Veronica Mae M.

Genegaling 3 BS Civil Engineering April 28, 2014

ANG PINAKATATAGONG LIHIM NG SIMBAHAN
MAGIS. That is one of our goals being an Atenean. In our stay in Ateneo, we are taught
of doing more. We are being exposed on those things we dont know yet. We get out in our
comfort zones. We see much beyond our expectations. We understand the world outside.
Indeed, theres more to know and perhaps, theres no such thing as boundary in here. And
what we think of who we are is not the transcendent truth because knowing who we are is a
process. It takes time and doesnt settle. There will always be more.

Watching the documentation keeps me a keen observer searching of what is really the
hidden secret of the Church. It was only until the credits I understand it. It was hard for me.
Most probably, the thing that hinders me of doing so is because I didnt look beyond the
message of it; that I settle for less, and didnt try going beyond to what is more. I used to
understand the Church as a way of knowing God, that every Sunday, people are obliged to
attend mass. But after the film, I got to know better who really the Church is. I think of Church
as a place where people solemnly pray, not with the same person like us, but with the One and
Only God. But I was wrong. The Church I know is just the Church I see with my two eyes, and
the real Church I am always blind to see, is the Church that should be felt by the heart. I see
Church as sacred place only, but the Church is also a companion. And the last idea I am wrong
once again is that, Church because of these revelations, is becoming more than itself, but what
is true is that THE CHURCH IS JUST BEING ITSELF.

Simplicity. That is what I always want to put in my mind. But living in the Contemporary
Period makes it hard for me to practice. When I get to be in the real world, I see people having
all the inventions, updated every second of what is the latest, and making me forget to live
simple. I tend to be like them, acquiring everything as much as possible as I expect I could be
happy, but I couldnt. Being in this world only show me the advance one but made me blind of
those left behind. What is being happy if there are others who are sad? What is having more if
others only have less? What is living with everything but still ask for more, than living simple
with contentedness? MAGIS should not only live on our hearts but to others as well. To be
more is to do more. Sometimes, the true happiness lies when we seek it in others than from our
own selves.