SEE (Sapientia et Eloquentia)

Issue 3 + 1-15 November 2021

Welcome to Sapientia ɛt Eloquentia a bi-weekly selection of lectures, seminars, and talks that show the breadth and depth of Ateneo de Manila's academic and social engagement.

To mark November, the traditional month of remembering our dearly departed, this third issue features videos on spirits, on grief, and remembrance. We also have articles on how to face our continuing challenges as the pandemic stretches on.

This is brought to you by the Ateneo de Manila University Office of Alumni Relations (OAR) and the Office of University Development (OUD), in partnership with the Ateneo Alumni Association (AAA).

Eloi Francisco Rivera, NGO worker and author of Mortem’s Embrace shares her personal testimony of courage and hope in the face of illness and death.

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Fr Nono Alfonso SJ talks to Fr Kit Bautista SJ to learn how to deal with grief, especially during this time of a pandemic.

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Learn about Ateneo de Manila’s COVID-19 operations and how you can help at covid19.ateneo.edu.

In this lecture, Dr. Alampay discusses how child maltreatment, and by implication parenting, are global public health issues.

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Daily-wage and informal workers bear the struggle of living day-to-day due to the implementation of enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). This policy brief emphasizes the importance of not only fighting the virus but food insecurity as well.

Featuring Archdiocese of Manila's Exorcist, Fr. Jose Francisco Syquia, and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, this documentary discusses the many questions and issues that surround one of the most controversial subjects in Catholic Faith—the existence of demons and the authenticity of the Rite of Exorcism. True-to-life stories of demonic possession and oppression, among others, are told by the victims themselves, recalling their difficult struggles and how they have overcome their sufferings.