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		<title>World Day of Vocations: What’s Nourishing Your Call?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, May 3, 2009, is Vocations Sunday, and the heart of the gospel about our Good Shepherd brings home again the timeless message that I am a sheep and a shepherd in my own little pasture. I am called to tend with the most tender care I can the sheeps within my fold – my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=91&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lenten Series Tips: Sacred Rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heaven heard “Sting’s desert prayer” for this corner of the universe. Raindrops fall gently since dawn on these dry and dusty roads of the metropolis, trying to convince bikers like me to wear my coats. Along the road, fellow bikers seem to be romping on the refreshing wet of rain, inattentive to its slow, soaking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=88&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fr. Thomas H. Green, SJ: 1932-2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He was never my mentor, at least in the classroom, and occasionally, I only had a glance of him or a casual greeting along the corridors of Loyola. Typical of tempered souls, there was some lightness in his gait and smile even if his eyes projected some probing seriousness. He got a PhD in Physics afterall. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=86&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neighborhood Irresponsible Borrowers Association</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you found yourself in a taut situation when your body and brain simply craves for a good laugh? That all you want is a good stretch of laughter? I’m sure you do. Then the brain keeps on opening a folder of files of some healthy laughs, perhaps of 10 or 15 years ago? “So? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=84&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Alabang Boys” and the Boys and Men Among Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will I still watch the evening news or not? Will you, when news about Philippine politics is getting more sickening even at the threshold of a new year? Is it really worth our time and attention when apparently, the name of the game in the justice system is pakapalan ng mukha, and no bigwig is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=82&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Owling on Novels</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two things I’ll admit again, folks: I’m not a novel-gulper and I love hospital work. These 2 time-killer seems an ocean apart but they’re not. Novels brim with dramas. So are hospitals. The dramatic plots in novels are purely in the writer’s mind; the ones in hospitals are real. Although I like literature, I haven’t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=80&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Belo Touches My Skin. Who Touches Yours?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippine population is a young population. It’s getting more young courtesy of a handful of stylish cosmetic surgeons around. The gospel according to Belo and Calayan makes us wonder if indeed, ageing is simply a matter of “feeling sluggish old” or “feeling vibrant young”. In a way, there’s a subtle rebellion against the physical process; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=78&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Janitor as Phlebotomist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a regular workday and out of the stream of an ordinary under-the-blue-sky garden chores, some surprising revelations could pop up out of an ordinary conversation. Dried leaves here and there, not necessarily in the bulk of a seasonal fall. Candy wrappers to pick up, plants to trim and calamansi and guava trees to sprinkle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=76&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Second Time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“How was it the first time?“  “First time what?” “Your first plane ride?“  Oh yeah, that was fun and thrill. That was sometime in 1997, October I guess. I tried to orbit Mindanao as a vocation promoter (amazingly, I’m still doing vocation promotion for holy living through this blog) and my point of departure was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=74&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the Voice that Waits to Cry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The voice of one crying in the wilderness is the voice of one breaking the silence.” St. Augustine It could be the voice of boredom, or of failure that makes you numb, disabling you to relish the “petty “beauty of life around you. It could be the voice of anger seething into some dangerous expression, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loweringnets.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8625680&amp;post=72&amp;subd=loweringnets&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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