Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (Jansen Romero / MANILA BULLETIN / FILE PHOTO)
In his Christmas message whicu was posted by the Pontificio Collegio Filippino on their Facebook page Wednesday, Tagle said they are far away from home not only to earn a living but also to be missionaries.
“Isn’t it perhaps that God has guided us out of the Philippines, not only to earn a living, but also to be missionaries?” said the former Manila archbishop.
“We can ask ourselves: who among my family or friends or co-workers can I bring closer to Jesus today? How can I help them discover Jesus coming to us, not only this Christmas but each day, in our prayers, the people we meet and the ordinary events of our life?” added Tagle.
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+ December 17, 2020 FOR obvious reasons, non-essential activities are not allowed while we are in the throes of a pandemic. So why are we doing the traditional dawn masses? These are not essential activities of either our physical or spiritual life? Dawn masses are fringe practices of Catholics in countries that Spain colonized. They do not happen in the rest of the Catholic world.
During Spanish colonial times, the Indios, “us,” slaved away in farms of our Spanish conquerors that were once our ancestral lands. As farmers still do today, our ancestors worked the fields early after dawn to avoid the late morning sun’s scorching heat.