GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY'S LAWS vs man's lawlessness

With the recent death of another UP student the whole country is once again rocked by this sad news. Reports revealed that hazing was the cause of the death of graduating UP Bachelor of Science major in Public Administration student Chris Anthony Mendez. His name is just another addition to the growing list of victims of this culture. Likewise, the recent split in Couples For Christ sent tremors felt all over the world. Gawad Kalinga, one of CFC's tools for social change, is gravely affected.

By the looks of it, the laws made by men are being ignored...and so are the Laws of our Almighty God and Father when the outcome of these violent hazing and initiation rites result in fratwars. And in the case of CFC the result of the split affects GK and the recipients of peoples' kindness and generosity.

With Gawad Kalinga, supposedly the University of the Philippines Administration's's partner in solving these fraternity problems, now in dire straits because of the split in Couples For Christ where could students, fratmen or no fratmen who are seem to be like sitting ducks and will become new victims of this almost endless culture, go for refuge?

Gawad Kalinga's attempts to offer reforms in a sick society where fratmen could sincerely work together in harmony to go through a process of "withdrawal" from the sick frat culture of violence is now threatened by the cracks started in CFC. This situation could prove a big hindrance to all efforts of giving fratmen a genuine role model for real change and better alternatives to their energies and talents to cure their errant concept of brotherhood.


Mature fratmen should not add more salt to a gaping wound. The young aiming for graduation and a successful life after college without this dream of being tainted with unwanted baggage in their conscience is like taking care of one's marriage and good parenthood to one's children and most of all to one's own personal spiritual life. On the contrary, inviting trouble or embracing the temptations and flirtations of another round of intrigues and rumbles against rival frats is akin to having a mistress that brings all her baggage of sinfulness and idolatrous lifestyle that threatens one's being. Worst is, if these young students are recruited to replenish the ranks of "warrors" when the older ones have graduated.

In the same light, Christians involved in CFC and GK need to reexamine their spirituality and focus their minds on all the Commandments of God the Father Almighty to free them of the baggage that this rift has started and to set their minds to the real focus of their spirituality.

The burden is also much emphasized on the shoulders of fratmen who are themselves Christians. If they really love their frat brothers, a kind of love that is not shallow but according to God the Father Almighty's statutes, they have to reexamine their spirituality and work for their own spiritual enlightenment so that they could shepherd their frat brothers out of that pagan pastures controlled by wolves.

There is a lot of work to be done that real men are needed to do the job. But to be real men one needs to be spiritually enlightened. (Kindlay read JOB VACANCY)

As an inspiration, God the Father Almighty had chosen David not by his outward looks or muscular build but by the purity of his heart. This shepherd boy did not have the strength and armor of Goliath. But he was chosen as king. It was in his bloodline that Lord Jesus Christ was born humbly in a manger. Our Master allowed himself to be mocked and tortured and willingly accepted His death for the forgiveness or our sins and for our redemption. He did not die a useless death like what is happening to a lot of people in this world today.

In the fraternities now there is a mixture of memberships where religion is either present or not and co-mingling with the strong influence of regionalism and social class backgrounds. It is a tricky mix that in some ways helped solve and mend the wedge between religion, regionalism and class. But by solving these differences between members inside their group they have successfully produced another form of division wherein men of the same religion, region and class start to fight a new kind of war as they continue to nurture a kind of violent rivalry against other fraternities.

This has to end! To the sincere and strongly faithful it is not impossible because all that one needs to do is to decide and carry his cross.

Let's pray and hope that they will all finally understand that GK is fighting a different war, a war on poverty, and as people who believe in God the Father Almighty, are fighting the war against all form s of evil, especially the ones from within ourselves.