In the last week of June, our parish was faced with the task of raising the remaining 7M that will complete the 25M pesos more needed to finish our church. It is known to many now that we had achieved the impossible. It was a miracle by any standards. Many did not believe that we can do it. But with God on our side and the cooperation and support of everyone, we did it.
No doubt, having the 7M completed a week after we expected it was a God-given modern-day miracle. But there was another miracle. Maybe clouded, lost or unrecognized because of the more spectacular one. I am talking about the community effort in achieving the impossible. Anytime you have people cooperating, contributing, and working as one for a common goal, it is considered a great miracle. This, I saw immediately after the church got burned. I saw it too in all of the fund-raisings we did before the final one, the tenten (10-10-25). The tenten made it more pronounced and evident. The number of people who participated in the final fund-raising push was tremendous. People from all walks of life and from everywhere chipped-in their worthy earned money. It was really more of how many participated than how many were received. Yes, 25M was really something, but thousands of donors were really a great thing!
Having made a lot of people from different places and from all levels of society, and add to that from different age brackets, work together and agree to unite and conspire to achieve our "impossible" goal, is the other miracle. Or, should I say, the greater miracle!
As Sis. McKenna said, "Miracles do happen!" It happened here in our parish, not once, but twice! And I would not object if anybody would say, "many times"!
No doubt, having the 7M completed a week after we expected it was a God-given modern-day miracle. But there was another miracle. Maybe clouded, lost or unrecognized because of the more spectacular one. I am talking about the community effort in achieving the impossible. Anytime you have people cooperating, contributing, and working as one for a common goal, it is considered a great miracle. This, I saw immediately after the church got burned. I saw it too in all of the fund-raisings we did before the final one, the tenten (10-10-25). The tenten made it more pronounced and evident. The number of people who participated in the final fund-raising push was tremendous. People from all walks of life and from everywhere chipped-in their worthy earned money. It was really more of how many participated than how many were received. Yes, 25M was really something, but thousands of donors were really a great thing!
Having made a lot of people from different places and from all levels of society, and add to that from different age brackets, work together and agree to unite and conspire to achieve our "impossible" goal, is the other miracle. Or, should I say, the greater miracle!
As Sis. McKenna said, "Miracles do happen!" It happened here in our parish, not once, but twice! And I would not object if anybody would say, "many times"!
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