JESUS IS RISEN! HAPPY EASTER!!! :)

Jesus is the LORD OF LIGHT! ALLELUIA!
Jesus us RISEN! ALLELUIA!



Today, my family and I went at San Pedro Cathedral early this morning to celebrate the Easter Sunday or so what we called the "SUGAT" or the meeting of the Risen Christ and Mary.

The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.

Easter is the time for holidays, festivals and a time for giving chocolate Easter eggs. But Easter means much more....

Easter is the oldest and the most important Christian Festival, the celebration of the death and coming to life again of Jesus Christ. For Christians, the dawn of Easter Sunday with its message of new life is the high point of the Christian year.

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What is the Easter story ?

Easter is the story of Jesus' last days in Jerusalem before his death.The Easter story includes Maundy Thursday (the Last supper leading to the Eucharist), Good Friday (the day on which Jesus was crucified) and Easter Day (the day on which Jesus came back to life).

It is a sad story because Jesus was killed. But the story has a very happy ending, because Jesus came back to life and visited his friends and followers once more. He did not die at all, but went back up to Heaven to be with God, his father.




Jesus is alive! Alleluia! The Paschal Mystery of our Lord Jesus Christ comes to fruition today with the celebration of His Resurrection. The glory of God is shown in the Resurrection of Jesus on the third day after His crucifixion on Mount Calvary.

Our mourning has been turned into rejoicing. The darkness has been conquered by the light. The scars on his body have been turned into stars of victory over sin and death. This is the greatest feast in Christianity – Jesus lives on and will forever reign in our hearts!
The resurrection should be seen in the context of the life and ministry of Jesus. The disciples believed that through the resurrection, God had vindicated Jesus. God favored his Son for being faithful to his mission of proclaiming the Good News to all.

We prepared for this great season for 40 days with prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. All these were intended to break us from our worldly attachments and focus on the most important things in our life – things that will nourish our relationship with the Lord and with one another. Unless we let go of our selfish desires, we will never experience the tremendous power of God over us.

We will only share in the Easter joy if we truly respond to his offer of life and love. Like Jesus, we shall be glorified if we become faithful to the mission God has entrusted to each one of us – a mission of bringing the Good News to all.


In a world filled with darkness, we are called to bring the Good News of hope to our society today. Easter is a celebration of hope. We are a people of the Resurrection. As we follow in the footsteps of Jesus, we are called to be strong and not anymore be defeated by humanity’s selfishness and greed. We must breathe life into our seemingly hopeless world. We are also called to enhance and nurture all of creation so as to serve the needs of all.

May the Easter joy prod us to live a life pleasing to God.



Easter is not a time for groping through dusty, musty tomes or tombs to disprove spontaneous generation or even to prove life eternal. It is a day to fan the ashes of dead hope, a day to banish doubts and seek the slopes where the sun is rising, to revel in the faith which transports us out of ourselves and the dead past into the vast and inviting unknown.

Eggs are a forbidden food during Lent, making them a welcome return to the menu on Easter Day.


Why do we give eggs at Easter?


Easter is a Christian festival. For Christians the custom of giving eggs at Easter celebrates new life. Christians remember that Jesus, after dying on the cross, rose from the dead. They believe that, through his resurrection, Jesus defeated death and sin and offers people the promise of eternal life if they follow his teachings.


What were the first Easter eggs like?

The first eggs given at Easter were birds eggs. These eggs were painted in bright colours to give them further meaning as a gift. We still paint bird eggs today but usually only chicken eggs.

Easter bunnyAn Anglo-Saxon legend - the Easter bunny and eggs

An Anglo-Saxon legend tells how the Saxon goddess Eostre found a wounded bird and transformed it into a hare, so that it could survive the Winter.


The hare found it could lay eggs, so it decorated these each Spring and left them as offering to the goddess.

MY GODPARENTS And Their JOB Description

GODPARENTING may be the least understood job in Christianity. Some parents select sponsors in baptism to honour family members or friends; others look for responsible parent-types "just in case."


Few parents, if any, have any real expectation about what godparents should "do" for their child, other than standing with them at the font on the day of baptism. Godparents themselves are often confused about their responsibilities with the result being that many sponsors, some parents, and more than a few clergy wonder whether inviting godparents into relationship with a candidate for baptism is necessary at all.

Yet, with careful education and preparation, godparents can serve as a vital link between the candidate's Christian family and the community of faith into which they are to be baptized.

1.) Godparents represent the Church of Jesus Christ,as new members are initiated into the Christian faith and life.


As far back as the Middle Ages, a young man or woman had a series of three sponsors during the period of their initiation into the Church - one for the period of instruction, a second for their baptism, and a third for their confirmation. At each occasion it was the godparent who presented the candidate to the Church for consideration as a member.

Today, parents customarily present their own children for these functions. However, godparents can and still do represent the community of faith at the act of baptism. This does not presuppose that godparents must be members of the congregation into which the candidate is baptized. In fact, the presence of godparents from other families within Christendom underscores the universality of the Church and the strength of our wider fellowship as Christians.

As those who stand for the Church at Baptism, godparents maintain a vital interest in the spiritual life of the candidate's family, especially as it is expressed in their home. Their ongoing concern is not only the welfare of the individual they sponsor, but also the spiritual atmosphere in which the child is raised. Even if godparents live at a distance, this can be accomplished by daily prayer for the godchild and his or her family, regular contact through letters and visits, and gifts of age-appropriate Christian books and music. I encourage godparents to remember that while friends and relatives remember a child's birthday and other celebrations like Christmas, they have the privilege of making a child's baptismal or confirmation anniversary a special occasion through their attention and remembrance. Thus, a godparent brings the life of faith to the Christian family as a friend and representative of the greater Church.


2. The godparent is the guarantor of education.

In the past, some branches of the Christian Church have traditionally charged godparents with specific tasks focusing on the candidate's education in the Christian faith and life. In some churches, this meant insuring that the child knew the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. In others, it meant providing the candidate with the information necessary for confirmation preparation.

In our time, godparents are rarely a child's primary educator, but the sponsor must maintain a lively interest in the candidate's Christian education. This, of course, assumes that the godparent himself or herself possesses a level of spiritual maturity enabling them to discern the candidate's growth in faith and offer the gift of self to enrich the child's spiritual development. Resources for this responsibility are limitless, and the abundance of material available to lay folk through churches and Christian bookstores makes sharing the substance of the faith with a godchild a rewarding and exciting charge.


3. A godparent is a mentor, helper, and friend.

When asked if they are willing to stand as a sponsor in baptism, potential godparents should seriously consider whether they are capable of making a lifetime commitment to another human being. Just as parents face a lifetime of commitment to the health and well-being of their children, godparents must expect to exercise their responsibilities of involvement and care for the young people they sponsor. As representatives of the fancily of believers in Jesus Christ, they must expect to be available to their godchildren at all times for counsel, encouragement, and companionship.

In our time, the concept of spiritual friendship, of companionship on the faith journey, has become extremely popular. Rather than being a new concept, this is, in fact, an old idea, grounded in the type of relationship godparents should have with their godchildren. This experience of faithful companionship should be a comfortable and natural one for Christians, modeling their relationship with their godparents, their first friends in faith.

my first xmas

Santa Claus is the most lovable of the Christmas icons and for children especially, this fat old man riding in his sledge is the person who is their absolute buddy. Santa is therefore a recurrent theme of many Christmas poems written for kid and children. Jennie D. Moore's To Santa Claus is a poem, which reads like a letter from a kid to his/her dear pal asking him to bring all "I need". A Gentle Remainder by Allice Rollins is a typical expression of what a child's expects in the same old Christmas every year- a new gift from his mother. The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore is a lovely poem which talks about children's very own old Santa Claus and the eagerness with little ones wait for his arrival on the Christmas Eve.


The beauty and innocence of their mind gets a reflection in the Christmas poems for young Children.

Christmas Children is among the most popular Christmas poems for young children. Children reciting the poem express their love for Christ and wishes happy Christmas to every one present. The poem narrates and defines every single letter of the word "Christmas".


The first child says the letter C stands for Christ who came into this lowly earth. H stands for the harp that greeted Christ on his birth in the earth. The letter R resembles the ringing bells that keep up the mood of the season. I stands for the crystal ice were people go for enjoying sliding during Christmas.