FOR anything, that is. Since we are intelligent and free beings, we can turn everything in our life into an occasion for good or evil. But if we have the proper understanding of the purpose of our life here on earth, we should realize that...
THAT’S when we have full trust in God’s providence, his word and promises, the effectiveness of his redemptive mission, his abundant mercy, his wisdom and omnipotence and all the other, endless reasons that we can never account for. It’s really a matter of a living faith,...
THIS can happen to anyone of us. Self-righteousness is a common disease, since all of us have our share of pride and arrogance. We may not acknowledge it—a more insidious situation to be in, since pride has a tremendous blinding power—but we can fall into it...
“I SAY to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Mt 18,19-20) We...
IF this plan gets approved and implemented, I hope that we use it to be more productive and fruitful and not just to spend more time doing hardly anything. The shortening of the work week is intended for us to give time to other important...
WE have to understand the proper relationship between war and peace. Christ himself who is the prince of peace recommended a kind of warfare that we have to undertake all the time. This can be gleaned from the following words of his: “Do not think...
MIGHT be good to be familiar with these terms or phenomena. They can be useful and relevant to us, especially because in our life we would always be in need of renewal, of having to move on in spite of setbacks and other forms of...
YES, we have to make full use of our faculties, especially the will, but we need to see to it that our will is properly grounded, inspired and oriented. Yes, we have to be willful as much as we can, but seeing to it that...
WE are told that our faith should be materialized. It should be enfleshed. It should not remain purely spiritual and intellectual because that faith would not be operative given our human nature that is made of body and soul. We have to overcome that rupture between...
AD astra per aspera. That’s the motto of a school where I was assigned once as its chaplain. It means “To the stars through hardships.” It’s a way to encourage the students to aspire for the best without fear of the sacrifices involved. The motto certainly...
