first parish, after alight in the nearest station, i have to walk around 5 minutes to found the parish. quite difficult because i have to walk through the small street. this parish i already visit on my first week along with Michio but that time the parish office already closed. but now i found out that the parish office is still open. Thank God! so i talked to the lady there and pity that she doesn't have the youth coordinator or the parish priest number. she suggests to come back on Sunday to meet either the youth coordinator or the parish priest. and she gave me the office number. i also gave her the brochure of Pilgrimage of Trust along with my number written on that brochure. but i don't know why she just put the brochure in her desk, seems like she abandoned that small paper. ok then i went out and hoping let Holy Spirit encourage her to really give that brochure to the youth coordinator or the parish priest.
second parish, i walked around 10 minutes. this parish i also already visited on my first week
and get the youth coordinator contact number, but she never replied my text. so i found out that the parish office is still open and i asked about the youth coordinator. surprised that the lady told me that now there's a new youth coordinator because the previous one is already in Australia. crap! ahahahaha. unfortunately she doesn't know the new youth coordinator's number. she suggests me to wait around 45 minutes because there will be a daily mass that gave by the parish priest himself. the problem is, i don't have that 45 minutes because i still have 3 more parishes that i have to visit and my latest hour is 9pm (because the LRT will closed at 9pm). so i waited there around 15 minutes and found two of the youth members. so i talked to them about Taize and Pilgrimage of Trust, got the youth coordinator number and gave them the brochure. yes, i was hoping once again let the Holy Spirit guide them to give the brochure into the right hand ;pthird parish, 10 minutes walking. i already visited this parish as well on my first week, that time me and Michio meet the priest and we shared about Taize and Pilgrimage of Trust. but the end of our sharing, the priest told us that he's just a guest priest. crap! ahahahaha. and yes he told us that he will relay it to the parish priest. so now i hope i can meet the parish priest or the youth coordinator. the time is already 7pm and the parish office is already closed. argh, ok i have plan b. i walked around the parish to see if i can ask someone if they know about the youth coordinator or the parish priest. this method SOMETIMES is working, of course with enough luck. but unfortunately that time, i asked 2-3 people but they don't know anything. waiting desperately, i saw a big poster told that there will be a Parish Fiesta on Dec 10. cool! i noted down the date and let's see if i can attend the fiesta. then i went to the next parish.
fourth parish, 15 minutes walking and almost get lost. haha. 7.30 pm and the parish office is already closed. but there's many young people hanging around near the church. bless me! i approach three of them and asked about the youth coordinator. one of them answered with a better English than the other two. she said that the youth coordinator is not around and unfortunately three of them don't have the youth coordinator's number. but then i asked their number i gave the brochure to them. then i sat down and talked with them about the youth activity and they interested with what i'm doing here in Philippines. i always interested how's the church activity of the Filipinos youth. and it was a nice conversation to exchange ideas. and apparently she told me that she quite amazed because there are foreigners walking around Manila alone only with Map because in her opinion, it's quite dangerous to walk alone in Manila because sometimes there's criminal activity. and i'm quite surprised that time because in these three weeks i feel fine and not experienced any bad things. but at least what she told me made me more cautious. then i went to the fifth parish.
the fifth and the last parish of the day. it's quite far so i took Jeepney. 5 minutes riding jeepney and i alight. check the map and found out that i'm too far from the parish. ahahahaha. so i walked back around 5 minutes of walking. then i found the church and it's already dark. and unfortunately there's no one hanging around in the church. but i saw there's a light in the adoration chapel so i came in and found one lady who doesn't speak English very well. she suggests me to come again tomorrow on 9am when the parish office is open. then i still hanging around in front of the church for couple of minutes and hoping i can meet someone that i can asked for. there's many people walked passed by in the front of the church but there's no one who really hanging around in the church except the flowers vendors. starving and exhausting, i decided to went home. 10 minutes of walking to the nearest LRT station, it's around 8.15 pm. i hope i can arrive in the brothers's place before 9pm because usually they still keep the dinner until 9pm.
so i took the LRT and enjoy the ride with music plugged to my ears. then i see the door near me is full with a people so i move to the other door so i can get out easily. while i was walking to the other door, i saw one blonde man sat in the floor and in a second i recognized him. florian! AHAHAHAHAHA. and we were laughing very hard! it's soooo wonderful! apparently we are in the same car only separated around a quarter metres between. then i sat with him and we took pictures together. ahahaha cool. what a nice closing for my not-enough-luck day.
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