while working on my take home exam last Friday morning, around 2am to be exact, i got this text message saying that i check CNN/BBC if i want to verify that the pope has just died. that instant, nanindig ang balahibo ko! it was something unexpected, abrupt! to the point you don't want to believe it... stopped working on the take home exam for awhile (even though sobrang photofinish na dapat) to check nga sa BBC and CNN. lo and behold, no news about the pope's death... it was terry schiavo who died... (my thoughts about the the terry schiavo controversy next time when i have the time---dami stuff na ginagawa these days e...) was happy and disappointed at the same time... happy that it was just a hoax/prank (not because it was terry schiavo who died) and disappointed because terry schiavo died and someone would make a joke about the death of another person more so, of a very important man - Pope John Paul II....
anyway, fast forward to saturday's 6:30 anticipated mass, the priest mentioned the deteriorating state of the pope's health, that we should pray that let the Lord's will be done, and that the pope may not go into a coma(pardon if mali usage ng coma)... and then come sunday, the pope died(saturday evening sa Rome).... it's so sad... somehow, the prank text i received last Friday helped me to be prepared for this but one can't help but be saddened by his passing on... he is one pope na kinalakihan ko. though i wasn't there sa UST grounds nung world youth day of 1995, saw him naman... he will be missed... but of course, as Catholics, we must be happy for him, for his suffering has ended and that he will be with the Heavenly Father... *a moment of silence*
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