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My Experience of Two Opposite Persons

I went to La Loma Land Transportation Office to register my dilapidated but serviceable car, I was forced to get a fixer from the office because the paper is already incomplete and the registration seems circuitous (making it circuitous may just be their style so as to have a source of money). I got that fixer because in LTO there is no clear way on how to transfer that dilapidated car. That employee of that office is significantly greedy. The modus operandi is to make you wait and advice you to return for another day until you succumb to their trap to pay for their service which is a violation of revised penal law in the Phil. A cohort of the fixer who is not an employee of LTO suggested that for a certain amount the registration can be made faster and easier. They were asking me nine thousand just to process and transfer the paper of my dilapidated car in my name (poor lang ako) but while waiting for other advice or game plan of the fixer I went to the church in Santo Domingo church pray the rosary in the adoration chapel. After finishing my rosary I went inside the church proper. I saw a statue of a lady wearing the habit of a Dominican sister or order of preacher. What is so significant there is that the lady is blind and a hunchback. She was Blessed Margaret of Castillo OP. I was amazed to know that there is a blessed blind and a hunchback. I wonder too how this lady was able to enter the congregation who built the University of Santo Tomas. It really is the will of God. The reflection I made about this blessed was that we who are created complete by God and are so blessed enough cannot compare to this lady in her devotion to god . To describe the blessed Margaret of Castello simply imagined is a woman who is a hunchback and wearing the habit of the order of preacher. In present times you would mistake her for a beggar that you would think of giving her a coin. You would even think that she is insane who is a member of other religious sects. Oh my dear blessed Margaret of Castello I was completely humbled and ashamed of myself when I saw your statue. I hope someday that I could follow your devotion to God through your prayer and guidance. Her incorrupt body lies in St Domenico Citta-di-Castello, Italy. If canonized, she will be a saint of outcast and saint of unwanted. Pray for me blessed Margaret of Castello. I copied parts of the prayer to blessed Margaret of Castello 1287 -1320
You were born blind, so as to see you more clearly, a cripple so as to lean on you completely, dwarfed in physical posture, so as to become a giant in spiritual order. Hunchbacked, so as to be more perfectly resemble the twisted, crucified body of Christ of you son. What a beautiful prayer. By Langob.