CHRIST warned us about what to expect in life if we are to take our Christianity seriously. “They will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because...
IF we want to have a truly global picture of our life, we should develop a sense of time that is connected to eternity. We need to remind ourselves of this basic truth about this human condition of ours since we tend to ignore it...
THAT gospel episode where Christ commended a poor widow for putting in two small coins into the treasury over the wealthy who put in their lavish offerings (cfr. Lk 21,1-4) clearly tells us that it is worthwhile to give our all if we truly want...
THE Solemnity of Christ the King, which ends the current liturgical year, presents us with the gospel reading about the thief who asked Christ to remember him when Christ would enter into his kingdom. And Christ readily said: “Truly I tell you, today you will...
IN life, we have to learn how to give due attention and care to both the pressing things and the precious ones. In the end, we have to learn how to give due attention and care to all the different aspects and dimensions of our...
ONCE again, since we are approaching the end of the liturgical year, we are reminded of the end of time and the duty to prepare ourselves for it, having the proper focus and following the God-given roadmap to our final destination. This reminder is somehow made...
THAT parable Christ told his disciples about a certain nobleman who was in a journey to obtain a kingship somewhere and leaving his servants with certain amounts for them to do business with (cfr. Lk 19,11-28), gives us the precious lesson that the way to...
THE story of Zacchaeus in the gospel (cfr. Lk 19, 1-10) offers us a precious lesson on how to properly deal with the unavoidable human condition of our sinfulness. And that is, no matter how big, ugly and plenty our sins are, God’s mercy is...
WE should try to make these words of the blind man asking Christ for a cure for his blindness (cfr. Lk 18,41) as an aspiration that we can repeat many times during the day. We cannot deny that despite our tremendous powers to see and...
IN our liturgical celebrations, we can either be lavish or austere depending on the circumstances. What is important is what is in our heart—whether there is real love or not, whether there is a sincere effort to worship and please God or we are just...