Testimony

“Wow! What a time, what a moment! EAPI, we are going to miss you!… And so, it is with a grateful heart that I represent my colleagues from both PRD and SRE to thank the main staff and the ancillary staff of EAPI for giving us a wonderful experience of love and camaraderie during these […]

From the homily of Fr Tony Moreno, SJ (JCAP President), given at the Missioning Mass on Dec 1, 2023: “You have received so many graces over four months, despite a lot of challenges like losing your loved ones (a mother and several siblings). But I also sense, a deep solidarity of the community was there.

After I finished my service as a General Treasurer in Rome, my congregation gave me the opportunity to take a sabbatical. I wanted to have a meaningful rest, so I searched for different kinds of sabbatical programs that would fit my purpose. I made the right decision in choosing EAPI in Manila. This is a

“Then one of the children gently pulled my hand and invited me to come inside her house. I was very touched and I started crying. I asked God, ‘What are you doing to me now?’”

“The journey to continue being instruments for God’s grace to flow is a meandering path through physical fatigue and rest, emotional blocks and spiritual seeking; it needs us to return our gaze back to the one who is always gazing at us…”

“This experience of inner transformation came during an eight-day Ignatian retreat. I initially had difficulty entering into God’s presence, but when I fixed my gaze on the cross, that’s when things began to happen.”

“I have taken retreats and recollections before but the Ignatian retreat was different… I felt a deep communion with God. I felt his healing and merciful forgiveness.”