USAP 2014 Delegates in Cebu

With Amy Chu during the USAP activities in Banilad.

We were glad to meet this year's USAP (UNIV Seminar Asia Pacific) delegates during the Holy Week, from April 16-20, with Ms. Daisy Lopez as head of the group. There were around 20 of them who came to represent several universities in Manila, including 2 universities in Bacolod, the University of St. La Salle-Bacolod, and La Consolacion College.

From their official Facebook page, we learn that "USAP provides a venue for academic dialogue, interactive workshops and cultural trips which delve on present - day issues that concern society. The activities are interdisciplinary in character and aim to underline the University as a setting for acquiring global knowledge where research and love for learning are fostered."

I was happy to meet Amy Chu again, a Taiwanese who is taking her Master's in Guidance Counseling at La Salle-Bacolod. Amy frequents our study center, Kasanag, back in the City of Smiles. She was also one of our catechists, joining me in Silay City where we have one of our catechism sites. Amy gave us some 'pasalubong' on their first day of visit in Banilad where they had talks about the local culture and topics pertinent to this year's USAP theme: Cosmos --- The Ecology of the Person and His Environment.

The USAP delegates had a faith and culture tour around Cebu, spending their Holy Week with us by attending some activities of the retreat that was ongoing the time they were here.

It is our hope that those who participated in this seminar brought home with them clear truths and resolutions on how they can be better persons of society. And perhaps, if they had seen that they had some misgivings and 'failures' in any aspect of their life in the past, they are now given the strength to rectify and make things 'right', armed with the strength that comes not from themselves but from God.