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A Filipino Jesuit tweeting about life, organizations, leadership, spirituality, religion, diversity, equity & inclusion. 🇵🇭✝️😀💙

Cagayan de Oro City, PHILS
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Frank Savadera
1 month
It's my 15th anniversary of #ordination today and I'm helping out build a small 30 sq meter chapel for families in Barlig, Mountain Province (Phils). Any small contribution will help. Pls send me a private note if you are able to support the project. Many thanks and #HappyEaster .
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We were interviewing top 10 students for valedictorian & salutatorian. . Panelist: What are you most thankful for? . Pupil: I would have had 4 other siblings if not for mom's miscarriages. I'm the only one left. I am very thankful to God that I am here.I want to give God my best.
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Frank Savadera
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Tonight, we had an online university mass for former president Benigno 'Pinoy' Aquino III. A couple of trolls dropped in to spice up our page. Here are some notes they left: 'Heswita bayaran," "Dilawan," "Pati ba naman sa misa ..." . At.least we know they're mass goers.
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Frank Savadera
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I know already whom to vote for in the next elections. I'm for good government.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
There’s a patron saint for those experiencing mental anxiety and illness. Pray to Saint Dymphna who in her lifetime went through great mental anguish.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
The oldest in our community celebrated his 96th. Happy Birthday Fr. Joe Dakanay SJ.
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Frank Savadera
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#Lumindol but not everyone in the vicinity felt the jolt. . Yes ... no one denies an earthquake. Facts in history cannot be denied. #EarthquakePH
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Frank Savadera
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I'll be doing my 30-day Silent Retreat starting tomorrow. You can let me know you particular prayers if any. I'll be glad to remember those in my prayers during the retreat. Blessings to everyone.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
A Grade 1 student, staying alone with his 41 year old dad had no inkling that the father has been dead in their house over the weekend. Prayers for the family.
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"I’m a Filipino priest of the Dominican order. I’m also a molecular biologist who has spent the last 20 years using yeast cells to study the molecular basis of cancer."
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Frank Savadera
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How is the #Sinulog celebrated this year? I guess we’re sticking to the basic faith expressions! No parades and fanfare! Simply gratitude for the #faith .
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Almost forgot! I've been ordained a cleric 14 years ago!
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Frank Savadera
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Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
There's another strong earthquake south of Manila this morning. Sometimes I just hope that the long hidden stash of gold finally reappears from cracks on the ground. . But that's wishful thinking! #EarthquakePH #Lumindol #Lindol
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Frank Savadera
1 year
As low as P25 per kilo. . We have an abundance of veggies. Let's support our local farmers. . And don't hoard please.
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Frank Savadera
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Prayers for everyone as we, the tertian Jesuits begin tonight our final 3-day retreat ending our 6-month tertianship experience. Please send me a private note should you have intentions you wish me to pray for. Cheers and blessings to everyone.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
7 years ago today with #PopeFrancis .
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Frank Savadera
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Jones' Bridge gives a #Manila pre-war feels.
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Frank Savadera
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A Grade 1 boy helped bring his classmate to the clinic yesterday. The classmate was nose-bleeding. Grade 1 boy: Is her nose bleeding because she couldn't understand my English? How do you respond to a 7 year-old?
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Our Jesuit community clowning around on Saint Ignatius Day. Happy Feastday! #jesuits
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Frank Savadera
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Celebrating the 71st birthday of one of our former teachers. Retirement is BLISS.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Mommy would have been 80 yrs old today. Happy birthday mom.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Our campus is open for those evacuating from the floods. #odette #CagayanDeOro
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Happy Easter Twitter friends.
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Frank Savadera
9 months
Sharing our hearts with you on Saint Ignatius Day. Happy fiesta. . #jesuits
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Our music room is getting a donation. . Thanks to our generous donor.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
O blessed are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways!
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Frank Savadera
1 year
I'm still very much overwhelmed by all the surprises and greetings. What an amazing day. Thanks everyone for all your love and prayers. I'm loving you all to the moon and back. Be blessed everyone.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Praying for a Filipino I know who had been struck down with Covid in Brazil and is now in coma.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Lenten fasting and abstinence. . Infographics from the StJamestheApostleParish.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his love endures forever.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
My deadly Friday dinner.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Jesuits in our BARONG - Philippine national attire. . Celebrating our lay school collaborators' years of dedicated love for and commitment to Jesuit education. Congratulations and more blessings.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Our school has a less popular name and today is our REAL feastday. Happy Fiesta.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
A brother in the Lord pronounces his final vows. #religiouslife #jesuits
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Frank Savadera
2 years
How to deal with #trolls ? We can let lose of our stuffiness and engage trolls with fun and humor. To deal with trolls you have to speak their language. You have to own the trolls. #SonalKhetarpal #BusinessToday2017
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Frank Savadera
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The Fall of #Bataan and #Corregidor is celebrated in the #Philippines as "Araw ng Kagitingan" or the Day of Valor when after 3 months of fierce battle, some 76,000 Filipino and American forces surrendered the country to the Japanese Imperial Army. 📷Wikipedia
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Frank Savadera
3 years
1st Friday of Lent at the Xavier University - Immaculate Conception Church.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
The Washington Monument, named after the first president of the United States was dedicated today in 1885. . Happy Anniversary!
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Frank Savadera
2 years
No strong winds but it has been raining continuously much like Sendong in 2011. Water then came rushing down from the mountains carrying logs and debris. Today, it's been exactly 10 years since then.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Who likes to have some?
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Just because your childhood was troubled doesn’t mean that your future has to be. #JamesEWardJr .
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Frank Savadera
2 months
Arches of the Loyola Retreat House in Angono, Rizal.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
For the first time, I've opened an account on #TikTok . Oh boy! They sure have a lot of interesting and convincing stuff and content out there. And who cares if they are true! Yes ... if I may say again ... really convincing!
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Sriracha and honey added unique flavor to these home-made club sandwiches.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Lord, fill this night with your radiance. May we sleep in peace and rise with joy to welcome the light of a new day in your name.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Happy to have finally given away the teachers' Christmas cash gifts. #sanaol
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Frank Savadera
2 years
24 years ago today, I joined the Jesuits. Happy Anniversary to many who consider this day as their Entrance Day to religious life.
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Frank Savadera
4 months
Watching and supporting the film #Gomburza . #UPTown
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Teacher: Can you mention a word that begins with the letter "F." . Kindergarten pupil 1: FOUR . Teacher: Very good. Can you mention OTHER words that begin with the letter "F." . K pupil: Yes! Forty, Forty one, Forty two, Forty three, Forty four, Forty Five, Forty six ....
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Let the heavens rejoice and earth be glad, let the sea and all within it thunder praise, let the land and all it bears rejoice, all the trees of the wood shout for joy. . Happy Monday morning.
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Good morning. Sunrise over the #Liverpool waterfront.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Enhanced Community Quarantine #ECQ , the strictest quarantine classification has been imposed today in Cagayan de Oro City. Prayers for us.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Happy first Holy Communion to this group of kiddos.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Critical thinking — the ability to analyze and effectively break down an issue in order to make a decision or find a solution — will be core to your #success . #JColeman
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Frank Savadera
3 years
The beauty of the rising sun Begins to tint the world with light, Awakened nature glows with life As form and color reappear. . Photo from Microsoft Bing Text: Pergrata mundo nuntiat, Dom Anselmo Lentini, OSB
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Prayers for some of our grade school teachers and their families whom I know have just contracted Covid-19. . We're experiencing another surge! Take care everyone.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
It's been awhile since the last time I baked. Who wants red velvet cupcakes?
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
How long should a SUNDAY homily be?
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Frank Savadera
2 years
I lift up my heart to you, O Lord, and you will hear my morning prayer.
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Frank Savadera
10 months
Prayers for Dr. Karen, a nephrologist who is currently in ICU after an aneurysm.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Learned that the traditional hopia is made of sibuyas (onions) ... and not pork or ube as I knew.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Quiet days ahead. Prayers for everyone.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
How do you rate Goldilocks' Ube Cheese Puto?
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Frank Savadera
3 years
At the Myeongdong Cathedral gardens with a bust of St. Andrew Kim Taegon. Happy feast day to our Korean Catholic martyrs. . Seoul, Korea 2015
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Frank Savadera
1 year
It's always easier to complain because you don't need to find solutions to anything.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Advice from Pope Francis.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Our more than 50 year old house lobby.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Post Lunar New Year celebration with Cagayan de Oro's Original La Paz Batchoy (noodle soup) and siopao (steamed dumpling). The BEST!
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Frank Savadera
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The #Jesuit community of Loyola House of Studies, Ateneo de Manila, Philippines for SY 2023-2024. . Please help pray for more vocations to the Society of Jesus, priesthood and religious life.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Crime and corruption are not new in the world of Philippine politics. They have become a culture, and Filipinos learned to live with them. However, if Filipinos change their voting habits, they are more likely to see a greater Philippines. #RonReyes #McGillInternationalReview2021
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Frank Savadera
2 years
May the all-powerful Lord grant us a restful night and a peaceful death.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
This was my last day in Worcester, Ma before finally flying back home to PH. It’s been exactly a year today.
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Frank Savadera
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Nuestra Senora dela Soledad de Porta Vaga or Our Lady of Solitude, a title of the Blessed Mother which commemorates her solitude on Black Saturday after her Son's death. This image represents the oldest religious painting in the Philippines, as venerated in Imus, Cavite.
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Frank Savadera
6 months
Quieting down as we begin our 30-day silent retreat. . Prayers for everyone.
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Frank Savadera
11 months
Got myself published.
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Frank Savadera
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“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.” St. Ignatius of Loyola
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Frank Savadera
2 years
My simple and comfortable accomodations the past 8 days. . #retreat2021 #monasterylife #bukidnon #malaybalay
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Celebrating the first apparition of the Blessed Mother to Saint James the Apostle at the Nuestra Senora del Pilar Cathedral in Zaragoza, Spain.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer. - Padre Pio . Coming this close to the man at San Giovani Rotondo, 2015.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Remembering the woman, the beautiful voice that sang "The Greatest Love of All," "I Will Always Love You," "Didn't We almost Have it All," and many others. Rest in Peace! #WhitneyHouston (Died Feb 11, 2012)
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Our start-up #Pantry at the XU-Grade School. . And we're not communist.
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Frank Savadera
19 days
How to beat the heat! #summer #heatwave
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Merry Christmas Twitter friends.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
From The Real Fire Officer.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Lighted a candle today for those who have died. #COVID19 #pandemic #prayers
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Quiet days ahead. Please send me a private note so I may pray for your intentions. Blessings. #annualretreat
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Frank Savadera
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Celebrating National Arts Month.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
Spring will come.
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Sharing the grief of a brother in the Lord during this Easter time. . May the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.
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Frank Savadera
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He would have been 99 years in June. An Ilokano who grew up in Shanghai and entered the Jesuits via the California Province, Father Joe was a long-time missionary in Mindanao. We will miss stories of your life adventures, Father Joe. Rest in peace! #JoseDacanay
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Frank Savadera
3 years
For Grabs! Anyone?
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Frank Savadera
2 years
Happy Lunar New Year from our community to yours. . Photo by BroBCruz.
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Frank Savadera
9 months
Those who were left after lunch with friends. Happy feastday.
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Frank Savadera
3 years
My current city has for its patron Saint Augustine. Normally, the feast comes with colorful parades, big church activities, and huge gatherings among friends and relatives. Hoping that no such thing happens today. We’re still trying to contain the virus. Keep safe everyone.
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Frank Savadera
11 months
It's been 25 years today since I joined our least Society. . Happy Anniversary to my batchmates and all Jesuits celebrating their Entrance Day today.
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Frank Savadera
1 year
Passed by this exhibit in Cubao - Alimall. Happy Feast of the Santo Nino.
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