Assumpta: December 2022 Edition
It is the season to give, give and give some more!
Old girls GIVE BACK!
Mariana Lopa Gives back
Woman empowerment through sports! I recognized the soft skills that I learned from sports and how they helped me in a cutthroat and male-dominated legal profession.
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Brgy. Friends of HS69 give back
From these small programs undertaken within a short time frame, new paradigm of assistance opened as the group now became aware of important needs they could provide to this community in Taguig.
AAA Bacolod Chapter gives back
The AAA Bacolod Chapter’s volunteer teachers of the Assumption Seminary Apostolate (ASA), have been holding English Conversation Classes at the Sacred Heart Seminary in Bacolod for almost 25 years.
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JUST B Gives back
SCHOLARSHIP… IN MEMORIAM
The project sprouted from the passing of Bianca Montenegro.
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AAA's Noche Buena 2022 Program GIVES BACK
AAA’s Noche Buena Program
AAA’s Noche Buena Program is actually the brainchild of the Concepcion Industries Corporation (CIC) sometime in mid-year 2020.
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We reached our target of
2900 Noche Buena
Gift Bags
2900 families will be happy
because of you!
Thank you!
Christmas Traditions
TRADITIONS… OF THE RELIGIOUS OF THE ASSUMPTION
By Sr. Ana Maria Melocoton, R.A.
During the week ‘til Epiphany, every night a raffle….ONE gets the Little statue of the infant Jesus to her room at night to keep during the day…and the others get some virtues to practice…LIKE AN ACT OF HUMILITY….silence…kindness, generosity…poverty, patience…humility etc.etc….sounds childish…but gives simple joys….exchange gifts happens on new year with the little gift received at Christmas….these are our little traditions….we find simple joys in doing these…. Our little joys at Christmas time…traditions from 1844…..
The Door!
By Ana de Villa Singson
The passing years are etched in each Christmas photo in front of “THE DOOR.” Many other doors would open and shut in our lives, but that door would always welcome us with love, promising warmth, comfort, unremitting loyalty, unquestioning faith…
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"GARAY"
By Martha Cynthia Tinsay Gonzalez
We would walk in dirt road…with roosters and hens…This we did in our brand-new Christmas dress…we would compare our collections and laugh
NOCHE BUENA
SECRET SANTA
By Dette de la Fuente – Aruego
For as long as I can remember, I had always spent Christmas Eve in my parents’ house with the clan – together with my mom’s cousins and my second cousins. We would start off the evening with a mass to celebrate Christ’s birth.
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By Carmella Gana – Araullo
EXCHANGING GIFTS PLUS THE LEFT AND RIGHT GAME
By Chin Bautista Joson
Among the many family traditions we have during the festive season, my favorites are dressing up the Christmas tree and exchange gifts. From the time I had a home of my own, putting up a Christmas tree during the holiday season was always a must for me. Now, each year, my three kids and I have a tradition of putting up the trinkets. Putting the star is now the responsibility of my 10-year-old daughter since she’s old enough.
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All I want for Christmas
DEAREST MOM
By Monette Quiogue
On August 26, my mom had brain surgery. It was a very Grey’s Anatomy moment when the doctors told us that my mom would need surgery to remove the subdural hematoma on the right side of her brain.
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TIME, TIME AND MORE TIME
By Dr. Clarissa “Chinkey” Velayo, M.D.
More time…
…to be with family while the sun is out, not just before and after work hours.
…to reflect and be quiet to regain spiritual and mental strength for the coming year
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MY FAMILY AROUND ME
By Marie Young
My wish is just to have my family around me, to spend time together and enjoy my grandkids and hopefully get news of new ones on the way. My wish is to be able to freely do the things I love.
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FOR ALL THE FAMILIES TO BE HAPPY TOGETHER
By Tina Nakpil
Christmas wish is for all families to experience a happy Christmas: a Christmas where loved ones are together, there is food to share on the table, gifts and joyful storIes are exchanged….
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CHRISTMAS ALPHABET
By Pudgy Carcereny Garcia
C for Cosmetics– finished most of it because of zoom meetings; Chocolate- need to have a piece of it before I sleep; Charcuterie- love any kind of grazing board; Comfy and Cozy- spots at home;
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ONE BIG FAMILY CELEBRATION
By Andie Recto
My fondest Christmas wish would be to celebrate Christmas as one big family – my four siblings and their children, who are not in Manila, together with those who are here in the city.
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TO BE THE HANDS AND FEET OF JESUS
by Tes dela Paz
To stay prosperous so we may a vessel of hope and blessing to others and be of great health so we may continue to be the hands and feet of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, whose birth we celebrate!
ALL THAT I AM BLESSED TO SHARE!
By Tes Lopez
Christmas which is giving the gift of ourselves which comes from the heart. Sharing our countless blessings and talents keep alive the spirit of Christmas 365 days of the year.
noche buena... filipino style!
A FESTIVE CHRISTMAS TABLE
Written and styled by Valerie Sotto
To celebrate this milestone Christmas, my tablescape features a mix of traditional and Filipiniana decor made by our local artisans — placemats with parol design, embroidered napkins, bamboo edged dinner plates, capiz candle holders and abaca planters.
COOKING UP NOCHE BUENA
WITH CHEF SANDY DAZA
By Ana de Villa – Singson
Brought to you by The AAA Cooking – Baking Club
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christmas - tree gazing
There is a legend that after Jesus Christ was born, some of the trees shook off the snow and turned green to commemorate the event. Since then, Christmas trees have become symbols of permanence and evergreen immortality, of fresh green beginnings after a long winter. Whether myth, fable or legend, gazing at Christmas trees is always cathartic. Christmas trees symbolize happy times, reunions, the generosity of giving, the wonders of receiving, of happy meals with those you love dearest and of moments that you want to stretch on and on so they last forever. Let’s go tree-gazing and as we do, let’s offer up a fervent prayer for a safer, happier, more peaceful world. We are hopeful! The Christ Child is coming!
AAA PRESIDENT’S YEAR-END REPORT
By Tina Casa Nakpil
No gift, no yes, is too small. We are all qualified. And that is the power of the collective of the Alumnae. Put all those little efforts together –and the big ones, too– and they redound to something extraordinary. Last year, it translated to P12M plus of extraordinary assistance, complemented with love and compassion in the form of your shared time and talent.
the assumption world prays together
Old Girls from across the globe united in prayer. Alumnae from AAA chapters in USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia, the Philippines gathered to pray the rosary over 4 weeks. In this season of Advent, we prepare ourselves for the birth of the Christ Child. In prayers, there is renewed hope, deepened faith. In red plaid and blue, guided by our RA nuns who preface each rosary, we pray. Love. Peace. Happiness. Simplicity. Contentment. Generosity. Kindness. Patience. Compassion. A Blessed Christmas and a Happy 2023 to All!
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REFLECTING…WALKING WITH ST. EUGENIE
Our Dearly Departed
By Ana de Villa – Singson
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(June 9 – November 3, 2022 ) for Mass for the Dearly Departed
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