Dear Website Visitors:
Welcome to Sambayanan Website! I hope that you will find your visit here to be informative and beneficial, and that you will soon find your way to our Church, if you have yet to visit us. It is my sincere hope that you will find our parish to be a place of comfort and support.We, as a Filipino Catholic Community, want you to feel welcome and to become involved in the many programs, groups, and activities promoted and supported by the Parish, and we hope that you will find a pleasant, prayerful, and supportive environment in which to learn about the Faith,connect with the community, and worship God. We hope that you will come to appreciate the reality that our Church is not just a structure built of brick and mortar, but truly a living temple of God's Holy Spirit: present, alive, and at work in all of the volunteers of our parish; who are the Church, the living Body of Christ.
We hope that you will join our Parish family and help us to strive to accomplish our collective responsibility to continue to build up the Church, through our ongoing physical and spiritual works and sacrifices.
May God continue to bless all those who enter Sambayanan Website: as they seek strength and consolation from God in this holy site; and may God be with all those who leave this site: may they go forth as living signs of His presence. May St. Lorenzo Ruiz, our beloved patron Saint, continue to intercede for us, and may our parish continue to grow in God's Grace and reflect God's Love to all. May God be praised and adored.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Sambayanan Admin
My presence here today is proof that you are my true strength. I never expected that I will be here taking my oath of office before you, as your president. I never imagined that I would be tasked with continuing the mission of my parents. I never entertained the ambition to be the symbol of hope, and to inherit the problems of our nation.......read more
(click here for the Tagalog translation of Pres. Noynoy Aquino's Inaugural Address)
"And God Smiled Back" is a book about ...my memorable childhood experiences; how God used people to reveal His love and presence to me; my joy and successes; my struggles and pains as a wife, a solo parent, a survivor; my experiences as a missionary and a migrant worker; my weaknesses, limitations; sinfulness and failures; but most of all "And God Smiled back" is a love story between God and myself, and your own love story too.
I encourage you to invite Him, too. Say "Lord, come and see...."as you read, reflect, and see yourself in this book I pray for each and everyone who will read this book. May God, inspire you too, in the same way He inspired me. AMEN.
-Homily by Archbishop Osvaldo Padilla, D.D. Apostolic Nuncio to Korea
On the occasion of our Independence Day, we wish to join the just and legitimate aspirations of our people in our efforts to create a better society, a better Philippines,founded on demo-cratic principles of liberty, justice and common efforts for progress and material wellbeing.
-Gawad kalinga Tony Meloto, Santa Clara, CA, USA - May 27, 2010
Note: A new dawn is upon us and the mind of a visionary is never at rest. Tony Meloto (TM) shares with us his reflections and vision of a new Philippines after the recently concluded national elections.
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Dear Lord, I thank You for this day
I thank You for my being able to see
and to hear this morning.
I'm blessed because You are
a forgiving God and
an understanding God.
You have done so much for me
and You keep on blessing me.
Forgive me this day for everything
I have done, said or thought
that was not pleasing to you.
I ask now for Your forgiveness.
Please keep me safe
from all danger and harm.
Help me to start this day
with a new attitude and plenty of gratitude.
Let me make the best of each and every day
to clear my mind so that I can hear from You.
Please broaden my mind
that I can accept all things.
Let me not whine and whimper
over things I have no control over.
And give me the best response
when I'm pushed beyond my limits.
I know that when I can't pray,
You listen to my heart.
Continue to use me to do Your will.
Continue to bless me that I may be
a blessing to others.
Keep me strong that I may help the weak...
Keep me uplifted that I may have
words of encouragement for others.
I pray for those that are lost
and can't find their way.
I pray for those that are misjudged
and misunderstood.
I pray for those who
don't know You intimately.
I pray for those that don't believe.
But I thank You that I believe
that God changes people and
God changes things.
I pray for all my sisters and brothers.
For each and every family member
in their households.
I pray for peace, love and joy
in their homes; that they are out of debt
and all their needs are met.
I pray that every eye that reads this
knows here is no problem, circumstance,
or situation greater than God.
Every battle is in Your hands for You to fight.
I pray that these words be received
into the hearts of every eye that sees it
in Jesus' name. ; Amen!
God Bless ! ! ! ! !
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