» 2008 June
I have talked the last time about how the Capuchin Sisters have achieved success in the lives of countless little girls in the city, and how honored I was to have been a part of it. Sometime last year I was approached by the indomitable Sr. Luz Maria Buitrigo with a proposal: in the quiet regions of the neighboring Bacolod City (in the Negros island), the order means to put up a novitiate for young women.
Now, planning a chapel and planning a novitiate are two completely different things. The former is simply a part of a whole, which may be taken separately; to do the latter, is like starting from scratch and taking it all the way to the architectural drawing boards. Needless to say, a rather monumental project compared to the last.
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However, if anything is to be learned from this, is that a labor of love is begotten by love. The aesthetics that lend themselves to me when I think of a piece of furniture, expands to include an entire living space! Beyond that, the energy and combined talents of friends and family who are willing to contribute give fire to this endeavour.
One way I would like to look at it is that this is a big, blank canvass that has been given to me, with the challenge: how do you, with what you have been given, express yourself and be grateful to The One who has given it to you?
I would think this is a challenge we all face every day in our lives––be we faced with scaled pencil drafts, or the computer screen, or a blank wall––though sometimes we may be very blessed to be given the opportunity to focus on something such as this.
Labels: place-Talisay-Bacolod, projects-CTS-Novitiate
