Sa mga naging tatay,
whether they like it or not,
whether they're "being" it well or not,
whether they're aware of it or not:
Happy Fathers' Day!
Sa mga No. 1: Sana ma-like na ninyo, kasi mas masaya ang buhay kung like ninyo.
Sa mga No. 2: Sana pagbutihan ninyo, kasi kayo rin ang kawawa (hindi lang ang iba).
Sa mga No. 3: Ignorance is never bliss, kaya sana alamin ninyo.
Special greetings to my Tatay, at sa mga pinsan, tiyo, pamangkin at kaibigan kong tatay!
At sa pinakadabest na Tatay, si God: Thank You for being the Father (and Mother) that You are, giving us the best Gift You can give, Your Son Jesus, that we may have life in its fullness, the Holy Spirit (because it's Trinity Sunday too!).
*Originally posted on Facebook
2014-06-15
2014-06-09
Nothing Ordinary in Ordinary Time
With and in Christ, there is nothing ordinary in Ordinary Time.
"Because of the connotations of the term ordinary in English, many people think that Ordinary Time refers to the parts of the Church year that are unimportant. Why is Ordinary Time called ordinary?
Answer: Ordinary Time is called 'ordinary' simply because the weeks are numbered. The Latin word ordinalis, which refers to numbers in a series, stems from the Latin word ordo, from which we get the English word order. Thus, Ordinary Time is in fact the ordered life of the Church. It's appropriate, therefore, that the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time (which is actually the first Sunday celebrated in Ordinary Time) always features either John the Baptist's acknowledgment of Christ as the Lamb of God or Christ's first miracle—the transformation of water into wine at the wedding at Cana. Thus for Catholics, Ordinary Time is the part of the year in which Christ, the Lamb of God, walks among us and transforms our lives. That's why there's nothing 'ordinary' about Ordinary Time."
~From an article in the website Catholicism
P.S. I think it's necessary to translate "Ordinary Time" properly into Tagalog, instead of the currently used "Pangkaraniwang Panahon".
See this article from Catholic Culture.
"Because of the connotations of the term ordinary in English, many people think that Ordinary Time refers to the parts of the Church year that are unimportant. Why is Ordinary Time called ordinary?
Answer: Ordinary Time is called 'ordinary' simply because the weeks are numbered. The Latin word ordinalis, which refers to numbers in a series, stems from the Latin word ordo, from which we get the English word order. Thus, Ordinary Time is in fact the ordered life of the Church. It's appropriate, therefore, that the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time (which is actually the first Sunday celebrated in Ordinary Time) always features either John the Baptist's acknowledgment of Christ as the Lamb of God or Christ's first miracle—the transformation of water into wine at the wedding at Cana. Thus for Catholics, Ordinary Time is the part of the year in which Christ, the Lamb of God, walks among us and transforms our lives. That's why there's nothing 'ordinary' about Ordinary Time."
~From an article in the website Catholicism
P.S. I think it's necessary to translate "Ordinary Time" properly into Tagalog, instead of the currently used "Pangkaraniwang Panahon".
See this article from Catholic Culture.
2014-06-06
Carpe Diem!
Carpe diem -- Pluck the day. WHOA.
Learned it from this article, which makes sense. Lots of it. Reminds me of Pope Francis and his refrain of mercy and tenderness, aside from sense and sense and sense (instead of, or beyond, freewheeling and following one's feelings and feeding one's ego).
Read on...
"Carpe diem" doesn't mean seize the day — it means something gentler and more sensible. "Carpe diem" means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be "cape diem," if my school Latin servies. No R. Very different piece of advice. What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things — so that the day's stalk or stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a thinness, and a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, perhaps leaking a little milky sap, and the flower, or the fruit, is released in your hand. Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant — pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it.
~Lifted from this article from the Esquire website
Thanks to my educators Frs. Robert Paul and Joel for this (and for the many hours of learning)!
Learned it from this article, which makes sense. Lots of it. Reminds me of Pope Francis and his refrain of mercy and tenderness, aside from sense and sense and sense (instead of, or beyond, freewheeling and following one's feelings and feeding one's ego).
Read on...
"Carpe diem" doesn't mean seize the day — it means something gentler and more sensible. "Carpe diem" means pluck the day. Carpe, pluck. Seize the day would be "cape diem," if my school Latin servies. No R. Very different piece of advice. What Horace had in mind was that you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were, say, a wildflower or an olive, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things — so that the day's stalk or stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a thinness, and a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, perhaps leaking a little milky sap, and the flower, or the fruit, is released in your hand. Pluck the cranberry or blueberry of the day tenderly free without damaging it, is what Horace meant — pick the day, harvest the day, reap the day, mow the day, forage the day. Don't freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it.
~Lifted from this article from the Esquire website
Thanks to my educators Frs. Robert Paul and Joel for this (and for the many hours of learning)!
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