When my wife and I went to central Europe for the first time and for 31 days from London, Britain, to Italy, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria to Spain, Switzerland and to Holland, we stayed for two days in each main city that we visited.
We paid a visit to the famous Shrines of the Blessed Virgin in Lourdes, France also Beiring in Brussels in Belgium, the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, the Padre Pio Monastery in Loreto, Italy and the Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy.
She didn’t join me for the 4 days Rotary Global Convention in Nice, France since she had to return to Cagayan de Oro hurriedly for her pa, Santiago Gavas, who was ninety years old , died unexpectedly.
Our child Bong accompanied her back since I had to attend in Nice, France a Rotary International Convention where I pre-registered which was in this convention where I heard the short lived affidavit of the living saint, Mummy Theresa of Calcutta, India, an Austrian state a little and fragile woman who touched the Rotarians in an easy speech in English.
An American Astronaut, John Glenn, who later on turned into a US Senator, shared his experience in outer space which deepened his Christian belief in God.
The second time we were back was in Eastern Europe and we paid a visit to the famous Medjugorje Shrine where the Blessed Virgin Mary of Bosnia Herzegovina appeared and we then proceeded to see the famous Shrine of the Black Nazarene and paid a visit to the attractive city of Prague in the Czech Republic.In Medjugorje you can find a good Medjugorje accommodation.
For 3 times, my wife and I returned to the States with our sons Bong and Rommel and the 3rd time was with widow Grace Dalisay where I attended a Rotary Convention in Calgary, Canada. We took off from Seattle City in a little plane to Calgary and we had a very frightful flight for it’s a stormy night and the flight was extra bumpy. Thank God we arrived safely in Calgary for we prayed to Him intensely.
In our return home, we went to Vancouver, Canada and experienced the pretty Niagara Falls and we traveled by train from Buffalo Town to NY City and returned home through Honolulu, Hawaii to Manila.
It’s good always to be back in our gorgeous country, the Pearl of the Orient Seas.
When we travelled to Singapore ten years after with our sons, then to Shenzhen, China, Macau and Shanghai, in Mainland China, our grandchildren joined us. We visited modern and complicated towns via train from Hongkong.
My grandkids enjoyed it very much . It was very notable to them.
Of course, it was kind of pricey but the experiences were boosting and widening.
When my better half and I joined the Eucharistic Congress of the Heart of Jesus in Guadalajara, Mexico, it had been a different kind of non secular exposure. Some Dominican Clergymen of UST and Holy Heart of Jesus Clergymen were with us in that non secular convention.
My other half and I saw the magnificent Pyramids of the pagans in Mexico Town where my spouse climbed it up with the more youthful clergymen. I didn’t go up any more and some of the participants.
Then for the first time, I saw with my other half the Shrine of our Lady of Guadalupe where the Blessed Virgin seemed to Juan Diego, a local of Mexico, and where the image of the Blessed Mary was broadcast in his coat. It is a miracle.
The Divine Mercy devotion was still extraordinary and my wife was a devotee of the Holy Heart of Jesus.
Today, I am totally alone in our place but my sons Bong and Rommel who sleep in my room with a male caregiver were there to give me company.
My spouse, for the 1st time in our wedded life, attended a convention retreat in Malibu Center in California, USA for 6 days exclusive for leaders in the Catholic church alone.
Monsignor Rey Manuel Monsanto along with some 4 Philippine priests, Monina Tayamin, a nationwide evangelist from Manila, and Fr. Mar Arenas, president of the Philippine Apostolic Congress of Mercy and the rector of the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Marilao, Bulacan, and Msgr. Rey Manuel Monsanto who is the religious director of the Western Mindanao Divine Mercy ecclesiastical area where he is the regional non secular director.
I am all for the glory of Almighty God whether or not my other half is not with me, for she wants such deep knowledge on how to effectively promote in Mindanao, in her area of responsibility, the glory of The Lord God through the devotion of the Divine Mercy along with other lay front runners in Mindanao.
She’ll be home in the last week of July where I’ll meet her at the NAIA Airfield with my son Rommel and his spouse Kookie.
In the leftover years of our lives, we shall dedicate it devotedly for God’s glory and like the biblical leader, Joshua, when he claimed, as for me and my household we’re going to serve the Lord.
Looking backwards, the Lord prepared us to serve in His Shrine as reported tagza.com.
