Chapel Notes | April 2010
Chaplain’s Message
The life of Jesus particularly his passion, death and resurrection is powerful and life changing. Knowing and understanding the person and life of Jesus is pivotal in our search for meaning. Growth in our spiritual life is in proportion to how well we know Jesus whose teachings and life we follow.
“No actor or actress”, Harold Sala writes, “can successfully play the part of another individual without finding out who that person really is and trying to think as the other thought. When Mel Gibson asked Jim Caviezel to play the role of Jesus in The Passion of the Christ, Jim, a Roman Catholic, thought he already knew Jesus.
Yet playing the role of Jesus changed his life. No, it wasn’t because he had to learn Aramaic or had to endure hardships while playing the part. It was because he gained a deeper understanding of Jesus and why He had to die.
That kind of understanding was exactly what Paul said every child of God should have. Paul wrote, “Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5 NKJV).
Getting inside the mind of Christ will affect your perspective. Jesus saw the end from the beginning. He knew God had the power to raise Him up from death. He said confidently, “No one takes it [my life] from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again” (John 10:18).
Getting inside His mind will change your attitudes. Focus on just one area at a time. Did Jesus worry about what was on the horizon? No, he laid aside the obstacles and walked resolutely toward Jerusalem.
Getting inside His mind will change your values. Your time and money will be spent differently. Relationship will take on new importance. What you invest for God and eternity will become urgent priorities.
When you get inside the mind of Christ, and begin to think as Jesus did, you will be a different person. Seek the mind of Christ. It will change your life.”
May Jesus’ life, death and resurrection bring you, your family and friends healing, peace and joy.
Happy Easter!
God bless.
Fr. Benjamin A. Jance III
Chaplain / Registrar
Prayer for Healing
We are praying for healing and recovery of the sick:
Ms. Aida Albarracin, former Brent School Librarian.
Mrs. Marieji Sto. Tomas, MS Computer teacher.
Dr. Brenda Fajardo (heart bypass), former Brent IB Visual Arts Examiner.
Mrs. Refugia Ecija (cancer), mother of Jammas Rosalie Ecija.
Mr. Hak Jin Kim, father of Gr. 11-J student Ji Woo “John” Kim.
Katie Victoria Malca, 2009 graduate. Katie is the sister of Erica Gr. 8-E and Miriam Malca Gr. 11-M.
John Lawrence Gabagat (profound hearing loss), 3 years old son of Brent School bus driver Mr. Ric Gabagat.
John Paul Jose (congenital heart disease), 13 years old son of school gardener Mr. Ronaldo Jose.
Jadin Caballero (castlemans), 8 years old grandson of MS English & Social Science teacher Dr. Judy Sands-Caballero.
Jumillaene Great Gepayo (profound hearing loss), 9 years old daughter of Seminary Intern Gonny Gepayo.
Mrs. Susana Mapili Caabay (diabetes), mother of Transportation Coordinator Mrs. Zosima “Sue” Bico.
Mr. Jay Yan, husband of IB and Academic Affairs Secretary Mrs. Elaine Yan.
Mrs. Geny Cabezas, grandmother of Gr. 6-N student Melissa Hevener.
Mr. Florencio “Lolo Ponsing” Cruz (diabetes), grandfather of the bus mother and Activities office staff Ms. Glenda Cruz.
Mrs. Florence Bruskiewicz, mother of Gr. 11-K student Kenneth Bruskiewicz.
Mr. Socrates Varanal (glaucoma), father of Upper School Student Services Assistant Ms. Pauline Grace Varanal.
Mr. Froilan Bagalawis, brother of Assistant Director for Student Activities Mrs. Lulu Floresca.
Mr. Richard Kendall, husband of ELC Librarian Mrs. Maureen Kendall.
Ms. Nora Casas (cancer), cousin of US teacher & MS Student Services Coordinator Mr. Ericson Perez.
Mrs. Natividad Reyes Cruz, mother of MS teacher Mrs. Dalisay Dofitas.
Mrs. Gretchen White (cancer), grandmother of 2008 graduate Blake McClenny.
Mr. Joselito P. Laxa, brother-in-law of MS ESL teacher Ms. Eloisa Munden.
Mr. Eduardo Rocha, 1992 graduate.
Mr. Ronaldo Santi Godito, husband of ELC teacher aide Mrs. Judith Godito.
Mrs. Christina Rebudal (cancer), wife of Mr. Raffy Rebudal former Brent US Faculty.
Seth Maikiel Varanal, nephew of US Special Need teacher aide Ms. Pauline Varanal.
Mr. Gerson Markowitt, former Brent development officer.
Mrs. Edith Pelaez and Patricia Pelaez, grandmother and sister of MS Computer teacher Ms. Maita Francisco.
Ms. Catherine Marcelo-Buenviaje, cousin of MS Student Services teacher Ms. Marika Soriano.
Your love and prayers are deeply appreciated.
Thank you.
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Saint of the Month
Pandita Mary Ramabai
Translator of the Scriptures, 1922
30 April -- Commemoration
Mary Ramabai was born in 1858, the daughter of a Sanscrit scholar who believed in educating women. Converting to Christianity, she nevertheless remained loyal to many aspects of her Hindu background, pioneering an Indian vision of the faith. She became well known as a lecturer on social questions, becoming the first woman to be awarded the title ‘Pandita’. She spent many years working for the education of women and orphans, founding schools and homes. Personally, she lived in great simplicity and was a prominent opponent of the caste system and child marriage. She died on this day in 1922.
Collect
God of compassion,
who gave your servant Mary Ramabai
a wondrous love of the passion of Christ:
grant that your people
may be united to him in his majesty
and rejoice for ever in the revelation of his glory;
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
AMEN.
Taken from: http://www.excitingholiness.org/first-edition/