Salo-Salo: The Augustinian Way of Sharing Love and Joy

           

FEAST!!! FUN!!!FAMILY!!!

…Love is cultivated in a Home where happiness is humbly shared.

          St. Augustine’s Week celebration is a signifying traditional event of the University of San Agustin for numerous years. It is celebrated in honor and veneration of the University’s patron saint, St. Augustine. This event ignites Augustinian Community with enthusiasm to pave fruitful thanksgiving activities for St. Augustine. And indeed, every year’s patron saints celebration is truly memorable.

          Series of events are usually held during the 5-day celebration. Everyone is in the mood of rejoicing in a feast filled with Augustinian virtues. Perhaps, anyone can say that this is a remarkable one! But what truly makes the whole thing huge is the amazing gathering of Augustinians in a peculiar banquet, “SALO-SALO.”  It is a blissful one, as if St. Augustine is literally present in every college department. Nevertheless, it is held with him as the inspiration.

          Merrymaking! Salo-Salo creates a beautiful a scenario where love and joy are unselfishly shared. Just like St. Augustine who’s filled with humility in making others happy, the Augustinians including students, teachers, school administrators, staffs, and priests are glad to bring food and drinks for everyone to partake on.  In this kind of gathering, anyone can meet new friends and have mischievous yet meaningful experiences! And not to mention, you can eat all you can!

          A family in a home…It is what SALO-SALO brings about. It is where love is selfless and never selfish. It is where anyone can shot big smiles and flash joyful faces. No one is a stranger. Everyone is a family member. Quite unusual, but it’s a fact to say that love comes out when you give without asking anything in return.

Moreover, Salo-Salo unites the Augustinian family. It unfolds the true spirit of being a loving individual.  It creates harmony amidst diversity.

         

         

Salo-Salo brings them together!

           

               

Friends gather in this one special lunch date!

About Time

                                “About Time” is a movie depicting a story of an ordinary and a not so handsome man. All the men in their family even from the ancient times had this power of going back in the past. It is a story’s content that’s totally in contrary to the mere capacities of the earthly human beings. This trait of the movie is quite untrue, but the message it wanted to convey was definitely true. I, myself really learned from it. Life’s reality about regrets and losing a special person were showed in a clever way.

            I am not saying that same things will happen to all of us. What I am after for is the fact that we can relate to the characters in the movie. We are not perfect in many ways, but giving importance to what we have is the best way to appreciate life and time. I want to share to you the lessons I’ve learned from the movie. I hope that in one way or another, you will be enlightened.

“Life as we know it is complicated. We live each day for the pursuit of our own fortune and happiness. The sad fact is,time is our greatest enemy. We never know what is heading us, neither who we will we be encountering. It is quite frightful that though we dare to win over challenges, time still intervenes. It’s motion is inevitable. And in this battle we are facing, one thing is undeniably true...we must know how to properly manage everything, because we do not have the power to prophecy what will happen the next morning. We have to cease the day. We must treasure our family and friends. Because in contrary to what the movie showed, we, the normal beings cannot amend what had happened. The only thing we can do is to learn from our failures, and try not to do it again.”