Mums Are Stars....

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It has been a little over a month since my last entry....

Since today is Mother's Day, perhaps this is a good time as any to restart some writing and to wish all mothers, especially mine, A Happy Mother's Day!

Meantime, life here in the Seminary is slowly winding down towards our coming semester break where we close for two months, as the seminarians go for their 1-month pastoral followed by their other month for holiday.

To Infinity!....

At around 1.00 p.m. this Monday (August, 6th) afternoon, the latest NASA Mars vehicle, Curiosity, landed on the surface of that planet in a rather complicated maneuver that is akin to "flying through an eye of the needle" and touching down onto the spot directed like a golfing hole-in-one!  A remarkable feat indeed! It is a feat that not even an accomplished gold medalist Olympian can achieve.

Something like this within the realm of science certainly ought to be celebrated and our faith has a few things to say about it, too. This can be nicely summed up by Vatican Observatory's own astronomer, Br Guy Consolmagno who can help frame our perspective of faith and science in a balance manner that says and shows how our faith can take us beyond Earth. One can say, it is towards infinity!....

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