The truth about truth is in the hearing

By Al S. Mendoza

(My gratitude to Ms Josie Palisoc of the provincial capitol for her much-valued assistance when I needed it most.  May her tribe increase.)

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THE following is from “The Passion of the Christ,” the Mel Gibson film which took the world by storm some years back.

I quote the following from Fr. Manny de Leon, SVD (Baguio City).

Pilate to Jesus: Are you the King?

Jesus: That is why I was born to give testimony to the truth. All men who hear the truth hear my voice.

Pilate: Truth! What is truth?

After Jesus was taken out of Pilate’s presence came this compelling encounter between Pilate and his wife, Claudia.

Pilate:  What is truth, Claudia?  Do you hear it, recognize it when it is spoken?

Claudia: Yes, I do. Don’t you?

Pilate:  How?  Can you tell me?

Claudia:  If you will not hear the truth, no one can tell you!

End of conversation.

To hear is one thing, to listen is another.

You can hear me maybe, but if you don’t listen to the words I say, you hear nothing.

Also, you can read every word that I write, but if you pay no attention to the sentences, you understand nothing.

If you will not understand the truth, no one can explain it to you.

Today being Easter Sunday, all of Christendom professes to the veracity of the truth that this day stands for the conquest of death as proven by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

With eyes closed, truth could be non-existent.

Open your eyes, and there is no truth that you will not hear.

Close your heart, and all truth is blocked.

Thus, it is never difficult to believe if we are willing to listen.

And the truth is, almost every candidate, presidential or otherwise, over-spends.

Candidates guilty of overspending say otherwise because they refuse to hear the truth.

Listen: Manny Villar’s brother, Danny, had died without medical help because Manny Villar had said so.

The truth is, Danny died of leukemia at the Far Eastern U hospital in 1960 – when chemotherapy and other medications for leukemia were still non-existent.

FEU Hospital records say so.

I had known about it even before my friend, Billy Esposo, had written about it in his Star column last week.

As a kid, Manny Villar had lived in a shanty?

The records say otherwise.

As a kid, Villar and his 8 siblings had lived in a house standing on a 560-sq m lot not far from the bowels of Tondo, Manila.

If we ignore truth, we are as blind as bats at daytime.

So, believe in Claudia: If you can not hear the truth, no one can tell you.

And as Jesus said to Pilate: All men who hear the truth hear my voice.

Seemingly, not all men are capable of hearing the truth.

Happy Easter!

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