JANUARY 1 is, of course, Happy New Year’s Day! A new beginning is offered to us. Let’s be happy and hopeful. Yes, we will always have challenges and trials, etc., but let’s never forget that we have God as our Father who takes care of...
WE have to develop the awareness and the conviction that we are truly God’s children, meant to share his life, since we have been created in his image and likeness. Despite the tremendous disbelief this truth of our faith tells us, we just have to...
THE gospel story of Anna, the prophetess, (cfr. Lk 2,36-40) gives us the precious lesson of how important it is to persevere in our commitments. It that story, it is said that she was already advanced in years and never left the temple, worshipping night...
IF we have to be consistent with our Christian identity, then we have to ready to be a sign of contradiction, as Christ himself was and continues to be. Let’s not forget that prophecy made by Simeon when the child Jesus was presented in the...
THE Feast of the Holy Innocents on December 28 (cfr. Mt 2,13-18) obviously reminds us that like those martyred babies, we too can be martyred anytime as collateral victims in our life drama when we try to be consistent with our Christian faith. Therefore, we...
ON the Feast of St. John, the Apostle and Evangelist, on December 27, let’s try to capture his youthful love for Christ that would truly help us in our spiritual life. Like him, we should be both most eager to look for Christ and yet...
WE are right in the midst of the happy Christmas season when the family plays a very crucial role in everyone’s life. It’s time to look again into the current challenges of this most natural, most basic and most indispensable social unit, since on it...
CHRISTMAS always evokes a very romantic sensation of joy, and that’s very understandable since what takes place there on December 25 is the birth of our Savior, the Son of God who became man to bring us back to where we came from, and thus...
THAT “Benedictus” prayer that was said by Zechariah, John the Baptist’s father, as an expression of a most profound sense of praise, thanksgiving and blessing for the great favor he received, highlights the reality of the tremendous love God has for all of us. (cfr....
THE gospel story of the circumcision of St. John the Baptist, eight days after his birth, again tells us about the inscrutable ways of God. (cfr. Lk 1,57-66) We have to learn to go along with this reality of our life, just following what our...