A. Human Condition
"The chaplain finally said, 'No more new groups!' Filipino religiosity is a fact here in Rome. However, it also reveals a malady that weakens these otherwise lively, spiritual people. We tend to disintegrate into SPLINTER communities because of misunderstandings and diverse grudges or animosities towards each other.
This illness progressed into a 'plague' when 10 or more groups began to pop up like crazy and each with a horror story to tell and axes to grind.
When the Lord spoke of his body and blood as true food and true drink to be eaten and drunk, the followers began to distance from him...."
B. Divine Intervention
" 'What kept you in the community after all these years?' I asked one community member of many, many years. She narrated her struggles and pains in and outside the community but concluded, 'Nandito po ang Panginoon!' Call it cliche, corny or cheesy but didn't Peter say of it as well? I think the question should have been, 'WHO kept you in the community after all these years?'"
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