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EJ Montoya

Memorial of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila

Who among you would like this P100 right away? I am willing to give this now.

This morning, the one who took the P100 ill is lessed indeed! "hat # did was a $ra%ti%al

&ersion of the 'uestion ("ho wants to e lessed now)* +f %ourse, e&eryone wants to e lessed

and e ha$$y -et a%hie&ing ha$$iness and eing lessed is a $ro%ess

. while ago, # asked you if you would like to ha&e the P100 ill .t first, some of you smiled,

thinking what to say or inter$reting my statement /ew of you answered right away without

hesitation, and no one immediately stood u$ and ran to get the money

1 $on hearing a good news, sometimes we sto$ first, think, then think too mu%h "e

e%ome too slow and the lessing is delayed, ha$$iness is sus$ended Like what we didthis morning, maye you thought of wanting the money yet on the other hand, you tell

yourself that it is ust a oke So, you2ll not raise your hand nor gi&e any effort

3 There are times that we know what to do -et we do not a%t on it "e know we %an e

lessed or e&en less others when we do it, ut we refrain oursel&es from taking the ste$

/rom my 'uestion, you may ha&e raised your hand, smiled, and looked around who will

gra the money as well -et you ust said no, let them e lessed first -ou2ll ust look for

another %han%e

4 #t is %lear that we %an e ha$$y when we res$ond to the good news immediately and wefirmly de%ide to take a ste$ .nd on%e we2&e done it, ha$$iness is truly a%hie&ed /or the

one who really made the effort to get the money, %ongratulations! #n our li&es, we may

ha&e e5$erien%ed a%ting immediately on something as long as we know that it is good

This gi&es us ha$$iness and we allow oursel&es to e lessed

Relating these things with the 6os$el today, eing lessed is not ust a gi&en status right from the

&ery start The des%ri$tions of those lessed $ersons %ame from a firm de%ision to res$ond to

6od2s in&itation to e like him who is mer%iful, meek, %lean of heart, $ea%emaker, and many

other good 'ualities whi%h are also $ro$er to man, the image of 6od /rom the $erson2s firm

de%ision is an a%tion whi%h %an lead him7her to e truly ha$$y, to e lessed y 6od

.s we %elerate the Memorial of San Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila, our kababayan, we %an see in

him his eing truly lessed from a de%ision and a%tion he took .%%ording to the written a%%ounts

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aout him, an ad&erse e&ent made him lea&e the Phili$$ines 8e was in&ol&ed in a %riminal %ase

in whi%h the %ir%umstan%es are far from %lear To a&oid mistrial, he went to Ja$an with the

9omini%an $riests and lay %om$anions #t was not a good news that they were $erse%uted when

they arri&ed there, yet it was a %han%e of defending their faith and to e with 6od amidst great

trial 8e was tortured together with other :hristians yet remained firm in the faith, ha&ing the

%on&i%tion to offer his life to 6od, e&en if it were a thousand

# would like to %on%lude this through my %hildhood e5$erien%e #t was in 6rade 4 when my

tea%her asked us what we want to e%ome in the future # answered that # want to e a $riest

someday She told me to %hoose a $rofession, not a kind of life ;or maye she told me