Our Lady's Garden, Perfect Place To Meditate

Finding a place to prayerfully communicate with Our Lady of Peace, everyone may find Our Lady's Garden in small city of La Carlota, Negros Occidental, PH.

Our Lady of Peace Grotto

Whether you are a Catholic faithfuls or not you may find yourselves in complete communion with Our Lady of Peace in a perfect garden made for the purpose wherein a small cave was made or a grotto.

In a small area at the back of the Catholic Church in La Carlota City, Our Lady's Garden is situated. It was blessed sometime in February 2014.

A replica of a big Rosary which beads are made of ceramic tiles, is mounted on the ground and is leading to the huge Grotto of Our Lady of Peace. At the center of te said Rosary is a clear water pond.

Upon entering the gate, a wishing well is easily seen to welcome the religious visitors and even non-Catholics to view this miraculous Blessed Virgin Mary.

Immeasurable Joy of Christmas

Waking up late in the morning, I proceeded to the sala (visitor's lounge) to look for my wife. She's not there. Only my two grandchildren, Toto Bryan and Adgel who were there, preoccupied playing on my laptop and our youngest daughter, Geeree.

I went outside the house and saw her busy attending her plants in the garden, especially her orchids. She jokingly told me from afar that I have failed to greet her this Christmas.

I got nearer, greeted her "Merry Christmas:, and gave her a morning Christmas hug as we laughed out loud for the joy we had of being together in this Christmas Day though some of our children were not around. Some were abroad working. Other within the country. And some had their own family to tender to.

Geeree who was tending a Christmas music played on her cellphone connected to a 32-inch TV monitor, was on the alert to observe us outside her mother's garden.. While overhearing us laughing out loud and seemed to be enjoying, she took her cellphone, and captured the following momentous actions we did.

Reading - The Foundation of Knowledge

Kids love to listen to Storytelling before they learn to read. They're too curious, inquisitive as they listen to story told either by their parents, grandparents, and even their teachers while they're in school.

The month of November has been declared by the Department of Education as National Reading Month of every year to stress the importance of reading as the foundation of knowledge.

It is enjoined that every school in the Division of La Carlota must conduct reading session activities storytelling, Read-A-Thon, Drop Everything and Read (DEAR), among others in celebration of the national reading month.

Our school has conducted a storytelling to the pupils of kindergarten, grades one, two and three by different representatives from the pupils’ parent, guardian and local government unit, who volunteered to read stories with respective moral lesson to the pupils. They used the big books for their reading session.