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  • Developing love for the Church

    Developing love for the Church

    CBCPNews,

    Nowadays, with love itself being distorted by detaching it from its true source, pattern and end, this duty to love the Church is getting urgent. The organic link between these two aspects of Christian life should be lived and clearly expressed in all the pertinent public pronouncements and actuations. We should avoid giving the impression, no matter how slight, of interventions by Church leaders in temporal affairs as being purely social or economic or political in nature only.

  • Christ, the light of our life

    Christ, the light of our life

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    Blindness is always a serious physical handicap and an immense tragedy. A blind person is unable to enjoy the splendor of light, the endless gradation of colors, the beauty of the scenery around hi…

  • Mindanao’s seminarians closer to ordination

    Mindanao’s seminarians closer to ordination

    CBCPNews,

    “Do not forget to spend time with the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament,” he said, adding that they have to be “always in love with the Lord.” Mahinay, who is now a parish priest of a distant parish, in Tarragona, Davao Oriental, also said the graduates should live a simple lifestyle and avoid extravagant living. “This is what people want to see in their priests.” 10 years in the making Seminarian Efren Gubac, Jr., from the Archdiocese of Davao said it took him 10 years to finish his seminary formation—from pre-college to theology. He said he cannot grasp the fact that he is finally done with seminary formation, adding that it is through the grace of God and not just his own efforts that he was able to survive the rigorous academic and seminary formation.