I remember being very well edified, while attending a golden marriage anniversary, when one of the parties expressed; “ I love my spouse just as when we first met each other. “ It made me wonder if I could also say that way when I reach the same number of years in my priesthood.

        The Holy Bible. The Roman Missal. The Christian Prayer.... These are only a few of the basic books that our seminary formators, then, required us to have. They regularly made an unannounced inspections of it. According to them, these books should always be in every priest’s personal library. A companion. So that, from time to time, one can immediately pick through it. To remind us.

        In life, we try, device and apply different kinds of method and processes to solve our daily exigencies. I remember well how our late Canon Law professor taught us the course. He did not push us to literally go through, one by one, memorizing the whole provisions. But, he merely showed us the various approaches and steps on how to interpret and apply it with the one thing clear at the back of our minds: “ The salvation souls. “

        For most people, school life almost take a quarter of their life. Some, even, for the rest of their life. It is because education does not meant to burden us, as some students take it. But, to exercise us through the many courses by which we can lead our lives in the vast maze that life will further on confront us. Education is, actually, a friend to help us.

        We’ve often overhear many people say; “ I’ve tried it. I’ve done that. “ Education teaches us how to continually correspond with life. School does not gives one everything. In fact, according to one of our teachers, it merely gives us sevent percent of the whole picture. The rest depends on how we take the challenge of continually educating ourself. Withdrawing from life and, even worse, giving up is not an option. It is self-impoverishment. Life is an endless textbook of realizations. The vast universe is not the last frontier as Science upholds it. It is life.

Allan S. Fenix
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