Bald and brown mountains. Photo by Fr. Raymond Montero Ambray
I took time a bit later to buy some things for my travel back to my parish: packets of unconsecrated hosts and one sack of dog food, a present to my lab pet, Jack. Upon docking at the Surigao Port, I was left with two sisters on our way to Butuan City. Yesterday on my way home, I was all alone already. I can’t deny I was nostalgic. Bishop Raul Dael used to say that “suffering would bring us closer together.” And exactly that’s what I felt then, the people that I encountered there became my new family.
Here in the quasi-parish, there is another group of people whom I’m serving. They are another challenge for me but Dinagat has enlarged my heart that it became ready to accommodate more. My experience has taught me that where there is greater pain, suffering or violence, there is the opportunity to love radically. I have risked my life loving the Lumads and I will continue to do so. But here is another call to love extraordinarily in the ordinariness of my ministry.
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