Regent: follow Christ's pattern
September 1, 2016
by Aletha Dela Cruz and Mac Norhen Bornales
by Aletha Dela Cruz and Mac Norhen Bornales
Photo by Patrick Andre Mencias
THE REGENT of the Faculty of Arts and Letters on Wednesday asked the Artlet Community to follow the “pattern” of Jesus Christ in living a faithful life with God and with other people.
Arts and Letters Regent Rev. Fr. Rodel E. Aligan, O.P. explained that the pattern of Jesus Christ is “From Men, going to God. And from God going to Men.”
“We find here the pattern of Jesus Christ. In the morning until sunset, he is preaching, he was teaching. He was curing people. But after Sunset until daybreak. He will go to a certain place and there he will communicate with the Father,” Fr. Aligan said during his homily at the Faculty’s first college mass of the academic year at the Santisimo Rosario Parish also known as the UST Chapel.
The Regent also quoted St. Thomas Aquinas saying that “You cannot repeat what you could not have had. We are all from God Himself but there has to be an act from God himself for us to have [something] for man himself.
Fr. Aligan also acknowledged the possibility that our relationship with God and other people could be stained when we sometimes break the pattern.
“Minsan ang cycle ng pagtulong sa kapwa at [pakikipag-usap] sa Diyos ay nasisira. Tumutulong ka sa kapwa pero at night, instead na sa Diyos ka pumupunta, iba pinupuntahan mo. Minsan di ka na rin makatulong sa kapwa bakit? Puyat. Ganoon ang mangyayari,” Fr. Aligan explained.
He added that when we do other things that are not with God, it further makes us go away from God because “we become shy to go to Him.”
“So if you repeat the cycle, the cycle becomes a habit for us. [Mabuti] if yung mga AB students pupunta sa Library o kaya pupunta sa Chapel,” the faculty regent said.
Fr. Aligan ended his homily by reminding the Artlet community that prayer is important for students and hoped that it may become a habit of the Faculty as well.
“It would affect the life that we have. That is why we always try to avoid sin and we pray for guidance na sana naman, we can discipline our own lives. Kaya nga importante sa estudyante ng AB at estudyante ng UST na pagsumikapin na makapagdevelop ng habit of prayer. We may all grow side-by-side in our own journey to God and in our own journey towards knowledge,” He concluded.
Before he ended the Mass, Fr. Aligan blessed the officers of blocks, organizations, and academic societies that were present during the Mass.
Arts and Letters Regent Rev. Fr. Rodel E. Aligan, O.P. explained that the pattern of Jesus Christ is “From Men, going to God. And from God going to Men.”
“We find here the pattern of Jesus Christ. In the morning until sunset, he is preaching, he was teaching. He was curing people. But after Sunset until daybreak. He will go to a certain place and there he will communicate with the Father,” Fr. Aligan said during his homily at the Faculty’s first college mass of the academic year at the Santisimo Rosario Parish also known as the UST Chapel.
The Regent also quoted St. Thomas Aquinas saying that “You cannot repeat what you could not have had. We are all from God Himself but there has to be an act from God himself for us to have [something] for man himself.
Fr. Aligan also acknowledged the possibility that our relationship with God and other people could be stained when we sometimes break the pattern.
“Minsan ang cycle ng pagtulong sa kapwa at [pakikipag-usap] sa Diyos ay nasisira. Tumutulong ka sa kapwa pero at night, instead na sa Diyos ka pumupunta, iba pinupuntahan mo. Minsan di ka na rin makatulong sa kapwa bakit? Puyat. Ganoon ang mangyayari,” Fr. Aligan explained.
He added that when we do other things that are not with God, it further makes us go away from God because “we become shy to go to Him.”
“So if you repeat the cycle, the cycle becomes a habit for us. [Mabuti] if yung mga AB students pupunta sa Library o kaya pupunta sa Chapel,” the faculty regent said.
Fr. Aligan ended his homily by reminding the Artlet community that prayer is important for students and hoped that it may become a habit of the Faculty as well.
“It would affect the life that we have. That is why we always try to avoid sin and we pray for guidance na sana naman, we can discipline our own lives. Kaya nga importante sa estudyante ng AB at estudyante ng UST na pagsumikapin na makapagdevelop ng habit of prayer. We may all grow side-by-side in our own journey to God and in our own journey towards knowledge,” He concluded.
Before he ended the Mass, Fr. Aligan blessed the officers of blocks, organizations, and academic societies that were present during the Mass.