Showing posts with label Sacrifice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacrifice. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 28

The greatest sacrifice a mother could give

Ive seen this post several times in facebook and everytime I read this post, I couldn't help it but feel like crying. I couldn't recall when this event had happen. It could be last March 2011 during Japan was hit by a strong tsunami, who knows. As a parent, I'll will do anything to ensure my daughter's survival even if it would cost me my own life and I know all parents would do the same thing to protect their child.

This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake.
 
Taken from Google


After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.

He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!

Wednesday, March 9

Ash Wednesday 2011


Taken from Google


Today marks Ash Wednesday in the Roman Catholic Church which officially starts the Lenten season for 2011. This is also a preparation for the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday.

Most people (Catholics and Devout Catholics) all over the world would observe this day through fasting and abstinence as a form of penance. Catholics ranging from 18 to 60 were highly encouraged to abstain from eating meat for a day. They can eat 1 complete meal and 2 small meals throughout the day.

During Mass, ashes were distributed by priests by putting it on someone's forehead as a symbol of humility. We should also repent and look back in our lives that we are living right now.  

For me, aside from abstaining myself from eating meat the whole day, I won't be online when I get home as a part of my sacrifice and penance. 

You may check out more about Ash Wednesday 2011 here and here. 

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