COMING BACK TO THE LOVING CARE OF GOD

Last November 21, 2009, we have our recollection to prepare ourselves for the Advent and Christmas Season. In the morning we have Fr. Dom, OFM, who taught us about prayers. The two hour talk of Fr. Dom was barely notice because of the down to earth examples and insights about prayer that he shared with us.

After sharing our food (potluck) for the lunch, we continued with our recollection. We talked about Transformed Community. We discussed about basic community like family, marriage and lay organizations in the church, how to preserve the unity in these basic communities based on the unity desired in the Holy Bible.

After our snacks in the afternoon, Fr. Joel, MJ talked about the importance of advent and how to respond to this season of the church.

We end the recollection with a beautiful reflection on returning to the loving care of God. Each one of us lighted a candle placing it on the altar while listening to the scriptures and singing a song of mercy. Then we pray together the Lord's Prayer with a new meaning to us and made the sign of peace to reconcile us with one another. We brought home our candles and placing it in our altar to remind us always of the mercy and love of God, to persevere for and preserve the unity in our basic communities and to pray as sons and daughters of God.