Ranting and Raving in completely wrong timing

Mary’s birthday offering has just turned black for me.
We’re having a special rosary tonight at the façade of our novitiate house. “Music. Verse. Prayers.” It was conceptualized by Donnie, and is being put, piece by piece, by all of us, little by little.
It’s just so overwhelming that everyone has poured his best (or at least as what I have seen) into practicing his own item for our Lady. Guitar strings have been endlessly strumming, piano keys have been incessantly playing, and oral practices for poetry reading has been underway.
But were not people of the nitty-gritty detail.
We forget things, we miss out on communication, we fall short on foresight.

Yesterday, we had a scolding from our Socius about our proposal to get the work time to finalize the flow of the program and to set up things that are needed for the program. Before being allowed (it was not even a granted permission, on the contrary, a “forced” granted permission: the one you hear after saying the words: “what can we do? You’re late already...”) we had a piece of his mind regarding the sanctity of work time.
Manual work = sacred time.
He was trying to make a point that we had a lot of Free Time this week, and that taking the sacred Work Time (or Study Period, or Prayer Time, or all the other Times for that matter) wasn’t an excuse. And over and above that, we had to have foresight. Planning.

I believe that I’ve gotten a gazillion remarks in the seminary about time management. We let things enter one ear and out the other. There were no violent reactions on our part – I managed to keep my mouth shut – so the scolding vis a vis conference was cut short.

We were able to do the rundown that afternoon. He was there. More suggestions were made. Comments here and there. And we managed to come out with “satisfactory” colors.

Thinking again who says we have Free Time in the first place?
Yes, some of our professors may have been out, but it doesn’t mean that they didn’t leave us with a workload to do.
Noble and I were juggling our Salesianity requirements with this program. Donnie is rushing the Inside Out while compiling texts for the event. Bonnie is just too full with hobbies and personal reports that he too was busy to push the plan forward.
...It’s a good thing that we didn’t have internet for the past days, otherwise, nothing of this sort would even have materialized.

Summing these rants and raves, which is just too heavy to keep and sulk about, it’s just too bad that we weren’t able to give our justification why we had to use that particular work time... and probably the one of today too.
I learned that working is part of a Community Activity. If your work, whether sweeping the lawn, taking out the trash bin, dusting of the cabinets, contributes to the whole welfare of the Community, then you are doing your work just right.
What more can you expect from four individuals, preparing for a birthday offering to Mary, and who need to set up chairs and plants, cook food and finalize all effects, if not for them to do just that? I think sweeping the fallen leaves or arranging the kitchen stockroom or watering the plants can wait, no matter how important they may be, if you are needed to do something right here, right now.

So it’s not that easy to judge us as “people without a planning mentality” or “people without foresight” if you merely look into our situation. Aapat na nga lang kami, pagwawalisin mo pa ng damo pag nakita mo nang nasusunog ang bahay.