Initiatives

I spoke in four masses today. I got more inspired and affirmed seeing hope becoming real and concrete through the simple acts of solidarity that my adoptive parish takes. We got the whole parish together to sponsor some aboriginal people from Darwin for the World Youth Day program in sydney next year.

My parish creatively raised funds for them through the Melbourne Cup Sweep. It is through a raffle draw that depends on the winner of the great horse racing event in Melbourne next week.

So far, the parish already raised 1,000 AUD not counting the last mass.

Indeed, humanity is too good and generous after all...

making sense

barely half-filled backpacks lugged anywhere

toting thoughts and abstract plans...

i go by the hour, i take the train.

Awes and wanders: by the 'spires'

by the 'spires'

i didn't appreciate much of the architectural grandeur that you showed while walking past by at you. it was when i shivered at the blow of the wind that i forced myself to seek for sun... you are no ordinary structure just like the rest of the people i listened to...

but i still seek for the warmth and the soul that you can certainly offer. please don't allow the hardening of more hearts and the concreting of more goals. it is okay if we slip and get disturbed by pebbles along the way... just make us feel alive, breathing, struggling...

by then, you won't become another ordinary skyline feature and a landmark to behold...