Another Winner from CABECS!

Crisandra J. Ablao, a 4th year BS Tourism student, submitted the correct answer on October 26, 2006.

Her answer is Augustine of Hippo, which is the correct answer for this month's trivia question.

Trivia Question for the Month of October

Who is the father of Christian Psychology?

What are you waiting for? Email your answer now to college_guidance@csab.edu.ph for a chance to win a gift certificate!

Notes:

1. Only bonafide college students of CSA-B can participate.


2. Only e-mail entries are accepted.


3. The first to submit the CORRECT ANSWER will be declared winner for the month.


4. The name of the winning participant will be posted on this web page.


5. The winner will claim the prize at the College Guidance Center and present his/her valid school ID to Sir Michael.


To our previous winners, please give chance to other students.

Career Planning Workshop

The College Guidance Center, in partnership with the graduate students of the University of Saint La Salle – Bacolod, facilitated a career-planning workshop at the testing room of the Student Center Building, Colegio San Agustin – Bacolod last Friday, October 9, 2009.

Eleven graduating psychology students of Colegio San Agustin – Bacolod participated in the said workshop. The activity commenced with a morning prayer depicting the beginning of the day and the beginning of life followed by the story of the three trees. The story described the dreams of the three trees. Though at first they thought that their dreams were never achieved but in the end, their dreams were realized in another and a more meaningful way. They reached beyond their dreams and their hearts were fulfilled and contended.

A lecture on strategic career planning followed. The SODI model on career planning was introduced to the group and careers awaiting psychology graduates were presented. The participants were divided into two groups where they shared what made them choose psychology, their top two career choices in psychology and the person they want to become after five years.

The game “Samson and Delilah” brought more fun and action to the next part of the program. After the game, the participants were given pieces of paper with job titles written on it. Some participants were called to act out the jobs on the papers they got and those who got the same joined them. As a consequence, those who joined the wrong group performed the “Banana Dance” which entertained everybody. The group then had a lecture on decision-making. The simple steps to take and the process of responsible decision-making were discussed. The importance of decision-making was emphasized for the realization a dream is based on decisions made in every given opportunity. The workshop concluded with group processing, evaluation and giving of certificates.

Michael Brian Arcedas, Charlene Rivera and Winona Pandan, students from the graduate school of the University of Saint La Salle – Bacolod, facilitated the workshop.

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October the Month of the Holy Rosary

October and the Rosary

Tradition holds that October has been celebrated as the month of the rosary since 1571, and the victory of the Catholic League (an alliance of Spain, Venice, the Papal States, Genoa, Savoy, and Malta) over the forces of the Ottoman Empire who were seeking to take over Italy in an effort to move into the heart of Europe. It was October 7, 1571 when the battle was fought and the Catholic League was able to overcome the Ottoman forces.

Prior to the ships sailing off towards battle, Pope Pius V prayed the rosary, asking for Our Lady’s intercession in victory, and every man on board carried a rosary. For this reason, as soon as the men returned from the battle, the good pope declared a feast day for Our Lady of Victory. A rosary procession was offered in St. Peter’s square after the victory and in time the whole month became associated with the rosary, rather than just one day. Pope Pius XIII officially established October as the Month of the Rosary in the 1884.

http://www.aquinasandmore.com/index.cfm/title/October-and-the-Rosary/FuseAction/store.displayArticle/article/145/

Feast of the Little Flower

St. Therese of Liseux
"The Little Flower"
(Feast day:October 1)

Therese Martin was the last of nine children born to Louis and Zelie Martin on January 2, 1873, in Alencon France. However, only five of these children lived to reach adulthood. Precocious and sensitive, Therese needed much attention. Her mother died when she was 4 years old. As a result, her father and sisters babied young Therese. She had a spirit that wanted everything.

At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and sensitive spirit were turned toward love, instead of keeping herself happy. At 15, she entered the Carmelite convent in Lisieux to give her whole life to God. She took the religious name Sister Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face. Living a hidden, simple life of prayer, she was gifted with great intimacy with God. Through sickness and dark nights of doubt and fear, she remained faithful to God, rooted in his merciful love. After a long struggle with tuberculosis, she died on September 30, 1897, at the age of 24. Her last words were the story of her life: "My God, I love You!"

The world came to know Therese through her autobiography, Story of a Soul. She described her life as a "little way of spiritual childhood." She lived each day with an unshakeable confidence in God's love. "What matters in life," she wrote, "is not great deeds, but great love." She lived and taught a spirituality of attending to everyone and everything well and with love. She believed that just as a child becomes enamored with what is before her, we should also have a childlike focus and totally attentive love. Therese's spirituality is of doing the ordinary, with extraordinary love.

Therese saw the seasons as reflecting the seasons of God's love affair with us. She loved flowers and saw herself as the "little flower of Jesus," who gave glory to God by just being her beautiful little self among all the other flowers in God's garden. Because of this beautiful analogy, the title "little flower" remained with St. Therese.

Her inspiration and powerful presence from heaven touched many people very quickly. She was canonized by Pope Pius XI on May 17, 1925. Had she lived, she would have been only 52 years old when she was declared a Saint.

"My mission - to make God loved - will begin after my death," she said. "I will spend my heaven doing good on earth. I will let fall a shower of roses." Roses have been described and experienced as Saint Therese's signature. Countless millions have been touched by her intercession and imitate her "little way." She has been acclaimed "the greatest saint of modern times." In 1997, Pope John Paul II declared St. Therese a Doctor of the Church - the only Doctor of his pontificate - in tribute to the powerful way her spirituality has influenced people all over the world.

http://www.littleflower.org/