I believe that former seminarians are of great help to the parish as well as to the diocese and to the Catholic Church in general. We were once trained to become evangelizers but stumbled in our way towards priesthood. Everybody makes mistakes. Yes, we all make mistakes but we still have the qualities to become great evangelizers. I believe that we have good and great ideas, which will help the Catholic Church through our own little ways, and many little things make great things possible!
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I am actively involved in the Grand Alumni Homecoming Secretariat of the Sacred Heart Seminary Bacolod. THis is in preparation for the Homecoming on Oct. 20 - 21.
ReplyDeleteIn our meetings, we expressed our commitment to help the seminary, our Alma Mater. There was also sentiments on how the heart of the Diocese influenced our way of life and how we grow spiritually and how we also influenced our family with our spirituality.
There are some former seminarians who are expressed bitternes in the formators and the seminary. But generally fomer sems have overcome these experiences and move on with our life now..
More Power brothers!!!
this is not a comment. This is actually a reflection on brotherhood, on hekping one another...This is the experience of my batch- batch 89 of the Sacred Heart Seminary Bacolod..
ReplyDeleteI was reading a book cooperative learning. What struck me is this line, "there is power to working with groups". It elaborated further that a group of citizens in Harlem founded and operated the first Little League there in over forty years. Ford became America’s most profitable car company in 1990on the strength of the use of small groups to build its Taurus model.
In the Gulf War a group of active duty officers and reservists were the heart of moving, receiving, and sustaining over 300,000 troops and 100,000 vehicles with more than 7,000,000 tons of equipment, fuel, and supplies between the late 1990 buildup through and beyond the end of hostilities in 1991.
I am more aware that groups have existed for as long as there have been humans. Groups have been the subject of countless books. Every human society has used groups to accomplish its goals and celebrated when the groups were successful.
In my History class last summer, one of our lessons is the seven wonders of the ancient world. Obviously, it was groups that built the pyramids, constructed the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, created the Colossus of Rhodes, and the hanging gardens of Babylon.
No one person could have built a cathedral, achieved America’s independence from England, or created a supercomputer.
In our diocese, for example, we have more or less 90 parishes, chaplaincies, shrines and churches and it is governed by the able bishop, the clergy and the faithful. My local church also is moving on sharing in the body of Christ.
It is obvious that groups outperform individuals, especially when performance requires multiple skills, judgments, and experiences. Most of us, however,overlook opportunities to use groups to enhance learning and increase success.
In our group THOMASIANS-SHS Batch 89. We missed the power within and ready to serve and help our fellow. But the good news: We have tried to organize reunions and gathering every now and then. Exchanging messages through text and the like. Not to mention here that one of our classmates finished college and now teaching high school with the help of our priests classmates. Kudos!
I know that We have been successful in many ways in our own field and we have gone a long way. Let us rekindle the fire within us and live to the expectations that we are indeed closely knit, united brothers of the seminary (As other sems observations to our class) It’s time to move on brothers. CONTINUE WHAT WE HAVE DONE, continue what we have started. Congratulations to each of us...
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