Hi, I just want to suggest that you should change the domain to http://www.frstephencuyos.com and also start posting comments with the title Fr.Stephen Cuyos. I think you should express the special right of having the title Father to your name. It is a little detail that makes a huge difference since God has chosen you with a special vocation. The title father is also a reminder that the Holy Spirit is working in you. Thanks!

Hi, thanks for following my suggestion. I will be going to visita iglesia this thursday. Maybe you can write a post on places to visit for visita iglesia in manila and around the world. It would also good to explain the unity between the eucharist and this tradition.

hi Padre Stephen, Mother Theresa is so right about her thoughts of being poor in spirit when no one loves us afterall. If i may be allowed to say more here some of my thoughts pertaining to emptyness of the heart due to unwantedness:
True enough, poverty is here. It has been here quite sometime now and it looks like it is going to stay a while longer, even forever if nothing is changed in society. But who did this to anyone anyway? It is a very practical yet complex question to be answered.

In our society today, old people tend be unnoticed. In my opinion, , they should somehow be cared for and loved more in one way or another, for they were once the leaders, the models of yesterday and still they should be treated as such. They possess the secrets of life’s struggles and battles of our forefathers’ strength, dignity, and morality so richly contained in their hearts and those promises of better tomorrow which are now here, today!

But one bad circumstance crippled society into confusion and vicious corruption. Yes it is but poverty. A condition quite rude, it manipulates man to succumb inside his own shell and propagate blasphemous notions of life. He can no longer see life in its purest sense, instead, man is directed towards false hopes, untrue emotions, derailed hearts and eventually falling down the deep dark abyss of reality. Because of poverty, old but precious family members could not be nurtured more than merely live. They get often abandoned by the younger ones, who etched profusely, for a day’s struggle to obtain a meal or two.

As the question is still left unanswered, the situation of being so poor continues. A Filipino falling below poverty line cannot answer this question, he cannot even read! Poverty mutilated the essence of life so bad he cannot eat three times a day regularly; he doesn’t have a descent place to sleep, more so work anywhere at all.

So, to whom do we direct the question ? The wealthier ones who strove hard for it or to the all-time rich group who never was poor at any time of their life and managed to stay up since? No specific people are to be blamed. Many of us (Filipinos) are victims, yes, but does it exempt us to do the right things least allow us to do badly? Either way, we must do our share. For us to attain our goals and aspirations we must think fast and do good deeds to let others feel how great it is to live wholesomely, simply but truthfully!

I can only say: God bless us all!