Dear Megaworld

Dear Megaworld,

Every night, between 8 PM to 9 PM, I am welcomed by more than 3 dozen commuters waitng in line for transportation service just outside Eastwood. We are compelled to stand for 30 minutes to an hour before we can be accomodated. If we dont have an umbrella, we have to endure getting wet by the heavy rain because we only have the sky above our heads. We are forced to inhale the polluted air of C5 while waiting. We are sometimes yelled at by the ill tempered 'barker' and/or driver. And so many other additional misfortunes that commuters experience on a daily basis. This is just my personal experience. Others may be experiencing worse. I refuse to be treated this way. 

We, the commuters, are not only the employees of the companies that rent your office buildings. We represent the workforce that sustains your business. We dine at your restaurants, shop at your malls, watch movies at your cinemas, unwine at your pubs. We patronize your business. We contribute to your earnings. We enable you to grow. We give life to your business.

Please return us the same courtesy by at least setting up a decent terminal for commuters. Please treat us the way we should be treated. Treat us human.

PS:

I wrote this while standing in line under the rain together with a dozen or two people waiting for a van. This is not right.

Antithesis of Love

The Vatican II council revolutionized the Roman Catholic faith. Before it, the Church was viewed as a supreme authority lead by the Pope whose words are taken as if coming from God himself. Vatican II emphasized the Church as a "very imperfect, unfinished reality". Pre-Vatican II church sees priests as sacred individuals, who are being treated as a special caste in society. Post Vatican II church now sees priests as ordinary individuals, capable of sin. The church is no longer consists of priests and bishops alone, but of the whole faith community.

Thus, in a post Vatican II era, it is disgusting to see a video of a priest berating an unwed mother during the baptism of her child. However, now that he has asked for forgiveness, as Catholics we must learn to understand and forgive a sinner like us. While we must continue to intensely protest such arrogance of some members of the clergy, we must not make hasty generalizations that all priests share the same attitude. 

I hope that Catholics like myself do not make the wrong interpretation that this issue is a proof that all priests are closed minded and are not willing to understand. 

Most of all, I hope that the priests can a find an effective way to deliver the good news, without making violent judgement especially to those who are lost. 

The message of God is all about love. Passing judgement to the sins of others is the antithesis of love.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/regions/07/08/14/nakakahiya-ito-what-cebu-priest-said-unwed-mother