Power of Your Love

I went to the Church today as it's Wednesday, a day for Our Mother of Perpetual Help Novena and then attended the mass afterwards. I was so happy that it's Father Patanao, one of my favorite priests. I so much love his homily as always. It's about to not to be judgmental. He shared about this story so when I arrived home I immediately researched about it online. 

" The Stanford Story "

This is a true story of the Founders of Stanford University

And now for the rest of the story.........

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the president's outer office at Harvard.

The secretary could see that the people were not from Boston, and probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge. She frowned. "We want to see the president", the man said softly.

"He'll be busy all day," the secretary snapped. "We'll wait," the lady replied.

For hours, the secretary ignored them, hoping that the couple would finally become discouraged and go away.

They didn't. And the secretary grew frustrated and finally decided to disturb the president, even though it was a chore she always regretted to do.

"Maybe if they just see you for a few minutes, they'll leave," she told him. And he sighed in exasperation and nodded.

Someone of his importance obviously didn't have the time to
spend with them, but he detested gingham dresses and Homespun suits cluttering up his outer office.

The president, stern-faced with dignity, strutted toward the couple. The lady told him, "We had a son that attended Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard. He was happy here. But about a year ago, he was accidentally killed. And my husband and I would like to erect a memorial to him, somewhere on campus".

The president wasn't touched he was shocked. "Madam," he said gruffly, "we can't put up a statue for every person who attended Harvard and died. If we did, this place would look like a cemetery."

"Oh, no," the lady explained quickly, "We don't want to erect a statue. We thought we would like to give a building to Harvard.

The president rolled his eyes. He glanced at the gingham dress and homespun suit, then exclaimed, "A building! Do you have any earthly idea how much a building costs?

We have over seven and a half million dollars in the physical
plant at Harvard".

For a moment the lady was silent. The president was pleased. He could get rid of them now.

And the lady turned to her husband and said quietly, "Is that all it costs to start a University? Why don't we just start our own?"

Her husband nodded. The president's face wilted in confusion and bewilderment.

And Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California where they established the University that bears their name, a memorial to a son that Harvard no longer cared about.

You can't judge a book by the cover.... 

Don't look at people with your eyes....

Look at them with your heart...

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And then when the Knights of Columbus choir was singing during the communion. They sang one of my favorite worship songs, the POWER OF YOUR LOVE. This song is lately making me teary-eyed. I so much feel the song. So I researched also for the lyrics and I found this nice video. But of course I more like how the choir from our church is singing it and everyone is really singing from their heart. 


Today is also the start of our 54-day novena. Oh what a beautiful glorious day! Thank you Lord! Thank you Mama Mary!