A shocking news suddenly brought up after our lunch last Friday, June 3, 2011. It was Fr. Dael who told us about the death of Dulcenar Montante, a seminarian from Butuan. We couldn’t directly believe what had happened because I personally saw him during Mass last June 1.
Then, we had our wake for him before his body be brought to their place, Kitcharao. During the wake, we had our group sharing. During our sharing, this was my realization.
I was actually expecting a joyful start of the year. But to my dismay, I was welcomed by (3) three sad events in the seminary. 1st, a burglar ransacked the seminary. Some important things from the seminarian were stolen. It seemed somehow that the seminary is no longer safe. 2nd, the father of Gogong, one of the seminarian, died. 3rd, seminarian Dulcenar died with a mysterious disease. The 3rd one gave great impact to all of us. He died inside the seminary. It actually affected us all. Because of this, I realized three important things: 1st, life is too short and unpredictable. We will never know when will be our time. So we need to spend out time wisely. Maximize every second of our life on this earth. 2nd, it made me realize that we need to take care of ourselves. We need to be conscious of our health. 3rd, we need to take care of our vocation. According to Fr. Raul, “it takes 2 people to form a person but it takes a thousand people to form a priest.” People will be affected if ever there will be a tragedy or bad things that may happen to a seminarian. So what happened to Dulcenar is a great loss for the Church. He was a potential priest-to-be.
In general, I’m still shocked with the events. I’m so sad to the family especially to his parents. So, it is important to pray for them that they may able to move on in their lives.
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