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Madalas nating marinig ang salitang “kaligtasan” sa usaping pananampalataya. Minsan sa sobrang paghuhumali natin dito, nakakalimutan natin ang mga mahahalagang bagay para makamit ang totoong kaligtasan. Nakakalimutan natin ang ibang tao at mas natutugunan pa natin ng pansin ang pangsariling kapakanan sa hangaring maligtas. Nakatuon na ang ating pa-iisip sa sariling kaligtasan. Sa ganitong sitwasyon, mas mainam kung babanggitin natin ulit ang tanong na ipinukol kay Hesus ng isang taong nakasalamuha o naging kasama Nya marahil sa paglalakbay pabalik ng Herusalem - “Panginoon, kakaunti po ba ang maliligtas?”…. Sa sitwasyon noon, malaking usapin ang salitang “kaligtasan.” Para sa kanila, nandoon ang pag-iisip na ang tanging mga Hudyo lamang ang may malaking posibilidad na magkakamit ng kaligtasan dahil sila ang piniling bayan ng Israel. Nagpapatingkad din dito ang mga turo ng mga Pareseo patungkol sa kalalagyan ng lahat ng mga hudyo sa pagdating ng paghuhukom. Alam natin na hindi lang mga ...

I. Introduction: The outward show of liberation theology from the Latin American Church has gave us an alternative way of how the church must act regarding its mission on earth, on how it looks on the conditions of the people of God. This emergence has given the Church a new perspective towards the reality within and outside the church and even to the point of going through the cultural and even in the economic and political arenas that has a lot to say regarding poverty and injustice. This book “A Theology of Liberation,” will bring us to a radical consciousness implicit in the realities that are present in Latin America vis-à-vis, in the individual lives of the people in our contemporary times and in the whole Church. Gustavo Gutierrez, a prominent and a best-known liberation theologian from Peru, has written a very good book that shaped a kind of theology that is predominantly a struggle looking for the emancipation of the poor and marginalized from poverty and alienation and gearin...

I was riding in the bus going to my exposure area when i started to wonder where these people i see on the streets are going? For sure i would not go beyond the question of where these people could be for it would not be my concern as of the moment and it will never be. But one thing that made me pause for awhile and started to wonder again, "Are all of us have destinations?" On this earth, getting old is one. I was assigned for twoo weeks at Hospicio de San Jose, an institution for the elderly. I really enjoyed hearing their experiences that made me reflect and look also into my own life. One grandmother shared how miserable life is when she was operated in the stomach after her mother died. A grandfather also shared how God abandoned him after the death of his son and how he acquired sickness after the incident. And other similar stories of reflection, abadonment, deaths, etc. One could draw a question of where God is, but in spite of this, their Spirituality grew more and ...

Philippines is on freeze right now. zero crime rate, streets in almost major roads in greater manila turning into an airport runway, husbands caregiving their sons and daughters at home, televisions are busy (that includes the commercials). Gamblers are yeeling alleluia... when these things happen, Pacquiao fever is around the corner. Pacman is scheduled to fight today, Dec 7. (Dec. 6 - US date) at Las Vegas Nevada with its oponent the Golden Boy Oscar dele Hoya. Many are skeptics whether manny could actually win this fight. Manny's camp are even predicting a knockout in the later rounds. but whether there is a knockout or none, hundred percent sure that all the eyes of the Filipinos and even millions of people are focus now at their fight coined as the "Dream Match." I don't know what this phenomenon mean to the filipinos. It could probably mean a reflection of what every filipino's dream of uplifting their own situation into a triumphant success that they see in...

The scheduled time of my departure from Cebu to Manila was at 5:30 pm, . As usual, i am expecting an announcement that there will be some delays of the flight - indeed there was. And so it was moved from 5:30 to 6:00 pm, but we actually took off from Mactan Airport at exactly 6:30 pm ( i got used to it). For a few minutes upon taking off, i looked at the beautiful airial view of cebu with its grandeur display 0f street lights - and the rest was like a boring isolation in a pressurized jet flying thousands of feet above. All you have to do was to read the smile magazine prepared for the passengers (which didn't make me smile at all). If not, you can lay down a bit the back rest of the chair and sleep - which i did. i was awakened by the announcement of the captain that we are already in the vicinity of manila and that we are about to land in few minutes time. We landed at NAIA terminal 3 at 7:32 pm., I'm back in Manila - my Community Integration has just ended. My three months s...