Do you know the feeling when you have professors who were Ambassadors --one a former Ambassador to Japan , Sri Lanka, and Maldives, the other, a former Consul-General in Lebanon, the Levant! he would say--whom you have experienced offloading to you the questions asked by your classmates during Lecture and, outside the classroom, during casual conversations, and even assenting to your classmates suggestion that one time you should be given the chance of lecturing in your professors stead; or a Professor--who is an AB Spanish Language Alumnus with Honor from San Juan de Letran, from the aristorcratic Umali Clan of Batangas, one of whose children was Top-7 in the Pharmacy Board Exam and former UNILAB President--who forbade you to participate in the recitations for the flattering reason that he was already quite sure that you knew the answers and that all you had to do was to obtain high grades in the exams, otherwise, his confidence would be in vain, but whose real reason I think was the flippant comment of my classmates that when I recite: Talo si Sir! Hindi si Sir ang teacher kundi si-- ;or a professor in Filipino Language who when he asked you what other course you are planning to take after finishing the one you were taking, and having received the answer: Education Sir, I want to teach someday, jestingly dissuaded you by saying Huwag! di bagay sa iyo ang course na EDUCATION! Dapat sa iyo DEANSHIP!; or a professor who in one of the recitations appeared to be so intimidated by the the things which gushed forth from your mouth that your seatmates, concerned about his professorial dignity frantically told you: Tama na... ; or a conversation with a former Lady Professora from UP--former CBCP spokesperson, who is an AB Philosophy Alumna summa cum laude of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas in the 60s when the Colleges curriculum was still patterned after that of the Uiversidad Central de Madrid at the time of the Professors Ariston and his sister Estela Estrada, the two-time Palanca Awardee for Poetry Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, and Delfina (not Josefina) Gonzales, who has a Doctorate Degree in Romes Angelicum University, had several audiences with the late Blessed John Paul II at the Vatican, and had the honor of singing the Tagalog version of the Ave Maria at the College of Papal Nuncios in Rome, granddaughter of Ambassador Modesto Farolan, and nephew of Ambassador Major-General Ramon Farolan--who told you, after more than an hour of very enjoyable, indeed, laughing evening conversation while seated inside the Courtyard of the Parish Church, when she learned of your more than ten-year research on the Problem of the Hermeneutics of Reform Continuity, a problem that the Rector Emeritus of the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Lateran University complained in a book, published three years ago, was as difficult as climbing upon mirrors!: You should enter the Seminary! With your knowledge of the Magisterium, mas magaling ka pa sa mga Professors mo! Even they wouldnt know those things! I tell you, if you enter the seminary, you will be a sensation! You will be a sensation. You wil be a sensation! in such a loud voice so that the other people present, two of whom are my crushes, might hear!...? Do you know the feeling which surged in me in those moments?... If you have no idea of how it felt in those times of almost ethereal delight, because Omnipotent Love had not let you experienced those things, which admittedly are rarely experienced by the youth of my generation--though I gravely doubt that you are so handicapped by lack of first-hand experience that you really cant form an ideae for yourself--I will give you a word which is the nearest I can grope for to describe the unforgettable yet almost ineffable feeling of those hours: the one Latin Word MIRABILIS--INEFFABLY MARVELOUS!... THANK YOU, LORD!...
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