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"Pedagogy Toward Christ" (Ps 127:1-5). 5th Wk. Ord.

O blessed are those who fear the Lord.

#gabitaykoRefEd (Luigi Giussani 1)

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“What I grasped most covetously in my clenched fist came apart like the rose under the vault of eternity. . .the more so for what I most treasured.” The more one loves, the more he needs Christ, because Christ saves what man loves, forever. At least from this point of view, we have to accept Him. Either we love nothing or, the more we love, the more Christ is necessary to safeguard what we love, to maintain what we love, otherwise we lose it. The day after tomorrow it’s gone. —Luigi Giussani

"Pedagogy Toward Christ" (Ps. 8:4-9). 5th Wk. Ord.

How great is your name, O Lord our God, through all the earth!

Circumstances: Looking at the Newspapers, 2/12/19 (Local)

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Here and Now with Francis: 2/12/19 (John the Baptist, love)

From a homily Pope Francis described hatred as “Satan’s breath”, saying it is very powerful, capable of doing everything excepting loving. “Life,” the Pope explained, “has value only in giving it, in giving it in love, in truth, in giving it to others, in daily life, in the family.” If someone preserves life for himself, guards it like the king in his corruption or the woman with her hatred, or the daughter with her vanity, a little like an adolescent, unknowingly, life dies and withers, becoming useless. The Pope concluded urging all to think about the 4 characters in the Gospel and to open our hearts so that the Lord may speak to us about this.   [link]

Circumstances: Looking at the Newspapers, 2/12/19 (International)

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Nikkei Asian Review ,   "Election risks reigniting Philippines inflation: Failure to fix economic bottlenecks leaves country vulnerable to price pressure" What might Milton Friedman make of the Philippines today? The Nobel economist popularized the theory that inflation is "always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon." Since the 1960s, his argument that demand for money controlled all prices won converts from London to Tokyo. Look no further than the Bank of Japan's deflation battle and you see the American's outsized influence 12 years after his death. But events in Manila show that even the great man was not always right. Last month, President Rodrigo Duterte's team demanded that the Manila central bank explain why the nation suffers the highest inflation in Southeast Asia. Though price pressures cooled in late 2018, the 5.2% annualized rate far exceeded the 2.9% gain in 2017. The response from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas was to say to Dutert...

"Pedagogy Toward Christ" (Ps. 103). 5th Wk. Ord.

May the Lord rejoice in his works!