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SNDDB Speech Birthday 2016
SNDDB Speech Birthday 2016
SNDDB Speech Birthday 2016
As a token for all of you, allow me to present this little book mark with the Prayer for Vocations
written by Fr Fidel Orendain SDB. This is the prayer which has sustained me and has encouraged
other young people to do the same. I pray this every day after Mass, I hope you join me in
praying for the FIN and the Diocese of Paraaques vocations programs and even for our own
home provinces or dioceses vocation ministries.
Finally, let me leave a little note about my best friend Francis Carlo Manzano. I used to see him
on the road on my way to school since he lived in the same subdivision where Don Bosco is.
During my last year in high school, I wondered where he went since I was not able to see him
anymore. It came to me as a shock when I found out that he had contracted leukemia or cancer
of the blood in his senior year in high school. But in spite of that, he still graduated from high
school with flying colors as one of the top students of the batch, receiving his diploma on a
wheelchair and wearing a gas mask. He passed away on June of 2005, the same year we
graduated and days after I officially entered the seminary. I certainly believe that I have gained
an intercessor in heaven and he is not too distant, (looking up) right Francis? Let us pray for the
repose of his soul and especially for his mother, who found it too difficult to accept his painful
and untimely death. Amen.
May God bless us all! Ave MARIA!
Saint Henry, the Holy Roman Emperor, pray for us! :D