Glorietta 2: Are We Still Safe?
It was about 1:35 pm this afternoon that I heard my neighbor receiving a phone call. He is a fire volunteer, always had early news from his colleagues. Anyway, after hearing him saying “Glorietta? Bomba?”… I urgently turned on my TV, after 10 minutes, the news proved it right. I am monitoring now from GMA 7 and ABS-CBN for the latest updates.
Usually, at Glorietta 2, Makati have many shoppers during Fridays. Parents who fetched their children from school usually spend their time here before going home. There are 8 persons confirmed dead from this bombing tragedy. There are speculations that this might be the work of terrorism. Gosh! The people might avoid going to malls now because of this incident, I sure will.
What I’m thinking now is how come did this tragedy happened? The Glorietta security is very strict, sometimes I usually find police with their sniffing dogs roaming around Glorietta. I used to work in Makati and often stopped by for client calls, its a good thing that I seldom visited Makati now. But how about our relatives… our friends… our children? Is it already a wake up call? For whom?
Cursillo
Its amazing that cursillo is still alive in the Philippines, I thought its gone already. I hope cursillo remains alive in the Philippines forever. I little of googling around and I’ve found this from wikipedia.
Cursillo (in Spanish: Cursillos de Cristiandad, from “curso” meaning course, and the diminutive ending “-illo”, small course of Christianity) is a ministry of the Roman Catholic Church. It was
founded in Majorca, Spain by a group of laymen in 1944, while they were refining a technique to train pilgrimage leaders. It has since been adapted by numerous other Christian faiths, some of them retaining the name “cursillo” while others have given the program a different name. The word “cursillo” means “short course” in Spanish.
Its some kind of workshop or retreat, renewal of our faith and christianity. Its a 3-day and 2-nights stay in the cursillo house, usually located within the church’s vicinity. Cursillo “for women” and “for men” were done separately. I should say that its a once in a lifetime religious experience with our creator. To realize more intimately the personal love of Christ, so that the participant may be disposed to respond freely to the invitation of that love. The days is not as boring as you think, it unrolls in an atmosphere of informality, of joy, of camarederie, of sharing and of Christian love in action. The highlights of the event are the last supper (your last dinner with other participants, mananitas (the family of the participants will serenade them), washing of the feet reenactment and many more.
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These are the events I still remember when I attented cursillo at Our Lady Of The Airways Cursillo House in Pildera, Pasay City together with my sister and my cousin. I was still a teenager then. These days, Cursillo Houses are accepting participants 18 years old and above to have a better understanding on what is it all about. During my cursillo days, we are not allowed to wear watches, I’m sure that mobile phones are not allowed now because of the “time” and the hindrance it can make to reflections. My father and mother are also cursillistas. Why am I making an entry regarding cursillo? My half sister will attend cursillo this afternoon. I’m hoping that she will realized many things about her present life and eventually change for a better life.
