BONIFACIA: "Teacher of Life" by Dimaisip

Being a teacher, is not only teaching students to learn new words or things. It is also teaching ail people, young or old, the value of life and how to iive simply. Teaching is not only a profession or a career or where one earns money. Over and above ail, teaching is a vocation and a passion that is why, people who take teaching as such, enjoy doing it despite the low pay and all the paper works thai go with it. In fact, one does not necessarily have to take teaching for a profession because by our simple words, as well as, by our work, we can be a Teacher to one another.

BLESSED BONIFAC1A, Foundress of the Congregation of the SIERVAS DE SAN JOSE, was a very simple and ordinary woman, a citizen of Salamanca,, Spain. Getting familiar with her life, I realize that she teaches me many things. As a person, she helped and taught young women how to work and live a simple life. In these times, I continue to appreciate the story of Blessed Bonifacia who did very ordinary things in an extraordinary way. She worked not for the sake of working or earning. Though poor, money was not her primary goal; rather, she offered every simple and ordinary task she did, everyday to God, Who Himself was an ordinary worker, a carpenter at that. What mattered to Blessed Bonifacia, was always doing the will of God even through her simple ordinary work. Reading and understanding her life and history, I have learned how to be simple in my life, in my things and in my dealings with others. I have also learned to help people in my own simple way. True, it may be simple yet, it creates change.

Mikaela Demaisip
III-Galilee