Marvin Jhan Santos

Sacrae Disciplinae Leges is John Paul II's Apostolic Constitution 1 on the promulgation of the New Code of Canon Law 2. The document provides a glimpse to the tedious process of revising the new code in line with the vision of the Second Vatican Council. To delve into this detail further, this paper will provide a detailed discussion of the document which includes the I. The Context in which the document was written, II. The Text of John Paul II, Sacrae Disciplinae Leges which provides an insight to the new code of Canon Law and III. The Post-text which deals with some revisions and addendum that the church inserted in recent years.

This paper would like to discuss the notion of transcendence and authenticity of Heidegger and Levinas. This paper hope to arrive at the conclusion that though Heidegger's phenomenological turn have provided a good explanation of authenticity, Levinas argues that this is but a self immanence and  a failure for the authentic transcendence is about going beyond the self towards the Other.

This paper would like to study the reality of priesthood springing from the phenomenological perspective of the human person. though ideals are easily pointed, the reality by which this ideals are actualize is different. by the end of this paper, the proponent hope to provide a clear understanding of the priest as Alter Christus and as a human person subject to error and ins yet destined to the glory of eternal beatific vision in heaven.

This paper would like to discuss apophatic mysticism in contrast to Karol Wojtyla's notion of transcendence in his phenomenology. This paper would like to argue that while the human person remains to be insufficient in front of the unfathomable divine, human person has the inherent capacity to know God through his intellection and volition springing from his nature as an Imago et similitude Dei. Through the concept of Wojtyla's transcendence, the proponent hope to provide a clear answer to apophatic mysticism by stating that man has the capacity for God through the usage of his reason and volition in so far as God created man after his image. *This paper will be divided in three parts. First part of which will deal highly on the elaboration of apophatic mysticism of which this paper would want to venture for answers on. Secondly it would deal with definition of phenomenological concepts deemed important to the present study.

There is an interesting inscription in one of the side altars of the
Cathedral of Mary our Queen in Baltimore, “where Peter is, there is the Church” an inscription adopted from the early Christian community of Milan elaborated by St. Ambrose in reference to the primacy of the see of Peter. But I want to replace it with “Where Man is, there is the Church” for at the assumption of our flesh, Christ divinized our humanity and made us all temples of the Holy Spirit, giving us the mission of the new Incarnation of Christ here on earth. This reflection will focus on Man as the Church. It will be divided into three parts, Church as Ecclesia, as Corpus, and as a Missio