Hi from Fr Steve, your friendly neighborhood priest!

by Fr Steve
Hi. This is the first time I have ever “blogged.” I wonder whether I will get infected with the “blogging” passion?
Any suggestions for what we should be doing this Lenten Season?

An Ash Wednesday reflection

by Isabel
I asked our parish priest, Fr. Steve Tynan of the Missionaries of God’s Love, for a short reflection to help us begin the Lenten season today. Here is what he gave me:
The focus of Lent is always the inner conversion of the person to Christ; it is a time for embracing penitential practices (the [...]

The community’s own remedy

by Isabel
At a meeting last night, someone from Fairview asked me where I live. When he learned that I live in Don Enrique Heights, his eyes lit up.
“Your subdivision is a beautiful place,” he gushed. “It’s small, but very well kept.”
He went on to describe the chapel. “It’s so big and beautiful that you [...]

Changing landscape

by Isabel
Who would have thought Holy Spirit Drive would become as busy as it is now?
In the 1980s, it was a quiet — almost sleepy — street lined with trees and homes. One could cross it on foot or on a bicycle without even having to look out for cars or tricycles approaching from either [...]

Thank you, Sir

by Isabel
The Don Enrique Heights community gathered yesterday at the chapel for the mass commemorating the 40th day of the passing of one of its long-time residents, retired Brig. Gen. Pascual Melivo.
Gen. Melivo passed away on 26 December due to an aneurysm. He was 78. His body was cremated on 28 December, following a mass [...]

Defining and redefining the community

by Isabel
During one of our early years in Don Enrique Heights, my sisters and I joined the youth choir that was to sing at the fiesta mass. I bonded with the other kids, especially the girls who went to the same school I did. We had regular practices and hung out at each others’ homes [...]