Chapel Notes | March 2010
Chaplain’s Message
Charitable acts and reaching out to others characterize the season of Lent. Our work and daily chores are opportunities of doing good.
William Barclay wrote that Kermit Eby, the great American teacher, tells how it is his deliberate principle always to be available and always accessible to his pupils and students. The door to his house and to his help is always open. “I know,” he says, “that research is important, yet I also know that a man is more important than a footnote.”
Emily Dickinson has a lovely and simple little poem:
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again
I shall not live in vain.
Everyday in life brings its opportunities—the opportunity to practice the greatest of all heroisms, the heroism of carrying on when we are up against it; the greatest of all conquests, the conquest over our own selves; the greatest of all honors, the honor of serving and helping someone in need.
God bless.
Fr. Benjamin A. Jance III
Chaplain / Registrar
Prayer for Healing
We are praying for healing and recovery of the sick:
Dr. Brenda Fajardo (heart bypass), former Brent IB Visual Arts Examiner.
Mrs. Refugia Ecija (cancer), mother of Jammas Rosalie Ecija.
Ms. Elizabeth Gallin (open heart surgery), cousin of US Math teacher Ms. Hilary Allan.
Mr. Hak Jin Kim, father of Gr. 11-J student Ji Woo “John” Kim.
Mrs. Marjory Alcantara, ESL Department Head.
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.
Update:
Mr. Virgilio “Boy” Sison is recuperating at home. Boy and Connie are thankful for your prayers.
Your love and prayers are deeply appreciated.
Thank you.
Poems and Prayers
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Saint of the Month
Joseph of Nazareth
19 March
In the gospel of Matthew, Joseph is depicted as a good man, a working carpenter, who trusted in God. He received God's messenger who shared with him God's will for him and for Mary, to whom he was engaged to be married. Luke's gospel describes how Joseph took the new-born child as if he were his own. He was with Mary when, on the fortieth day after the birth, Jesus was presented in the Temple, 'where every first-born male is designated as holy to the Lord'. The adoption of Jesus by Joseph also established Jesus in the descent of David, to accord with the prophecy that Israel's deliverer would be of the House and lineage of David.
Collect
God our Father,
who from the family of your servant David
raised up Joseph the carpenter
to be the guardian of your incarnate Son
and husband of the Blessèd Virgin Mary:
give us grace to follow him
in faithful obedience to your commands;
through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord,
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/