Personal Encounter with My Deepest Yearnings in G.Y.

            My deepest yearnings that evoked in my inmost being as I listened to the sharing and testimonies of the past GY’ers are the following.

            1^st is Commitment.  I want to be fully committed to the formation in G.Y.  I don’t want to waste again my time here in the seminary.  I want to take this once in a lifetime opportunity.  This time, I will embrace this formation not only for my own benefit but also for the Church.  I want to form myself not only to become a good person for myself but a better priest in the future for the Church.  So, in order to achieve that goal, I have to fully commit myself to the formation.

What's my Deepest Yearning???

            2^nd one is Openness.  I had a traumatic experience with regard to being opened.  I was in college when I opened myself to them by they used it to make fun of me.  After that I never opened myself again.  But I started to slowly open up myself when I started in Vianney.  This time, since I’m already in G.Y, I want to fully open myself not only to myself and to other people but also open to many possibilities that will happen in my life here in G.Y.  I’m doing this because I want to unload everything, good and bad things that happened in my life.  Openness is a vital aspect for me to be fully commit myself to the formation and respond to God’s call faithfully.

            3^rd one is Humility and Patience.  I need to be humble enough to accept that I need other people e.g. the Formators, batchmate, etc to achieve my goal esp. that I need God’s presence in my life here in G.Y.  On the other hand, I need to be patient with myself because self-improvement doesn’t happen for a day or a week.  It takes time so I need to be patient to the slow process of self-improvement and self-response to the formation.  And most of all, I have to be patient with God as He slowly unveils Himself in my day-to-day experiences.