Set Apart for the Truth
The faithful follower of Jesus cannot but walk in the way of the Master and live out His words of life. Anyone searching for the truth in life must end up with the Truth in Person: “I am the way, the truth and the life:...
Author: Bishop Patricio Alo
‘Do Whatever He Tells You’
This is the message of the concerned mother of Jesus, Mary our mother too, when she confidently tells the servants at the wedding in Cana to follow whatever Jesus tells them to do. Mary acts with full hope in her Son and indicates her rule of...
Split Church
Surely no one can deny, as has happened in the early Church, there is some division in our Church now. As Jesus would say it, “An evil hand has done this” (Mt. 13:28). The main cause, of course is the spread of wrong ideas. That is...
The Path to Peace
Where is peace? Has its seed fallen among the briers, a prey to other plants that stifled it? Or has it remained on the fertile soil sown by ‘Poor man of heaven’? The soil represents our hearts that need the transforming power of the Living...
Setting the Direction
Life follows the direction of the Creator, whose divine law in nature [natural law] governs everything, from the lowest to the highest member of creation, from the smallest dot to man, and the angels. The intelligent beings---man and the angels---have been endowed with Godly powers to...
Be On Guard
Jesus constantly warned his followers to be on guard, for “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; so be cunning as serpents and yet as harmless as doves” (Mt. 10:16). The guidance of the Holy Spirit as the main agent of evangelization assures us to...
Muddling Ideas
The famous quote of William Shakespeare: ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ – continues to muddle the modern mind. So in our muddled situation today what confuses are the wrong, misleading, contradictory ideas. For as the ancients say: ‘It is ideas that rule...
Conquest in mercy
How is God’s love and mercy and justice being lived in our world today? Perhaps some false misconceptions regarding human dignity and social analysis have injected deceptive mistaken ideas that suffocate one’s being a true disciple of mercy that sees with the eyes of Jesus the...
Impulsive Attraction
Speaking on the Theology of the Body, St. Pope John Paul II revealed that by means of the body, man and woman are uniquely endowed by the Creator with the particular capacity of expressing love as chosen by eternal love. “Whoever accepts the ethos of Matthew...
The chastity question
Because of the evil influence of bad media, men and women of today tend to downgrade the moral value of purity and chastity as far as sex relations are concerned. In some, living together without the blessings of holy matrimony seems a normal way of life,...