As a lead-in for the next day's topic on the Association and Educational Service for the Poor, today the young Brothers were assigned into small groups and sent out to various educational ministries. Some are close by, while others are not quite so. One group at least started their long commute at 4:30 a.m. to the Jaime Hilario Integrated School. Another--much luckier--group traversed an even longer distance by foot across the street from their bedroom to the Bahay Pag-Asa ("house of hope") where they spent the day with the court-adjudicated young men in residence.
My group was with the autistic children at the Neurological Development Center. Who knew that the simple act of "playing" would expend so much psychic energy and require so much patience. We were edified at the level of dedication among the lay teachers--nothing short of a true vocation, as we gave witness to it. We are thankful for our lay Partners, and at the same time we hope that their Spirit would become contagious, and rub upon all of us in our Institute.
--Brother Peter Nguyen
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