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Teachers during the final preparation for the Junior-Senior Prom of their students. Beside me is the principal of the said school.

Today as we celebrate the starting day of the lenten season, God is reminding us of one of the gifts that He has given to Man - self control. Fasting and abstinence are tools to amplify that gift. VBirtue does not come instantly, it is being practice. The more it is practice, it is the more easierfor us to fulfill. Abstinence and fasting are some of the spiritual excersises that we could master. The social dimension of the practiocvce of fasting and abstinence will spring by if charity follows. Tomorrow, the third year and the fourth year students of Liceo will have a Junior-Senior prom, in preparation for that they decided to hold mass in preparation for the said event. In the afternoon of the Ash wednesday, Icelebrate mass with them for the said intention.

A special mass was held for the Junior Senior Prom of the Sta. Maria Academy. I mentioned to them that JS is a privilege not a right, they should be thankful that even through the hard time they could celebrate it. Not long ago a memo was distributed by the Department of Education clarifying that JS Prom is no longer an obligation to be celebrated by the Public Schools. It is also a sad note that when I asked them on what reason JS is clebrated their answer were for bonding, knowing each other more, and to honor the senior students because they will graduate high school. The reasons given are in some way or another valid but swallow. However I added that the Prom is a kind of rite transferring the responsibilities of leadership to the next batch. To emulate the basic values of responsibilities and leadership. That on their departure, they will have the next generation of the legacy of which they try to instill in their hearts as Students and Christians. On the s...