"A life without service, is a life without joy." Sa paglilingkod ko sa Panginoon, mas lalo kong narerealize na marami akong makamundong kasalanan. Yet because of the goodness of the Lord, the more na lumalapit ako, the more na nililinis ako ng Diyos. Let me share to you the story of St. JOSEPHINE BAKHITA (credits to Catholics New Agency) St. Josephine Bakhita, a Canossian Sister who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Sudan, was born in 1869, in a small village in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was kidnapped while working in the fields with her family and subsequently sold into slavery. Her captors asked for her name but she was too terrified to remember so they named her “Bakhita,” which means “fortunate” in Arabic. Retrospectively, Bakhita was very fortunate, but the first years of her life do not necessarily attest to it. She was tortured by her various owners who branded her, beat and cut her. In her biography she notes one particularly terrifying moment wh