Forget the gobblygook: it's the duties of our daily lives

Philipine cultures is family oriented, so God is part of the family: Father God, Kuya Jesus and Mama Mary. The Black Nazarene procession is a way to identify our suffering with that of Christ, and El Nino is a way to see the importance of children.

 Well, anyway, Father Bing (!) puts things into perpective for ordinary folks who just want to serve God in their ordinary lives.

This idea is old of course: But reintroduced into the church by a saint called the Little Flower, who saw doing ordinary things of duty with love was the best way to serve God.

Or as the Hindu saint told a woman who came to him saying she no longer could do rituals because she no longer believed in God, was asked who she loved, and she said her husband and family. So he told her: So for you God is your husband, God is your family.

Those of us who learned about the faith pre Vatican II knew this: We were put on the world to know love and serve God, and to love our neighbor as ourself.

Hmm...didn't that sardonic Jewish carpenter say that once?

Well, anyway, here is old fashioned Catholicism without the gobbly gook.

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