Cardinal Rosales appeals for more ‘discipline’, ‘sacrifice’

Gaudencio Cardinal Borbon Rosales

Function: Archbishop of Manila

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Birthdate: Aug 10, 1932	Country: Philippines

Elevated: Mar 24, 2006	More information: [link=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/brosg.html][www.catholic-hierarchy.org]

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Cardinal Rosales appeals for more ‘discipline’, ‘sacrifice’
Jan 01, 2007
Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales appealed for more discipline and sacrifice from Filipinos.

(ABS-CBN, January 1, 2007) In his New Year’s message, Rosales said that these two traits are the keys to national progress.

“National progress is not a matter of debate, competition or fame seeking. Nations that had broken the barriers of impoverishment and disunity showed us that the price for unity and progress is discipline and sacrifice,” he said.

“Without doubt the only way to proceed to a common goal is for absolutely everyone to make a sacrifice of one’s individual or group ambition”, he added.

Rosales also said that tragedies in 2006 must not discourage Filipinos, but instead “challenge” them.

“Another way of looking at New Year is to take time as a challenge and not as a comparison with the past as a score of events, mostly sad and bad,” he said.

“If we look back at the calamities of the past year—both natural and man-made—questions like, ‘did we deserve all these’ or ‘are we that hopeless’ keep bothering us,” he added.

Rosales stressed that with each new year comes new opportunities.

“The New Year is made up of newly created opportunities wherein we can start anew; wherein we can come together in a common desire, shared by both the rich and the poor, the strong and the weak, the learned and the less educated, in order to arrive at a better and united community of citizens and believers in any faith,” he said.

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