JTA OB Class Second Semester 2013-2014

April 15, 2014

Grateful that my JTA OB Class this semester ended well with all my students meeting and passing the requirements.

Godbless.

Palm Sunday, April 13, 2014

Hosanna in the Highest and make way for the Lord! This is the week of quiet reflection and prayer and closer union with the suffering Lord as we experience His Passion and Suffering and Death on the Cross. This is the week of the Sacraments of the Eucharist and Holy Orders. Godbless.

Bravo Congressman Manny Pacquiao

April 13, 2014

Congratulations and Bravo, Pambansang Kamao Champion Congressman Manny Pacquiao for bringing honor to the Philippines with your victory todayover Timothy Bradley.

Mabuhay!

New Jesuit Priests

April 12, 2014

Hail to the newly ordained Jesuit priests at Church of the Gesu with Cardinal Chito Tagle as Bishop-Ordainer. Godbless and congratulations. Ad majorem Dei gloriam!

Palm Sunday

April 12, 2014
Blessings for Palm Sunday tomorrow. Had a good workshop day of JGSOMfor 2020 Strategic Plan. Happy to have caught the ordination of 8 young Jesuits to the priesthood by Cardinal Chito Tagle in the Church of Gesu.
Hossana, Lord of Hosts!
Please take care of Tita Ely.

HeartStrong in Happy Service

April 9, 2014

Hail and Mabuhay, all Filipino heroes and heroines both departed and still alive, who unselfishly have defended and continue to defend the Republic and our Citizens. God bless and cheers on Araw ng Kagitingan!

Grateful that I continue to have opportunities to happily serve Philippine Society via our new Movement, KILOS KAAYUSAN.

Gabby

Christmas Blessings 2013

December 25, 2013

Happy birthday to Our Savior Jesus Christ, who was born of Mary, wife of Joseph to show God's unconditional love for us all, sinners that we are. So grateful for the gift of Christmas!

2013 is a year full of challenges and things to be grateful for.

I visited New Zealand twice, in January and in June. I also visited Angkor Wat in Siem Reap and the Kampuchean capital of Phnom Penh over the All Saints Day break.

Formally received my PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from University of the Philippines, where I got elected to serve as President of the SURP-UP Alumni Association. Was given another term as National Executive Committee Member of the National Commission for Culture and Arts' SubCommission on Culture's National Committee on Architecture and Design Environment. Plus, I was appointed by President Benigno S Aquino III as a Trustee of the Nayong Pilipino Foundation.

I continue to teach at Ateneo Loyola Schools (Management, Humanities, and Government) as well as the Development Academy of the Philippines Graduate School of Public and Development Management. I have been serving as Supervising Fellow for the graduate programs on health and development.

Our nation has been hit by the worst calamities in 2013, especially the Central Visayas Earthquake, the Yolanda Super Typhoon and the Zamboanga City Siege. Am happy that I shall be helping out in some small projects to rehabilitate the destroyed areas.

We gratefully reflect on the very basic meaning of Christmas: God so loved the world that He gave His only Son Jesus to be born of Mary, wife of Joseph, to live and teach us the Way, the Truth and the Life, and to suffer and die and be resurrected for our salvation.

Maligayang Pasko! Feliz Pascua! Blessed Christmas! Joyeaux Noel!