Vita Nostra

STORY OF MY LIFE Sem. Saturcito Velasco, Jr. I remember in my Summer Apostolate, A young “Inday” of St. James the Greater Parish in Batuan came and asked me, “Why are you a seminarian?” I had answered that question, hundreds of time before… after all, I have been a seminarian for three years… but this time, I wanted to give a better answer to a young “Inday”. “I am a seminarian.” “Yes.” I finally said, “I am a seminarian because God wants me to become a priest.” For the first time, I had felt at peace with my answer. In the past, I would say something like “I am a seminarian because I am called or because my father don’t want me to become a nun.”(Something weird) And then I would launch upon my story about when I was 11-years old. For when I was eleven, a catechist in our school began brainwashing me. I was studying at Bool Elementary School. She told me “Satur, why don’t you learn how to serve the mass?” I thought it was a good idea but the problem is wh...

And the greatest of these is LOVE             Young like us already felt how to love since we were a child, to love our parents, our siblings, our grandparents and friends. To the youth, they had intimate relationship with opposite sex and to the couples out there, by virtue of their love to one another, they were bound in marriage. Love is like rosary that has full of mystery. We felt love and to be loved but we cannot diagnose in our self the beginnings of that affection. We tend to love just to satisfy our bodily needs, to give warmth at night or maybe Cupid pinched one’s heart to love him or her. There is only one such thing, where we could trace the ultimate reason why we love and it is because of love too.             I remember on my elementary years, our classroom in St. Therese School has this sentence written above the board saying: “GOD IS LOVE”, also in our pr...

Language and its Resemblance on Philosophy             Philosophy is derived from two Greek words, Philos and Sophia which means, love of wisdom. Philosophers tend to understand philosophy in order to explain the probable cause of somewhat or something. Philosophy requires a medium in order to understand what a person wants to express his feeling or sentiments. And the medium is called language (wika).             Communication is the transmission of words, thoughts, ideas from one person to another, and language is considered as man’s effective medium for communication. Language is expressed in oral or verbal, in written or printed, in signs or symbols like what the deaf do, by non-verbal like body languages and gestures and by informal expressions like what they do in social media and mobile world. Language do depends on many factors. First is geographical where the ...

Seeing the Beauty of Philosophy through Knowledge and Actions             Reading the 12-page module opened my mind on how to apprehend and value of philosophy. Philosophy is made for some reasons for the betterment of mankind. Words and actions must come together. Why? Because words that are not put into actions are just like talking a bath without removing your clothes or writing a reflection without knowing your pen is not working. It is nonsense. I laughed in the part when the teacher and her students were in the pool doing lecture and practicum on swimming skills. Her students copied in their notes all the words came from her mouth, even those nonsense words. The students were angry and they said that they knew everything about swimming because they have noted well all the words of their teacher. In philosophy, there are lots of theories, sayings, and ways of life of the philosophers but how could this be in reality if...