In this podcast epidsode you are going to meet five Dutch boys and girls, aged between eight and eleven. They are Daisy-Mae, Chrisamae, Rubbin, Willibeth and Anna Rose. They are first communicants and they are going to tell us why they want to receive Jesus in the Eucharist. You are also going to meet Sr. Juliet, the Filipina Holy Spirit sister who prepared the children for their first Holy Communion in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Gospel Acclamation of the Day: "May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our hearts that we might see how great is the hope to which we are called." (Ep 1:17-18)
…hello Fr.Bobby,
i really enjoyed listening to this podcast…i could imagine the tremendous work you’ve done to be able to reach this communicants in The Netherlands and not the least talking to them(you are in Rome,di ba?).And I also admired the spontaneity of the kids when they answers your questions.It is both refreshing & delightful to hear the kids’ innocent voices interwoven with your lively,playful priest-of-today-voice.
it’s a bit funny though,i can’t help but notice,the Dutch-grown Filipino kids talking to an Italian-based Filipino priest in an entirely different language-English ! really ingenius !
where there is sadness there’s joy!….. with what happened in London lately, it is refreshing to hear childrens’s voices, their joys and their relationship with Jesus. their faith that can make a difference in this world….the girl sang so beautifully!
Dear Fr. Stephen,
Last night while satisfying a curiousity about the different software used in podcasting, I did a google search, discovered your podcasts and subsequently, your blog. I suspect that they will change my life. Really. I feel the immediacy and intimacy of a priest/adviser when I listen to you. I have missed this in all the nearly eighteen years that I have been here in Australia. I do go to mass, not every Sunday but regularly enough so that my Welsh-English husband has nearly learned our liturgy although he is not Catholic. However, I still miss the open-heartedness and unembarassedness to be sentimental of many Filipino priests. I have found out here in Australia that unless I move with Filipinos or at least Catholic Australians, to be openly very religious is to be open to those looks which make me feel as if something may be wrong as there is a hint of something askance.
I could feel the pressure of tears behind my eyes when I listened to the people you interviewed in the mothers’ day and fathers’ day podcasts. But it soothed my heart afterwards. I had carried on too long being stiff-upper-lipped!
Thank you very much for the regular podcasts. The music and occasional blessings from Pope Benedict make them very special.
Like you, I am also Bisaya in origin but my parents moved to Davao Oriental when I was six months old or so and I and my siblings grew up there, speaking Cebuano at home and in my case, Dabaweño in school and outside the home. My mother is from the Hermosisima-Lopez family of Sibonga and my father is a Reynes. Long ago in terms of cybertime, I had a web site. I closed four of my four accounts but a fifth I am allowing to just lapse when the year is over and this fifth still holds some of the pages. Maybe if you would like to visit it, the url is http://www.ozemail.com.au/~areynesw/arw/pages . There are many broken links but the skeleton of the site is still there.
Sige Fr Stephen, hangtud dinhi na lang. Umuuli ra ba ko karong 21 sa July. Akong idownload ang imong podcasts sa akong iPod. I will share them with my family. When Pope Benedict was newly elected I sent him my best wishes through a card. I was surprised to receive a letter thanking me for it and a signed picture. Now your podcasts give the voice to his picture!
I hope paabuton pa maluoy ang Ginoo to make a pilgrimage to the Holy City. I was in Rome in 1979 but did not visit the Vatican. It is very true of course that many times we do not regret the things we did as much as we regret the things we did not do.
Hangtud dinhi na lang and best wishes and prayers from me here in Australia