Academic

Mawalang-galang na sa nagmamay-ari, pero inilagay ko sa Facebook photos ko yung pics ng chapel, altar at main bldg sa portal site natin. Wag kayong mag-alala, nilagay ko naman sa caption: "Photo from seminarista.heavenforum.org", advertisement sa lahat ng fellow alumni natin na FB friends ko na. I-add ninyo ako kung may account din kayo.

But writing the captions reminded me of what Fr. Nick Lalog (Minor 1982, refectorian namin, Major in the 90's after a degree from UST and a stint with GMA News) told me: That we were living among works by our major national artists.
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A diocese without a seminary is dead, warns Bishop Fernandez


MADRID, Spain, July 22, 2009--Bishop Demetrio Fernandez of Tarazona, Spain recalled this week the importance of the seminary for the formation of new priests, since only they “can guarantee the survival of the Catholic Church among us.”
“The Church cannot live without priests. For this reason, as I have repeated many times, a diocese without a seminary is a dead diocese. We must continuously pray to the Lord of the harvest that he will send workers to the harvest,” the bishop said in a recent letter...

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul II

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
Pope John Paul II

The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Pope John Paul II

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity....

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
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For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
- Saint Augustine

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
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In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
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If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people.
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