One of the things that I’ll be forever grateful for my Alma Mater, the University of Santo Tomas is that apart from equipping me with the technical competence in my field, it also brought me closer to God, it strengthened my faith and made me understand more what a true christian is.

Imbued with unending grace
“The university affirms its role in the formation of men and women to become competent and compassionate professionals committed to the service of the Church, the nation and the global community.”
The University’s mission as paraphrased by my Theology professor is, to bring to the church into whatever field of profession the student chooses. We have our own strengths and weaknesses, some are good in numbers, some excel in writing, some are gifted with passion for the preservation of culture, some are good speakers, some are very good in computers, all these various strengths and weaknesses are given by God. But it is for us to determine which we are good at, how we can further improve those innate qualities, how we’re going to use it and how we’ll use it to serve God, the one who gave it to us.
Serving God doesn’t only mean entering priesthood or being in the nunnery, we can serve him by remaining to be professionals, by pursuing our lifelong dream, we can bring the Church to the profession we choose by being Christ-centered accountants, engineers, doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers and so on. We can choose the means on how we are going to serve HIM for as long as the end is, bringing back the glory to HIM.
God gifts us with the abilities and the discernment to find out what we can do best, so in return let’s give back to HIM by serving HIM through those gifts, the cycle goes on. Imagine what kind of world we’re going to have if we all follow the cycle.