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Torn between my obligations and the desire to visit my then very sick teacher, find out how the Good Lord stepped in...
January 22, 2001
I have made a tentative schedule to visit my ALMA MATER in Iloilo City on February 25,2001.
It will be a very special homecoming for me and my classmates. It will mark the 25th year since we of ICCHS Chinese Class 76 graduated in Chinese senior secondary school .
My son who studies there had been looking forward to this date. He stays in the school's dormitory. I stayed in the same dormitory during my entire high school days. I still have teachers who are teaching there until now.
One very special mentor has had to slow down and assume the less active role as the dormitory adviser because he was sick with cancer.
Last Dec.16, 2000, I was able to pray with him for a long , long time.I was hoping to pray with him again this February.
Then early this week, word reached me that he was admitted , again, to the hospital ( the third time since last 12/16/2000....). The cancerous cells have spread to his lungs . It was very difficult for him to breathe. The doctors cannot do anything more...
How I agonized over my Teacher's plight, I know he is in pain. How I worry about his wife ( my favorite Algebra & Calculus Teacher.) . How I wanted to be there and share in their suffering...
I wanted to ask my son to go and pray with him, yet I do not want to burden my introvert 14 year old.
With me, he has prayed with people on several occasions , but not alone. So I asked him to visit the hospital and pray the rosary there.
He is to text me thru the cell-phone when he is by my Teacher's bedside . This way, when he starts to pray the rosary , I will be able to join the prayer in spirit here in Cebu.
I explained to my son that this meant a lot to me.
By 4:10 PM on Jan.20,2001, my son's text message was : I AM ON MY WAY, WHEN YOUR CELL-PHONE RINGS DON'T ANSWER, IT MEANS I AM STARTING TO PRAY. Shortly after that , my cell-phone rang. As agreed I started praying too.
At 4:31 PM on Jan.20,2001 , this was his text message to me: I WAS NOT ABLE TO PRAY THE ROSARY BECAUSE NO VISITORS ARE ALLOWED. BUT I WAS ABLE TO GO INSIDE. I JUST PRAYED OVER HIM. HE IS VERY WEAK.
What else can I say (....???) as a warm wave of gratitude washed over me.... if not this? :
I THANK YOU LORD FATHER GOD , YOU KNEW MY HEART'S DESIRE . YOU HAVE MOVED MY SON TO PRAY FOR MY TEACHER . AND FOR THIS, I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL , AMEN.
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My Beloved Teacher passed away on February 4 ,2001.
My article TEACHER TY, FAREWELL was a tribute to him. May you find the time to access it for I would like very much to tell everyone about his selflessness.
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