panglao neighbor. Msgr.
Auza was in SAC, CA for the family reunion of his Clan with 12 siblings.
Enjoyed photo ops with them!
·
Movies watched: Pitch Perfect 3, and The Greatest Showman!
Much love and Best Regards!!!
SUSAN BG
