You plan to move to the Philippines? Wollen Sie auf den Philippinen leben?

There are REALLY TONS of websites telling us how, why, maybe why not and when you'll be able to move to the Philippines. I only love to tell and explain some things "between the lines". Enjoy reading, be informed, have fun and be entertained too!

Ja, es gibt tonnenweise Webseiten, die Ihnen sagen wie, warum, vielleicht warum nicht und wann Sie am besten auf die Philippinen auswandern könnten. Ich möchte Ihnen in Zukunft "zwischen den Zeilen" einige zusätzlichen Dinge berichten und erzählen. Viel Spass beim Lesen und Gute Unterhaltung!


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Saturday, December 4, 2021

Miracles more for our salvation than mere cure


By Fr. Roy Cimagala *

          THAT beautiful gospel episode about a man with palsy who was

brought to Christ by his friends for a cure in a very dramatic way

(cfr. Lk 5,17-26) teaches us the lessons that a strong faith is needed

for miracles to happen, that miracles are meant more to forgive our

sins and for our salvation rather than just curing an ailment, and

that we have to be wary of our tendency to be fault-finders due to our

unbelief.


          Indeed, miracles require a strong faith since they are an

extraordinary divine and supernatural intervention. They are like

asking God to go beyond but not against our natural capabilities that

will always be hounded by our limitations, weaknesses and the

consequences of our sins.


          God never abandons us and is always solicitous of our needs.

The problem is simply ours because we tend to ignore him and, worse,

to be weak in our faith or even not to have faith. We need to do

something to address this predicament of ours. Let’s study the

doctrine of faith, start to live it by making many acts of faith

throughout the day, etc.


          Let’s remember that if we have faith, Christ assured us that

nothing would be impossible. Let’s relish his words: “If you have

faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain,

Remove from there, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be

impossible to you.” (Mt 17,20)


          Also, we have to realize more deeply that miracles are meant

more for the forgiveness of our sins, for our salvation, rather than

just giving us some cure or remedy to an ailment of ours.


          In fact, we can say that any miraculous cure is meant for

the purpose of our salvation. It’s not just to give us some earthly

relief, though there is no doubt that such relief would already

constitute a tremendous favor. We should never miss this aspect of a

miracle that can come to us, otherwise that miracle would go to waste

or would spoil us.


          In this particular gospel episode of the man with the palsy,

Christ did not immediately cure him of his ailment. Rather he forgave

the man’s sins which led to some of the unbelieving Jews to question

him. Christ used that occasion to clarify that he has the power to

forgive sins, precisely because he is God who became man to save us.

The miraculous cure served as some kind of proof to his divinity.




          We also have to be wary of our tendency to be unbelieving,

especially because we have to contend with spiritual and supernatural

realities that may challenge our understanding. Here, we simply have

to be humble to be able to receive what is told to us by faith. We

have to realize that our life, being a life with God and therefore is

supernatural, needs to be lived by faith more than just by our reason

alone.




          We have to constantly struggle against our tendency to be

dependent only on our reason and our feelings. These human faculties

of ours can only capture a part of the reality that governs us. It is

the faith that gives us the global picture of things, since it relates

us to God, our Father and Creator, and tells us everything we need to

know and do to be able to be with God, as our life ought to be.


* Chaplain Center for Industrial Technology and Enteprise (CITE), Talamban, Cebu City

Email: roycimagala@gmail.com