The Spiritual War According to St. Paul
St. Paul writing to the Ephesians defined the spiritual war thus (6:10-13): “Finally, go strong in the Lord, with the strength of His power. Put God’s armour on so as to be able to resist the devil’s tactics. For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the sovereignties and powers who originate the darkness in this world; the Spiritual army of evil in the heavens. That is why you must rely on God’s armour, or you will not be able to put up any resistance when the worst happens, or enough resources to hold you ground.”
Full Battle Gear – Part 3: Honor and Unconventional Warfare
Jesus was, and still is, the ultimate Unconventional Warrior. He led His enemy to believe that He had died and was defeated but His Resurrection later on would cause Satan to panic for He did not die after all. Godless Japan thought that with Bataan and Corregidor surrender, the Philippines had ceased to be but the guerilla onslaught taught it otherwise, because even before the liberation forces arrived, the Japanese Imperial Forces were already reeling from guerilla warfare.
Full Battle Gear – Part 2: Espionage – Dancing With the Music
A good soldier of the militant church must also be ready to work as a spy for God’s army or to say the least be knowledgeable in intelligence work because intel is inferior to God’s wisdom. Hence, a devout Catholic should be in the world and out of the world at the same time. He must therefore be seen as a person living in the modern world with the essential trappings of heretical modernism.
Full Battle Gear – Part 1: Conventional Warfare
A wounded soldier had given me inspiration about a subject I had always been lecturing since my return to Catholic practice and this is on Spiritual Warfare. I am always attuned to dividing it in three parts so that I can always have a thorough discussion. These would be Conventional Warfare, Espionage and Unconventional Warfare.
Later, we will try to see how the concept of multiverse plays within the Mystery of God’s Creation.
On Perseverance and Fortitude
This is a story recounted to me by my wife. When she was still an assistant Principal of Emilio Jacinto Elementary School in Manila, the school was visited by the Division’s elementary science supervisor, Mr. Felipe Saclamitao, and the person assigned to welcome and assist him, he told her this story.
Temperance and Anxiety
The relationship between temperance and anxiety is not obvious. People have excesses that can bring about so much anxiety.
On Just Being Just
“Mr. de los Santos, where’s your sense of justice?!” The self-righteous superintendent was grilling me, “Why are you being seen in different places with X. Of course, you know what he has done.”
Of course, I knew what he was supposed to have done. “He’s my friend, Madam,” I said casually. “If you were accused like him I would have also done the same thing for you.”
On Prudence as a Weapon Against Anxiety
One after hears about faith, hope, and charity and takes them for granted as naturally emanating from man as Divine Gifts. Only a few however know that these virtues do not occur naturally. They can only be given as graces by the Trinity of the virtue of man’s desire to be good by exercising the four essential virtues.
Logotherapy and Suicidal Individual
Are you suicidal? If you are, perhaps you have lost the meaning of life. Losing one’s meaning in life may be due to any of the following: a) someone or some group must have defined it for you, b) the meaning you yourself had built had been eroded or proven contrary by the events that happened in your life or c) the definition of your life or the understanding of it had proven futile or inutile. One of these could be the reason why you would like to end your life.
5G and Anxiety Disorders
As I write this for you, clever men and women of the internet-telecommunications industry are already deploying smaller 5G towers and cell sites across the world. This technology will indeed make uploading and downloading of information much faster than it already is. This must be wonderful news. However, studies from 3G to 4G technology allude to the fact that there is a great danger to humanity already exposed to them, how much more if we use 5G technology?
This is to Certify
You have asked for our certificates.
You’re right but we’ve been through proper gates
Yet they can’t give us because we’re the first.
They’ve asked for our copies, the cups they thirst.
We have none just the thank yous and appreciations
And in your eyes, exactly our depreciations.