A PUBLICATION OF THE HYEHWADONG FILIPINO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN SEOUL ARCHDIOCESE

Volume 17 Issue 09

SEPTEMBER 2012

Feastday: September 28 Beatified By: Pope John Paul II Canonized By: Pope John Paul II orenzo Ruiz is the first Filipino saint. He is also the first Filipino martyred for the Christian Faith. Lorenzo Ruiz was a layman, married, and had two sons and a daughter. Born in Binondo,

Manila, about 1600's, he was educated in the school of the Dominicans there. He served as an altar boy and later was a helper and clerksacristan in the church of Binondo. He was a member of the Confraternity of the Rosary. He made his living probably as a calligrapher, one who renders documents in beautiful penmanship for private or official use. To be sure, that
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Whats Inside
Number of multiracial students rises to 46,900 3 Pope calls for Mideast leaders to work for peace 3 Naturalization rules will be strengthened 4 Foreign workers quota to rise next year 4 Korea to permit more foreign workers next year 4 Why is cohabitation a social and moral problem? 5 Likhaan 6 On Frustrations 6 Pagpapatuloy ng pagbasa mula sa aklat ng PINOY EXODO 7 Covenant Love: Introducing the Biblical Worldview 8 Jesus, Lord Over Nature, Demons and All Things 9 Violent film protests erupt in Kabul and Jakarta 11 Ulat Komunidad12 Announcements 13 Frequently Called Numbers 14 Daily Mass Readings (ORDO) 14 Birthday Greetings 14

By: Isidro P. Antiquiera n celebration of the 4th DMZ documentary Film Festival and Paju Book Festival, the Philippine Embassy in Seoul, in cooperation with various Filipino groups and communities held a Philippine Day celebration in Paju City last Sunday September 23, 2012. The said festival is a week-long festivities showcasing documentary films presented by the Gyeonggido province and Paju City. The Philippines was chosen by the DMZ Docs organizing committee as the first country to hold a

national day as part of the festival. At the Philippine Day, various Filipino communities around Gyeonggido province showcased Filipino culture, history and traditions through songs and dances in a 2-hour musical variety show. A short film documentary wherein Filipino korean veterans told stories about their experiences during the Korean War were also shown as an opening for the festivity. Filipinos, Koreans and other foreign visitors were able to get a chance to have a taste of
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OVERVIEW alinangang Pilipino, primarily a fund raising project organized by the Hyehwadong Filipino Catholic Community (HFCC) is now in its 5th year. It started in 2008 in the communitys effort to give more emphasis on Filipino culture and values as shown and portrayed by the candidates, rather than the

physical appearance, talent and intelligence. For the past four (4) years, it has carried the title Ginoo at Binibining Kalinangang (GBK) Pilipino. However, as the community started to recognize the presence of the multicultural families in the community, it has opened the opportunity them as well. So, beginning this
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Number of multiracial students rises to 46,900

By Yun Suh-young (ysy@koreatimes.co.kr) he number of students from multiracial families increased fivefold since 2006 and by more than 20 percent over the past year, statistics showed Monday. Data compiled by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology showed the number of multiracial students increased by 8,276, or 21 percent, to 46,954 this year from 2011; five times the 9,389 six years ago. The survey was conducted by Korean Education Development Institute on 11,390 elementary, middle and high schools nationwide. If the current trend continues, students from multiracial households will take up more than 1 percent of the countrys total primary and secondary school students by 2014, according. As of April this year when the data was last compiled, they took up 0.7 percent of the total. If the 9,035 foreign students attending international schools here are included, the numbers rise to 55,989. These students were excluded from the survey this time. There were more students from multiracial families in elementary schools (72 percent) than middle (20.5 percent) or high schools (7.5 percent). Most of them (85.3 percent) were born here, whereas 9.1 percent came to the country with a foreign parent, and 5.6 percent were born to foreign couples residing here. By region, most of them lived in the metropolitan area (43.3 percent). By nationality of the foreign parent, Chinese took up the majority (33.8 percent), followed by Japanese (27.5 percent), Filipino (16.1 percent) and Vietnamese (7.3 percent), according to the data. The rise in the number of students from such families is attributed to an increase in the number of Korean men marrying foreign women and a steady influx of migrant workers settling here for work.

Source: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/ nation/2012/09/120_120159.html Posted: 09-17-2012 18:19

Pope calls for Mideast leaders to work for peace

By Albion Land | AFP Sun, Sep 16, 2012 ope Benedict XVI prayed on Sunday that Middle East leaders work towards peace and reconciliation, stressing again the central theme of his visit to Lebanon, whose neighbour Syria is engulfed in civil war. "May God grant to your country, to Syria and to the Middle East the gift of peaceful hearts, the silencing of weapons and the cessation of all violence," the pope said at the end of mass on the final day of his trip to Lebanon. He also appealed to the international community and to Arab countries, in particular, that "as brothers, they might propose workable solutions respecting the dignity, the rights and the religion of every human person." In his weekly Angelus, a prayer to the Virgin Mary, he said "let us ask her to intercede with

her divine Son... for the people of Syria and the neighbouring countries, imploring the gift of peace. "You know all too well the tragedy of the conflicts and the violence which generates so much suffering. Sadly, the din of weapons continues to make itself heard, along with the cry of the widow and the orphan. "Violence and hatred invade people's lives, and the first victims are women and children. Why so much horror? Why so many dead?" Earlier, the pope said that "in a world where violence constantly leaves behind its grim trail of death and destruction, to serve justice and peace is urgently necessary. "I pray in particular that the Lord will grant to this region of the Middle East servants of peace and reconciliation, so that all people can live in peace and with dignity," he added. And in remarks before leaving Lebanon, he said: "I pray to God for Lebanon, that she may live in peace and courageously resist all that could destroy or undermine that peace." "I hope that Lebanon will fortify the communion among all her inhabitants, whatever their community or religion, that she will resolutely reject all that could lead to disunity, and with determination choose brotherhood." The pontiff arrived back in Rome on board a Lebanese airline MEA flight which landed at Ciampino airport around 1935 GMT. An estimated 350,000 people had gathered under a bright warm sun to join the pontiff as he celebrated a solemn mass on his third and final day in Lebanon. On Saturday, the frail 85-year-old pontiff urged Middle Eastern Christians and Muslims to forge a harmonious, pluralistic society in which the dignity of each person is respected and the right to worship in peace is guaranteed. He called for a change of heart that involves "rejecting revenge, acknowledging one's faults, accepting apologies without demanding them and, not least, forgiveness." He said the universal yearning of humanity for peace can only be realised through community, comprising individual persons, whose aspirations and rights to a fulfilling life are respected. He said the conditions for building and consolidating peace must be grounded in the dignity of man. Without pointing fingers, he said "some ideologies undermine the foundations of society. We need to be conscious of these attacks on our efforts to build harmonious coexistence." Benedict noted that Christians and Muslims have lived side by side in the Middle East for centuries and that there is room for a pluralistic society. -- 'Two religions within the same family' --------------------------------------------"It is not uncommon to see the two religions within the same family. If this is possible within the same family, why should it not be possible at the level of the whole of society?" "The particular character of the Middle East consists in the centuries-old mix of diverse elements. Admittedly, they have fought one

another, sadly that is also true. A pluralistic society can only exist on the basis of mutual respect, the desire to know the other and continuous dialogue." Central to that, the freedom "to profess and practise one's religion without danger to life and liberty must be possible to everyone." Echoing his words, Lebanon's Sunni mufti, or spiritual leader, Mohammed Rashid Kabbani, said the events rocking the Arab world "bring us Muslims and Christians a light that shows us the path to a better tomorrow, though they also bring many dangers that are a threat to us. "But just as we made our history together in the past, we will also make our future together, based on coexistence." The pope's outreach to Muslims is particularly poignant as the region is rocked by the deadly violence over the anti-Islamist film that cost the lives of the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans on Tuesday. Eleven protesters also died as police battled to defend US missions from mobs in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen. On Saturday, the pope met thousands of youth, urging Muslims and Christians to "live side by side without hatred, with respect for the beliefs of each person, so as to build together a free and humane society. Addressing a number of Syrians among them, he said: "I want to tell you how much I admire your courage," adding that he was "sad because of your suffering and your bereavement."
Source: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pope-celebrates -mass-final-day-lebanon-062555376.html

Violent film protests erupt in Kabul and Jakarta

ABUL (Sept 17, 2012): Protests Monday turned violent for the first time in Afghanistan and Indonesia over an American film mocking Islam as hundreds of angry men clashed with police, hurling stones and shouting "Death to America". The outbreaks of violence were the latest eruptions of anger over the low-budget trailer made in the United States and aired on YouTube that has fanned unrest around the world, leaving at least 18 people dead. The movie entitled "Innocence of Muslims", believed to have been produced by a small group of extremist Christians, has sparked a week of furious protests outside US embassies and other American symbols in at least 20 countries. In Kabul on Monday, more than 1,000 Afghans protested, setting police cars and commercial storage containers ablaze on Jalalabad Road, Kabul police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi told AFP. Between 40 to 50 policemen were "very slightly wounded" by stone throwers and members of the crowd waving sticks, said Salangi, who added that he had also been grazed by a stone. Burning tyres sent thick black smoke streaming into the sky and rocks littered the road as shopkeepers hurriedly locked up and ran away.
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By Yi Whan-woo he Ministry of Justice said Sunday it will strengthen naturalization requirements and take tougher action against those using forged passports and falsifying documents. A draft containing these changes will be sent to the National Assembly for deliberation. If passed, it will go into effect from the next year at the earliest. In the amendment, foreigners wanting to obtain Korean citizenship will be required to acquire permanent resident status before applying for naturalization. Currently, immigrants are eligible to obtain Korean citizenship as long as they have continued to live in the country for five years. However, the new regulations will require foreigners to obtain permanent resident status first. The ministry plans to issue permanent resident cards that need to be reviewed every seven years. The measure is designed to counter illegal immigrants who forge documents for naturalization, the ministry said. We found that a number of immigrants, including low-skilled workers, sneak into country on forged passports and also submit fake documents indicating that they have met the requirements for naturalization, an official said. He said the revision draft reflects the changing environment of immigration and naturalization. He added that the tougher rules will not necessarily dampen the nations efforts to usher in a multicultural society. In June, the Korea Immigration Service rounded up 130 KoreanChinese immigrants who entered the country between 2003 and 2011

under false identities. Many of them were females, who married Korean men to obtain citizenship. The ministry said that foreigners who submit forged documents may face a maximum three-year prison sentence or a fine of up to 20 million won ($17,630). Being a permanent resident will mean that a person is staying in the country legally with a legal passport and legitimate documents, an official said. The ministry said foreign spouses married to Koreans will be given priority for permanent resident status with simplified processes as long as the spouse has lived here for at least three years and has been married for more than one year. Children of couples will receive the same benefit. Business people who have made a large financial investment in the country or have unique skills that can contribute to the development of society will also enjoy a simplified process of naturalization. Other applicants, on the other hand, will be required to submit a residence record that shows they have not violated any Korean law during their minimum five years stay. The ministry also said applicants for Korean citizenship should know the Korean language and culture. Acquiring permanent resident status is what the U.S. and other countries with a high number of immigrants requires for their citizenship applicants, and the policy has proven effective, an official said And we hope our draft revision will improve the transparency and accountability of the countrys immigration policy.
Source: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/ nation/2012/09/117_118876.html (09-02-2012 18:08)

By Kim Rahn he nation will issue 62,000 foreign workers permits next year, up by 5,000 from this years quota, to meet growing labor demand here. The Prime Ministers Office (PMO) announced next years foreign workforce quota Thursday after a meeting of related ministers. Weve decided to increase the quota to relieve labor shortages in the manufacturing sector. We decided about three months earlier than usual, so that we can begin hiring workers as early as possible, Yim Jongryong, a minister at the PMO, said. According to the plan, a total of 62,000 migrant workers will be allowed to work here on E-9 visas. The number reflects the vacancies expected when 39,000 employees return home by the end of the year following their visa expiration, plus additional demand. Of the quota, 52,000 positions were allocated for newcomers, and the remaining 10,000, for those who have previously worked here. The majority of them will be in the manufacturing sector, while the remainder will work in the agricultural, livestock and fishing industries. In a separate quota for foreigners of Korean descent who are given H2 visas, mostly ethnic Korean-Chinese, the government has decided to keep the same number as this year, 303,000. Considering the current labor shortage, well begin issuing working permits next month, so that part of the 2013 quota can enter the country before January 1, Yim said. The government will also allow small companies with less than 10 employees to hire up to three foreign workers, up from the current two. It will also come up with measures to protect migrant workers rights, supporting their life here and resolving unfair treatment by employers. Well support companies hiring foreign workers according to the law, while sternly punish those illegally using foreign employees, Labor Minister Lee Chae-pil said. rahnita@koreatimes.co.kr

ore foreign workers will receive permission to work in the country next year amid a rising labor demand in the manufacturing sector, the government said Thursday. The nation's foreign workforce quota will be raised to 62,000 for 2013, up nearly 5,000 from the maximum allowable number of new foreign hires this year, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said in its 2013 policy plan for foreign labor. The separate quota for Koreans with foreign nationalities, mostly ethnic Koreans residing in China, will be retained at the same level at 303,000, it added. Under the envisioned plan, 52,000 of the foreign workers coming into the country under the foreign worker permission policy will be assigned to the manufacturing sector, which is suffering a shortage of laborers, with the remaining laborers to go into the agricultural, livestock and fishing industries, according to the PMO. "The government decided to increase the quota in consideration of the recent (difficult) economic situation," PMO Minister Yim Jong-ryong said while presiding over the meeting to decide the quota. "I expect the measures to reinvigorate the economy and to resolve labor shortages." The government also decided to allow companies with less than 10 employees to have up to three foreign workers, up by one from the current quota, while exploring ways to increase support for alien workers without receiving unfair treatment at their workplace. "The government will increase support for the companies that hire foreign workers according to law, and sternly punish those caught illegally using foreign workers," said Labor Minister Lee Cha-pel. (Yonhap)
Source: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/ nation/2012/09/116_119883.html(09-13-2012 17:53)

source: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/ nation/2012/09/113_119908.html (09-13-2012 20:44)

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irst, it is a fast-growing revolutionary stage in the current cultural evolution, gaining popular approval. We know that, two generations ago, living together before marriage was viewed as scandalous by our society, and the society strongly discouraged it. But that view has been greatly challenged today. The number of unmarried couples living together in the United States has geometrically increased during the past four decades. Between 30 percent and 40 percent of couples seeking marriage in the United States today are living together. Besides, many people see cohabiting not only as permissible, but even as necessary to attempt to diminish the possibility of divorce or marital unhappiness later in the life of the couple. Recent social science research studies, however, show that cohabitation is an actual threat to marital happiness and to the stability of families and society. The Church teaches that cohabitation with sexual union between the unmarried is sinful (see Catechism of the Catholic Church, nos. 2350-2400), and, as such, undermines the very holiness of life one seeks in the Sacrament of Matrimony. Cohabitation is scandalous, and it detracts from the sacredness of marriage. "The only 'place' in which this self -giving in its whole truth is made possible is marriage, the covenant of conjugal love freely and consciously chosen, whereby a man and woman accept the intimate community of life and love willed by God himself." (Familiaris Consortio). So it is morally wrong or sinful for the cohabiting Catholic couple to have sex if they are not sacramentally married, because the sexual act expresses a total commitment which the couple does not yet have. In the case of a sexually active couple living together before marriage, the couple is becoming enslaved to sin rather than becoming free to the truth that Christ has taught us. Lame reasons why couples cohabit: 1) Trial marriage or Cohabiting for Discernment ("Let's just try this and see how it works out."). By living together, the cohabiting couple is trying to discover whether or not they are compatible and suitable for a stable marriage. Their argument runs like this: I wouldnt dream of marrying someone I hadnt lived with. Thats like buying shoes you havent tried on. Advocates of cohabitation claimed that cohabitation effectively sifted out incompatible couples, served as a training and adjustment period, improved mate-selection and enhanced the chances of avoiding divorce. But the statistics do not support this argument. In just one decade, between 1980-1990, the U.S. Census Bureau reported an 80 percent increase in divorce with a significant increase in the number of divorces, with a more dramatic increase for those who cohabited. Only 53% of first cohabiting unions result in marriage. On average, marriage preceded by cohabitation is 46% more likely to end in divorce, and the risk is greatest for serial cohabiters. 2) Cohabiting for convenience and economy: ("We can save more money by moving in together.) Cohabitation also cuts down on travel time, giving cohabiters more time to be with each other. Many of the 2.9 million couples living together before marriage in the United States offer economic reason for living together. The cost of living is less when two people are sharing the bills. But choosing to live together solely for economic reasons reveals a dangerously over-pragmatic and sometimes selfish view of marriage, and the earned income is often easily viewed as "his" or "hers." This can often become a source of frustration and disagreement for cohabiting spouses, as well as for cohabiting singles. In a regular marriage, however, the income and expenses are shared

by both parties. Besides, marital love and happiness are built upon a much deeper and stronger base than upon future financial security. 3) Sexual need: Cohabitation in many cases is an almost natural result of a strong sexual dependency in the couples. Their argument is: "Why do we have to wait to physically express our love freely without anybody supervising us?" Here is the problem. Since sex is addictive, this kind of relationship can also become co-dependent on a more physical level and can confuse sex for love. Instead of the sexual act being a life-giving act of mutual love, it can often become a life-draining and very selfish abuse of one person by the other person and even stifles a couple's discovery of each other's attitudes, hopes and desires. 4) Insecurity: ("I love you so much, that I cannot live without you."): The need for companionship and the fear of loneliness are so strong that either one or both parties decide they cannot wait for marriage because they feel they need to be with each other all of the time. But the insecurity of not being able to live without one another before the marriage manifests itself after the marriage in a lack of that mutual trust between the two parties which is essential for a strong marital relationship. 5) Fear of Commitment: ("I'm just afraid of losing you."). Many cohabiting people have fear of a permanent commitment. By living together without marriage, they know that if they do split, it is not quite the same as a divorce. They want to keep their options open, and they want to keep from getting hurt too badly. The result of this thinking is reflected in the fact that 40 percent of couples who live together before marriage break up before marriage. In addition, research in both England and the United States details the negative impact upon children, including a much higher incidence of child abuse (10 to 33 times more likely with unmarried couples than with married couples). In the United States the risk of divorce is 50 percent higher for previous cohabiters than it is for previous non-cohabiters. 6) Escape mechanism, full of fun: (Living with you will make me much happier than I am now." "Hey! This is going to be fun!") Moving in with someone may allow one or both people to escape from another difficult living arrangement with parents, roommates, friends etc. Some wish to prove their independence by moving in with their boyfriend or girlfriend. Others consider "living together" a thrilling romantic experience. For example, college students often live together with this mentality. But such a relationship all too often becomes simply an escape from other problematic relationships. The average length of such living arrangements among college students is seven months. 7) Social recognition and availability of safe or protected sex. ("We need to get to know one another first. Later we'll start having kids.") With the availability and the social acceptability of artificial contraception, the possibility of an unexpected pregnancy is no longer a strong deterrent. Since artificial contraception eliminates the openness to the possibility of new life resulting from sexual intercourse, the Church has consistently taught that its use is seriously sinful. The Church and the cohabiters: Prior to the explosion of cohabitation in the '60s and '70s, most priests said little about this situation to an unmarried couple who were already living together and were now seeking to marry in the Church. The clergys thinking went like this: They are trying to correct their situation and be reconciled with God, so I will gently and

kindly help them along that path. Father Thomas Kramer of Bismarck, North Dakota, directly confronted this issue in 1984 with a letter to engaged couples. In his communication, Father Kramer discussed the negative aspects of cohabiting from a theological, moral and practical point of view. In addition, he urged couples to separate or, if not, to celebrate their marriage in a quiet ceremony with only two witnesses and the immediate family present. Around the same time, Bishop George Speltz of St. Cloud, Minnesota, issued a Pastoral Letter on Cohabitation making the same arguments and prescribing the same resolution of the matter: Separate or, if you don't, celebrate the marriage with a small, quiet service. Later, more and more dioceses envisioned the exchange between couple and clergy as a teachable and touchable moment. Recognizing that cohabitation is not an official impediment to marriage, those leaders encouraged a dialogue between the couple hoping to marry and the priest or deacon arranging the nuptial service. To facilitate that process, they created a few penetrating but appropriate questions for the couples selfexamination and their subsequent discussion with the priest. In August, 2001, Bishop John DArcy of Fort Wayne, Indiana, issued a letter to engaged couples, which very directly stated: I urge all engaged couples who are living together to separate and those who are engaging in sexual relations to stop. He also suggested to priests that in questions of doubt they might delay the wedding and follow the practice of a small wedding as proposed by Father Kramer and Bishop Speltz. The pastors must be both compassionate and understanding, and at the same time speak with clarity regarding the teachings of the Scriptures. Role of educators and parents: What seems more critical is a comprehensive effort to educate our young people about the negative aspects of cohabitation. Religion classes on the elementary, secondary and college level as well as occasional homilies at Sunday Masses could provide clear teaching. These instructions would also gradually create a climate in which our youth develop an attitude and the conviction that living together before marriage is morally wrong and an unwise preparation for married life. Then, when the later attractive suggestion or possibility of living together before marriage occurs, they would be more likely, for various reasons, to decline or reject that course of action. The cohabiting situation can burden parents perhaps more than anyone else. It is they who gave their children roots and wings and taught them to fly. They may love their children, disagree with the living-together situation and yet wonder what they should say and do. As the first and prime teachers of the faith, parents should instruct the children on this matter starting at an early age as we have mentioned above. Children need to know that cohabitation will cause pain, sadness or hurt to their parents. Be both compassionate and understanding, and at the same time speak with clarity regarding the teachings of the Scriptures. Parents should not harbor any guilt feeling for the poor choice of their children. When a cohabiting son or daughter is planning to come home for vacation or a holiday, parents should tell them plainly that they will not permit him or her to sleep together with his friend in their house. L/12 Sources: 1) http://www.ewtn.com/library/BISHOPS/ LVNGTGTH.HTM 2) http://old.usccb.org/laity/marriage/ cohabiting.shtml 3) http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/
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HANGGANG
Ni: Michael B. Balba Akda kong magawa hindi na mabilang, Kaya nagpupuri sa Poong Maykapal, Dahil sa talinong kanyang ibinigay, Ako'y nakilala dito sa tulaan. Di ko akalaing sa'king mga akda, May makakapansi't maraming hahanga, Kahit di lubusang likas na makata, Nagbigay ligaya aking mga tula. Kahit isang hamak akong manunulat, Akdang nakayanan sa puso'y tumatak, Kaya sa tuwina ako'y nagagalak, Sa biyayang bigay ng Poon na liyag. Hanggang may panulat aking susulatin, Yaong mga akdang mula sa damdamin, Talinong nagbuhat sa Maylikhang giliw, Hanggang nabubuhay ay pagyayamanin. Ako'y matutulad sa punong mayabong, Sa ulan at araw may bunga't may dahon, Ang batis sa tubig habang dumadaloy, Pagiging makata ipagpapatuloy. Hanggang nalalanghap ang ihip ng hangin, Hanggang nakikita marikit na bit'win Hanggang may pag-ibig ang lahat sa atin, Ipagpapatuloy pagka-malikhain.

Dito sa Pinas Pasko na!

ni Bro. Allan Rodriguez Ilang buwan na ang nakalilipas Mga araw na kay bilis at kumakaripas Tila nagmamadali at nakikipag-unahan Sa panahong kay tulin ay nakipaghabulan. Isa, dalawa hanggang walong buwan Nakakagulatooops ber na naman Dumating na naman ang pinakamainam Mahabang paghahanda ay sisimulan. Dito sa Pinas yaong maririnig mo Sa mga malls ay awiting pamasko Tila napakaaga pa upang itoy mapakinggan Dala ng pananabik na sadyang di mapigilan. Ill be home for Christmas ang kanta doon Jingle bells, jingle bells naman sa banda roon Naaalala mo pa baAng nagsindi nitong ilaw, Walang iba kundi ikaway nangingibabaw. Tunay ngang Its more fun in the Philippines! Mga puno sa paligid ay kumukuti-kutitap na rin Its long Christmas in the Philippines!, ika nga Dahil dito sa PinasPasko na! Nakakatuwa, di ba

O N F R US T R AT I O NS
Jhoanna Camilon 've come to believe that all my past failures and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy." - Tony Robbins Events, works, friends and relatives could give us frustrations in various forms and degrees... In the midst of moments we need someone else's help the most, we sometimes don't get them due to sudden unexpected turn of events. We would of course feel bad and wish we have an option to just do things by ourselves at that particular moment - yet, more frustrating is the fact that we have no other choice but just to wait for the right moment when everything becomes possible by God's help. People could not of course immediately respond to other person's needs since they have to attend to their personal struggles and troubles. We could sometimes overlook this reality... Yet, we should accept the fact that we could not always expect to receive the kind of help we expect to at a particular moment. On the other hand, there are also moments when people would not appreciate others in spite of the personal effort you gave them. Our best could always fall short from people who expect beyond what we could afford at a particular time - better food, more expensive gifts, more luxurious getaways and lifestyle, etc... They may smile but definitely, we could feel that we are always a pale comparison from those whom they think is better and richer than us. It is indeed pointless to please people whose expectations we could never measure up with. However, in the midst of them all, a glimmer of hope on the best outcome of things that fell short of what we originally expect and others expect from us, should be kept in our heart. Let us believe that God wants patience, understanding, and optimism in the midst of frustrations, be the values we reap and cultivate as we go through those kinds of experiences. It is just consoling to think that God would always make a way for things we hope for in His perfect time... and even if others find us unlovable, we will always be Number 1 in God's heart. I am looking forward to positive side of my life, come what may... Have a great week ahead! God bless us always!

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(Authors: Fr. Adonis Llamas Narcelles Jr., SVD at Fr. Rex Fullente Fortes, CM ) Ibinabahagi ni Bro. Allan Rodriguez mula sa aklat, ok ka lang dyan? 0 buwan pa lamang si Misis sa Israel ay naka-40 beses na rin siya ng padala sa Western Union. Di rin biro ang $1,000 buwan-buwan dahil halos dito na lang napupunta ang sweldo niya, ni wala na ngang natitira para sa kanya. Eh paano ba naman, halos hindi maubos-ubos ang mga pangangailangan ng mag-anak niya, eh dadalawa lang naman ang anak nilang mag-asawa: isang 3rd year High School at isang Grade 6. Kesyo raw magnenegosyo ng buy and sell (na nalugi rin paglaon), o ibibili ng lupa (na meron naman palang problema sa titulo), o magta-tricycle (na nakumpiska naman dahil kolorum). Sa kabila nito, walang palya pa rin siya sa pagpapadala ng pera, dahil labis ang pagtitiwala niya sa kanyang asawa, na kanyang sinumpaang maging kabiyak sa hirap at ginhawa. Ngunit ang totoo ay sa ginhawa lang pala. Ayaw niya sanang maniwala noong una. Ngunit mismong mga tiyuhin na niya ang nagkumpirma na laging laman pala ng sabungan ang kanyang magaling na asawa, at dito napupunta ang kanyang pinagpapagurang pera. Ang masama pa nito ay halos napabayaan na ang kanilang mga anak. Ang panganay niya ay tumigil na pala ng pag-aaral sa dami ng bagsak na marka, at absences sa tuwinang pagtatambay sa bilyaran. Samantala, ang bunso naman niya bagaman matalino nga, ay laging tahimik at matatagpuang nagkukulong sa kuwarto, nagpupuyat sa harap ng play station nito. Halos lahat din ng kanyang ipinundar ay naisanla na pala, at malapit na ring maremata sa banko ang bahay na tinitirhan nila. Napuno na ang salop ng kanyang pasensiya, kayat nakapagbitiw na siya sa telepono ng maaanghang na salita sa kanila, araw pa naman yun ng noche buena. Sukdulan na ang galit niya kayat nagawa niyang pagbabasagin ang mga plorera ng flat nila. Walang tigil siya sa paghagulgol gabigabi, di dahil sa panloloko ng asawa niya, kundi dala marahil ng matinding pagkaawa sa sarili. Nahimasmasan lamang siya nang mapayuhan ng kapwa-Filipinong dinanas din pala ang mga pinagdaraanan niya. Nang makakuha ng lakas ay hinarap niya ang computer, at dito, ibinuhos sa isang liham ang bagong patakaran niya sa pamilya, Ang Sampung Utos ng Pamilya ng Migranteng Pinoy: 1. Ang Panginoon ninyong Diyos ang pinagmulan ng lahat ng inyong tinatamasa. Huwag kayong sasamba sa diyus-diyosang ang pangalan ay Pera. 2. Huwag ninyong sisisihin ang Panginoong Diyos kung ang pakiramdam ninyoy nawasak ang relasyon ng inyong pamilya. Ito lang talaga ang isa sa di-maiiwasang bunga ng pangingibang-bansa. 3. Magsimba kayo sa araw ng pangilin: magpasalamat sa mga biyaya at ipagdasal ang kaligtasan at kalusugan ng inyong mahal sa buhay na sa ibayong dagat ay nagpapaka-alila. 4. Igalang ninyo ang tumatayong tagapangalaga sa ngalan ng inyong magulang na nasa ibang bansa. Di man kayo galing sa kanila ay kapakanan ninyo pa rin ang kanilang inaalala. 5. Huwag ninyong papatayin ang ugnayan sa sariling asawa o magulang na nasa malayong lugar, nakasasawa man ang mga e-mail at lingguhang tawag niya. 6. Huwag kayong maghahanap ng bagong asawa, magu-magulang o barkada na inyong mamahalin nang higit pa sa kanya. Di man kayo personal na nasusubaybayan, siya pa rin ang inyong kaisa-isang ina (o asawa) na nagpapakasakit para sa inyong magandang umaga. 7. Huwag kayong magnanakaw ng perang ipinapadala at iwawaldas ito sa maling mga paraan, luho at pasya. Tandaan na ang bawat singko nito ay pinagpapawisan niya. 8. Huwag magsisinungaling sa mga makukulit na itinatanong niya, dahil may karapatan siyang malaman kung saan napupunta ang kanyang pera. Sinisiguro lang niya na nailalagay ito ng tama sa magagandang adhika. 9. Huwag pag-interesan ang ibang mas maganda, bata, at maalaga kaysa sa iyong asawang nasa abroad dahil napabilis lamang ang kanyang pagtanda bunga ng 12 oras kada-araw na pagkakayod niya. 10. Huwag ninyong naising pumorma at magpasikat na mayaman, dahil di naman talaga kayo totoong mayaman habang ang inyong mahal sa buhay ay nagkukudkod sa hirap para lamang kayo ay guminhawa. Wala pang 1 oras mula nang ipinadala niya ang Utos ay nagpakumbaba agad ang kanyang asawa. Labis na nagsisi ito, nangakong di na muling magkakasala at nagwikang ikamamatay raw niya ang mawala ang kanyang pinakamamahal niyang maybahay. Lalong nabagabag ang kanyang damdamin nang ang dalawang anak mismo ay mag-text at humingi rin despensa. Magpapakabait at mag-aaral na raw sila. Di naman niya magawang magtanim ng galit sa kanyang mahal na pamilya, kayat madali rin niyang napatawad sila. At kinabukasan ay muling nagpadala ng pera sa asawa: humihingi kasi ito ng perang ipambibili ng mga biik na aalagaan raw niya para kumita. Eto naman siyang patuloy na umaasang nagbago na nga siya. Magkamali man siya ng paniniwala pero siya ay di kailanman magbabago. Sapagkat sa kaibuturan ng kanyang puso, patuloy siyang magpapatawad, magsisikap at magpapadala ng pera ituring man siyang nagpapakatanga ng maraming tao. Sadyang ito na yata ang kapalaran ng isang Migranteng Pinoy na magpakabayani sa paglalakbay sa tila walang hangganang ilang ng Pinoy Exodo. Ang Salita ng Nagmamalasakit. Salamat sa Diyos. becomes a reliving of a forgotten past. Bautista from today's youths. Interestingly, they don't (Continued from page 15 - Harana ...) doesnt stay contented with what he found; he say this with any hostility. They've accepted it October 5, 4pm at CGV Centum City 3 goes further by bringing his find to places due as the way things are, that people and commuOctober 7, 10am at CGV Centum City 7 their talents, assuming a self appointed position nities just inherently change over time." - VinOctober 11, 8PM at CGV Centum Ctiy 6 of a champion, chronicling a beautiful part of cenzo Tagle (We Talk About Movies) For tickets go to: www.biff.kr/ o HARANA REVIEW CAPSULES - July history now gone extinct. - Lyndon Maburaot (Table Stretcher) 2012: "It's a wonderful documentary, both intellecThe movie constantly gave me goosebumps, (Continued from page 5 - Why is cohabitation ...) tually stimulating and heartwarming. At times in awe of the guitar players and the serenaders. the beauty of the music is emotionally over- - Carl Joseph Papa (Whatever, Carl) library/view.cfm?recnum=3297 whelming." - Joel Shepard, San Francisco's It is an amazing documentary! Instead of 4) http://www.americancatholic.org/ Newsletters/CU/ac0603.asp Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' Film Curator crying for the lost art of Harana and dwelling (HARANA Stuns Cinemalaya) on the problem, it became a very hopeful and 5) http://foryourmarriage.org/catholic-marriage/ church-teachings/cohabitation/ Bautistas Harana is the most honest found thoughtful tribute. A true homage. - Nico Que6) http://www.catholicmarriagecentre.org.uk/ story film done. We bear witness to both the jano (Cinephiles) articles/parents.htm finding and the telling of one irresistible story. "The real heart of this documentary lies in the 7) http://www.catholic.net/index.php? - Oggs Cruz (twitchfilm.com) three haranistas' camaraderie as the last basid=3517&option=dedestaca Harana is the best film in Cinemalaya. And tions of their serenades. They know that their For Year of Faith lessons (1-10) visit our its non-competition. - Don Jaucian (Film art is becoming irrelevant thanks to the on- parish website: http://stjohngrandbay.org/ Critic, Philippine Star) slaught of modernity. They point to inventions I thank my God each time I think of you and Who says that the Festival Pass is not worth such as the videoke machine and the cellphone when I pray for you, I pray with joy. its price? The simple search for Haranistas as the primary elements that sapped the passion

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So, we're not going to get too hung up in this class on whether God created the world in six 24-hour days, or whether the biblical account (Editors note: This is the 2nd part of the Online supports one of the theories of evolution. Bible Study course on the subject taken from the (Those interested in pursuing these subjects website of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Studies - should check out Dr. Scott Hahn's One Holy http://www.salvationhistory.com/) Tribe, which has a more in-depth treatment of Lesson Two: From Sabbath to the creation story.) Here we're going to approach Genesis as it Flood was written - as an ancient Hebrew narrative Lesson Two Objectives: that's telling history in a religious, not modernsecular, way. This is family history. It's not the 1. To read Genesis 1-12 with understanding. 2. To learn the meaning of the first two history of nations and armies and economies covenants of salvation history - the Sabbath, that we're used to. It's history from God's perspective. and the covenant made with Noah. 3. To begin to understand the "patterns" of III. Creating a Covenant of Love A. The Love Story of God and Humanity biblical history. The point of the first three chapters of Lesson Outline: Genesis is to show us that creation was a I. Review and Overview deliberate, purposeful act of love by God. The II. How to Read Genesis world didn't just happen. God wanted the world III. Creating a Covenant of Love - not because He was lonely, not because there A. The Love Story of God and Humanity was anything He lacked or needed. B. The Wedding in the Garden God created the world because God is love C. The Child-Like Image of Man (see 1 John 4:16). And love is creative, selfIV. A New Creation, A New Covenant giving and life-giving. A. Falling Towards a Flood God made the world as a pure gift of His B. Beginning With the Rain love. He created the world as His home, a sort C. The Story of Two Names of cosmic temple in which the heavens are the V. Study Questions ceiling and the earth - with all its vast I. Review and Overview continents, rivers, oceans, mountain ranges and In our last lesson, we introduced the core the like - is the floor. The world is made to be a biblical concept of "the covenant." In this temple where He will dwell with the lesson - we look at the theory in action, reading descendants of the man and woman, the crown the first 11 chapters of "the Book of the jewel, of His creation. Covenant," the Bible. The world is made to be the site where God II. How to Read Genesis will live in communion with the people He How are we supposed to read Genesis as created. That's what the seventh day, the Sabbath, means (Genesis 2:1-3). modern Catholics? The seventh day marks the completion of We have to read Genesis on its own terms which are religious, not scientific or historical God's work on His dwelling, and this is the day in the modern, secular, rationalistic sense of the He makes a covenant with the people He terms. Genesis wasn't written to be God's created. As we said in our last lesson, assigned textbook for science class or "covenant" is the way that God makes His anthropology. We can learn a lot from the Bible people into a family. On the seventh day, God about physics, evolution, geology, cosmology made Adam and Eve part of His family. and the rest - but that's not what Genesis was The covenant of creation, then, is the first written for. sign of God's intentions for the world and for Around the time of the Galileo controversy, the human race. It's true that the word an Italian historian, Cardinal Caesare "covenant" isn't mentioned in the Genesis Baronious, gave us a great sound-bite to sum up account. But it's everywhere between the lines. what we're saying: "The Scriptures tell us how Some scholars believe Genesis records a seven-day creation because the root of the to go to heaven - not how the heavens go." Everything the Bible has to tell us - about Hebrew word for "covenant oath-swearing" everything from morals to history - is true. But sheba - stems from the word "seven." To swear it's true in the Bible's way of telling the truth, an oath means, literally, "to seven oneself" (see which is God's truth, religious truth. That's not Genesis 21:27-32). We can say that God made a cop-out answer. You don't read a math book the world in seven days as an act of cosmic looking for religious truths. We can't assume to oath-swearing, a "sevening of Himself" to His read this religious text in order to find creation - He created in order to covenant. mathematical and scientific proofs. Later, God reveals to Moses that the Sabbath Scripture gives us religious history, religious is to be observed as "a perpetual covenant" (see truth, and it conveys that truth and history to us Exodus 31:16-17). The Sabbath becomes the through symbols and figures and different day of worship, when God and the people He created in His image rest together in love. (see literary styles. Get used to this. This is how the Old Exodus 20:8-11; 31:12-17; Deuteronomy 5:15; 12:9; Ezekiel 20:12). Testament, especially, is written. The Catechism calls the creation story the Read the seventh chapter of the Book Daniel: He describes 400 years of Israel's history in "first step" in "the forging of the covenant of terms of four beasts, four ugly animals that the one God with His people...the first and oppress God's people, one after the other. Now, universal witness to God's all-powerful through research, we can see that these "beasts" love" (no. 288). That's why Jesus says: "The each represent nations - Babylon, Medo-Persia, Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Greece and Rome - that oppressed Israel. Sabbath" (see Mark 2:27-28). It's very important that we understand this Daniel is giving us solid history, but he's giving covenant of creation. it to us through symbolic means.

Covenant Love: Introducing the Biblical Worldview

Because it is the archetype - the source and model - for all the covenants that we will be studying in this course. Every one of the future covenants - with Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and the New Covenant of Jesus - is a remembrance and a renewal of this first covenant with creation. In other words, in those future covenants, we will find that God is remembering, rededicating and recommitting Himself, so to speak, to this original covenant. This is how the ancient Jews looked at the covenants. We can see that in some of the so-called "intertestamental literature" - Jewish religious books and commentaries written between the close of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New (see Jubilees 36:7; 1 Enoch 69:15-27). As the covenants of old are described as renewing the covenant of creation, the New Covenant - the final and everlasting covenant is described as bringing about a new creation. Jesus, "the firstborn of all creation" becomes the "firstborn from the dead" and the "firstfruits" of a reborn humanity (see Colossians 1:15-20; 1 Corinthians 15:20). Those who enter into that New Covenant through Baptism become "new creations" (see 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 6:15). Finally, the Letter to the Hebrews tells us: "A Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God" (see Hebrews 4:9). What we're saying here has been beautifully summed up by Pope Benedict XVI: " Creation moves toward the Sabbath...The Sabbath is the sign of the covenant between God and man; it sums up the inward essence of the covenant....Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man" (see The Spirit of the Liturgy, pp. 25-27) Remember that line: The goal, the purpose the reason that God made the world "in the beginning" - is the covenant, the communion of love that He desires with the human race. B. The Wedding in the Garden The "sign" of God's creation covenant of love is marriage. So we have the chapter that begins with God instituting the Sabbath, blessing it and making it holy (Genesis 2:1-3) ending with God instituting marriage - in which man and woman become one flesh (Genesis 2:23-24). Again, in order to understand what we're reading here, we need to read the Bible as a single book, with a unity of content. We also need to read this Old Testament passage in light of how it is read in the New Testament. We don't find the literal text telling us here that God is "instituting marriage" and that He is making it a permanent, irrevocable covenant between husband and wife. And we don't find the literal text here telling us that this marriage covenant between Adam and Eve symbolizes God's permanent, irrevocable covenant with the human race and all creation. But, when we read this passage in light of the New Testament and in light of the prophets, we understand that this is precisely what's happening here. This is the way God works in the Bible. It's His "pedagogy" - His divine teaching style. He unfolds things slowly. Often He gives us the "sign" itself first and then reveals to us the full significance of the sign later (see Catechism,
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By Bro. Tony Sacapanio Mark 4: 35-41 hat day when evening came, He said to His disciples, let us go over to the other side. Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was in the boat. There were also other boats with Him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke Him and said to Him, Teacher dont you care if we drown? He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, quiet! Be still! Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to His disciples, Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith? They were terrified and asked each other. Who is this? Even the wind and waves obey Him. This event was designed to show the disciples more about Jesus identity. The disciples fear revealed their lack of faith and understanding as to Jesus true identity. Their question, Who is this? carries its own answer. They were in the presence of God and understanding this fact would be the key to solving their problems of fear and faithlessness. He was to be the object of their faith and He was sufficient to deliver them from fear. I The Lake a. The lake is the Sea of Galilee, a body of water 680 feet below sea level and surrounded by the hill. b. The Sea of Galilee is an unusual body of water. It is relatively small, (thirteen miles long and seven miles wide); but it is 150 feet deep. Because it is below sea level and surrounded by mountains, it is susceptible to sudden storms. c. In the spiritual sense, the lake is state of any man when he is at his lowest susceptible to the storms of life. d. Theirs was a physical storm storms come in different forms, the situations that cause you great anxiety. Whatever your difficulty you have two options: You can worry and assume that Jesus no longer cares or you can resist fear, putting your trust in Him. e. The disciples lived with Jesus, but they underestimated him. They did not see that his power applied to their very own situation. Jesus has been with His people for 20 centuries, and yet, we, like the disciples, underestimate his power to handle crosses in our lives. f. Jesus seemed unaware and unconcerned. They woke him and asked, Teacher, dont you even care that we are going to drown? their words were more of a criticism than a call for help. How easy it is for us to complain and criticize God for not coming to our aid, rather than making our request and then trusting him to answer. II. Jesus came to show us who God is and what God is like In John 14:7-11 says, if you really know me (Jesus), you would know my father as well. From now on, you do know him and had seen him. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say Show us the father? Dont you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing His work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me. In Colossians 1:15, He is the image of the invisible God. a. He showed us Gods love. This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. This is love; not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (1 John 4:9-10) b. He showed us Gods Power 1. He healed the sick, the lame and the blind. (Matthew 4:24) 2. He cast out evil spirits. (Mark 1:34) 3. He raised the dead. (John 11:43-44) 4. He performed miracles. 4. To raise funds for the different programs and 8. must be 18 35 years old (Continued from page 1 - Kalinangang Pilipino ...) year, candidates from this sector is very much outreach activities of the community such as: To make sure that the candidates shall excelwelcomed. Hospital and medical assistance; lently perform on stage and be able to show the Performances shall evolve around Filipino Scholarship program; BEST of the Filipino, they will be given a sepresentations showing Filipino cultural dances, Emergency deportation; and ries of inputs on basic Public Speaking Skills, songs and music, history, and culture. Regional Other urgent needs and outreach activities Personality Development, and testimonies from traditional costumes shall be paraded and inof the Philippine Center. former titlists and contestants of similar pagstead of the usual gown competition, it shall be Criteria: eants. a parade of the traditional Maria Clara and The candidates were carefully screened by Tickets worth 10,000 won shall give every Barong Tagalong. The questions shall illicit the Committee and the Community was con- kababayan a chance to: responses from the candidates that are reflec- sulted by publishing their names, photos and 1. watch the event; tive of the innate Pinoy values and intelli- personal information in the SAMBAYANAN, 2. be reminded of the Filipino culture and valgence. the official Newsletter of the community, makues; ing sure that the following criteria were satis- 3. win 1,000,000 won or other big prizes in the Objectives: Specifically, the event has the following ob- fied: raffle draw; and jectives: 1. must have a Filipino citizenship by origin 4. help a kababayan who is in need. 1. Showcase the best of Filipino culture: dances, 2. with good moral standing The man won (10,000) can go a long, long songs, language, costumes, beauty, values, 3. with Community/organization endorsement way to entertain oneself, be proud of being and traditions; 4. single (for female candidates who do not Pinoy, and helping others. 2. Highlight the best practices and characterisbelong to a multicultural marriage) TANGKILIKIN NATIN ANG SARILING tics of the Filipino migrants in Korea; 5. married Filipinos in multicultural marriage ATIN! 3. Provide a venue for cultural sharing and in- 6. willing to follow the event rules and available IPAGMALAKI NATIN ANG SARILING ATIN! teraction between the Koreans and the Filipifor rehearsals SUPORTAHAN NATIN ANG PROYEKTONG nos; and 7. with pleasing personality ITO!

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nos. 53; 122; 1145). That's what He's doing here in Genesis. He's giving us the "sign" of marriage. Later in Scripture it will be revealed that marriage is about not only the relationship between husband and wife. It's intended by God also to be a sign of the relationship He desires with all humanity. The word "marriage" isn't used here in Genesis. We know it's about marriage because Jesus said it was (see Mark 10:2-16). Jesus says this text reflects God's will "from the beginning of creation" and that "what God has joined together, no human being must separate." Now, further along in the New Testament, God shows us more fully what this text means. In Paul's Letter to the Ephesians, he quotes this text and explains that this marriage covenant in the garden is a reference to the covenant between "Christ and the Church" (see Ephesians 5:21-33). Paul doesn't say that our Genesis text isn't about husbands and wives. In fact, he gives a beautiful teaching on the love that husbands and wives share. But he is telling us that marriage is also a symbol of a far greater love the love that Christ has for His bride, the Church, the love that God has for His people. Finally, we turn to the Bible's last book, the Book of Revelation. What do we find on the very last pages of the Bible? A wedding. Just as we find a wedding here in the first pages of the Bible. Coincidence? Hardly. What Revelation "reveals" is the final consummation, the marriage of Christ to His bride (see Revelation 19:9; 21:9; 22:17). And what else? A new creation - a new heaven and a new earth (Revelation 21:1). The prophets always taught Israel to hope for the renewal of the covenant, to reform their lives to live according to the covenant. And one of their favorite descriptions is that of God or the Messiah coming as a bridegroom to take His people as his spouse or bride (see Hosea 2:16-24; Jeremiah 2:2; Isaiah 54:4-8). That why when Jesus comes, He calls Himself the "bridegroom" and those who are united to Him in Baptism are called "espoused" (see John 3:29; Mark 2:19; Matthew 22:1-14; 25:1-13; 1 Corinthians 6:15-17; 2 Corinthians 11:2; see also Catechism, no. 796). We'll talk about this more in our last lesson in this course. But we need to see here - right at the beginning - that this marriage in the Garden of Eden, along with the Sabbath that God institutes, are signs that point us to things far greater. Pope John Paul II says that the Sabbath story "discloses something of the nuptial shape of the relationship that God want to establish with the creature made in His own image, by calling that creature to enter into a pact of love" (see the Pope's apostolic letter "On Keeping the Lord's Day," nos. 11-12). C. The Child-Like Image of Man The "nuptial" image of the groom and spouse is only one of the images the Bible uses to describe the relationship of God to His people. The other image is that of Father to His children. We find this image, too, in the Genesis account. It's often said that the Bible contradicts itself by having two seemingly different accounts of creation within the first two chapters of Genesis. But they're not contradictions. There is a complete "complementarity" between the accounts.

In Genesis 1, we have God the Creator bringing the cosmos into existence - making a cosmic "home" for himself. At the end of this creation, we see Him creating the human person "in his image in the divine image male and female." In Genesis 2, we see God working personally, as a Father, lovingly fashioning the man from the dirt of the earth, creating a garden paradise for him, and finally creating a spouse for him from his very side. There are not two "gods" at work here or two conflicting stories. Not only is God the Creator of all that is seen and unseen. He is also a Father, who loves His people tenderly, as a divine parent. In the language of the Bible, to be born in someone's "image and likeness," means to be that person's child. The expression "image and likeness" expresses the Father-son relationship of God and His people (see Genesis 5:1-3; Luke 3:38). From the very beginning, then, we see that God intended people to be His children, His divine offspring. But as we saw above, there is also what the Pope describes as a "nuptial" dimension to the relationship that God wants with His people. We're learning, in the very first pages of the Bible, a very important lesson - the limits of our human language in describing God's love for us. Words can't possibly begin to describe the love that God has for us. So here, in the first pages of the Bible, we're given the two most powerful images of human love imaginable that of parent and child and that of husband and wife (see Catechism, no. 219). In a sense, we can say that the Bible we're about to read cover-to-cover, tells the story of God raising His family from infancy to adulthood. He prepares them little by little to be fit for the wedding supper of the Lamb in heaven, for a divine union with Him that can only be symbolized by marriage - the most ecstatic and intimate of human relationships.

IV. A New Creation, A New Covenant

A. Falling Towards a Flood The chapters that follow in Genesis (see Genesis 3-5) show us "the fall" of our first human ancestors - from divinely made son and daughter living in paradise, to wayward children who reject their Father's wisdom and squander their birthright, losing their home. The Devil, in the form of the serpent, tempts them and leads them astray (see Catechism, nos. 391-395). And sin - the rejection of God's Fatherhood - enters the generations of humankind. But even as His children have exiled themselves from paradise through sin, God promises them redemption, a homecoming. He promises that throughout human history there will be an "enmity" between the serpent, Satan, and the woman, "the mother of all the living," and between their offspring (see Genesis 3:15, 20). There begins the tension that will shape the rest of Genesis and the rest of the Bible between the bad seed of sin and the seed of righteousness. The first child born of original sin, Cain, becomes the world's first murder. As Adam and Eve, the first children of God, rejected the Fatherhood of God, their children reject the brotherhood of man, symbolized in Cain's spiteful words to God: "Am I my brother's keeper?" (see Genesis 4:9). But there is also a good seed born of Adam

and Eve - Seth. It's the children of Seth, born of Seth's son, Enosh, who first begin to worship God, to "invoke the Lord by name" (see Genesis 4:26). The word name in Hebrew is shem. Just remember that for now, it will become important later. Violence and lawlessness and immorality began to fan out on the face of the earth until finally it infects the "sons of heaven," that is the children of Seth (see Genesis 6:1-4). What happens in Genesis 6 is that Seth's descendants, seduced by the beauty of the daughters of Cain, take them as wives. Worse yet, they took more than one wife - "as many of them as they chose." The sons of Seth violate the sanctity of the marriage covenant instituted by God in the garden. The fruits of the "intercourse" of the sons of Seth and the daughters of Cain were men of even more violence and wickedness - "men of renown," which Scripture elsewhere calls "proud giants...skilled in war" (see Wisdom 14:6; Baruch 3:26-27). Finally, God is overcome with "sorrow" and "regret" at "how corrupt the earth had become, since all mortals led depraved lives" (see Genesis 6:5,7,12). B. Beginning With the Rain The stage has been set for God's second covenant with His creation - the covenant made with Noah. In bringing the flood, God is depicted as wanting to restart the whole world. The account is filled with echoes of the Genesis creation story: The new world wells up from the chaotic waters of "the abyss" (compare Genesis 1:2 and 7:11). You'll also notice a lot of "sevens" in the story of Noah: pairs of clean animals (see Genesis 7:2); seven days before the flood was brought on (7:10); on the seventh month the ark came to "rest" on Mount Ararat (8:4). Noah sends out a dove every seven days until one brings back the olive tree branch (8:10-12) Noah is described as a new "first man." Like Adam, Noah is given authority over the animals (9:2). He is also given the same command as God gave to Adam: "be fertile and multiply and fill the earth." (9:1). Finally, as He did with Adam, God makes a covenant with Noah and through him with all living beings (9:13). With this covenant, God renews His covenant with creation. By this covenant, God also expands the "family structure" of His covenant people - from a husband and a wife to a family unit. Noah's family - his wife and three sons and their wives - is included in the blessings of this covenant. C. The Story of Two Names The Scripture also depicts Noah, like Adam, falling from grace. Here, too, we hear echoes of the story of Adam in the story of Noah. As Adam (whose name in Hebrew is almost identical to the word for "ground," adama , allowing for a wordplay between the two) was given a garden to till, Noah plants a vineyard and becomes "a man of the soil" (see Genesis 2:15; 9:20). And as the forbidden fruit of the garden proves to be Adam's downfall, so the fruit of Noah's vine, wine, becomes his. And like Adam's fall, Noah's exposes his sin and nakedness (see Genesis 3:6-7; 9:21) and results in a curse (see Genesis 3:14-19; 9:25). What does it mean that Ham, one of Noah's
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three sons, "saw his father's nakedness"? In Hebrew, this phrase is actually an idiom, a figure of speech, that describes incest. (Leviticus 20:17; 18:6-18. Note: The New American Bible translates the phrase "to have intercourse with" while the Revised Standard Version keeps the more literal translation "uncover the nakedness of" RSV-Leviticus 20:17; 18:6-18). To uncover the nakedness of your father is to commit incest with your mother. To put it bluntly - while Noah was drunk, Ham slept with his mother. We can only speculate as to Ham's motives. It's reasonable, based on other evidence in the Scripture, to presume that Ham wanted to seize his father's authority. Sleeping with his mother was the ultimate insult and sign of disrespect (see similar episodes in Genesis 35:22; 49:3-4; 2 Samuel 16:21-22). The son born of this incestuous encounter is Canaan. He will grow up to be the father of a nation known and reviled for its abominable practices (see Leviticus 18:6-18; Exodus 23:2324). But as Adam bore both Cain, the slayer of his brother, and Seth the righteous one, Noah too has a good seed: his firstborn son Shem, who had tried to "cover" his father's nakedness (see Genesis 9:23). Genesis 10 gives us the origins of nations and the genealogy of conflict between the two seeds of Noah. The descendants of Ham become the great national enemies of the people of God Egypt, Canaan, Philistia, Assyria and Babylon. The great patriarch Abraham, who we'll read about in the next lesson, is descended from the line of Shem. From this line, came the nations who tried to build the Tower of Babel in order "to make a name [Hebrew = shem] for themselves" (Genesis 11:1-9). In other words, they were trying to build a kind of "counterkingdom" to stand against the name of God. God defeats them - scatters them in a confusion of languages. Remember what we said above: Shem is the Hebrew word for "name." And from the line of Shem, God raises up His chosen people. The Jews are "Shemites" which is where we get our modern expression "anti-Semitic" or "anti-Semite." The Jews descend from Shem's great grandson Abram (see Genesis 11:10-26), to whom God promises: "I will bless you. I will make your name [Hebrew = shem] great." We'll pick up with Father Abraham in our next class.

V. Study Questions
1. What does it mean to say that the Bible teaches us "religious" truth? 2. What is the goal and purpose of creation, according to Pope Benedict? 3. What is God's "divine teaching style"? 4. What are the two images that the Scripture uses to describe God's love and the relationship He desires with the human race? For prayer and reflection: The Mass readings for the First Sunday of Lent (Cycle B) are Genesis 9:8-15; Psalm 25:4-9; 1 Peter 3:18-22; Mark 1:12-15. Read the texts in order and pray for the Lord's help in hearing the connections that the Church wants us to hear. Ask especially for help in understanding the connections that the Church makes between the Flood and Baptism. To be continued

A police official, who gave his name only as Hafiz, said protesters also threw stones at Camp Phoenix, a US-run military base in the capital, but were later driven back. In Jakarta, protesters hurled petrol bombs and clashed with Indonesian police outside the US embassy shouting "America, America go to hell" in the first violent film protests in the world's most populous Muslim nation. Police were seen kicking or dragging away some of the protesters, while one policeman was taken away in an ambulance with his face bleeding. Jakarta police spokesman Rikwanto, said officers used tear gas, water cannon and warning shots, but did not say whether they had fired live ammunition or blanks. Many of the protesters were supporters of hardline Islamic groups and were dressed in identical white Muslim garb, an AFP reporter saw. In Pakistan, thousands of students burned US flags and chanted anti-American slogans in the northwest city of Peshawar, where Osama bin Laden kept a home during the 1980s jihad against Soviet troops in adjacent Afghanistan. In the nearby district of Upper Dir, adjacent to a former Taliban stronghold crushed in 2009, a protester was killed and two other people wounded in an exchange of fire with police. Following complaints, Google is barring access to the video in Egypt, India, Indonesia, Libya and now Malaysia, while the government has restricted access to Google-owned YouTube in Afghanistan. Monday's violence came one day after the head of the Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, blacklisted in the United States as a terrorist group, called from Lebanon for a week of protests. Nasrallah described the film as "the worst attack ever on Islam" -- worse than "The Satanic Verses" by British author Salman Rushdie, who has been under an Iranian fatwa calling for his murder since 1989. "The whole world needs to see your anger on your faces, in your fists and your shouts," he said in a televised speech broadcast just hours after Pope Benedict XVI ended a historic threeday visit to Lebanon. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has also demanded violence against US diplomatic missions in the Middle East and Africa, and on US interests in the West. The unrest began in Cairo, where protesters stormed the US embassy late Tuesday, replacing the Stars and Stripes with an Islamic banner. Hours later, the US consulate in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi came under sustained attack, with four Americans killed, including ambassador Chris Stevens. Mass demonstrations after the main weekly Muslim prayers on Friday saw 11 protesters killed as police battled to defend US missions from mobs in Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Tunisia and Yemen. The United States has deployed counterterror Marine units to Libya to protect the Tripoli embassy and stationed two destroyers off the North African coast.

It has also sent a Marine unit to protect the US embassy in Yemen, where police shot dead four protesters and wounded 34 others on Thursday as a mob breached its perimeter. Hundreds of Yemeni students demonstrated on Monday calling for the expulsion of the US ambassador and condemning the Marines' deployment, an AFP reporter said. The United States has evacuated all nonessential staff and family members from Sudan and Tunisia and warned US citizens against travel to the two countries. And in Afghanistan, two US soldiers died and six US fighter jets were destroyed when Taliban fighters on Friday stormed one of the country's largest airfields to avenge the antiIslam film. AFP
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work denoted an accomplished and educated person, especially at a time when many an illustrious personage were far from excelling in this art. An adverse event made him leave the Philippines in 1636. When he was in his late twenties or early thirties, he became involved or was accused of being involved in a criminal case, the circumstances of which are far from clear. Whether he was involved or not, one thing was clear, he was afraid that, as a consequence of a trial or mistrial, he might be given a death sentence. Upon landing in Japan where Christians were being persecuted, he was arrested and imprisoned together with his companions. He underwent inhuman tortures and valiantly confessed his Christian Faith. Refusing to renounce his Faith, he told his executioner that he was ready to die for God and give himself for many thousands of lives if he had them. On September 27, 1637, he was hung from a gallows by his feet, his body falling into a pit. After two days of agony, he died of bleeding and suffocation. His body was cremated and the ashes thrown into the sea. He and fifteen companions, martyred in the same persecution, were beatified by Pope John Paul II in Manila on February 18, 1981 and elevated to full honors of the altar by canonization on October 18, 1987 in Rome. Their feast day is on September 28th.
Source: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php? saint_id=231

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filipino food and food products as well. The Philippine Ambassador to Korea Amb. Luis T. Cruz gave his message during the opening ceremony. He also acknowledged the effort of all Filipinos in Korea for actively participating in various festivals and representing our country the Philippines through its cultural performances. The Philippine Day was made possible through the effort and support of the Gyeonggido Provincial government, Paju City Government, DMZ Docs Festival committee and the Filipino communities in Ansan, Hyewadongseoul, Incheon and Bucheon.

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support or welfare MIRIAM COUNSELING 2. How to calculate the monthly salary based on CENTER For Migrant Women the hourly pay: 40-hour work week Wages 1. Period of application: Jan. 1 2012 ~ Dec. 31 50-17 Dongsoong Dong Chongrogu Seoul regularly paid a month for contractual work2012 110-809 near Maronnier Park. Tel #(02) 747ing hours 209 hours 2. Minimum wage 2086 E-mail: kcwc21@jinbo.net (KCWC) Of Hourly wage rate : 4,580 won, daily wage EVEN THOUGH THE STATUTORY fice hours: Mon-Fri. 11 am-5 pm Sat. day off rate (on a 8-hour basis): 36,640 won WORKING HOURS ARE REDUCED THE Sun. 3 pm-6 pm Activities: Emotional/ In the case of 40 hours per week (209 PREVIOUS MINIMUM WAGE SHOULD spiritual counseling Womans rights and hours per month) the monthly wage will BE GUARANTEED labor issues Korean language/culture study amount 957,220 won. If working hours are reduced to 40 hours per (men and women are welcome). 3. Target of application: every business or week, the minimum monthly wage may be KAILANGAN SA workplace employing workers calculated at 902,880 won. However, it should Workers whose minimum wage can be PAGPAPABINYAG be paid at 976,320 won which is the minimum reduced wage for the previous working hours (44 hours 1. Birth certificate ng batang bibinyagan - Apprentices: his/her minimum wage 2. 2X2 ID pictures (2 pcs) per week), may be reduced as much as 10% up to 3 When minimum wage is raised, the mini- 3. Application form (kumuha sa center) months (hourly wage rate :4,122 won) Kailangan ipasa ng mag-asawang magpapamum monthly pay may be calculated at 4. Workers who are not applied the minimum 957,220 won. However it should be paid at binyag ng anak ang application form at suwage 976,320won which is the minimum wage for mailalim sa interview sa Catholic Center - A person who has remarkably low abilities the previous working hours (44 hours per isang linggo bago dumating ang takdang araw to work due to a mental or physical handi- week). ng binyag. cap (when approved by the Minister of Ang mga magulang, ninong at ninang ay (However, in case of a worker who was emLabor). ployed on July 1, 2011 and onwards, minimum bibigyan ng katekismo sa binyag na ginaganap - An employee who works for the workplace wage shall be calculated based on 209 hours tuwing ika-10 ng umaga, araw ng linggo which employ only relatives living to- <209 x 4,580 won>) (mismong araw ng binyag). Tanging ang mga gether or domestic workers. pangalan ng mga nakadalo ng katekismo ang - A sailor who is subject to the seamen law mailalagay sa Baptismal Certificate. Ang biMGA IMPORTANTENG or an owner of ship employing sailor. lang ng mga ninong at ninang ay hindi dapat 5. Liability of the employer PAALAALA lalabis sa dalawampu. Ang lahat ay pi Liable to pay above the minimum wage to Mga kailangang dokumento sa paga-asikaso ng nakikiusapang isaisip ang angkop na pananamit the employee. mga reklamo tungkol sa sahod: para sa okasyon. - An employer shall pay the workers at least the minimum wage rate or more. 1. Pay Slip or any other proof of payment of PANAWAGAN PARA SA MGA salary And no employer may lower the previ2. Daily Time Record (DTR) if available, or NAGPAPABINYAG ous wage level on the ground of the self-made record of daily work attendance Tinatawagan ang pansin ng lahat ng mga di minimum wage. specifying Regular Working hours, Over- pa nakakakuha ng Baptismal Certificates ng - If a labor contract provides for a wage time, and Night Differential. kanilang mga anak. that is less than the minimum wage rate, Maaari ninyong kunin ang mga ito sa Cathoit shall be considered to stipulate that the 3. Labor Contract lic Center tuwing linggo sa ganap na alas 9:00 same wage as the minimum wage rate 4. Bank Book/ Passbook 5. Alien Card and Passport ng umaga hanggang ika 12:00 ng tanghali, at sa shall be paid. ganap na ika 4:00 hanggang ika 5:00 ng hapon. 6. Obligation of notice of the minimum wage to MGA LIBRENG KONSULTA Maliban po lamang sa tuwing ikadalawang the worker lingo ng bawat buwan. Makipag-ugnayan po - An employer shall inform the workers of AT GAMOT kay Edison Pinlac: (010-2906-3109) o sa kahit minimum wage rate, wages not included in na sinong Lay Minister. the minimum wage, effective date, and Doty Hospital - 42-5 Eung-am-dong, Unworkers being excluded from the minimum pyeong-gu, Seoul 122-906, tel. no. (02)385KAILANGAN SA wage Act. 1477 7. In the cases of the following, a contractor PAGPAPAKASAL Joseph Clinic - 423 Yeungdongpo-dong, Yeshall take responsibility for violating Miniung dongpo-gu, Seoul 150-030, Mon.-Fri. 1pm- 1. Birth Certificate ng mga ikakasal mum Wage Act jointly with the subcontrac2. Status of singleness from Census 9pm, Tel. No.(02)2634-1760 tor. (notarized) Raphael Clinic - inside Tong Song High - As for determining the unit labor cost 3. Parents consent as proof of singleness School, every Sun. , 2-6 pm. lower than the minimum wage at the time (notarized) National Medical Center Dongdaemun Tel. of the signing of the contract; 4. Baptismal Certificate for marriage purposes No. 2260-7062 to 7063 - As for lowering the unit labor cost to beSeoul Medical Center Gangnam Tel. No. 5. Confirmation Certificate for marriage purlow the minimum wage in the middle of poses 3430-0200 the contract period. 6. Passport (xerox copy) 7. Pre-Cana seminar na gaganapin bago ang MIGRANT CENTERS HOW TO ESTIMATE IF THE MINI- Guri Pastoral Center takdang araw ng kasal. Makipag-ugnayan 031-566-1141 MUM WAGE IS FULFILLED po lamang sa Catholic Center para sa schedAnsan Galilea Center 031-494-8411 1. Convert the total wages excluding the below Suwon Emmaus Center ule. 031-257-8501 wages and allowances into hourly wage rate Friends Without Borders Counseling Office SA LAHAT NG MAY E-9 VISA and compare it with hourly minimum wage 032-345-6734/5 Para Po sa lahat na may E-9 VISA, may tatlo ( 4,580won). Gasan, Song-uri International Community pong tanging dahilan upang payagan kayong Wage which is not paid regularly more 031-543-5296 makalipat ng kumpanya. Ito po ay; than one time per month (such as bonus) Uijungbu, Nokyangdong Migrant Center 1. Kayo ay dalawang buwang hindi pinasasa Wage which is paid for the non031-878-6926 hod contractual working hours (such as ex- Masok Chonmasan Migrant Center 2. Kayo ay pisikal at verbal na sinasaktan, o tended work allowance, holiday work 031-593-6542 di kayay allowance, etc) Bomun, Seoul Foreign Workers Labor Coun3. Bankrupt o lugi ang kumpanya Allowances paid for an employee's living seling Office 02-928-2049/924-2706

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UPDATE FROM THE PHILIPPINE EMBASSY

OAV Registration Ongoing at the Philippine Embassy
Filipinos in South Korea who intend to vote here for the senatorial and party-list elections in May 2013 are reminded to register as overseas absentee voters at the Philippine Embassy in Seoul. Registration started on 2 November 2011 and will continue until 31 October 2012. Registration is available from Monday to Friday during regular office hours, except during declared holidays. Filipinos may also register every first and third Sunday of the month, coinciding with the special service for passport renewals in the morning. Although the registration period is for one year, I encourage everyone to register early and not to wait until the last minute to have their names included in the roster of those eligible to vote in 2013, said Amb. Luis Cruz. This will prevent potential problems associated with rushed applications, he added. Registrants only need to present a valid proof of Philippine citizenship, such as a passport. Those who intend to change their voting places in 2013, such as those returning for good to the Philippines, can also have their records transferred by the Philippine Embassy. Mobile registration services, done alongside with mobile passport services, to other parts of South Korea will be announced later on. For inquiries, please email seoulpe@philembassy-seoul.com.

Schedule an Appointment starting 15 July 2010. Only fifty (50) ePassport applications will be entertained per day. Call the APPOINTMENT HOTLINE NUMBER 010-9385-0535 ( from 9:00am to 5:30pm M-F) OR you can send an email to epassport@philembassy-seoul.com and give your full name including middle name, date and place of birth, your old passport number and mobile number in Korea. Requirements:

Old Philippine Passport and a photocopy of the passport data page, last page showing the name and signature of the signing officer, and the page with the date of last entry to Korea Passport application form Remember your Appointment Reference Number ePassport fee US$ 60.00 payable in cash only.

Overseas Absentee Voting Registration Deadline on 31 October 2012

Filipinos in South Korea who intend to vote in Korea for the senatorial and party-list elections in May 2013 are reminded to register as overseas absentee voters at the Philippine Embassy in Seoul on or before 31 October 2012. All Filipinos, regardless of status of stay in Korea, are eligible to register for the 2013 elections. Registrants only need to present a valid proof of Philippine citizenship, such as a passport. Also, those who intend to change their voting places in 2013, such as those returning for good to the Philippines, can also have their records transferred by the Philippine Embassy. Registration started on 2 November 2011 and will continue until 31 October 2012. Registration may be done at the Philippine Embassy from Sunday to Thursday during regular office hours, except during declared holidays.

Procedure on Date of Appointment: Step 1:

Check your name on the list of applicants with appointment Complete all information on the passport application form Wait for your name and number to be called at Window 4 Submit the application form and present your old Passport and photocopies OPTIONAL : If you wish to avail of the courier service, get a courier form and write your name and complete return address. Get a copy of the courier form. Payment will be made upon delivery of your ePassport. Have your old passport canceled by the consular officer. Go to cashier and pay the exact amount of US$ 60.00 in cash. No check may be accepted Keep your receipt and show it when you claim your ePassport in person after 6 weeks. Go to the encoder for encoding of data, picture taking, taking of thumb marks and digital signature. Applicant should be in decent attire. Both ears should be shown Keep your receipt of payment and bring your old passport for cancellation to claim your ePassport. You can also authorize a representative to claim your passport by giving authority at the back of y o u r claim receipt.

Revised Requirements for Reports of Birth

By: Philippine Embassy in Korea
Source: http://www.philembassy-seoul.com/ann_details.asp?id=475

A child born in the Republic of Korea with Filipino parent/s should be reported to the Philippine Embassy in Seoul , not later twelve (12) months from the date of birth, for transmittal to the Office of the Civil Registrar-General, National Statistics Office (NSO), Manila. Report of the birth of a child after one year is considered late and an Affidavit of Late Registration shall be required. Requirements for ROB 1.Duly accomplished ROB form in 4 original copies 2.Birth Certificate issued by the Korean hospital where child was born ( with English translation) 3.If child is legitimate, marriage contract of parents. If marriage was in the Philippines, marriage contract must be authenticated by NSO. If abroad, copy of Report of Marriage duly received by the Philippine Embassy with jurisdiction to register the marriage. 4.If not married, NSO authenticated birth certificate of mother. If the surname of the father will be used, Affidavit of Admission of Paternity and Authority to use surname of Father will be required from the father. Republic Act 9255 allows illegitimate children to use the surname of their father. (Notarization fee of affidavit is Won 33,550) 5.Valid passports/ travel documents of the parents 6.If parent/s are naturalized Filipino/s, naturalization documents are required 7.If reporting is done after twelve (12) months from occurrence, Affidavit of Late Registration of Birth. (Notarization fee of affidavit is Won 33,550) 8.Consular Fee: Won 33,550 Processing period: two (2) working days Original documents will be required upon processing together with four (4) photocopies. Photocopy of a document will be accepted provided they are authenticated/ certified true copy (CTC) by DFA or the nearest Philippine Embassy or Consulate. The Consulate may require additional requirements , if necessary.

Step 2:

Step 3:

NOTE: It takes about six (6) weeks to process the ePassport as the approved applications are sent to a central processing facility in the Philippines.

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September
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HARANA DOCUMENTARY READY TO TAKE ON THE GLOBAL STAGE AT BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AND HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL After its critical success at the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival in Manila this past July, the highly anticipated documentary HARANA is set to dazzle at two major international film festivals this October. HARANA makes its international premiere at the 17th Busan International Film Festival, competing in the Wide Angle Documentary section with screenings taking place on October 5th, 7th and 11th. Considered to be one of the most prestigious festivals in Asia, HARANA joins a festival that focuses on introducing a wide array of films from all around Asia. HARANAs US premiere will be at the 32nd Hawaii International Film Festival with screenings on October 14th and October 18th. The film has been nominated for the Halekulani Golden Orchid Award, which is bestowed upon the narrative and documentary films that best express artistic and technical excellence and promotes crosscultural understanding. The Philippines' tradition of harana has been rapidly vanishing in its home country and most people throughout the world are completely unaware of its influential music that for many years had inspired the Philippine country with hope, beauty and love. Harana was a traditional form of courtship in which men serenaded women by singing underneath her window at night. It is famous for its set of protocols, a code of conduct and most importantly, a specific style of music. An important custom of Filipino culture, harana has been teetering on the edge of disappearance for some time, but through the untiring and valiant efforts from a group of filmmakers, harana has been given a chance for survival. World music guitarist Florante Aguilar along with producer Fides Enriquez and director Benito Bautista have created HARANA, a documentary that captures the search for this musical tradition and its remaining practitioners. Together, they discovered Felipe Alonzo, Celestino Aniel and Romeo Bergunio, three men living simple lives in obscurity in the Philippine countryside but who exemplify the definition of a true harana master. They are plucked from their humble surroundings and thrust into a world where their gifts as haranistas could once again be appreciated for all its worth. Through their remarkable journey, the film is both a celebration and a preservation of a tradition that will once again ignite the passion and treasure that is HARANA. HARANA MOVIE SCREENING DATES: 17th BUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
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