De Gustibus...

I wasn't able to attend to this blog for some time since the last days had me immersed in certain things pertaining to my work here in the seminary as Dean of Students. I had to prepare an important document concerning the case of a certain student who was dismissed for certain grounds and it took me practically the whole working day to come up with the whole of its six pages. It was very illustrative of the case and i may say that i never knew that i could be capable of coming up with such a legal document. I;m toying with the possibility that perhaps I may have a legal frame of mind. Anyway, yesterday I was able to relay the said document and the necessary documents that come with it to the recipient, and I guess that quite handles the case (of course I won't be telling what the case is all about in here). In the afternoon I helped some of my colleagues in hearing the confessions of some high school seniors who were having their pre-graduation recollection at the Eastern Visayas Normal University. Need I remind you that we're in the season of Lent, and we priests help each other out in one's ministry, anyway, it's all for the Lord.

Concerning my plan about buying myself a motorcycle, I've heard negative comments concerning the whole idea. Come cited it as being dangerous adn unfitting to my priestly status. I've mentioned in one of my earlier blogs how the Rector discouraged me from having one. This week my Archbishop, who is a father to me, also told me that he was not amenable to the idea of my having one, though he didn't forbid me from having one. He told me that he wasn't sold out to the idea because of what happened to one of his best friends back then, who was also a priest, and who was killed in a vehicular accident involving a motorcycle. Then when I went to have my monthly haircut my barber told me the same thing.

But anyway, at supper with some of the formators at table I broached the subject once again. Fr. Oliver, who is the Academic Dean of Studies, himself a young priest barely seven years in the ministry, told me that it could be ok fo as long as it would be used in the surrounding vicinity (Tacloban-Palo-Tanauan and the nearby barrios) but never to faraway places since it would be really dangerous and even fatal. "Pater" (Latin for Father, a term we usually address ourselves among the young clergy), remember, no one could ever force you to do otherwise if it's your wish and included among your tastes, though of course, four wheels are preferable to two and it's much safer. Just be doubly careful...Remember, de gustibus non disputantur..when it comes to one's tastes, provided that they are legitimate, other's may not hold it against you".

Yep, I think that kinda clears things for me, but I think I'll still let things mature before I make the decision to proceed. Not that this would by first bike (I've had my first when I was still in high school), but you know, it's quite a lot of money to waste on an ephemeral whim...

de gustibus non disputantur....