faith and the holy scripture

Faith and the holy Scripture

Many believers wanted to be holy by living their faith. Faith and scripture  are important entities in embracing a life holiness. This claim brings a radical demand of living our faith. It should not be delayed because every day is a great opportunity to realize it.

As I try to reflect on the subject matter of the importance of holy bible in my life as seminarian, it is an undeniable fact that the sacred scripture is always part of my seminary journey, for every now and then the bible is my guide towards fulfilment of my vocation.

To concretized my claim when I was still in college seminary, I was able to meet a catholic faith defender in the name of  Bro. Socrates Fernandez, I was really inspired by his conviction on defending the catholic faith, due to my curiosity I was able to approached him and converse with him privately. It is then that I was enlighten by the way he interprets and understand the holy bible, but still I said to myself that it is a long run of study, for according to him he was able to familiarized all the text of the bible for almost 3 years.

Now that I am already in my theological study in Seminario Mayor De San Carlos, I have alote of deep realization that in learning the sacred scripture it is very important that we should know to concretized it in our daily activities, for it will be useless if we just depend on theory for as the letter of James chapter 3 verse 17 says that faith without action is died.

In this reason what have learned in the said subject must be apply to my vocation journey, first in spiritual life it is being manifested in my daily encounter in the holy mass, secondly, in my community life that in order for me to be more active in my participation it is very important that I myself must be a man of communion in the holy church. Thirdly in terms of my pastoral exposure that I can encounter Christ in the midst of the poor to sympathize in there endeavours, lastly in terms of my academic endeavours that I must be a man of total conviction by not just reallying on my own intellectual capacity but by the wisdom of God. .

 In my deep reflection I was able to say to myself that learning indeed is a long process, that  is way from that very day I start to read the bible, and I was able to assimilate it all during the discussion of our active and energetic professor Rev. Fr. Dondon, Aquino. I would say that it is true indeed the saying that says ignorance of the bible is ignorance to Christ.

Man can only grasp the glimpse of Christ if he has the background of the holy bible. As one of the writers would say that we really need to read and read and read until we become a person who is a lover of wisdom.

Indeed pope francis had a great point in emphasizing the holiness of the family, for everything start within the family especially the vocation to the sacred priesthood and religious life.