Rizal: Ang Mamatay ng Dahil Sa'yo

Ngayon ay malapit na uling matapos ang second semester.. sa aking curriculum, ay bahagyang "misplaced" ang subject na Rizal.

Nung highschool pa namin ito nai take. kanyang kaunting talambuhay, mga nagawa, naging syota, kung kelan sya ipinanganak, sino mga kapatid nya, ano ang kanyang mga tula, sino sina Gomburza, at bakit, kelan sya pinatay. Ganon na lang ng ganon. 

Nakakasawa. Bilang estudyanteng Pilipino, nakakasawa ang istilo ng pagtuturo ng subject naRizal unless major mo ito. Lintek kang source book ka. Ikaw na marahil ang pinakawalang kwentang materyales na hawak ng aming professor na mukha na ring ugat. Hindi malayong kabisado mo na ang nilalaman ng librong yon. Malamang, iyon at iyon lang din naman ang alam mo. No good to me.

I have read a portion of another source book. Why need to study Rizal in college pa? anu un? take two?

"Few students today know that the compulsory Rizal course they detest so much is due in large part of Recto. In the University of the Philippines, the Rizal course is coded as PI 100 or Philippine Institution 100, and I often hear it said that PI 100 actually means "P*t*ng In* 100". I don't blame them, because the main reason I agreed to teach this course way back in 1986 at De La Salle University was I didn't like the way it was taught to me and I had promised myself that my students will have an "alternative" way of dealing with Rizal in our past.

You cannot help but notice the resistance of students to the Rizal course on the first day of class -they make you feel how very useless they feel it in their lives. Then add to this the prevailing lie the Rizal was made national hero by the Americans over Bonifacio. This is why I open my classes with a lecture on how Recto fought tooth-and-nail to get the Rizal Bill passed into law in 1956. Since Recto is very much a nationalist icon, students stop grumbling and begin to listen."

-Ambeth R. Ocampo's RIZAL WITHOUT THE OVERCOAT

the moment i have read this part of the book, i was in a reality of having a bad professor over a good national hero. I can bet with anyone that the old man from Malacañang will not discuss furthermore about the issue of Jose Rizal's retraction.  I can see how he idolize Pepe, but does he know his very own author much agrees about the Rizal's retraction? thats bullsheet. How contradicting. It fails me to depend on such author with no honor.

A good movie of year 1999, Bayaning Third World allows us to criticize the Hero in being of Jose Rizal. All of how and why he was ripped off were the common stories, but one thing, the extraordinary of making a man of words to man of disgrace. I did see hoe it clearly states that humanity was against him, and will make him a falling walls of fortress. The movie showed that he "did" retract proving a letter, but, with no signature. hehehehe... grabe. Everyone knew he stands out against the church. It could have made that the document appeared before the archive room was forged, or could be, the signature was forged over the original document.

The letter of retraction sparked because Master Pepe wanted to marry Josephine Bracken.. San ba sila ikakasal, malamang sa simbahan. But since katunggali ni master ang simbahan, he needs to follow the friars' rule para lamang maikasal sila: the act of retraction, on paper. Ang maging isang katoliko.

Hindi ako against ke Rizal. He's a man, human. Tao lang din sya na nagmamahal. Nagnanais na magkaroon ng minamahal, at may magmamahal sa kanya ng wakas. Everyone turned their furious eyes to Ms. Bracken. She was the sum of all Rizal's fall. Taking back sa movie, she firmly saying that Joe [Jose] married her. Paiyak iyak sya, but! No other documents appeared before her, to prove that Rizal, did, marry her. Poor girl. I dunno. Rizal Sa Dapitan movie, showed that Ms. Bracken had a child with Joe, but then, namatay. Going back to Bayaning Third World, Ricky Davao personally asked Ms. Bracken is it true, that it was Rizal's, or could be from her blind stepfather, kasi 

lumitaw syempre yung sulat na yon.. Hehehe.. Eto.

I declare that I am a Catholic, and in this religion,

in which I was born and educated, I wish to live and die.
I retract with all my heart anything in my words, writings,

publications and conduct that has been contrary to my character as a child of the Church.

I believe and profess what it teaches.

I submit to what it demands.

I abominate Masonry as an enemy of the Church and as a society prohibited by it.
The Diocesan Prelate, as the superior ecclesiastical authority,

may make this manifestation public.

I declare this spontaneously, in order to repair any scandal

which my acts may have caused and so that God and man may pardon me.

Manila, December 29th, 1896.
Jose Rizal

a source blog said That is a beautiful piece of writing if you haven't noticed

base on his own expertise of understanding, Rizal was born a Catholic, was raised and educated as a Catholic, and lived a Catholic until he went to Europe. The blogger continued to examine, ending this line: (tanggalin ang mga achuchuchuchu)

‘I retract with all my heart anything ... that has been contrary to ... the Church.’

"One of these things would be his extreme ridicule of Catholic practice – by both priest and parishioner, master and slave, friar and Filipino – in the Philippines from the late 1870s to the late 1880s. And where do you find that ridicule? Right under your nose; even the students know where to look." -blogger

at the end of the blog, he agreed that the letter was non other than Rizal's, no doubt. He had his own opinion. "For his family, for his friends, for himself. I understand he said to one of the priests who accompanied him on his personal death march: 'My pride was my downfall.' And at the very end, what did he shout? ‘Consummatum est!’ It is finished! The pieces of the jigsaw puzzle fit perfectly."

Malamang. Sino ba ang naghatid sa kanya? Mga kastila.  hindi ako pabor na nagbalik loob si Master Pepe sa simbahan. Syempre.. At young age his learning made his life rocky at mapanganib. He knew it ever since he had this kind of thinking.

Anonymous said It was obvious the recantation was a fabrication of the Catholic friars in connivance with the Spanish civilian authorities. But, [name of the blogger], the bone of contention is not Rizal's retraction or recantation or return to the faith. The issue was NEVER his religion. Our focus should be his cause, his struggle for his countrymen's freedom from colonial bondage.

Tanong sa Bayaning Third World, kung buhay ka pa kaya, anung magiging reaksyon mo na nagkaganto ang Pilipinas dahil sayo?