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ON MY FIRST OBEDIENCE
January 11, 2007 (Friday). I received my first obedience from our Provincial Superior. Anxiety mixed with anticipation consumed me as I await the “verdict.” Pondering on these feelings more deeply, it reveals a struggle against obedience, the traces of wanting to be in control when obedience would rather ask for a surrender of the will. Yet, I am happy and satisfied with the obedience I received. I wonder how it is, if it were otherwise.
PREPARING FOR THE UNIVERSA
There are six treatises and sixty theses to commit to memory, not including the comprehensive interconnectedness of one thought after the other, as well as the synthesis of each treatise and the entire Thomistic philosophy. There are six weeks or forty-five days more to go before the day of reckoning. Yet, I still don’t feel the pressure that much, although I have been diligently studying these past few days upon return from vacation. I am so fired up probably due to the good news of my obedience. Our Postnovitiate motto has now a face: Pro vobis studeo.
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