NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION ANYONE?

New Year's Eve has always been a time for looking back to the past, and more importantly, forward to the coming year. It's a time to reflect on the changes we want (or need) to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.

1. Spend More Time with Family & Friends - yeah! there's no substitute to ones presence... it is far more important than any material things.
2. Fit in Fitness - uhm, yep, eat less fats, and indulge yourself with fruits and vegetables.
3. Tame the Bulge - new pair of jeans will cost you much. think again!
4. Quit Smoking - how many new years have come and gone and yet nothing happens, well just reduce your nicotine intake, hehe.
5. Enjoy Life More - happiness is a choice. we grow old, but age is just a number, enjoy life to the fullest.
6. Quit Drinking - our body needs the right amount of alcohol, drink moderately!
7. Get Out of Debt - almost everybody has, better pay early.
8. Learn Something New - engage in some worth while activities...
9. Help Others - be charitable... that's love in action.
10. Get Organized - first things first!

happy new year!

Christmas reflection

Christmas is the celebration of an event of God "going outside of himself," becoming man in Jesus Christ. In Jesus Christ, God has assumed the everyday in order that through him and with him man may learn to be fully human. Jesus in his human life—as described in the Gospels—is the word, the address, the message of God to humanity.

Jesus must be experienced by Christmas, not simply as a great prophet, a religious founder or genius but as God's ultimate Word to mankind. In him concrete human life is found in its most basic and radical form. Through his earthly life Jesus showed how the absolutely distant God is likewise absolute near. Through his incarnation, Jesus Christ reveals the deepest meaning of being human… that in every human being there is the ability to be God in the world or to be infinitely open to God's self-communication.


+Angel Lagdameo
Archbishop of Jaro / President, CBCP