~ August 25, 2006 ~
You would have been thirty nine years old. Today is your Birthday, August 25. Your Mom and I will celebrate it in our own private way.
We will attend your Mass in Our Lady of Lourdes Church. Visit your niche in Northridge Catholic Cemetery.
Then come home and spend the day reminiscing your sweet memories.
We miss you son!!!
(August, 25, 2006)
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~ Blood Donation Day for 2006 ~
This year, your sister decided to change the date for the blood donation drive in memory of your life. She moved it to September instead of August.
Then, the Parish school will start and the "Sisters Devoted to the Sacred Heart" would finish their summer camp and be back in Northridge.
It will be on Sunday, September 10, 2006, 8:30 am - 1:30 pm at Stroup Hall, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 18400 Kinzie Street, Northridge.
We pray that there will be a good show up.
Those who would like to donate blood, please call (310) 825-0888 x2 or e-mail: gotblood@ucla.edu
We will never forget ...........
(September, 3, 2006)
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~ A letter from the Ambassador ~
Each one of your uncles and aunt, in Beirut, received a letter from the Ambassador at the 5th. Anniversary of September 11.
You can read it here:
We will never forget!...
(September, 7, 2006)
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~ Blood Donation Drive 2006 ~
Today, Sunday September 10, 2006 is the day for Blood Donation Drive celebrating your life on this earth.
The show up was to the satisfaction of the UCLA personnel, even though the rules for donating blood is becoming tougher. Many have been accepted, about fifty people.
We will never forget!...
(September, 10, 2006)
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~ September 11, 2006 ~
Five years have passed since that woeful day in September. All this time, you have never been away from our minds.
But your Mom and I have noticed a change in our attitude.
Before, we thought of you with a tear in our eyes. Now, we think of you with a smile on our face.
Before, we used to think of you and mourn your death. Now, we think of you and celebrate your life on earth.
We remember the beautiful memories that you have left us with.
We remember you and thank the Lord for the 34 years we enjoyed your presence in our life.
It is loving GOD and living in HIM that taught us how to find life again.
(September 11, 2006)
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~ A mass in your memory ~
Today's mass was in your memory. We all in the church prayed for you and remembered you in our prayers.
After mass, Mom and I went to the cemetery and visited your niche. We put five roses in your vase. We remember how much you enjoyed roses.
We will never forget!...
(September, 11, 2006)
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~ Prayer Service for the Fifth Anniversary ~
At 11:00 AM we were invited to attend the Ceremony of PEACE that took place at Our Lady of Lourdes School. The program was beautiful. It started with
St. Francis prayer. It ended up with the song for PEACE.
We all prayed for you and for all the people who passed away on that calamitous day in
the history of the nation. It was a heart warming event.
Thank you Rev. Monsignor Peter Moran . (Pastor of OLL)
Thank you Mrs. Patty Hager.(Principal of OLL)
Thank you Mrs. Monika Roberts.(Responsible for the Ceremony)
Thank you all members of the Student Counsel.
Prayer Service for the Fifth Anniversary of September 11, 2001
We will never forget!...
(September, 11, 2006)
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~ Day of Remembrance - 9/11 Memorial (HBT) ~
At 6:00 PM we attended the ceremony of HBT in North Hollywood Park.
It was a memorial where music and reading were present.
We listened to All Faiths Prayer Readings.
We listened to Native American Reading and Prayer.
We watched the Tree Rededication to all those Californians who died on Septemeber 11 2001.
We listened to Native American Drumming.
We listened to Musical Meditations.
Thank you Mrs. Sharyn Romano ( President of the Hollywood Beautification Team).
You made all this possible.
We will never forget!...
(September, 11, 2006)
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~ A Prayer ~
Remembering September 11 2 001
Come, Holy Spirit of Love and Peace,
we long for your healing touch.
On September 11, 2001, our country was scarred by hatred and revenge ...
we long for your healing touch.
Hearts were broken and lives were lost,
and fear and anger prevailed ...
we long for your healing touch.
Awaken in us, Holy Spirit,
a deep and respectful remembrance ...
that you are a God of love, not hatred,
that you are a God of forgiveness, not revenge,
that you are a God of peace, not war.
Remembering these things, we ask you to bless our country
and all those defending its ideals of freedom and liberty
and bring them safely home.
May your gifts of peace, love, and forgiveness
transform our hatred, anger, and fear,
so that peace on earth will be possible once again.
Come, Holy Spirit of Love and Peace,
we long for your healing touch.
Amen.
We will never forget!...
(September, 11, 2006)
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~ The Greatest of these is LOVE ~
Today's reading is so beautiful. I will include it in the daily journal below:
First Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians, 12,31.13,1-13.
Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts.
But I shall show you a still more excellent way.
If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.
And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated,
it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought
to nothing.
For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things.
At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully
known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE.
(September, 20, 2006)
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~ A Hymn ( by Ruth Duck ) ~
My friend Clara sent me this hymn by Ruth Duck:
We humans build to frame a life with meaning, love, and feeling,
but time or hate can bring collapse and loss can leave us reeling.
Let faithful souls from rubble rise to find new ways from sorrow
and slowly, slowly form a shape to welcome God’s tomorrow.
For ev’rything our hands construct will one day fall and crumble
The God who is a carpenter creates from human jumble.
And we can take up hammer, saw to join the new creation
that what we build will long endure upon a firm foundation.
We dedicate ourselves today amid life’s change and danger
to build with God a house of peace for friend and foe and stranger.
Here may the peoples come and go, partake in shared endeavor,
unscathed by terror, free from war, alive in God forever.
It touched my heart.
Thank you Clara!
(September, 21, 2006)
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