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Ang Marian Miracle na Nagpabago sa Buhay ng Founder ng Mary Grace Cafe

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0:00 – INTRO
7:33 – Humble Beginnings (1983)
11:39 – Pananampalataya bilang Pundasyon
19:56 – Pagpapalago ng Negosyo at Papel ng mga Anak
22:51 – Devotion sa Our Lady of Guadalupe
1:06:13 – Tough Love at Pagpapahalaga sa Empleyado
1:09:40 – Pagsusumikap sa Gitna ng Pandemya
1:29:06 – Payo sa mga Young Entrepreneurs: Stay Little, Stay Humble

Sa isang powerful at deeply moving na interview sa Istoryang Katoliko, Tita Mary Grace Dimacali — Founder at puso ng Mary Grace Cafe, Marian devotee, at nanay ng lima — nagbabahagi ng kanyang inspiring journey mula sa simpleng home baking noong 1983 hanggang sa pagbuo ng isang beloved Pinoy empire.

Buksan ni Tita Mary Grace ang kanyang puso tungkol sa miracle ng pangalan ng Mary Grace Cafe, ang kanyang matibay na devotion kay Mama Mary, ang pagiging full-time nanay muna bago negosyante, family business challenges, God's perfect timing, at kung paano niya pinagsama ang tunay na Catholic faith sa pagpapatakbo ng negosyo. Kasama ang kanyang signature “tough love,” humility, at ang payo na “Stay little, stay humble.”

Hindi ito ordinaryong business story — ito ay isang magandang testimonya ng faith, family, grit, at grasya na mag-iiwan sa inyo ng pag-asa at inspirasyon.

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SPEAKER_02

Alamoya mg setup na kafei, mahira pa Adrian. Siguro kummer kang ka awa i subimba sa kanyya mg setup na ka. I would always run to the blessed mother. Panato may, what am I going to do about this? What am I going to do about that? Mara mi mga complex, left and right. Diva. So really I'd hold my rosary. Uwina kosa bahai. And you know, things would fall into place. But said for all those who love God, diba. Amen. Amen. Things fall into place.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Pero naisi pa nyo puba magibak. Times ba naparang ayong mona. I throw in my taw n la problema. Full time na la kosa na.

SPEAKER_01

Eh.

SPEAKER_02

I I have the cross is hard to carry. Yeah. But I've never uh thought of throwing away the cross. Mary Grace is a blessing. And I know with every blessing is a cross. So I take it up. Wow. Na discover ko one day nagusukung begin na pangalangoshua. Tender crumb, golden dome, whip and spoon. Ain't koha ba till alamo I fell off my seat. Tiko akala ing ang G R A C E graceon di ba. Ma initials palana ankwa. I have five children. Walang at hindi yan kaplan dian pinanoa, eikasa kuplina ng ko yun. Gina wa kwa according to the grace, G, da pat first child, R da pat se ko a hindi ang G third child. Ang R fourth child.

SPEAKER_07

Wow.

SPEAKER_02

Ang A second child. Wow. Ang C pangany Atang I bun so. Wow. Shen lang jo no. Bun so in the last letter, Grace.

SPEAKER_03

Pangang yadin nindi mutalaga shen na.

SPEAKER_02

Hindi. Hindi lagas. Oh my god. So later on through life, no, I realized no the name had to be Mary Grace. Because the business is anchored on family. Firstly, it was anchored on being a mom. Couldn't have been anchored any other way.

SPEAKER_06

Right, right.

SPEAKER_02

Anchored on motherhood, anchored on the children. And the meaning of family, you know?

SPEAKER_04

Amen.

SPEAKER_02

I always say to my children, Salat mga urin problem ma'ad. I always tell them, you know, we are stronger together. Together. So there's the matter of unity, Adrian.

SPEAKER_05

Amen.

SPEAKER_02

Amen. So the family is the face of God to the world, is it not? So the Holy Trinity, three persons in one. Amen. We could be more united than God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And that must be embodied. The family personifies Holy Trinity. Wow.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I would like everyone to join us in this Herculean task and momentous occasion in the Philippines to get involved and welcome our Lady of Guadalupe here in the Philippines as she goes all over the country to bless her people.

SPEAKER_03

Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.

SPEAKER_02

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us. Now in the hour of the death.

SPEAKER_03

Amen. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Amen. Welcome poes Mary Grace Dimakali. Sa tig program, ng story yung Catholiko. Yung Heart and Founder ng Mary Grace Cafe. Tan honor po na maka pa na yang po na min keo. Tita Mary Grace. Salamad. Yes. I'm actually looking forward po sa interview na to dayers. Habikung matagalko naripu ka ygusu talagang ma interview because of narinik yung story mo, how you build your business. Um and so very inspiring at. I'm sure marami pung viewers mind spar sa story nyo. Yes. Tita Mary Grace.

SPEAKER_08

Yes. Thank you. Yes.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Before punati pa go sapan yung nagi story, bhapedi kapung mud pakilala sati ma viewers. Yes. Sino gabasi Mary Grace di makali.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. Hi, I'm I'm Tita Mary Grace. Alamuyan Dima Kali. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm um mom of five. Uh, and I'm a grandmom of twelve uh grandchildren. Yeah. Um see. I began my entrepreneurship at home and uh it grew through the years from bazaars, no, no, from selling at home to bazaars to kiosk and finally the cafes.

SPEAKER_03

Wow.

SPEAKER_02

We have our flagship uh products of our enzymeadas and our cheese rolls. Uh we have also an array of cakes, no? Mango Bene. Interesting mango bene kasi inspired uh Pope Benedict. So I had a dog, I love this dog, and I named my dog Bene. Yeah so I have a dog that was named after the Pope. Yes. Naturally, because I love the dog, I named the cake I made uh after the dog. Mango Ben. Yeah. Um I see the cafes as uh a way to quietly evangelize. We have our Lady of Guadalupe on the wall, and we have the tandem, the Holy Spirit and the Lady of Guadalupe. Yeah, and the seven fruits of the Holy Spirit on the plates. Nice. I love to put that and her words, her famous words in Guadalupe. Am I not your mother?

SPEAKER_09

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Are you not in the crossing of my arms in the folds of my mantle? Amen. Let nothing worry or disturb you. Wow. So that's quietly on the walls. Right. And if anyone who uh would like to pick up a stampita of our Lady of Guadalupe in the prayer at the back. Yeah, it's it's it's for free. It's a kashir, yeah. It's for free.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

So nung sin mula nyo putung uh business nyo ng 1983. So wala poka yung parang grand plan. So parang lga experiment?

SPEAKER_02

No nax experiment. Panuba nag si mwang bata na saquela, no? Uh squala han. And anubango wing kosa bahai, no. Of course you have your daily motherly duties. So I have a passion. I had a passion at that time. I love to gravitate. I gravitate to baking books, no? I love to turn the pages and see the pictures of the book.

SPEAKER_03

Like Aral Kuba in culinari.

SPEAKER_02

I went to uh teachers in the Philippines, no, there's Sylvia Reynoso, my teacher in the village, Hiroi Coronel. Then finally I was able to go to the States. Nice. So my parents uh were green card holders at the time. So there was a program of a certain school for would be uh uh entrepreneurs who will run their own bakeries. So I went there and learned a lot. I graduate kitchen kitchen aide, no. So from morning till night, you know. Uh my first product was the fruitcakes.

SPEAKER_03

Nice.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. And I like the fruitcakes, Adrian, kasi. September to December. September, mg agreing fruitcakes, in time to sell during October, November. So I was a mom and I was learning the ropes of uh entrepreneurship. And and I see this as God's plan. Because I could not have been an entrepreneurship if I had not been a mother first and performed performed my duties as a mother. So I'm so grateful that's how my life turned out to be.

SPEAKER_03

So pinang kasabay nyo pusha while being full-time mom and then nagbey baking, baking na poaya.

SPEAKER_02

And cute cute nya kasa la lageko sa mgara mga da plastic containers, product to na cupcakes, brownies, lemo squares, fruit parts. The custard, the custard cake, I know. And lilibutko yon.

SPEAKER_03

So late.

SPEAKER_02

Tap it by sita baa.

SPEAKER_03

So yung humble beginning.

SPEAKER_02

I wala online. 19 anony. 1980s yun.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So yung yung anoan talagang door to door.

SPEAKER_02

Uh oh, oh. I would I would I would call up neighbors, oh, papa dalakuna ja.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Wow. Nga gailang po kay ng n dung bin bak nyo per day.

SPEAKER_02

Konti lang na man, di na mang ga anu yun na no? Pero it was it was good practice. You strive for excellence. So uh I got better and better, you know. Uh from from one recipe na ging two, na ging three lumakit lumakhe.

SPEAKER_03

Wow.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But God opens the door.

SPEAKER_06

Right.

SPEAKER_02

And you just flow. It's all in God's unfolding.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Do your best every day.

SPEAKER_03

Amen. Amen. Um Mary Grace. Mary Grace.

SPEAKER_02

I'm a devotee of the Blessed Mother. Actually, Mary Grace is given to me by my mom. Okay. Who herself is a devotee of Our Lady. So, na do you Mary Kaya? Mary Grace. And Grace na man. Mary Grace, na discover ko one day na gusu kung begin na pangalan ang ni go sho. Tender crumb, golden dome, whip and spoon. Ain't koha ba till alamo I fell off my seat. Tiko akala ing ang G R A-C E grace. Ma initials pala na ankwa. I have five children. Walang at hindi n kapwa, eikase kuplina nkyun. Gino wa kwa according to the grace, yeah. So G, da pat first child, R da pat se ko a hindi ang G third child. Ang R fourth child.

SPEAKER_07

Wow.

SPEAKER_02

Ang A second child. Wow. Ang C pangany atang Bunso.

SPEAKER_07

Wow.

SPEAKER_02

Wasal lang mejo No no Bunso in the last letter, Grace.

SPEAKER_03

Pangang yad nindi motalagashen na.

SPEAKER_02

Hindi. Hindi lagas. Oh my god. So later on through life, no, I realized no the name had to be Mary Grace. Because the business is anchored on family. Firstly, it was anchored on being a mom. Couldn't have been anchored any other way.

SPEAKER_06

Right, right.

SPEAKER_02

Anchored on motherhood, anchored on the children. And the meaning of family, you know.

SPEAKER_04

Amen.

SPEAKER_02

I always say to my children, salat mung problem ma'adana and is an entrepreneur, no? Um I always tell them, you know, we are stronger together. Together. So there's the matter of unity, Adrian.

SPEAKER_05

Amen.

SPEAKER_02

Amen. So the family is the face of God to the world, is it not? So uh the Holy Trinity, three persons in one. Amen. We could be more united than God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And that must be embodied. The family personifies Holy Trinity.

SPEAKER_03

Wow.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Amazing.

SPEAKER_03

And calling yo na ilagana, up yung deboshon ki our lady of Guadalupe.

SPEAKER_02

How do you say it? Parang, it just fell into place.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

First we had to find a name. Oh. Mary Grace. Then my children came to join one by one. Nice. They came to join voluntarily to help their mother. It's beautiful, isn't it? So we're all in it, we're all in this together. No? And if you have to fix a cafe, Adrian, which I think is a home, I always say the goodness of home is here. No? Every home, Diva Tayo Merong Altar, Diva.

SPEAKER_09

Right.

SPEAKER_02

At least we have the crucifix or we have the Blessed Mother, right? Whether she's an image on a pedestal, in a garden, you know. And so that's it. We come to Mary Grace, which is a home. And what is the element of home feast?

SPEAKER_03

Amen.

SPEAKER_02

Hindi pa.

SPEAKER_03

Every time na pumputao sa la tang Mary Grace, I feel home.

SPEAKER_02

We opened in Singapore.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Will they accept the blessed mother? She is on the wall. And they don't know it, but every time they enter the door, they feel home. Wow. In a way that we don't understand. Our eyes don't see. Our ears don't hear it. But is there something, you know? I mean, if we honor God, and who is his greatest creation, is the Blessed Mother.

SPEAKER_03

And Sabi mung up, employee Muslim, Singapore Bodhisattva Muslim.

SPEAKER_02

Siguro isalang no Catholic.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Pangala wana pangat lo yung yung ara, no married to Vik. Sikara in Vik yon, you know? So tatlo lang sila catholic. And they marry apat pala apat.

SPEAKER_03

Um, play ya dumudito sa Mary Grace. Da patba katholico sila.

SPEAKER_02

Hindi na man. No, no, no, no. The mother, our lady is a mother. What is one of her titles? Oh, and Adrian. The lady of all nations.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02

Deba. So how she loves everyone. Everyone, whatever faith. I I think she's the the she spreads her mantle over the whole world.

SPEAKER_04

Amen.

SPEAKER_02

That's beautiful, no? And we we know in Madiba, the Catholic, his face is full circle. And somewhere in that circle are the Buddhists and the Muslims. But we are not to be bang, no? But somehow in the plan of salvation, yung bilogmeo, full circle. Amen.

SPEAKER_03

And we have to employ rosary msila. Yeah, and recollect mabu nila yung isang mystery.

SPEAKER_02

Put your rosary in your pocket. Then when you ride the public transport, the end of the day, nasa public transport, ma traffic, ma tata push.

SPEAKER_03

So musu dunasila?

SPEAKER_02

Eh kun na bab and taya nyon, hopefully. Hopefully, what can a mother do but to remind?

SPEAKER_03

They are paid to uh listen to it.

SPEAKER_02

You know they come here on their voluntar voluntary, huh? Some of them are on their day offs and they come here. You can choose the money. We have five or six recollections. So you can come anytime. We will make everything ready for you. The speakers, nice the priests, your lunch, your merienda. You know. We make it the venue. We'll make it for you. Prepare it for you.

SPEAKER_03

Uh adu pusha talagang yearly yungwa yen to yung bagomaglent.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, bagum maglent. Oh. Yearly yon. Tapos pag December 12th.

SPEAKER_03

We advent ding kayo. Sorry? Me advent recollection ningangwa. Oh, me advent ng ka mea.

SPEAKER_02

We are kaseg Guadalupe no. So December 12th.

SPEAKER_03

December 12.

SPEAKER_02

So meru ding ka mea. As we approach December 12.

SPEAKER_03

Mm. Nationwide. Nationwide?

SPEAKER_02

Nasa anulangko. Oh si ge na sa metro man ni a mero ng dik kabala.

SPEAKER_03

Wala baga sa.

SPEAKER_02

Sasibu wala minda na wala.

SPEAKER_03

Okayo. So la pala ngrease i luzon. Oh, luzon. Acha ka baggyo. Yeah, na putang bag yo. Mganda. Sara isata gaita yungba.

SPEAKER_02

Kanda ng ng dun divide between lakes.

SPEAKER_03

Yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So lusun ng palaga yokala ko merunike nag.

SPEAKER_02

Mm tigna natin. No, in the hands of God, diva, just do your best every day. Yes. And he'll open the door. Right. Kung nasaka gustuanya yona.

SPEAKER_03

So talagang hands on ka sa pagma manik na.

SPEAKER_02

I'm still very hands-on. Yeah. But my children, I have two two girls, beginning and end. So one is the baker, one is the culinary, you know, cuisine. So uh thanks be to God, that's been arranged too and it's three me three boys in the middle. Sila yung back and support. Wow. Trail blazers. Finan HR.

SPEAKER_03

Na na y curiosa, kas it's a big bag poputa kasa ed sa or sa mgay bang me mgaf. Malaking screen. May palagyo na kitang guadalupe na image.

SPEAKER_02

Kaiba Uo one time Iba son and um without my knowing yet ano, some years back to huge guadalupe or the guadalupe billboard.

SPEAKER_03

Where nice.

SPEAKER_02

Wow, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Uh, no.

SPEAKER_02

Pina yunya.

SPEAKER_03

Wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

That was um you must pinamimi gainam shadin yon.

SPEAKER_03

Hmm no? So panomon uh pasas hang la yung catholic faith no uh pan m sila na influence.

SPEAKER_02

Under my influence. Riva, you speak, you show and then we go to mass. You pray the rosary. So the seed was planted.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah wow yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I I think many families uh were blessed in the Philippines, the families that prays together, stays together, sabing any father payton.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

So nahua mulatin sa mother mo, Tita Maris.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, my mom. And then you know, uh my mom gave me a blue book.

SPEAKER_03

Yung Father Gobi?

SPEAKER_02

Marian movement of priests,

SPEAKER_03

Wow.

SPEAKER_02

Kasi Father Go Binaman he heard in the interior loco when he went on the pilgrimage to Fatima in 1973.

SPEAKER_03

Because of Modernism.

SPEAKER_02

So that's where he received his interior locution. And those messages were put together in the blue book. If I'm not mistaken, it's 1973 to 1998. Yeah, I was formed very early, thanks be to God. So niggas, as early. I started that 1994.

SPEAKER_03

Nice.

SPEAKER_02

Up to now we're in Senekal. Yeah, because my mother is she is uh she wrote many poems about our lady. My mother's a poet sa mana nan beforehand, Fati ma Lady Gotelupe, in the Spanish word poesillas, poems.

SPEAKER_03

Wow.

SPEAKER_02

So talaga na form ka den napa na pasa pasa misa mga na andin maybe because my nature, my nature, so Saint Scholastica, I I I'm a scholastican and uh I'd visit the chapel every day, and there's a wooden, a tall wooden figure of our lady, and I remember I would kneel before her every day. Nice exam time, first crush, rejection, in the one ka prayer for a good husband, right?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. So Latin sa Our Lady of Guadalupe.

SPEAKER_02

Then at the time, Hindipa. O image there in St. Scholastica, she didn't have any title. Right? But I think put to the Benedictine nuns, Benedictine, that is the Our Lady, the image that the Benedictines hold dear to their hearts.

SPEAKER_03

And no tina ta yun nyo yung business nyo po. Pan yung papa natili yung strong marrian devotion yo parin po.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah alamo, ganita yon. Nung nag ano, puma so ka kuna entrepreneurship masters. Kasi wala nba lam tungsa nego shoo.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

So kawuna o naha arao tina nung kami ng professor na minsi. La la kopa professor Dan Antonio uhungwa kay na symbolo na kaka katao. Alam symbolo ko. Tina simbolo ko triangulo uh triangle.

SPEAKER_03

Oh triangle.

SPEAKER_02

Because three equal sides on. No, no, not one is bigger than the other. So I put there, this is my family, this is God, you know, and and this is my business.

SPEAKER_06

You know?

SPEAKER_02

So you you have three equal sides. Uh without those three equal sides, uh a person is not whole.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

It's not integrated. So very early on, faith played a part in uh in my life as a mother and then as a as an entrepreneur.

SPEAKER_03

And bing manag sa saabin na pagmaging successful ka daw pedira mging idolatry to, then sa parang inisit ng iba na pag na ging maya mangka a no biv parang mone is evil, and pung sa sabin y diti la do sa capitalism. Yung idolatry. Yeah yung success, ganyan.

SPEAKER_02

Si nung maging yung idolat nkonang idi.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah yung para kasidi pa parang nah kita natin pa sobra successful na na ging anan na.

SPEAKER_02

So ang idolu ko ayung di go sho.

SPEAKER_03

Yung pa na ng yung posa go tinyun. Kasi diba parangita nagibantao na pag na ging sobra ng ya mangka.

SPEAKER_02

N khumbi na ko sa sa bindito. Ah ka yang sabien t. While I'm very concerned about the financial bottom line, um uh how do I say it? Hindi na muna yung yung halagae, kundi yung gami mwin trabah mo.

SPEAKER_09

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Kasi this is a way of returning to God. The parable of the talents.

SPEAKER_09

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

So the person was given much, much is expected and returned. Or no, if you're given two, you have to grow it to four. But hey, it's not just growing it, it's about building God's kingdom.

SPEAKER_04

Amen.

SPEAKER_02

Wherever you are, whatever is given to you. Where God placed you.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

That's where you you grow. That's where you you you do your part in building God's kingdom. Right.

SPEAKER_03

Instrumental. Instrumental.

SPEAKER_02

There must be a bigger aim, nobler aim.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

So in while I have to look into the financial health of a business, uh money is not the be all and end all. I live a very simple life. Simplicity. Wow. Yeah. My the mother always says about simplicity, right? I'm not a brands person. You know what I mean? I have to live to own this bug or that bug. No, no, no, no, no, no. Anta wagon loki. Kung moi nibita njina makita wagin pa inin.

SPEAKER_03

Right, right. Yeah. Wow. And na kikita kuna mambusa yun yam. Simplicity na yun. No, ever since. Yeah. Yeah. And sinopo yin nasa si lobe tang Mary Grace.

SPEAKER_02

Yung nasa oval, na yun.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah. Sig.

SPEAKER_02

Alan ni la koyon. Si Mary Grace, my yon. Okay. In my heart of hearts. Okay. It is my tribute to our lady. Yeah. So there she is. She's a mother. She's holding a bowl. She's constantly staring. You know, Diva? She's feeding. She's feeding. And that's her blessing. I mean, naka babana nganon. That's humility. Diba. She's looking into the bowl. She's bending her in deference to God. Diva?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

All of her images, her head is tilted. Yeah. Beautiful, no?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Also, talagang ever since Mama Mary.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, since the little girl that was with her na. Siguro kummer kangang ka awa isa. I would always run to the Blessed Mother. Pana to mm. Mama Mary, what am I going to do about this? What am I going to do about that? Mara mimakomplex, left and right. Dibba. So I'd hold my rosary. And you know, things would fall into place. Amen. Amen. Things fall into place.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Pero naisi pa nyo puba magibak na ta yuny to Mary Grace cafe. Mid times ba naparang ayung muna. I throw in my taww na problem. Full time na la kwasana.

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Eh.

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I I have uh the cross is hard to carry, yeah. But I've never uh thought of throwing away the cross. Mary Grace is a blessing, and I know with every blessing is a cross. So I take it up.

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Wow.

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Yep. I take it up.

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Uh uh. So nigg simula in branch, yeah. Kiosk.

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So ilalim nag escalator, pakyat sa cinema. Oh. Um we were we are evolving palatwa cafe. Soon we will have a cafe there. And then um first cafe was in surrender. In Sarrendra. And uh that's it. But it has a beautiful window. Sipping a cup of chocolate, dipping the enzyme into the chocolate. I dream, you made enzyme fresh from the oven, a cup of hot chocolate.

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Wow. Nice.

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In peace and quiet.

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Yeah. Yeah. So in expect mo banal mag branch out kana maraming.

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Hindi I'm going against the notes. You must envision it, see it, divide it. Right, right, right. Um and that it will grow to be like this. Like I said, I'll repeat you just do your job day by day. And I know, see first. The kingdom of God. And everything else should be added up.

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Descendants.

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Challenges, no sacrifice, etc. Me rason ka no. Puno. Divid everything starts as a seed. And how wonderful the branches become a place for the birds to find the nest, to lay their their their no no the birds on the net the nest on the branches of the tree.

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Uh-huh.

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Yeah. Seed for for no strangers, no? Protecting them from the sun. Respect the process. Everything starts small. Do great things, you know. The small things with great love. Mother the rest of Kalkata yang. Um so yung yung. Kasi mung. Yung yung mga gustung going idolo yung yung per ha. Gusta ng mbabilis.

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Yindi instant success.

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Oh, instant success? But instant noodles, instant instant coffee.

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Instant joa.

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Kummerang jel ha. Wait.

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Yun, wait. Wait.

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Pati AI, ma'bilis na yang divine. Instant knowledge, instant instant essays, no.

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Yeah.

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But I I think I'd like to say, no? Just like the Blessed Mother, we should learn how to wait. I love that picture of her in the wedding. Wedding. Remember ng ano? Na alaq, nawala na wai. Divine di papa na hond, pero sinabrina sakanya anak. Um you do whatever. They've ran out of wine. So she waited for his for his answer, for his for his reply. And she stood at the back. I love it there. Her son directed the servants to bring out the jars of the water. She stood at the back and she waited.

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Right.

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And waited. She's the master of waiting. You know. So I like to say, you know, because we make food. But the best food is the food that is slowly cooked, Diva.

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Wow.

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So, diva maps in your mouth, yeah.

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Slow cooking. But we're going to do it.

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The same dipa. So parang angbuha italiga is about adults.

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Waiting.

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Waiting. Waiting. Start the process. Carry your cross.

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So tingu yung nyo parang pinang hawakan mon during.

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Amen. Yes. Yes.

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Talagangtai.

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Uh oh. Anun nga yon.

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Dipina pa na nagman.

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2026 na. How many years in the making yan? Eighty-three-seventeen? Dibang plus twenty-five?

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Yes. Yeah, tama nineteen eighty.

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Sorry, sorry. 40 plus. 8317 plus 26. 17 plus 20. 37. 37 plus 6. 37. 43.

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Yes, 43.

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43? Journey to the promised land. 40. 40 bayon.

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Yes, 40, 40. Log pas kapalang 3.

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Talk mabagaal.

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So until bake.

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Yeah.

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Singapore and mobba. Um dika me tumulong sa bakery, no? Ndina min malala bashima ka hung na na na gehinta.

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Hmm. You can hire the best chef na money, best baker.

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My my my daughters, they they they bake. My daughter in Singapore, she's the one who bakes, right? Do I still bake? I bake with my grandchildren. We make Guadalupe cookies.

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Yeah.

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We make um they love to bake Guadalupe cookies, cupcakes, you know.

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Dina penta nyodinyans. Guadalupe cookies Americans. Hindi eh hindi. Why?

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Um, well, reserve the lang yan for the children.

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Okay.

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For the grandchildren. Well, one day, singura on the feast day, no? We can do.

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So on the pin anung marun sa guadalupe cookies.

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Hmm. Yung image nya.

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Mmm.

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Merakung mold day. So pin press nila, yung mold into the short dough, no? Uh the sugar dough.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And then lala bashan, baby mwa ya na jasha. Talik lady you've got the look at.

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Wow. Parang ira pain na na? Wara display. Wow. And sa diba dedicated Marian deboti kang Our Lady of Guadalupe. Tang kita na tin yang me mas tam pita ka salatang story n me image. So, sa personal na buaymo. Baka pedikam masher ng miracles or transform milagro ng experience me because of her intercession? Nah, pita my grace?

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Oh, I think very plenty.

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Uh-huh.

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Too plenty that I can write a book about it. Right? Just the process of growing. How even did I have uh five children to respond? Isn't that a miracle itself?

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Nice.

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And walan na k pi pick up the second generation. That's a miracle. That is a miracle. It's a miracle. Yung paalang grace, miracle yet. How do you explain that?

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Yeah.

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Wow, it's just amazing. Hindi kupa yang na saabi sa spiritual director, no? But yung yung himala na physical cure.

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May magadun pa.

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I think maybe spiritual cures. Yeah. Uh conversions. I still pray up to this day, you know. Uh for deeper faith, especially for all my children in the midst of modernism. You know, I I I feel I pray for their sacramental life. No, na mm ging malapitzilas mal na inna.

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Right. Yeah.

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This this business is is what do you call it? Uh like anything else, it's not forever. Although I would like that it be continue to be an instrument from generation to generation. If God so wills. If God so wills.

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And panuin na play mm Catholic teachings, uh bunang negosho motif.

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Uh oh. Alamo um uh we remind our our people to honor Sunday. Uh you know, hospitality business is we are rolling every day, you know. I mean, we're operating every day.

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Yeah.

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But we we tell our people that there are chapels inside malls, there are churches nearby, no? Uh find time. You know, they they have the time to go to mass.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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So I'm not going to do that. Perfect.

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It's God's grace. We're just praying along for God's grace. Everyone has a journey, yeah. Kenya kan yang journey and in God's time.

SPEAKER_03

But personal testimony kabalin playadu muna ngkaru na conversion because of your work of their work and of your influence.

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Yeah, I I think there are many, you know. Many are beginning to pray are are praying the rosaries. Many are going to confession.

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Oh wow.

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Mama ya kunandito ka.

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Yeah, nan dito ko.

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Dail confessions the whole day. Uh you will see many stand up to receive communion. That to me nice of me rakhili. Is it not, Adrian?

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Yeah. Yes.

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And these are young people who are not as blessed as you. Sarah mean Adrian Milagno, but the world has become so secular, right? So to see them stand up to receive communion, uh that that is the greatest.

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Wow.

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I I really I really cry. I really cry. In the end, na man, I drive. How did you bring me to the people under your care?

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Gandanan. Wow. Ang Catholic, sa business mokase diba alam ng.

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Uh oh. Yung yung parang suguri yan lang para an pangu oan parang pinatang a mal na ina. Kasi tingivotoa. Anglahi sa mundo. Aikatulla dnya in terms of apparel. Muslim.

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Muslim.

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She pr mga madre naten also they were garbed that way, you know? Who is mentioned in the Quran? There is even a book about Miriam Attaoto, the Blessed Mother.

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Yeah.

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I saw that thing in ko. Ito makikito. Yeah.

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And because they respected her.

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Yeah, they respect her. They do. Of course they don't see the Lord, He's a prophet, a great prophet, but they believe also, huh? In in the virgin birth. Yeah. They believe.

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Wow.

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And actually speaking of Muslim, daming mga testimony, nan ng papakita see Jesus Sanila.

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Hmmikuyon.

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Oh.

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Yes.

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In ngahoro nang conversion.

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Oh. Wow, I just saw no in in Iran, for example. Did you know that in the history? It's mentioned so many times.

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In the Bible.

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In the Old Testament. Do you know that it was King Cyrus? Oh no, no. No. Yeah. They let go the Jews to go back home to Israel. How do you explain that, no? But uh but uh how did we go there? But I just I just wanted to say now uh Iran, uh Persia, a lot of things were accomplished. God used them as an instrument, right? In his plan of salvation.

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Yeah. We pray for the Middle East for Iran.

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Yeah, pray for Iran. Yeah.

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Tonang yaring yan. And yung si Mama Mary is the Queen of Peace. Yeah. And antig mung pinakamalakin sacrifices mobilang y sang nana binubu motong Mary Grace Cafe poemgest sacrifice.

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Madame Adrian so plenty. Uh in fact, a mother. What is a mother? A mother is the one uh in a large way, in a large way. With the father too, of course. It keeps the family together, right? So how do we all march together? Right? And I think I cannot achieve that merely by talking. I think it's by prayer.

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Prayer.

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Yeah, it's really by prayer.

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Like Monica, no?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, like Monica.

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Yeah.

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Panokan panagdada sala sang Mary Greece.

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I believe Sa Hail Mary. You must pray the Hail Mary. I told you, you know, the beginning was a word.

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Right.

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And the word spoken. So we who follow in the image and likeness of God, we speak too. The Hail Mary is so powerful. We just don't know it. That the words mentioned by the angel to her, the the words mentioned by Elizabeth, by whom? By by by God Himself, the Holy Spirit. Speaking, blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. It's so powerful. Right? And so when I pray it, I'm really praying it like as if I'm in the big space, outer space, like the void when God, you know, created the world, everything was empty. Just that sound, his voice.

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Wow.

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Wow. When you put yourself in there, then every Hail Mary is meaningful, yes, yes. Powerful. We just don't know it. But it is the prayer that the devil is so afraid of. The devil can enter a church.

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The devil can even bow before Christ. Yes.

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But once the Hail Mary is prayed, I think that shatters his defenses.

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Tremble talagasila.

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Right? And then of course we know we know, Adrian, that a battle goes on. We don't see.

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Yeah. Na kwento mungadiba yung habanagusa yung isang sa branch mo sa manifestamo yung sa CCTV na guma lao yung.

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Oh. Guma no no spoil. That was ng fell today.

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Oh.

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Naganun ng ng exhibition pang acrobatic man.

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Ma ilig sakape.

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In the pasta yun.

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Mushroom cream pasta. Ta siung sabimi sa silhouette ng? Inde yes, a shelf.

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Div mung lids. Mara mika mg lids. Lid dead the ma containers ingredients. Netflipha?

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Mm na gulog. Wa langaga, wala ngang. Uh.

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These are the things that.

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Sino ng nakakita.

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Yung yung chef. Nan nan nan dun. Tony reviews CCTV. Yung manager, nan nakita nya yung spoon, nasa floor. Ngta ka.

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CC TV. Wow.

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Yeah.

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Anung naram dama mamun n nakita mwin.

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Ah alamkuna. I had to gather everyone. I had to gather everyone. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Let us be in a state of grace.

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Pina kompass mwima and playademo.

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And and um we had an exorcism.

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Yeah. Pinataagmu ima exorcist. Father Matt. Father Matt.

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We too Father Matt would recount to me in his one of his exorcism episodes, he will really see material things floating on the air.

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And if we're allowed to move. Yeah. Wow.

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You know, so the saddest thing about civilization is that the devil was able to uh blot out his existence.

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It's all up, it's evil is fairy tale lang, yeah. So gawagawa. Yeah. No? Me kila la poho na paramak well-known Catholic school na sabi hindi modern na do taang hindi na doala sa existence ng evil.

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Ng punta safati ma. Dila lang nya yun tatlung bata, ha? Where? To hell. And what is the prayer we pray at the end of every decade? Yeah. Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. And lead all souls to heaven, especially those who are most need. Of your mercy. Of their mercy. Dipa.

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Tuttu o ito. Dipi guratip speech lang. Uh yung tatlung bata talagang de ni la n kayana and yung nakita nila.

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Dina nghayana.

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No, parakilaang silang y assistant guardian angel nila.

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Aga ngba, dikala myun that part. But I do know there was this great conversion. Imagine how in a seven, eight, and nine-year-old, it's possible we can bring children to know God.

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Amen.

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Imagine. So what did they do? See, Francesco dada pasha, di ba? Or hindi nya yin duminyun too big. As a shepherd boy ka se bring the sheep to the field. In it, in it. Hindi nya in duminyun too big. Da hilakita nyun.

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Yeah. Hell is real.

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Hell is real. You bet.

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Yeah. And merund di manang sasabi na mga feminis na di ba woman empowerment. Na dapa te priorita is da wang career over family, ya nung sasabi mutito.

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Alumu uh motherhood is given to a woman.

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Right.

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Right? Uh I think a woman uh answers to the call of raising children and nurturing and shaping and formation. I always tell women who whom I meet, I think everything in God's time. Right? So if you're in a career, don't forget you have also your responsibilities as a mother. Right? You have to hold it like I told you, the triangle.

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Right.

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Balance.

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Yeah.

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Balance.

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Or yung ba pinipigila magana kasi burden.

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The element of sacrifice.

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Ma papa figure nila or store bo sa or uh uh uh uh di ba zero population. Japan, no. And Korea uh no South Korea.

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Yeah, South Korea, dipa 0.04?

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Yeah.

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Independent negative.

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Actually negative irreversible na sha.

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Irreversible. Pero lumala gun yung para sa aso.

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So you okay yellow? Adito pa ng si mulana?

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Uh-oh. Sina magumana You know, which only goes to show in every human being is that natural connection to nurture, to care. So they love their dogs, they care for their dogs, uh because God put it there, yeah.

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Right.

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So put it in the vessel that God put us, and what is that? Boom. From womb to to when they they graduate and off to work and they become parents themselves. Yeah.

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Like in the sila na ging limayang mo and yet, na pa kai m yung business more faking.

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Hindi kase ano hindi hung nagmadale, and windi ko ini wan yung aking responsibilidad bilang isang ina. Tong to wang a khona binigin nakwang pakaka tong mging na nay, mging entrepreneur, dun sa ka nagung product to kung fruit cake e diva. Kase ysa bourman's lang yun eh.

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Hm diva.

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So gagawa ako walha mangwala asi la, mgabata naga'aral, emo fruitcake kase e agege mwya ni. So na na tututo lug na yang na na na la la sing na sa brandy. It was be able to blend my being a mom uh into the time also that they were growing up.

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Diva. So ying ni k ngadalita lage. Process talaga.

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Wantuwa kosa professor kas. Professor Dan Antonio. Sabi nya? Ang business plan won business plan mo. Kana business ma kabiya. What we can achieve in five years, no? 15 kios in five years, sabi ka so anyye. That's growing three a year, no? Sabi nya kontina man. Pero alaba, in the end, you know, he was so wise, he said, but that's according to your life. So it's okay.

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Amen.

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Amen. So he understood too, no?

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Ng yarinaman po yung te.

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Oh, ng yarinaman, 15 kios in five years. Wow. Natu pad kuna man yon. Kiya ng shampre, sikoro ku ibang gagawa no 100 kios in five years.

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Naggma. Oh, ng pak franchise. Kilang. Franchise, nationwide, though.

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Oh my god, ma bubula, buga ko so creations.

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Wow.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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And you enjoy the process, ta lagan, no? Yeah. And you love what you are doing. Yeah. Mahili kabang makinegs. Motivational speaker. At mga inspirational speaker. O magba san na mga self-help book. Mara mi ta yung mga ganyang yayun. Pero, alambuba. Mei paani bian. Ma dalas, ang mga teaching nayan. Aina tuturul la mang. Nang it's all about you mindset. Self-centered, narcissistic, at onti yun tingti natangal. Ang just sabu hai natin. Feeling no successful ka. Pero deep inside, empty kaparin, at malung kot kaparin. Keilang natin, ng inspiration, nang hindi, self help. Kundi God centered. Sa halo up. Merun taijan daily reflection. Kasama. Si Jeff Kvin. Isang magaling. Na Bible teacher. Araw araw baba sahinya ng gaspel. Atbibi gyan kan nang simple, practical, ap malalim. Na reflection araw araw. Na galing talaga sasalita nang jos. Hindi ka maliligao. Hindi to self-centered. Na lalim ng faith modito. Abiging centered angbu hai mo kailor. At the same time, my inspire kapa. Ungusto mo makaron. Nang tuna in a spiritual boost. Aro araw. I download mo ng halo ap ng libre. Anuba pi nagamay rap sa pa gbi build ng kafe.

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Consistency. Consistency. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Parang the Lord no who is consistent himself. Consistency. Service. Uh pak pa maintain ng nyang dugar no pa ka yun yung delivery na food, sa table, kalinisa. Yeah.

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Ang natutoa sa nyi si yarny. Lahat talaga si y na pina su kang hulat malini spabang.

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Oh ngha I will call their attention, I will tell them, oh the ba 15 minutes time check. May you dang man, me umaapa na basura or na wa na ubusa ng toilet paper. Ka yak papa sa kungai sa bawa tana comfort meno kaming ring the bell if the if we run out of toilet paper.

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Oh. Yeah. Consistency kasi consistent. Twing papa sa o talagam na ki ta ko yun.

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Yeah.

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What Mary Grace says.

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That's that's the key. Consistency.

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Pan me na handle yum.

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Faithfulness, yo, na?

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Oh.

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That's faithfulness, uh? That's the virtue of faithfulness.

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Dika bana papa go, isa isa yinyun pan.

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Uh oh. Uh alamo angrepreneur kailangan uhultiply nya sa real leverage. So nya mg so managers. Stuff. Wow. But cardinals, archbishops, bishops, diba, and priests. There's a structure, there's a hierarchy. Well, the Pope will try to visit as many nations as he can. But his representatives, they have to be there every day, day in and day out, in whatever diocese, archdiocese, in whatever parish.

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Yeah. And di bag sa mang family moy ma nak muse pagpapa sa bok. Yes. Diba mahirapyun may ma conflict ba pa mang family or kama gana nakag papa ting business.

SPEAKER_02

Uh like I said, there are adversities internally, externally. Correct? Sempre there are also disagreements.

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Right, right.

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Also, yeah, that too. Pero in the end, the the the bigger picture, the nobler aim, uh you know uh we transcend for the nobler aim for the mission. There's also about forgiveness, diva. She previous differences of opinion then. Right. The mother is always there to bridge everybody together. Bridge?

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Yeah. Amen.

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Amen.

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So yes.

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Yeah.

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And this is psychology by profession before kanak baking pan panobay?

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No, uh, I took up uh I'm A B psychology, that's true, right? Um I worked maybe one or two years long. I got I I was married already. I had the children one after the other, so it was my decision to stay home.

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Ng full-time mom kanakat.

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Full-time mom.

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Mm-hmm. Mmm. Parma hirap y na parang bakit pin iwan moi. Parang hirap ng no na pipili mw yung family over career na. Dadun sa pa naon yang.

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Mm-hmm. But I saw the home as uh I don't know, I I wasn't saw na dios, I wasn't very career oriented.

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Nice.

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I think if you have your children, they are your career, aren't they?

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Amen.

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The greatest job of all with its uh no uh what challenges, it's joys and sorrows.

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Right, right. Yeah. Yeah. And very noble. One of uh noble na trabao. Yeah.

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Yeah. So I didn't know I'll be a mother also to many young people in the organization.

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Wow. Yeah. So pa no ka pa noka na ging nana isakanila.

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So uh you and sa pa magita ng activities naganito, sa cultura ngustuf na ma ilagay, no? Belang sa m sa cultu sa place nila, in the cafes, the office, etc. Though not most of all, no, it's the culture of humility and realizing that there is somebody, God, who is greater than all of us.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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Um me tough lapadimba.

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Siguro wag lang ma shadung anomatagalamo uh, pahi watiko yung yung a sincere uh motherly care. Um I really want them to realize it's coming from my heart and and not not from anything or bottom line of this and that, you know. So I tell them Mary Grace is home. It's your home. Right? Take care of your home. Eight hours of your life in the day, you read Mary Grace. And let you know you don't do it only for yourself. Realize that what you do, you're doing for others. Realize that what you do, you are doing for others.

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Amen.

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How? How I tell them because when we open another branch, we we uh give jobs to more chefs, to more stewards, to more managers, to more servers. We increase our backroom support. So, you know, we're also about the economy. It's also about helping our country.

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Right.

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Right? You know, yung ang si dating and ng mga Pilipino, no, katua. So it's like they felt so proud. They felt so proud.

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Filipino owned.

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Yeah. Is is in Singapore.

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Yeah. Yeah. So you talaganga opening. Wow.

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But I'm but I'm in Pilipino and Pilipino di Bagus and yung picture. Right, right.

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Selfie, huh?

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Selfie. Instagram, I'm proud to be uh the ambassador for for the country. It's you know, life is all about lifting, lifting people. People up, elevating people up, you know. Filling everyone with a sense of the worth, no, their dignity.

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Dignity.

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Yeah, their dignity. Yeah.

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Um, pak siya sabi na Pilipino parang here handle ba titi gasulo. Pana me na handle, yung kadun.

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Mm-rang batiti gasulo, kaya me disciplinary action. Kayam me suspension.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah.

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Tough love.

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Tough love.

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According to policy, according to HR.

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Yeah. Kasi ma yeira padevaparang.

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Oh, uh yung ang kina lulung kut ko e. Kasi ng malit palang kameh, ma adi kung palang pasin, hang mga you know mga episodes ng. Alamuna, mga vi relations. Kase mmer kitang kita kusi la relation na no. Nan lungin na kameh, ha minsa na ksa baikong isang isang na empleado sa sa elevator na paket na kame di kaka u sapil kusha. Ui salamat, thank you for working for Mary Grace. Parangbagu ka. Sabi, ma'am, tin mangtaon na poe. Karang alan for the awardees. Wow, twenty years.

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Wow.

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Wow, thirty years. Pero humpatagala.

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43 years.

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43 years.

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Anupa wanasuel th.

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Oh.

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Wow. So flessy, nah? Yeah. Gling.

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Yo kara gala. I'm sorry, wala y swell do? Naka yang sari lepreneur natural lang yang palago in riba.

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Mm.

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An dami kung ginewa as a yang entrepreneur. Aunang answer na telepono, akunang mimi le bizarria akuma rap, sa bazaar.

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Wow.

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Pero yunang ng pati baisa. Yeah. Uh-uh. Bila isak in na. Aha, I I like to think mothers make the best, the best entrepreneurs. I can give them one seminar and they can run the hotel.

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Wow.

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Because they they get the the training day in and day out.

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Yeah. So pa nagon natuto maghandel ngata'o.

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Pana kna tutoto, natura ngana maghandle ng ta'o dipa. She pre you're hold in also later now you're hold in no by HR policies. Right? Uh but always there's the element of making them know that you love them. That if I should uh harmonize you, it's it's because I love you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Wow. Yeah. And during no COVID po, uh daming business na nahirapa pain pa cafe. So pan nyo puna pa nun yun na overcoming challenges during pandemic.

SPEAKER_02

Uh oh, yeah, that was a scary time. It was scary. I have my son, see Adrian.

SPEAKER_03

Adrian then?

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Oh, Adrian! Yung number, yung ace a grace, diva. Shangtalang. Uh ngbisita na mga cafes. She bring I'm older. We're more uh what is the term? We're more open.

SPEAKER_03

Comorbidang because of our age.

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Yes, yes. Right? So he did that that extra uh out on a limb, I call it, diva, of visiting the cafes. We stayed afloat. We were able to to take orders, we were able to sell in our our uh cafes. Yeah, eventually we were able to open our kitchens, uh, sa garden lungs, salabas, divine circulation, you know, and then uh our people who needed to put food on the table. We we it was so good that we were able to do that for them.

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Wow.

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Yeah, they'd come in their bicycles, their motorcycles to man, you know, a cafe. It's amazing, huh? Wow, out of business. Yes, yes, yes. No, uh by nature, by nature, um uh I think it brought out the very best in the Filipino, don't you think?

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Yes, yes. Yeah, Mama Mary.

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Oh they go out to sell on your behalf. They're open to risk. But no safety, face shield face shield, the face mask. Yes, yes. Yeah, we wanted to make sure the customer felt safe.

SPEAKER_03

Wow. Yeah. And you overcome.

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Yeah, we overcame, yeah.

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Wow. Yeah. So during the time.

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Yeah, of course. I thought we would fold up now.

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Really? Yeah.

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It's just like like what's also happening now, no, Professor.

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Because of hard work, grit, or matalinoka me connection in the dayal sa divine intervention.

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Mm deepweide nang my grit, I think is grit that's there because God made me this way.

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Amen.

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Why did we succeed? I think the grit connections connections, no, no, no, no. Um when you do well, small notice you're not going to be able to do.

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Yes, correct.

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So it is by our good works, not connections. No, I don't did we ever get a place, a kiosk? No, it was always you have to prove your worth because if you don't hello, you will receive a paper that says, you know.

SPEAKER_03

Wow. Yeah. So tingi mutalaga lahatia na Big Guy Mama Mary's work.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I I really I really think there's a bigger purpose in things. Right? Maybe she's not maybe, surely, she's interceding. So that life is not uh just merely running after quotas or bottom lines, etc. You know, empty.

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Amen.

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We have to be part of a bigger thing. Again, back. What is a role in building God's kingdom?

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Kingdom builder.

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Yeah, kingdom builder.

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And we have to puma so, yung kamil, na popa so sa needles a pina ng nagden degosho kaba ide kabad. Peeling kona. Pandika ba na ta kata. Mahira pa gimayam ngesaship lumaala kinin nego.

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Alunguna ala lokina bina professor na min do good, bisa biang ya tribi do good. But don't forget to do good for others.

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Amen.

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Diva, kung ini sipulang sriliko, riba. So uh one of the greatest things that I think like people know is that uh I could easily leave this to people who will manage it. Just enjoy my life, right? But I don't. I'm here. I plod on. I plod on with my people from challenge to challenge. I don't have to come to think of it.

SPEAKER_09

Right.

SPEAKER_02

Right? But no, it's a sense of duty and responsibility. What is given to you, you must grow it there.

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Yes.

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You know, to who is given much back again.

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Yeah.

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Much is expected in return.

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So parakal parakatalaganks.

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Yeah. Yeah. Consecration to the Blessed Mother is a rosary. Must pray a rosary every day. It's um it's also a life of uh the sacraments of charity. Uh you know, Adrian, thanks be to God, I can still shepherd two senekles. I can shepherd my little group of friends in the Word of God. Wow. You know, every week.

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Nice.

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Every week, you know? And you tell my people, do not I cannot have meetings on this time, huh? These are my free times, you know. But there are also times I have to to give back, you know, in this way. Evangelization, growing the word of God, you know, bringing it to people.

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And Sabimo is opposite, right? Uh I'm just a cooperator.

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But yung influenced opposite uh I have to tell you, uh Saint Asemaria Scriva, he was one who kept the oratories uh clean. He had a mother who made sure that yung kan yang ntaogdon, his priest vestments, walang natatangal na butones or hindi na soon mapute. So I like because he's the attention to detail.

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Right.

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And then he was the one who said, show me the state of your closet, and I'll tell you the state of your soul.

SPEAKER_03

Wow. Makes sense, makes sense. Makes sense, but discipline kasi.

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Discipline in your in in your maintaining your home in the order. I sing a song to my grandchildren. I love it. I love to say, I made up a song for them. God is a God of order, he puts things back in place.

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Wow.

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God is a God of order, he puts things back in place. Wow. God is a God of order, he puts things back in place, back in place, back in place. So I want to teach the grandchildren. They use things, right? They just don't leave it in a mess. They have to think of others as well. So they have to pack it up, put it back to where it belongs. So there's already very early on a sense of responsibility. Right? If they can if they do this because it's for the next person to use, then what am I planting in them? The thought, the love for others.

SPEAKER_03

Selflessness, no?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Yeah.

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Important yon la luna sa panahongyeon. Na parang. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And Tita Mergeis, bilang is highly successful, successful Catholic woman leader. Then on a personal take mo sa sa simba hang na dapat ang babai, my leadership role. Dibai yung yung parangina nun ng mga iba. Na dapat pantaya yang babai sa leadership sa simba.

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Na pwa dina ring mging ma ordain.

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Oh, diba me mung yung ma feminist ganyan. Ika wanubang take msa ganyan.

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Um God has a reason for for everything and and the roles we play. Uh it's just like a mother who does the mothering, right? And the dad who must go out to work economically. Which which which in an ideal no should be, right? And then that's for me, it's part of God's order. Right now, um, can women uh become priests as well? Um I personally think that they can fill up leadership roles, but may limit because I think uh it to care and nurture for me the leadership may be in not in the form of what but males was priests, but it's as significant. Right? So there is a place for everything, for everyone. Male, female, man, woman.

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Right order.

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Right order. I think that's very basic to God's uh divinity dipa.

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Right.

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Order.

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And no kung babalika mo yung homebaking dish mung 1983. Ani yung me regret kaba or an yung pinaga life lesson sa journey mung pinaga greatest life lesson mona to tonan ma during that time pop?

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Those times in 1983. Any regrets?

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Me regrets kaba?

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Inde, kasi um like I told you, everything in its own time in the process. So I don't regret not having ah I know I I there's one palace I wish I had taken up accounting.

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Kase yung ayon.

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No, that's a basic, basic thing in in uh in uh business, uh right. I think I treasured the times that I was at home uh sitting with the children doing their homework. Uh the best yen. The best thing was when they opened the door, they knew mom was there. Hey mom, I'm home! Or the unangom is where's mom?

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Yeah. Nice. Nice.

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I am so glad it was there with them. Yeah.

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During those years.

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Yeah. Very crucial years of formation.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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Which is dapat ginagwa ngainang familia diva.

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Yeah.

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Sana family.

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Sana mgayo sa no.

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Right order.

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Right order.

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Right. Tingi mu kayame daming mgabata ng na wawala ng landas because of that. Nga wa lang silang time or sa family. Yeah. Yung horas.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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And and then AD and you know, uh the devil works in many ways. The iPad is good. Uh social media in a way is good. But again, there must be moderation, uh. Right. Is it not temperance? It's a virtue.

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Mortification. Yeah. Yeah. Fasting.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Pedikama maglanch.

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Yes, pedipo, pedip. Yeah. Before we wrap up Tita Medries, bakit malage yung magasakra min sa yo.

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Oh my god. An ultimate love ng Lord. But in the Eucharist. He had to do it on the cross because he wanted to be present for you every day. Physically in your mouth. And lakasuna. It's so strong. But you know, children have to know the meaning of the Eucharist and Adrian Diba. So again, that which is precious is invisible to the eyes.

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Right.

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Sadly, na po punta sila kum saan saan. So lat na uring um okay, na nu no din namanakuna. Avatar. The dragons and all of that, no, right? Pero we're missing something in all of that, no?

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Right.

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The Eucharist is the word and the life. That's why I'm very, I think I'd like my people.

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To go to confession.

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To go to confession. As much as possible. Paga mea hunginawang. So the ta mang anon frame of mind. Paga alamko mea na kungina wang.

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Yeah.

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Then I have to as much as possible at least once a month.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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I don't know how you feel about it, but uh when your soul is not at rest parang even your out your li your outer life.

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Yes. Oh, tama na na na ram dama hodiny. Wow.

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Our blessed mother always says that um sinabilito blue book. The people who are formed and consecrated to her. They are like fragrance that people would like to be in their company.

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Wow.

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Gandanon. Imagine. When you see someone, you want to be in the presence, in the company of that person. Because there's just something that you feel. You know, a sense of peace, the tenderness of the moment. I don't know.

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Yeah. Amen. Amen. And bagat mo mal po ging Catholic Americans.

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But I think we come full circle in our in in being Catholic, right? I think that I think to us is given so much. So much wealth and treasure. In the Catholic faith.

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Amen.

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That if you would only take advantage of the treasure, our lives would be orderly. And order is what? Peace.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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And Siguro Las Napo, um kung ship.

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Siempre. Ensay mada chaka hot cup of chocolate. Oh, kase alung ang kwento na ensaymada, I kwento ng pagini n thai proceso hindi binibilisan. Waiting along as the as the the yeast grows. You know what I mean?

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Yeah, yeah.

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It's just again the story of God's wisdom. We wait, we journey along. Amen. Nothing is, I mean that which is that which steps along with God in the process is most sturdy, most solid, most valuable. And the core of it all, the peace he wants for us. I give no what does he say? My peace I give to you.

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My peace I leave to you. Oh wow.

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Yeah.

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Thank you so much for Tita Mary Grace. And bogap invite mati ma viewers na visit your Mary Grace cafe, yeah?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yeah. Yeah, please please um hope to see you there. Uh uh when I am there, do say hello. I'll be very happy.

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Oh me could kabasama branches.

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And um then Ajahn hope your your the work that you do. Thank you so much for yeah you remind me of Carlo Akutis.

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Evangelization is social media. Wow, galeng. So powerful.

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Mamma mahirabim pot, but yun yasab it takes process. Mamadele and uh process.

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Process. Trust the process.

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Yeah.

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Everything begins small.

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Amen. Amen. And ayung po, so maraming maraming salamat poti ta Mary Grace, pakakatong to, and uh tagalko talagan ni look forward na my interview kwa. And sabing it in God's perfect time. And uh thank you so much, da so brang inspiring po ang ma shi ner mo po sa.

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One last word.

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Sure pa.

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Stay little, stay humble. God loves the little. And God chooses amazingly, mysteriously the little seeds, vessels of littleness for his great work. Wherever we are, wherever he places us.

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Amen. Amen.

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The smaller you are, the better.

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Amen. Pero last lapo. Hindi bapuma so. Brain mo yung yung business empire mo yung bina balance.

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Hindi na eh? Um I'm so conscious. Hindi ko, I cannot lord it over. I must really stay. Salt of the earth, light to the world. Dun na kon nak tata puso confession kung in anyway. You know, I have. You know what I mean? Uh forgotten to be little. Forgotten to be small. Dunu mana kun ng galing.

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Amen. Amen. Very inspiring and so bran fruitful. Yeah, ramdam na ramdam kung aim motherly love mo endila sa family mo but sa tra sa employi mo n n sa ginago among mission, which is your calling. Amen. And before putay magta pos bagapapedi pung um for closing prayer. Uh wail.

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Yeah, yeah. Shall we?

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Sure boss.

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In the name of the Father, the Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. Dear Lord, I thank you for this beautiful time. I thank you, Mama Mary, as you arrange the flowers in the tilma of Diego. Amen. You arrange the detail of this interview with your loving hands.

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Yes, right.

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Thank you for your love, dear Jesus. Ah, thank you for your being present to us in the Eucharist.

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Amen.

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And the sacraments, which are a sign of love to us.

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Yes, right.

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Thank you that Adrian is here. You have shaped him. He went through time and process as well, formation, and everything about what he does for you is a work, is your work in him. Amen. Amen. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

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Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our dead. Amen.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. Sacred heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. In the name of the Father, Father, Son, the Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER_03

Amen. Thank you so much for Tita Me Grace Lima Kali.

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Oh my God.

SPEAKER_09

Amen.