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Remember, mg, when stress levels inundate the body, the heart rate increases, this can exacerbate cases of hypertension if not already a genetic predilection. Physical exercises, yoga, as well as breathing exercises are just some examples of ways to reduce stress , be they work-related or personal stress.



Sincere regards,
Dr. Lorenzo

Currently working on my paper in my Doctoral Writing class. The professor puts a lot of emphasis on ethics and citation, covering concepts that I will also reiterate to my own students at the college and colleagues in the hospital. The concept we discussed today was Metacognition. The thinking of thinking.

I had an interesting conversation with another doctoral learner who is pursuing his Ph.D in Industrial Organizational Psychology. The conversation revolved around the premise of learners becoming oversaturated with theoretical processes that grammatical syntax wanes. hahaha. Lively debate.




Regards,
Dr. Lorenzo

Today, I found out that the Director of Allied Health and General Education is resigning her position to take up a research position at another Medical University in downtown Chicago, Rush University Medical System. So today, I was asked by the Dean of Academic Affairs to take up the helm as the Director of Allied Health and General Education at the college. I thought over this, the role this entails, and the responsibilities that goes with it. I accepted. I had told the President of the college and the Dean of Academics that I would accept and help them develop medical curricula.

I was asked to develop the curricula for the college's Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy Assistant, Physician Assistant and Dental Hygienist program. I need to collaborate with other members of the department in preparing this for accreditation here in the state of Illinois and the medical accreditation board.

I have decided to build my experience in medical academics, while at the same building research experience as I continue on with my Ph.D program. I think by a year or so, I will proceed with my medical residency match.

At this time , however, I feel blessed with this honor. At age 27, I am in command of an entire department that includes 25 full time and part time faculty. I have 2 secretaries as well. 

Thanks be to God.

Quote from: mg on February 13, 2013, 04:52:52 PM
This is very true. Been work stressed since I was fourteen and now my body's age is like 40, so many sickness.

Gotta take the time to de-stress! What do you do to relieve your stress diay?

Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.

-Philippians 4:5

“Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.”

Proverbs 21:21

“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

1 Corinthians 13: 6-7

hehehehe, pwede galing mo kaon ug kuan, ang buaya pa.

hahahaha

Happy Valentines Day, Fr. Roel.

She clearly loves to show off her guns.

Quote from: kuyang on February 15, 2013, 09:23:31 AM
Sir I graduated AB in Peace Security and Computer Programming. Also I earned my MPA major in Development Peace and Public Safety Administration in Lyceum University.

Ah, maayo. Master's holder man diay ka, Bai Kuyang.

Please, don't call me 'sir'. Lorenzo lang.

See you in the forums.

I can tell that proud valencianhon ni si Kuyang. The title states, "Half Bol-anon, half Tagalog, but born in Valencia!"

Gi emphasized gajod ang yutang natawhan. He he he!

Happy Valentines Day to all the lovers of Tubag Bohol.


Sincerely,
With Love,
Dr. Lorenzo

hehehe , love sick? don't be love sick, be love filled.

Quote from: kuyang on February 13, 2013, 11:16:46 PM

College and Graduate studies in Manila..

work for 12 years in Manila, then now transfer in Cebu.

Kuyang,

What did you study in Manila? In addition, what is your name? As for me, you may call me Lorenzo.


A fellow Valencianhon,
Lorenzo

Quote from: kuyang on February 14, 2013, 11:39:14 AM
Palac Clan ako sir... pero pati Salise... Bete.. Nambatac mga kamag-anak ko rin kc yan.
sa atoa kc mga silingan mga kamag-anak din.

He he he, mao ba? Isles is also of the Salise Clan, as I. If you have some Salise blood, then, we are all distant relatives.

Viva Valencia! Viva Viva Viva!

i tried that before. lami kaayo uy!

Sincerely,
Lorenzo

Quote from: islander on February 13, 2013, 11:51:56 PM
hello, kuyang.  daghan na tang half valencianhon.  there are 2 others, si bugsay ug lorenz nga mga banggiitan dinhi ning atong forum, pero mga purebred ni sila nga valencianhon.  kita ang mga muggles.  i look forward to hearing more from you.  welcome!

He he he, isug gajod ang dugo sa Valencianhon. Bright jamo lagi ang mga Valencianhon. I dare to say that.

Quote from: kuyang on February 13, 2013, 11:16:46 PM
born in Valencia... half tagalog and half bol-anon
Grade 1 - 6 = study in Anas Valencia Bohol
1st year HS = study in Valencia National High School
2nd - 3rd year HS = study in Holy Child Academy, Ubay Bohol
4th year HS = back to Valencia
College and Graduate studies in Manila..

work for 12 years in Manila, then now transfer in Cebu.

Good Evening Kuyang,

It's a pleasure to meet you here in Tubag Bohol Dot Com! Welcome to our virtual meeting place. Taga Anas diay pod ka? My maternal grandfather hails from Baranggay Anas, Valencia. So we have another Valencianhon to join our ranks here in Tubag Bohol.



Regards,
Lorenzo




PS. Are you of the Salise or Sales Clan?

This prayer is designed to be said within the family before a Crucifix from Ash Wednesday to Saturday at the beginning of Lent.

Mother or a child: From the words of St. John the Evangelist (14:1-6).

Let not your hearts be troubled.
You who believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father's house there are many mansions.
Were it not so, I would have told you,
because I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I am coming again,
and I will take you to myself,
that where I am, there you also may be.
And where I go, you know, and the way you know.

Father:

We ought to glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ

Family:

in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection.

Father:

Let us pray.

Grant to your faithful, Lord,
a spirit generous enough to begin these solemn
fasts
with proper fervor and to pursue them with
steadfast devotion.
This we ask of you through our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son.

Family:

Amen.

Favor this dwelling, Lord, with your presence.
Far from it repulse all the wiles of Satan.
Your holy angelsâ€"let them live here,
to keep us in peace.
And may your blessing remain always upon us.
This we ask of you through our Lord Jesus Christ,
your Son.

Father:

Let us bless the Lord.

Family:

Thanks be to God.

Father:

May the almighty and merciful Lord,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
bless and keep us.

Family:

Amen.

God touches His Church.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmATGglZB5Y#ws

Wait for me, baby, daddy's coming...

Lead the way, baby...

Amen, Fr. Roel.

Monophysitism or EutychianismBelief that Christ's divinity dominates and overwhelms his humanity, as opposed to the Chalcedonian position which holds that Christ has two natures, one divine and one human or the Miaphysite position which holds that the human nature and pre-incarnate divine nature of Christ were united as one divine human nature from the point of the Incarnation onwards.

Official Condemnation: Eutyches was excommunicated in 448. Monophysitism and Eutyches were rejected at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Monophysitism is also rejected by the Oriental Orthodox Churches

It all comes down to nature and grace. If your understanding of nature and grace is wrong it will affect your entire theology. Case in point is the Protestant doctrine of “total depravity.” This doctrine leads them to have a fundamentally wrong understanding of Soteriology (among other things). God does not just declare us righteous as a judge in the courtroom. We do not gain a mere legal status. Rather, when God declares us righteous, we actually become righteous. We do not gain a legal status, but adoption into the Familia Dei, the Family of God. Because of our baptism, we can truly call God “Father” as Jesus taught us to do. We must always remember that grace does not destroy nature, but elevates, heals and perfects it. The Protestant understanding of imputed righteousness denies the power of God’s grace. The logical consequence of the doctrine says that God is not powerful enough to bring about an ontological change in the justified man (not that the nature itself changes, a justified man is still a man, but his nature is perfected in Christ. The Protestant understanding would not have it so). Here is a great summation of nature and grace by John Haas:

“The saeculum, or the natural order, is distinct from the spiritual order but it is not separated from it and is certainly not opposed to it. One of the errors that arouse in much Protestant thought, and persists to our own day even in secular culture, is that the natural and supernatural orders are opposed to one another. Because of the doctrine of the total depravity of man, classical Protestantism tends to look at fallen man as radically over against God. In the classical Protestant theory of justification, man is never truly made righteous. God merely regards him as righteous by virtue of the saving actions of Jesus Christ performed on his behalf. Man is treated by God only as though he were righteous, that is, he has righteousness imputed to him. Man remains a depraved sinner even as he is justified, which is the Protestant doctrine of simul Justus et peccator, that is, one is justified, treated as just, even though he remains a sinner.

As a result of this erroneous thinking, there has developed in the general Protestant/secular culture the perception that nature and grace, nature and supernature, the profane and the sacred, the secular and the religious are opposed to one another. While this mistaken thinking has profoundly influenced even some Catholic thinkers, it is a notion that is profoundly un-Catholic. Even though an infinite gap separates the Creator from the creature, as articulated in the thought of Saint Thomas, they are not in opposition to one another.

The saeculum, or the natural order, is distinct from the spiritual, but it is not separated from it. In the hierarchy of being, the natural order is ordered toward the supernatural so that it never loses any of its own proper, distinct, and unique created essence, derived from the Creator itself.”

-John M. Haas, “The Relationship of Nature and Grace in St. Thomas Aquinas,” in The Ever-Illuminating Wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas.

“This process began in the Middle Ages and reached its full flower in the Reformation with Martin Luther’s efforts to remove the influences of Catholic philosophy and dogma and return to what he believed to be the original purity of Scripture alone. In different forms, the sola Scriptura principle became a key premise of the liberal theology of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In seeking the unadulterated message and person of Jesus, liberal theology treated the biblical Word as a historical record to be read without reference to philosophical and theological formulations made using Greek language and Greek philosophical tools. This meant returning to a kind of literalism uninformed by such products of philosophical reasoning as the doctrines concerning the Trinity and the divinity of Christ.

This new theological outlook was greatly influenced by the rise of the natural sciences and the achievements of technology, as well as by Kant’s philosophical ‘self limitation of reason’ to only those things that can be perceived by the senses. These influences, in turn, gave rise to the modern understanding that truth and certainty are a function of what can be observed and either verified or falsified through experimentation in the laboratory.

Human reason in the modern period has since come to be seen as limited strictly to seeking understandings that conform to these ‘scientific’ canons of truth and certainty. Because they cannot be answered according to these modern canons, questions about such things as the existence of God or the meaning of human existence are discarded as ‘unscientific or prescientific.’ Hence, religious faith in the modern age is no longer viewed as a source of true knowledge about humans and the world; rather, it is regarded as a feeling or sentiment and a matter of individual or subjective preference.

According to Benedict [XVI], these developmentsâ€"the separation of faith and reason and the radical diminution of both these faculties of the human spiritâ€"are the root cause of grave problems in the world today. The entire project of de-Hellenization, as he sees it, rests on a false premise, namely, that the Christian faith can or should be separated from human reason as it was understood in the Hellenistic world. This premise is false because, as Benedict argues, ‘the encounter between the biblical message and Greek thought did not happen by chance.’ He cites St. Paul’s vision of a Greek man calling Paul to ‘come over to Macedonia and help us’ (Acts 16:6-10). Benedict interprets this vision as indicating ‘the intrinsic necessity of a rapprochement between Biblical faith and Greek inquiry.’

He notes that the gospels themselves were written in the Greek language, using vocabulary and concepts drawn from the Hellenistic milieu. The same influences can be found in the Jewish peopleâ€"who live for many decades under Hellenistic rule. Notwithstanding their oppression, they too ‘encountered the best of Greek though at a deep level.’ The fruits of that encounter can be seen within the Scriptures themselves in the so-called wisdom literature. An even more compelling testimony of Greek influence is the translation known as the Septuagint, which Benedict describes as ‘more than a simple (and in that sense really less than satisfactory) translation of the Hebrew text: it is an independent textual witness and a distinct and important step in the history of revelation, one which brought about this encounter in a way that was decisive for the birth and spread of Christainity.’

For Benedict, all this means that ‘the fundamental decisions made about the relationship between faith and the use of human reason are part of the faith itself; they are developments consonant with the nature of faith itself.’ Moreover, he says, there is no need for us to think of human reason in such restricted terms as limited to seeking to understand only phenomena that can be seen or experienced. The self-limitation of reason has given rise to ‘the dictatorship of appearances.’ It has become ‘a kind of a dogma’ that we cannot know anything more than what is apparent.”

-Scott Hahn, Covenant and Communion: The Biblical Theology of Pope Benedict XVI.

People have the right to bear arms to defend oneself against tyranny. Correct si Fr. Roel. In the United States, it is a constitutional right to bear arms.

An Additional Task

It is only right to add that, psychologically speaking, and in so far as economic or social states condition mental states, the spread of neo-malthusian birth-control is mainly dependent on the present urban and industrial civilization. It is probably true that this industrialization with its wage basis, and therefore money basis, cannot give the normal family wage to the wage-earner of the normal family.

Now if conjugal abstinence is, objectively speaking, heroic virtue, we must conclude that many of our people are faced with the alternative of the heroic virtue of conjugal abstinence or of sinful neo-malthusian birth-control. We clergy, on whom to a large extent the future of the country depends, must do more than we are perhaps doing to change this urban industrialized civilization which is now giving the Neo-Malthusian the opportunity of posing as the only sane social reformer.


-First published in the Catholic Medical Guardian, Vol. II, No. 5, January 1924

The Psychology of Birth-Control

This subject is so vast that a cursory treatment of it must be in the nature of an outline.

1. We may quote from an unbiased if not an unwilling authority, Arthus C. Buch, M.I.H. Writing as a convinced neo-malthusian for whom “Birth-Control knowledge has to fulfill its very high moral purpose,” he adds: “Birth-Control â€" a science and an art â€" which should be a weapon for the alleviation of human misery and for the improvement of the human race, will become, unless we are very watchful, a mere excuse for indulgence, a conspiracy of wedded people to avoid natural responsibilities (parentage), even if it does not end in the national overthrow of moral restraint, universal nerves, and the premature end of the civilized world.

“For there is no denying that in the present craze stage of Birth-Control. . . it acts as direct opposition to the good of the race.” (The New Generation, April 1923, p. 50).

2. The psychology of neo-malthusian birth-control demands the psychology of the large family in contrast with the small family. It is clear that in the large family as such, the child is brought up in a most stimulating atmosphere of poverty, chastity, and obedience â€" the three foundations of all stable society. Many of the reasons urged for birth-control, if carried out, would develop a race so selfish as not to be worthy of being born.

As to chastity in the large family, the common life of the two sexes united by the sacred bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood are a training in chastity which has no rival in the world. Catholics have always found that it is the large family as such, with its subtle training in sexual restraint, which is a novitiate for novitiates. As to obedience, no institution in the world offers the same complicated and efficient training.

3. But the psychology of neo-malthusian birth-control demands some account of its effect on the normal parent. Here, again, we must form our judgment by referring to the psychology of the larger family on the parent. It seems almost axiomatic that the parents of the large family are far removed from the sexual uncontrol so commonly attributed to them by modern Neo-Malthusians, and, I regret to add, by many modern “Social Uplifters.” The present writer can only state as his experience that no class of adults has been found by him so averse to discuss Race Suicide as the parents of large families! Psychologically speaking, this delicate chastity of the parent of a large family is not a miracle, but a law of nature. The care of a large family demands so much intellectual and volitional activity that sex-relations as such cease to be central and become peripheral. A father finding food and raiment for his family â€" or a mother suckling her little one, has a thousand interests above that of procuring sexual satisfaction with the safeguards of an educated neo-malthusianism.

On the other hand, the parents whose marital relations have to give the maximum pleasure with the minimum risk, find their attention fixed on a motive which tends to assume mastery. No one could habitually practice the strategies of the Neo-Malthusians without being sooner or later overcome by an idée fixe. To the present writer it has always seemed that some, if not many, of the leaders of the neo-malthusian birth-control present the pathological features of erotic mania. This erotic mania tends to be a collective obsession. If there is such a psychological phenomenon as mob mania, it is time for us to ask if the present avalanche of sexual activities is not an example of this phenomenon. Psychologically speaking, the neo-malthusian birth-control has effects which tend to be themselves causes of their causes. In other words, it is true psychology to say that sin tends both to feed itself and to feed upon itself. Thus, where there is an exact science and art of procuring sexual pleasures without offspring, facilities are afforded for dissolving marriage. It is the childless marriages that lead to divorce; and, again, it is divorce that leads to childless marriages. Hence, psychologically speaking, neo-malthusian birth-control tends to loosen the marriage tie, and the loosened marriage tie tends to develop neo-malthusian birth-control.

The Ethics of Neo-Malthusian Birth-Control

Only for the sake of using phrases in common use do we say neo-malthusian “birth-control.” If names should signify, not general likeness, but specific differences, then what we are asked to accept is not even birth-control, but Lust-un-control. As there are many methods of lowering the birth-rate, some lawful and some sinful, the various methods should be named not from their agreements but from their differences. Now the precise difference between the methods we are discussing and all others, is that these neo-malthusian methods allow their users full sexual pleasure without fear of procreation. Therefore the specific motive for refusing other methods and accepting this method, is sexual satisfaction.

It is urged that those who use these methods practice self-control. Agreed. But this self-control proves the intensity of their sexual desires; because the control is not exercised over the sexual desires and pleasures, but over the natural effect of these desires and pleasures. An analogy may make this clearer. X is a would-be-thief. In preparation for this theft he practices total abstinence from intoxicants, and he denies himself hours of sleep in order to work out his plan, he stints his food in order to have money to offer bribes, he learns how to walk without noise, and so on. In other words, he exercises self-control. Yet this self-control is merely for the purpose of preventing all ill effects from this attempted theft. No one would say that X was an advocate of “theft-control.” Indeed all his minute control is but a sign of his intense will to theft. In the same way, all the control, all the minute preparations advocated by the neo-malthusians, are but a proof of the intense will to lust, which is the essence of their control.

If we consider neo-malthusian practices between a man and a woman as such, and not between a husband and wife, these practices are merely a very deliberate and shameless form of mutual masturbation. Ethically speaking, the solitary sin is not so sinful in the individual nor so harmful to the community, as this masturbation within marriage. But as we are discussing the ethics of these acts in the married life, it may be asked whether they, like the normal sex acts, do not lose their sinfulness by the sanction of the wedlock? To this we reply that wedlock, instead of voiding the sinfulness of these acts, increases their sinfulness. Over and above the sinfulness which they have from their opposition to nature, there is the sinfulness they have from their opposition to: (1) a contractual obligation, and (2) a Christian sacrament.

To explain. Christian marriage as such is a contractual, sacramental, and indissoluble society of one man and one woman for the begetting and bringing up of offspring. The essence (and primary perfection) of marriage is the “indissoluble society” of one man and one woman. The primary end (and secondary perfection) is the begetting and bringing up of offspring. Secondary ends are (a) the strength and comfort of home life, and (b) the allaying of lust.

“The primary end of marriage is the begetting and bringing up of offspring; the secondary, mutual help and the allaying of lust.” (Codex Juris Canonici, 1013, ¶1.) The marriage service of the Church of England still retains this traditional doctrine: “First, it (Matrimony) was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord. . . . Secondly, it was ordained for a remedy against sin and to avoid fornication. . . .Thirdly, it was ordained for the mutual society, help and comfort that one ought to have of the other. . . .” (Book of Common Prayer: The Form and Solemnization of Matrimony).

According to the Codex Juris Cononici, marriage is invalid if one or both of the contracting parties by a positive act of the will excludes either: (1) the marriage itself, or (2) all right to the conjugal act, or (3) any essential property of marriage. (Can. 1086, ¶2.) The essential properties of marriage are Unity and Indissolubility (Can. 1013). Acts which would invalidate the contracting of a marriage would be sinful when performed in a marriage already contracted. As the procreation of children is the primary end of marriage, and as venereal pleasure is attached to the sex act in order to induce men and women to the altruistic procreation of offspring, it is clear that the venereal pleasure cannot be sought or procured except in relation to the procreation of offspring. Robbed of this end it becomes but a form of masturbation. Inside the married state it may be called mutual marital masturbation. The sin as such is equal whether the preventative means taken are physical or artificial. But this sin committed in wedlock is greater than if committed outside wedlock, because it is against the contract of marriage which God has raised to the dignity of a sacrament.

So clearly is neo-malthusian birth-control against the primary end of marriage, that the question of the validity of many marriages is now difficult to decide. A common agreement to accept marriage and to use it only with neo-malthusian birth-control would manifestly annul the marriage. But short of this there are cases where, without making a common and explicit agreement, there is an understanding that it should be used with neo-malthusian birth-control; such cases are not easy to settle on the principles of marriage.

When this deliberate or decisive interference with the primary end of marriage is joined to an almost explicit intention to obtain divorce in case of difficulties, the present state of the institution of monogamous marriage becomes more than uncertain.

No doctor has the right to say to a married couple: “You ought not to have any children at all; or, if at all, then, only after a long interval.” All that may be said is a bare statement of the medical fact, in such words as: “In my opinion, if you have another pregnancy at any time, or soon, you will die, or be ill, or risk the life of the child, etc., etc.” “Ought” is an ethical category which should not be used by a doctor, who, professionally speaking, is consulted on the physiological and pathological effects of the case. Still less should the word “ought” be used, say, by a lawyer or an economist who is consulted on the mere economics of the case. If this categorical imperative “ought” is to be used at all, then only by the spiritual physician, the priests, to whom is commissioned the care of the soul. Yet, speaking as a theologian and as a priest of wide experience, I should find it hard to determine the circumstances under which it should be said to a married couple: “You ought not to have children. If you perform the procreative act you will commit sin.”

Again, a doctor cannot advise a contraceptive as such. Great misuse is made of the principle “We can advise the lesser of two evils.” This principle rarely applies; and only when it is a question of two moral evils that hurt no one but the doer. It does not apply to the physical evils. Indeed when physical evil is coupled with moral evil, our advising the use of the principle may be a sin. Thus, if a man is contemplating murder, we cannot use the principle of “two evils” by advising the use of a safe method of killing! We cannot say, “Well, if you will kill, I as an expert on homicide, advise the use of a slow poison which cannot be detected.” In the same way no doctor and no priest can say, and especially cannot accept a fee for saying, “Well, as you are bent on neo-malthusian practice, I advise this or that method as being less dangerous to your health.” This would be to co-operate in the sin.

By the Rev. Fr. Vincent McNabb, O. Pr., S. T. M.



We have deliberately used the phrase, “Neo-Malthusian Birth-Control,” because the simple phrase “Birth-Control” is likely to mislead. It is not accurate to say that the Church condemns birth-control. What the Church condemns, or rather what the Church has no power to allow, is not birth-control, but birth-control by sinful methods. The Church has always had a most efficient method of birth-control, by conjugal and virginal chastity. She has never urged what Neo-Malthusians say she has urged: “reckless propagation.” Indeed, her normal action seems everywhere to have resulted, not in such an increase of population as this island has seen since the industrial revolution, but in a steady maintenance of a high level of population largely dwelling on the land. It is a matter of sociological interest that, if England can be taken as typical, the mediæval Church developed cloistered and vowed chastity even more among men than among women. It comes as a surprise to students of mediæval England that the religious men largely outnumber the religious women. It will easily be seen how great would be the effect of this cloistered chastity on the birth-rate of the country.

Accuracy, therefore, makes us speak, not against birth-control, which the Church has always had her own chaste methods of advocating, but against neo-malthusian birth-control which the Church has no power from her divine Founder to allow.

to be continued...

“The words ‘God said’ appear ten times in the creation account. In this way the creation narrative anticipates the Ten Commandments. This makes us realize that the Ten Commandments are, as it were, an echo of the creation; they are not arbitrary inventions for the purpose of erecting barriers to human freedom but signs pointing to the spirit, the language, and the meaning of creation; they are a translation of the language of the universe.”


-Joseph Ratzinger, ‘In the Beginning…’

He's my hero.

Who Says The World No Longer Has Superheroes?

The Moral Duty Of Dogmatic Intolerance


“When ideas are in conflict, when truth is fighting against error, and revelation against human ingenuity, then there can be no compromise and no indulgence. If our Lord had exercised such indulgence, He would not have been crucified.

When He called the Pharisees whited sepulchers and a brood of vipers, and Herod a fox, He was not inspired by any sort of hatred against individuals, but by the tremendous earnestness of truth. It was His defiant and vivid conviction of responsibility for eternal truth that caused Him to use such strong words towards error and its representatives.

And if we do not fight thus for the truth, then we lose all moral and spiritual power, we become characterless, we disown God. Dogmatic intolerance is therefore a moral duty, a duty to the infinite truth and to truthfulness.”


-Karl Adam, The Spirit of Catholicism.

Docetism: Belief that Jesus' physical body was an illusion, as was his crucifixion; that is, Jesus only seemed to have a physical body and to physically die, but in reality he was incorporeal, a pure spirit, and hence could not physically die.

Official Condemnation: Docetism was rejected by the ecumenical councils and mainstream Christianity, and largely died out during the first millennium AD.

Arianism Denial of the true divinity of Jesus Christ taking various specific forms, but all agreed that Jesus Christ was created by the Father, that he had a beginning in time, and that the title "Son of God" was a courtesy one.

Official Condemnation: Arius was first pronounced a heretic at the First Council of Nicea, he was later exonerated as a result of imperial pressure and finally declared a heretic after his death. The heresy was finally resolved in 381 by the First Council of Constantinople.

Apollinarism Belief that Jesus had a human body and lower soul (the seat of the emotions) but a divine mind. Apollinaris further taught that the souls of men were propagated by other souls, as well as their bodies.


Official Condemnation: Declared to be a heresy in 381 by the First Council of Constantinople

Adoptionism Belief that Jesus was born as a mere (non-divine) man, was supremely virtuous and that he was adopted later as "Son of God" by the descent of the Spirit on him.

Official Condemnation: Theodotus was excommunicated by Pope Victor and Paul was condemned by the Synod of Antioch in 268.

A most excellent interpretation, might I add.

The Patristic Interpretation Of The Good Samaritan


“Many Fathers of the Church and early Christian writers have identified Christ himself as the Good Samaritan. The man who falls into the hands of thieves is a symbol of humanity wounded by original sin and personal sin. St. Augustine has commented: ‘These offenses robbed mankind of immortality. They covered him with wounds and made him susceptible to sin.’ St. Bede has written that sins are called wounds because they destroy the integrity of human nature. The thieves represent the devil, unrestrained human passions, scandal… The Levite and the priest symbolize the Old Covenant, which cannot cure these wounds. The inn is a symbol of the Church. ‘What would have happened to this poor Jew if the Samaritan had stayed at home? What would have happened to our souls if the Son of God had not undertaken his journey?’ (R.A. Knox) Jesus is moved with compassion for man and heals his wounds, making them his own. St. John wrote to the early Christians: ‘In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him… Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.’”



-Fr. Francis Fernandez

“The Church expressly distinguishes between ‘formal’ and ‘material’ heretics. A ‘formal’ heretic rejects the Church and its teaching absolutely and with full deliberation; a ‘material’ heretic rejects the Church from lack of knowledge, being influenced by false prejudice or by an anti-Catholic upbringing. St. Augustine forbids us to blame a man for being a heretic because he was born of heretical parents, provided that he does not with obstinate self-assurance shut out all better knowledge, but seeks the truth simply and loyally. Whenever the Church has such honest enquirers before her, she remembers that our Lord condemned Pharisaism but not the individual Pharisee, that He held deep and loving intercourse with Nicodemus, and allowed Himself to be invited by Simon. The spirit of the Church in her dealings with souls may be stated in St. Augustine’s words:  ‘Love men, slay error!’”


Reference:
Karl Adam, The Spirit of Catholicism

Christ's charge to Peter

Vicar of Christ


Vicar of Christ (from Latin Vicarius Christi; Vicar of God is used as an equivalent title) is a term used in different ways, with different theological connotations throughout history. As the original notion a vicar is of "earthly representative of God or Christ" but also used in sense of "person acting as parish priest in place of a real parson" The title is now used in Catholicism to refer to the bishops and more specifically to the Bishop of Rome, The Pope.



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Dioecesis Urbis seu Romana
The Diocese of Rome

The Diocese of Rome  is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Rome, Italy. Its bishop is known as the Pope, and is the Supreme Pontiff and leader of the Catholic Church. Established in the 1st century, its current bishop is Pope Benedict XVI, who acceded after the death of Pope John Paul II, in April 2005.

The bishop of the Diocese of Rome has, in the first place, the title of Bishop of Rome, the basis for all his other titles. Those officially listed for him are:

    Vicar of Jesus Christ
    Successor of the Prince of the Apostles
    Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church
    Primate of Italy, as his see is the most distinguished of the Church in Italy
    Metropolitan and Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Rome
    Sovereign of the State of Vatican City since its establishment by the Lateran Treaty in 1929
    Servant of the Servants of God


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Quote from: Lollapalooza on February 12, 2013, 11:06:45 AM
I watched it Live in CNN last night hangtud nakatulog ko... He resigned due to old age pero some people think more than that.. some even think nga dili niya kaya atubangon ang sex abuse issues.. mao na'y haka haka sa mga tao..

Jenneth,

There are over 1.2 billion Roman Catholics in the world. There are millions of priests that make up the army of Christ. The minority of priests that abuse their position is insignificant to the overwhelming majority of priests that serve and devote their lives piously to the ministry of the Gospel.

It is unfortunate that the media has become reprobate and persecutes the Church. What can we expect from a liberal institution (media) that promotes murder, homosexuality, and immoral behavior. In the end, the Church will remain victorious amongst Her enemies. History has vindicated this.

His Holiness acted according to his conscience and at the behest of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord God bless him always all the days of his life. May all the saints of heaven give him peace in his golden years. The Church was so lucky to have him head the Petrine ministry these past 8 years.

He restored the old Roman Rite Mass, he restored the orthodoxy , the beauty of Roman Catholicism. The Catholicism that should be adored and venerated....

Quote from: islander on February 12, 2013, 11:29:17 AM
the church has stood on rock for millennia, it has seen good times and bad throughout the ages.  it will prevail as man's conscience will prevail. 

She survived the protestant heresies in recent centuries, centuries prior to that, She survived many other heresies that would have undermined the Church. She is impregnable, as the Bride of Christ, not even the very gates of Hell can touch Her. Heresies come and go, but the Church shall Last from everlasting to everlasting. Christ declares it so.

Thanks for the recommendation, Manay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VjfmP7h3gBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvzLZIiD5TU&feature=player_detailpage

Truth in love?  Was St. Paul quoting a romance novel?  No.  The love he is speaking of is the love we have for our fellow man, especially within the Church itself.  Strengthening the body of the Church, then, requires loving one another.

When conditioning our physical bodies, we perform a number of exercises that will push the limits of our strength and endurance.  Over time, this will help us build more muscle and a stronger skeletal system.  In the same way, we can strengthen the Church through the exercise of love.

Physical exercises mimic the actual muscle movements used in other activities, preparing the body for whatever it may face.  Spritiually speaking, we need to prepare our hearts and souls for the same thing.  Our exercise of love within the Church prepares us for loving those outside of the Church.  Loving one another helps us to love others even more.

So where does truth come into all of this?  It is the purpose of building our spiritual muscle.  Living the truth requires strength to withstand the false teachings of the world.  If we do not hold on tightly to the truth, we will quickly fall to the lies that come at us from every direction.

By holding tightly to the truth in love, we are building the Church, the body of Christ.  Before we can love the world, we must learn to love our fellow Christians and Catholics.  Then, united together, we can love the rest of the world in much greater ways.



http://www.wakingupcatholic.com/weekly-bible-verses/732-ephesians-4-15.html

Rather, living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the body's growth and builds itself up in love.

-Ephesians 4:15-16

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Er_sm0XkBE#ws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd6COMIxhiY#ws

For I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures; that he appeared to Kephas, then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. After that he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me... Therefore, whether it be I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

-1 Corinthians 15:3-8,11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t699WFsw9ZU#ws

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9OlDZFfKEQ#ws

Today, during work, I thought of friendships that have come and gone, thought of friends and loved ones who have come and gone. How interesting it is that there is never a "permanence". All things change, and time comes to pass. The only "constant", in my firm belief, is the Mercy of God.

Quote from: chicogon on February 07, 2013, 12:42:52 AM
Is that what they call it? Hehehe

He he he, yes, that's the vietnamese name. Lami kaayo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZULM69DIw#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14pitnJlcv4#

lami ni i paris ug bagoong, eh?

N I C E !

Quote from: vrglguapo on February 06, 2013, 11:02:35 PM
Lovely,do they have Lavacha coffee?

Yup they do.

Quote from: borobotoy on February 06, 2013, 04:28:56 PM
nice one!:

he he he, bugnaw kaayo noh?

5. The brain is much more active at night than during the day. Logically, you would think that all the moving around, complicated calculations and tasks and general interaction we do on a daily basis during our working hours would take a lot more brain power than, say, lying in bed. Turns out, the opposite is true. When you turn off your brain turns on. Scientists don’t yet know why this is but you can thank the hard work of your brain while you sleep for all those pleasant dreams.

4. Your brain uses 20% of the oxygen that enters your bloodstream. The brain only makes up about 2% of our body mass, yet consumes more oxygen than any other organ in the body, making it extremely susceptible to damage related to oxygen deprivation. So breathe deep to keep your brain happy and swimming in oxygenated cells.

3. The human brain cell can hold 5 times as much information as the Encyclopedia Britannica. Or any other encyclopedia for that matter. Scientists have yet to settle on a definitive amount, but the storage capacity of the brain in electronic terms is thought to be between 3 or even 1,000 terabytes. The National Archives of Britain, containing over 900 years of history, only takes up 70 terabytes, making your brain’s memory power pretty darn impressive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5Zhu86Cw8#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwUReqMsesg#ws

Got back from a movie date with a new lady friend. Hehehe, korean girl.

2. The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Your brain generates as much energy as a small light bulb even when you’re sleeping.

1. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.

100 Very Cool Facts About The Human Body!

Read more!

http://publications.gc.ca/Collection-R/Statcan/82-003-XIE/0039882-003-XIE.pdf#page=49

In todayÂ's rapidly changing labour market, the
consequences of stress in the workplace have become
an issue. Previous studies have suggested that adverse
work conditions are related to a variety of health problems.
Research has focused on associations between factors such
as work organization, job control and worker support, and
health outcomes such as depression, anxiety, high blood
pressure and coronary heart disease.

Job strain, defined as a measure of the balance between
the psychological demands of a job and the amount of
control or decision-making power it affords, has been
proposed as a key component of work stress. Workers in
high-strain jobs have been shown to have higher rates of a
wide variety of diseases than their counterparts in low-strain
jobs.5 Job strain, however, is only one element of work
stress. Job insecurity, physical demands, and the amount
of support provided by supervisors and co-workers also
come into play in the work stress–illness relationship.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVcbGlNz9DQ#ws 

mao noh? nothing like good ol' pinoy style cooking.

he he he ngisi pod ang inchik nga baki.

Snow resting on the Great Wall of China.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChV5BZ8SmS0#ws