University of St. Joseph (USJ), Macao – May 09, 2013. Fr. Fausto Gomez, O.P. just finished today the last talk of his four-talk series. Organized weekly on Thursday evenings within the USJ’s academe, at the Speaker’s Hall, this academic activity is an effective way that helps the intellectual correctly respond to the Church’s present invitation for the Year of Faith.
Beginning on April 18 with the first talk on virtues, Fr. Fausto discussed their relevance in today’s society and, quoting the Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, he exhorted the audience to treat virtues “in the light of divine revelation†(GS. 44). A week after, in the second talk, Fr. Fausto went to a specific topic of virtue, concerning human life directly – Bioethics, when he reminded the audience that we are but servants of life and our duty is to promote it, “from the moment of conception until [natural] death†(CCC. 2319). He then arrived on the third talk at the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which is the compass of Catholic ethics and values; he emphasized on the option for the poor this time. The fourth talk was about Peace and Peacemaking. Again, “in the light of divine revelation,†Fr. Fausto saw that all kinds of human peace could only be possible on firm ground of our peaceful relationship with God, with our self and with our neighbors. For Christians, Jesus – the proclaimed “prince of peace†(Isaiah 9:5) – is the perfect model of a peacemaker (cf. Ephesians 2:14-17; Matthew 5:9).
Ending the series of talks, Fr. Fausto, citing Dr. Robert Muller’s “Decide to Network,†recapped that we are all interconnected and that we need to love in order to live happily.
Use every letter you write
Every conversation you have
Every meeting you attend
To express your fundamental beliefs and dreams
Affirm to others the VISION of the world you want
Network through thought Network through action
Network through love Network through spirit
You are the CENTRE of a network
You are the CENTRE of the world
You are a free and immensely powerful source of life and goodness
AFFIRM IT – SPREAD IT – RADIATE IT
Think day and night about it
And you will see a miracle happen:
THE GREATNESS OF YOUR OWN LIFE
In a world of big powers, media and monopolies…
But of six billion individuals
NETWORKING IS THE NEW FREEDOM
THE NEW DEMOCRACY
A NEW FORM OF HAPPINESS.
Joining in with him offering all of the dedication and hard work in the past four weeks to Our Mother the whole audience stood up singing Salve Regina.