Faith or Revelation?

Which comes first? is it FAITH or REVELATION?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Nec9gfzZh4

When we stick to the traditional concept it is Revelation that comes first prior to our Faith.

But we to have to remember that man has its values such as; life preservations or even love and so on.

through this what we human values that is innate to us humans, God made an entry point to connect us for He agrees to play in human condition. According to Kant, we human being as limited as we are, we cannot know Him for he is Divine (Human beings can on know the phenomenon, not the nomenon) and so, He made the initiative to be known. Thus, upon agreeing to play in human condition we have the link to Him. For example: Saint Augustine's searching for truth for so many years is what we call man's innate values and through that human condition he arrived to God as the truth. in line to this, Faith is prior to revelation. But this Faith is not yet Religious Faith but what we call anthropological Faith. This anthropological Faith coined by Luis Segundo, a Theologian. By citing an example: We experience thirst precisely because it is our nature to be thirsty, not that we see water. This just one of the example on how our human nature having link to the Divine.

 

Pope to the Family

Family is the church future! This is what the Pope had been uttered during his Family Encounter in the Mall of Asia(SM) as his message to all Filipino family.

St. Pope John Paul II

 

 

 

John Paul II presided at 138 beatification ceremonies and proclaimed 1,310 blesseds. He held 48 canonization ceremonies to make 469 new saints during his pontificate.

John Paul II held eight consistories in which he created 201 cardinals. He also convened six plenary meetings of the College of Cardinals. No other Pope has encountered so many individuals as John Paul II: To date, more than 16,700,000 pilgrims have participated in his more than 1,000 General Audiences held on Wednesdays. That doesn’t count all of the special audiences and religious ceremonies he has held, such as the 8 million pilgrims he welcomed during the Great Jubilee of the year 2000alone, nor the millions of faithful he met during his pastoral visits in Italy and throughout the world.

 

VIRTUAL COMMUNITY

Is it for Real?

 

 

 

Community is compose of individuals that live together in a certain place and time that shares common interests or even common goal, having common rights and privileges. For example, the community in general, we have this common right to life, to be protected .etc. Moreover, a community has this physical presence (tangible) to each other so that they could be a true and real community. On the other hand, virtual reality is quite different from what we describe as community in our own thoughts. Some say that virtual reality is just an illusion, not real for it exists only in mind. Yes! Perhaps the validity of what they say is acknowledgeable in the sense that it doesn’t have a sensible part.

 

“Though I cannot be there physically on your special day, but I guarantee that my heart is there” I often hear these words that somehow got my attention to reflect on. How mysterious these words that could consul somebody’s heart when they felt that they were taken for granted by someone who really matters for them: by uttering these words of promise. This is a kind of promise which is the Lord Jesus Christ gave to His disciples before going back to the Heavenly Father (before the Ascension). I don’t want to talk much on Biblical account, but I want to focus on the idea that to be real is not just to be tangible. On the other hand, virtual world is obviously not tangible, but it affects people’s lives: it brought great impact physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. How many people around the world whom found their hopes in virtual world? Many lives have change and thoughts have been widen upon adapting this virtual world. This effects of virtual reality to people could be a positive or negative sense but the choice is ours to decide. After all, we are human person, we have this freewill how to deal with this kind of world we want to lane on. It is in us on how we see things considering our innate morality is concern that this virtual world could offer. Thus, it’s up to us on how we conceive things around us, we can see things in the real world that could affect us and also we consider things in the virtual world that might give us more realistic impact in our own life. It is our own who can decide how real things are whether it comes from virtual world or the real one.

He's here!

Lolo Kiko is HERE!

According to the Bible, “And He said, My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest” (Exodus 33:14). In this verse, we, Christians believe that God is with us. Even if we cannot see Him with our own eyes but we keep in our minds, our hearts and our souls that God is always exists everywhere. It is not literally mean that God’s presence is when we can touch, we share laughter, and we can hug. Beyond on that, we feel His presence through our spiritual essence.

            With the coming of our Pope, I wish that I will meet the Pope personally. But even if I can’t see him personally, I am grateful that Pope Francis will visit us for all Filipinos, most especially to the Yolanda victim in Tacloban. Through his presence, he inspires us and give us hope to become strong whatever challenges we encounter. He shows his mercy and compassion for the Filipinos. Because of him, many Filipinos are trying to move on and start a new beginning of their life after those traumatic experiences they had. Moreover, the Pope’s visit is for all of us Filipinos, not only for the Christians but also for the non- Christians. He is our shepherd that wants his flock not to get lost because he love us so much. Like Jesus Christ, Pope Francis showed compassion to the people, especially the poor and the oppressed. This man has his own way of sharing God’s love and compassion.Through him, our faith will be much more strengthen and it arouses our aspirations in life to be like Christ. With your simple smile, you lessen the sadness and grief of those people.

            I pray for your safety here in our country. I thank you for the love you give to the Filipinos.