calle cuartero

Good evening..  Every year we give our seminarians their day on stage as dramatis personae.  We alternate this yearly activity with a stage play prepared by each class, and a major production prepared by the whole community.  Last year they competed by class usually producing original stage plays – from Grade seven to 4th year college in a two-day festival of plays.  You can still see the Theater Posters which they themselves made in the lobby of this hall with the winners having the privilege of being framed and displayed in the same lobby for two years. 

This year however the best among them have put their heads and acts together to come up with a musical entitled calle cuartero.  It is not a calle which you can pinpoint in google map. It can be any calle, it can be your calle, it can be mine, for calle cuartero is the story of one community struggling to become a Small Christian Community or a Magamay nga Kristianong Katilingban, an MKK.  Starting last November and in the year  to come in 2017, we will hear a lot of the parish as a communion of communities.  Calle Cuartero is just one small community in this communion of communities responding to the call of Jesus to love one another.

Since this is our last show, I would like to take this opportunity to show my appreciation to our seminarians who really did a good job despite the difficulty of balancing seminary life without sacrificing their spiritual, academic, pastoral and community life.  Good job everyone.  To our guest performers who really sacrificed their time and effort in helping us make this production possible. If there is ever such a thing, I would have wanted to name them honorary seminarians.  To my brother priests – fr bong, fr. doming, fr. marvin, fr. ron, fr. polpol, and the seminary priests.  If you were my formators before I would have been a star too.

And lastly I would like to thank sir pogi – hermas pacificador – who has been an all things to all seminarians – art teacher, music teacher, decorator, piano teacher, voice teacher, including encourager, inspirer, cheerer, animator, inspirer, caterer, and all the ers and the ors you can think of.  Thank you for inspiring our future priests. 

Because of a major production two years ago entitled Isko, ang pagsabat sa panawagan, made possible by the same people you see here, because of Isko one twelfth of our 12 million problem in building the Cardinal Sin building, our K to 12 building, was taken away.  Today the ticket you bought will help finance a big water tank that would supply water to our building.  Thank you so much for being here this evening.

Calle cuartero is our struggle to become church – may you be inspired, may you never give up in building one community at a time until we all become a communion of communities.  Again thank you.