God Bless Our New Pope Francis

Catholic World Rejoices With Our Newly Elected Pope 

 

 

The world rejoices because of the newly elected Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17, 1936, at Buenos Aires, an Italian, and was a chemical technician before entering seminary and was ordained in 1969.  He became Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and later became a Cardinal in 2001.

He is the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church elected by the Papal Conclave last March 13, 2013, and the first Pope to have taken the name Francis in honour of St. Francis de Assisi for his passion in serving the poor, he is also the first Jesuit Pope, the first Pope from the Americas, the first Pope from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first non-European Pope in 1,200 years.

He is known for leading a simple life avoiding a mansion, chose to live in a very simple apartment, cooks his own meal and used to rode on a mass transit, and chose to take a minivan with the other cardinals after he was elected pope rather than ride in a special sedan.

In his youth, he enjoyed dancing the tango with a girlfriend before discovering a religious vocation. In his teenage years, he had his lung removed after an infection. He is the eldest of five children from an Italian parents. He speaks three languages: Spanish, Italian and German.

He has been criticized for not speaking out against Argentina’s military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. He slammed other Latin American priests who objected to the baptizing of  children born out of wedlock. He was critical of Argentina’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage, calling it “a destructive attack on God’s plan.” He also opposes gay people’s adopting children.

He is rumored to have been the runner-up in 2005, losing that papal election to Benedict XVI.  After being elected pope, he remained standing on the same level as the cardinal-electors rather than sitting in a throne.

Throughout his life, both as an individual and a religious leader, he has been known for his humility, his concern for the poor, and his commitment to dialogue as a way to build bridges between people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and faiths. Since his election to the papacy, he has displayed a simpler and less formal approach to the office, including a decision to reside in the Vatican guesthouse rather than the papal residence used by his predecessors since 1903.

My Spiritual Journey Of Becoming A Virtual Assistant

How It All Started?

Bucharest, Romania

In the middle of 2011, during my stay in Romania as an OFW, I was struggling with so much loneliness, pain and lots of hardships at work, dealing with strangers and foreign people around me, nobody to talk and turn to but my connection and personal relationship with God and through my daily rosary, that was the time when I stumbled upon Bo Sanchez’ Kerygma Family page www.kerygmafamily.com, it became my home  for my spiritual thirst and inspiration to fight back against loneliness and homesickness being far away from my home.

Bo’s words and stories inspired me in so many ways, he is my constant spiritual mentor and as I kept on following his articles, few months later, this paved me the way to reached unto Jomar Hilario’s page at the www.filipinova.com.  Being involved at Jomar Hilario’s Mastery Group gradually opened up my mind, giving me many possibilities and realizations that I too, like Jomars many virtual assistants, can possibly work from home and earn something without sacrificing myself being away from my family most especially my sickly aging mother  at 77 and my  11yr old son.

My awesome mentors Jomar Hilario and Bo Sanchez

 

At the last quarter of 2011, as I kept on following Jomar Hilario’s group, the desire in going home kept stronger every day until I’ve decided not to finish my remaining 6 months anymore in my 2yr contract, I went home not even thinking what will happen next in leaving my work abroad.

I believed, it’s God’s way of answering my prayers trusting only on His will and plans for me. My eagerness and desire to be with my family and the chances I foresee that awaits me working at the comfort of my home drives me more in going home and joining one of Jomar’s course Online Mentoring Club 2 (OMC2).

At OMC2, we got 2 downloadable VA seminar bonuses, started learning then and doing my assignments gradually.  I admit, due to a lot of family obligations I faced when I got home, needed to earn badly to sustain my family’s needs, I was focused on my once part-time direct selling businesses like Avon, kitchenware, purified water consignment,  shoes, RTW’s, herbal food supplements and other networking products, and as a sales agent of a memorial products and services.  But from time to time (fewer times to be honest) landed on doing my assignment pacing slowly with my course.

Me-working at home

In just few months of doing my assignment, I learned a lot of things especially in creating my own blog.  That’s the time I realized, that as a sales agent, I need to do my own blog as a site for the products I am selling, for I concentrated more on direct selling, going house to house, looking for customers and clients that would interest my product.

Suddenly, it gave me enough reasons to try, why not? If it won’t work then at least I’ve tried, right?  Would you believe that this simple blog I made brought me a lot of sales within the area where my memorial products and services were covered?  In just working at my computer at home, I invited all my FB friends within the area reachable of my products and services, even the friends of my friends abroad with family and homes in my area were not spared of sending them the links of the products I offered on my blog.

My so simple blog was then a big help,  not really thinking what I did was already internet marketing, I just understood it well when I heard from my mentor during one of his webinars about the success of online businesses.  And would you believe also that in a matter of two months since I created my very simple online marketing blog I closed deals of 22 accounts with an over-all quota of 30 accounts in a year? That was a fantastic 2012 for me.  And gave me almost 40 thousand pesos commission, and a 5 thousand December bonus being a 2^nd top seller.

I never thought that in just months of being at OMC2, I will earn something I never expected.  I was really so thankful to my mentor Jomar Hilario for his patience to his slow-pacing OMC2 member like myself,  at least the investment I made at 9,750 pesos for his OMC2 course has already been rewarded. Hurrahh!!

 

This is my simple online marketing blog:
http://familyhealthcareplanmemorialservices.blogspot.com/

My only experience as a virtual assistant is helping a close relative prepare her financial statements, legal documents and other documents related to her small starting-up business in Google Docs as an administrative assistant, and I am not demanding any rate at all because of my willingness to help a family, but considerately, she’s paying me a favorable monthly rate because I’m just doing the job 2hrs a day or 10 hours a week, it doesn’t really eating my time and not a problem to me.  What matters most is I’m helping her reach her goal, and if she succeed then it feels great to be a part of it.

Same thing with my CCH virtual group composed of Cadiznon all over the world, sharing something and helping our lowly and underprivileged kababayans changed their lives. I am presently a physical volunteer helping in taking care of every projects and programs created,  and was in-charged of our groups’ financial reports which was also done online, and as a part of my advocacy, volunteering my service wholeheartedly without expecting anything in return.  And I am happy doing this in the name of love and service to others.

Believing with my skills, I am very optimistic that one day I could find one good client with reasonable rates that will trust me with their businesses.  Being a virtual assistant is a very good start in earning online, but I’d still prefer to hire someday virtual assistants for myself that could help me with my business as an online marketer.  Nothing to lose in aiming and dreaming something bigger, right?

Anyway, I still need to learn more from Jomar Hilario’s courses, still need to pursue some skills that could best enhance my capability as a virtual assistant or an online marketer.

Me, my son and my mom

As my spiritual journey continues, I never regretted at all any single moment with my decision in going home for good.  The joy it brings being with my family around taking care of my sickly aging mother and son until the end cannot be bought by any material possessions here on earth.

The prime purpose of staying here is my desire in serving God and the joy of serving others will go on until my last breath, may our good Lord will just continue using and blessing me to be a blessing also to others, especially to the lowly and weakest ones.  May we continue our struggle to lead a righteous path  and keep on praying and asking for His wisdom and guidance in everything that we do because God only sends miracles to those who ask and believe.

“To God Be All The Glory!!”

“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”
- Philippians 4:13

Live A Life That Matters!!

Stay blessed,
   Nonie f.