Reading 3

• Love and respect for parents


  Parents are devoted, faithful, sensitive to our needs, and generous to our failings
• Rizal's return to the Philippines in 1892 was motivated chiefly by his love for his parents and his family
• Rizal did not wish his family to be persecuted on his account
• Rizal knew he was courting death by placing himself at the mercy of the Spanish government in the islands
• Rizal wanted to save his relatives, especially his aged mother, from humiliation and suffering
• Rizal's letter to his beloved parents, brothers, and sisters, and friends: '“The affection that I have ever professed for you suggests this step, and time alone can tell whether or not it is jurisdiction. Their outcome decides things by results, but whether that be unfavorable, it may always said that duty urges me, so I die in consequence, it will not matter..."'
• Rizal realized the suffering he caused his family but did not regret his actions
• Rizal believed it was his duty to expose himself to peril to complete his work and offer himself for what he had always preached
• Rizal believed a man ought to die for duty and his principles
• Rizal held fast to the idea of the condition and future of his country and was willing to die for it
• Rizal risked his life to save innocent persons suffering from his account
• Rizal had many disappointments and believed the future before him was gloomy
• Rizal wished for justice and peace for his country and was willing to die for it
• Rizal hoped that his enemies would be satisfied and stop persecuting innocent people, especially his parents and relatives
• Rizal wished for his family to return to their country and be happy
• Rizal expressed that until the last moment of his life, he would be thinking of his family and wishing them good fortune and happiness
• Dr. Jose P. Rizal: '“Nobody can say how he shall die, but everybody must decide how and for what he shall live.”'
• Rizal could not live knowing that many suffered unjust persecution on his account
• Rizal could not live seeing his brothers, sisters, and their families persecuted like criminals
• Rizal preferred to face death and gladly give up his life
• Unknown: '“… but everybody must decide how and for what he shall live.”'
• Apolinario Mabini: '“… Seek thy country’s happiness above thine own.”'
• In his farewell to his countrymen, he expressed his willingness to face death to deliver innocent people from unjust persecution
• He deeply regretted the misfortunes of his family and admired their resilience
• He presented himself to confront persecution to put an end to the suffering of innocent persons
• Mabini's mother worked zealously to support his studies, even selling all her harvested coffee to buy him clothes
• Mabini's mother's overwork led her to an early grave
• Mabini was dearly loved by his parents and maternal grandmother, who cared for his well-being
• Mabini's mother wept when he thoughtlessly mentioned it was the same to him to live near or away from the family
• Mabini promised to watch over his siblings after his mother's reassurance
• Mabini's mother wept when he called his siblings to her bedside during her last day