Bagong Mukha.

Netizens with facebook, twitter, and other networking sites have profile pictures, or an image by which they can be seen in public. Often, these profile pictures are changed.  Why?

We want to put our best foot forward; we want our freshest and nicest faces to be seen by everyone. We also keep on changing our images as we change moods, situations, and dispositions.

Sabi nga sa showbiz lingo, bagong image.

Especially those people who've gone from being poor to rich, those who've been ugly into beautiful, or those who've been bad to good would want to expose their new personas.

But what about those who've gone from being good to evil?  Would they want to capture and show their new faces?

Tag serial killers, those who flaunt their crimes would use fake images.  Take for instance Ted Bundy, notorious for killing some 30 people; he used his good looks and charm to lure young girls whom he raped and murdered.

Theodore "Ted" Bundy

St, Mary of Egypt 

Sinners who'd repented and became servants of the Lord project a different aura, one of holiness. St. Mary of Egypt was a prostitute until she went to Jerusalem, at the Church of the Exultation of Holy Cross where she was barred from doing so by an unseen force. Realizing that this was because of her impurity, she was struck with remorse, and on seeing an icon of the Theotokos (the Virgin Mary) outside the church, she prayed for forgiveness and promised to give up the world (i.e., become an ascetic).





Our faces sometimes become our masks, the "hidden self."  Yet in countless stories of transformations, people reveal their encounter with their conscience, a new force, their Creator, and come out with new glow and peace in their countenance.

But those who dwell in darkness and righteousness emit the bowels of hades, like a fluorescent light which gives fake light and a most expensive glimmer.