By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has deputized barangay officials to help in the monitoring and reporting of the conduct of all election activities to ensure that it complies with the minimum health standards and protocols. Atty. Robert Salazar, Comelec provincial election supervisor in Negros Occidental, said today, February 8, will …
Monthly Archives: February 2022
12 NegOcc LGUs ‘areas of concern’
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Negros Occidental has identified 12 local government units (LGUs) in Negros Occidental under “areas of concern” for the upcoming May 2022 National and Local Elections. Comelec Negros Occidental elections supervisor, Atty. Roberto Salazar, said they identified the LGUs based on the available parameters and …
Vacationer drowns to death in Lakawon island
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A vacationer was declared dead-on-arrival at the hospital after he drowned at the Lakawon island resort, part of Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, on Saturday, February 5. Authorities identified the fatality as John Louie Espida, a resident of Libertad in Bacolod City. Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Northern Negros Occidental station commander …
Actually, more than what stirs our passions the most, the question to ask should be who makes us most passionate? If we are just passionate about things, certainly we are still very far from the ideal. And even if we are very passionate about some persons, we would still be missing the mark. Who should make us most passionate is none other than God himself, who is truth, goodness and beauty himself. He is the proper, ultimate and constant object that should stir our feelings, emotions and passions. If we are not yet there, then let’s do something about it. We should extricate ourselves from a condition that is not quite proper for us. Let’s remember that our passions play an important role in our life and in our relation with others, especially with God. As our Catechism defines them, our emotions and passions are “movements of the sensitive appetite that incline us to act or not to act in regard to something felt or imagine to be good or evil.” (1763) As such, we can say that our emotions and passions play an important and crucial role in our life, since they somehow determine our actions and behavior that show and develop who we are. Are we just a natural being, like the animals and plants, or are we rational persons with spiritual faculties and meant to have a supernatural goal? We need to see to it that our emotions and passions should reinforce our identity and dignity as persons, made in the image and likeness of God, made children of his through his grace, and meant to participate in the very life of God. Our emotions and passions which are an integral part of our humanity are not excluded from our overall goal to be God-like. We would be God-like in our definitive state of life in heaven with our emotions and passions still intact and used to the hilt. Our emotions and passions serve as a link between our body and soul that are the constituent components of our humanity. We are not spiritual souls only. Our spiritual soul always goes with its corresponding body with its emotions and passions. In heaven and in eternity as it is here on earth and in time, we would still be having emotions and passions. Thus, we need to educate our emotions and passions in such a way that they work for what is clearly our ultimate end. They should not be allowed to just develop at the instance of our hormones and instincts, nor by the many other blind or short-sighted impulses and trends in our social, cultural, economic, or political environment. They need to be reined in, to be guided and given proper direction. Obviously, the guiding principles for the education of our emotions and passions should be our faith, hope and charity which truly define us as a person and a child of God. They indicate to us our true dignity that should be affirmed also by our emotions and passions. This is what we should be doing all the time. We have to be wary of our tendency to give them away to whatever stimulus comes our way. We also have to be wary of falling victim to the false reasoning that by educating our emotions and passions at the instance of our faith, hope and charity, would make us less human, less manly, and ideas of that sort. What is most certain is that our faith, hope and charity, our intimate relationship with God developed in our spiritual and supernatural dimensions of our life, would only make our humanity purer and perfected, and elevated gratuitously to the supernatural level which is what God wants for us. Let’s remember that if our emotions and passions are not stirred by our attraction to God as they are by the earthly things, they would not be used in the proper way. God should be who should make us passionate the most!/WDJ
Two farmer associations in Bacolod City received checks worth P70,000 each as financial assistance from the city government in simple rites held at Hacienda Gonzaga in Barangay Mansilingan on Sunday, February 6. The Manayaosayao Farm Workers Association and Hacienda Gonzaga Beneficiary Association are agrarian reform beneficiaries. Association presidents Felipe Dela Torre and Rosita Osorio said …
What stirs our passions the most?
Our emotions and passions serve as a link between our body and soul that are the constituent components of our humanity. We are not spiritual souls only. Our spiritual soul always goes with its corresponding body with its emotions and passions. In heaven and in eternity as it is here on earth and in time, …
Gearing up new youth programs
We recently chaired a Senate Committee on Youth public hearing on measures that we believe could have a tremendous impact on young Filipinos, many of whom, for the past two years, have spent a considerable portion of their time indoors, and isolated from crowds and gatherings. For sure, the pandemic has yet to end. But …
Cuarto repeats over Taduran, keeps IBF world title
By Adrian Stewart Co Rene Mark Cuarto retained his IBF world mini-flyweight championship following a technical majority decision over Pedro Taduran on Sunday night at Digos City Gymnasium. Both fighters showed aggressiveness in the entire bout until it was stopped midway in the seventh frame as Taduran suffered a cut from an accidental headbutt. After the …
Embiid Dindin solid in debut, Nakhon wins in volley Thai league
By Adrian Stewart Co Dindin Santiago-Manabat had a solid debut as Nakhon Ratchasima QminC import as they defeated 3BB Nakornnont, 25-17, 25-15, 25-22, in the 2021-22 Volleyball Thailand League on Sunday at the Nimibutr Stadium in Bangkok. The Chery Tiggo Crossovers star made her presence felt in her first as Nakhon Ratchasima QminC’s import as …
PCG has new station commander in northern NegOcc
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) station in northern Negros Occidental has a new commander. Effective February 5, 2022, Commander Joe Luviz Mercurio was designated as the new station commander of PCG Station in northern Negros Occidental. Mercurio replaced Captain Ludovico Librilla, who has been reassigned to the Coast Guard District Western Visayas (CGDWV) in Iloilo …
Bacolod EOC augments Bago City vaccinators
The national and regional vaccination operations centers requested the Bacolod Emergency Operations Center (EOC)-Task Force to augment manpower to neighboring Bago City to fast-track its vaccination campaign against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Bago City Health Officer, Dr. Ferdinand Ramon Mayoga, explained that while the city maintains its efforts to facilitate the implementation of vaccination activities …