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Prayer of an Overseas Worker Father God, it’s so lonely out here. Many times I’ve asked myself why I had to go here in the first place, and why I can’t go back yet to where my heart truly is, where my true happiness resides. Why must I walk these streets alone? Why must I eat this bread without my family? Many sights have so amazed me since I got here and yet no beauty has ever succeeded in wiping away the tears from my eyes. For without my loved ones, what can all these things mean to me? I’d rather be blind, I’d rather tire myself to sleep so I won’t have time to remember, to cry, to long so painfully for the people I love so much. Help me O God. Give me strength to bear such a terrible longing. Give me hope so that the vision of your blessings for my loved ones always be before me. Give me faith so I can cling on that hope on my darkest and loneliest days. Let me never forget the reason why I came here for. Let me never forget who I am and to whom I really belong....

Prayer of oversees contract workers and their families.  We have talk much about the situations, plight and struggles of migrant workers for almost eternity. It is time to start something and I believe that the first step is to pray. Here is the prayer for such intention especially that we will celebrate the first Sunday of Lent which we dedicate for the migrants and their families. Surely, God will show us the way of other programs and activities that might transpire as we go on to assist the families of the migrant workers. This prayer was born through the coordinated effort of the following persons while I was assigned in St. Augustine Parish, Bay, Laguna, Philippines: Archie Santos, Rodolfo & Yollie Billate, Zena Bernardo, Milagros S. Castillo, Domeng & Aurea Balmes, Eliseo & Krischelle Naval, Favy & Janet Maghirang, Myla Marie S. Castillo,  and Rev. Fr Jessie G. Somosierra Jr.   Panalangin Ng Migranteng Mangagawa at Ng Kanilang Pamilya ...

Ito po ay isa sa mga 607 videos ng Coca Cola. hindi po ako nagtratrabaho sa coke. Ako po ay natutuwa at may mga kumpanya katulad ng Coca-Cola na may ganitong ptograma para sa mga OFW (Oversees Filipino Worker). Ang parokya ay matagal ng kumikilos upang bumuo ng isang maliwanag na programa para sa mga kapatid nating mga naiwan ng mga OFW. So far, ang nasimulan pa lamang ay ang mga Anak ng Bay. Nagbigay ng seminar sa mga anak ng OFW sa pakikipagugnayan natin sa Natasha Goulbourn Foundation at Ugat Foundation noong nakalipas na dalawang taon. Ngunit nais pa rin nating palalimin ito sa pamamagitan ng isang grupo para sa mga naiwang mga asawa. Tulungan ninyo ako sa panalangin na ito ay magkaroon ng kaganapan.

Bro. Bino celebrated his 70th year birthday today. I came to greet him. He is the present president of the Parish Pastoral Council of Holy TrinityParish. Along with us in the picture is his parish priest. A couple who has came for a visit during this vacation, A blessing and thanksgiving. They will be coming back abroad for work, we call them "overseas Filipino workers". The Philippine government cannot find them work here, so they have to leave for work abroad. Instead they are the one nourishing our economy of their dollar remittances.