FOOD TO FAILURES; FRIENDSHIP TOWARDS THE UNFRIENDLY; SALVATION TO SINNERS
3 rd Sunday Easter (B) April 22, 2012 I don’t know whether being sort of failures in this rat-race world, as the Philippines, apparently is, has to do with believing. I don’t know whether being low on the economic ladder necessarily translates to being high on the belief scale. But as every student of research knows, correlation does not necessarily mean causation, and poverty, or being collective failures in the political and economic scene, ought not be taken as the cause of our very high belief index. A recent US write-up puts the United States and the Philippines as among the countries who believe most in God, with the former at 81 per cent, and the latter at 94 per cent. The US have had a long history of prosperity. The Philippines have had a long story of collective poverty and political pain. The overwhelming majority of both countries claim to believe in God. Why do I write about this on this third Sunday of Easter? Simple … the Gospel passage from Luke, wh...