Go out and pray. Go out and vote. Prayers on Election Eve An Anticipated Mass for the 2010 Elections to be presided by Bishop Emeritus, Diocese of Novaliches, Most Reverend Bishop Teodoro Bacani, DD Saturday, May 8, 6:00pm Ateneo Church of the Gesu, Loyola Heights Campus
Guide to Elections 2010 at the Ateneo Website Visit elections.ateneo.edu for useful information on the 2010 elections
"Gabay Halalan" and free downloadable voter education materials from Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan Visit www.slb.ph to learn more about the text & call-center facility, and to download materials
A Date with Ignatius Half-day recollections for ACLC alumni and friends Sundays, 8:00am-12:00nn, Mass included May 23 - Putting on the Mind and Heart of ChristJune 27 - Community: A Church in CelebrationAugust 22 - The Centrality of Mission and ServiceSeptember 26 - Mary and Her FiatOctober 24 - Discernment: Noticing God's Actions in My LifeNovember 28 - Contemplatives in Action
Leunis Hall, 2/F CLC Building, Ateneo de Manila Loyola Heights Campus Organized by the Christian Life Community Formation Institute (CLCFI) For inquiries, call Aidah Endaya or Lolit Agbayani at (63-2) 426-0074 & 75, email clcp@admu.edu.ph, or visit CLCFI at G/F CLC Center, Seminary Road, Ateneo de Manila University Loyola Heights Campus
Marriage Encounter Weekend by Magis Deo Friday-Sunday, June 11-13 BLD Covenant House, Dasmarinas, Cavite Marriage encounter information forms are available at the Magis Deo Office, Seminary Drive and at the Office of University Development & Alumni Relations, Alingal Hall, both at the Loyola Heights Campus For more information and to register, contact Johnny or Gladys de Veyra at (63-2) 932-5872, 932-5901, (0918) 270-4269, (0922) 800-4215, or johnnydeveyra@yahoo.com
PEP - PEOPLE, EVENTS & PRODUCTS
Calling the Attention of All Graduates of Overseas Jesuit Business Schools Be a part of the 16th World Forum of the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools to be hosted by the Ateneo de Manila's John Gokongwei School of Management in July with the theme "Educating Champions of Sustainable Development: Best Practices of our Business Schools" Click here to find out how you can participate
9th Chinese Bridge: Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students Theme: Charming Chinese, Splendid Expo Open to Chinese language students under the age of 30 Monday, May 31, 8:30am Conference Rooms 1 & 2, Social Sciences Building, Loyola Heights Campus Registration Deadline: Monday, May 24 Organized by China's Office of Chinese Language Council International (Hanban), the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, the Philippine-Chinese Education Research Center and the Confucius Institute at the Ateneo de Manila University For inquiries, contact the Confucius Institute at (63-2) 426-6001 local 5208 & 5209 or confucius@admu.edu.ph
Nominations now open for the 2010 Ateneo Art Awards: Shattering States For Filipino visual artists below the age of 36 for outstanding works in an exhibition between May 2, 2009 and May 1, 2010 Nomination forms are available at the Ateneo Art Gallery, Loyola Heights Campus; Casa Gorodo Museum, Cebu City; or from gallery.ateneo.edu Nomination Deadline: Monday, May 31 Exhibition of the works of the artists short-listed for the Awards will be at the Grand Atrium of the Shangri-la Plaza Mall, Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong City from August 6-16 For more information, contact Ian Carlo Jaucian at (632) 426-6488 or (0917) 887-8956
PRODUCTS
New Releases from JesCom - Jesus: A Portrait by Fr. Gerald O'Collins, SJ and Fr. James Kroeger - A Fiery Flame: Encountering God's Word by Catalino G. Arevalo, SJ, Teodoro C. Bacani, DD, Pablo V. David, DD and Luis A. Tagle, DD Now Available in all Tanging Yaman Outlets at the Sonolux Building and Loyola House of Studies, Loyola Heights Campus, and 5/F Building B, SM Megamall For orders, call the Jesuit Communications Foundation Inc. at (63-2) 426-5971 local 112 or 113
The Vote of the Poor: Modernity and Tradition in People's Views of Leadership and Elections A book by the Institute of Philippine Culture (IPC) dealing with the worldview of the poor as voters in a nation-state Available at the Loyola Schools Bookstore, LG/F MVP Center for Student Leadership and IPC, Frank Lynch Hall, Social Development Complex For inquiries, contact IPC at (63-2) 426-6001 local 4651 or 213, 426-6067 to 68, or ipc@admu.edu.ph
Legal doctors for a day The first Ateneo de Manila Law Alumni Association (ALAAI) Legal Aid Clinic to the AAA-GK Molave Community
SPORTS
2010 Ateneo Baskeball School Summer Classic May 11-15 Blue Eagle Gym, Loyola Heights Campus For inquiries, call Marlyn Franco at (63-2) 426-6001 local 4192 or 426-5955
Kids' Athletics 2010 Track & Field, Module 2 May 17-22 & 24-29, 3:00-5:30pm East Field, Ateneo de Manila Grade School Loyola Heights Campus Offered by the University Athletics Office in partnership with the International Association of Athletic Federation (IAAF) For inquiries and to register, call (63-2) 426-6001 local 4190-93
3rd Ateneo Law Golf Cup Saturday, May 22, Tee-off between 8:30-10:30am Sun Valley Golf Club Sponsored by the the Ateneo Golf Club, Ateneo Golf Foundation and American Eye Center For inquiries, call or text (0920) 905-2674
Drive for '85 Golf Invitational Fore the Boys Thursday, May 27, Tee-off at 7:30am Legends Course, Southwoods Golf & Country Club, Carmona, Cavite Organized by the Ateneo de Manila High School Class of '85 For more information, contact Abet Nolido at (0917) 539-2966, abetnolido@yahoo.com or Crippy Baizas at (0917) 627-6057, cbaizas@gmail.com
The Ateneo Alumni Association invites you to: Marketing the Brand YOU, Part II Stand out. Be heard. Be hired! When: Saturday, 15 May 2010, 12:30-5:00 pm Where: CTC 102, PLDT Convergence Center, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, QC Click here for details and how to register Registration is free for AAA cardholders
Visit our new partner merchants: - Heavenly Chocolates - Ideal Vision Center Click here for discount details and other partner merchants Discounts are applicable to AAA card bearing members only
For more information about the Ateneo Alumni Association, kindly go to ateneoalumniassociation.org or call us at (DL) 926.6067, 426.6001 locals 4687, 4688 & 4689, or you may fax us at 926.6046.
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WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS
BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
Individual Modules of the Digital Marketing Diploma Program Search, Blogs, Tweets, Social Networks, Mobile - these aren't buzz words but channels that marketers can leverage on. In the Digital Marketing Diploma Program, industry experts will teach you how to make digital work for your brand or business
Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education in partnership with the Internet & Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Brand Management Learn practical tips on when to use single, multiple or co-branding product strategies, as well as how to integrate product development and brand strategy Wednesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays, May 19, 20, 22 & 29 Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Integrating Module - Brand and Product Management: Build Brands to Live and Die For - Marketing Strategy in Action: Own the Battlefield Masterfully! - Marketing Forum Wednesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays, May 19-June 19
Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
High Performance Spa Management Certification Program This unique program equips spa owners and managers with sound business principles that lets them compete in the booming trillion-dollar wellness industry May 24-June 4, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Management Skills for Field Sales Managers This course provides insights on various issues pertinent to the activities of Field Sales Managers such as balancing executive level work vs. field related work Tuesday-Thursday, May 25-27, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
One Day with ME Provides would-be and emerging entrepreneurs a bird's eyeview of the critical entrepreneurial issues divided across major functional areas Tuesday, June 1, 8:30am-5:30pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education in partnership with ACE Center for Entrepreneurship and Management Education, Inc. For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Leading for Competitive Advantage Series
Leading Strategic Execution This course establishes a foundation of leadership behaviors that are essential in execution, then engages participants in creating an alignment & execution plan, and simulate a strategy execution review meeting to practice all the skills learned in the course Tuesday-Wednesday, June 1-2, 8:30am-5:30pm
Leading Change: Critical Success Factors Increases participants' awareness of their capabilities to handle change and what they need to develop to become successful change leaders Tuesday-Wednesday, July 6-7, 8:30am-5:30pm
Strategic Systems Thinking: Creating Competitive Advantage Presents a framework for systems thinking and strategic thinking, applied to the organizations and functional units of participants Tuesday-Wednesday, August 10-11, 8:30am-5:30pm
Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
The Business of the Family Work for the growth and development of your Family Business
Professionalizing the Family Business by Jacob Cabochan Monday, June 7
Capitalizing on the Family Business Capital by Jacob Cabochan and Dr. Darwin Yu Tuesday, June 8
Strategic Planning for the Family Business by Mel Lopez and Johnny Filart Wednesday, June 9
The Family of the Business Strive for the continuity of your Family Business
Family Team Building by Alexander Mallare Thursday, June 10
Crafting the Family Constitution by Terry Galura Friday, June 11
Successful Succession Planning by Terry Galura Saturday, June 12
All sessions are from 9:00am to 5:00pm Audio Visual Room, Faura Hall, Loyola Heights Campus Offered by the Ateneo Family Business Development Center (FBDC) in partnership with the Business Resource Center (BRC) For inquiries and reservations, contact the Ateneo FBDC at (63-2) 426-6001 local 5520, 928-3503, 849-6911, (0906) 298-3152, familybusiness@admu.edu.ph or visit www.ateneofambiz.com
Essentials of Project Management for NGOs Provides the practical skills, concepts and principles that help ensure project managers complete their project on time, on budget and on target Tuesday-Saturday, June 15-19, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education in partnership with Project Management for Non-Government Organizations and the APM Group For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
5th Executive Development Program on Supply Chain Management For top corporate executives and professionals who are committed to excellence in developing and managing successful and world-class supply chain strategies and operations in an increasingly global and competitive environment
Module I: Integrated Supply Chain Management - Introduction and Overview - Emergence of Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Strategies - Supply Chain Profitability, Quality and World-class Organizations - Supply Chain Optimization, Cost, Value and Measurement
Module II: Demand and Supply Management - Market-driven and Customer-focused Supply Chain Strategies - Order Fulfillment Strategies - Customer Relationship Management - Efficient Consumer Response - Inventory Management Strategies
Core Management Skills - The Art of Directing People - Mastering the Dynamics of Finance: Liquidity, Profitability, and Value - Strategic Human Resources - The Discipline of Execution: Implementing Strategies
Module IV: Distribution and Transport Strategies - Distribution Management Systems and Strategies - Strategic Network Design and Information Technology Systems - Facilities and Distribution Center Strategies - Transportation, Strategies, and Issues
Saturdays, June 19-November 20, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Negotiation Skills and Strategies This course provides you with a holistic view of negotiation and a definition of the varied elements that go with it. Insights on ploys used in most negotiations will prepare you to face and respond accordingly without being intimated to agree Tuesday-Wednesday, June 29-30, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
FINANCE
Microfinance Training on Deliquency Management Monday-Wednesday, May 17-19 Conference Rooms 3 & 4, 2/F Social Sciences Building, Loyola Heights Campus Offered by the Loyola Schools Development Studies Program For details, call Melissa Mar-Reyes at (63-2) 426-6001 local 5218 or 426-5659
Financial Markets and Corporate Finance Designed to provide participants with a substantive background on financial markets as potential sources of capital, and the various financial instruments that firms use as vehicles to raise funds Wednesday, Thursday-Saturday, May 19-22 Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Accounting for Non Accountants I Designed for individuals without an accounting background but who need to understand and appreciate how business transactions are recorded, summarized, and interpreted for commercial decision-making purposes Wednesday-Friday, June 16-18, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Introduction to Financial Markets Gain basic knowledge and understanding of financial markets by learning about basic economics, the stock market, bond market, mutual funds and alternative investments in an easy-to-understand and simple manner Thursday-Friday, June 24-25, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
A Franklin Covey LiveClicks Webinar Workshop Diversity Advantage: Leveraging Differences at Work for Great Results Learn how to increase understanding and deeper trust, communicate more productively, achieve higher levels of collaboration, and increase creativity and innovation together with your team Tuesday, May 18, 10:00am-12:00nn or 2:00-4:00pm Offered by the Center for Leadership and Change, Inc. For inquiries, call Elaine Rodriguez at (63-2) 426-6001 local 4811 or 426-6491
Planning and Selecting Workforce Designed to provide skills in workforce planning and forecasting, with a focus on recruitment and selection as a strategy Wednesday-Thursday, May 26-27, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education in partnership with the Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Training and Organizational Needs Analysis Examines the process of identifying and analyzing needs for training or organizational development purposes Wednesday-Thursday, June 2-3, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Managing Employee Performance Program Designed to provide participants with strategies and techniques on how to manage people better by enhancing intra and interpersonal skills Thursday-Friday, June 3-4, 8:30am-5:30pm Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Hoffner Building, Social Development Complex, Loyola Heights Campus Offered by the Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development For more information and to register, contact Ateneo CORD at (63-2) 426-6065, 426-6282, 426-6001 local 5263 or ateneocord@admu.edu.ph
ER for Line Managers Aimed at providing HR practitioners and line managers with the concepts and strategies in cultivating and ensuring effective employee relations and employee well-being Wednesday-Thursday, June 9-10, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education in partnership with Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
Designing and Applying Learning Techniques This course includes the formulation of program objectives, contents, methodologies, audio-visual materials, cost analysis, participant configuration and other factors critical to the success of the workshop Tuesday-Wednesday, June 29-30, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
COMMUNICATION
Mastering the Principles of Business Writing Designed to enhance professional writing, this course is for professionals who prepare and edit business proposals, memos, and letters for high impact results Tuesday-Wednesday, June 29-30, 9:00am-5:00pm Offered by the Ateneo Graduate School of Business - Center for Continuing Education For more information, contact Ateneo CCE at (63-2) 894-4868 or cce-abib@aps.ateneo.edu
EDUCATION
Teaching English in a Multicultural World A lecture-workshop by Dr. Thomas J. Kral for English teachers, trainers, educators and professionals Saturday, May 22, 2:00-5:00pm (Registration begins at 1:00pm) Audio-Visual Room, Faura Hall, Loyola Heights Campus Organized by the Ateneo Center for English Language Teaching (ACELT) in cooperation with the U.S. Embassy For more information, contact ACELT at (63-2) 426-6001 local 5315 or acelt@admu.edu.ph
Training Seminar for High School Teachers of Economics Tuesday-Friday, May 25-28 Offered by the Loyola School of Social Sciences Department of Economics Registration deadline: Friday, May 14 For more information, call Lady Lou Marapao or Mariel Barcelon at (63-2) 426-6001 local 5220 to 5222, or email economics@admu.edu.ph
PHILOSOPHY
Advanced Theories in Ethics A seminar course which aims to give its participants an understanding of how ethical theorizing can be brought to bear on the contemporary ethos May 4-21, 9:00am-12:00nn Audio-Visual Room, Faura Hall, Loyola Heights Campus
May 11 - Kant's Impure Ethics: An "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent" by O. Bulaong, Jr. May 12 - Can there be an ethics of language? by R. Barbaza May 13 - Nussbaum & Virtue Ethics by M. Mariano May 14 - Wei Ziran: Daoist Ethics of Continual Becoming by A. Soh May 17 - Max Scheler's Value Ethics by M. Dy, Jr. May 18 - Habermas' discourse Ethics by M. Dy, Jr. May 19 - Ethics of Deconstruction by M. Calano May 20 - Ethics and Islam by R. Tolentino May 21 - Plenary by all lecturers
Offered by the Loyola School of Humanities Department of Philosophy Seminar fee: P2,000 for the whole seminar with a certificate of attendance, P200 per lecture for walk-in participants For inquiries, call (63-2) 426-6001 local 5360 & 61
THIS WEEK AT WWW.ATENEO.EDU Check out the Ateneo website for the latest news and features!
Check out our new sections! Jescom's Kape't Pandasal (2-minute prayer reflection on video, posted daily)IAJBS World Forum (conference details and other useful information)Elections 2010 (info, how-to's, issues, news, and views)
News Smart is looking for 20 Pinoy Qiksters to capture live mobile videos as part of its Citizen Election CoverageIDRC execs visit innovation projects of the Ateneo School of Government
Features Citizenship on the line: whom to vote for (Manila Standard Today)One vote that counts (Manila Bulletin)
Announcements Call for Applications: NRRU International ScholarshipGaijin: Cultural Representations through Manga, 1930s~1950s, May 11
What's new inside? Situation Report 4 May 2010 (University Physical Plant)
IN MEMORIAM Commodore Constancio "Ting" T. Velasco Jr., AFP, Ret. (HS'58), 23 April 2010 Fr. Manuel C. Regalado (GS'34, HS'38), 4 May 2010
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Ateneo Blue Eagles- 2009 UAAP Seniors Champions
The Ateneo Blue Eagles72nd UAAP Seniors BasketballBack to Back Champions
Chot, Len, Mike, Jun and Billy, they are the Reyes brothers of the Ateneo who honed their basketball skills in the Ateneo but unfortunately took different basketball paths in college. A lot say Chot is the brainy one, Len the scorer, Mike the shooter, Jun the most prolific and Billy the most versatile. Chot would become a champion mentor while Jun would lead the Blue Eagles to back to back championships. Twenty one years after that back to back championship by Jun, his nephew who is Len’s son would duplicate the feat as Jai Reyes together with Rabah Al-Husaini and Nonoy Baclao led the Ateneo Blue Eagles to back to back titles after upending the gallant stand of the University of the East Red Warriors 71-58. The tradition continues.
After getting blown away by the Warriors in game 2, the Blue Eagles were all business as Rabah Al-Husainin scored 11 first quarter points to lead the Blue Eagles to a 21-17 lead. The UE big guns tried to match the fire power of the Blue Eagles who had six fastrbreak points in the opening 5 minutes with Kirk Long getting two and 1 plays but muffing two gift free throws after the foul. Nonoy Baclao also scored on the break after getting a pass from Jai in traffic. UE's last lead stood at 8-6 but when the Blue Eagles equalized there was no more token resistance from the Warriors. It was an all Rabah quarter and event if Jai Reyes was missing his shots he dished out 4 of his game high 6 assists in that quarter.
Nico confronted by Lee
Come the second quarter the complexion of the game suddenly turned to the side of the Blue Eagles who used a paralyzing 12 -0 run to end the half. After Paul Lee scored on a drive with 6:05 left in the second quarter, the Eagles went to work by shutting down the Warriors and scoring almost at will. Ryan Buenafe scored 4 points, while Jai and Kirk scored three apiece and Jai also dished out his fifth assist on Rabah Al-Husaini to give the Blue Eagles a 40-25 advantage come halftime.
Nonoy is fouled
The Blue Eagles set the tone early with their defense as they held the Warriors to 29% shooting and led UE in almost every statistical category. The most telling among them is the 7-1 assist disparity and the 30 -16 edge on inside points. That alone signaled the downfall of the Warriors in the second quarter. The quarter ended with Ateneo scoring 19 points and the Warriors could only muster only 8.
Ryan leans on Pari
After the break, the UE Warriors started the quarter with two three pointers courtesy of Elmer Espiritu and Val Acuña. This signaled the surge of the UE Warriors as they tried gallantly to rally their team, unfortunately for them the Blue Eagles were not about to let them come back. Enter the gunslinger Jai Reyes who showed that his misses in the first half was just his way of sizing up his shots as he rattled three three pointers that eventually broke the backs of the Warriors.
Rabah ends his UAAP career with a break away dunk
Jai’s third three pointer with 58 seconds left gave the Blue Eagles a commanding 57- 39 lead while their defense was on 24-7 which led to a 57-41 lead at the end of the third quarter. This was enough cushion for the Blue Eagles as they head to the fourth quarter knowing that the UE Warrior would still comeback. Like what we always say, its best to start the fourth quarter up by a big margin.
Blue Eagles regroup
Come the fourth quarter everyone was waiting for a final push by the Warriors but unfortunately it did not come. In the four previous games of this two teams UE had a big run in each of the games. This time, the Blue Eagles made sure it will never happen. Suddenly the top gunners of UE were stifled and could not get its act together.
Beam me up Scottie
Ryan Buenafe stole the ball and even blocked Paul Lee who was shut down in the first few minutes of the fourth. Val ACuña was hot and cold, Elmer Espirtu was worn out come the fourth quarter, Rudy Lingannay was firing blanks, Raphy Reyes never got anything going and the big story was Pari Llagas who ended his UAAP career with a 0 for 7 shooting from the field. In the end , the Blue Eagles showed that they are indeed the best team in the UAAP by coming back and frustrating the Warriors.
Erik eludes his defender
Coach Norman Black’s post game remarks described the team very well he said “This team handled adversity well and they showed that they knew how to come back” at the same time he added “Experience is the best teacher. The loss in 2006 was something we did not want the others to feel that is why they did their best to win the title!” For the record, this is the first time that a double championship went back to back! Now that this is all over , lets all dream of a double three-peat! CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ATENEO BLUE EAGLES! ONE BIG FIGHT!!!
Rabah scores
ATENEO (71)
Al-Husaini 21, Reyes 16, Buenafe 10, Baclao 8, Salamat 8, Long 7, Salva 2, Monrfort 0, Austria 0
UE (58)
Lee 21, Espiritu 16, Acuña 8, Lingganay 5, Zamar 3, Llagas 3. Reyes 0, Ayala 0, Duran 0,
Quarter scores: 21-17, 40-25, 57-41, 71-58
Back to Back!
Homily of Fr. Catalino Arevalo, SJ, at the Funeral Mass for President Corazon Aquino date posted: 2009-08-07 11:41:36
"We give her back to You, with grateful but breaking hearts"
By Catalino Arevalo, SJ
Manila Cathedral August 5, 2009
IF I may, I will first ask pardon for what might be an unseemly introduction. In the last days of President Cory's illness, when it seemed inevitable that the end would come, the assignment to give this homily was given to me by Kris Aquino. She reminded me that many times and publicly, her mother had said she was asking me to preach at her funeral Mass. Always I told her I was years older, and would go ahead of her, but she would just smile at this. Those who knew Tita Cory knew that when she had made up her mind, she had made up her mind.
What then is my task this morning? I know for certain that if liturgical rules were not what they are, she would have asked Congressman Ted Locsin to be here in my place. No one has it in him to speak as fittingly of Cory Aquino in the manner and measure of tribute she uniquely deserves, no one else as he. Asked in an interview, she said that the address before the two Houses of Congress at Washington she considered perhaps the supreme shining moment of her life. We know who helped her with those words with which she conquered America. These last few days, too, every gifted writer in the press and other media has written on her person and political history, analyzed almost every side of her life and achievement as our own "icon of democracy". More powerfully even, images of her and of Edsa Uno have filled hour after hour of TV time. Really, what else is left to be said?
SO, Tita Cory, you'll forgive me if I don't even try to give a shadow of the great oration that should be given here this morning. Let me instead try to say some things the people who persevered for hours on end in the serried lines at Ortigas or here in Intramuros can (I hope) more easily follow. This is a lowly tribute at one with "the old sneakers and clothes made tighter by age, soaked by water and much worse for wear" of the men, women and children who braved the rain and the sun because they wanted to tell you, even for a brief and hurried moment, how much they love you. You truly "now belong among the immortals". But these words are for those mortals who with bruised hearts have lost "the mother of a people". Maybe less elegantly than the seminarian said to me Monday, they would like to say also: "She was the only true queen our people have ever had, and she was queen because we knew she truly held our hearts in the greatness and the gentleness of her own."
One of my teachers used to tell us that if we really wanted to know and understand a position held, we would have to learn it from someone fully committed to it. Just as only one who genuinely loves a person, really knows him or her also. So to begin with, I turned to three real "experts on Cory"; to ask them where for them the true greatness of Cory Aquino lay. My first source thought it was in her selflessness, seen above all in her love of country-surely above self; yes, even above family. Her self-giving, then, for us; what she had received, all became gift for us. The second, thought it was in her faith her greatness lay, in her total trust in God which was also her greatest strength. And the third said it was in her courage and the unshakable loyalty that went with it. It was a strength others could lean on; it never wavered; it never broke....Cory's selflessness and self-giving; her faith (the Holy Father just called it "unwavering"); her courage, her strength. May I use this short list to frame what I will say?
O, let me name my experts now, if I may. They were three, all of them women close to her: Maria Elena Aquino Cruz, whom we know as Ballsy, Maria Aurora Aquino Abellada, Pinky to her friends; and Victoria Elisa Aquino Dee, Viel to the family. Kris and Noynoy are the public figures; they can speak for themselves. I hope they will forgive me that I did not ask.
First, selflessness
First, then, her generous selflessness. For us this morning what is surely most to the point is her love of country. When her final illness was upon her already, she said-most recently at the Greenmeadows chapel (her last public words, I think)-that she was offering her suffering, first to God, then for our people. I heard that grandson Jiggy asked her why first for country and people, and she said that always the priority line-up was God, our country and our people, and then family. On radio, the other night, the commentator asked an old woman in line why she stood hours in the rain to get into La Salle. "Ito lang ang maibibigay ko po sa kanya, bilang pasasalamat." "Bakit, ano ba ang ibinigay ni Cory sa inyo?" "Di po ba ang buhay nya? Ang buong sarili nya? At di po ba ang pag-asa? Kaya mahal na mahal po namin siya." Early on, on TV, they ran many times the clip from a last interview. She says, "I thank God, and then all of you, for making me a Filipino, for making me one of you. I cherish this as one of the truly great gifts I have received." A few weeks from her death, she could say that; without put-on or the least insincerity. "I thank you, for making me one of you."
Her selflessness, her self-gift. Pope Benedict likes to say that the God whom Jesus Christ revealed to us, is Father. A Father who is wholly self-gift; the God "whose nature is to give Himself"-to give Himself to us, in His Son. And, the Pope says, that is what is the meaning of Jesus and the life of Jesus, and, by discipleship, what the Christian's life is meant to be. We Christians, too, we must give ourselves away in the self-giving of love.
"Ang buhay po nya at sarili. Kaya po mahal na mahal namin sya." In the last days, when finally and reluctantly still she admitted she had much pain, I kept thinking that only a couple of weeks before, for the first time publicly, she said that she was offering it up first of all for us.
Second, her faith
Second, her faith. Pinky says, it was her mother's greatest strength; it was what was deepest in her. Her faith was her bedrock, and it was, bedrock. Frederick Buechner the ordained minister and novelist likes to say that through his lifetime, he's had many doubts, even deep doubt, daily doubts. "But I have never really looked down into the deep abyss and seen only nothing. Somehow I have known, that underneath all the shadows and the darkness, there are the everlasting arms." I think Cory's faith was like that, not in the multiplicity of doubts (even if, in a life so filled with trial, there surely were doubts too), but in the certainty of the everlasting arms. More than once she told me, "Every time life painted me into a corner, with seemingly no escape, I always turned to Him in trust. I knew He would never abandon us if we trusted in Him. And you know, somehow, He found a way out for us." And so Pinky says, "Mom was always calm even in the most trying times. She trusted God would always be there for us, She was our source of strength. She made this world seem so much safer and less cruel for us. And now that our source of strength is gone, we have to make our faith something more like hers. But we know in our hearts that in every storm she will watch over us from heaven."
Devotion to Mary
Within this faith was her devotion to Mary, the place Our Lady of Fatima and the rosary held in her life. All we can say on this, this morning is that Our Lady truly had a special, living presence in her life: Mary was, for Cory, true mother and incomparable friend; as we say in the hymn-vita, dulcedo et spes: life, sweetness and hope. No, Mary was not the center of her faith, but its air, its atmosphere; and the rosary, her lifeline through every trial and crisis. In the long harsh months of her illness, Sister Lucia's beads almost never left her hands. She was holding them, as last Saturday was dawning and her years of exile were at last done, when we know her Lady "showed unto her, the blessed fruit of her womb."
Third, courage
Lastly, her courage, her strength. Her children tell us that their father was only able to do what he wanted to do, because her loyalty and her support for his purposes was total, so she practically raised them up as a single parent. Ninoy himself wrote, again and again, that he endured imprisonment and persecution, leaning so much on her courage and love. And after his death, when she could have withdrawn in a way "safely" to her own life with her children at last, she stayed on her feet and fought on in the years that followed, through the snap elections and what went before and after them, through her presidency and the seven coup attempts which tried to bring her down. Even after she had given up her rule, could she not have said "enough", and we would all have understood? But with not the least desire for position or power again, whenever she thought the spaces of freedom and the true good of our land were threatened, she went back to the streets of struggle again. Once again she led us out of the apathy we so readily fall into; once again she called us out of our comfort zones to the roads of sacrifice.
Purity of heart
Here, even hesitantly, may I add one trait, one virtue, to those her daughters have named? One day Cardinal Stephen Kim of South Korea asked if he might visit her. Through Ballsy, she said yes. It was a day Malacañang was "closed"; they were making up the roster of members of the forthcoming Constitutional Convention. Someone from the palace staff ordered us turned away when we came; it was Ballsy who rescued us. Stephen Kim, hero and saint to his own people-perhaps, along with Cardinal Sin, one the two greatest Asian Catholic prelates of our time-spent some 45 minutes talking with her. When we were on our way back, he said, "I know why the Lord has entrusted her with power, at this most difficult time...It is because she is pure of heart. She has no desire for power; even now it is with reluctance she takes it on. And she has done this only because she wants to do whatever she can for your people." He said, "She truly moves me by the purity of her spirit. God has given a great gift to your people."
With this purity of heart, in the scheme of the Christian Gospel, there is joined another reality which really, only the saints understand. It is suffering. How often (it is really often; over and over through the years) she spoke of suffering as part of her life. Much contemporary spirituality speaks of suffering almost as the epitome of all evil. But in fact for all the saints, it is a mystery they themselves do not really understand nor really explain, Yet they accept it quietly, simply as part of their lives in Christ. There is only one painting she ever gave me. Kris said then, when her mom gave it to me, that it was her mom's favorite. The painting carries 1998 as its date; Cory named it "Crosses and roses." There are seven crosses for the seven months and seven weeks of her beloved Ninoy's imprisonment, and for the seven attempted coups during her presidency, and many roses, multicolored roses all around them. At the back of the painting, in her own hand, she wrote a haiku of her own: "Crosses and roses/ make my life more meaningful./ I cannot complain." Often she spoke of her "quota of suffering." When she spoke of her last illness, she said: "I thought I had filled up my quota of suffering, but it seems there is no quota. I look at Jesus, who was wholly sinless: how much suffering he had to bear for our sake." And in her last public talk (it was at Greenmeadows chapel), the first time she spoke of her own pain: "I have not asked for it, but if it is meant to be part of my life still, so be it. I will not complain." "I try to join it with Jesus's pain and offering. For what it's worth, I am offering it up for our people." Friends here present, I tell you honestly I hesitated before going into this, this morning. But without it, part of the real Cory Aquino would be kept from view. Quite simply, this was integral to the love she bore for her people.
Thanks to her children
AT this point, may I, following the lead Mr. Rapa Lopa has given, just speak a word of thanks to President Cory's children, who shared so much of her service and her sacrifice. They have almost never had their father and mother for themselves. For so many years, they have been asked to share Ninoy and Cory with all of us. And because of the blood and the spirit their parents have passed on to them, they too gave with generosity and grace the sacrifices we demanded of them. Ballsy and Pinky, Viel and Kris, your husbands and your children, and Senator Noynoy, may we thank you this morning from all our hearts, and may we offer also the gratitude of the hearts of a people now forever in your debt.
I have used up all my time, some of you will say, and I have not even approached the essential: her political life, that she was our nation's unique icon of democracy, that Cory Aquino who is know throughout the world; was TIME magazine's 1986's woman of the year; she who led the ending of the dictatorship that had ruined our nation, the bearer of liberation, of freedom, and of hope for a prostrate people.
So, by your leave, may I add one item, along this line at last. In October 1995, Milano's Catholic University, conferred on her the doctorate honoris causa in the political sciences (incidentally, only her twenty-third honorary degree). This was only the fifth time this particular one had been given since the university's inception: the first time to an Asian, the first ever to a woman. She wanted, at the end of her lectio magistralis, to spell out, perhaps for the first time with some explicitness and completeness, her personal political creed. She listed seven basic beliefs which, regarding political life , she said she tried to live by. Then she spoke of one more, "one more I may not omit." Perhaps the paragraph which followed is worth citing here, even without comment, because it has something to say to our present hour.
(We cite her words now.) "I believe that the vocation of politics must be accepted by those who take up the service of leadership as a vocation in its noblest meaning: it demands all of life. For the life of one who would lead his or her people-in our time as never before-such a life must strive for coherence with the vision aspired to, or else that vision itself and its realization are already betrayed. That vision must itself be present, in some authentic way, in those who seek to realize it: present, in the witness of their example; present, in a purity of heart vis-à-vis the exercise and usages of power; present, in an ultimate fidelity to principle, in a dedication that is ready to count the cost in terms of 'nothing less than everything.' It is Cardinal Newman, I believe, who said that in this world, we do good only in the measure that we pay for it in the currency of our own lives. For us Christians, there is always the image of Jesus, and the price his service demanded of him. And for me there has been, as a constant reminder, the sacrifice my husband offered, and the word that it has spoken, to me and my people." (Cory Aquino, end of citation)
Conclusion
With all this said, I am done. Ma'am, tapos na po ang assignment ko. It has been so hard to do what you asked. But I comfort myself that these so many words really do not matter. What counts in the end is really-what all this week has been; these past few days' outpouring of our people's gratitude and love; what will come after all this today; what we will do, in the times ahead, in fidelity to your gift. I received a text last night from a man of some age and with some history behind him. "She made me proud again, to be Filipino." Maybe that says it all. Cardinal Sin used to put it somewhat differently. "What a gift God has given our people, in giving Cory Aquino to us." The nobility and courage of your spirit, the generosity of your heart, the grace and graciousness that accompanied you always. They called it "Cory magic"-but it was the truth, and the purity and beauty, clear and radiant within you, that we saw. And the hope that arose from that. And when the crosses came to you and you did not refuse to bear them, more to be one with your Christ and one with your people and their pain. "Blessed are the pure of heart; for they shall see God."
Thank You Father in heaven, for your gift to us of Cory Aquino. Thank You that she passed once this way through our lives with the grace You gave her to share with us. If we give her back to you, we do it with hearts of thanksgiving, but now, oh, with breaking hearts also, because of the greatness and beauty of the gift which she was for us, the likes of which, perhaps, we shall not know again. Salamat po, Tita Cory, mahal na mahal po namin kayo. Photos taken at Intramuros by Teya Sabado, Office of University Development and Alumni Relations
Manny & Jun Ozeata w/ classmates taken at this nice restaurant in NYC 2008 to commemorate their 25th year reunion...
On the second ballot of the thirty-fifth General Congregation (GC XXXV) of the Society of Jesus, Nicolás was elected as the Order’s thirty-fourth[5]Superior General on January 19, 2008, succeeding the DutchFr. Peter Hans Kolvenbach. His election was immediately relayed to Pope Benedict XVI, who confirmed him in the post. Many have marked the similarities between Nicolás and former Superior General Fr. Pedro Arrupe, who was removed[6] by Pope John Paul II and was also a Spanish missionary in Japan; Nicolás has described Arrupe, of whom he was once the personal barber, as a "great missionary, a national hero, a man on fire"[7]. He leads a congregation which currently numbers 19,126 members.[8]
He once stated, "Asia has a lot yet to offer the Church, to the whole Church, but we haven't done it yet. Maybe we have not been courageous enough, or we haven't taken the risks we should"[10]. In an article on Nicolás, Michael McVeigh said that Nicolás has also expressed his wariness of missionaries who are more concerned with teaching and imposing orthodoxy than in having a cultural experience with the local people, saying, "Those who enter into the lives of the people, they begin to question their own positions very radically."[10]
In the homily of the Mass celebrated after his election as Superior General, Nicolás emphasized service, based on the scriptural reading for that day, the words of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and Benedict XVI's teaching on God is love. He stated: "The more we become as servants, the more pleased God is." Delving further on the scriptural passage and after relating an anecdote of experiences with the poor in Asia, he related poverty with having God as the only source of strength, pointing out that the Jesuit's strength is not in externals (power, media, etc.) nor in internal fortitude (research). "The poor only have God in whom to find strength. For us only God is our strength."
Nicolas also developed the following ideas: the message of the Jesuits is "a message of salvation" and the challenge of discerning the type of salvation that people today are waiting for.[11]
[edit] Obedience to Rome
After receiving a message from Pope Benedict asking the Society of Jesus to affirm its fidelity to the magisterium and the Holy See, the Congregation presided by Nicolás responded, "The Society of Jesus was born within the Church, we live in the Church, we were approved by the Church and we serve the Church. This is our vocation...[Unity with the pope] is the symbol of our union with Christ. It also is the guarantee that our mission will not be a 'small mission,' a project just of the Jesuits, but that our mission is the mission of the Church."[12]
[edit] Liberation theology
In a November 2008 interview with El Periodico, Nicolás described liberation theology as a "courageous and creative response to an unbearable situation of injustice in Latin America."[13] These remarks are particularly controversial since liberation theology has been pointedly denounced by Pope John Paul II[14] and by Pope Benedict XVI, when he was still Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.[15] However, the Superior General also added, "As with any theology, liberation theology needs years to mature. It’s a shame that it has not been given a vote of confidence and that soon its wings will be cut before it learns to fly. It needs more time."[13]
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