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First Honor's Assembly

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(Speech delivered during the First Honor's Assembly of the Grade 1 students at USLS-IS Oct 1, 2009) Teachers, fellow parents, and students. Let me share with you a story. There was a young boy who wanted to own a bike. So he went to the Chapel and prayed before the altar and asked God if He could give him the bike he wanted. But the following day, there was still no bike, so the young boy went back to the Chapel and prayed again, asking God to give him the bike. He waited for the next day, but still no bike came. So for the third time, the little boy went back to the Chapel and prayed all the more for God to give him the bike. However, there was still no bike the following day. The next morning, the Parish priest was preparing to say the mass in the Chapel when he noticed that the Statue of the Virgin Mary was missing. The priest could no longer find the Statue on its usual place. Instead, the priest found a folded paper. He opened the paper and found out that it was a letter writt...