Anamnesis 1.10 (Extra) III

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O J, Eternal Priest,keep all y priestswithin the shelter of ySacred Heart, where nonemay harm them.

Keep unstained theiranointed hands which dailytouch y Sacred Body. Keepunsullied their lips purpledwith y Precious Blood.

Keep pure and unearthlytheir hearts sealed with thesublime marks of y gloriouspriesthood.

Let y holy love sur-round them and shield themfrom the worlds contagion.

Bless their labours withabundant fruit, and may thesouls to whom they have min-istered be here below their joyand consolation and in Heav-en their beautiful and everlast-ing crown. Amen.

O Mary, Queen of theclergy, pray for us; obtain for

us a number of holy priests.

. Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Francisco.. Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat in

animam inmicorum eius.. Fiat manus tua super virum dextera tuae.. Et super filium hominis quem confirmasti tibi.

Oratio.

Deus, omnium fidelium pastor et reor, famulum tuum Franciscum quem pastorem Ecclesiaetuae praeesse voluisti, propitius reice : da ei, quaesumus, verbo et exemplo, quibus praeestproficere ; ut ad vitam, una cum grege sibi credito, perveniat sempiternam. Per Christum.

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Primero de todo [], una noticia triste: Ayer,estaba por empezar la misa, se cay una de lastorres como sa, y al caer hiri una muchacha

que estaba trabajando, y muri. Su nombre es Krstel[]. Ella trabaj en la organizacin de esa misa. Tenaveintisiete aos. Era joven como Uds. Trabajaba por el,para el, una asociacin que se llama Catholic Relief Ser-

vice . Era una voluntaria. Yo quisiera que nosotros to-dos juntos, Uds. jvenes como ella, rezramos en silen-cio un minuto, y deus, invocramos nuestra Madreen el cielo. [Hic Angelica salutatio clara voce recitata est.]

Tambin hagamos una oracin por su pap y su ma-m. Era nica hija. Su mam est llegando de Hong-Kong y su pap ha venido a Manila a eerar a su ma-m. [Hic Dominica oratio clara voce recitata est. Postea,

anglice prosequitur.]Jun Chura, Leandro Santos II, y Rikki Maclor,thank you very much. And a little, y la pequea representa-cin de las mujeres. Demasiado poco, eh? Las mujerestienen mucho que decirnos en la sociedad de hoy. A ve-ces, somos demasiado machistas, y no dejamos lugar alas mujeres. Pero la mujer es capaz de ver las cosas conojos distintos que los hombres. La mujer es capaz de ha-cer preguntas que los hombres no terminamos de enten-der. Presten Uds. atencin. Ella []hoy ha hecho la ni-ca pregunta que no tiene reuesta. Y no le alcanzaronlas palabras, necesit decirlas con lgrimas. As quecuando venga el prximo Papa a Manila que haya msmujeres.

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First of all [], a sad news: Yesterday, Mass wasabout to begin, one of the towers [of thescaffolding], such as that one, fell, and, upon fall-

ing, injured a young woman who was working, and whodied. Her name is Kristel [].She worked in the organi-sation of the Mass. She was twenty-seven years old. Shewas young like you. She was working forerfor

erfor an association that is called Catholic Relief Ser-vice.She was a volunteer worker. I would like to have allof us together, you young people like her, pray in silencefor a minute, and afterwards, invoke our Mother inheaven. [Hic Angelica salutatio clara voce recitata est.]

Let us also say a prayer for her father and her moth-er. She was an only child. Her mother is arriving fromHong Kong, and her father has come to Manila to awaither mother. [Hic Dominica oratio clara voce recitata est.

Postea, anglice prosequitur.]Jun Chura, Leandro Santos II, and Rikki Macolor,thank you very much. And a little,and the little representa-tion of women. Somewhat too small, eh? Women havemuch to tell us in todays society. Sometimes, we aresomewhat too machista, and we do not leave room forwomen. But the woman is capable of asking questionsthat we men cannot come to understand. Pay attention.Today, she [] has made the one question that has noanswer. And words did not help her; it was necessary toutter them with tears. It should be in this manner whenthe next Pope should come to Manila, that there bemore women.

[] Franciscus PP. hanc allocutionem anglice inchoavit sed partim eam onte tradidit hianico idiomate. Postulavit SanitasSua loqui hianice ad melius demonstranda quibus loqueretur. Hic proferimus omnia quibus Summus Pontifex locutus est extratextum praecompositum. Parva verba e praecomposito solummodo vivae vocis oraculo evulgata sunt.

[] Crystalla Maia Padasas, vulgo Kristel Mae Padasas.[] Glicella Iris Palomar, vulgo Glyzelle Iris Palomar.

FRANCISCI PP.

EXHORTATIOADCOETUMIUVENUMINURBEMANILANAHABITUM

festo S. Pueri de Caebua, xv. kl. februarii A. D. MM. X. V.


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Yo te agradezco, Jun [Ad Iunium],que hayas expre-sado tan valientemente tu experiencia. Como dije recin,el ncleo de tu pregunta casi no tiene reuesta. Sola-mente cuando somos capaces de llorar sobre las cosasque vos viviste podemos entender algo y reonder algo.La gran pregunta para todos: Por qu sufren los nios?

Por qu sufren los nios? Recin cuando el coraznalcanza a hacerse la pregunta y a llorar, podemos enten-der algo.

Existe una compasin mundana que no nos sirvepara nada! Vos hablaste algo eso [Ad Iunium]. Unacompasin que a lo ms nos lleva meter la mano en elbolsillo y dar una moneda. Si Cristo hubiera tenido esacompasin, hubiera pasado, curado a tres o cuatro, y sehaber, se hubiera vuelto al Padre. Solamente cuando

Cristo llory fue capaz de llorarentendi nuestrosdramas.Queridos chicos y chicas, al mundo de hoy le falta

llorar. Lloran los marginados, lloran aquellos que sondejados de lado, lloran los dereciados, pero aquellosque llevamos una vida ms o menos sin necesidades, nosabemos llorar. Solamente ciertas realidades de la vida seven con los ojos limpios por las lgrimas. Los invito aque cada uno se pregunten: Yo aprend a llorar? Yo

aprend a llorar cuando veo un nio con hambre?, unnio drogado en la calle?, un nio que no tiene casa?,un nio abandonado?, un nio abusado?, un niousado! por una sociedad como esclavo? O mi llanto esel llanto caprichoso de aquel que llora porque le gustaratener algo ms? Y esto es lo primero que yo quisiera de-cirles. Aprendamos a llorar como ella [Ad Glicellam.]nos ense hoy. No olvidemos este testimonio. La granpregunta por qu sufren los nios? la hizo llorando. Y lagran reuesta que podemos hacer todos nosotros es, esaprender a llorar [].

Jess en el Evangelio llor. Llor por el amigo muer-to []. Llor en su corazn por esa familia que haba

I thank you, Jun [Ad Iunium], that you had sobravely related your experience. As I just said , the nucle-us of your question almost has no answer. Only whenwe are capable of crying over these things that you livedare we able to understand something and reply some-thing. e great question for all: Why do children

suffer? Why do children suffer? Only when the heartmanages to become the question itself and to cry can weunderstand something.

ere exists a worldly compassion that is good fornothing to us! You have something of this sort [Ad Iuni-um].A compassion that, at the most, prompts us to in-sert our hand into our pocket, and give a coin. If Christhad had this compassion, he would have passed by,healed three or four, and have he would have returned to

the Father. Only when Christ criedand He was capa-ble of cryingdid He understand our sad experiences.Dear boys and girls, crying is lacking in todays

world. e marginalised cry, those who are cast to oneside cry, the deised cry, but those of us who carry on inlife, more or less without necessities, we do not knowhow to cry. Certain realities of life are only seen witheyes cleansed with tears. I invite each of you to ask your-selves: Did I learn how to cry? Did I learn how to cry

when I see a child in hunger?, a child high with drugs onthe street?, a child who has no home?, an abandonedchild?, an abused child?, a child used as a slave by socie-ty? Or is my weeping the capricious weeping of the per-son whining because he wanted to have somethingmore? is is the first thing that I would like to tell you.Let us learn how to cry as she [Ad Glicellam.]taught ustoday. Let us not forget this testimony. e greatquestion on why children suffer, she asked it crying. Andthe great answer that all of us can make is, is to learnhow to cry [].

Jesus in the Goel cried. He cried for His deadfriend []. He cried in His Heart for that family that

[] Pueri Iunius Chura, vulgo Jun Chura,ac Glicella Iris Palomar, olim mendici plateis itinerantes, hodie alumni domus PontisIuvenum, vulgo diae Tulay ng Kabataan , fuerunt inter primos iuvenes ad Pontificem accessisse. Iste vitam tuam apud plateasSanitati Suae narravit, et ista quaestionem perdifficilem postulavit.

Haec quaestio fuit : Ut quid Deus sinere dignatur hoc incidere in nobis ? Multi enim pueri parentibus suis relii sunt. Tagalice : Bakit hi-nahayaan ng Dios na mangyari ito sa amin? Marami ang mga batang pinabayaan ng kanilang mga magulang.

[] Cfr. Ioann., : Iesus ergo [] infremuit iritu, et turbavit seipsum [] Et lacrimatus est Iesus.


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perdido a su hija [].Llor en su corazn cuando vio aesa pobre madre viuda que llevaba a enterar a su hijo[].Se conmovi y llor en su corazn cuando vio a lamultitud como ovejas sin pastor [].Si vos no aprendisa llorar no sois un buen cristiano. Y este es un desafo.Jun Chura y su compaera nos han planteado este desa-

fo. Y cuando nos hagan la preguntapor qu sufrenlos nios?, por qu sucede esto u esto otro u esto otrode trgico en la vida?qu nuestra reuesta sea o elsilencio o la re[] o la palabra que nace de las lgri-mas. Sean valientes, no tengan miedo a llorar.

Y deus vino Leandro Santos II []. Tambinhizo preguntas sobre el mundo de la informacin. Hoycon tantos medios estamos informadohper informa-

dos!y eso es malo? No! Eso es bueno y ayuda, perocorremos el peligro de vivir acumulando informacin. Ytenemos mucha informacin, pero quizs no sabemosqu hacer con ella. Corremos el riesgo de convertirnosenjvenes museos,que tienen de todo pero no saben quhacer. No necesitamosjvenes museossinojvenes sabios.

Me pueden preguntar: Padre, cmo se llega ser sa-bio? Y este es otro desafo: el desafo del amor. Cul es

la materia ms importante que tienen que aprender enla Universidad? Cul es la ms importante que hay queaprender en la vida? Aprender a amar. Y este es el desa-fo que la vida te pone a vos hoy. Aprender a amar! Noslo acumular informacin que un momento que nosabis qu hacer con ella, es un museo, sino a travs delamor qu esa informacin sea fecunda.

Para esto el Evangelio nos propone un camino se-reno y tranquilo: Usar los tres lenguajes: el lenguaje de lamente; el lenguaje del corazn; y el lenguaje de las ma-nos. Y los tres lenguajes armoniosamente: lo que pensislo sents y lo realizis. Tu informacin baja al corazn, lo

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lost its daughter [].He cried in His Heart when Hesaw that poor widowed mother who brought his son tobe buried []. He was moved and He cried in HisHeart when He saw the multitude like sheep without ashepherd [].If you do not learn how to cry, you are nota good Christian. And this is a challenge. Jun Chura and

his companion have planted this challenge in us. Andwhen we ask the questionWhy do children suffer?Why does this or that one or that other tragedy happenin life?may our answer be either the silence, orerthe ans[], or the word that is born from tears. Bebrave, do not be afraid of crying.

And afterwards came Leandro Santos II []. Healso asked questions about the world of informatics. To-day, with so many means, we are informedhyper-

informedand, is that bad? No! at is good, and ithelps, but we risk the danger of living, accumulating in-formation. And we have much information, but perhapswe do not know what to do with it. We run the risk ofturning ourselves into museum-like young people, whopossess everything but do not know what to do. We donot need museum-like young peoplebut wise young people.

You can ask me: Father, how is being wise achieved?And this is another challenge: the challenge of love.

What is the most important subje that you have tolearn in the University? What the is the most importantthing there is to learn in life? To learn to love. And this isthe challenge that life presents to us today. To learn tolove! Not only to accumulate information, which, onemoment wherein we do not know what to do with it,becomes a museum, but through love may that infor-mation be produive.

For this, the Goel proposes to us a path sereneand tranquil: To use the three languages: the languageof the mind; the language of the heart; and the languageof the hands. And these three languages harmoniously:you feel and you accomplish what you imagine. Your

[] Cfr.Matth., ; Luc. , .[] Cfr. Luc. , : Quam cum vidisset Dominus, misericordia motus super eam, dixit illi : Noli flere. [] Cfr. Marc., : Et exiens vidit turbam multam Iesus : et misertus est super eos, quia erant sicut oves non habentes

pastorem, et coepit docere multa. ; Ioann., ; cfr. Num., &II Para. , .[] Leander de Sanis II, gratiam assecuturus gradumque Iurum apud Fratres Dominicos Pontificiae et Regiae Universitatis S.

omae Manilensis.


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conmueve y lo realiza. Y esto armoniosamente: pensarlo que se siente y lo que se hace; sentir lo que pienso y loque hago; hacer lo que pienso y lo que siento. Los treslenguajes. Se animan a repetir los tres lenguajes?Pensar, sentir, y hacer! [Repetitur lemma.] En voz alta.[Repetitur lemma.]And all that, harmoniously.

El verdadero amor es amar y dejarme amar. Es msdifcil dejarse amar que amar. Por eso, es tan difcil llegaral amor perfeo de Dios, porque podemos amarlo, perolo importante es dejarnos amar por l. El verdaderoamor es abrirse a ese amor que est primero y que nosprovoca una sorpresa. Si vos tenis solo toda la informa-cin, ests cerrado a las sorpresas. El amor te abre a las

sorpresas. El amor siempre es una sorpresa porque su-pone un dialogo entre dos, entre el que ama y el que esamado. Y a Dios decimos que es el Dios de las sorpresasporque l nos am primero y nos eera con una sorpre-sa. Dios nos sorprende. Dejmonos sorprender porDios, y no tengamos la psicologa del computer de creersaberlo todo. Cmo es esto? Wait a moment. Computer!Todas las reuestas!, ninguna sorpresa. En el desafodel amor, Dios se manifiesta con sorpresas.

Pensemos en San Mateo, un buen comerciante.Adems traicionaba a su patria porque les cobraba losimpuestos a los judos para pagrselos a los romanos.Estaba lleno de plata y cobraba los impuestos. Pasa Je-ss, lo mira y le dice: Venid, seguidme [].No lo podacreer. Si deus tienen tiempo, vayan a ver el cuadroque Caravaggio pint sobre esta escena. Jess lo llama, lehace as. Los que estaban con l dicen: A este?, que esun traidor, un sinvergenza? Y l se agarra a la plata queno la quiere dejar. Pero la sorpresa de ser amado lo vencey sigui a Jess.

Esa maana cuando Mateo fue al trabajo y se dei-di de su mujer, nunca pens que iba volver sin el dineroy apurado para decirle a su mujer que preparara un ban-quete [],el banquete para aquel que lo haba amado

information descends to your heart, moves it and ac-complishes it. And this harmoniously: to imagine whatis felt and what is done; to feel what I imagine and whatI do; to do what I imagine and what I feel. e three lan-guage. Are you encouraged to repeat these three lan-guage? To imagine, to feel, and to do! [Repetitur lem-

ma.]In a loud voice. [Repetitur lemma.]And all of these,harmoniously.True love is to love and to allow myself to be loved.

Allowing oneself to be loved is more difficult than lov-ing. It is, therefore, so difficult to reach Gods perfelove, because we are able to love Him, but the more im-portant thing is to allow ourselves to be loved by Him.True love is opening oneself to that love which is pri-mordial, and which brings about to us a surprise. Love is

always a surprise because it presupposes a dialogue be-tween two persons, between the lover and the beloved.And to God, we say that He is the God of surprises,because He loved us first, and He waits for us with asurprise. God surprises us. Let us allow ourselves to besurprised by God, and let us not have the computerspsychology of fooling ourselves into knowing every-thing. How is that so? Wait a moment. Computer! Ah, allthe answers! ere is no surprise. In the challenge of

love, God manifests Himself with surprises.Let us ponder on Saint Matthew, a good merchant.Moreover, he betrayed his country because he colleedtax from the Jews to pay to the Romans. He was filledwith money, and he colleed tax. Jesus comes by, looksat him, and tells him: Come, follow me [].He couldnot believe it. If afterwards you have time, go see thepainting that Caravaggio painted about this scene. Jesuscalls him, beckons to him in that manner. ose whowere with Him say: is one?, who is a traitor, a scoun-drel? And he takes hold of the money that he does notwish to let go off. But the surprise of being loved over-comes him, and he followed Jesus.

at morning, when Matthew went to work, andbid his wife goodbye, he never thought that he would bereturning without the money, and hurrying to tell hiswife to prepare a banquet [], the banquet for Him

[] Cfr.Matth., : Vidit hominem sedentem in telonio, Matthaeum nomine. Et ait illi : Sequere me. [] Cfr. Ibid..


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aban. Pero nunca dejaron que el pueblo les diera algo.Tuvo que venir Jess para dejarse conmover por el pue-blo.

Cuntos jvenes!no lo digo de vosperocuntos jvenes como vos que hay aqu saben dar pero

todava no aprendieron a recibir! Solo te falta una cosa.Become a beggar! Become a beggar! Esto es lo que nos fal-ta: aprender a mendigar de aquellos a quienes damos.Esto no es fcil de entender: aprender a mendigar.Aprender a recibir de la humildad de los que ayudamos.Aprender a ser evangelizados por los pobres.

Las personas a quienes ayudamos, pobres, enfer-mos, hurfanos, tienen mucho que darnos. Me hago

mendigo y pido tambin eso?, o soy suficiente y sola-mente voy a dar? Vos que vivs dando siempre y creisque no tenis necesidad de nada sabis que sois un po-bre tipo?, sabis que tenis mucha pobreza y necesitisque te den?, te dejis evangelizar por los pobres, por losenfermos, por aquellos que ayudis? Esto es lo que ayu-da a madurar a todos aquellos comprometidos, comoRikki, en el trabajo de dar a los dems: aprender a ten-der la mano desde la propia miseria.

Haba algunos puntos que yo haba preparado: pri-mero que ya lo dije aprender a amar y a aprender a de-jarse amar. Hay un desafo adems, que es el desafo porla integridad. [Anglice prosequitur.]

Amar a los pobres. Nuestros obios quieren quemiren a los pobres de manera eecial este ao. Vospensis en los pobres? Vos sents con los pobres? Voshacis algo por los pobres? Y vos peds a los pobres quete den esa sabidura que tienen? Esto es lo que hoy qui-siera decirles Uds. Perdnenme porque no le casi nadade lo que tena preparado. Pero hay una frase que meconsuela un poquito: La realidad es superior a la idea.La realidad es superior a la idea. Y la realidad que ellosplantearon, la realidad de Uds., es superior a todas lasideas que yo haba preparado.

Gracias! Muchas gracias!

ey taught them. But they did not allow it that thepeople might give them something. Jesus had to come inorder to make them allow themselves to be moved bythe people.

So many young people!I do not say that they areamongst youbut so many young people like you, who

are here, know how to give but still have not learnedhow to receive! You lack only one thing. Become a beggar!Become a beggar! is is what we lack: to learn to begfrom those to whom we give. is is not easy to under-stand: to learn to beg. To learn to receive from the hu-milities of those whom we help. To learn to be evange-lised by the poor.

e people whom we help, the poor, the sick, theorphans, have much to give us. Should I become a beg-

gar and beg that too? Or am I content and I will onlygive? You who live always giving, and who believe thatyou are not in need of anything, do you realise that youare a poor fellow? Do you realise that you have muchpoverty and you need to be given? at you have to al-low yourself to be evangelised by the poor, by the sick,by those whom you help? is is what helps those whoare committed, just like Rikki, become mature in thework of giving to others: to learn to stretch out the hand

from ones own misery.ere are some points that I have prepared: firstly,that which I already said, to learn to love and to learn toallow oneself to be love. ere is a challenge, moreover,which is the challenge for integrity. [Anglice prosequi-tur.]

To love the poor. Our bishops wish that you shouldlook at the poor in a ecial way this year. Do you thinkof the poor? Do you feel with the poor? Do you makesomething for the poor? And you, do you beg the poorthat they give you that knowledge that they have? isis what I would like to tell you today. Forgive me becauseI read almost nothing from what I prepared for you. Butthere is a passage that consoles me a little: Reality isgreater than an idea. Reality is greater than an idea. Andthe reality that you planted, you reality, is greater thanall the ideas that I have prepared.

ank you! ank you very much.

QUICUMQUE NON ACCEPERIT REGNUM DEI SICUT PUER, NON INTRABIT IN ILLUD.Luc.

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When those outside the magiste-rium try to impress the Magisteri-um, or those outside the Churchpreach Her virtues to those insidethe Church, the whole businesslooks sorry and contrived. We

heard our president pontificate before the Pontiff,

and we heard some heretics instru us to showmercy and compassion to their heresy. For thelove of common sense, what were they thinking?ey were sincere, we are told, but if sincerity issteeped in the usual vices of bragging and conceit,of irreverence and deliberate uncouthness, thatsincerity almost always degenerates to vainglory.

* * *ere is a paradigm in our hum-drum history called the church ofDmaso.Anti-Catholics see it as acontroller of the State. We, how-ever, know that it was controlled

by the State, to the point thatmany parishes were disadvantaged because gover-nors general appointed their favourites. But thechurch of Dmaso is a baseless legend, born in thesame mind that faults the friars of lynching Busta-mante. It is a mind swimming in the darkness of abadly written one-sided history. Rizal wrote aboutsuch church of Dmaso,but he never wrote history.He wrote fiion! at ideais an urban legend.

OUR TAKE ON THINGS

ACT OF REPARATION

TOTHEMOSTSACREDHEARTOFJESUS

OSweet Jesus, Whose overflowing charity for men is requited by so much forgetful-

ness, negligence and contempt, behold us prostrate before ine altar eager torepair by a ecial a of homage the cruel indifference and injuries, to which y

loving Heart is everywhere subje.Mindful alas! that we ourselves have had a share in such great indignities, which we

now deplore from the depths of our hearts, we humbly ask y pardon and declare ourreadiness to atone by voluntary expiation not only for our own personal offences, but alsofor the sins of those, who, straying far from the path of salvation, refuse in their obstinate

infidelity to follow ee, their Shepherd and Leader, or, renouncing the vows of theirbaptism, have cast off the sweet yoke of y law.

We are now resolved to expiate each and every deplorable outrage committedagainst ee; we are determined to make amends for the manifold offences againstChristian modesty in unbecoming dress and behaviour, for all the foul seduions laid toensnare the feet of the innocent, for the frequent violation of Sundays and holidays, andfor the shocking blahemies uttered against ee and y Saints.

We wish also to make amends for the insults to which y Vicar on earth and yPriests are subjeed; for the profanation, by conscious negle or terrible as of sacri-lege of the very Sacrament of y divine love; and lastly for the public crimes of na-tions who resist the rights and the teaching authority of the Church thou hast founded. Almadrones

We have been accused of merely us-ing the Old Mass to proje our frustra-tions, that our love for ceremony is a fash-ion, and our yearning for the smells and thebellsa juvenile futility.

But we know otherwise. We knowthat what we think, feel, and do with all

our heart, with ree to the Mass, is notan incentive but rather a medication forthe desires of our flesh, because we recog-nise the dangers of a world that scorns theveil and glorifies the miniskirt.

A Catholic once said: I am apraicingCatholic because I am not yet perfe.Letus be comforted in the perfe Lord.

Many of our fellow youth today areiritually orphaned. e fickleness andthe transience of many values today createa vacuum in the youths psyche. It is raw,and gnawing, but only a few muster thecourage to aually find what is missing inthat void. And that void gradually ex-

cludes the youth from the beauty of theApostolic Faith, and of the Lord.

We struggle to anchor ourselves inthe perennial wisdom of the Church, asolace in this world of shifting paradigms,and this has led us to love the same Massthat produced for us formidable saintsand defenders of the Faith.

aomasian* envisioned in the Filipino youth as a stronghealthy youth, clear-eyed, religiousyes!deeply religious withfaith simple but robust, in God and His Holy Church, free from

petty superstitions and unafraid of the devil of human ree. e homogratia hominis mentality of todays society oftentimes reduces the endeav-ours of the youth into mere faddism. But that is not always tenable.

Hope of the ChurchJesson G. Allerite

* Renato Guerrero of the UST on December delivered the eech for the young mens session of the I National Eucharistic Congress

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