SPIN A WHEEL: Choose Your Favorite Color
by: STEVE VILLACORTA (January - June 2012)
illustration by: LESYN ALLAUIGAN
As the cliché goes, life is colourful. Indeed. Each of us has different stories and each story contains a colourful episode, from light to dark, name it, we have it. Our life can be as light as the blue sky because there is happiness and hope. It can also be as dark as the black ink of a pen because of the pain we encounter in the cycle of life. Try to look at the things around and point a colour that first caught your attention.
Last February 28 of this year, the Iglesia Ni Kristo’s evangelical mission at the Quirino Grandstand created headlines
in print, radio, and television. In that event, our dear Fr.Betbet pleasantly noticed that the participants were all wearing white. With the estimated 2M participants donned in WHITE , it was a sight to behold.
Drawing inspiration from there, the following Sunday, March 4, 2012, Fr.Betbet encouraged the parishioners of Maria Reyna ng mga Apostoles to wear WHITE when attending the Sunday Mass. According to him, if mass goers come in white, the unity in the community of God is evidently manifested.
A beautiful suggestion that drew varied reactions. Well, that is life; there will always be negative and positive reactions. It may seem impossible , but come to think of it. If the estimated 2M people did wear white for the whole day of February 28, what can hinder us from doing the same? And mind you, it is only when you attend Mass for one hour. We may never measure the faith of each and every one of us by wearing white but we can show that we are united as Catholics, as sons and daughters of God.
Let us leave away those impossibilities. A simple white shirt that we can wear every Sunday will do. For those who haven’t tried yet, why? Some already did. Maria Reyna ng mga Apostoles will be the only Catholic Church in the country with parishioners who all wear white if all of us will cooperate.
Last February 28 of this year, the Iglesia Ni Kristo’s evangelical mission at the Quirino Grandstand created headlines
in print, radio, and television. In that event, our dear Fr.Betbet pleasantly noticed that the participants were all wearing white. With the estimated 2M participants donned in WHITE , it was a sight to behold.
Drawing inspiration from there, the following Sunday, March 4, 2012, Fr.Betbet encouraged the parishioners of Maria Reyna ng mga Apostoles to wear WHITE when attending the Sunday Mass. According to him, if mass goers come in white, the unity in the community of God is evidently manifested.
A beautiful suggestion that drew varied reactions. Well, that is life; there will always be negative and positive reactions. It may seem impossible , but come to think of it. If the estimated 2M people did wear white for the whole day of February 28, what can hinder us from doing the same? And mind you, it is only when you attend Mass for one hour. We may never measure the faith of each and every one of us by wearing white but we can show that we are united as Catholics, as sons and daughters of God.
Let us leave away those impossibilities. A simple white shirt that we can wear every Sunday will do. For those who haven’t tried yet, why? Some already did. Maria Reyna ng mga Apostoles will be the only Catholic Church in the country with parishioners who all wear white if all of us will cooperate.