Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, Happy Birthday!

Today, Sept. 18, 2015, we celebrate the 85^th birthday of our dear father, Fr. Al.

He has touched & transformed hundreds and thousands of people’s lives including you and me. He has given us hope, love and a great example on how we should live our lives in according to God’s purpose. He is our father who served as role model to us his children, a servant of God who dedicated his life to the poor.

“The Glory of God is man fully alive” observed St. Irenaeus. This is the personal motto Father Al has lived by. He has lived his life to the fullest by heeding God’s call in his life. And because of that, he has been used as instrument by God to transform thousands upon thousands of lives around the globe. He has manifested God’s overflowing love in his life. It is then our turn to do also what we can with what has been given to us.

In a simple way of serving others through the God-given gifts and talents that has been given to us is already a great gesture of living life to the fullest.

Fr. Al, you have showed us through your life how to be truly alive, Thank you! You are a true hero, a true champion, a great father to us all.

Happy, Happy, Happy birthday, Fr. Al!  We love you so much!

Thank you for your legacy of love through The Sisters of Mary.

P.S. Let us offer a thanksgiving mass today for our dear father and please do remember to always, always include in our daily prayer the INTERCESSORY PRAYER for Fr. Al’s beatification & canonization. God Bless us all!

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Your fellow Aloysian,

Jaizy Tanawe

www.jaizytanawe.com

*Photo courtesy of Father Al's Sainthood Facebook Page

CHRIST LIVES ON

Happy Monday, Dear Fellow Aloysians!

Today, I would like to share with you an excerpt from Father Al's book, "The Starved and the Silent."

CHRIST LIVES ON in the world today and exerts his influence upon it in three ways:

1) the Eucharist,

2) the inspired word of Scripture, and

3) the person of the poor.

He who made us dwells among us. He can be found not only in the silence of our tabernacles and in the solemn language of our sacred book, but also on our streets and in our marketplaces. The living Christ is as close to us as the nearest poor person.

We see this profound, yet unnamed mystery of the divine indwelling of the poor prepared in the Old Testament. One third of the Psalms revolve about the poverty, affliction, and suffering of men, and the psalmists bring out with lyric tenderness the proximity of God to those in these conditions. The prophets also, the forerunners of Christ, were inspired to associate themselves in a special way with the poor.

Christ, who is the fulfillment and culmination of all that went before, not only associates himself with the poor: He identifies himself with them. Christ proclaimed this truth in a most solemn way in the twenty-fifth chapter of St. Matthew because he places it at the end of the last of the five great sermons of Christ which form the framework of his entire Gospel. Christ is speaking here of the final judgment and he concludes:

"Then the King will say to those who are on his right hand, 'Come you that have received a blessing from my Father, take possession of the Kingdom which has been prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave me food, thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you brought me home, naked, and you clothed me; sick, and you cared for me; a prisoner, and you came to me.' Whereupon the just will answer, 'Lord, when was it that we saw thee hungry, and fed thee, or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When was it that we saw thee a stranger and brought thee home, or naked, and clothed thee? When was it that we saw thee sick or in prison and came to thee?' And the King will answer them, 'Believe me, when you did it to one of the least of my brothers here, you did it to me.'"

May we have a Fruitful and Productive week ahead of us as we serve the Lord with joy!

Your Fellow Aloysian,

Jaizy Tanawe

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PURSUIT OF DREAMS

MARK ANTHONY CAPULONG

September 3, 2015. It’s 6:30pm as I’m writing this article. When I opened my Facebook account, guess what’s the first post I saw? Our fellow Aloysian, Mark Anthony Capulong’s story. It has spread like wild fire. It has become viral. Especially after it has been broadcasted on ABS-CBN’s longest running drama anthology, MMK (Maalaala Mo Kaya).

Many viewers have been inspired. I too have been inspired.  A lot of us even proudly posted on our Facebook timeline.

His story thought me 3 things. Allow me to share them with you.

1.    DREAM BIG DREAMS.

I wasn’t only inspired by his story but I was all the more encouraged to pursue my dreams. To have determination and do whatever it takes to achieve them. I have big dreams, yes. But some of them have been forgotten. Sometimes, the obstacles are too big it can overwhelm you to put your dreams on hold. I realized that I forgot why I even have these dreams in the first place. That’s why