how do i say God

“How do I say God?”

There are many ways to describe our religious experience about the presence of the almighty, nevertheless it is hard to accommodate them all, and no one can fathom the richness of it unless we drive in to the manifold grace of God in faith.

I can still recall my experience which I consider my deepening encounter of saying about God, 2012 of march after I graduated my  philosophy degree in saint peter college seminary butuan , I encounter a big dilemma of my faith, whether to pursue my religious vocation in the Augustinian way of life or not.

Considering with this big dilemma of life, I ask my superior to take for regency. In my regency I was able to teach in one of the university in Cebu and that is in the Cebu technological university , after then with almost one year of  my teaching  regency., I  was able to apply of one  of a

 Prestigious theological seminary In the Philippines the seminario mayor de san Carlos. I could still recall of my experience of saying god, when I say to my self during the exam that if could not be the highest lord, just allow me to pass this exam lord if I am meant for you please help me.

With that affirmation of my religious experience I was able to say to myself that indeed the if we are for him we will really become waht we want to become.

THE JEWISH PEOPLE
AND THEIR SACRED SCRIPTURES
IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE 

Life has its own meaning and beauty nevertheless it is not enough to accommodate then all in one glance. Man’s life is full of mystery and tragedy. Tragedy in the sense that man is always encounter a different dilemma and uncertainties.  Mystery in the sense that man by nature is tangible and intangible. 

According to one of the famous philosopher in the name of Socrates, that un examined life is not worth living in relation to my vocation towards priestly life, I could say that life was indeed an entangled situation in the sense we really need to examined an even to the point of re-examining our self as to what is really good we can offer to our life.

In the discussion of Rev. Fr. Diola with regards to the influence of the Jewish culture to the Christianity I could say that there is a big impact, since the Jewish practices had given an emphases to the religious aspect of the Christian, the concrete idea of this is what we call the judeo Christian belief and practices.

As I try to reflect upon on the idea of the judeo Christian belief I could say that the best and the concrete example of this is the story of the Haggadah, for if we try to scrutinize it there are many things that we can consider as the practice also of the Roman Catholic Christian.

Furthermore the Christian bible can attest also that there is some similarity of the teachings of the practices of the Jews. No doubt that Christ once was said that he came not to abolish the Old Testament teachings but he clearly said that he came to fulfil what was written in the Old Testament.

Therefore Christ is the fulfilment of what was written in the Old Testament, and in for those reason Christian and Jewish practices is not far from the heart of the teachings of Christ himself. Even if there are many conflict in the history between Christian and Jews, most especially during the world war. But I think this not big issue to consider for that is just the result of the human concupiscence.

monasticism

Monasticism 

There are many ways to understand the beauty of life nevertheless it is not enough to accommodate then all. No one can fathom the meaning of it unless we know how to enter into the real meaning of it. How can we ever forget the message and the teachings of Jesus Christ? The model of holiness and the solitude of life.

 According to bro. cabag Monasticism can only be understood by referring to the essence of Christianity and the church it for it is a part of the realization of the church. According to bro. Vince that monasticism owes its origin to the gospel and wants to represents the total commitment to God by the imitation of Christ. According to bro. Camay that monasticism is skipping from the world adversities and miseries. And to bro. Toreno also he said that monasticism is more on the Deeping oneself for a solitude way of life.

In my realization I could say that monasticism is a kind of vocation that emphasizes on life of complete silence giving more important in the realm of silence and solitude. For according to mother Teresa of Calcutta that whenever there is silence God’s speaks on to us. It is also a Deepening  of ourselves in our relationship to God.