"Saving OLPS"

Posted by Sano jetski at 1:41 AM

mga sano, kindly post your comments, suggestions/ reflections, whatever re "saving olps".

i try as much as possible to give everyone a free rein on whatever they post here but i just implore everybody to be clear, civil, learned, factual and gentlemen enough to sign off on your comments using your real names. at this point, being an anonymous coward is not really helpful ;-)

3 Comments:

  1. Anonymous said...
    6/8/06 6:12 PM
    I am new to this group and had fun reviewing your notes and pictures.

    I am forever grateful to Bulan priests who sent me to the seminary.

    1) Msgr. Ching Encinares - He conducted the invocation in my elementary graduation. After the program, he personally met me at the backstage and asked me take the entrance exam. Then, he accompanied me and 4 more kids to Sorsogon for the exam.
    2) Papa Leo - This ideal priest met all Bulan seminarians during summer at 3PM every afternoon after his siesta to teach Latin (MW) and Spanish (T-TH). This went on until I was in Junior year. Because of this 'daya', I was an A-1 student in both subjects. In college, I was in the Spanish advanced class only attending 1 session per trimester and guaranteed with the highest grade of 4. At work, I was paid 38+/mo. because of Spanish proficiency.

    Reference to this topic, priests of each town should be involved too. Please post contacts and information of these 2 priests.
    Anonymous said...
    7/8/06 8:03 PM
    Is the clergy still as respectable as it was a decade ago? We might be tunneling our vision at the OLPS problem without considering that this is related to a problem in a bigger scale. Each of us might have a priest we respect and admire so much but what about the rest of the clergy? The reputation of the priesthood has suffered both on moral and political grounds - that is a fact. How do you respect a position/vocation without respecting the man? And how do you respect the man if he does not uphold the teachings of the Church? The point is - no matter how many improvements we introduce in the OLPS system as long as the reputation of the priesthood leaves much to be desired, we cannot count on an increase of enrollees or young people who wish to pursue their calling. Priesthood will not be on top of their list of vocations/professions. And the factors introduced by poverty and political turmoil are not considered here yet.

    YMMV but don't give me the crap that the clergy is still as respectable as it was a decade ago.
    Anonymous said...
    9/8/06 6:58 PM
    everybody here has a point to be considered so what are we(alumni-clergy & non-clergy)have to do about the present predicament of our alma mater? are we for the revival of the vision that was started by the late and beloved msgr. florencio yllana or just stand here and let it fade away?

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