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Home Sweet Home

The hill. The forest. The buildings. The bridges. The pathways and corridors. There's nothing like home.

Some pictures...

The Evolution

How did we change?

Senior Year: The End, The Beginning

Display of assorted pictures from our senior year. Scanned, again and again.

San Jose Manggagawa

20-21 of November was the 79th Alumni Homecoming of San Jose Seminary. A part of the celebration was the launching of the album entitled San Jose Traditional Songs. This was recorded by Tinig San Jose. So why am I including this?

One song in the album is "San Jose Manggagawa." If our memories do not fail us, this is the ending song we always tried to sing every end of our Wednesday Devotion to St. Joseph. Although we have not memorized the whole song, we express our sincerest gratitude to Fr. Timoteo M. Ofrasio, SJ and the great Eduardo P. Hontiveros, SJ, the two priest-Jesuits who composed the song back in 1960's.

The song showed our deep devotion to St. Joseph, our father and patron. It also kindles in us our Josephite spirit.



SAN JOSE MANGGAGAWA
Timoteo M. Ofrasio, SJ
Eduardo P. Hontiveros, SJ

San Jose! San Jose!
Pintakasing dakila ng manggagawa
Sa simbaha'y lagi kang nagbabantay.
Amang butihi't gabay sa lupa
Ni Hesukristong dinarakila.
Kami'y dumudulog
Sa 'yong pamamagitan
Sa Diyos ating Amang mapagmahal.
Na sana'y pagpalain
At pagyamanin
aming seminaryong dinarakila.

Mga manggagawa tangi sa'yo
Tiwalang tunghay ang noo sa iyo.
Sa gawa'y tulungan at nang umunlad
ang buhay na aba
At sa 'yo'y matulad.
Sa tulo ng pawis
At banat na laman,
Sa gitna ng hirap at kasiphayuan,
Kami'y magsisikap magbangong dangal
Sintang pintakasi kami'y tulungan.
O San Jose! O San Jose!

Junior Year

Again, scanned photos.

Trip to Vigan and Laoag and to the Immaculate Conception School of Theology (ICST).



Besties.



Drummer, Boy



Merienda. Jade on guard ",







Mother and children.



remember him? He's the great guitar player during our retreat.




St. Mary Seminary Chapel, Loaog City.




Posing in the Chapel...



Celebratory dinner.



The great Fr. Cesar, out Latin teacher. God bless his soul.




Chow time!!!



Our then formators, Fr. Liber Ortega, now Fr. Nards Tubaña and Fr. Drexel Ramos, together with our teachers, Ma'am Rose, Ma'am Mylene, Ma'am Tecla and Ma'am Huliana.



Master pianist Darryl and our own chorale.



=3




Fr. Richard, our presider and retreat master.



Our class...



Bryan, Marjay and Louie.



Class, again.

Going Back: Sophomore Year

Second year's highlights include our Biology outing and our Feast Day, St. Lorenzo Ruiz de Manila as our patron. Remember these moments?

Some scanned photos. Unfortunately, i lost some of our precious photos. Calling those photographers before: "Share our photos!"



Fun at the second year dorm.



With our teachers, Ma'am Maricar and Ma'am Guerrero.




Still Young and fresh boys!!!




BAGETS!!!




Class picture with our guest actors, Rica and Kara. After our play. Love the songs and backdrop.

Hats off to our Brother Josephites

Indeed, St. Joseph Seminary overflows with talents, and our Alma Mater continues to produce great performers.

This makes me remember the nights when we showed our then communities and our families our mini-musicals about the life of St. Lorenzo Ruiz, St. Paul, and who could ever forget our presentation about Our Lady's life.

When we were freshmen: the skit directed by Santiago, the trio of our Mark's (or quartet, pardon my failing memory), the dances we made, both modern and folk-- the wasiwas of Louie, our great folk dancer, and lastly, our own band (Genovese, Karl, Alpine, Anthony).

And the rest is history.

while i was searching in youtube, i stumbled upon this account: banguedenio.

The following clip shows that Josephites got talent!!!
A summary from the account about the video.
A rendition of "Heal Our Land" from the students of St. Joseph Seminary held during the Abrenio Night at the Capitol Atrium on March 9, 2008.

Thanks to our fellow Abrenio, banguedenio...

Be my co-authors in our blog

Batchmates,

E-mail me at francisjim.tuscano@yahoo.com your e-mail addresses so that i can add you on this blog as co-authors so that everyone of us could post what he wants.

I'll be waiting.

Jim

Life, in sadness and in joy.

Last October 31, 2008, Roberto A. Buemio, the father of our batchmate Darryl joined our Lord in heaven.
Let us pray for the eternal repose of his soul and also for the consolation of Darryl's family. His remain lies in their family house in Pamutic, Pidigan, Abra. His interment will be on the 8th of November, Saturday.




" For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present not the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:38, 39

SNATCHED (Final Part)

Finally.

13. Howard. Mmmm. Still hunky?




14. The face of Pepsi. Redwin.




15. The cutest pet of all...Pet!!!




16. Genovese, hiding in the closet?

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...and finally, the mentor, the beautiful, the one and only....

Ms. Catherine Calixto

burger! burger! Burger!

who's missing?

Bryan, Louie, Jeffrey, Carlito, Jade, Karl.

SNATCHED!!! (Part 3)

Again and again.


9. Santa Cruzan 2008. Marveen leads the pack of men in barong.





10. Mark Anthony.

For 1 Million Pesos, is he Ryza's co-worker, friend, body guard, or driver?




11. Louis' favorite color. What is it?





12. Lian and the Men in White