I listened to the Wongs

Harry K. Wong and Rosemary T. Wong, authors of The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher, came to Manila. I had the chance to listen to them on July 28, 2012. I was lucky to get a free-ticket from Dualtech to attend the couple's presentation.

We arrived at the venue early enough to get well-placed seats. I was surprised there were so many coming in: I was told about two thousand came for the morning session alone.

My understanding of capital sins

I read a part of point 407 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC): 

"Ignorance of the fact that man has a wounded nature inclined to evil gives rise to serious errors in the areas of education, politics, social action and morals."

It made me think how the sin of our first parents, Adam and Eve, affects our day-to-day living.

I also read in the CCC the resultant condition of our human nature after the Fall (cf. 405, CCC):

1. Wounded in the natural powers proper to human nature;
2. Subject to ignorance;
3. Subject to suffering;
4. Subject to the dominion of death; and
5. Inclined to sin - an inclination to evil that is called "concupiscence".