My Journal We should be persons who are

Date: October 15, 2020 True to our Words and

Name: Adrian Clark delos Santos
Course: BSAc - 1 - Block 10 Act on it.
Topic Discussed:
Launching of Holy Rosary Month and Celebration of the
National Indigenous People’s Month
IPRA THEME:
“Correcting Historical Injustices for
Indigenous People’s Rights and Welfare“

Reflection
Although I am not a Catholic, I tried to grasp what my be-
liefs can hold up to about the mass. Rev. Fr. Macwayne N.Maniwang’s
sermon taught me about the view of God about hypocrisy or not doing
what we say. Especially nowadays as we celebrate the Holy Rosary
Month and Celebration of the Na-tional Indigenous People’s Month. I
learned about the Woes of the Pharisees, which are criticisms by Je-
sus against scribes and Pharisees. The woes are all woes of hypocrisy
and illustrate the differences be-tween inner and outer moral states.
Jesus portrays the Pharisees as impatient with the outward, ritu-al
observance of minutiae, which made them look acceptable and virtuous What is my motivation
outwardly but left the inner person unreformed. Fr. Maniwang said
that we should have a genuine motivation on why we are doing what-
for this act?
ever we are doing. We celebrate the Holy Rosary Month because we
acknowledge our destiny in and with God, according to Mary’s example.
Why am I joining the Celebra-
To live up to this destiny, we need faith in God’s marvelous deeds for tion of the National Indige-
us, perseverance in his ways and a practical attitude toward living our nous People’s Month?
faith, that is charity. We celebrate the Indigenous People’s Month
because we care about them. We do steps to condemn Historical Injus- >There’s a wound in our nation. It’s an
tices for IndigenousPeople’s Rights and Welfare. injustice towards Indigenous people that
began with colonisation and is ongoing
Here are the striking words from the mass that fascinated today. Despite this injustice, many In-
me: digenous people around our country are
thriving and proudly reviving, protecting
“We know the commandments of God more or less, but are we and celebrating their Indigenous culture
acting on it? The commandment to love our neighbors. The command- and identity.
ment to love God. “

“We should be persons who are true to our words and act on
them. We are only good at memorizing those presets and command-
ments, yet we failed to do it in their own lights.”

 “ALAM NATIN KUNG ANO ANG TAMA AT KUNG ANO ANG MALI. GINAGAWA BA
NATIN ANG TAMA?”

“Are we only good at telling people what to do, but we ourselves failed to do it?”

In the Family Context, Parents should do what they tell their children. We
should be the man of our words and not do things we condemn with our words. WE MUST
AVOID THESE PHARISAICAL TENDENCIES.

All the commandments are summarized with one word: LOVE – Love for God and
our Neighbors.

Do everything in the name of love. Forgive all the time, where ever we are, in the office,
school, any-where. We should practice the spirit of humility.

This sermon teaches us about hypocrisy. IT IS A PHARISAICAL ATTITUDE.

Ultimately, anyone who has a set of principles that they believe in but does not always
follow could be considered a hypocrite. By that definition, I definitely qualify. I do things
I know are wrong all the time. I don’t have a solution for that one, as I realize I will
always be too weak to live up to the principles I believe to be just and true.

However, I think most people think of hypocrites as people who judge and condemn others for doing
the same things or things that are equally as bad as what they themselves are doing. The way to over-
come that is by humbling yourself enough, to be honest with yourself about your own shortcomings and, in
the process, lose your judgment and condemnation of others. Each of us has a different set of strug-gles
and realizing and accepting that you might make the same choices given different circumstances creates
empathy. And empathy, I believe, is the antithesis of hypocrisy.