GREETING FROM JAPAN

MERRY CHRISTMAS

QUEZON CITY - FORMATION HOUSE

CHRISTMAS GATHERING WITH THE CHILDREN FROM OUR APOSTOLATE AREAS

"MAY JESUS BE BORN IN OUR HEARTS"

TILOMAR-EAST TIMOR

QUEZON CITY

TILOMAR VOICE

SING TO MARY, MOTHER OF JESUS 

AND 

OUR MOTHER TOO

( MARIAN CULMINATING ACTIVITY)

       Tilomar, East Timor

                          October 31, 2015;  the day started with a morning mass at 9:00 a.m. After the mass we proceeded with a dry run for the living rosary event and we ended exactly 12:00 noon. We came home for lunch, rest awhile and went back to the chapel before 2:00 p.m. We had our registration for 20 families who came early for the holy rosary reward to be given later. 

                         We initiated the activity in collaboration with the chapel council. This was designed with the objectives: an act of thanksgiving for all the favors received through her intercession, honor Mary in songs as family and community, community bonding.

                   The activity was opened with a film viewing on the life of East Timor, after which a short Marian song presented by our school teachers with the sisters. The living rosary was the next in line. There were representatives from different sectors to form the human rosary. Among them were those from arm forces, clinic staff, teachers and students, youth and acolytes, catechists and first communicants; chapel councils, grandparents and 5 families to represent the mysteries. 

  

          After the prayer of the holy rosary, the community folk dance followed known as tebetebe. There was sharing of food while tebetebe was going on. 

               We thank God for that wonderful experience with the people. Our small way of making Mary known and loved by people.

FEAST OF SAINT ANTHONY MARY CLARET

THROUGH YOUR EXAMPLE WE SEE OUR MISSION

 

 

 

 

HAPPY FEAST DAY 

OF 

SAINT ANTHONY MARY CLARET

"Quezon city community"






 

MY   EXPOSURE   IN   GUIMARAS

First and most I thank God for this wonderful opportunity that He had given me to have this exposure as well as i am grateful for my community for giving me this chance. And for the community of Guimaras for accepting and supporting me during my exposure for three months.

                        As i was send to Guimaras community, i could have a nice and meaningful exposure. I could learn many things such as community life, prayer and the mission. Though i was been long time in the community which is as formation house, it is very different from mission house and formation house. I could learn different aspects from each one of the sisters as they live their daily life.

                        As i was given chance to be in the school i could also be with the people specially the students i really enjoyed my days being with them as one with them.

                        I was also touched by the people and nature. I would say that the people are really needed of our presence and availability to be with them, and they are also ready to help us when we are need of their helps.

                        I had a good exposure in the community as well as outside with the people.

I would like to thank for all for your prayers and support.

May God bless you all

 Thank you

 By :- Paul  Romeshi  Mariyathas  Logu

TWO MONTHS EXPOSURE  IN ZAMBOANGA COMMUNITY

            I am Silvia Luzinha da Conceicao, a 2^nd year Novice, doing my exposure in Zamboanga community, and I wanted to share with you all my joy that I experience.

            On the 2^nd day of August, we arrived at Zamboanga, known as a dangerous place. At the beginning when I arrived, I have different feelings arises after another: feeling of nervous (what will I do here or what will I speak), feeling of fear (thinking what will happen to me specially every time in the news we see people died here and there), the feelings of worry, and the feeling of lonely, but yet above all I had that feeling of athomeness and the joy within me makes me to fight against the feeling that I had that time.

            I could say that I was so much enjoying there with all the activities that I had; the community activity such as: together with other congregation we have reach out “to the elderly”, and first week of the month we have prayer together with other congregation, and the activity in the our dorm: every Tuesday I accompanied our dormitorians for Rosary and every Thursday we have our bible sharing with our dormitorians……it was meaningful and at the same time also very challenging for me. And one activity that I attend is that launch together with student of Ateneo to share about vocation, it was done every year so I have the chance to attend it was so nice and inspiring, listening to each other vocation journey. Those activities make me that even days, weeks and months past I could not feel anything. Though I was the only one who had my exposure there but I was not alone, I am supported by so many people specially our sisters in different communities. This supports was one of my strength that I lean on and that make my exposure meaningful and wonderful. I thank God for His abiding presence in my life, and I thank Him also for giving me this opportunity I learn many new things and relearn what I have learn. I thank also our sisters in different communities specially Zamboanga community, Guimaras community and of course Quezon City community who continuously supports and encouraging me during my exposure, and I know also there are other communities are also supporting me maybe not directly but through their prayers, thank you so much for each and every one of you. On October 10, I arrived in Manila.

            Maybe only this that I could share with my experience with you!!!

GOD BLESS US ALL!!!

                                    

GREAT TIME IN GUIMARAS

EXPOSURE EXPERIENCE

            First of all, I thank God for giving the opportunity to have an experience about the life of the Claretian Sisters in the mission house. I did my exposure in Guimaras Community; in this place our sisters are doing their mission in education.  In this exposure of mine, I have learned many things, which those things are helping me a lot in my journey toward Him. Among those experiences that i had, i would like to share my experienced on how to join “Action and Contemplation”. Yes…as a followers of St. Antony Mary Claret and Ma. Antonia Paris these two things are needed, because these they did before.

            Seeing the life in the mission house, especially how to join action and contemplation, I just see on how the sisters in their tiredness and busyness, they still spent their time to have a special moment with God in their community prayer, personal prayer, and recollection as well. It was touched me so much, and challenged me as well on how i need to spend my time to be with Him in spite of my busyness and tiredness.

            All these experiences of mine brought me into a deep reflection on hoe the important of prayer life is.  Prayer is spring water for us, and in the prayer we will be able to do our mission because with Him we can do everything and apart from Him absolutely nothing.

            These experiences of mine, inspired me and invites me as well to build more my prayer life, to have deeper intimacy relationship with Him, so that i am able to do whatever He asks from me.

                                                           

                                                By: Agnes Nogo Temu,

                                                            2^nd novice

ECO WALK

FRESH FROM THE FORMATION HOUSE

            Today, October 4, 2015 on the Feast of St. Francis of Asisi, the community joins the ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE INTERFAITH MOVEMENT , organized by the Fransiscan Missionaries  for an ECOLOGY WALK. We started the activity with the Holy Eucharist in St. Vincent Shrine and followed by the march towards Quezon Memorial circle where we had all the set program.

The Holy Eucharist

Marching towards Quezon memorial circle

A GLIMPS OF TILOMAR COMMUNITY ( EAST TIMOR )

THE JOY OF SERVING THE SIMPLE PEOPLE

OPENING OF THE PTA MEETING

 PRESENTATION OF THE PUPILS

Where  there  is  love  there  is  heaven

COME AND STAY WITH US

NEW SEEDS OF VOCATION IN INDONESIA

Last August 2015, we were excited to welcome our four new aspirants who wish to be”Claretian Sisters”. Three of them are from Atambua, Timor Island (NTT) and the other one is from Kendari, South East of Sulawesi where our mission house is. What a joy to have them with us. The community becomes alive with their presence. Therefore, the community will try its best to help and walk with them to know, love and find Him in everything. Let’s remember them in our prayer that they may have a joyful journey as they open a new page of life in Him through our Claretian lifestyle. 

                                              

(From left to right: Maria Prisila Dewi Putri Ngongo (Dewi), Maria Fransiska Asa (Ika), Yonita Kole (Nita), 

Jogjakarta Community

JUNIORS' VOICE

Life without evaluation will be shallow

I start my reflection with this sentence life without evaluation will be shallow, that is true. To see what I have done in the past, how I live my life and grow in a certain aspects are the means to grow better as a person neither for religious or lay people. As a religious sister I consider these aspects so important, since I am staying in the community where diversity is. Thank you also for the concern to have this evaluation though in a short time yet generally I am able to share what are the things I need to improve more, what are the growth that I gained regarding human growth, following Christ and challenges that I confront in daily live. Honestly to live in the community is not easy just like turning my palm as I want yet at the same time that is a home where I can learn so many things, where I come to know so many things regarding my attitudes, others culture, knowledge through sharing, where I can nurture oneself regarding talents, my capacity in doing something new for me especially where I can nurture my spiritual life. There is joy, sadness, pains, happiness that sometimes I don’t understand why I have to experience. The Lord is very kind, He never leave those who called upon Him and that is my experience many times especially when I fell that nobody is beside me, that is the time I depend more myself to Him, that I stand together with Him, I am never alone. There are so many things I need to see more as the essential of this life, though sometimes my eyes so blur only the shadow that I could see but putting the trust always at His hand, hoping that everything will be done in the right time as He wills for each one. Special thanks to Sr Anas, for your availability in listening to all of us, and encouraging words to move on, yet the actor is all of us to do so, we are responsible for ourselves. May God bless all our good intentions a long this year, this small things is just beginning for all of us in order to have the bigger one. Congratulations for all the juniors. Viva Claretianas.

          With warm greetings

   Beatris Juliana Situmorang

JUNIORS EVALUATION

REFLECTION ON THE PROJECT FOR THE JUNIORS 2014/2015

by  Emy Ndung

People may say,” living without loving is just like a bowl of soup without salt; life without reflection is just like the crayon without colors; project of life without an evaluation is just like the sea without waves. “The evaluation of the project for us the juniors with the perfect of formation; Sr. Anastasia Wio was held last August 20  -  25, 2015 in Jogjakarta community.  It was done nicely as we shared our life journey according to our stage such as a pastoralist as well as for those who are studying.  Besides we did the evaluation, we had the chance also to have a personal dialogue with her (Sr. Anastasia Wio).

For me the project of a year which offered to us, I considered it as a guide that I used for a year of my pastoral that I had been passed through and I realized that it was helping me a lot. In this evaluation, there are 4 aspects that we evaluated through our sharing according to our own experiences in living it out; which are: community life, spiritual life, apostolate as well as the relationship in connection to the vows. In these 4 aspects that we had shared together; I felt that I am enriched by the sharing of my companions with the varieties experience of their ups and downs in their journey. In some aspects, I may say that I am growing because I feel that I have been improving but in in some aspects I realize that I need to see ahead of my head and to step forward in order to go out from my comfort zone in order to gain the new learning for my growth.

Lastly, I would like to thank God for the community where I was (Tilomar Community) for this community helped me to see beyond the reality of life, to feel that I am loved, to be relax but be responsible, etc.