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     Education is concerned with liberation.        Education is a form of teaching and learning where both teachers and students act and play salient tasks alike. Students are not merely taught plainly but educated critically. On the other hand, teachers don’t just share information but catalyze intuition.        Liberation on education can be transformative in nature. Teachers boost students’ critical thinking. Lessons in the classroom can be relevant to their quest to learning. The school can be a conducive environment to reinvent one’s mind without conforming to the mundaneness of the educational system.        As a teacher, critical pedagogy and pragmatism are necessary for curriculum development and implementation. If teachers teach students how to learn efficiently, teachers give them something “metaphysical” than knowledge. We are giving more than “information”, valuable skills that they can apply to their “potencies” and “actualities”. Learning is purposeful and “liberating” w
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Keep GOING!

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At some point in our life, we are tempted to give up. We tend to ask ourselves, for how long will our shoulders bear the burden of my plans and aspirations? The idea that all of our work and time invested was in vain crosses our minds one day or another. Circumstances might lead us to unprecedented sorrow and shock but that’s not life. Life is about how we maneuver our lead. For me, the rise and fall of my life has thought me many things. Should you about to stop your journey or want a detour, consider my reasons to keep going. You are not unworthy On April 9, 2017, I was recommended to take another state of life. That recommendation pained me a lot. The criticisms and nuisance still found their way to bring back that pain of ‘unworthiness’. I was unworthy to serve His people. I was unworthy to serve His Church. I was unworthy of the priesthood. But priesthood is not only the way to serve the Lord. Indeed when a door closes, God opens a window (cf. Malachi 3:10). Now I am
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SOCIOLOGY ON CULTU RELIGON Experience Last January 12, 2017, the sophomores and juniors went to Holy Name University for a Forum on Religion and Culture sponsored by Philippine Association for Sociology of Religion (PASR) and Holy Name University. Present on the said activity are the professors from the different academic institutions of Bohol including University of Bohol, Bohol Island State University, Holy Spirit School of Tagbilaran and even some academes from other schools in the Philippines. Philippine Association for Sociology of Religion (PASR) is an initiative of Prof. Esmeralda Sanchez (now PASR President). It was established as the first and only professional organization devoted to the sociological study of religion. It is a non-stock, non-profit organization existing under the laws of the Philippines. Members of the organization come from the ranks of the different disciplines in the academe, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), all motivated by the inte
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OHANA IS LOVE F ather And M other, I L ove Y ou.             My family is my resting place, my fortress and my refuge. Every time I have given an opportunity to go home, I usually spend quality time with them. Though brief, I seize the moment. Despite of the joy and contentment I felt here in the seminary, I do feel the reverberating sounds of regress and sadness. I often miss their presence. They are essential to me and I owe a lot them for what I am now today.             Though families came in all shapes and sizes, I have the best family in the world. I am the fourth fruit of the love of my parents. My parents, Dodong and Beth, are but spoilers. Everything I need and want, they usually provide it without hesitation. I owe to them my being spoiled brat. Then, my three elder sisters are my girlfriends. That’s why I choose to remain single because I have many girlfriend sisters. My two younger brothers are but parasites. They always ask money from me for their leisure.
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MARXISM AND CHRISTIANITY: CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO STOOLS “The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.” - Karl Marx And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul… but they had all things common. cf. Acts 4:32 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels saw Capitalism as an exploitation to the “working people” or the proletariat. There, they called for a revolutionary reformation with the existing socio-economic structure to ‘overthrow’ the bourgeoisie. Here, they termed it Marxism. As a process of class conflict and revolutionary struggle, Marxism is an undertaking that will result in victory for the proletariat and the establishment of a communist society and abolishment of private ownership. Engels eulogized Marxism in this way, “men must first all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing before they can pursue politics, science, art, religion and the like.” Christianity, on the other hand, is the religion of the Word of G
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AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND I always thought you were the best I guess I always will.             I always felt that we were blest,             And I still feel that way still … If I have only one friend left, I wanted to be you. Hello there! Last Monthly Going Home when I listened to this song, I have remembered you. I seized the song with salutations and nostalgia. Yes, it was been a month that we hadn’t talked to. It was been a month of our unenviable and awkward moments. Yet, those stiff and quiet days seem to be the best days of my life. I enjoyed my life while seeing your struggles away from me. I haven’t appreciated your presence because I considered you as a ‘mental being’, as so as you to me. Our mode of life was changing and has changed us until we decided to concede each of our own pride last Seminarians’ Day. Our friendship has brought me to the extremes. Since day the one we first met, you have dropped your hat despite of your biases and my flaws. You changed
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A GRAND DESIGN FOR A GREAT CREATION             The video clip Grand Design  begins with the short narration of progress in science, from Aristocus to quantum physics, emphasizing recent steps toward a “unified theory of everything.” Stephen Hawking, an astrophysicist, claims that the origin of the universe was governed by the laws of quantum physics, because in the first moments of Big Bang the universe was a particle of “quantum” singularity size. Thus, Big Bang is an extremely unstable event, actually resulting in billions of universes of which ours is only one. Thus our universe, and it’s incredible fine-tuning that enables human life, is not really unique at all. He also claims that it is simply “spontaneous creation” that explains why the universe exists. I, as a seminarian, as a philosopher and as a priest-to be, must use my faculty to think to give a counterattack to their postulates. There are so many reasons to challenge these claims concerning the universe’s origi
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