long weekend

During examination weeks, I usually sleep early and wake up early the next morning so i can get a clearer mind and a fresher, sharper memory at hand.

This morning, while my whole attention was buried deeply in my voluminous notes from my courses in History and Introduction to Liturgy, Medieval Philosophy, Ethics and NaturalLaw and Philosophy of Nature and Man, my mind suddenly went blank and it seemed like my faculties went on a kind of suspended animation and I felt the world stood still.

So thenI thought to give myself a little break and decided to log and write something on my blog, not a mystagogical reflection nor a seminary update, nor a theological paper or a heavy philosophy paper like what i used to.

I just want to write a fluid and mindrelaxing kind of update. Just a little tale in my mind, not a rant nor angst. I just need to.

This weekend is our long weekend. It started yesterday until tomorrow. The seminarians, both the diocesan seminarians and monastic seminarians, will all go back on MOnday for the weeklong Midterms exams.

Maybe this long weekend is devised to give us more time to review, study, write and finish writing our thesis essays required to submit next week.

Perhaps the long weekend serves as a respite for us as we are about to experience a weeklong mind boggling, nerve wracking staggered midterm tests.

Indeed, this weekend marks the folding of the first half and the unfolding of the last half of the Spring semester. This long weekend serves as a sign for us, seminarians, to look back into what we have accomplished and to look forward to the next set of academic challenges.

WE need to look into how we faired during the first half and how we will manage to hurdle the remaining half of the semester. The second hald of Spring semester, just as I thought, is going to be loaded with more challenging reading assignments, thesis papers, year-end self evaluation, projects and portfolios from the culmination of pastoral ministries, and the nerve wracking final examinations.

I must keep myself , then, focused.

I must stay away,then, from distractions.

I must stay clear of my goal and objective.

I must then be ready to adapt for the folding and unfolding.

I must stay in peace and calmly hurdle these forthcoming gigantic challlenges.

Have a blessed weekend to all...