Its the time again when we reflect at the year almost gone by, and to contemplate what's ahead in the next year. The recollection of experiences could take us on a critical discourse as we mark the passing of the seasons. 

The passed two years were truly unprecedented due the covid-19 pandemic. No other time in our generation have made us more aware of our vulnerabilities and to face our own mortality. Among us confronted the harsh realities that treathend life and livelihood. 

Amidst the setbacks and grief by the series of passing in our family, we remain optimistic. Hope afterall is the message of Christmas. We are sustained by the promises fortold in the birth of Christ which we celebrate today. While a chapter ends, a new one begins. Amazing how life continous to unfold! Life consistently renews! 

A meaningful Christmas to all! 

📷With my newborn nephew, Neo Xavier, who arrived just in time as a symbol of hope and renewal for our family. 💗

- Dan Quetulio Brizuela

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For Christians, Christmas is not a mere commemoration of Christ's birth. It is the foreshadow of the greater event, that is His second coming to establish the absolute reign of the Kingdom of the Almighty God. Have a blessed Christmas season to all!

- Dan Quetulio Brizuela

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 Never in this generation has made us aware of our mortality than during this pandemic. We have seen too much death in no other time, and among us have experienced the lost of dear family, friends and colleagues. The observance of “Undas” hence has never been as remarkable and meaningful to most of us during the past two years of the COVID-19. 

Beyond the dictates of popular piety, our observance beckons us to reflect on the essentials of life and death. We contemplate deeply the sense of our own longings and vulnerabilities engulf in a constant stream of joyful, despairing, confusing and triumphal experiences. In every contradiction we search for meanings and in the void we struggle to find the purpose for living. 

We could exhaust all the energy and elements of living, live a full life or squander the moments, the ultimate choice is upon us. Each life then shall never be discounted, whether be it short or long. How one spent the time allotted here shall be the price of the life beyond. - Dan Quetulio Brizuela 

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Eternal life is truly the greatest enigma. Mankind is forever struggling to decipher this abstract. While most religions in fact were founded on this quest for an afterlife, the more humanistic ideologies have repudiated this notion. Here, the esoterics and existentialists were caught in a pointless discourse to prove or belies. Amidst the diversity of thought, daresay, curiosity would be lethal, albeit foolish, to prove it or otherwise. 

Yet, it gives credence to look towards a life beyond here. This is to make sense of our mortality. It must be the ultimate wage at how a life has been lived. It could be strange to be good or evil in this temporal realm if at the end there's only nothingness. I find this void absurd and nonsensical than the aspiration for eternal bliss or fear of lasting damnation. The soul afterall is inclined to limitless capacity and is free to wonder. It hence would be worthless to project a being of free will and substance if none of it would eventually matter.

This belief in eternity fundamentally appeals to the moral fiber that corresponds to the need of humanity for a just and kinder civilization. The will to be just or vile shall be accounted sooner or later in an enmesh destiny. In this mystery, the essence of life is eventually engulf in an everlasting constellation that only faith foresees. 

- Dan Quetulio Brizuela 

   Easter 2021

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Sin is not a mere religious or theological concept. It is the adverse condition of being that confounds the collective order in practical reality. 

While the spiritual consequences of sin may be argued, its actual disruption is undeniable in personal and social exerience. Beyond the mystical remittance, it elicits a confirmed reaction that exhaust the just and ethical component of our existence.

Attonement and forgiveness hence offer relief to sin. Whether it be of divine or human cause, these are imperative to constantly repair the perpetual ravages of sin towards a sustainable life of inner peace and communal harmony.

- Dan Quetulio Brizuela

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