Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Baguio Family Day


by Emily Bogayong

Family Day of the Baguio-Benguet Area was held in the Brent School grounds on December 11, 2005. It was a whole-day affair from 8 in the morning till 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The day before was a very rainy day prompting brothers and sisters to get down on their knees to ask the Lord's intervention and to command the rains to leave Baguio. True enough, the sun was out on December 11! Answered Prayer! After the registration, Bishop Carlito Cenzon celebrated Holy Mass and gave a timely homily on keeping us focused on the reason for the season and to try not to give in to the temptation to give importance to material things. He joined us, too, at lunch time enjoying fellowship with brothers and sisters.

Parents were asked to bring inexpensive little presents for the kids to enjoy which were distributed before heading for home in the afternoon. Raffle prizes were given away to lucky winners as a means of fundraising to take care of the expenses incurred that day. There were song and dance numbers in the morning participated in by different parishes from La Trinidad, Cabuyao, Baguio Gold and Baguio, of course. In the afternoon, a big number of skits were presented by each unit.

We look forward to another Family Day this year and with an increasing number of brothers and sisters. Someone commented: "Ang laki na pala ng Familia!" Truly, this is God's work.

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