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.
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Yesterday was not my ordinary day of blogging. I got shocked yesterday morning finding my blog items in different places splattered all around. The colors were gone same as the design. I checked my html, it looked fine until I’ve discovered it was linked to a css file that was uploaded somewhere else. I went to the site where I’ve downloaded it, it was gone. I’ve checked it tonight, its online again. I dont know if his site was under maintenance yesterday or something to that effect. I got sad, really sad because that template reflects my extreme personality. I really love that template. It took me whole day figuring it out if there was a way to restore it and ended up looking for another free template. It took me my whole day yesterday optimizing my new page layout. Now, I’ve decided to use a default template and edit the html eventually.
Its not stealing if you had your backup provided that you maintain the “credit link” (link to the template designer’s site) as respect to their intellectual property. Our blog’s contents reflects our personality same with our template that matches our contents.
If you had downloaded a free template, do check your html if you have something like this.
link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://idwebtemplate.com/blogger/grunge update/style.css” type=”text/css” /
If you do, download it and upload it to another file host as your back up. Do this also to the images. Don’t forget to take note of the exact links.
Barangay Baclaran is noted for the Wednesday Novenas at the shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help National Shrine of the Redemptorist Church. Every Wednesday more or less 10,000 people from all walks of life converge at the church to attend the novena. It is without argument the most attended church in Asia. Many known celebrities who are devotees to Our Lady of Perpetual Help do come at Tuesdays nights to avoid people. Many people mistaken Baclaran as part of Pasay, it is actually part of Paranaque.
Traffic is normal on Wednesdays especially on first Wednesdays of the month. Baclaran is a major transportation hub, with many buses and jeepneys terminating here. Light Rail Transit (LRT) ends in Baclaran while its a ride away from Metro Rail Transit (MRT). There are also a lot of pedicabs around. Shuttle ride to SM Mall Of Asia is just a stone away from the Church, the terminal is at the corner of Roxas Boulevard and Redemptorist Road.
Baclaran is also known as a bargain center throughout the world due to the amazing discounts shoppers enjoy at its dry goods markets. Its imposible that you cannot find the goods you’re looking for. Before I forget, “Pakyawan Sa Wilmart” will be having their sale on October 15, Monday. They’ll be selling all items at wholesale price. Their goods are incredibly cheap, some vendors bought items here and resell them. It is located in front of Iglesia ni Cristo.
There are a lot of known fast food chains in Baclaran especially around
the church. Bibingka and puto bumbong is possible every Wednesdays all year round, you can find them along the street at the back of Berma Shopping Center. Don’t forget to ask for your free hot tea for every order of puto bumbong. Since MMDA is always around, you can also find the best buys in this street.
I grew up here, should you have anything to find here, let me know.
Nobody doesn’t want a better life. If an opportunity comes, chances are you’ll grab that at once. We can never tell if there’s another opportunity that will come again. There are many Filipinos in Dubai working with a tourist visa but they’re facing a big problem now with the new rules in Dubai effective October 1, 2007.
Many Filipinos are trying their luck to work in Dubai. I have several friends working in Dubai, some did underwent with this procedure. They entered Dubai with a Tourist Visa on hand and look for work when they get there. Most of the time they moved from one job to another because their employer doesn’t signed their employment documents. The new visit visa rules states that:
Any person found to be working after entering the country on a visit visa will face a life ban while his employer would be fined Dh50,000. An employer who hires a person who is an infiltrator will be fined up to Dh100,000.
Its sad that Filipinos in Dubai would come home eventually within the year if they still doesn’t have their working visa. Another close friend of mine’s flight to Dubai is on November 8. Her sister works there as civil engineer, her sister as a sponsor. They’re planning to put up a salon there, my friend will be the manager. She’s offering me a job there, now that I know the rules, I guess this is not possible. A friend in Dubai with residence visa said the offer is good but I should have a valid working visa because the new rule had started already last October 1. I’m worried with my other friends in Dubai.
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At first, I’m having a second thought of joining blogrush until I’ve read this.
Who doesn’t want traffic on their blog? What’s the use of blogging if there’s no traffic? Anyway, my primary concern is the conflict between BlogRush and Adsense.
Does BlogRush Violate The Google AdSense Terms Of Service?
We can’t speak for Google, but they’ve been asked this by several of our members and have yet to tell anyone (that we know of) that BlogRush is against their TOS. Their TOS is against traffic generation services that “artificially inflate page impressions” which BlogRush does not do. The only traffic BlogRush sends to your blog is natural, REAL traffic when an interested visitor clicks on one of your blog title links they noticed on another related blog.
Ok, fine. The best thing with BlogRush is you can choose your target market. Your latest article would be in other blogs’ BlogRush widget. That’s cool, right? See my BlogRush, you can change the flavor (color) to blend with your theme.
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