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Book Review: The Healing Power of the Rosary by Gary Jansen

The Healing Power of Praying the Rosary by Gary Jansen fell into my hands at a time when I felt I was not doing justice to praying the rosary and was looking for a fresh perspective. I learned to pray the rosary at a very early age. However, I was looking for ways to enhance my prayer time with the rosary. It was not my favorite praying activity, to be honest. Many times, I would fall asleep in the middle of praying and wake up still clutching my rosary beads.

The word “healing” in the title caught my eye immediately because all my readings about the rosary so far had focused on the biblical aspect. What did healing have to do with praying the rosary?

I was pleasantly surprised. This book brought together the mind-body-spirit connection. I am a believer of how our mental state can affect our body and have read several books on the matter but this is the first time a book, specifically about the rosary, showed how it could actually be a great meditative and experiential tool that can also be healing. Gary gives us several chapters that dwell on using vagal breathing, Ignatian contemplation, and imagination to help immerse ourselves in the life of Jesus through the rosary while bringing our body into a relaxed state through prayer.

Thank you to the author, Loyola Press, and Netgalley for the ARC. Here are Amazon affiliate links if you want to get the paperback or the ebook.

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Implementation of the new check design is deferred by PCHC to May 2024. AGAIN!

I wish our banks and the Philippine Clearing House Corporation (PCHC) were more systematic about changes affecting clearing.

Just days after most news organizations reminded the public that they had only till May 1, 2023 to use checks in the old format, the PCHC issued another memo deferring implementation by one year to May 1, 2024.

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Only checks compliant with the new PCHC format will be accepted for clearing starting May 2, 2023. Are you ready? (updated)

(UPDATE: The PCHC has deferred implementation of the new check design to May 1, 2024. See my update HERE.)

If you have a checking account, it is time to look at your checkbook/s. By May 2, 2023, checks in the old format will no longer be accepted for clearing.

The new check format will now have boxes in the date field so that the date can be entered in MM-DD-YYYY format. The signature area and peso amount areas will also have boxes. The peso sign will now be found outside the area for the amount.

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Want to train kids to have business sense? Let them play business games!

Many people believe that having business sense is inherited. I think it can be developed. Most of us want our children to have business sense in them. Of course, not all of them will end up in business but engaging in any career (even for those who end up as homemakers) requires basic knowledge of business.

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I’m ending 2022 by finishing the Bible in a Year podcast. Consider joining the podcast for 2023!

Today is New Year’s Eve and, for the first time in my life, I am finishing up reading the entire Bible.

If not for the Facebook post of my friend, Weena, last year, I would never have known that there was a Bible in a Year podcast hosted by Fr. Mike Schmitz. I think I was meant to see it right before the year turned 2022.

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Money Saving Tip: Pay Your Real Property Tax Early (Updated)

When do you pay your annual real property tax?

Sec. 60 of the Real Property Tax Code (or PD No. 464) states:

“Payment of real property taxes in installments. — Real property taxes may, in the discretion of the taxpayer, be paid without penalty in four equal installments; the first installment to be due and payable on or before March thirty-first; the second installment, on or before June thirty; the third installment, on or before September thirty; and the last installment, on or before December thirty-first, except the special levies authorized under Sections forty-seven and fifty-five of this Code which shall be governed by the local ordinance or Department Order issued by the Secretary of Finance, as the case may be.”

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