Marist Asia Pacific Center

Our Brothers are attending a course on basic electricity and wirings at Marikina Polytechnic College in Marikina City from 05pm to 9pm on Wednesdays. It is a half an hour journey by Jeepny. In the four hours of duration the first two hours are theory and two hours are practical. It is quite interesting and [...]

Independence Day of the three Pacific countries Vanuatu, Kiribati and the Solomon islands. Our independence days are celebrated in the same month — July — but on different days. We celebrated our Independence Days together on July 18th 2008. On Friday 18th July, at 4:45am some of our Bros, Claudius, Tainga, Elie and John went out [...]

My experience of studying here in MAPAC My experience of studies here in MAPAC is not that easy. I have to work extremely hard in order to archive very good results. I personally feel challenged because every subject requires a great effort to study hard and to do assignments to completion. There is also the [...]

Folding an origami crane for hope One Saturday recently It was raining in a part of Balubad in Marikina City. Just around 30 children were waiting for Br. Mark Xyrex, a second-year brother, and me on the benches under a tent on a side street. There is no chapel. It was our first meeting with them. Balubad [...]

We had a farewell for Ma’am Joycee on July 3rd Thursday. She is retiring from her work as a secretary.  She has done great work as a secretary. This is the time to thank her for the work; we thanked for the great work and wish her well for her new job. This is [...]