Friday, August 19, 2011
“DON’T GIVE UP”
By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Thursday, August 18, 2011
21 Keys to a Happy Life
Source Unknown
1. Compliment three people everyday.
2. Watch a sunrise.
3. Be the first to say "Hello."
4. Live beneath your means.
5. Treat everyone as you want to be treated.
6. Never give up on anybody; miracles happen.
7. Forget the Jones’s.
8. Remember someone’s name.
9. Pray not for things, but for wisdom and courage.
10. Be tough-minded, but tender hearted.
11. Be kinder than you have to be.
12. Don’t forget that a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.
13. Keep your promises.
14. Learn to show cheerfulness even when you don’t feel it.
15. Remember that overnight success usually takes 15 years.
16. Leave everything better than you found it.
17. Remember that winners do what losers don’t want to do.
18. When you arrive at your job in the morning, let the first thing you say brighten everyone’s day.
19. Don’t rain on other people’s parades.
20. Don’t waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
21. Keep some things to yourself and don’t promote havoc by backstabbing people you love
Archdiocesan Youth Day
What is AYD?
ARCHDIOCESAN YOUTH DAY is the coming together of young people from the 28 Parishes of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan for reception, recollection & renewal, recreation and re-commissioning. Premised on the Word of God, this encounter enables the young people gather in formations programs and plans their future spiritual lives. At the same time, the gathering provides them the opportunity to interact, create friendship, share their own culture and heritage, discuss issues that concern them and the rest of society; and identify solutions that could effects changes. AYD is a four-day experience of being Church-praying, celebrating, caring, serving, and witnessing.
HOW DID AYD BEGING?
In 1995, scores of young hopefuls from the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan trooped to Manila and partook in the international gathering and journey of faith of young pilgrims, the 10th World Youth Day. After Experiencing the joy and meaning of the event, the Archdiocesan youths present in that occasion saw the need to extend home to ardor of the celebration, along with the desire to foster the gathering’s message “ As the Father has sent me, so am I sending you” [John 20.21]
This noble desire was encouraged by Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz which then gave cause for founding the annual celebration of meaningful spiritual gathering for the youths of the Arcdiocese, the ARCHDIOCESAN YOUTH DAY (AYD)
In 1996, the Archdiocesan Youth Apostolate Committe (AYAC), composed of priest and youth leaders who where participants to the 1995 WYD, organized the celebration of the first AYD in the province’s capital town, Lingayen. It gathered young people from the parishes of the Archdiocese, making them experience the vitality of Christ’s Church to be awakened and renewed to their commitment to evangelization and to communicate in youthful unity a message of hope, faith and love as envisioned during the World Youth Day ’95 in Manila.
The journey of the Archdiocese Youth Days continues.....
WHERE WAS AYD PREVIOUS HELD?
May 10-12, Epiphany of Our Lord Parish (Lingayen)
“You shall be My Witnesses” (Lk. 24:28)
April 11-13, St. Dominic Parish (San Carlos City)
“Teach them everything I have commanded you” (Mt. 28:20)
April 24-26, 1998, St. Hyacinth Parish (San Jacinto)
“The Holy Spirit will come Upon You” (Lk. 1:35)
May 10-13, 1999, Holy Family Parish (Sta. Barbara)
“I will Rise Up and Go back to my Father” (Lk. 15:18)
May 2-5, 2000, St. Vincent Ferrer Parish (Bayambang)
“ The word became Flesh and dwelt Among Us” (Jn. 1:14)
April 24-27, 2001, St. John the Evangelist Parish (Dagupan City)
“I have come not to be Served but to Serve” (Mt. 10:45)
April 23-26,2002, Our Lady of the Rosary Parish (Manaoag)
“Come follow Me” (Mt. 4:19)
April 23-26, 2003, Our Lady Purification Parish (Binmaley)
“You are the Salt of the Earth” (Mt. 5:13)
April 21-24, 2004, Mary Help of Christians Parish (Basista)
“Behold Your Mother” (Jn. 19:27)
April 20-23, 2005, Parish of St. Fabian, Pope and Martyr (San Fabian)
“We wish to See Jesus” (Jn. 12:21)
April 17-20,2006 St. Pius V Parish (Urbiztondo)
“We have come to Worship Him” (Mt. 2:2)
April 17-20, 2007, Sts. Peter and Paul Parish (Calasiao)
“Thy Word is a Lamp unto my Feet and a Light unto my Path” (Ps. 19:105)
April 22-25, 2008, St. Ildephonse Parish (Malasiqui)
“Just as I Have Loved You, You also Should Love One Another” (Jn. 13:34
April 21-24, 2009, Holy Cross Parish (Laoac)
“You will Receive Power and the Holy Spirit has Come upon You and You will be My Witnesses” (Acts 1:8)
April 26-29, 2010, Annunciation of the Lord Parish (Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City) “We have set Our Hope on the Living God” (I Tim 4:10)
May 3-6, 2011, St. Rose of Lima Parish (Domalandan, Lingayen, Pangasinan)
“Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” (Mk. 10:17)
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