LIKE St. Dominic, Thomasians should not fear challenges in their lives, the UST parish priest said during the last of the Triduum Masses and the University celebration of the Solemnity of St. Dominic de Guzman on Thursday, Aug. 7.
In his homily at the Santisimo Rosario Parish Church, Fr. Glen Mar Gamboa, O.P., urged students to embrace struggle as a path to truth.
Gamboa said the saint was able to “dispel the darkness of ignorance” by accepting that these were part of the journey to the truth.
“He lived in a time of confusion, when many were indifferent to the Church, many wanted to topple it, many wanted to beat it and dissolve it, they did not want to follow its teachings,” he added.
By searching “for what is beautiful, for what is right, [and] for what is good and just,” Dominic succeeded in eliminating people’s ignorance.
Gamboa warned against too much gratification from instant things and avoiding struggles, such as using artificial intelligence in schoolwork.
“Where’s the struggle? Where’s the trial? Where’s the hardship? It’s because we want the fastest way. We want the instant. We do not want difficulty. We do not want to fail. We do not want to learn the right way,” he said in Filipino.
Classes and office work at the University were suspended on Tuesday, Aug. 8, in observance of St. Dominic’s feast day.
St. Dominic founded the Dominican Order in 1215 at Toulouse, France, which the Vatican approved a year later.
Missionary Dominicans carrying out the will of Fr. Miguel de Benavides, O.P., the third bishop of Manila, established UST in 1611.
