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1. RIZAL’S MORAL LEGACIES
FOR OUR DAILY LIFE

2. The enduring greatness of Rizal lies in the
richness of his ideas and the nobility of his examples.
The validity of his thoughts and soul-searching
teachings is his legacy to humanity. The applicability
of his deathless examples is his heritage to his people.
Rizal’s prophetic insights and matchless visions on
how the Filipinos can traverse the road to progress so
that they can enjoy the fullness of nationhood –
economically, politically, educationally. Socially, and
culturally under the mantle of national solidarity – are
inspiring. He will continue to live because he
embodies the virtues of a God-loving son, a freedom-
loving citizen, and a universal man who loves his
fellowmen.

3.  Love of God
 Purity and Idealism
 Noble Conduct
 Love of Fellowmen
 Love of Parents
 Charity
 Love of Country
 Courage
 Will-Power
 Honesty
 Devotion to Truth

4. “I Believe in the
Existence of a
Creator” Rizal’s first
admirable virtue
and example was his
love and faith in
God.

5. We have been born . . . in the midst of a
society whose political life is so anomalous
that we have no other hope but to submit or
succumb: Whichever is preferable,
conscience will decide. Let us then trust in
God and in the sincerity of our intention.

6. When his sister Olympia died after
childbirth upon his arrival to the Philippines
from Europe in August 1887, Rizal
remarked: “I console myself saying that it
was the will of God and what He does must
be the best.” Before parting, Dr. Ferdinand
Blumentritt gave him a letters of
recommendation so that he might not find
difficulties upon his return to the
Philippines: “I thank you and happen what
may, I trust in God.”

7. I am leaving this evening (July 14, 1892)
or tomorrow for Dapitan where I am being
banished. I go gladly knowing that the
General grants you freedom, and because I
believe that wherever I might go I should
always be in the hands of God who holds in
them the destinies of men.

8. Tell everybody to have confidence in me and
not to take me always for a child who has to be
guided in everything, in what he must like and
in what he must not like. If my family has no
confidence in me and always treats me like a
child, how will others treat me and what
confidence will they have in my good judgment?
I’m in the hands of God and until the present I
have no reason to say that He has abandoned
me.

9. God made man free and promised victory to
one who perseveres, to one who struggles, to one
who acts justly.
God has promised man his redemption after
the sacrifice.
Let man fulfill his duties and God will fulfill
His.

10. “Pure and Spotless
Must the Victim Be.”
Another virtue of
Rizal worth
emulating was his
insistence on purity
of thoughts and
clean behavior.

11. True virtue, wrote Rizal, is a modest and
simple. True Christian virtue is the only,
humanitarian, universal, humbly heroic,
which the Son of God bequeathed to men as
a symbol of peace . . . for the ills not only of
the community, people, or race but of all
mankind.

12. Rizal exhorted his fellowmen to seek their
perfection because it is a duty imposed by God
as the Holy Bible tells us:
Be perfect as Thy Heavenly Father is perfect.
Rizal stressed this duty. It is the duty of men
to seek his own perfection . . . If man is not
perfect he is capable of being perfected.

13. Perfection in virtue is a condition of our union
God. By building up desirable virtues we strive
for the goal set for us by God. This especially
true if our search for perfection aims at our
complete abandonment to the will of God, a
requisite for holiness and happiness. The Holy
bible urges us:
Learn where is wisdom, where is strength,
where is understanding.

14.  “Do Good Always.”
Purity of thoughts
and clean behavior
require that
religiousness be
shown in “clean
conscience,” and
“upright thinking.”

15. That is why it is well to do good always
and follow our conscience from which
we cannot separate ourselves, for it will
be the only one which will console us in
our afflictions in all conditions of life.

16. During his exile in Dapitan, he impressed the
value of good character among the pupils he
taught. The nobility of his conduct was manifested
to Governor-General Ramon Blanco when he
petitioned for a review of his arbitrary exile in
Dapitan.
. . . despite the rage which my enemies have
treated me, wrote Rizal, despite the persecutions
that my family and myself have suffered; despite the
traps they have spread for me in very recent dates,
never has a bastard idea occurred to me, never have
I resorted to an ignoble act to defend my ideas.

17. I recommend to you with genuine interest Dr. Jose
Rizal who is departing for Peninsula at the disposal of
the Government ever desirous of rendering his services
as a physician to the Army in Cuba.
His conduct during the four years he was an exile
in Dapitan has been exemplary and he is, in my
opinion, the more worthy of pardon and benevolence as
he is in no way involved either in the chimerical attempt
that we are lamenting these days or in any conspiracy
or secret society that they have been plotting.

18. “Let Us Think Well
of Our Fellowmen”
Another great virtue
of Rizal in
conformity with
what God desires
was his love for his
fellowmen.

19. Rizal’s reminded his sister:
Do not try to have the best thing for
yourself. Try to do the best for others.

20. In judging his fellowmen, Rizal expressed sincere love
for them. In Noli Me Tangere, a Gospel for
Regeneration of the Filipinos, Rizal narrated a
conversation between Crisostomo Ibarra and Elias.
Ibarra: “You must admit the necessity of human
justice, however, imperfect it may be. . . It is
proper, it is necessary, it is just that sometimes
man judge his fellowmen.”
Elias: “Yes, to do good, but not to do ill, to correct
and to better, but not to destroy, for if his
judgments are wrong, he has no power to remedy
the evil he has done.”

21. When his parents worried because of
disquieting news about him in Dapitan, Rizal re-
emphasized love for fellowmen to a sister: Let us
not be hasty in our judgment, but let us think well
of our fellowmen. These thought on concern for
fellowmen are relevant today because many men
have lost the spirit of helping others. We do not
realize that the world has a great need of men who
encourage their fellowmen.

22. Do we need advices from our fellowmen?
In his letter to the women of Malolos,
Rizal underlined this need.
We ought not to depend on ourselves
alone, wrote Rizal. We should seek
advice, listen to others, and then do what
we believe to be the most reasonable.

23. He stressed the same attitude in a letter to Father
Pablo Pastells.
Your Reverence, wrote Rizal, can and should give me
all the advices your good heart may prompt you,
for it is the duty of men to help one another and do
believe that I will always listen to them with
gratitude and attention, weighing each one and
reflecting deeply on its meaning, for I esteem
greatly all that comes from Your Reverence not
only for what you have been to me but also for
what you are and I would not want that someday
when God should ask what I had done with your
advices I would not be able to reply.

24. “I Beg My beloved
Parents to Always Bless
Their son.” Rizal’s great
love for his parents was
very admirable. His
concern over their
sacrifices and his
thoughtfulness are
worth imitating.

25. I beg my beloved parents to always bless their
son who never forgets the sacrifices that they do for
him nor the benefits he owes to them. I trust within
a short time to have the pleasure of embracing
them and never separate from them again, live with
them, help them in everything, and contribute
towards the common welfare.

26. I wish to return to that country as soon as
possible in order to take part in the work of earning
a living, for I have already spent much for a long
time without my being able to pit in something.
Thank God, I have already finished my medical
studies. The doctorate is not very much useful to
me now.

27. I, fully aware of these circumstances, wish to
return as soon as possible to our own town to avoid
more sacrifices on the part of our modest family. If at
another time I accepted its support, it was because the
future was smiling on us; but now that things have
changed (the family was experiencing financial
strains). I believe it is my duty to go home and try with
my work and savings to contribute as much as possible
to our livelihood.

28. On February 3, 1888, Rizal left the Philippines
for the second time. In his short stay in Calamba
(from August 1887 to January 1888); he discovered
the Spanish authorities in the Philippines opposed
freedom of expression concerning the welfare of
the Filipinos and the administration of the
country. He wrote: I left my country to give my
relatives peace.

29. Now and then he advised his relatives to love and
respect their parents. In a letter to Soledad, he
urged her to keep improving herself so as to be
model of virtues.
I enjoin you . . . to consider the gray hair of out
parents; they are already very old and we should
sow with glory their old days . . . thanks to our
parents you are educated and informed. I speak to
you as my sister and I repeat to you: Think of the
old age of our parents, of your honor and of ours.
You have many nieces; give them a good example
and be worthy of yourselves.

30. Before leaving for Cuba as a volunteer doctor on
September 2, 1896, Rizal wrote moving words of
farewell.
Take very good care of yourself, wrote Rizal to
his mother, and take care of my old father so that
we may meet again . . . With nothing more, my
beloved mother, I kiss your hand and my father’s
with all the love and tenderness that my heart is
capable of; give me your blessings that I greatly
need.

31. Before his unjust execution on December 30, 1896
Rizal bade farewell to his family:
Dear parents and brothers: Give thanks to
God that I may preserve my tranquility before
my death. I die resigned, hoping that with my
death you will be left in peace.

32. And to his brother Paciano he left a message to tell
their father how much he loved him.
Tell our father that I remember him, but
how? I remember my whole childhood, his
tenderness and his love. Ask him to forgive me
for the pain I cause him unwillingly.

33. Charity is the greatest
of all the virtues
because it inclines us
to love God above all
things for His own
sake, and our
neighbors for the sake
of God.

34. The Holy Bible tells us:
Without charity the outward work profited
nothing; but whatever is done out of charity, be
it ever so little and contemptible, all becomes
fruitful.
For God regards more with how much
affection and love a person performs a work
than how much he does.

35. Charity is another admirable virtue of Rizal. He had a
deep understanding of his fellowmen and did what
services he could for them. He was glad to help them
because doing works of mercy is participating in the
providence of God. IN a letter to Ferdinand
Blumentritt, Rizal expressed happiness in helping
men.
“I feel happy when I can
give joy to somebody.”

36. When Rizal was a student in the University of Sto.
Thomas (1878-1882), he taught Latin to many boys in
Calamba, Laguna during summer vacations. During
the exile in Dapitan, he taught several subjects
including good manners and right of conduct to a
number of boys. Upon his return to Calamba in August
1887, he made physical exercise popular, treated many
patients and performed operations on several others.
These medical services were done even if the patient
could not afford to pay them. He kept busy on similar
enterprises during his exile in Dapitan, constructing
little “hospitals,” and giving away medicine free.

37. Rizal rendered other woks of charity: serving as
interpreter to passenger during his return trip
to the Philippines in July 1887, offering his
room to several friends who wished to visit the
Paris Exposition in 1889, acting as guide to the
Filipinos who visited Paris Exposition,
collecting insects for several German scientists
during his Dapitan exile, and complying with
different requests made by friends and other
individuals.

38. Forgiveness as an act of charity was also shown
by Rizal in many instances. He forgive
Lieutenant Porta who lashed him on the back,
Archbishop Pedro Payo for doing great harm to
the cause of justice undertaken by the
Filipinos, Juan Lardett, the Frenchman, who
made insulting remarks on the Filipino farmers
in Dapitan, and his enemies who desired his
execution.

39. “My Dreams Was My
Country’s Prosperity.”
Dedication to one’s was
an admirable virtue of
Rizal. In saying that it
is man’s duty to seek
his own perfection,
Rizal set an ideal for
man to attain.

40. Our life is a perpetual toast, an eternal aspiration, an
insatiable desire. . . It is a useless life which is not
consecrated to a great idea. It is a stone wasted in the fields
without becoming a part of any edifice.
Man needs an objective to which he must aim his
actions, he must delineate a purpose, see beyond matter and
the general hubhub, he needs something worthy of his being
and of his faculties.
If we have no duties, if we live for no one but ourselves,
if selfishness were, even if not a virtue, a state that is not
censurable, how happily I would spend my life beside my
family neither demanding nor wishing for anything, neither
expecting nor hoping to be useful to anyone but myself. But
as God has not made anything useless in this world, as all
beings fulfill a role in this sublime drama of creation, I too,
have a mission to fill as for example: alleviating the
suffering of my people.

41. Rizal dedicated his whole life in securing
freedom for his country and happiness for his
people, a devotion unparalleled in the history of
his country. “My mission,” he told his former
mentor at the Ateneo, Father Francisco Paula de
Sanchez, “is to make men worthy.” “I swore to
avenge cruelties and injustices,” Rizal wrote
Mariano Ponce. “The whole thought of my whole
life,” wrote Rizal to Governor-General Eulogio
Despujol, “has always been love of my country and
her moral and material development.” To his
people he addressed a manifesto: “My dream was
my country’s prosperity.”

42. “If I’m to Be
Condemned for
desiring the Welfare
of My Country,
Condemn Me.”

43. Rizal’s courage in loving his country is a
virtue that is very relevant today. His moral
courage to do only the best for his people is
worth imitating by our leaders. Rizal
possessed the essential element of
responsive leadership that is, attending to
the needs of the people in order to keep
their love and affection.

44. Because Rizal believed that man was given a
conscience to distinguish between right and wrong
and because he believed that only reason can
correct his errors, he appealed to the conscience of
every Spaniards to judge what he was doing for his
people.

45. I would like Filipino people to become worthy, noble,
honorable, for a people who makes itself despicable
for its cowardice or vices exposes itself to abuses
and vexations.
Now, if I’m to be punished or condemned for having
desired the unity of my fellow countrymen, the
welfare of my countrymen, her material
development, her equality as far as possible to the
provinces in Spain in order not to be called a
colony, if this is punishable, condemn me.

46. “Always with Our Gaze
Fixed on Our Country.”
Rizal’s decision to give
his life for his country
demonstrated the
perfection of his will to
do the duty assigned to
him by God.

47. This was an admirable virtue considering that Spain had
adopted a policy of implanting an inferiority complex
on the Filipinos the better govern them. Rizal did not
accept the belief that his people were irredeemable.
The worst and cowardliest of man, is always,
something more than a plant, because he has a soul
and an intelligence, which, however, vitiated and
brutalized they may be, can be redeemed.

48. “The greatest
Honor that a Son Can
Pay to His Parents Is
integrity and a Good
Name.”

49. In writing the Noli Me Tangere, Rizal expressed his
frankness regarding of its consequences.
I have lifted the curtain . . . in order to show is
behind the deceitful and glittering words of our
government. I have told our complaints, our
defects, our vices, our culpable and cowardly
complacency with the miseries over there (in the
Philippines). Whenever I have found virtue, I have
proclaimed it and rendered homage to it . . . The
incidents I relate are all true they have happened.

50. During his exile in Dapitan, Rizal assured Blumentritt
that his letters, although censored by the Politico-
Commander because he was a deportee, were candid
expression of the truth.
I would cut off my hand first, rather than write
an untrue thing.

51. These thoughts and acts of honesty were the outcomes
of faith in this virtue. In a letter to his mother when
told not to forget his Christian duties, Rizal said:
The greatest legacy that parents can bequeath
their children is rectitude in judgment, generosity
in rights, and steadfastness in adversity; the
greatest honor that a son can pay to his parents is
integrity and a good name, that the acts of the son
may never make his parents live with indignation or
shame, and the rest God will provide.

52. “It is Not Good to Hide
the Truth.” Rizal’s
constant search for the
truth in serving his
country was inspiring
virtue that endeared
him to his people. “ An
Honest Men is the
Nobles Work of God.”

53. During his student days in Madrid, he reassured his
mother of his love for truth.
I think its best not to hide the truth from
you, because you would hear about it anyway.