THIS is an attempt to describe the increasingly sharp differences between the so-called Gen Z people (those born roughly between 1997 and 2012 who grew up with widespread access to the internet, smartphones and social media, and often described as digital natives) and the senior...
IT’S good that in our country we have this very popular tradition called “undas” when families go to cemeteries to visit, clean and decorate graves of loved ones. There they offer prayers, light candles and leave flowers and even food for the departed. It’s also...
PERHAPS that’s what we can learn from the readings of Friday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time. (cfr. Rom 9,1-5; Lk 14,1-6) There we can see how St. Paul expressed his deep sorrow and anguish for his unbelieving people and was willing to be...
THAT’S simply because things would just get worse if we behave otherwise. In our life, we should expect these things to happen to us. It’s part of our wounded human nature. It should not surprise us. But obviously, we should learn how to be properly...
TO get to the point without beating around the bush, the only way we can truly be sincere with everyone and with everything is when we are with God who, after all, knows all things and knows them always with charity, justice, mercy, prudence and...
THIS is the ideal we should pursue in our self-giving, first to God and then to everybody else. If we truly love God and everybody else, with a love that is nothing less than a participation of the love God has for us and as...
UNLESS our human laws can capture the logic behind that divine commandment to love one another as Christ has loved us and continues to love us, even to the extent of loving our enemies, we can only say that indeed our human laws, despite all...
THAT’S what we can get from the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. (cfr. Lk 18,9-14) Especially before God, we never have any reason to brag about our own righteousness. We may be doing a lot of good, but let’s not spoil them...
WITH the super rapid pace of developments these days, we really need to learn how to read the signs of the times so that we would not get confused and lost, like what St. Paul warned us once when he talked about helpless “children, tossed...
FOR those giving spiritual accompaniment to others—most especially priests and even lay persons who are dedicating themselves to this delicate and important task—it may be good to take note of the following observations. It’s good to remember that this business of spiritual accompaniment is an occasion...