The month of July is considered as the official month of Nutrition Awareness and various campaigns, program and activities are being held in schools and various communities. As part of our share in the said celebration, the Parish Feeding Program Secretariat came up with its own activities to celebrate the same as part of its continuing campaign against malnutrition.
The said activity was held last July 25, 2009 Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at the Parish Multi-Purpose Hall wherein various activities like cooking demonstration, lecture, games and raffles were held for the program beneficiaries and their parents. The program proper was attended by the Municipal Nutrition Action Officer (MNAO) of Binan, Ms. Doris Alias and Brgy. Captain Eric Jimenez of Brgy. San Antonio. The two officials proudly announced during the program that Barangay San Antonio was cited for being the lone barangay in Binan that developed and created a feeding program and with the church as the lead group. It was also disclosed that the program of the parish is now the model of the feeding program to be launched by the local government in other barangays given the effective formula created by the parish. The sincerest appreciation of the parish to the Barangay Government particularly to Brgy. Chairman Eric Jimenez for the every day assistance of the Barangay Government who provides the service for the beneficiaries and their parents and the volunteers were relayed by one of the Pillars of the Program, Ms. Jojie Alesna in behalf of the Parish Priest, Rev. Fr. Toochy Ubarco.
After the program proper, two sessions of cooking demo were held for the parents of the beneficiaries that were led by the members of Catholic Womens League and Mother Butler Guild with Tofu Picadillo and Mock Meat (Kalabasa and Tofu Mixture) Balls as featured menu. The new Kapamilya of the Parish Feeding program, the Colegio San Antonio, also joined the activity that day by facilitating the simple childrens party for the beneficiaries along with the members of the Parish Catechetical Ministry (PCM)who also provided the values formation session earlier that day.
Another good news that day was provided by the resident Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) volunteer of the program, Mrs. Rowena Villaruz-Conde. According to her, for the last three (3) months of the program, almsot 70% of the children beneficiaries has already normalized in terms of weight, the remaining 30% are actually in the almost near to normal status already and expected to reach the normal level in the next two to three weeks. The program has already reached the half of the required feeding program period and it was disclosed that substantial achievement has already been reached and the remaining months will be allotted to maintain and further improved the beneficiaries' health status.
This coming August 15, 2009, a medical and dental mission solely for the program benefiaries and their parents will be held in cooperation with the Binan Medical and Dental Society, College of Nursing of SMCL and Ministry of Church Greeters and Collectors (MCGC)
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
What's out for the BIG switch!
From Ushers and Collectors Ministry or UCM to MINISTRY OF CHURCH GREETERS AND COLLECTORS or MCGC.
Friday, July 3, 2009
GOSPEL & REFLECTION: JULY 04, 2009
Gospel: Mt 9:14–17
The disciples of John came to him with the question, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast on many occasions, but not your disciples?”
Jesus answered them, “How can you expect wedding guests to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? Time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then they will fast.
“No one patches an old coat with a piece of unshrunken cloth, for the patch will shrink and tear an even bigger hole in the coat. Besides you don’t put new wine in old wineskins. If you do, the wineskins will burst and the wine be spilt. No, you put new wine in fresh skins; then both are preserved.”
REFLECTION
We all operate on two levels of consciousness: the first consciousness, or the Esau personality, propels our physical life and focuses on the self. Its actions and desires are motivated by the quest for self-preservation and self-gratification. The second consciousness, or the Jacob personality, is drawn to its divine source, striving to become one with the all-pervading truth of God. When we have two distinct personalities living within the same body, it is hard to expect our inner workings to be an inviolable whole. Why are even the most spiritually refined people vulnerable to earthly, animalistic cravings? And why is it so much more difficult to talk to God than to gossip?
Through prayer, reflection and meditation, an intense, divine energy can overcome our animal personality. The animal personality desperately needs the continuous guidance and discipline of its divine counterpart for cultivation and refinement. But, in this process, the animal personality grants the spiritual personality a boundless creativity and passion that it could never attain on its own. It is only through union that our twin personalities can reach their ultimate potential; and it is in our collaboration with God that we fulfill the objective for which we were created!
Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc. /http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/daily-gospel/07/03/09/gospel-july-04-2009-saturday
The disciples of John came to him with the question, “How is it that we and the Pharisees fast on many occasions, but not your disciples?”
Jesus answered them, “How can you expect wedding guests to mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? Time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, then they will fast.
“No one patches an old coat with a piece of unshrunken cloth, for the patch will shrink and tear an even bigger hole in the coat. Besides you don’t put new wine in old wineskins. If you do, the wineskins will burst and the wine be spilt. No, you put new wine in fresh skins; then both are preserved.”
REFLECTION
We all operate on two levels of consciousness: the first consciousness, or the Esau personality, propels our physical life and focuses on the self. Its actions and desires are motivated by the quest for self-preservation and self-gratification. The second consciousness, or the Jacob personality, is drawn to its divine source, striving to become one with the all-pervading truth of God. When we have two distinct personalities living within the same body, it is hard to expect our inner workings to be an inviolable whole. Why are even the most spiritually refined people vulnerable to earthly, animalistic cravings? And why is it so much more difficult to talk to God than to gossip?
Through prayer, reflection and meditation, an intense, divine energy can overcome our animal personality. The animal personality desperately needs the continuous guidance and discipline of its divine counterpart for cultivation and refinement. But, in this process, the animal personality grants the spiritual personality a boundless creativity and passion that it could never attain on its own. It is only through union that our twin personalities can reach their ultimate potential; and it is in our collaboration with God that we fulfill the objective for which we were created!
Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc. /http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/daily-gospel/07/03/09/gospel-july-04-2009-saturday
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